Mortenth's First Day

It’s been a minute since I logged into WoW, and though the game has moved on a long way in the real world, in my head it remains as it was during WoTLK. With the launch of the WoW Classic Anniversary realms, I thought I’d go back and see if I can recapture some of the wonder I felt during those early years, and to replay a version of my very first character.

Meet Mortenth the Gnome Warlock. I’m planning on playing and blogging what he gets up to, to try to see the world through the eyes of someone playing for the first time. I don’t know how long I’ll manage to keep updating, but I’ll do it for as long as I am having fun.

Without further ado; here he is! Sadly I only get chance to play of an evening when the lighting is awful 'outside' in Azeroth. I quickly realised I can’t do this without any addons, it would drive me mad. They aren’t the point of this, but I have chosen a short list of what I think of as mandatory ones.

ElvUI took a chunk of my available time to configure. I’m playing on my laptop so my screen is smaller than usual, so I had to tweak things quite a lot before I was happy. My action bars took the longest. And as a result, here is what my interface will look like while I am playing. First quest from Sten. Don’t think I’d realised he had such a weird name. He wants me to go kill some wolves, because of course he does! Looking at my action bar, I never understood why they load up newbie casters with a melee attack on button 1. Then my 3rd spell is only Demon Skin, so I foresee a lot of spamming shadow bolt in my future. My first kill! Shadowbolt is a good spell, as far as they go. But I wish I had a few more to play with. With my first few kills, comes my first bit of upgrade loot, a grey item. Still, it’ll keep my feet warmer than my existing Acolyte’s Shoes. And after all that, I shall call it a night. Most of my play time was eaten by configuring ElvUI. Thank goodness I still remembered how to do most of it, I’d have seriously run out of patience if I’d not had the benefit of previous years worth of experience.

A few thoughts as I log off. When I first started playing back in 2005 I had no idea what the game was, what the classes were, how anything worked. I chose my class purely based on the fact Warlocks had pet demons and it sounded really cool. She lasted me until about level 23, at which point I started a priest and never looked back, it’s rare I have played a non-healer character ever since. So this feels like going back to my roots, but also getting back out of my comfort zone. One thing I am really looking forward to getting my first pet, and finding out its name!