WoW OSers?

[av7]

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I kept my druid as resto since it seemed like everyone was going to go the feral route. It's pretty tough healing these noobs. They have no concept of aggro, and the tanks never seem to be geared or specced towards the role they're trying to play. Also seeing a lot of supposed dps warriors running around with shields. Boss encounters fail because the tank gets damn near one shotted or the dps is so low I run out of mana before they sloooooowly burn em' down.

Glad I'm not the only one who's experienced this lately. Are you inspecting the tanks now? I've started doing it now and I'll jet if I dont like what I see lol

[Spongedaddy]

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Out of curiosity: My Tauren hunter wound up in the Orc city and I did a quest where I drove a Goblin mech against a huge enemy. Is that new or was that part of the old game as well. It was a quest I got from the Horde Warchief Board.

[trobinson97]

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I am a level 11 Tauren Hunter and have been mostly questing so far. I joined the Horde of One, but haven't had an opportunity to interact. I haven't done any dungeons yet, but look forward to it.

I am playing about an hour a night. I want to go slow and enjoy the experience.

My name is Wakkaflokka in HoO, add me to your friend list. I am level 19 now, but I'm not going to be power leveling or anything.

[trobinson97]

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Out of curiosity: My Tauren hunter wound up in the Orc city and I did a quest where I drove a Goblin mech against a huge enemy. Is that new or was that part of the old game as well. It was a quest I got from the Horde Warchief Board.

That's a new one. All the quests in that zone are new.

Glad I'm not the only one who's experienced this lately. Are you inspecting the tanks now? I've started doing it now and I'll jet if I dont like what I see lol

I inspect them, but I'll wait to see how the dps is before I leave. Usually I'll stick around until at least the first boss before I leave so that I don't get deserter.

[IlliniM1ke]

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I brought my Troll Feral Druid up to Level 20 today and hit the Dungeon Finder. Rolled into Shadowfang Keep only to find 4 other druids. We found out the hard way that everyone was Feral spec when our healer couldn't heal and our tank couldn't tank. It was a shameful display. I'll probably just stick with questing. I've levelled two characters to 80 over the years I've played but I am really enjoying the new zones and especially the new quests which provide so much more variety.
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Yeah I hopped in the dungeon finder yesterday for Deadmines, queue pops and I get in there with 4 other troll druids lol, a resto (actually spec'd resto!), 2 cats, a bear (who wasn't spec'd properly), and myself as balance.

Tank got killed first pull and left, we got a warrior tank in who was actually a tank and things went flawlessly.

That is the only problem with the dungeon finder is you get idiots who queue wrong just for fast queues, have dps warriors/druids/pallys queuing as tanks or you have ele shaman queuing as resto, and it never goes well yet people keep doing it.

But on a side note I really like balance, can't wait to get moonkin form.

[Crimsontide27]

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There are a ton of people leveling up the normal way. Couple of the officers came up with some sort of limited restriction saying no powerleveling, no heirlooms, no RAFing etc...then come to find out they were doing all those tricks to seperate from the guild and acting elitest. This kinda irritated people because its not like we are new to the game and didnt realize what was going on.

After hearing them proclaim they werent using RAF and heirlooms and proclaiming themselves basically wow gods, I took action. Deleted my level 33 hunter and started him at level 1. I went from 1-60 in just slightly over 10 hours and basically gave the few elitest a /rude .

Other than that hiccup, everything is going well over here.

As it is, leveling is way to fast. Once you hit 15 and can que for a random, you get all your quests inside the zone..which basically doubles or sometimes triples the exp you got in the zone itself.

For example, I just wanted to do each instance once while leveling up. After running one instance of ragefire and one instance of deadmines, I had outleveled pretty much the entire Northern Barrens and Azahara zones.

[trobinson97]

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After hearing them proclaim they werent using RAF and heirlooms and proclaiming themselves basically wow gods, I took action. Deleted my level 33 hunter and started him at level 1. I went from 1-60 in just slightly over 10 hours and basically gave the few elitest a /rude

Funny thing the other day, some hunter in that guild was talking about how he leveled 24 times in one day and 19 the next. I made a comment similar to the one I made in this thread about power leveling using raf and heirlooms and he actually tried to convince me that he did using only rested XP. He went on about how he was a hunter so it was easy, plus rested XP and I'm like whatever man. There's no way you're going to convince me that you didn't use recruit a friend.

[Crimsontide27]

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Yea, they were denying it until they got caught. I got tired of them them bragging about how fast they were leveling and when someone would comment about the RAF feature, they would proclaim they were just good and knew the routes for questing from beta.

Ive been in the game since release, so I can smell BS a mile away. They wanted to be the first...they wanted to be that special snowflake that people ohhhed and ahhhhed over.

What gave it away was not only were they lvling super fast, but each dungeon achiev they got spammed the channel 4x, and not 5. Funny how everytime they completed a dungeon there was only 4 achievs granted...yet the group is in 5s. So I did a /who Z-"deadmines" and noticed an 80 in there with them which gave it away and called them out on it.

[Spongedaddy]

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Do you think there is going to be a run on Worgen's come Dec. 7? I wanted to give the class a try, but feel like there is no need to rush it.

[mgoblue]

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Dinged 24 with my Blood Elf Rogue...it's a lot of fun!

The Dungeon Finder was great, I wanted to run Stonefall Keep (I think that's what it was) for a rogue dagger quest and in 5 mins had a group ready to go...

The board where you get quests in your current range is awesome too...never be stuck wondering where to go

[HealyMonster]

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I went from 1-60 in just slightly over 10 hours and basically gave the few elitest a /rude .

How do you do this? I have a lvl 20 warlock, id love to spend only 8 hours and get him to lvl 60, got any tips/ how the heck did you do that?

[ESPNFANAZ]

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Great points to follow. I have found a decent guild probably not as close friendship as you are describing but we get along, try to have fun, and for the most part respect each other. We did make top 5 guild on the server at one point so we are doing something right as far as progression goes.

I really want to find a way to cut back though and still raid and have a balance life with sports gaming and friends/family time. I have way to many toons mainly because I wanted all the professions so I wouldn't have to rely on people to make stuff for me. It gets really hard when you lead in stats on most of your characters and people start asking for your help all the time since you have toons that are not saved.

Hope you have had a good Thanksgiving. I really miss this game but gotta fix real life first. Thanks for your post.

Basically it's a game, just like any other game that we choose to pay $15 a month to enjoy. As such, enjoyment should be your number one goal. There is no doubt that raiding CAN take a huge time commitment, but it doesn't have to. The group I run with raids 2 nights a week, Friday and Saturday from 8 to 12. So we raid 2 weekend nights a week for 4 hours each. We look at it like this: We are together as a group because we are friends. We enjoy each others company just as much, if not more, then we do our real life friends. We basically spent the equivalent of 2-3 beers worth of money to raid 8 hours a week together and there isn't a fight in this game we haven't seen or beat.

The key to our success comes from two places.

One is our friendship, which helps our communication, both verbally and silently. We kind of have a good idea what each other is going to do and where each other is going to be at at any given time inside an encounter. We also can openly communicate with each other and say whatever we want, however we want without somebody getting butt-hurt over it. This helps make us efficient.

The second is our experience. A of us have been playing games since EQ, while the rest of us, like myself have been playing since vanilla WoW. It's very rare at this point for blizzard to come up with a completely new mechanic, it's basically recycled forms of things we have already seen. When you combine that kind of knowledge with knowing your classes inside and out, how to maximize your dps/threat/healing and how and when to use survival cool-downs or crowd control it severely cuts down on the learning cuve which helps us accomplish more in a shorter period of time.

For a newer player or a newer raider, it is going to take some time to build up the fundamentals, just like you would if you were an athlete, but once you learn the fundamentals the time commitment required to maintain them is significantly less. The best advice I can give to anybody looking to get into raiding is find a guild that raids during a schedule you can commit to (being reliable is extremely important), and try to do everything you can to ensure you enjoy the people you are raiding with. You may find you have to change servers/guilds 2/3/5 times until you really find the right group, but when you do it's wonderful. We send each other gifts for the holidays.....I just got a phone call from one of my friends (guildies) wishing me a Happy Thanksgiving....things like that.

I'm not 21 anymore, I don't really care about going out partying or clubbing or whatever. I still go out with my wife once a week for dinner and a few drinks, but I also pay $15 a month to raid in a video game with friends. It's possible to have it all, it just takes time and a bit of luck. Good luck and Happy Turkey Day.

[ESPNFANAZ]

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Profession advice? I'm running a rogue and thinking mining/jewelcrafting

On my old higher rogue I have mining (or skinning) and leatherworking...

Seems like jewelcrafting could be cool at the end, I always found the armor you could craft wasn't that great compared to stuff you could easily get somewhere...

What do you guys think?

A GREAT website to level any profession including secondary is wow-professions.com. If you want to make money Mining/Jewcrafting is a good one. Herb/Alchamy you will have a two seater mount in Alchamy when cata rolls around. If you want to focus on crafting epics for your toon.. probably skinning/leatherworking would be best.

[Crimsontide27]

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How do you do this? I have a lvl 20 warlock, id love to spend only 8 hours and get him to lvl 60, got any tips/ how the heck did you do that?

I use the recruit a friend feature which lets you get 3x experience when grouped. It only costs 5 bucks to do, so it certainly is worth it for me. What I do is put one toon on autofollow and run around until level 10 doing the kill quests and immediatly hit Ragefire. Log in my 80 warlock and destroy that zone until they ding 20. That was the slow part. At 20 you can get into SM and I can go through all 4 of those zones in less than 30 mins averaging around 1 level every 10 mins. From there its off to the new Scholomance for levels 40-50 and then to ZF. Once you hit 58 it only takes me about 30 mins of running Bloodfurnance to hit 60.

Thats how I do it.

[mgoblue]

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A GREAT website to level any profession including secondary is wow-professions.com. If you want to make money Mining/Jewcrafting is a good one. Herb/Alchamy you will have a two seater mount in Alchamy when cata rolls around. If you want to focus on crafting epics for your toon.. probably skinning/leatherworking would be best.

Thanks! I'm rolling well with herb/mining and then I'll decide a good endgame one when I'm at that point...this is good for money now and I know I'll use either Mining/Jewel or Herb/Alchemy so one of the two will go to good use.

I'm up to 27, almost 28...it's so addicting.

What's up with the Glyphs...do I have to buy them somewhere? It popped up, but hadn't heard of them before....gotta look into it more tonight.