During my morning, pre-work World of Warcraft session I was in Duskwood and decided to do a quick quest, a 'simple' kill 12 monsters thing. I went to the Rotting Orchard and found another guy to group with and I had my kills in about 10 minutes. What was interesting was that:
- the other guy was a level 29 human paladin (me 28 dwarf paladin)
- he had a big helmet on (my headware is +100 armour but is a daft looking thing).
- he had a big glowing sword (I use single axe so I can hold big shield in offhand for +400 armour)
- he could run about twice as fast as me
He was a very effective group member! I suspect he was twinked up somewhat.
I didn't even know that paladins could use swords, so I checked on Wow Wiki (a very comprehensive wow reference) and I can learn to use them in stormwind! I must try this, there is a possibility that swords are more effective than axes. At the very least, it makes a change and it doubles the choice of weapons available in auctions.
More things to try:
- buying enchantments
- buying grind stones to 'sharpen' weapons
- giving up engineering and becoming a blacksmith. Blacksmiths can make sword and armour. I'd have to grind it somewhat to get to a level where I can make weapons useful to a level 29 but the things I can make in advanced engineering seems more like toys. Swords and armour are more fundamentally useful.
- start an alternate blacksmith character. Possible, but I'm not sure I can be bothered to level it up.
What really annoys me is that just yesterday a monster dropped a nice big sword and I didn't think about it, I just flogged it in an auction for 1.5 gold (the most I have sold something for). I don't remember it's stats, I didn't even bother to look.
I have accumulated enough gold to buy a nice blue weapon (blue = a powerful weapon occasionally dropped by monsters) in an auction but I am too mean. 15 gold for 30% more DPS? Is it worth it? I have a hard time parting with more than one gold for anything.
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