Most dailies at lvl 80 pay 13g, 23s x 25 dailies = 330g, 75s
Regardless of Fishing skill, you can’t do the Shattrath fishing daily until you’re level 70. I imagine the cooking daily is the same.
A little bit ago I headed to the Caverns of Time so I could /pity my Love Fool in Culling of Stratholme. I took a wrong turn and ended up in Old Hillsbrad Foothills instead, so I figured I’d hunt down Don Carlos to see if they’d fixed the hat drop bug yet.
Once I had the hat I put on my Haliscan outfit and then went and bought the pinto mount to complete the ensemble. Then I determined the inn at Ratchet was the ideal location for the screenshot
I started playing WoW right around Winter’s Veil '08, but I did not actually have an 80 I enjoyed playing until Pilgrim’s Bounty '09, almost a full year. It is so incredibly satisfying to have holidays come around again that I wasn’t able to complete last year that I can now do.
Of course, I’ve been looking at the Lunar Festival achievements, and…man, that looks tedious. 75 Elders, including 3 in Alliance cities (I’m getting heartily sick of Darnassus). At least they’re giving us three weeks to complete it, and there’s no “tag the following race/class combos” task.
Aye, but you can’t auction it, at least, not on my server. That is so bizarre if some servers can and some servers can’t?! I get a message ‘you can’t sell a conjured item’ if I try to put it on the AH on my server.
Anyone have any tips for playing a level 20 rogue? I trying out a rogue again, this time going all sneaky with Subtlety talents so far, but I died 4 times in a hurry on a quest last night, and its making me question whether I should try out some other class instead. I started the rogue to try out dpsing in instances and try out a rogue in pvp. I’ve been a healer in instances at 70 and now 80, but I’m tired of the high-stress nature of healing, I’d prefer just to be in the dps role now.
Do rogues ever get less fragile or will it always be kill or be killed in hyperspeed? I enjoyed levelling a priest cause I could often stay in a battle, healing myself back up as I took hits, and that gave me some survivability that is sorely lacking as a rogue.
Should I just go off and level up in instances for a while until I get some more abilities for staying alive? Or do you have any recommendations for interesting and not too hard quest chains around level 20?
It’s improves a bit once you get some stuns and Vanish, but no, playing a rogue will always be about killing your opponent before he can kill you.
I’m not really a rogue expert(I’ve never gotten one beyond level 60) but if you want my advice, for leveling, at least until level 50, skip the daggers, get yourself some nice slow swords/maces/axes and spec Combat. Daggers are really horrible to solo with before you get Mutilate, you need be behind your target to use Backstab and Sinister Strike damage is really awful with daggers.
I recall Rogue being difficult below 20, but it got easier as my dps increased. I had the two heirloom swords which helped; they do very good DPS. I haven’t played my rogue (now 78) in a few months, but here are some tips I remember, which you may or may not already be doing:
Always approach the mob from behind. You can do this by casting Distract to make the mob turn their back to you.
Take one mob at a time. If you there are two together, sap one if possible. If you’re already in combat, try to blind or gouge one while focusing dps on the other.
Avoid fights when you can. You have stealth for a reason; if there are mobs you’re not sure you can handle, you can usually sneak past them.
Macro pickpocket to sap and whatever your opening combat move is. You need to pickpocket everything you can to keep your lockpicking skill up.
Spec in Combat, at least for a while longer. Your goal is to maximize your dps so you can kill mobs more quickly than they can kill you.
Keep your First Aid skills up; bandages help a lot since you have no other way to quickly heal yourself.
Right, and many of the Argent Tournament dailies give you an extra 10g, so the total is even higher.
Very nice! I should try that, although I’d have to take the picture on a skeletal horse I guess…
Grats on your progress!
It’s a LOT of travelling, especially if you don’t have all the old world flight paths. If you go to wowwiki or (I think) wowhead they have optimized travel routes to all the elders. I don’t remember what the other achievements were but I don’t recall them being too bad.
Use poisons, ALWAYS. Instant on your main hand, and you can do instant or crippling on the off hand, depending on the mobs you are fighting - crippling is nice in that it keeps the humanoid mobs from running away and aggroing others. A key to playing a rogue is remembering that you are fairly squishy, so don’t try to take on too many foes at once. You also have to be in command of the combat - try to never let an enemy get a drop on you. A rogue should be stealthed for their first attack, because at that level most of your high damage abilities have to come from stealth.
I am a pure stealth and daggers rogue, and am currently a level 43. My favorite early level tactic is to stealth in, use Ambush or Backstab, hit Sinister Strike, then use Slice and dice, hit them a few times till Crippling poison hits, back peddle to build energy, then gouge to stun, jump behind the enemy, and backstab again. I can burn them down pretty quick this way.
I have found that my professions are EXTREMELY helpful as a rogue - I’m an herb/alchemist, and the herb heal over time REALLY helps in situations where you draw multiple mobs or are fighting a tough foe and need a little boost till you have more energy to launch your attacks. And of course, the potions are great, and any buff potions last twice as long. All good stuff.
And while I am thinking about it, while solo leveling, remember that crowd control is your friend! You have sap for a reason - use it! It helps to keep you from drawing too many baddies whilst focusing on a target.
Hope this helps! Lemme know if you have any other rogue questions!
Combat rogues can be sneaky, only problem is that they don’t get a stealth opener until level 26 (Cheap Shot), the main difference is that they do not depend on stealth. Leveling with daggers is hard mode, there is no way around it.
So anyway, I did commit suicide after the second boss of a Mauradon run last night (carefully picking a mob that the rest of the party could finish off once the tank died, since they wanted to keep going), res’d at the spirit healer, and sure enough there I was, just outside Shadowprey Village. I regard the 1 gold for repairs as a good investment, especially considering this character doesn’t even have an FP at the Crossroads.
It sounds like it wasn’t a problem, but I thought of this last night: if you’re going to use this method to pick up an FP, make sure you already have one that’s connected to it or you’re in for a long run anway.
Yeah, I think that might be an issue when I do this for Zul’Farrak. I figure I can always hearth out once I get the FP and pick up the Ratchet fp later.
Lucky dog. The bracelet market seems to have crashed on Maiev. 222 of them on AH when I last looked, and the one I put up last night is currently only fetching my opening bid of 1S.
Ah well, looked like I’d rejoined WoW at the perfect time for easy money, but I guess I’ll need to do it the old fashioned way, one stack of silverleaf at a time.
If you wish to form a group for some of the harder quests, what is the best way to do this? Go sit in the nearest city and post in channel messages? Look for similar level users in the area of the quest?
Channel 2 (the Trade channel) seems to have unofficially become the Looking For Group channel. When you’re in one of the cities, just keep an eye on Trade. And you can do your own “LFG” announcement in Trade, as well. Just don’t do it more than about once a minute or you might get reported for spamming.
If you’re looking for a dungeon group, once you’re at lvl 15 you can use the Dungeon Finder, I think. I haven’t used it yet, so I don’t remember whether it’s the random thing or if you can specify what dungeon you’re looking for people for.
There’s a LFG tool, too, but apparently nobody uses it, otherwise Trade wouldn’t be the unofficial LFG channel.
You’re talking about quests out in the world, like the one to kill the big boss in the Ghostlands, right?
Generally, the best way to do this is to use the general chat in the zone where the quest takes place (channel 1) to ask if anyone is around and wants to group up to do the quest - say “looking for group for (quest name)” or “lfg for (quest name)”; you may not get any replies, if no one is really around. You’re probably not going to have a lot of luck doing this in the capital cities, unfortunately.
(A lot of lower-level areas are relatively deserted, or populated by people zooming through solo content to level up and get to the later-game content, unfortunately. But I have been able to get groups together sometimes with this method.)
For quests that take place inside instances, probably the best method is to queue for the instance in question, then share the quest with everyone in the group once the group has started. (You can share quests with your party members by selecting them in the quest window and clicking on the “share quest” button).
