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A second gnome’s journey through World of WarCraft
THE
YOU MIGHT BE THINKING THIS CGW
redesign is so powerful that it’s even made
> Eggbert more attractive. But (though there’s no
denying the mad skills of CGW art director Michael)
you’d be wrong. As Eggbert has been briefly sidetracked
in his quest to find a suitable mount, he has
temporarily handed over the reins to me,
Crepesuzette, a gnome rogue bravely soldiering her
way through the hinterlands.
I’M A LONER, DOTTIE
Thanks to my natural antisocialness, I’ve been
immune to MMORPGs prior to WOW, but the ability
to slash my way through Azeroth solo has me
hooked (and when I say hooked, I mean that my husband
has scheduled an intervention with a marriage
counselor). While I tend to be a hacker in combat, the
rogue class has suited my independence well:
There’s nothing like going into stealth mode, sneaking
up behind a skeletal fiend, garroting him, and
then finishing him off with a few fierce eviscerations.
Due to my newbie status when starting out, I
didn’t realize that I wouldn’t be able to use any of
my mining and blacksmithing skills for my own
benefit, but I conned another player into studying
herbalism, so we have a healthy trade going—I
supply the latest fashions in breastplates, and he
keeps me sedated with healing potions. All in all,
these coincidences (born of good game design)
have melded nicely to make my first 25 levels a
halcyon blur of bloody backstabbing and gory
gouging that lets me sleep well at night.
LET’S GET TOGETHER
And then comes level 26. Up until this point, I
have resisted the sirens’ call of enticements such
as “weres stiches” and “LFG deadmines need
rouge,” but a couple of things have made me
realize that I will need to change my ways. One
is that dying in five seconds instead of two doesn’t
mark a lot of progress in my elite quests, even
though the difficulty level has been downgraded
from orange to green. The other is that a higherlevel
friend has been heckling me about whether
I’ve tackled the Westfall Defias Brotherhood
quests, because apparently completing that series
will score me some really sweet loot.
When I’m not busy being a loner, I’m busy being a
control freak, which is why I decide that rather than
accepting one of the guild invitations that has been
extended, it would be preferable to start my own
guild so I’m not stuck at the mercy of some tyrant
who can’t stand it when others run the show. Now
instead of going on solo crocolisk-massacring
sprees to further my cooking skill, I’m spending time
socializing with all of the people I so assiduously
avoided for my first 100 hours. Damn you, Blizzard.
/ Dana Jongewaard
28 > COMPUTER GAMING WORLD
Crepesuzette Where’s
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The first 25 levels have glided along as
smoothly as a gryphon ride.
No man—or gnome—is an island;
Crepesuzette visits a guild master.
Eggbert?
Our little gnome is taking
a well-deserved break,
so his pal Crepesuzette
is “filling” in.
Ha-ha!
In her free time,
Crepesuzette likes
cooking crocolisk
gumbo and blacksmithing
bronze
bracers.
Those elite mo’grosh enforcers may only be
level 19, but they’re still kicking nonelite level
26 gnome butt.
> Dying in five seconds instead of two doesn’t
mark a lot of progress in my elite quests.
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Crepesuzette uses her silver-tongued ways
to find people to join the guild.
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