Rokk Talk

Cho’gall.

It’s a PVP server I’ve been hearing about. Turns out that the one big Alliance guild that was on the server decided to tuck tail and leave. The result? The Horde outnumbers the Alliance about 10 to 1. That’s an interesting dynamic.

Curious, I decided to pop in to take a look around. I rolled up a dwarf and went for a walk over to Ironforge. Crickets. That place was as empty as Shattrath on every other server. The AH was a joke, and by “joke” I mean “empty”. Example? I had a Hordie do a search for Plate Armor, in the lv 71-80 range. Six pages of results, with plenty of purples. On the Alliance side?

Four ITEMS.

This place is screwed.

Yet for some reason I was curious. Could The Rokk come to this server and make some kind of difference on the Alliance side? Did he care?

So as a little social experiment, the Rokkalypse has come to Cho’gall. Now there’s the Alliance, the Horde, and the Rokk.

Well the doctor has been good enough to allow me the limited use of my right arm again, so after about six weeks of farting around I’m back to work starting Monday. The drawback is that I will be out of town, with a satellite internet feed, and limited WoW access.

So how did I spend the last of my free time? Well, The Rokk went out and got himself an orphan. Kind soul that he is, he went ahead and took a little Oracle squirt out for a stroll. The kid liked it so much, he wanted to stay. Cute.

I was listening to Octale and Hordak vs The World during the week, and Octale made what I felt was a good point regarding tanks. During my downtime, I’ve often seen groups looking for a Tank to run heroics, yet quite a few DK’s looking to DPS. I get the fact that many Death Knights are looking to build a tanking set. At least, that’s what the story is.

Rukgut got in a few Heroic groups, DPS’ed his face off. In that time, I came to the conclusion that tanking is a mindset, not a class. Some players are tanks, wanting the responsibility of keeping the group alive and so on, and some don’t. Rukgut was glad to simply sit back and pew pew. I don’t think Rokk is going to be that way. I want him as a tank. Maybe the time has come for him to start puttering around and just get in there and tank. Take a chance.

There’s another situation in-game that has come to my attention, but I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I’ll have to investigate a little further, but it is certainly bringing certain thought processes to light.