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WoW News Issue 173


Maexyn

Ran Maexyn for a while, back in the Troll area in Loch Modan, trying to cull Stonecutter Skullthumpers and Seers. This time I was trying Curse of Agony on adds as a way of handling multiple mobs. Didn't work, still drew agro. The Stonecutter Scouts are the most annoying they stand and lob axes and they have a huge agro radius.

Was fighting two or three when another player came running in begging for a Fear and drawing three troggs with him. After ressing and putting him on my ignore list I didn't have a lot more success: it's hard to get into a rhythm when you are worried about a random plonker causing problems. I gave up for a while, hoping he would go away.

Pookypoo

Ran pooky for a while, Terokkar forest killing Worgs for their tails. It takes about 25 seconds to kill one. He was doing ok, didn't die (well he is protection) and I could gather two or three Worgs for some AoE although it still wasn't as productive as a hunter. He was maintaining 60,000 XP/hr. Grinding as protection is asking for tedium but after a while I found it too boring and went back to Maexyn.

Maexyn Again

Back to the troggs, the annoying rogue had gone so continued. Killing single mobs is ridiculously easy but things rapidly get messy with multiple mobs. Cleared a group of three, only surviving because she dinged 14 mid fight which topped up her health and mana. Went on to be done in by the damn Skullthumpers again: usual story, stun pet, beat on Maex.

Got fed up with dying so I took her back to Ironforge for class training. Maybe level 14 training will help in fighting level 14 Troggs? Got next rank Corruption which seems to cause double the damage of rank 2 and I invested the new talent point in making it instant cast. However I was terminally disillusioned and stopped playing (!). Maevyn didn't have nearly as much trouble with these troggs. I'm tempted to send in Maezyn to remind myself what a level 13 hunter is capable of.

You may observe from the bottom right panel that Maexyn's Armory profile is working now (75 skinning already???). Characters under 10 aren't listed but for a few days the armory was giving an error for her when she was level 13.

I'm getting a nice collection of Mae?yn characters now. Coming soon, Maecyn, Maesyn, Maemyn (rogue?). Probably not Maetyn though.

Maevyn

My favourite character is Maevyn but I'm at a bit of a loss what to do with her. I can't be bothered with the remaining Outlands quests, I'm not that fussed about getting an epic flyer and I'm still unable to fit into a raiding schedule.

All I did with her yesterday was to transmute some Arcanite sad


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Silvah Says:

about 1 year ago

Try a druid, the shapeshifting keeps things interesting; travel form comes in handy as you can travel fairly fast at low levels and you can try a bit of stealthing with the cat - you haven't tried a stealther yet right? It's good fun when you get used to it.

Peter Says:

about 1 year ago

While I agree with these points there are a few things that put me off playing a druid:

  1. Nelf or whatever horde race it is only.
  2. Hybrid class: Maevyn has spoilt me for anything short of pure dps classes, much more fun to level
  3. Reports that levelling a druid can be as arduous as levelling a paladin (although this may have changed since version 2).
  4. to get one of the forms (swim?) you have to corpse run half way across the eastern kingdoms (Wetlands at lvl 20?).

I did have a rogue but only got him to level 10 before he became an auction alt. Never got into the stealth/backstabbing thing. I much prefer the non-subtle blasting approach, although the facility to solo dungeons would be nice.

Still, Femail Dwarf rouge would be a rarity.

Dammit, always typing rouge, I'll leave it there to wind them up.

Peter

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