Why am I having such a hard time accepting Nabith as my main, and the character I want to keep raiding with and perfecting?
Part of it is probably the stigma against hunters in general. In truth there are a ton of horrible hunters out there. The pet aspect makes leveling easy and fun, and thus people who can’t handle classes that are more difficult to level flock to the class. In truth, mastering the hunter class for endgame is no easier or harder than any other class. However, because there are so many, it is much more common for people to run into horribly played hunters than other classes. This negative feel toward bad hunters permeates the attitude toward all hunters in general, and being very sensitive to such things, I have continued to play a class that a vast majority is looking down their nose at.
The other, and probably larger aspect is that Nabith is, as of now, the *only* character I have ever leveled up entirely for myself. Melannie was a priest because priests were hard to come by. Amebil was a warlock because we only had Rosa. Pandemonium was a paladin because we needed healers. (By the time she neared 60 we were really hurting for tanks, so I switched my focus.) Near was a draenei priest because we needed fear ward, and we needed spriests. (Isrio is just kind of a shadow of Near, I don’t really know how to play her, nor do I ever plan on raiding with her.) Now I don’t dislike any of these classes. In fact all of them are fun to play, but somewhere in the back of my mind, I worked hard leveling them up, because then I thought for once, I could actually be useful to the guild, filling one of those hard to fill slots instead of just being another dps. Now I’m not trying to knock dps. Dpsing well takes skill just as much as anything else, but truthfully, dps is a dime a dozen. Whenever we’re trying to put together a raid and we’re short a tank or a healer, I feel like it’s my fault that I don’t have a healer or tank main. Whether or not that’s logical is not really the point, the point is that that’s how I feel. The same way I feel that it’s somehow my fault that I got two excellent upgrades for nothing.
As of now, I plan on keeping my options open for a new main when LK comes out. By that point I plan on having a level 70 hunter, priest, paladin, warlock, warrior, and possibly shaman. I may stick with Nabith, and I may decide to fill a role that is looking thin as we approach LK. We’ll just have to see.
