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by Mike Schramm 
Jan 9th 2008 at 11:00AM
Togus is right-- there's something about your first character. Many of us, as I said yesterday, have tons of alts floating around, but your first character (while probably not your best-- I didn't understand First Aid when I started playing the game, so I just didn't train it at all) was a big deal. Finishing that starting area and realizing there was a whole World out there, grouping up for the first time, and learning just how all the spells worked and what everything looked like-- your first character may not be your main now, but odds are it's still sitting there on the server, like an old friend from years ago.This idea of a "first character" is actually especially interesting to me, as just yesterday my very first character dinged level 60. As I said on the podcast the other day, I'm going back to play the Night Elf Hunter (yeah, yeah-- I was young and impetuous, and I heard Hunter was a good solo class) I started playing the game with, and take it all the way to level 70, and then 80 when Wrath comes out. In some way, I see it as finishing what I started way back when. And after all this time playing something different in game (Horde, obviously, and classes besides Hunter-- Warrior, Shaman, Rogue, Priest), it's been extremely interesting to go back to the beginning. And seeing Outland (and eventually Northrend) through the eyes of the first character I've ever played promises to be a trip. I feel like I'm rediscovering this game I've played so much of already yet again.
What happened to the first character you ever started? You didn't delete them, did you? Were you able to get them all the way to 70? And when the next expansion comes out, will you take them further?
Filed under: Hunter, Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Leveling, Alts
Reader Comments (Page 5 of 5)
Sl0th Jan 10th 2008 11:15PM
I remember my first WoW character. Regularly. He's my main. A level 70 NE hunter.
Its funny, seeing him perched at the top of my character list, when my most successful alts are the most recently made characters.
There are other MMOs that I do remember my first characters. Ah, my first UO character... I think he's the one I accidentally had try to kill a guard or something, then deleted him because I didn't like his name. The second character didn't fare much better.
Sl0th Jan 10th 2008 11:15PM
I remember my first WoW character. Regularly. He's my main. A level 70 NE hunter.
Its funny, seeing him perched at the top of my character list, when my most successful alts are the most recently made characters.
There are other MMOs that I do remember my first characters. Ah, my first UO character... I think he's the one I accidentally had try to kill a guard or something, then deleted him because I didn't like his name. The second character didn't fare much better.
Sarah Jan 17th 2008 7:26AM
My first character is still my main, I was stubborn enough to level my little dwarf female paladin to 70 and take her raiding. ;) There was a hell of a demand for healers when I hit 70, so was lucky when I got there to have levelled that particular class :)
I did all sorts of dumb things. Starting off with me rolling the paladin as a dwarf female 'cos I thought I'd be using guns at some point. I knew nothing about librams, clearly.
It took until level 20-something for me to notice the "Talents" button, leaving me wondering why my character was so weak. Not that talents helped with that much!
I ended up ninja-ing the polearm from Uldaman from an annoyed hunter, the knowing nothing really about stats at that point, and I was kind of a tank rather than dps, so really didn't need it ever... (sorry hunter! but you shouldn't have ninja'd the other drops!)
tehslun Jan 13th 2008 12:08PM
My first character was a night elf hunter.
I didn't know anything about the game and my kind brothers had to help and explain everything to me.
I asked my brother if I could have a tiger beside me and he told me to create a hunter, so I did.
She was the first one to reach level 60 and the first to discover dungeons, she was also the first to reach 70 but then I had to level my main so I just left her in Shattrath with her t2 shoulders.
She still wears them but I do take her out for a trip every once in a while, mostly fishing :)
I will most likely level her to 80, maybe not as my first character, but I'll still get her there.
Drago Dracini Feb 21st 2008 9:59PM
I'm still playing my first char... Just now getting him to lv59. He's an Undead Afflic Lock. ;p My best memory, the first time I finished a quest by myself and when I finally learned I can be good at being a lock... ^^; I thought about re-rolling... cause everyone said I sucked.. but I'm good now!
nojak Jan 16th 2008 12:40PM
Shoot, my poor first toon (Horde rogue) is gradually making his way up the ladder (I've only gotten him to 36.) He's kind of been abandoned on a server my friends and I started playing WoW on for the first time, and started a guild, but then they all quite. I started back up, and in the mean time, switched to a different server where I had some other friends. Needless to say, I don't play him much, but I do enjoy playing him. I'll have to start working on lvl'ing him again soon.