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Playing With Fire

Now that I’m well out of the starter zones the time between new abilities is starting to drag out. Since I’m not changing things as much, I decided to go with my gut reaction from last post and start lumping more levels together.

While I was tempted to hold to my initial concept of doing every quest in a zone before moving on, I’ve found that I’m outleveling the content too quickly. I’m tired of doing green quests so I’m going to start pushing the envelope and see how good I really am at this.

My guess is ‘not so much’, but we’ll see.

…and YAY For Mounts! Continue reading →

Not a whole lot changes in these levels (just so you’re forewarned). In fact nothing much changes until level 28 when I get to pick up Devouring Plague, so I may end up lumping more levels together going forward. *pokes posts thoughtfully*

That’s the one bit that doesn’t change, no matter how many characters I’m playing– the grinding feeling kicks in around level 20 and never really leaves again.

All these 50% drop rates aren’t helping matters any. *mutter* Continue reading →

Not Working As Intended

I’ve actually gotten quite a bit of questing done on Illysu and Illysa since last post (although the Tauren mask won’t go away), but I’m trying to keep things to two levels a post for sanity’s sake.

I’m hoping to move to an every other week posting with these two, but time shall tell. Resting XP is the best XP! *solemn nod* Continue reading →

Not My Best Idea Ever

And lo, the Perishing part of Perish Twice is now in full effect again. *sighs*

Ah well, I suppose my carefree days of gallivanting around and attacking everything that moves had to come to an end at some point. Nothing like wading into a fight with something eight levels higher to snap me out of my facerolling rut.

Sadly, I tried twice more before I gave up—just to see if it was possible to even hit the #@$! thing. (Note: it was not.) Continue reading →

I’m a bit further up the treadmill learning curve and I’ve found I can get one to two levels done in a play session now, which lasts until I hit the end of my rested XP bar. With luck this should mean at least one leveling post a week if I can get my blogging speed up to match. (I expect this will change as I grind upwards, but it will be interesting to see how fast progression slows.)

Have I mentioned I’m not looking forward to Outlands? *sigh*

Things are getting easier as I go, thanks in part to the nice range of abilities these two now have. I had definitely underestimated the survivability of the pair when I first started them—even compared to the druids, dual-priests definitely feel over-powered at times. Continue reading →

Evil, I Can Haz

Been a bit since I worked on these guys, most of the time has been spent fiddling with the UI and the addons instead of actually questing (ah the joys of treadmill gaming!). Those posts are still in the works, but I figured I’d better get content up that isn’t based on a Blog Azeroth Shared Topic for a change.

Thus Illysu and Illysa are back on the warpath and it’s time to burn up some of that yummy blue rested XP! Plus I’ll get a few more miles under my belt and hopefully hammer out the last of the bumpy treadmill learning curve.

I had no idea I spent so much time looking at my keys when I play… Doh. Continue reading →

Alt-itis? Not me!

There are two brother suns in Kazimar… Or in this case sister suns, since male Blood Elves look much too silly to stare at for long periods of time. (Take that you stupid ‘name is not available’ popup!)

In-between cleaning last holiday weekend I sat down and started up a new pair of alts. As much fun as the hunter-hunter and druid-druid pairs are, they require a lot more brainpower and I wanted something simple and fun.

And I am totally not addicted to starter leveling zones… nopenopenope. Continue reading →