How many points does it take to not be a 'noob'?
A "Noob" is a new player and is actually more a matter of behavior than points , someone who plays the game well is not a Noob, but someone who plays the game persistantly can reach highlevels even if his play is inelegant .
Is Dark Iron a place, or is that your rogue's name?
Dark Iron is a virtual place , a complete planet unto itself in which fantastic and terrible creatures virtually form relationships or slay one another , a real person may enter this realm as one of these creatures , transformed into an elf , a zombie , an orc or a human. The relm of Dark Iron is primarilarily PvP which means that the potential for deadly ambush by another player is almost constant. World of Warcraft is devided into dozens of these realms.More realms are created now and then to prevent crouding .
I assume that "rogue" is another term for avatar.
Not exactly , the player uses an avatar but Rogue is just one of the several types of Avatar , one could be classed as a Palidan just as easily if one prefered to play in the style of a Palidin. A Rogue is lightly armored and able to move undetected amoung the other players , backstabbing , poisioning , lockpicking and getting away as if vanished is the caricteristic of rogues . Palidins are very diffrent and can majicly heal other players of their virtual wounds they can wear plate armor and attack their enemys with formidable force , rather than sneak about like a rogue Palidins tend to wear shiny and colorfull costumes and are rather vain and full of themselves prime canadates for ganking to my mind. The "race" of an avatar can be several diffrent sorts of being but all are devided in to two alliences ; "The Hoard" and "The Allience" An Allience player cannot attack another Allience caricter but must beware attack from Hoard caricters. Also on screen are "mob" and "Monster" creatures which fight players but are actually just programmed into the game themselves. Most of the advance in rank comes from killing monsters . Slaying the opposing players does not advance rank but instead produces "reputation" and "honor".
Muppette sounds a bit like a sissy name, reminds me of a cross between Smurfette and Miss Piggy.
Avatar names need to be unique and they may be anything that is not objectionable enough to get other players complaining. A player could be named Xavier_Onassis as easily as anything elese , as long as no one has already taken the name , perhaps you should hurry and claim the title before someone elese does.
And another version of this is that a Rogue is a thief who excels at backstabbing and poisons, certainly not noble professions in the normal sense of the word. Paladins are holy warriors, certainly a noble calling and one to be desired and admired. Paladins for example cannot use ranged weapons like bows; only melee weapons for hand-to-hand combat . More "fair" and chivalrous that way.
I wrote that before I knew your choice, did I influence your choice?
If I return to the Game I might roll a Palidin , just to have an experience in that mode of play .
Palidins and Rogues are nearly perfectly opposite in style of play , a rogue must crit rapidly lacking the endurance of a Pally. I learned to avoid the attention of Palidins even two levels less unless their manna was exausted.
Attacking a lone Palidin as a rouge usually involves trailing him a while and trying to surprise him in a crompromiseing situation , such that I could smack him while he was involved with mob or exausted from a fight . I would say that a Palidin that was about to tackle a difficult mob while PvP should check six unless the presence of a Rouge isn't likely.
And when is the presence of a Rogue unlikely? Run back wards a bit and fire off an area effect to break the rogues stealth ,and if he is near ,all of his advantages will be gone.
