I know you are, but what am I?

It’s apparently “Not Your Class” week in the WoW Blogosphere, so I thought I’d jump into the fun (or horror).

As I’ve mentioned in the past I, not so ironically, play a Hunter. I’ve had alts come and go but Bananarchy, my adorable huntress, has always been #2 to my Druid. I guess you could go so far as to call her my main alt? I think I might know more about hunters than I do druids, but then again druids have six potential roles for me to cover and hunters have… well, I’ll give ‘em three. (tank, melee dps, ranged dps, heal, solo, and pvp)

I also read a billion rss feeds, of which a million are Druid based (we need our own tree for pete’s sake) and only five are Hunter (although after seeing pike’s blogroll that’ll change asap that has changed). So it’s a lot to read and feel confident in my druid abilities wheras there are few but grand hunter blogs. Clearly, by this, druids are too complicated.

I find it really interesting that there are so many Druids with Hunter alts. I have to wonder if it’s because of play style, concept of character, or something else entirely.

Druids and Hunters certainly have an attachment to nature. It goes back to rangers and druids of D&D, which both use nature based spells and abilities. I generally play druids in tabletop rpg campaigns, for various reasons but one is the nature aspect. Do other Druids play druids for a similar reason, and if so do they also have a Hunter alt the same way?

There’s also the play style. Druids that level feral are used to being able to take hits and deal out dps without fear of being squishy. Hunters get the same feel as they shoot from afar and their pet takes the hits (which is awesome: “tame” a beast of the wild and force it to take a beating while you kill from a distance). Is it because it’s more of the same play style with different abilities?

Or maybe it’s something greater. I’m not sure them, but I know I do it so I can look at hot animal butt.