autobottrixter

I'm super-antsy to get home today because, after hearing that some people on wow_ladies had successfully petitioned GMs to free up the names of inactive alts, I asked if there was any way I could get them to free up a name so I could snag it for my Forsaken hunter. I got to work to find an email from Blizzard Support saying they had determined it was being used by an inactive character and had freed it up for me, and recommended I snag it as soon as possible. OMG awesome! Except...I'm at work. There's server maintenance this morning, which will give me a little more of a grace period (and let me feel less bad about not checking before I left for work), but I'm still going to be antsy all day. Not that I imagine scads of new characters with believable RP names are being rolled on TB immediately after maintenance on a weekday when the kiddies are back in school, but...I want my name. I already deleted Etheris' placeholder to make room.

So yes, I have started planning for Cataclysm, not by getting all worked up about a new worgen or goblin character but by getting excited for the new race/class combinations. I'm planning to go ahead and start my Forsaken hunter up as a low-level "civilian" character, possibly even having him involved with Hand of the Blightcaller in some administrative capacity. I'm not going to poach his name from an inactive alt just to slap it on another alt who'll stay inactive for a year, after all, and I like the idea of establishing him as a little bit of a character ahead of time. Likewise I went ahead and rolled up a placeholder for my Tauren paladin once it really sunk in that this means I can have a Horde paladin without playing an elf. Her name, which was available, is going to be Opelika. (Yes. Har har.) I made her placeholder a warrior but I think I'll have her be a druid for a few levels since the Tauren paladin path seems thus far to be an offshoot of their druids. Maybe she can dip her hoof in the Kalimdor RP scene, too.

I'm so glad I got that second account.