Because, you know, I’ve always associated /oom with dyslexic cows. Plus /moo is just a hilarious emote. (Doubly so if you pop it as a Tauren Death Knight since it uses the DK voice filter!)
Ahem.
Khadgar is now my “Kopii” server, since now I’ve rolled up Kopii Phil (or, properly, “Kophilionel”) as a Tauren Priest. As you can guess, he’s a bovine clone of old man (human) Phil from Draenor server, meaning lolholy and, uh… yeah, questing would kinda be a drawn-out, not-so-fun experience. So, into LFD for me.
“But Yoshi,” you say, “you HATE LFD! All those stupid people and boo jackasses that make things miserable, and now you’re going to use it?”
Fortunately, Khadgar (and the battlegroup it’s in) happens to be populated by mostly-harmless doods as opposed to the troll-ridden Draenor, so it’s not so painful to throw Kopii Phil into the fray. Since he’s a clone of Phil, and healing is (mostly) second nature to me now, I get to be a big fuzzy moo-cow that spams Renew and PW:Shield on the tank (and the occasional mage or rogue who rips aggro).
It’s not perfect, though… healers, we all deal with a particular flavor of boo jackassery: the tank on Energizer batteries! The one who keeps going and going and going… the one who charges in before you get to even sit down and chug your level-appropriate beverage (or nom on mana munchies if you’ve looted a mage’s cookie table), then bitches when you go OOM trying to heal and shield his impatient ass. Unless one’s rolling a Paladin (and even then…), we healers just can’t vomit HP out of thin air. Would it really kill you to wait not even 1 minute, but 30 seconds for us to take a swig before you go running into that mob?
(apparently so, because HERPA DERP, EXP AND VALOR POINTS, GO GO GO, NOT HEALING FAST ENOUGH OMG *PUNT*)
Anywho… Taurens! I love them. Well, I’ve always had a thing for cows (and I blame Harvest Moon almost entirely for that). When it came time to roll Kopii Phil, it was either go Blood Elf or Tauren… and Blood Elves were kinda lacking in the “old guy” options as far as hair styles go. Tauren dudes are like human dudes in that they have an adorably-awkward way of running, since they’re huge (seriously, even orcs are more graceful), and this fits Phil to a T, so his Horde self gets to be a lovably-dorky cow. :D (I’d thought of giving him a Resurrection macro in which he says “I’d give you milk, but I’m a dude” but that’s opening things up for abuse way too easily.)
I’ve got a couple Taurens on Draenor, too (the sisters Mauriska and Auriska) and they’re getting warp piped to Khadgar as soon as I reload my bank account… which should be this Monday, provided neither the credit union nor Wells Fargo gives me any crap. I’ve been putting off the transfer because of LOL CALIFORNIA and its stupid hot weather. Going out in 102+F = omg no, I pretty much wilt in anything above 90, but the widget on Blastoise says it’s going to be 94F on Monday and that’s as good as it’ll probably get for now, so I’ll just have to suck it up.
