WoW habits

[Mustafah]

1. Age? I think all the ages you mentioned are good to play. everyone deserves to play WoW if they enjoy it.

2. Do you think you chose your class/race because of your own personality traits? I like Orcs and Tauren. Why? i cant answer it. i just enjoy them, they are special races, elves got nerfed, trolls are common, undead are seen in some MMORPG games. thats also one of the reasons i didnt picked Alliance.
I tried many classes, but got attached to Hunters and Druids only. I enjoy them because they always have something new and different. For Hunters - many pets and interesting gameplay. Druids have many forms which make them fun to play, i really like playing the boomkin.

3. Why did you choose your faction? Did the perceived good vs evil (alliance vs horde) sway your decision in any way or did you not see it as good vs evil? First time when i looked at both Horde and Alliance, I remember i prefered the horde, first because my bud was horde and second before they seemed "cooler". I dont see the Horde as evil, they just try to survive in Azeroth just as the Alliance.

4. Do you give your characters (or pets) personalities and/or background stories? Oh yeah, i wrote many stories about my characters in WoW and other MMORPG games, i wrote some for my friends even. in my old guild I used to have some time telling the guildies stories i made. they seemed to enjoy them If i could i'd be really happy to share them here.

5. Are there things ingame you won't do because you feel your character wouldn't do? e.g. Quests, killing certain mobs or going to certain zones, grouping with other races or classes? Yeah very true for me. Because im a hunter, i cant see a rare beast i tamed already dies. for example: Arcturis, i got him a few months ago, and then helped my friend get him, if i will ever meet him again, i wont kill him. Another thing is when i play Death Knight starting zone, i just hate to see myself killing innocent citizens for my selfish desires.

[Kamalia]

1. Age? 13 - 17 18 - 25 26 - 34 35 - 44 45+ prefer not to answer

13-17. 15 to be specific!

2. Do you think you chose your class/race because of your own personality traits?

Race, generally no. However, I was originally attracted to Night Elves for the Alliance and Tauren for the Horde because of their close ties with nature, which is sort of something I have in common - I definitely enjoy nature. Growing up in BC what with all of it's beautiful forests might've influenced that! However, in the case of class, yes. Hunters are by far my favorite race because I adore animals. I grew up surrounded by fuzzy friends, so I've become quite attached to animals.

3. Why did you choose your faction? Did the perceived good vs evil (alliance vs horde) sway your decision in any way or did you not see it as good vs evil?

I've played both Horde and Alliance. I originally played as Alliance for the longest time because of the Horde's perceived 'evilness'. I started playing Horde, and I enjoy it far, far better than the Alliance. The members of the Horde have backstories that interest me and colourful NPCs (Both in manner and literally! ). Really, the Horde and the Alliance both have their pros and cons in terms of the way the act. The Forsaken certainly have dark motives, but the Orcs and Tauren are perhaps the noblest two races I've encountered in the game.

4. Do you give your characters (or pets) personalities and/or background stories? (please give details)

My characters, if female, I usually just see as avatars as myself. Heck, sometimes if drawing them as silly little cartoons I'll even give them little traits that I have, even if they look nothing like me! Ever seen an Orc with glasses? Though sometimes I can imagine them as their own seperate beings. But it's kind of tough. Probably explains why I haven't been to many RP nights... all I see is myself mirrored in my toons. But overall, my characters don't have much of a personality to them other than a few eccentricities. Take my Undead Priest. He looks constantly grumpy, which I blame on his silly purple garlic clove poof of hair. Also he sews pretty dresses and often looks like he got dressed in the dark.
As for my pets, I sometimes think of them acting a certain way. For example I think of my bear as being a cranky girl who, on a good day, wouldn't hesitate to bite a hand off for seemingly no reason whatsoever.

5. Are there things ingame you won't do because you feel your character wouldn't do? e.g. Quests, killing certain mobs or going to certain zones, grouping with other races or classes?

As I said before, I usually think of my characters as avatars as myself. So whatever I wouldn't do, they wouldn't do. It might seem a bit silly, but for an example, the DK starting zone. The quests there and what was needed to complete them made me so uncomfortable that I tried rolling a DK once and never did it again.

Thanks, that was fun filling out!

[Kalasha]

1. Age? 13 - 17 18 - 25 26 - 34 35 - 44 45+ prefer not to answer

26-34 (29 actually)

2. Do you think you chose your class/race because of your own personality traits?

Hm no, not really. I've played all sorts of combinations of races and classes, but the only thing that can really put me off certain characters is if their animations look really silly to me. Ever seen a human sword and shield fighter? The shield is just hanging there at his side, covering nothing... it looks silly and annoys me so I delete him. I'm not particulary wild about Blood Elves, but my mage is one, solely because she looks awesome casting spells. I moved her to Undercity as soon as I could because the BE capital looks like freakin' candyland to me. Same reason my Troll shaman made Thunder Bluff his home, it just fits him, even though I personally hate the commune between TB and the Orgrimmar zeppelin station.

3. Why did you choose your faction? Did the perceived good vs evil (alliance vs horde) sway your decision in any way or did you not see it as good vs evil?

Not a factor at all, I like races on both sides, Dranei and Worgen being my favorites for Alliance and Trolls for Horde. I started out playing horde, then moved to Allie server to be with a bunch of rl friends and now some of us have taken Cata as a nice opportunity to go back to Horde and lvl some new characters from scratch (on a pve server, which is also a nice change of pace after years of getting gangganked daily) And honestly, players who say one faction is more evil than the other don't know what the hell they're talking about. Individuals can be evil, but societies never are.

4. Do you give your characters (or pets) personalities and/or background stories? (please give details)

Not for all of them, but some more or less developed themselves as I played them...

Kalasha, Dranei huntress: I always picture her as a rather young Dranei, born in a small settlement in Zangarmarsh. She became a hunter so she could provide her people with food and security and volunteerd to join on the mission to hijack the Exodar. Crashing on Azaroth she was amazed to find so many different sapient species, many of them locked in an endless cycle of hatred and war. Although she is hardly a pacifist she hates to see life wasted for no good reason. Standing by her people (and by extention the Alliance) unfortunatly makes her stand against the Horde. But she really doesn't understand why it has to be about 'sides' with things like Deathwing and Sargeras out there who would happily kill ALL of us and then dance and spit all over our graves.

Kalahan, Troll Shaman: Kalahan is a happy, easy-going Troll who tends to go for the 'path of least resistance'. He gets annoyed by people who are gloomy, rude or just plain mean. Helpful and friendly, he'll happily fly halfway accros the world to help a friend finish a particular difficult quest. He's also the most likely to just sit somewhere in a nice place and watch the sun go down while smoking something that smells vaguely of rock concerts. (OK technically I do the smoking, but I can channel it to him. Or at least I believe so at the time ^^)

Karai, Orc Death Knight: Karai was raised from the dead like so many others for one purpose, to die like cannon fodder in the battle of Light's Hope. No great destiny, no remarkable history, just another young Orc grunt that had the misfortune of getting killed in a battle with the Scourge and thrown on a meat wagon. As a death knight she has become a quiet, methodical and rather heartless individual. When she fights, she cuts left and right with her two weapons, showing no emotion and uttering no word. Fighting is business to her, it's never personal. (Probably the only reason I can sorta enjoy pvp with her). Her only real weakness is her love of food and booze, since eating and drinking seems to be one of the few pleasures of life DK's get to enjoy after their ressurection. As a result she has become quite skilled at cooking and fishing.

5. Are there things ingame you won't do because you feel your character wouldn't do? e.g. Quests, killing certain mobs or going to certain zones, grouping with other races or classes?

Hm no not really, at the end of the day (or night) when I need 1 more quest to gain the next level, I'll do that quest even if it involves setting bunnies on fire. But I must admit I like to do certain zones/quests because they fit my character so well. Kalasha simply had to return to Zangarmarsh and finsih every damn quest in there, because it felt like the old stomping grounds to her. Karai had to run through the plaguelands (both old and new) because she knows exactly what the Scourge is about and believes they should all be detroyed.

[Cozzene]

1. Age? 13 - 17 18 - 25 26 - 34 35 - 44 45+ prefer not to answer

2. Do you think you chose your class/race because of your own personality traits?
Absolutely. Hunter (I LOVE aminals), and orcs seem very proud, almost arrogant. They seem very blunt, straight forward, and aggressive when faced with the challenge of getting what they want. And, at least in some areas, I definitely am.

3. Why did you choose your faction? Did the perceived good vs evil (alliance vs horde) sway your decision in any way or did you not see it as good vs evil?
Initially I was horde because my then bf was Horde. I played Alliance for a while, and went back to Horde for my current bf. Looking back at lore, I would pick Horde every time (but won't start an argument here)

4. Do you give your characters (or pets) personalities and/or background stories? (please give details)
YES YES YES.
--My orc hunter is very curt and very arrogant, very sarcastic and short tempered with people. If she isn't at the top of the dps table, I'll scrape up any excuse I can muster just to ensure I really was the best in the group. "Well, if X or Y... I would have been #1". She reflects my arrogant side, which is a cover for how much I hate myself. She's the dps that mumbles under her breath as she fights, "I'm better than this, I'm better than this.." or, near the end of a particularly tense boss fight, clinging to the top spot, she'll be the one screaming "Die damn you!" She pushes herself to exhaustion just to be the best and to make sure everyone knows it, just to validate herself. She is the ONLY DPS I do this with.
--My goblin resto shaman will sacrifice even herself to keep everyone else alive and would never complain about it, she reflects my savior complex.
--My undead mage jumps around a lot, jokes lot. She reflects my jovial side. She's dead (undead?) but that doesn't stop her, laughter is the best way to soothe an otherwise unfixable issue.
--Most of my mounts are very gentle and sweet, though a few are high strung, mostly my horses (except my Baron's mount), funny as I love horse racing and most of those horses are very high strung with nervous energy.

5. Are there things ingame you won't do because you feel your character wouldn't do? e.g. Quests, killing certain mobs or going to certain zones, grouping with other races or classes?
I HATE killing draenei and avoid it if at all possible. I love them, I feel they are Allie because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. As an orc, I feel it'd be even /worse/ for me to do that. I try not to kill mobs unnecessary for doing the quests I'm on, as their deaths would be pointless. I also try not to kill animals with babies.

[Xcturnus]

1. Age? I'm 19

2. I chose Hunter because i have always been an animal person i have so many pets in real life its costly

3. I orginally started off as an Alliance Night Elf Hunter until i saw the Light, to me the Alliance are the evil ones and the Horde are the victims :)d

4. Yes, Xcturnus grew up in Silvermoon city where she was constantly around animals of all kinds but her favorite was always Cats or Sabres because she felt a kinship with them, When he became of age she went to train with a mighty and wise Hunter in the Barrens for 5 years where she learnt the ways of Beastial Mastery and Taming and Caring for all Beasts especially her own.

5. There are certain animals in the game that Xcturnus likes, "Raptors" "Sabres" and cats, so if she comes across any quests that need the skinning and or killing of said Beasts she will not kill them.

[Karathyriel]

1: almost 41

2: Nope, I choose my race/class combinations from role playing reasons. I'd never play an undead hunter or an orc warlock, just because I think them to be anti-lore. I'd rather say, I choose what I'd love to role play instead of what I am.

3: At my age, I don't believe in the Good VS Evil or White VS Black anymore. I chose horde as "my" faction out of 3 reasons. First, all the annoying kids play alliance. Second, horde always has been outnumbered. Third, I always thought the Tauren to be "my" race.

4: I am a role player. Each and every toon I play has its own character and I take that very serious. A lot of people don't even get the faintest idea, that this rude undead rogue, that used to be a pirate but was stranded in Kalimdor when his ship and mates were sunk by an alliance military fleet has the same player in front of the screen as that proud tauren warrior or his blood brother, the blood elf hunter, who left his whole culture behind him and got to be something like an tauren of honor".

5: Yes, my paladin refused to play alongside warlocks. My tauren always was afraid od the forsaken and tried to avoid teaming up with them where ever he could. Stuff like that. But it always was "just a game", so these "rules" weren't set in stone and probably never will.

[Bulletdance]

1. I'm 27
2. It may have, I love animals so I went with a hunter and a druid.
3. To be honest I chose my race/ faction because at the time Night Elves were the best looking race imo. (yup I'm one of those) Of course if there were blood elves around back then...I'd probably be all horde.
4. I don't role play,but occasionally I will let my mind wonder and come up with stories and backgrounds for my chars.
5. I won't kill critters and if I go through a certain quest I think lacks morals or gives the video game industry a poor rap I won't go through them again on alts. I also rarely pvp outside of bg's. I'll help ppl from the other faction if I see they are going to die even if they are flagged.

[Tudyk]

1. Age?
26 - 34

2. Do you think you chose your class/race because of your own personality traits?
I choose the race of my chars based on whose butt I feel like staring at for uncounted hours. The classes I've ended up playing the most (hunter and druid) are definitely indicative of my personality. More specifically, druids' ability to survive by being able to adapt to any given situation, and hunters' ability to do so by staying the heck away from the big angry thing with the ax ... both classes excelling at running away. =D

3. Why did you choose your faction? Did the perceived good vs evil (alliance vs horde) sway your decision in any way or did you not see it as good vs evil?
Mostly switched factions following RL friends, but the only "good vs evil" decision I've ever made led me to choose Horde (at the time it was me with a Tauren background trying to get used to playing with my brother's Human char).

4. Do you give your characters (or pets) personalities and/or background stories? (please give details)
I've played DnD, but don't really "roleplay" at all in WoW. My pets, however, tend to take on personalities of their own. I expect that's most because I play a lot of WoW at strange hours after not sleeping, and talking to pets doesn't seem near as odd as having conversations with, say, my fridge.

5. Are there things ingame you won't do because you feel your character wouldn't do? e.g. Quests, killing certain mobs or going to certain zones, grouping with other races or classes?
I had to break my two rules (I refused to group with paladins, and vowed NEVER EVER to go to Gnomer again ... both out-of-character restrictions) eventually for RL friends. But no, my chars have never been fleshed out to the point where I'd ignore a quest line for moral reasons. There WERE a couple of times during my post-Cata leveling where I said "ugh, really?" when asked to do something, but thankfully the quest lines later resolved themselves to me getting to chop off the head of the bastard I had to do something sketchy for, or Garrosh showing up and tossing the jerk off a bridge.

[Sherbe]

1. Age? 13 - 17 18 - 25 26 - 34 35 - 44 45+ prefer not to answer
26-34

2. Do you think you chose your class/race because of your own personality traits?
I started a dwarf huntress on my boyfriends account first, the reason I chose hunter was because Bf told they can have tigers as companions. Later when I got my own account I made a gnome mage. My hunter is my main and she is a draenei because I think girl draeneis are beautiful and I like her earnest face and teal pigtails and backwards knees and small hooves. I also have a draenei priestess and Nelf druid. I have char of every class but these are 80+.

3. Why did you choose your faction? Did the perceived good vs evil (alliance vs horde) sway your decision in any way or did you not see it as good vs evil?
My boyfriend played a human and I really disliked orcs. Still do usually.

4. Do you give your characters (or pets) personalities and/or background stories? (please give details)
Oh, yes. Let's start with the dwarf, she herself was pretty cheerful and pragmatic, but her pet, snowleaopard called Umar, was what breathed life into that character. When she was deleted I said tearful goodbyes...to Umar. Later, my hunter Sherbe tamed a dark tiger just outside Exodar and named it Ramu, and it seemed to have the same...spirit in a way. For other hunters, I still have Ummra and Amur as possible cat names, but Ruma means ugly in my native language so that's out. Sherbe is a black sheep in a way, doesn't like people much and prefers animals. She is almost a nonreligious draenei, not particularly worshipful for Naarus or anything else really, even if she likes having GOTW so she can heal her pets even more. She collects minipets and mounts too, wants to give home every critter, big or small. She makes money with gemcutting.

My gnome mage Starsprite is also a black sheep, since she isn't interested in engineering at all, is glad not to live in Gnomeregan and bought herself an Alterac Ram. She loves her magic and everything magical. Dalaran is her own little paradise. She does enchanting and tailoring in her free time, for added magicalness!
My draenei priestess Agape is the epitome of a draenei. Holy and helpful, mother-Maryish person who wants to better the world and make peace. Sometimes she goes a bit Bi-polar with Shadow but doesn't really remember it at all. She does tailoring and mining, to help Star and Sherbe. I imagine them as group of friends.
Hina is a newcomer, a young druid who loves flying around and picking flowers for her potions. She is most connected to being a bear, but isn't ready for those battles in the post-cataclysm world yet.

5. Are there things ingame you won't do because you feel your character wouldn't do? e.g. Quests, killing certain mobs or going to certain zones, grouping with other races or classes?
Not much. If not part of a quest, I try to avoid killing elekks on my draeneis. But I will do all quests. Also I think that my draeneis rather enjoy killing orc and ogre mobs.

[Felidire]

It's been like 4 months and i'm assuming the "studies" have concluded, but whatever! XD

1. Age?: 18 - 25 (21)

2. Do you think you chose your class/race because of your own personality traits?:
Yeah I love animals, nature, and if anything else I feel that I would be a "tank" irl.. Hence my favourite classes are Blood DKs, BM hunters, and Feral Druids. x3

3. Why did you choose your faction? Did the perceived good vs evil (alliance vs horde) sway your decision in any way or did you not see it as good vs evil?:
The lore aspect of the game lead me to believe that the Horde was mainly comprised of sick, twisted, overly-domineering, warmongering jerks. (The factions, not the players themselves.) Alliance just fits me, i've tried and i'll never be a true horde.

4. Do you give your characters (or pets) personalities and/or background stories? (please give details)
Not really.. their personalities correlate to that of my own, and their "background" writes itself every time I log off.

5. Are there things ingame you won't do because you feel your character wouldn't do? e.g. Quests, killing certain mobs or going to certain zones, grouping with other races or classes?
I have issues killing alliance on my Horde toons.. and skinning... Yeah, I have issues picking up skinning as a profession on any char. On the other hand, I studied Horticulture irl and a fair few of my characters are herbalists, 2/3 of my current 85s are herbalists and it's always the first thing I learn when making a character on a new server.

[Araela]

1. Age? 13 - 17 18 - 25 26 - 34 35 - 44 45+ prefer not to answer

27 (26-34)

2. Do you think you chose your class/race because of your own personality traits?

I have played with a multitude of classes and races on both factions, but my main is currently my Blood Elf Hunter. I am not quite as snooty as the blood elves are, but I find that the class itself (running around with pretty pets at my side and battling with them!) is very much like me.

3. Why did you choose your faction? Did the perceived good vs evil (alliance vs horde) sway your decision in any way or did you not see it as good vs evil?

I originally started off as Alliance, because none of the horde characters except blood elves appealed to me. My husband and I started playing during Burning Crusade, and we were on the trail accounts so we could not choose to be Blood Elves or Draenei. So I made a human paladin and my husband made a human mage to ensure we could try questing together. I stayed on the pally for nearly 3 years as prot and then switching between ret and holy for my off spec, before I decided to give Horde a go. I have barely gone back.

4. Do you give your characters (or pets) personalities and/or background stories? (please give details)

Personalities a bit- my pets are all Star Trek themed, so I named certain pets after characters that fit that pet type. An example of this would be Worf, the Klingon, is Old Cliff Jumper the Wolf. Another would be Lwaxana Troi, a diva throughout different series, and she became Princess Huhuran the elite wasp boss in AQ40. Both very fitting, in my opinion!

5. Are there things ingame you won't do because you feel your character wouldn't do? e.g. Quests, killing certain mobs or going to certain zones, grouping with other races or classes?

Nope, no restrictions here. But there are of course things I do in game BECAUSE my character would do them, such as killing enemy players who try to invade our cities (regardless of whichever faction I'm playing on).


I hope this helps- good luck with your project!

[Torleth]

I know this is a VERY old topic but I thought I would give those that helped me an update and a massive thank you, managed to get a grade B which I don't think is too bad ^^ Next up, including the research task into a radio documentary on the "addictive nature" of MMORPG's so again a big thank you.

[Mozag]

I know this is a VERY old topic but I thought I would give those that helped me an update and a massive thank you, managed to get a grade B which I don't think is too bad ^^ Next up, including the research task into a radio documentary on the "addictive nature" of MMORPG's so again a big thank you.

Well done on your B! Maybe you should research the "addictive nature" of the Petopia boards.

Seriously though, good luck!