Wotworks: The RvR-Only Slayer

Despite patching and heavy mailbox lag, I had a few hours last night to create and equip my new Dwarf Slayer, Wotworks (a sort-of pun on "wetworks"), and take him out for a drive.  I had a bit of fun making him look as eccentric as possible: the eyepatch, Snorri's Spikes and the keg in his beard.  I also went for minimal tattoos, something I regretted when I realized, in-game, that I'd be staring at a hairy dwarf back for the next 40 levels.  Such is life.

I had decided a while ago that Wotworks was going to take up my own RvR-Only Challenge, which meant in all likelihood that everyone else creating Slayers and Choppas this week would outlevel me within a few hours.  I felt it in the RvR lakes, as geared up rank 10 Choppas made short work of my nearly-naked rank 4 self.  The Slayer has a very suicidal feel to it, which is fine with me -- just wade in, try to do a lot of damage, and be okay with dying a lot.

I also took up cultivating/apothecary with Wot, partially to see what the changes were like, partially to make dyes, and partially to have potions to keep me alive for an extra two seconds.  So far, so good -- I've made over a half-dozen bright yellow dyes, which makes me all sorts of happy.

I can sense that doing solely RvR will be a lot tougher -- right now I'm gaining renown far faster than XP -- but it's also a bit of a relief to have a smaller game focus.  I'm just not worrying about PvE quests and PQs and gear associated with that, nor all the Tome unlocks that I'm doing with Syp.  Just lots of fighting, renown gear, renown points and hopefully influence gear.