I had a lvl 60 hunter that I played and I bought both BC and the latest one and started again. I play a Death Knight, which I am finding to be a bunch of fun (more fun than my Hunter) but I do find a bunch of animosity towards me for playing one.
I don’t have a bunch of time to play. I recently graduated from college (at a later age - 31) and have been frantically searching for a professional job in my field. However, I have not had much luck and time has been on my side, so I have been playing at least 4-5 hours a day… though I am married and when the love of my live gets home, she demands my undivided attention (ok, not demands, I just like to give it)
I’ll say that it beats watching TV all day. HGTV gets old after while, and while Death Knights might be slightly overpowered, they are fun, and PERFECT for somebody in my situation. Thank you Blizzard!
edit: Yes, I do spend about 2-3 hours a day doing general job hunting activities.
Wolkie began walking backward tonight. I don’t remember if I backed him up to begin with, but for some reason I couldn’t stop him walking backward. I could stop him by hitting one of the arrow keys, but then he’d start right back walking backward. It finally stopped after I accepted a duel challenge and got my ass kicked (again)
Sometimes my cursor seems to have a “mind of its own”, and travels up or down after I’ve stopped using it. Almost like I just gave someone permission to remote control me…
Vanilla = original Wow, pre-expansions. Leveling was much harder, and there were more people around to help do the more challenging quests (of course there are more quests these days, and they are more obvious with indicators in the mini-map). Not to say that was the only difference mind you.
I’m not sure I have the best advice, but personally I’d say “do more quests, don’t focus on grinding”. There are a lot of resources online to help you figure out which quests are best, but if leveling fast is your goal, there are many quests that will get you there. Plus grinding gets old after awhile. Low level, high level… well I personally feel that they aren’t much different. You enjoy the game by playing it and interacting with others.
If you happen to be on Nessingway, look me up. My DK is Babalu (Horde)
Great name! Sounds you lucked up with yours like I did with “Wolkenlaufer” (“Cloudwalker” in German).
Right now I’m up in Red Ridge trying to level up by fighting mobs that are 19 or higher (I’m a 25). It’s been really tough for me to find quests with levels just a bit higher than me, so if you know of any sites (other than WoW-Wiki), that would show me those quests, I’d be glad to have them.
Because of my AD, I find it very difficult to navigate in Iron Forge and sometimes in the Dead Mines, so it’s been really slow go for me unless I’m part of a Pug, and even then things happen so fast that I am never sure I’m doing the right thing.
Funny story: Once on a Dead Mines run (forgot to loot the head, dammit!) I stopped and asked for instructions (I was DPS’ing), and my leader told me: “That long pointy thing in your right hand? Just keep poking it into the nearest enemy!”
But yeah, I love the game, it’s scenery and the interaction, so it doesn’t bother me too much when I don’t level like I think I should, but it still gets frustrating.
Thanks, Epimetheus, and BTW, sometimes I play so long my ankles start to swell. That pisses my wife off.
Well, you can turn a combatant pig into a non-combatant pig pretty easily - just kill the flayer that’s tearing it up. The pigs are classified as neutral to you, so any area attack you use will hit the pig too, and make it attack YOU once the flayer’s dead, but if you leave it alone, it’ll run off once it has no more targets and go back to being a nicely trained digging pig.
The problem with that is the same one I had with killing the Nesingwary followers in the fields with the caribou. As an Unholy-specced DK, I have an AOE ability that I use in my normal rotation. If I forget to NOT specifically use that ability, I end up aggroing the pig, too.
I did eventually get all 10 tubers. And I’m so amazingly glad that I’m done with that quest! Now to petition Blizzard to make Shadowmoon more solo-friendly…I have at least three quests against world elites with more than 70,000 health that are going to hog space in my quest log forever at this point.
Well, Shadowmoon Valley isn’t really a leveling zone, it is(well, was) more of an endgame zone. And IIRC, the Cipher of Damnation in question is part of the prequests for Tempest Keep.
I’m a lvl 80 DK. I’m not leveling, I’m just trying to get my Loremaster achievement. I’m unlikely to ever do Tempest Keep or any of the high-70 dungeons. It does make me wonder how I’m supposed to get “Shadow of the Betrayer” though.
I disagree. Each armor type has a healing class, I always defer cloth healing gear to priests and shamen and paladins always defer leather healing gear to me. I think a paladin pulling healing duty should be able to roll for DPS gear or even tanking gear against my DK depending on their off spec.
I don’t group with rogues very much anymore because of this. There aren’t very many drops that are upgrades for me in a 5 man PUG, if a group has a problem with the way I roll, then they can find themsleves another healer because there is just no reason for me to be there. I am gearing up my tanking spec atm and the conflict with rogue gear has not subsided, there is still significant overlap between leather tanking gear and leather DPS gear.
Later on (like in when you are in Outland and Northrend) Bear form makes a lot of the end of quest chain elites soloable. Start with stealth cat form, pounce (stun target), get 5 CP, rip (if you are tauren and then stomp) or maim (if you are nelf) (stun target), switch to bear form and wail away, don’t forget to bash (stun target).
Excellent advice, thanks! I’m already pretty consistently able to do quests about 4 levels above my level, but still die a lot more often than I did on my hunter (harder to get away on a bad pull as melee - with my hunter I could just leave my pet in there to die while I ran away).
Another quick druid question (or anybody that uses energy I guess) - why do some attacks seem to refund my energy if I miss (like Rake or Claw) while others (Rip for example) don’t? I know there is a talent to refund some energy on a miss - does this only apply to “finishing moves”?
Also, took me far to long to realize that I could move my spells into the action bar while in Prowl mode - I thought I couldn’t attack except with auto-attack from stealth… made getting behind someone tricky!
I didn’t say you were, I was just commenting on why the quests in smv are such a pita
Though, as a level 80 dk I’d expect you to be able to handle most 5-man level 70 elites with ease.
I think attacks that generate combo points will refund energy, finishing moves will not, I haven’t given it much thought really. I’m fairly sure the same apply to rogues as well.
OK, that makes sense with what I’m seeing. And it also explains why there’s a Feral talent that refunds energy for non-landing finishing moves. I just never saw that explained anywhere.
I’m definitely gonna have to do something to my UI to let me know when the various bleeds are up on the target - my hunter has power auras to let me know when the stings fall off, maybe I can configure it for my drood too. Not too big a deal for quest mobs but I could see having my hands full with a boss.
I’m fine with most of them, usually up to about 70000 health. I’ve found that the ones that have more (Ruul and the dragon on Netherwing Ledge) are a major problem for me. I’m having trouble with Uvoros, even, and he’s only got about 65000 health.
There are elites and then there are ELITES. The ones with a LOT of health or that hit VERY hard are still a problem for me.
Oh, and that Blood Elf lord with the escort who patrols the Path of Conquest kept sneaking up on me when I was doing those quests. Nasty bastard…
Maybe I should dual-spec into Blood. I actually leveled through my 60s on Blood, and changed to Unholy when I moved on to Northrend. I can get my li’l pink wormies back!
I decided to go back and grind out the rest of my Timbermaw rep over the weekend. Back before TBC, I only bothered to get as far as honored (and only exactly into honored, at that), since that was all I needed to get the leatherworking patterns I wanted.
It’s a lot easier these days; in about 6 hours, I went from about 1/12000 honored to 999/1000 exalted. Also, I wrapped up the current Argent Tournament stuff, and got exalted with Argent Crusade and Sunreavers. So I have added “of Silvermoon”, “Crusader”, “the Argent Champion” and “Diplomat” to my current list of titles.
