The Sin of being Red
Zekta Chan
Side Note 1: [Warning : non-Econ related post]
I’ll be start writing on non-Econ related content as well.
More about my wow-thoughts other than money-making, may be side-track a little. But hope that you’ll enjoy. (Didn’t have a name for it yet)
Side Note 2: As promised on yesterday. I was having a bad sleep, maybe due to excess work yesterday, so I decided to finish the post first.
Side Note 3: Damn! I lost my edit version yesterday. Seems like I only previewed but not saved the content >.<
The Sin of Being Red.
Recently, I was quite busy at work and for my wow game hour, I spend most of the time with my girlfriend, as she just started to join me in Azeroth.
(Thanks for the effort, my love). (Another reason for slow update on blog as well. No, darling, I am not blaming you)
Okay, there is a lot of curious question a new player will ask, when they just started. And there are some I find particular hard to answer, here is one of them.
“Why we are killing these animal/people ? they looks pretty cute to me”
“Because they name is red, that means they’ll attack us if we get too close”
“My kitty(in RL) will bite you if you piss her off, will you kill her too?”
and I recalled recently Larisa talked about moral, and Gevlon talked about raiders of dungeon. This raise some question for me, long ago.
Reasons
Why should I kill them
because their name is red,
because killing them drop loots,
because killing them give me XP,
because those NPC asked me to! (Which give me gold/loots/xp)
This question strike me before twice..
1. when I was leveling my paladin, and I would try to role-play it, upon each judgement I would try to come up with some war-cry. “May the light forgives you”
I am not having problem with miners, and students, but for helping a crazy prince for killing his citizens?. “You are damned since your name is red to me.” seems the only universal answer for me. Other than that, it’s hard to come up with any “rightful” reason to justify myself. Isn’t that paladin means to be good? or I am just some zealous paladin which kill everything on the “path of the light” which is not good (aka, the name is not green?)
2. The Second time is my paladin’s first run on Alterac Valley, on my way to get my [item]Cold Forged Hammer[/item] . My BE paladin is my first Horde Character, I kept running on Alterac Valley with my Alliance main, and did little pvp on my BE. That run is a slaughter, and I am healing my way thought there. I put a macro for playing “Lament of the Highborne” on my BE’s hotkey bar, And I played the song all along that battle.
It’s go like this
By the light, by the light of the sun
Children of the blood
We ride through the “cross road”
Our enemies are breaking through
On the first tower, the battle is swift, 5-6 Hordies vs 1 gnome warlock,
Children of the blood
By the light
Failing children of the blood
They are breaking through
The are trying to resist on the First Towner, an Female Draenei paladin try to defense, but was chopped down Brute-force by Tauren Warrior, we burn that flag right a way
O’ children of the blood
By the light of the sun
Failing children of the blood
The Alliance formed a defense line on the bridge, as any other “turtle” game in Alterac Valley. Billzard, Arrow Rain, Rain of Fire…
Tons of corpses of Gnome, Dwarf, Draenei. (My Alliance is a Gnome Mage).
We finish the battle with exceeding alliance’s resources, aka creating Corpse Piles.
Post-Alterac Valley Syndrome
That shocks me, while I was so get used to, the alliance’s races.
We won, single handedly, but I was sad.
I never set foot again in Alterac Valley with my BE Paladin. (I do in winter-gasp later thought, when I get used to it)
Finally, I gave up reasoning or justify my brutal killing again in the game. It just pure self-fish earning as a person, not big heroic thing, I kill because I need that/this as a hunter preying on its prey.
I still refuse to kidnap kids everyday just to make those cute Seal-Men happy.
Others percept this differently from me, some could just rightful themself, and even ganking others. In which I never understand, it seems meaninglessly to me just to grief others, and the ganker cannot generate any profit either, just a waste of both time (At the end of the day, Blizzard wins with the game time consumed)
Some refused killing for leveling,
but for others it’s too much to be leveling that way. (Which I admire the effort on doing so, I can never done that myself)
How did you reasons for the dreadful life for your wow character? especially if you are “Holy” as priest or paladin.
(Sidenote: My Warlock alt, smirk a lot and find it very enjoying just to see other suffer, so no guilt at all, MuWahahaha~~~~ )
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