Breakfast Topic: Your first character

Blizzard games have been in circulation for a long time, and that can mean it’s been while between the time you created your first character and today. Over the years, games change, with classes and balance being endlessly tweaked, and what you once played may not seem like fun in its new incarnation. But more than that, we change: what we found fun a decade ago may not be fun anymore. Where we started in Blizzard’s games may be a long way from where we’ve wound up.

In some games, all these years later, I still tend towards the same things. In the original Diablo, I favored a rogue — today I play a demon hunter. In StarCraft, I preferred Protoss which… actually means I haven’t even bothered buying StarCraft II yet. But in World of Warcraft, I’ve wandered over the years. My first serious character in the game was a warlock. At this point I can’t even remember why: casters were not usually my first choice in a game, and warlocks were hardly the most powerful class at the time. But that was the character I stuck with throughout vanilla. Today it’s been many years retired, as I’ve since run through the gamut of healing classes and finally settled on monk, which I’m sticking with… so far.

But whatever you’re playing today, tell us: where did you get started? Are you playing the same class or same style you did when you first jumped into the game, or have you switched things up?