The leveling game

I don’t know how many other people are running around leveling alts right now – on my server, most of the 1-70 run was a handful of random lowbies but MOSTLY Death Knights.

I’ll admit the Heirloom Items make it VERY enjoyable. I’m saying that even though I leveled my Shaman as Elemental. While the weapon I used provided a very nice chunk of spell power, it wouldn’t be as game-changing as never having to upgrade a weapon for a physical DPS class.

I’ve always been a sucker for leveling. I just enjoy it. Sure, at times I get bored, but that’s only if I’m doing one of my crazy power-leveling sessions. I’m not talking about a minimum of two or three levels a night, either.  I think on my Shaman the most I did after 40 was eight in one setting.

Vanilla WoW!

I’ve been taking screenshots of when I ding, keeping track of how quickly I managed to do it and I do feel rather pleased with myself.

My /played time to 60 was 2 days, 22 hours and 47 minutes. I’m pretty sure someone could do it a lot faster (and likely has), but I’m proud of the accomplishment.

There are some tweaks to power leveling (assuming that’s all the intent was) that could have made it faster. Having a constant run speed bonus for those early levels would be pretty awesome. Even better still would be knowing where all the quests where and how to stack them to the most exp per step taken.

Heck,  I’m still not a 100% of where to go for Alliance quests all the time. I still try to click on the Horde Gadgetztan Flight Path and still try to run off to The Barrens when wondering where to go next.

I still love Stranglethorn Vale the most from old world content. It never gets old.

Outland isn’t much different in terms of Horde vs Alliance quests, so I definitely know my way around a lot better and can chain the quests together.

What’s your favorite zone for questing in Kalmidor?

WoW with sprinkles (TBC)

My /played to 70 was 4 days 1 hour and 57 minutes. I very nearly made my 4 days played goal!

After Hellfire and Zangermarsh, I didn’t need help soloing any of the group quests except two in Nagrand – Ring of Blood and Durn the Hungerer. Trust me, if you have yet to experience the 60-70 experience nerf, you are in for a surprise!

Once I got to level 69 from questing Hellfire, Zangermarsh, Terrokar and Nagrand, I elected to run up to Netherstorm to do my favorite quest hub in the game – Kirin’Var Village!

This place is jam packed with quests and mobs that are easy to kill. Once you unlock the major quest givers from doing the Staff of Archmage Vargoth, you have a lot quests in quick succession along with some items that start quests from the named mobs out there and it’s just a really quick level. My Paladin, Priest, and Shaman have all dinged 70 there, and any other alt I plan on leveling will almost certainly do so as well.

What’s your favorite zone in Outland? Mine has to be Netherstorm.

Looking to the Lich King

I’m looking forward to seeing Northrend again, and how much fun I’ll be able to have on my Shaman out there. Though I kind of dread level 77 and how it will be quite the expensive level. Normal Flying, Epic Flying and Cold Weather Flying? Can’t wait!

I’ve been churning away hard to level the shaman, but hitting just 70 wasn’t that exciting. Our raids were far to awesome this weekend. We had a minor let down but it happens, usually just makes us more driven to get our goal.

Recent Rockin!

Friday, we 9 manned Sarth 25. Yes 9 manned. First attempt, second shot.

Now granted, it wasn’t a clean kill. I’m not 100% positive when it will be because when Sartharion goes crazy at the end, it’s hard to lock down all the elementals and our raid quickly gets eaten. But that doesn’t change the fact we have killed the dragon on heroic mode, wearing gear from 10-man raids, and with only nine players. It’s a definite rush.

And just let me say, when you get to focus on the boss AND you get splash damage that hits the Whelps and Flame Adds, your DPS gets a little skewed.

I sustained 5000 DPS on that fight, something still I think is awesome. The only thing that was more awesome was the fact it was so easy to kill Sarth. We had more deaths on some of the Trash Pulls than we did to Sarth, and the Trash was much more difficult than the dragons. Those Flame Orbs that the Onyx Blaze Mistress summon hurt!

We didn’t get any DPS trinkets we were hoping for, but now that we know we can kill him, we’ll be back almost every week we are raiding.

On the same Friday night, we’ve opting to do Plauge Wing just to see if we’d lose someone to Hegin, since that seems to be the toughest place to survive as a raid unit. Well, no one died on the Saftey Dance so we were really focused on getting The Undying title.

On Saturday we made it to Sapphiron without losing a single raider to a  boss and we were golden on the achievement till the final air phase. Sapp came down funny, then swung around, knocking one of our Deathsquad members into a coma. Bummed as we were, everyone knew that it was just bad luck. He got punted out of all healing range and then we’re pretty sure a Blizzard spawned on him just to taunt us. Hopefully, this raid weekend we’ll be able to pull it off.

We also managed to finally get the achievements for Shocking and Patchwerk down in less than 3 with just 9. Two of our raiders have been MIA, and rather than call raids for it, we just go in and kill stuff anyway.

All in all, it’s been a pretty awesome week.

Hopefully the awesome will continue and I hope everyone else is having as much luck as we are.

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