Proooocraaastiiiinaaaation.
Yeah, I've got tons of homework, so this is a post of Proooooooocraaaaaaastiiiiiiinaaaaation. Procrastination. You get the picture.
Updates on my recent activities... I've now hit 69 with Draik (har har), but Arranath has stalled somewhat level-wise, as a direct result of my determination to solo Cruel's Intentions. Don't look so disbelieving; anyone who's clearing Hellfire should know that the quest is a five-man and therefore utterly infeasible. But anyone who's paid attention during that fight will also have noticed that he moves -very fecking slowly-.
So slowly, in fact, that I can kite him without using Aspect of the Cheetah. I kited him right down through the pools, using the Gorilladin to whack any adds that spawn, then along the road east, realised I was about to reach a camp full of orcs, so sicced my pet, feigned, ran past him and then kited him almost all the way back, going past the pools and almost reaching the Temple of Telhamat. Unfortunately, at about 2%, I thought (oh woe) "I'll just stop and finish him off..." and got one-shotted with pyroblast. I have not yet repeated this performance.
In leveling Draik I have also come to believe that, though BM always has been imba, Balance druids are imba as well. I'm levelling on mobs 2-3 levels lower than myself, and I regularly twoshot them with Starfire, or even Starfire and then Wrath, if they both crit. That's four seconds a kill and is flaming ridiculous. (Doublecasting wrath only needs one crit but takes 5.5 seconds) I also have crazy AoE these days, with Typhoon, Starfall and zero-cooldown Hurricane, not to mention that all of those can crit and trigger Moonkin form's mana regenerating effect.
Another slightly strange thing I've noticed is this; when I cast Wrath out of Boomkin form I deal about 200-300 damage, but in form it's more like 950. What the hell? I don't have that many talents that improve damage in moonkin form, and so this is quite perplexing. I need to look into it.
With Mirai I've been experiencing quite a bit of Raid success. Just the other week we cleared Magtheridon, Void Reaver and the Lurker Below, all three guild firsts, so I'm seeing quite alot of new content with the guild, which is good for securing my position within the guild as a fairly regular raider. We're going for a full TK run on Nov. 7th, so I'll fill you in on how that goes once it goes.
And, finally, I'm all itchy for WotLK. I wants it NAO.
Remember, that was a post of procrastination. Prooo-okI'mstopping.
Showing posts with label Levelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Levelling. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Outland
So yeah, on Saturday I hit 60. Woohoo, I thought, I remember how Outland has really fast levelling! So off I set, all positive-like. I now have 3 hrs played time and about 6 bars to go. What the heck? Even 59-60 only took me two hours, tops. It has, of course, just occured to me why this is; the massive experience boost that was applied does not apply past level 60, and as such your needed experience from 60-61 is over twice what you need for 59-60, and while the mobs give -more- experience, it's not -that- much more.
Of course, part of the reason that 60-70 got a reputation for being fast is that those who were level 60 for a long time could remember how long it seemed to take to get from 59 to 60, and remembered it a whole lot worse than it was. Their memory seemed slow in comparison to Outland levelling, so they thought that Outland levelling was fast. Heck, this even happened to me with Daigeil.
Bluu. I'm off to put another hour in and get 61.
Of course, part of the reason that 60-70 got a reputation for being fast is that those who were level 60 for a long time could remember how long it seemed to take to get from 59 to 60, and remembered it a whole lot worse than it was. Their memory seemed slow in comparison to Outland levelling, so they thought that Outland levelling was fast. Heck, this even happened to me with Daigeil.
Bluu. I'm off to put another hour in and get 61.
Saturday, 11 October 2008
A Short Break
Phew. Level 60 now, so I've decided I deserve something of a break - gonna be playing around with my other characters for the rest of the day, or maybe mucking around on http://www.kongregate.com/, a nice Flash game website. Have a look, I'm sure they'll appreciate the plug.
So. As usual, I've encountered yet more BM stupidity over the last couple of days. The guide very much misunderestimatificated me, as it makes no mention of Araj the Summoner, a level 61 Elite in the Ruins of Andorhal, usually needing a three or four man group to take down safely, due to the absurd number of mobs around him; you need a few people to clear the groups of 4-5 mobs, and he himself is no cakewalk. You can see where this is going, right? With some careful pulling and CD-usage, I soloed him at level 58. The mobs around him were the only trouble, since until 3.0.2 it's quite tricky to have your pet tank 5 targets while you're mending pet. In effect you need to actively control the beasty, switching frantically between targets, until he's established a fair chunk of threat.
Araj himself was fairly easy; tanking and spanking, in effect. I had to kill off the two low-power adds he summons, but that was the biggest complication. Meh. My spec is absurd, so I feel less pride than I would've on, say, my rogue when he was at that level.
Oh, and I pwnt some level 59 nelf BM hunter as well, which does induce some pride. Close match.
So. As usual, I've encountered yet more BM stupidity over the last couple of days. The guide very much misunderestimatificated me, as it makes no mention of Araj the Summoner, a level 61 Elite in the Ruins of Andorhal, usually needing a three or four man group to take down safely, due to the absurd number of mobs around him; you need a few people to clear the groups of 4-5 mobs, and he himself is no cakewalk. You can see where this is going, right? With some careful pulling and CD-usage, I soloed him at level 58. The mobs around him were the only trouble, since until 3.0.2 it's quite tricky to have your pet tank 5 targets while you're mending pet. In effect you need to actively control the beasty, switching frantically between targets, until he's established a fair chunk of threat.
Araj himself was fairly easy; tanking and spanking, in effect. I had to kill off the two low-power adds he summons, but that was the biggest complication. Meh. My spec is absurd, so I feel less pride than I would've on, say, my rogue when he was at that level.
Oh, and I pwnt some level 59 nelf BM hunter as well, which does induce some pride. Close match.
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Muchos Levelling
So. As I've said, I'm presently levelling my hunter, Arranath, on Scarshield Legion. When last I posted, he was level 48; now he's level 54. Ridiculous?
In part this is down to the levelling guide I'm using; Jame's Horde Levelling Guide. But I think more importantly it's down to my spec, gear and the changes Blizz made in 2.3 a while back. For those who don't know, they cut the exp needed to level between 20 and 60 almost in half and radically incresed the exp you gain per mob/quest. To make the change even more extreme, most of the quests that used to be group/elite quests are now easily soloable. (ofc, that doesn't really affect a BM hunter anyway, who's effectively a tank and a healer rolled into one)
As a result of this, I can gain a level every two hours or so, faster if I'm quick enough. And people still claim that grinding is faster. It's only down to the fact that you have to know the right quests to use and they don't. So grinding is only faster if you can't take the initiative and find a decent guide. If you are that type, I've already given you a helping hand; the guide I'm using is available to the right, and it -is- free. It also has alliance sections, and though it's designed to be used from level 20 or 30, depending on your faction, you can jump in at a stage a level or two behind your own level and just ignore the quests you can't do because of prequests - it should level out by the time you catch up. Please, check it out.
By the way, I'm looking for a horde raiding guild for said hunter come WotLK. I'm currently considering transfer, since SSL is so shite, and as such any raiding guild on any RP or RP-PvP server is fine. I have pre-TBC raiding experience from MC, ZG and some very limited BWL experience, plus I've cleared Kara and Gruul's Lair more recently. Contact me in-game or on here if you've got a slot, or on Steam if you use it.
In part this is down to the levelling guide I'm using; Jame's Horde Levelling Guide. But I think more importantly it's down to my spec, gear and the changes Blizz made in 2.3 a while back. For those who don't know, they cut the exp needed to level between 20 and 60 almost in half and radically incresed the exp you gain per mob/quest. To make the change even more extreme, most of the quests that used to be group/elite quests are now easily soloable. (ofc, that doesn't really affect a BM hunter anyway, who's effectively a tank and a healer rolled into one)
As a result of this, I can gain a level every two hours or so, faster if I'm quick enough. And people still claim that grinding is faster. It's only down to the fact that you have to know the right quests to use and they don't. So grinding is only faster if you can't take the initiative and find a decent guide. If you are that type, I've already given you a helping hand; the guide I'm using is available to the right, and it -is- free. It also has alliance sections, and though it's designed to be used from level 20 or 30, depending on your faction, you can jump in at a stage a level or two behind your own level and just ignore the quests you can't do because of prequests - it should level out by the time you catch up. Please, check it out.
By the way, I'm looking for a horde raiding guild for said hunter come WotLK. I'm currently considering transfer, since SSL is so shite, and as such any raiding guild on any RP or RP-PvP server is fine. I have pre-TBC raiding experience from MC, ZG and some very limited BWL experience, plus I've cleared Kara and Gruul's Lair more recently. Contact me in-game or on here if you've got a slot, or on Steam if you use it.
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