Good news is that after a couple few more hours of riding in circles in the Hinterlands, I’ll get to start riding in circles around Un’Goro with 10 different dummies.
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nah once you get to ungoro theres thorium nodes every 10 feet and you can basically do that and smelt your way to 375. bonus if you have a jc.
I really need to remind myself the 10th time that I do this that I really need to stop and grind mining at iron since I definitely passed up plenty of mithril and thorium leveling. feelsbad
I guess I’m going to try and login around lunch today then the second half of my work day will mostly be switching computers every 10 minutes to make sure I don’t get logged out. Totally normal day in the office.
make sure to do more than move around, it kicks you pretty fast for that even if you’re not “afk”
my goal for this expansion is to get all my toon slots on 2 accounts gold capped, then when I’m done with it, destroying it all in an epic youtube video
Didn’t want to derail the other thread, but I think you must’ve been doing it wrong. Priest (particularly shadow) is insanely good at leveling with almost no downtime thanks to Spirit Tap talent. I did 1-60 as shadow questing and solo, then 60-70 as a disc priest healing dungeons.
I had spirit tap. didnt matter. could only fight 1 mob my own level at a time, a full dot rotation is 100% of your mana
comparing it to something like hunter where you can churn thru 50x mobs with zero downtime 10x as fast, i dunno, it’s gotta be the worst class to solo level.
lol no, 3 dots is not 100% of your mana. You don’t need to use all of those dots on every pull anyway. Realizing this also used Wand Specialization from Disc tree which is gone now but whatever, here was the rotation:
- PW: Shield
- Mind Blast
- (VE if you are 80% health)
- SWP
- Mind Flay
- wand, wand, dead.
Rinse, repeat, you could spam this infinite on single mobs without drinking. Hunter is easier, but I think shadow priest is right behind it.
That is old talents anyway, I think now just about every spec is viable for easy quest/grind leveling (other than healing specs). I just finished up a prot warrior 61-70 and that was a lot of fun because revenge, thunderclap, and shockwave are overpowered.
it is though - sw:p is 300 mana, shield is about the same, mind blast a little less (lvl 40ish). you’re not rocking a ton of mana at that level.
you do not get mind flay til deep in the shadow tree.
I did this exact rotation and was drinking quite a lot. and yea i had wand spec.
You can get it as early as level 20, but typically not until 25 because of Wand Spec
Very interesting how we can have completely different experiences playing the same class & spec. I didn’t even have good gear as I skipped most of the dungeons, so it’s not like I was in lvl 35 BIS or anything
I mean to be fair I probably sucked at it. I wanted to see if priest healing was better than druid healing, almost immediately decided I hated it at 70. Never liked priest much but disc playstyle actually looks fun as fuck so I may pvp on it.
I did appear to have some talent as shadow though. my ilvl adjusted parses were always 95+. I didn’t mind shadow, but it felt underwhelming in pvp.
I think people really are sleeping on surv hunter in arena in wotlk and I think it’s because it has a crazy high skill ceiling.
most tier lists claim it “lacks cc” and prefer marksman because of this, but other than readiness allowing you to trap twice (if you can land it twice, good luck) it absolutely is worse than surv in every way. I also see wyv sting quoted as being “bad cc” but it’s a completely undispellable 5 seconds of taking someone completely out of a fight. in duo’s this is INCREDIBLE and so so so much better than silencing shot.
none of them mention the scatter/freezing combo either, maybe they just never played hunter. I guess MM specs into scatter shot and can do the same thing but survival just comes with so many goodies in pvp I have a hard time saying it’s D/F tier til I test it out more.
you could theoretically drop explosive shot and spec into readiness in MM, that may actually be decent because lock n load works for arcane shot and the buffed arcane shot hits for similar-ish burst, but explosive shot is so crazy good it feelsbadman.
in the end tho MM having a ranged 10 second disarm probably wins the day. double hunter is probably funny.
yea i have a feeling this 1hr queue on my 2nd box is gonna be 3-4, thats how the queues here usually go on faerlina. if I dont straight up get kicked after server inevitably goes down, that is.
I’m chillin on one box on my hunter in the sunwell area, considered trying to do quests but it’s like barely 20% of a level of xp to turn in all 25 and i just really really do not care that much.
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Ya, I’m logged in on my main account then in queue for the 2nd.
I ended up doing just the isle dailies on 5 different characters yesterday. I figured it isn’t much XP but it is a little bit of a jump for 5 characters. It also gives me an excuse to login to each of them so I can start getting rest XP, since apparently you need to login then logout before rest XP starts accruing. Lastly, in the case that Northrend is terribly fucked because of overpopulation, this is an excuse to do something for 15-20 minutes for that inevitable server shitting the bed.
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I’m gonna take my time with everything this expansion. it isn’t as close to as sweaty as tbc and they seem to be leaning into that by doing stuff like longer prepatch, 2 weeks before raids are out, etc.
tbc launch people were having strokes and embolisms and shit trying to clear the first week reset in kara. lol. this isn’t that kind of an expansion, in my opinion, i’m just gonna enjoy it.
i have til oct 6 to get my hunter pre-raid ready which should be trivial and then I’ll slowly work on the other guys. this last second switch to hunter main seems weird to me but I’m gonna just do it. I wanted to play a hunter literally ALL of TBC and couldnt because everyone wanted my fucking dudu to carry them (also i despise beast mastery spec). no more! parse brain dps til i die
also I’m doing like 3500 dps on fights as surv with full brutal right now, lol.
dunno if anyone caught it but there was a bug/exploit over the last week where dk’s (and maybe some other classes) could reset their gcd by opening a jaggal clam and there were all these semi-serious to utterly hilarious comedy vids declaring “clam weaving” to be the new meta and all the memes that have spawned from it i’ll never get over, they’re too funny.
some people started calling sunwell the clamwell and I lost it.
