Rinkou Ashelia Plays World of Warcraft for the First Time as an Undead Mage

PHASE CONNECT — Rinkou Ashelia of Phase Connect, who normally streams Final Fantasy XIV, played World of Warcraft for the first time, creating an undead mage named Applesauce on the Horde side. She said Final Fantasy XIV was down for maintenance and she had nothing else planned.

She opened by predicting two hours of character creation, some complaining and about five hits on monsters before she logged out and never touched the game again. At the realm screen she passed on the player-versus-player and role-playing rule sets and chose the normal one, saying she did not want other players hurting her. Chat split between warlock and mage. She settled on mage after asking which class had Frostbolt, then picked the undead race when she learned it could cannibalize corpses, with a detour through the cow-like Tauren along the way.

“I have absolutely no idea what anything in this game is.” — Rinkou Ashelia, as the stream opened

In the starting area she learned as she went: tagging monsters, waiting for mana to refill, turning on auto-loot and setting up auto-run, and moving her spells around with a layout tip from chat. Frostbolt needed level 4 and she was level 2, so she kept grinding quests until she could cast it. She compared the game to Final Fantasy XIV throughout, saying it reminded her of that game’s opening hours and that XIV players would have formed an orderly line at a quest target.

Between quests she told a long story about her driving lessons and said she planned to keep practicing, with a boba shop and a bookstore as her first destinations once she has a license. The stream drew 32 paid messages. One asked for a backflip, and she obliged.

She closed by declaring she could not take any more World of Warcraft, then raided Mint on YouTube and Hami on Twitch.