World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 11 | Page 57

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next biggest dragon, or gearing up
to be able to land the biggest crit.
In Magic, Timmy loves slamming
down giant monsters: it’s the big
numbers that give him the biggest
thrill. A WoW analogue could be a
manic DPS, as mentioned above,
but it could also be a collector,
an achieve-wh*re, someone who
finds satisfaction in being able
to showcase large amounts of
something for the time that they put
in. Practicality be damned, Timmy
wants to play the game his way.
Spike plays to prove something.
Namely, that ze is the best. Spike
looks to the top-ranking arena
teams to learn what classes ze
something. She’s the girl who

amount of pieces to all line up at

should play, and which specs to

might show up to a raid bragging

the same time. However, even if

choose. The path ze takes to victory

about a new spec or rotation she’s

she only pulls off her dream combo

doesn’t matter, as long as ze wins.

designed, or saved up way too

one out of every ten instances,

Top-tier raiding guilds are likely to

much gold while levelling just to

she still considers it a success.

be full of Spikes: the people that

get an item on the Auction House.

Practicality be damned, Jenny

know all the mechanics of every

She looks at the game mechanics

wants to play the game her way.

boss fight, and how to play past
them with mechanical precision

not as something to min-max, but
Timmy plays to feel something.

and consistency. Spike is the most

problems in her own way. Jenny

He wants to know the glory of victory

vocal person on the class forums,

can be a Role-Player, though she

as won in arenas or in Arathi Basin.

and gets the most interested in the

doesn’t always have to be. The key

He wants to feel the rush that comes

minutiae of every patch. There is

trait of Jenny is that her optimal play

from storming through Blackrock

little to say aside from that ze wants

strategy does not always work, as

Foundry and leaving with a bag full

to win and ze doesn’t care how.

it generally involves some super-

of trophies. For Timmy, there is no

Class, race, spec: Spike believes

janky combo that requires an insane

game if it is not spent finding the

that there is an optimal playstyle

rather as tools she can use to solve

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