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Joana’s guide had me grind trolls for about 60% of level 38, making it the longest grind session yet, but the immediate reward for dinging was taking down Bag’thera, a level 40 Elite, and turning in the quest for almost 4k XP. There really isn’t much to talk about with level 38, since it was so much grinding. The best I can do is brag that I was taking on 3-5 level 39-40s at a time. /shrug
Wow, that was exciting. What did you do last night?
This week, I’m going to do Reader Participation Monday early due to the holiday. I just checked my click-through stats on my favorite affiliate, whom I personally use every time I log in, Joana’s Horde Leveling Guide. To date, here are the stats I found:
This would suggest some pretty happy guide-users, but I haven’t heard from any of you saying how it is working for you. I’d love to hear from more users and see how you like it, what issues you have, and if you have found any shortcuts.
My greatest deviation from the guide while playing hunter has been my talent spec, as a full Beastmaster. I can’t say that being a BM has had any impact whatsoever on not being able to complete a quest or kill I needed. I don’t use the same key-bindings, either, but that is a play style issue.
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I’ll follow up Xial’s question about being motivated to level with a how-to article on how I do it. Of course, one of my biggest motivators now, is to continue with blogging content by playing. If I don’t play, I don’t have anything to write about on this blog. Plain and simple. Another blog-related motivation is to see how I compare to Joana’s leveling skills. I’d really like to get a toon to 60 in under 6 days.
Now for some easy goals to keep up your pace:
Huntr hit 38 last night after turning in Round 1 of the quests in [tag]Duskwallow Marsh[/tag]. I haven’t died in 3 days, which is a nice change, and a trend that I intend on continuing. Huntr dinged 38 with 2d 10h 55m of /played time, but will not be going to train skills for a while. Level 40, here I come!
Tiggr knows Bite 5 and just recently hit 37, so he’s going to be leveling for the next hour or two. He reached Best Friend status yesterday morning and I’m able to sell off a lot of my meat now to keep my bags clear. Right now, my biggest pride of playing is keeping Tiggr on 4 mobs and walking up to loot them a minute later.
I was really surprised to find [tag]Mend Pet[/tag] is now an [tag]instant cast[/tag] spell. I usually don’t read the patch notes too closely, so when I tried to heal him, I thought the spell fizzled after a second, but no one was hitting me. I tried several times. I was amazed to see his health go up, though. It wasn’t until I opened my spellbook and saw that it was instant cast that I realized what was going on. I don’t think he is going to die very often now.
Another good thing to note is that I have not received a single [tag]spam[/tag] message since Tuesday morning when I received 3 before I went to work. Good job Blizz! How about you, are you spam-free?
I hit 37 last night with a total of 2d 7h 28m /played time. Arathi Highlands was getting quite boring killing raptor after raptor trying to get 12 raptor hearts. After all of that work, when I got to Hammerfall and started turning in the quests, it looked like a ding was approaching, and it did. I got my First Aid up though Triage in Hammerfall now, so now I need to start killing more mageweave mobs to get FA up to 300. Right now I only have 5 mageweave, and that’s just not going to cut it.
On the UI note, it looks like I needed the Gamma version of Auctioneer and to give the rest of the developers time to get a chance to pick at their code. I would say more than half of the plugins work now, and made life a tad more bearable.
I logged out in Alterac Mountains on my way to Dalaran, but stopped to get Frostmaw. I logged to get him this morning.
What did you do last night?
I hit 36 after about 15 minutes of grinding trolls and working my way back to Grom’gol killing crocs and basilisks. I even took out one of the 38 Elite Elder Saltwater Crocodiles along the shore. That was fun and satisfying. /played time: 2d 4h 14m.
I trained up in Grom’gol and went to UC to turn in the Silk donation and to fly to Hammerfall. Just for kicks and grins, I hopped on the AH as I passed by to see if there was a better ranged weapon available. That was when my heart skipped a beat and I saw my favorite ranged weapon to date: Swiftwind. I got this for Grimr back in the day and ran him through DM to level it. He got to the ship okay at level 37 or so. I leveled this baby on the critters and trolls of Arathi Highlands. It’s fully skilled now, and killing kobolds.
I didn’t stop there. I bought a new headband, shoulders, Deadly Kris of Arcane Wrath, Shadowskin Gloves, and Tigerbane. Huntr has over 1,600 HP and Mana now and Tiggr is well on his way to becoming my best friend.
When you combine Dash and the extra DPS of my new crossbow (27, up from 19) and tack on the +Arcane damage of my dagger to my Arcane Shot, I’m peeling off HP faster than yesterday morning. We’ll see if it makes a difference in my leveling speed.
My immediate plans are to get Huntr to 40 and then do the same with Paladr. What are you current goals or plans with your toons?