One little Gnome

I have to tell you that as much as I adore Blood Elves and Goblins and Dwarves... if Gnomes could be every class, I might not play anything else. Right now I only have 2 gnomes that I consistently play- Temperence (my prot/fury warrior) and Cucurbit (my rogue), but I often dream of a gnome druid with a teddy bear form (SO KEWT) and a gnome hunter with a pet that's bigger than she is... Or a gnome paladin. The only thing stopping me from making all my current Alliance characters that CAN be gnomes into gnomes is the fact that I also kind of try to have some variety. Also, since my Alliance characters are on Sentinels (a roleplay server), I tend to give them more of a personality that would likely not quite fit with the gnome. Still, a girl can dream of what she'd do if there wasn't a ten character limit on the server. ;-)

Above you can see Temperence in all her protection warrior glory- she's wearing the full Replica Battlegear of Heroism, along with Gizlock's Hypertech Buckler and a random Angerfang Axe that I equipped her with to replace her heirloom sword once she hit level 80. Eventually I hope to equip her with the Gnomeregan Mindslicer (because it matches the best of all three Alliance-available vibro-swords), but because of MH/OH restrictions I will likely make due with the Peacekeeper Blade until Blizzard finds a suitable way to fix that restriction so as not to gimp tanks like me. I've not made a final decision on mace/axe variations for her tanking set, again partly due in part to MH/OH restrictions. For a mace I'll likely use Lucky Old Sun, but I would adore Misery's End (Heroic). I welcome your suggestions for axes- I'd like something gnomey, but I've yet to find very mechanical looking axes!

Here you can see Temperence in her fury set- I didn't feel the need to change out this armor- have I mentioned how much I LOVE it? Before I delve further into outfit details for her, I should really tell the story of how I ended up using this armor in the first place. I started a gnome warrior with plans of turning her fury. This was entirely due to the epic cuteness of a tiny little gnome wielding two huge weapons. I eventually decided that the thought of a tiny gnome girl tanking huge raid bosses was also appealing. Early in the Cataclysm expansion I had the good fortune of joining a high-level guild with my hunter, so I was able to purchase the heirloom helms. I put the Polished Helm of Valor on her little gnomish head and fell in love. Seriously. I just could not get over how amazing that helm- which I had hated up until that moment- looked on this little gnome.

Now, at this point, I could not even begin to imagine Transmogrification as being added to the game, but I enjoyed the helm nonetheless, and did not hide it as is my normal custom. When Transmogrification was announced, I was ecstatic- until I realized that this was a dungeon set I could no longer obtain! *sadface*

Then, along came the revamped Darkmoon Faire and the Replica Armor vendor... And I realized that the blue/gold Battlegear of Heroism was even cuter than the original Battlegear of Valor. I ground Darkmoon tokens with all my alts who were high enough to purchase the gear pieces (you must be level 60 to equip them, so you must also be level 60 to purchase them on Darkmoon Island, though they are BoE so you might get lucky and find them on the auction house or be able to buy them earlier from another player directly), and the rest, as they say, is history.

Now that I'm done with that aside, though, I need to gush about this axe. I've taken to browsing through weapons on the Auction House (thanks to the help of the wonderful MogIt addon), and I came across the Lucky Strike Axe. It was only a few gold, so I snatched it up and quickly decided that it matched (in sort of a weird way you have to see to believe). Here's a better shot of the axe displayed singly on her back (which is still clad in the heirloom tanking cloak, pay no attention to that):
Really, I love it. I haven't even considered what mace or sword to use for her fury set because I love this axe so much- I don't want to let it go! There is an axe of the same model with different coloring that I adore as well, but have only seen VERY rarely on the AH and never on a player: Ghostly Battle Axe. I will really have to do some weapons-only posts at some point because there are a lot of weapons that I just adore- my bank guild has several that I don't have uses for but just hang onto because they look so wonderful.

So, there you have it- Temperence, the gnome warrior. I'll be sure to update later once she hits 85 and gets the rest of her set straightened out, but I think she looks pretty darned good right now!