My stated goal is to have 9 level 70's by the time Wrath hits. As you can see from the sidebar, I'm 7/9. The last two I have sworn to only level with their appropriate Boon-alt-companions.
In this case, Karika the resto shaman with Diathim the enhancement shaman, and Karitei the fire mage with Kenshiro the feral druid.
An added aside, we only really level Karika and Diathim with a real life friend of ours, who is playing a retribution paladin named Vialora.
Just three days ago, Karitei was in her mid-50's. And then boom, suddenly Boon decided, "I want to rawr." and so we dusted them off, stuck them in quest-rich areas and BOOM, before we knew it, we were running the familiar paths of Hellfire.
Maybe I'll get my goal completed.
Boon asks me, "What are you going to do when all your characters are 70, and you have no one to level with me?" ... that's what power leveling is for, my friend! And PvPing. And quest-reward-hunting. And instancing.
Too bad they don't let you start DK's at level 1. Because I'd so do that.
Showing posts with label leveling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leveling. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
9 Level 70s
By the time WotLK comes out... I want to have 9 level 70's.
I'm well on my way. My issue is that for my last three characters, my husband has made me promise to not level without him.
Which has slowed down my progress considerably! He wants to do other things like instance or heroics. Bah!
He is destroying my dream!
So, I have to urge him onwards, or convince him that playing with his wife is really overrated. Any suggestions? Maybe take him out to Red Lobster every time we complete a level... that's a total of 28 times!
I cannot have anything under level 70 by the time I get my Death Knight. CANNOT!
I'm well on my way. My issue is that for my last three characters, my husband has made me promise to not level without him.
Which has slowed down my progress considerably! He wants to do other things like instance or heroics. Bah!
He is destroying my dream!
So, I have to urge him onwards, or convince him that playing with his wife is really overrated. Any suggestions? Maybe take him out to Red Lobster every time we complete a level... that's a total of 28 times!
I cannot have anything under level 70 by the time I get my Death Knight. CANNOT!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Ammen Vale and the Road to Azure Watch
AKA: Levels 1 - 6 for the Draenei
General Information: PICK UP EVERYTHING. Equip any upgrades. Hopefully you'll get a bag. Sell everything (including your food and water at this level, you really don't need it) and never repair. Sell every time you're in town, even if it's two things. Or one thing. Sell it anyway.
Always log out in an inn if one is available.
Despite the thought that killing things = XP, XP = Levels, you really want to avoid just random killing for the sake of killing.. unless that floats your boat. In which case, have at it. Just tell me when you're going to be in town, so I can be somewhere else though, okay? Seriously, you earn more XP/Time through questing than through killing mobs. Killing mobs just to kill them, if they aren't related to your quest or quest objective, really serves no purpose but to slow you down.
Onto the Quests!
You Survived! This is more than merely a slap on the back. It's your first quest. He sends you to the Crash Site to talk to someone else. You should probably do this. Congratulations! You have earned XP! (The Crash Site, from where you spawn, is straight ahead. You can't miss it.. unless you're roleplaying a blind Draenei... MY EYES, OH BY THE NAARU, MY EYES! AAAAAHHH!)
There are two quests you should pick up immediately after finishing turning in your first line of quests. Replenishing the Healing Crystals (8 moth blood) and Volatile Mutations (kill 8 mutations). Immediately to the NW of the crash site are a variety of chunks of pretty glass in the ground. Fluttering around them are butterflies and creepy little mutants. You need 8 moth blood and need to kill 8 of the mutations.
Congratulations! You are level 2 by the time you kill 8 mobs. Ignore that lovely fact for a moment and continue killing until those two quests are complete. Trust me. Only after you have your 8 moth blood and have killed your 8 nasty snotmonsters, do you go turn in and level up.
Volatile Mutations leads to the quest What Must Be Done (gather 10 lasher parts). Curiously enough, right next to that, you see a new quest called Botanical Legwork (3 flowers). Pick up both of those. Turn in the Healing Crystal quest. This gives you the quest Urgent Delivery! (You gotta go into the Crash Site to deliver the crystals. It's hard. You may need a group for this.)... which then gives you the quest Rescue the Survivors! (Heal someone with your racial). Head out through the southern entrance of the crash site. If you're following my directions exactly, that's where you'd be anyway. So just do it and stop rolling your eyes.
Pick up the quests Spare Parts (Pick up 4 thingbobs) and Innoculation (Save 6 moonkin!). There is someone you can sell to right there as well. SELL. DO NOT REPAIR.
Go west to Ammen Field (red blotch on your map). Along the way, find and use your Gift of the Naaru to save a survivor. Just one. Ignore the rest. Kills your XP/Time! If they can't survive the way you survived, they don't deserve to live. It's Darwin's Law.
In the field of pretty red flowers, kill the lashers while you're making your way to collect three flowers. By the time you work your way to three flowers, you should hopefully be killing just enough lashers to complete the quest.
Congratulations! By your 18th mob, you're level 3!
Once you have your 10 parts and 3 flowers (and have saved some loser), go turn in. The reward for the Survivor quest gives you a 4 slot bag. Equip that puppy! Kiss it. Name it. Lavish it with praise. Bags = Success.
What Must Be Done leads to the quest Healing the Lake. Turn in the quest for Legwork and congratulations you are now level 4. Go level up, you mad leveler you!
Head out through the south part of the Crash Site. Go jump in the lake! No really, do it. There is a giant crystal in the water. (It's on the eastern side of the lake, should be directly south of the Crash Site) Neutralize that puppy! Then continue south to the Moonkin camps.
Again, in the interest of XP/Time, avoid killing Moonkin where possible. Sometimes it is possible. Sometimes, it is not. Just do your best. The yellow/tan colored Moonkin (Nestlewood Owlkin) are the ones you are looking for. The red/black moonkin are the ones you want to avoid. There is a path up the southeast of the camps. I have the best luck going up around there and in the cave and in the back camps. Pick up your emitters while you're running around.
Go back. Turn in. Two of the quests 'dead end'. Innoculation leads to Missing Scout. The Scout is to the southwest of the crash site. He's by the eastern path of the Shadow Ridge. He gives you the quest The Blood Elves. Kill 'zem all! (or just 10). You then get Blood Elf Spy. If you go up the east path, at the second left (right by the tents), go left. It'll curve up and to the right. You'll see Surveyor Candress (along with her lover, Blood Elf Scout.) Kill her. She drops Blood Elf Plans, unfortunately, only one drop per kill, so if you're in a group, you may have to kill her more than once. At this time, I usually hearth back to the starting point.
Turn in your quests, make sure you go out through the south door in the Crash Site. You should now see a quest called The Emitter (must do Spare Parts first), which then leads to the quest called Travel to Azure Watch. Turn in the plans. Turn in the spy information. And voila. You are now ready to leave the starting zone! You should be level 5 at least, or level 6, depending on how much extra you had to kill. This should take you about 45-50 minutes, depending on your class.
Take the road out to the southwest. You'll see a draenei on the path named Aeun. This is your obligatory 'deliver this to the inn because I'm a lazy S.O.B.' quest (Word from Azure Watch). Take it. Cross the river (Ammen Ford). Talk to the draenei right on the other side. She gives you a net and tells you to catch her some fish (Red Snapper - Very Tasty). Do this quest. Right now. Do it. Turn around and go catch her some fish! There is a fast respawn of the fishing nodes, so never get more than 'five' nodes away. Sometimes, a node will spawn an angry murloc. Kill it, for it has a fish on it. She then gives you the quest Find Acteon! and gives you a fishing pole. Incidentally, here is where you would learn how to fish.
If you follow the road onwards, you will come to Azure Watch.
And this is where I leave you. By this time, you are definately level 6. Azure Watch has most of the class trainers and a good portion of profession trainers. Hearth at the inn.
See you next time for the next installment of 'How K Quests'.
(PS: Feedback, please?)
General Information: PICK UP EVERYTHING. Equip any upgrades. Hopefully you'll get a bag. Sell everything (including your food and water at this level, you really don't need it) and never repair. Sell every time you're in town, even if it's two things. Or one thing. Sell it anyway.
Always log out in an inn if one is available.
Despite the thought that killing things = XP, XP = Levels, you really want to avoid just random killing for the sake of killing.. unless that floats your boat. In which case, have at it. Just tell me when you're going to be in town, so I can be somewhere else though, okay? Seriously, you earn more XP/Time through questing than through killing mobs. Killing mobs just to kill them, if they aren't related to your quest or quest objective, really serves no purpose but to slow you down.
Onto the Quests!
You Survived! This is more than merely a slap on the back. It's your first quest. He sends you to the Crash Site to talk to someone else. You should probably do this. Congratulations! You have earned XP! (The Crash Site, from where you spawn, is straight ahead. You can't miss it.. unless you're roleplaying a blind Draenei... MY EYES, OH BY THE NAARU, MY EYES! AAAAAHHH!)
There are two quests you should pick up immediately after finishing turning in your first line of quests. Replenishing the Healing Crystals (8 moth blood) and Volatile Mutations (kill 8 mutations). Immediately to the NW of the crash site are a variety of chunks of pretty glass in the ground. Fluttering around them are butterflies and creepy little mutants. You need 8 moth blood and need to kill 8 of the mutations.
Congratulations! You are level 2 by the time you kill 8 mobs. Ignore that lovely fact for a moment and continue killing until those two quests are complete. Trust me. Only after you have your 8 moth blood and have killed your 8 nasty snotmonsters, do you go turn in and level up.
Volatile Mutations leads to the quest What Must Be Done (gather 10 lasher parts). Curiously enough, right next to that, you see a new quest called Botanical Legwork (3 flowers). Pick up both of those. Turn in the Healing Crystal quest. This gives you the quest Urgent Delivery! (You gotta go into the Crash Site to deliver the crystals. It's hard. You may need a group for this.)... which then gives you the quest Rescue the Survivors! (Heal someone with your racial). Head out through the southern entrance of the crash site. If you're following my directions exactly, that's where you'd be anyway. So just do it and stop rolling your eyes.
Pick up the quests Spare Parts (Pick up 4 thingbobs) and Innoculation (Save 6 moonkin!). There is someone you can sell to right there as well. SELL. DO NOT REPAIR.
Go west to Ammen Field (red blotch on your map). Along the way, find and use your Gift of the Naaru to save a survivor. Just one. Ignore the rest. Kills your XP/Time! If they can't survive the way you survived, they don't deserve to live. It's Darwin's Law.
In the field of pretty red flowers, kill the lashers while you're making your way to collect three flowers. By the time you work your way to three flowers, you should hopefully be killing just enough lashers to complete the quest.
Congratulations! By your 18th mob, you're level 3!
Once you have your 10 parts and 3 flowers (and have saved some loser), go turn in. The reward for the Survivor quest gives you a 4 slot bag. Equip that puppy! Kiss it. Name it. Lavish it with praise. Bags = Success.
What Must Be Done leads to the quest Healing the Lake. Turn in the quest for Legwork and congratulations you are now level 4. Go level up, you mad leveler you!
Head out through the south part of the Crash Site. Go jump in the lake! No really, do it. There is a giant crystal in the water. (It's on the eastern side of the lake, should be directly south of the Crash Site) Neutralize that puppy! Then continue south to the Moonkin camps.
Again, in the interest of XP/Time, avoid killing Moonkin where possible. Sometimes it is possible. Sometimes, it is not. Just do your best. The yellow/tan colored Moonkin (Nestlewood Owlkin) are the ones you are looking for. The red/black moonkin are the ones you want to avoid. There is a path up the southeast of the camps. I have the best luck going up around there and in the cave and in the back camps. Pick up your emitters while you're running around.
Go back. Turn in. Two of the quests 'dead end'. Innoculation leads to Missing Scout. The Scout is to the southwest of the crash site. He's by the eastern path of the Shadow Ridge. He gives you the quest The Blood Elves. Kill 'zem all! (or just 10). You then get Blood Elf Spy. If you go up the east path, at the second left (right by the tents), go left. It'll curve up and to the right. You'll see Surveyor Candress (along with her lover, Blood Elf Scout.) Kill her. She drops Blood Elf Plans, unfortunately, only one drop per kill, so if you're in a group, you may have to kill her more than once. At this time, I usually hearth back to the starting point.
Turn in your quests, make sure you go out through the south door in the Crash Site. You should now see a quest called The Emitter (must do Spare Parts first), which then leads to the quest called Travel to Azure Watch. Turn in the plans. Turn in the spy information. And voila. You are now ready to leave the starting zone! You should be level 5 at least, or level 6, depending on how much extra you had to kill. This should take you about 45-50 minutes, depending on your class.
Take the road out to the southwest. You'll see a draenei on the path named Aeun. This is your obligatory 'deliver this to the inn because I'm a lazy S.O.B.' quest (Word from Azure Watch). Take it. Cross the river (Ammen Ford). Talk to the draenei right on the other side. She gives you a net and tells you to catch her some fish (Red Snapper - Very Tasty). Do this quest. Right now. Do it. Turn around and go catch her some fish! There is a fast respawn of the fishing nodes, so never get more than 'five' nodes away. Sometimes, a node will spawn an angry murloc. Kill it, for it has a fish on it. She then gives you the quest Find Acteon! and gives you a fishing pole. Incidentally, here is where you would learn how to fish.
If you follow the road onwards, you will come to Azure Watch.
And this is where I leave you. By this time, you are definately level 6. Azure Watch has most of the class trainers and a good portion of profession trainers. Hearth at the inn.
See you next time for the next installment of 'How K Quests'.
(PS: Feedback, please?)
Monday, April 7, 2008
Leveling Goddess! and Other Things
In a grand total of 4 hours, I went from level 56 to level 58 on my RETRIBUTION (add CRACK-POW sound effect) paladin.
Then, since I'm going to stick with Teppou, Fyzzgig and Zeshura, I stopped leveling experience wise and instead went to get my mining skill up from 239 to 300, ready for Outlands! Otherwise I'd be 70 by the time they got to 58! (I jest! ... slightly, but it is a jest! I'd only be 68... not 70.)
So, I needed to get from 239 to 250 for Thorium. Right. Mithril it is. Badlands I went. Not too shabby if you ride back and forth across the southern zone wall. I hit the 250 mark and I said, finally, now I can go get Thorium. I went to a mining map website and looked at where they recommend. They recommended the Burning Steppes and lo and behold, the Burning Steppes isn't all that far from the Badlands. So that's where I went.
Big Mistake.
I spent 4 hours (long enough I could probably have been almost 60, if not truly 60, if I was actually leveling) getting to 300 mining skill out in the Burning Steppes. There were simply no nodes to be found. I had no competition (except one donkey's butt hunter that stole a node out from under me. No, really, he did. I was fighting something RIGHT ON TOP OF THE NODE, and it was almost dead. He rides up and starts to mine and stays in 'loot box' mode on the Rich Thorium that I was wanting to mine. I said, 'Uh, do you mind?' but apparently he didn't. I only saw him the once, otherwise, I was the only person in the zone it seemed.)
Afterwards, Teppou says the better place for thorium is EPL and Winterspring. Of course, he said that after I was 300.
Now I'm looking at leveling up my jewelcrafting on my paladin to 300.
I will admit, I am HEAVILY biased AGAINST leveling guides for experience and going up levels. Not that they aren't useful for people who may not know where to go and what quests to do. But I don't like them. As I mentioned above, I don't have a problem with leveling fast. (This probably has a little to do with having leveled 6 characters to 70 without a guide. I kinda know where to go now. I POSSIBLY would have used a leveling guide if it was my first or second character.)
(But then again, possibly not. I'm stubborn and hate 'following the crowd', as my asinine brain insists on calling it.)
(This probably explains my non-conformist warlock spec.)
(Are you getting tired of parenthesis yet?)
(I'm not.)
However, I am an absolute idiot when it comes to leveling crafting skills. My jewelcrafting is (was) 206. And I sit there and look at what I need and say, "Ooh, let me go get that." and I run out and I grab what I need and I make 4 items to get to 210. Then I look what I need and say, "Oooh, let me go get that." and I spend HOURS getting the materials to make 3 things. (I didn't do that second part yet. I got to 210 and then I said, 'Crap. I'm in Ironforge. I don't think there's a JC trainer in IF.'
I is dumb.
So I caved... I'm going to use a crafting guide to get my jewelcrafting to 300. I can hear Owaru now "It's not worth it!" he shouts. But you know me (or if you don't...), and I have to have a jewelcrafter. I have one of everything else (granted, my engineering is craptacular, but I do have an engineer!), so it's only natural that I have a jewelcrafter, too. I've been hoarding outland gems for a while so hopefully I can turn a little profit from them when I can start cutting gems... that and no more running to the AH everytime I upgrade a PoC piece and need 2 or 3 gems.
On a warlock aside...
I took Fyzzgig through Sunken Temple and my only wish is that SoC could have an instant proc the way Shadowbolt can with Nightfall. Owaru's words to that were, "The last thing you need is an instant SoC *shudder*.".
But truly, when you're mass clearing a low level instance, even though they aren't doing a lot of damage to you, you still get knockback on your casting bar. Which makes it really frustrating because the best way to clear something is to have a bunch of SoC on things so that when the first goes off, it sets the others off too. And then you have a bunch of dead mobs with 4 casts.
I managed it once, to get 4 off before I started to get hit. It was beautiful... bunches of purple lights and explody sounds, then the agonized groans of multiple dragonkin dying and hitting the ground. And clearing Jammal the Prophet's room was fun too, I'd SoC two things, then run over to a third group. Then I did the 'back up and DoT' thing, to avoid the ghosties. 'Twas much fun.
The best quote of the evening... well, there were many, but the funniest-warlock-related one was...
Owaru: "You think I go Ogrila?" (talking about the most heart-rending death saying.)
Kvasira: "No, you're going to HELL! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Kvasira: "Oh wait, sorry. I was channeling Kikidas."
Then, since I'm going to stick with Teppou, Fyzzgig and Zeshura, I stopped leveling experience wise and instead went to get my mining skill up from 239 to 300, ready for Outlands! Otherwise I'd be 70 by the time they got to 58! (I jest! ... slightly, but it is a jest! I'd only be 68... not 70.)
So, I needed to get from 239 to 250 for Thorium. Right. Mithril it is. Badlands I went. Not too shabby if you ride back and forth across the southern zone wall. I hit the 250 mark and I said, finally, now I can go get Thorium. I went to a mining map website and looked at where they recommend. They recommended the Burning Steppes and lo and behold, the Burning Steppes isn't all that far from the Badlands. So that's where I went.
Big Mistake.
I spent 4 hours (long enough I could probably have been almost 60, if not truly 60, if I was actually leveling) getting to 300 mining skill out in the Burning Steppes. There were simply no nodes to be found. I had no competition (except one donkey's butt hunter that stole a node out from under me. No, really, he did. I was fighting something RIGHT ON TOP OF THE NODE, and it was almost dead. He rides up and starts to mine and stays in 'loot box' mode on the Rich Thorium that I was wanting to mine. I said, 'Uh, do you mind?' but apparently he didn't. I only saw him the once, otherwise, I was the only person in the zone it seemed.)
Afterwards, Teppou says the better place for thorium is EPL and Winterspring. Of course, he said that after I was 300.
Now I'm looking at leveling up my jewelcrafting on my paladin to 300.
I will admit, I am HEAVILY biased AGAINST leveling guides for experience and going up levels. Not that they aren't useful for people who may not know where to go and what quests to do. But I don't like them. As I mentioned above, I don't have a problem with leveling fast. (This probably has a little to do with having leveled 6 characters to 70 without a guide. I kinda know where to go now. I POSSIBLY would have used a leveling guide if it was my first or second character.)
(But then again, possibly not. I'm stubborn and hate 'following the crowd', as my asinine brain insists on calling it.)
(This probably explains my non-conformist warlock spec.)
(Are you getting tired of parenthesis yet?)
(I'm not.)
However, I am an absolute idiot when it comes to leveling crafting skills. My jewelcrafting is (was) 206. And I sit there and look at what I need and say, "Ooh, let me go get that." and I run out and I grab what I need and I make 4 items to get to 210. Then I look what I need and say, "Oooh, let me go get that." and I spend HOURS getting the materials to make 3 things. (I didn't do that second part yet. I got to 210 and then I said, 'Crap. I'm in Ironforge. I don't think there's a JC trainer in IF.'
I is dumb.
So I caved... I'm going to use a crafting guide to get my jewelcrafting to 300. I can hear Owaru now "It's not worth it!" he shouts. But you know me (or if you don't...), and I have to have a jewelcrafter. I have one of everything else (granted, my engineering is craptacular, but I do have an engineer!), so it's only natural that I have a jewelcrafter, too. I've been hoarding outland gems for a while so hopefully I can turn a little profit from them when I can start cutting gems... that and no more running to the AH everytime I upgrade a PoC piece and need 2 or 3 gems.
On a warlock aside...
I took Fyzzgig through Sunken Temple and my only wish is that SoC could have an instant proc the way Shadowbolt can with Nightfall. Owaru's words to that were, "The last thing you need is an instant SoC *shudder*.".
But truly, when you're mass clearing a low level instance, even though they aren't doing a lot of damage to you, you still get knockback on your casting bar. Which makes it really frustrating because the best way to clear something is to have a bunch of SoC on things so that when the first goes off, it sets the others off too. And then you have a bunch of dead mobs with 4 casts.
I managed it once, to get 4 off before I started to get hit. It was beautiful... bunches of purple lights and explody sounds, then the agonized groans of multiple dragonkin dying and hitting the ground. And clearing Jammal the Prophet's room was fun too, I'd SoC two things, then run over to a third group. Then I did the 'back up and DoT' thing, to avoid the ghosties. 'Twas much fun.
The best quote of the evening... well, there were many, but the funniest-warlock-related one was...
Owaru: "You think I go Ogrila?" (talking about the most heart-rending death saying.)
Kvasira: "No, you're going to HELL! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Kvasira: "Oh wait, sorry. I was channeling Kikidas."
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