Breakfast Topic Thoughts: What type of character would your mother play in WoW?

It turns out that yesterday (Sunday 12th) was Mother's Day in various countries but not here in the UK. Our Mother's Day was back in March and to celebrate I did a post on in-game Mummys (mounts) and their kids (pets) which you can view here.

Yesterday, WoW Insiders Dawn Moore asked What type of character would your mother play in WoW? and I thought this was a pretty neat question. It really provoked some thought as well as I'd never considered my mum playing WoW or even what race/class she is most like in personality etc.


Firstly, what would my mum play? Well it's safe to say my mum isn't the best with computers. She's approaching 60 and whilst she is suitably skilled to do a lot, with computers, I don't think games is her thing. However, if she ever did play I think she'd enjoy pet battles and leveling professions - much like myself. I think she'd find the combat a bit too much - too many buttons, too much going on etc. (again, a little like myself!). As such I can't really say what class or race she'd play out of choice but...

 

What is she most like? Race is easy - a (ginger) dwarf, much like my warlock Boltzy whom I pride on looking most accurately like myself. Class is slightly more tricky. She's got a range of qualities; good with plants, nature and mending (like a healer [primarily druid]), a stubborn battler (which I imagine to be a tank-like quality) yet she can be a bit of a witch. Overall, I guess my mum is more like a druid but dwarfs can't be druid. I guess the next best thing is a shaman - she can heal but can also deal some serious damage!

A Mothers Day Special on Mounts & Pet Combo's

Today is Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day here in the UK (atleast) so a massive happy mummys day to all you WoW playing mums!

It got me thinking about the animal mothers and their children within Azeroth. By this I mean - there is a number of mounts in-game which have a matching/similar looking companion pet, presumably their child. So, I went through my collection and found some examples...

Armoured Brown Bear & Darkshore Cub

 

Brown Riding Goat & Summit Kid

 

 

Purple Elekk & Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

 

 

Swift Yellow Mechanostrider & Mechanopeep

 

 

Black Drake & Dark Whelpling

 

 

Fossilized Raptor & Fossilized Hatchling

 

 

Blue Dragon Turtle & Wanderer's Festival Hatchling

 

 

 

Green Riding Nether Ray & Tiny Sporebat

 

 

Subdued Abyssal Seahorse & Sea Pony

 

 

Regal Riding Crane & Jade Crane Chick

 

Blue Dragonhawk & Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling

 

Jade Cloud Serpent & Wild Jade Hatchling

 

 

White Polar Bear & Baby Blizzard Bear

 

Dark Phoenix & Dark Phoenix Hatchling

 

Imperial Quilen & Lucky Quilen Cub

 

 

Thanks to the boyf for brain-storming with me and for allowing me to use his much greater collection of mounts/pets to get some combinations. I'm sure there's a lot more combinations that we didn't think of and/or couldn't show due to lack of the mount and/or pet in either of our collections. For example, I have the Emerald Proto-Whelp and he has the Green Proto-Drake but neither of us have both.

 

I'd love to hear of any other combinations that you can think of / create yourself (screenshots welcome).