Presenting...Bloodshiv!

I've added a new member to my ranks of alts - Bloodshiv, the Orc Rogue!

First I'd like to pat myself on the back for the awesome name, which I was able to come up with all by myself.

Second, some of you may be scratching your heads saying, "But I see you have a level 71 rogue already!" True, true, but that means little to an Alt Fanatic. That rogue was a project with a friend from Florida (I was Vais, he was Myamy, get it?) Where we would level up 2 rogues together. Now he has stopped playing WoW and its no fun to keep on playing Vais alone on a server out of my time zone.

Third, we must all bid a fond farewell to Kurokishi, the noble Death Knight. He left us at the tender age of 62, well before his time. I just don't have enough slots on the realm, I'm at my maximum 10 with my two alliance alts and their bank alt. And I know it's totally weird, but I have almost no motivation to play a death knight.

I can't quite pinpoint why the Death Knight didn't hold my interest. The starting quests were excellent, probably the best quest chains in the game. The class is very powerful, with many unique abilities. I'm sure it will be easy to level when I get around to it. I guess I just see myself hitting 80 and joining the countless other Death Knights, and we all Death Strike and Frostfever in unison like some undead dance revue, and it doesn't really appeal to me. I play so many characters because I like filling that "gap", but with a Death Knight, there is never any "gap", in fact it's overflowing. There are just simply too many of them around - my guild runs sometimes have 4 death knights out of 10 players!

The reason I didn't start on a new realm and deleted a character to make room was the benefit of bind-to-account items and other support. I didn't want to roll a new alt on a realm with no money or anything at all. Sure there's an appeal to that, but it's too tantalizing for me to get all the bonuses I can:
- 2 heirloom swords, one from emblems on honor and one from stone keeper's shards. I even got crusader enchanted on to one - to be honest the heal proc is more valuable than the strength bonus for cutting down downtime.
- 10% XP bonus heirloom shoulders (sure they're cloth, but its just one armor piece)
- 4 frostweave bags, courtesy of my mage tailor.
- Come patch 3.2, the 10% bonus xp chestpiece as well.

I took the advice of many blogs and leveling guides and quested mostly in the blod elf starting area. It was good to be able to avoid the usual Barrens quests and also quest in a better-designed area. I've parked him for now in Orgrimmar - I don't see the point in questing now that I can get a mount at level 20 when patch 3.2 hits (My guess is August 4th or 11th). If his rested XP gets capped I might burn it off, but it would be a disservice to make him run around on his stubby orc legs when he can ride with the wolves instead :)