Long Time Quiet
I didn't play wow for about six weeks. I just had more interesting things to do. It was great, wake up in the morning and instead of jumping out of bed to play I would cuddle the wife etc. No dreaming about wow, focusing on the matters at hand instead.
I'm playing again now but less obsessively and it is better. I still cuddle the wife in the mornings and play once or twice a week. I'm not going to blog about it daily.
Maezyn
Maezyn (Markswoman hunter) is now 48. Levelling her is much faster now with lots of rest bonus and the generally faster levelling: she went 46-48 in less than three hours. Playing her feels harder than playing Maevyn (Beastmistress hunter) as she gets agro more often but it is rarely more than an annoyance.
For the forties she has been running Tanaris and Feralas. She dealt with the Tanaris pirates easily enough but probably because I'm much better at pulling than I was before. I'm going to send her next to Swamp of Sorrows and make sure she is in Blasted Lands soon to train one of the boars there: Beefy is long, long overdue training in charge and gore (there is a huge gap in boars to train between the 20's and 48-49). At 49 I'm also tempted by the rare spawn white flying snake thing in Feralas, just to try out for a bit.
- Leatherworking
- Leatherworking is getting hard. The stuff she can make is lagging behind her level. The mail armour she can make requires extended time killing Scorpids or Turtles and doesn't seem worth the hassle.
- Skinning
- Maezyn hit 300 when she was level 47. She skins at every opportunity and still loves it.
Maexyn
Maexyn is 27 and playing her is a bit harder due to Warlock nubiness. At 25 she dealt with two level 29 Worgen but it blew all her cooldowns, she doesn't seem to walk things as easily as a hunter. Tackling three mobs seems hard, all about fearing and DoTing. While in theory she can pull with a DoT she isn't able to do it as well as a hunter, often getting adds. I think it because without tracking (for most types of mob) she cannot position herself at the optimum place.
With the Voidwalker killing seems slow: 20 seconds for >= her level mobs which gets boring. I've experimented with the Succubus and drain tanking and that is ok but she starts needing food/mana breaks.
Good thing about Warlock: soul stones.
- Tailoring
- languishing a bit. I'm not gearing Maexyn nearly enough.
- Enchanting
- languishing a bit.
Maevyn
She discovered a new transmute: primal earth->primal life. This can actually turn a profit (3g->10g) but not as good as her bread-and-butter primal earth->primal water (3g->20g). She has enough cash to buy Maez and Maex their epic land mounts, I'm not sure I will bother to get either a flying mount, it depends how the finances progress. I know, I know, warlocks get the fiery hooved mount at 40 but the level 60 quest looks expensive and tedious and anyway I'd MUCH rather Maexyn had a mechanostrider (pink?).
Warcraft Sigs
The site that does the warcraft sigs is broken. There is a mirror site but it smells of wow gold so the sigs are not being updated at the moment.
Peter's Moblog
Hi Pete,
Welcome back. My obsession is continuing unabated. My main hunter has been 70 since mid Oct and my often neglected warlock has hit 50 and eyeing Ungoro. I decided that I wanted to see the end game stuff and I managed to find a great guild and have been really enjoying the progression aspects of high end raiding. While I am looking forward to the expansion and the solo questing that I enjoy (The only quests I have left are dailies and groups), the challenge of gearing up and taking on new areas of the game is very exciting.
So far I have cleared Kara, Grull's Lair, Void Reaver and about half of Zul Aman and run "heroic" versions of the instances for badges. We now have Kara "on farm" and completing it in about two nights. The difference from my first nervous trips to now is almost unbelievable. From uncontrolled wipe fests with people and mobs going everywhere, to controlled almost military execution by a team that knows thier class and jobs is great and very satisfying.
I was a bit similar to you when I first hit 70. Sort of what do I do now? My solution is to view gearing and raid progression as the new "levelling". I recall thinking that my gear was great and that I really knew how to play my character. However I soon discovered I was nowhere near ready for Karazhan and was struggling in even "normal" instances. I read BRK's gearing guide to Kara and so I dropped mining and blacksmithing and leveled skinning and leatherworking to craft the "Felstalker" set. Got the correct enchants on my gear. Did the Kara attunment quest line and thought I was good to go.
Fronted up to my first venture in Kara and promptly wiped the whole raid by not controlling my pet properly and pulling an entire extra group. L2play Noob!! To be honest it did not get a lot better quickly. Chain trapping through the Moroes fight will really test your skill! Let alone the casters.
So after 4 months at 70 I am now "epiced" out in purple gear. I still need a heap of stuff from Kara to enable me to really handle Zul Aman. And I should finally get my gear sorted just in time for the new patch when I can replace my hard earned "epics" with green trash drops. I guess thats how they keep 70's interested. lol
At the end of the day I am still enjoying it. I doubt that it would be the same if I did not have a great guild with people who understand that while raiding is important, if I have to go afk in the middle of a run to deal with kids then I do. Many of us are older and have kids so we set raid times later in the evening so it does not effect family life.
Cheers
Peter J