Introducing Asaluce
Once upon a time, in the lands to the east of the human city of Stormwind, a young girl staggered under the weight of the heavy mail and the shield she carried as she approached Northshire Abbey. Her father, a member of the Stormwind guard had sent there. She was blessed by the light, he said, and her training would begin at that small hamlet. Someday she would be a great hero standing against the forces of darkness. But today it was hot, she was unused to the weight of armor, and she wanted nothing more than to go home and play with her kitten, Tux.
I am by no means a roleplayer even though I play on Argent Dawn, yet sometimes I think of stories or vignettes for my characters. They never really get expressed and just fade into the mist of memory.
Asaluce has been around for a very long time. After I got my first level 60 character, a hunter, I decided I would roll a priest to be a healer and be able to go on more runs. (Apparently, Part Time Druid had a similar thought. Different outcome.) The priest went shadow, which I love, but that still meant I needed a healer in my stable. Oh, I know, let me try a Paladin!
I have a habit of leveling alts outside of a guild. Sometimes it’s nice to avoid drama or sometimes those people you don’t like or whatever. So I leveled Asaluce until around 35 without a guild tag, then just before I started running Scarlet Monastery, I grabbed a guild invite and one of the first comments was “Welcome, Applesauce.” Quickly followed by “Oh! Sorry Asaluce, I thought that said applesauce.” (Like the RP vignettes, the actual comments have been lost, but that’s the gist.) So I became known as Applesauce the Raladin.
Let me briefly interject here about the name: My first character was Raleena. I made the name up. After joining the Silver Lions someone asked if I was a fan of anime. I said that I enjoyed it and brief discussion ensued and it was suggested I named Raleena after a character from one of the Gundam series. I have never seen that series. After Raleena, moving to Serasong, I decided to start mixing languages. Serasong (evening song - Italian and English) was one of the first, and that was followed by Asaluce (morning light - Japanese and English).
I spent most of my leveling time as protection until 45 or so, then I tried retribution for a bit. It was amazing to me how slowly both of those specs killed anything. Perhaps I comepletely failed at retadin, but something was not working. At 50, I decided to try Holy Shock spec and I quite enjoyed that. It was a lot like Enhancement Shaman with melee and spells interjected. At 60 I thought to try prot again and I Love It. I haven’t done any real tanking yet as I’m still collecting real protection gear but the AoE grinding is so crazy and fun, I have spent a lot of time doing that.
Has the PalAoEadin style corrupted the world of Mostly Kaldorei? Have I fled the ranks of the druid tanks to wear plate and a shield? No. Not at all. My druid Lushere is still my favorite, but she is pretty much done outside of raids. Outside of those requirements I’ve been working on many alts and I think Asaluce will be fun to raid with on our alt raids. I quite like tanking and my warrior will probably tank as well once she gets past 10. I can say that I would have prefered to roll a Night Elf paladin and I will probably roll a Night Elf Deathknight. (but Gnome is calling out to me as well. Something about pink pigtails of death. I dunno) If I had rolled after Burning Crusade I would have picked Draenei, but this was way before the first expansion.
The only problem now, is that I still have no healers! I’m okay with this, frankly I find healing to be tedious and unenjoyable. I will happily shoulder the higher repair costs of the person getting hit (over and over and over) or melt faces instead. I’m sure there will be more to come on the paladin front. Elune The light be with you!
