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Warcraft Wednesday: Wrath of the Monogamous

One of the stranger side effects of the release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for me is that I’ve felt less desire to play other characters beside my main.  Sure, I play my Death Knight, but that’s only when my brother isn’t around to team up.  I’ll try to supply a little background.

Originally when my brother and I started playing, we created a couple of draenei (so we could start from the beginning in the same place).  We made a decision that we would only play those main characters together.  This of course gave rise to a few times where I’d want to play Warcraft when my brother wasn’t around, so I created another character (a tauren druid).  Then I created another character, and another.  Right now I have the aforementioned druid, a gnome warlock, a blood elf hunter, a human mage, a draenei shaman, a dwarf paladin, and a draenei death knight.  Those are all on top of my draenei priest.  (I happen to like draenei.)  These are all in various states of levels, none higher than 40 aside from the priest and death knight.

So every now and again I would play one or more of these characters when I felt like it.  But now that we’ve been playing through Wrath, I haven’t played any of the other characters much at all.  I just can’t bring myself to go through all those old quests and areas when there is most of an unexplored continent just waiting for me.  It will probably change once my priest makes it through the rest of Northrend, but until that happens I’ll be playing much less.

Next time I’ll be posting a spoiler-laden column about one of the quest chains that I really enjoyed while questing in the Grizzly Hills.