tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88886142950135663812011-08-01T18:49:56.837+01:00levelling without talent pointsLithiumflowrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12601379591719147035noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888614295013566381.post-47304508141645577182009-06-04T18:43:00.008+01:002009-06-04T19:03:59.591+01:00

That was brilliant.We ran Halls of Stone, normal. As planned: the party summoned, I got the XP for exploration, I dinged. Awesome.The party was Astrantia (Druid Healer), Spore (Druid Tank), Otoritakeo (Hunter DPS), Hunterette (Hunter DPS) and - of course - me. All Elunatics (thanks guild :).The first run took around 45 minutes, and was pretty straightforward with no surprises or wipes.At the end,

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I haven't reported for a few levels, and yes, they were important levels. I haven't felt like there was anything much to say as regards any of it - well, anything that I haven't already said before. Different locations, same hard slog.More than anything it's become a hard slog to the end, more a test of my endurance and will-power than anything else. At around 10 hours a level (more in many cases

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That was a pretty good level. I've now got the quest-completion achievements for both the Fjord and the Tundra (130 quests in each). I have to admit I'm pretty pleased with that as I normally wouldn't get those achievements - but then I don't normally struggle so much with the following areas and have to come back and finish up :)Last night I got the Foldragon Hold cut-scene and, hey, that's

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Thanks to my guild I got to run SSC for the first time. It was fun :)Anyway, while I was there I noticed that Quest Helper was recommending that I slay someone's pet wolf for the Fibrous Worg Meat (0/10). Personally, I think it's hilarious!The wolf next to it wasn't the right type, no drops from that one!For the record, I'm off the bottom of the recount window. Being level 74 with no talent does

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I got Blacksting, ain't it pretty? :)Sadly though I was getting Blacksting with the expectation of being able to bust Archie out of the stables while out and about, then I eventually discover that "Call Stabled Pet" is a level 80 skill. Bah.I've been levelling Bernard up, he's still 3 levels below me and I'm not far from 75 myself.This has been a much more entertaining level. As levelling was

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Well I made 73, got Kill Shot, and it's all good.I'm currently installing the patch and want to test out 3.1 - but mostly vicariously as most of the interesting changes are end-game content or talent changes :)That said, I am considering testing out 'call pet', so I may yet head to Zangar to fetch Blacksting :)It's been a bit of an uneventful level, right now I'm really really looking forward to

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The 3.1.0 patch is downloading, release can't be far away!I think dual-spec is the most eagerly awaited change in it, though I'm finding it hard to justify 1000 gold for dual-spec untalented. Still, it'd be funny - well it'd amuse me, so ner.I've finally gone to Dalaran, made it my home and got the flight point. This follows having to travel from the middle of Northrend to the Ring of Blood to

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Weeeelll, it's been a while, but I haven't been slacking.No no, I have indeed been getting my mining up to Northrend levels, followed by the most tediously long level in history ever.It took around 16 hours of running about Kalimdor to get my mining up (Engineering didn't fare so well and I'm not caring right now). 16 hours. It's so dull.Following that I ran off to Fizzcrank to finish the quest

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Wow! I can't believe I finally made 70! :)It's such a relief to have got there, and at 8 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 14 seconds I easily beat the 9 days target I'd set myself.After the Ziggurat quests I travelled out towards Fizzcrank, stopping on the way to do all of the quarry quests. I quite liked them, only... it's not that the respawn rate is too high there, it's that there's no delay between

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I'm very much enjoying Borean Tundra.The Tundra area and En'kilah in particular have provided massive upgrades with relatively little effort. Whilst most are upgrades in the form of crit/AP - and in many cases also a reduction in Agility - I did get Death Knight's Anguish and the sheer DPS upgrade of Fury of the Raging Dragon. The former is an interesting one, difficult to quantify the results

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Great! I've reached 68 and headed straight for the Borean Tundra, stopping only to train skills and buy 3*+16 Agi gems for my chest.With 2 levels to go I'm still a few hours short of 8 days /played so I'm not worried about making 70 inside the time I've set myself (9 days).I've got the void axe quest reward from the Ring of Blood quest and I have to say I really like the glowy effect, it was

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Another non-levelling post...After grinding through most of my precious rested in Nagrand I got the opportunity to achieve the 'Jenkins' title. Apparently the trick is to only start the kill when you've gathered enough in one spot. Somehow it took us a while to manage it, but manage it we did :)Somehow it seemed worth sacrificing a couple of hours for :) (Yes, I know everyone else got the

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I spent the 2nd half of 65 in Terokkar killing the Shadow Council and doing a few quests in the Bone Wastes. I still haven't got around to Torgos! to get the trinket, and now I've moved on to Nagrand.I quite enjoyed the quest to investigate the shadow council, it was kind of fun wandering around the enemy camp unmolested (at least until I stupidly tried to change my tracking so I could spot enemy

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I've got my 54-quests-in-Zangar achievement and moved on to Terokkar. Progress is pretty good, I'm managing 5-6 hours per level at the moment - if I can keep that up I'll be 70 in under 9 days /played.I've been enjoying the Arakkoa quests, which again I didn't like first time around. Perhaps I'm just getting the level to do it right :)I managed to do one of those bone-headed quest time-wasting

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I think Archie's made his feelings clear regarding the taming of Blacksting :)But look at the pretty colours! And it's got cool idle animations and everything!

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I continue to be surprised that I'm actually enjoying Zangar - I expected that not being a skinner it would be worse than last time, and it was bad enough then!Progress has definitely slowed, now around 6 hours per level. That said, 60-70 requires more XP to get through and the increase in quest/mob XP doesn't quite make up for it, so it's only to be expected.I didn't expect to be able to do it,

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I logged in and as usual checked to see who was about. Check friends tab, see the usual people on, check the guild tab... click on it again... wonder why it's grey... eh? Noone I know from the guild is on. Check guild site. No guild site. Someone from guild logs in, they're also not in a guild any more. Feeling a bit freaked by this point. It was fine last night, did someone accidentally delete

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Some of the responses from the wowinsider article have got me thinking.There're a couple of things:Presumably hunters are weighted so the hunter+pet combination is approx equivalent to a character of another class. Do people really think hunters are 'easy mode' and if so, have they played them past level 20? I can't really say what the other classes are like to play but trying to coordinate the

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slowly.I'm definitely feeling the 60-70 slowdown, but after 3 hours for the first half level I managed to do the rest in around two. I think that's just choice of quest/mob. One that took quite a long time - for a "kill 10" type quest - was the longbeards ravager quest. The big green ravagers were slow to kill, also the skitterers kept running up and aggroing - those things reset their aggro

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I don't remember it being that easy before, wow they practically give you XP when you go to Outlands. Oh yes - not only am I in Outlands but I've just hit 60 following two sub-2-hour levels, and a total of just under 6 days. I know 60-62 is likely to be hard going (it was very slow last time) but I'm still hopeful for 70 in under 9 days.I like Hellfire Peninsula - it seems like it should be a lot

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It's been a while - with Christmas and life I decided to take a break.Well I'm back, though I'm going to be taking it a bit easier from now on so updates will be farther between, but I still want to see this through to the end :)During the break the guild I was in has been falling apart, everyone drifting off and generally becoming incredibly quiet. Guild chat's just not the same when you're the

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I've done well in Winterspring, so I've nothing much to do there now. I have to decide where next I should go - I could head for Silithus or to Burning Steppes, though I'll probably head to the latter for easier XP (and I heavily dislike the silithid :)The yeti were as satisfying as I'd remembered and went down without too much trouble.I was very lucky with the quest drops this time around, only

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I'm getting Steady Shot worked into my routine - my dps is now around 50% higher.For those of you looking for hunter tips, the rotation with AotH is something like:Serpent Sting, Arcane, Steady, Steady, Arcane, Steady, Steady, Arcane etc.though obviously it depends a lot on aggro, any adds that come in, mana usage and the like.If mana gets too low I'll switch to AotV and basically spam Steady

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Perhaps I went to plaguelands too early, but I found it plain horrible - 10% of a level in three quarters of an hour. I like having a stack of quests I can go and do, combining several and handing in said stack. The Plaguelands have quests all over that chain but don't really overlap - though it is the first time I've quested there and my level may mean I'm not picking up as many quests as I

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I've just handed in the best part of a level-worth of quests in Un'goro and made level 51 - including lar'kowri's head. I have to admit I'm very happy with both the levelling time of a little over 3 hours and in particular taking out lar'kowri as he's 6 levels above me and pretty tough anyway. More than anything it's because it shows me I can make up for the lack of TPs.I left Un'goro with only

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I decided to get my mining skill up so I'd be able to mine the nodes in the levels I'm working, so spent an hour wandering around duskwood hitting bits of tin.I'm now over 130 but totally failing to find any nodes at all in my range :)I may have to do some more deliberate mining levelling :(I spent some time in Blasted lands, which was incredibly dull as the only quests were the "kill any beast

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I really need to not do content that's so far below my level I get _nothing_ for doing it!I got invited to a random pug and said yes. It was a good group ("hi" if you were in it :) but it took the best part of a couple of hours and I gained a couple of hundred XP in that time.As a result that was a whopping 5 hour level which is a bit of a set-back as I should have been nearly 50 in that time.

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I've made it to 48, I've got 50 in sight now!So I've finally been to Searing Gorge, and it's alright - I was expecting more content like the Badlands.After much messing about I found getting the key for Searing Gorge was a waste of time. You get a decent amount of XP for doing it but it takes so long travelling around and then you can use the FP to get in and out anyway!I've been managing to keep

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46!I spent the last 45 minutes of the level handing in quests from hinterlands in booty bay, tanaris, darnassus and also a couple in feathermoon and thalanaar - so I covered the length of each continent just to hand in 5 quests. Unfortunately those were all I had left to do until I hit 46 and a few more quests became available.I tried some of the group quests in Hinterlands (e.g. Altar of Zul)

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Just a quick note to say I've put the poll up with everyone's suggestions for achievement names.Obviously - like everyone else - I've been wrathing so haven't levelled Lith, however to be honest I found that with it being so overcrowded I enjoy levelling Lith way more than I enjoyed Northrend last night.I'll hold off any more Northrend until after the weekend - hopefully the rush will die down :)

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Whoo! 45. I even managed the level in just under 3 hours again, even taking into account over half an hour of travelling. Today I've done some Hinterlands and some more Feralas (I like Yeti hunting by the way - perhaps it's because they're entirely melee).One of the things I'm beginning to find most frustrating about this endeavor is the amount of time I spend just travelling. Tonight I could

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I need to sort out my zone choices!I keep going to zones, doing the lower level quests - still several levels above me - and then finding the remaining quests are too high to spend the time on, so I have to move elsewhere, wasting more time and taking even longer to level. I always had it in my head that the idea was you would level along with the quests, so completing all of the lower-level

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I've had a few day's break for various reasons external to warcraft, which has earned me half a level of rested. Very helpful. If I was going to seriously go for a /played record of some kind, that would be the way to go, for sure. But I have no intention of playing only when rested, only making sure I'm in an inn at the end of play :)Today has gone a lot better, levelling-wise. In Tanaris I've

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It felt like I was doing okay, decent kill rate and everything, but I don't know where the hours went. I'm now 41 but it took over 4 hours to do it. Maybe I should have taken mysql's advice to head for Arathi :)I think my big problem was that on the level 41-43 wastewander mobs I kept getting random respawns and rogues appearing during fights. The pirate quest is 43-45 and you need a lot of mobs

Lithiumflowrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12601379591719147035noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888614295013566381.post-5214032364807229922008-11-05T21:38:00.004Z2008-11-06T07:54:53.687Z

Okay, so I got my level range for northern Stranglethorn mixed up and should have been there more like 10 levels ago. I persevered anyway and only made half a level in around 2 hours - way down on the last four!I moved to the Booty Bay area - now that's what I'm talkin' about, 2nd half of the level took less than half the time.So. Level 40! I can finally wear mail, that'll help a lot when I find

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but it's still progress :)I've just hit 39, though the pace has been poor tonight.Theramore and the Marsh yesterday went quickly with a few decent drops to upgrade my gear, but today I was being sent off to Loch Modan to then be sent to the Badlands for a few scratty quests that weren't worth much. I ended up back at Southshore doing some of the quests that weren't quite green to me and got some

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This is about levelling without talent points.Not a single point used from 1 to level-cap.The rules are simple:1. No talent points to be used - for hunters this includes pet talent points.2. No gear funded by alts - except for mounts.and why do this?I've levelled a hunter to 70 and it was such good fun I decided to do it again!This time around I'm making it more challenging, and so far it's going

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