Mariele, Warrior Preistess

Posted by theepicraiders on October 20, 2009 at 8:57 PM

I figure I should introduce Mariele proper, so now that she is all nicely geared here she is.

Mariele was probably the second character I created. I wanted to have her lead a guild called "First Do No Harm" which would be a guild made up completely of only people who heal.

Such a thing would not be very sensical now that I am a wizened (and three and half year) WoW vet. When I moved from Kiron Tor to Kel'Thuzad to play with my friends and housemates I left Mariele to collect dust, along with my dashing dwarven rouge Shefandrago. When I started the complete pacifist project, I immediately thought of Mariele who I wanted to use ina similar fashion anyway. But silly WoW noob me had already leveled her to 12 by killing things.

At that point I rolled a fresh character on Kirin Tor in Carlah to level to 80 without killing anything ( I unfortunately have two accidental kills from escort quests and that danged stalvan, but am loving the candy exp of Hallow's) and realized Mariele was just another toon I had randomized the name for.

But then patch 3.2 rolled around and I salivated at the challenge of leveling up a toon just in pvp exp. Of course! Mariele can be Carlah's dark elf mirror! A character that only levels by causing misery to other players. It wouldn't be scientific or anything since It wasn't a fresh character but there would be rules.

#1. No quests not marked as PvP (though I did take enough candy from buckets to get G.N.E.R.D. Rage)
#2. Only explore to get to to bg gear vendors.
#3. Only get exp by completing PvP objectives (such as BG exp) or PvP quest objectives (win the towers, collecting eternal embers from wintergrasp mobs). This means no grinding mobs anywhere for exp.

Believe it or not, fishing has turned out to be a decent money maker for me as I wait for queues. Without grinding mobs and turning in more than the daily, money was getting scarce. Fishing up tattered cloth all of sudden allowed me to train more trade and class skills, thanks vendor trash! Enchanting and Inscription have also eased my gold issues.

As a final note I am so happy they have put back the Insignia at it's new cost.