The Cast of Characters

I talk a lot about various WoW people in this blog. Many of them are in my 10-man group, most are in my guild, and more than a few are just freaks. I thought it might be worthwhile to have a resource on this site explaining who all these people are. So, in no particular order, here are the people that I talk about:

Frostheim
Me, your stalwart guide, boon companion, and dps whore. Frostheim sees the world through dps-colored goggles. These Frost Goggles ignore things like emotions, feelings, and all the little joys and triumphs that make you who you are and just see the bottom line contribution to raiding success. Always remember the Frostheim Goggles when considering Frost’s opinion of, say, everyone he’s about to talk about. Frostheim believes in science, and does not understand those who don’t.

Arust
The other blog owner, a die-hard MM hunter. Frostheim and Arust have a simple, balanced way of splitting the WHU duties: Frost handles all of the backend technical stuff, the software, the search engine optimization, upgrades, addons, etc. To balance this, Frost also writes 95% of the articles. Arust once metaphorically kicked Frost in the balls when the WHU experienced a large traffic spike one day, and Frost tracked it back to a link on WoW Insider… specifically a link to one of Arust’s Achievement Guides, of all things. Arust is an elf, and spends his time molestering woodland animals, like most elves.

Hrist / The Hate Tank / The Haterade
A warrior tank, Hrist is known as the Hate Tank or the Asshole Tank for obvious reasons. He does a decent job of suppressing his natural rage and disdain for everyone for the benefit of leading raids, but of course he doesn’t try too hard at it. Of everyone in the guild, Hrist is the only one who sees the world through similar goggles as Frost (though less dps oriented). Feelings are unhelpful, illogical, and ultimately irrelevant.

Hrist’s witty repoirte, snarky comments and plain, undisguised hate have provided substance for so many WHU articles that I had to create an entire Hrist section. Hrist describes himself as Frost’s platonic life partner. Also, he’s an elf.

Arthemystia
Arth was a longtime WHU reader who started spending a lot of time trying to tank heroics with his pet. Arth was eventually tapped to write a series of pet tanking articles for the WHU, in our continuing effort to cover every aspect of hunterliness. Frostheim harbors a vague suspiscion that Arthemystia actually lives somewhere somewhat near him IRL, probably by a large body of water.

Myrliandre
Known as the Macro Master, Myr is a die-hard BM hunter from way back in the vanilla days. With a solid respect for science, no one really knows why he clings to his BM hunter ways. In addition to being an elf, he is also and Aussie, which is reason enough to hate him.

Party Girl
Someone Frost met at a party who then was subsequently assigned the unfortunate moniker of Party Girl. An altoholic, she rerolled on Frost’s serve, and leveled to 80 in under a month. This is just disturbing as all hell, and Frost now wonders where the hell she went after leveling. The whole point of running her through those dungeons was to get her to heal in raids, after all.

Mana Battery
The badass ret pally of Frost’s 10-man team. Though I always beat him on the damage meters, deep in my soul I’m bitter that he contributes more dps to the raid than I do. In addition to great dps, all his crazy pally buffs probably add up to bring more extra dps than is provided simply by our combined meters

Cheerleader
Every group has to have one of these. Perpetually cheery and optimistic, incapable of letting the rage flow through her veins, it’s probably a good thing that she’s a healer. Also one of those freaks that carries around 250 Fish Feasts to drop non-stop during raids. Not that we’re complaining mind you. Just saying it’s strange. Very strange.

Badass Mage
The other dps leader of our 10-man is our badass mage. Nothing is scarier than having this guy creep up on my ass during Patchwerk.

Cocky Mage
And on again/off again raider throughout WoW, he has occasionally left the guild, or even when in the guild has raided with other guilds. He goes wherever the loot is, making him perhaps even more mercenary than ourselves. We feel some strange loyalty to our teammates that does not burden him. At the last WHU BBQ he was handing out autographed photos of his character. Seriously.

Swamp Chick / Geriatric Healer
Another freak of nature that found its home in the body of the healer, this priest starts out every raid by handing out appropriate flasks to every one in attendance. Now again, we love this to death, and we love her to death for it, but I think we can all agree this is not normal behavior. Also, she’s the oldest member of our group. She refuses to tell us her exact age, but estimates place it somewhere over 90 years old. Possibly over 150.

Commie Tank
What can I say, other than his blood runs redder than ours. Brother to the Cheerleader.

AFK Rogue
Earned the nickname in our Kara days. It was quite a sight — I’d be standing there, shooting away, and I’d look to the side and there was the rogue just standing there next to me. “Now this isn’t right…” I thought. Lately he’s taken the step of announcing “afk” when he abruptly leaves in the middle of trash pulling, or the occasional boss fight. Also has a host of alts to fill whatever need the raid may have.

Roomate
Frost’s non-WoW playing roomate, who occasionally pops into the computer room. I try my best to explain to her what’s going on in terms she can understand. It’s an interesting communication challenge, particularly when my answer is something like “I’m picking carrots so I can make some meatlof for this person…”

Who Else?

And who knows who else will pop up from time to time. Now, most of these people aren’t mentioned often. In fact some of them have only appeared on the dps meters I post.

But the real question is: who do you want to hear more about?