Corvy

NEWS!

Okay!  391/450 BS skill for Aidran, almost enough for his Bonus sockets. Yay! I’ve been having a blast playing Dimmy too, mostly skimming zones and instances for blue rewards. I think the practice I’ve been getting levelling solo has paid off, most of her moves are in muscle memory now so it’s a lot easier to get her to just what I want just when I want. I do need some more practice with properly executing stuff like Hyst+DRW+Trinket in the middle of my rotation without borking things up. But on Tues I did ~950 DPS at 70 and in UK and last night I did ~1.1k at 71, and I’m still gearing up, so good times. 🙂

Had some fun soloing the group quests for the D.E.H.T.A. …Though I was not able to solo the D.E.H.T.A itself when I ran into their camp with animal blood still on me.  Oops. >.>

Anyway… On to the last episode of Ak’s Toons You Don’t Care About!  (For a while anyway.)

Corvine

The Man, The Myth, The Legend

I honestly don’t remember why I started him, most probably just for fun. Maybe as a toy, maybe just because I needed someone who would look good in a Blood Elf Bandit Mask.

You know what they say about guys with big ears...

At some point since it looked like Val was going to die on his RP server that I’d groom Corvy as his replacement and transfer him over rather than make a new toon there. Since the RP guild I was with was active over their forums as well as in-game, I actually started playing him there as a character before he ever transferred. One applicant to the guild was looking for some forum RP and I thought up a story on a whim and just sort of went with it.

Corvine’s story was actually pretty fun, I thought.He came from a family of Druids but some event in his past caused him to go off on his own. Eventually he joined with the Twilight Cult and became one of their assassins. Eventually (after he came to his senses somewhat) he decided he wanted out and fled. Later he came to realize that they had a way of tracking him and could kill him from afar by using a special relic they had. The relic was in a protected compound but more importantly the chest it was kept in was warded, so even if he got to it he wouldn’t be able to open it. So he needed an accomplice, willing or no, to help him. Eventually he resorted to drastic measures to get the aid of a fellow Nelf; by poisoning her father and promising her the antidote in return for helping him. (That being the hook to get the other player into the plot) While it wasn’t the most original story in the universe it was fun to play through. The other player in this case turned out to be a very experienced roleplayer, and that helped a ton too.  Throughout the course of getting to the relic and retrieving it he and his (blackmailed) partner fell into a relationship that affected the course of his character from then on. All in all it was a very good time and one of my favorite roleplay experiences, the sort of things that restores your faith in the genre as a whole.

I liked playing Rook (His main pseodonym, he went by Crow, Raven, Blackbird, etc, hence the name Corvine. See how clever I am?) because of his personality as well. Where Val was sullen and melancholy most of the time and Aidran was never really fully there, Rook was cheerful, optimistic and actually downright bubbly at times. Just sort of a big puppy of a toon that ideally wanted to be friends with everyone. I was genuinely sad when I finally wrote him out; He died alongside Val (literally, though he went first) in a final thread I wrote after I decided I was leaving the guild. I hated to lose him because overall he was just a good guy. He’d made a lot of very bad mistakes but he was doing his damnedest to fix them.

Awww, who could say no to that smile?

But bleeh. I shuffled him back to the PVE life and he quickly took over as my new main after the troubles I was having with Val in instances.

I have to say I just adore Rogue. The class will never have the survivability that I adore Paladins for but nothing else gives me quite the same satisfaction as just ripping the shit out of a pack of mobs or a boss, spiking damage to the heavens and never taking a lick of punishment in return. I’ve destroyed trash pulls and never even showed up on Omen. Using Tricks to remote-tank a caster in HoR, or stick an errant mob back on the tank. Being able to duck under debuffs or boss mechanics with Cloak. Rogues are awesome because Rogues fucking cheat. I love the class because it is just damned fun to play.

Seriously. It works.

Anyway.. there you have it, those are my mains. I’m out of filler material so I guess be on the lookout for actual content soon 😉

We’ll see how things go.