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Maezyn

I ran her around Hinterlands, then did a run from ratchet to Ashzara, Felwood and opened up Winterspring. She did a few quests in Ashzara and Felwood and is now 52. That's on only a handful of quests and lots of rest bonus and skinning bears. Levelling certainly seems much faster, just as well as I only play once or twice a week.

The bears and wolves in Felwood are starting to drop rugged leather. I've got her leatherworking up to 248 but need more thick leather to get to 250 where she can do a little sprint making rugged leather armour kits. She still can't make anything useful to herself but Maexyn is getting plenty of disenchanting materials. In fact Maexyn will have to do some enchanting as she is starting to get items sent to her that are too high a level to disenchant.

Beefy didn't have enough talent points to learn the latest rank of Gore until he was about level 51 but it seemed to make a big difference. He holds agro much better and things seem to be dying a lot quicker (level 51 bears about 15 seconds).

Maezyn has got the 41 point Marksman talent, Silencing Shot. I've used it once, on the guy at the top of a temple in Hinterlands who summons a fel thingy. I used it to pull him away from the other guys and then burnt him down. I don't think it is something I will be using regularly but it certainly looks useful against casters.

Now Maezyn has 41 points in Marksman I have been putting them into Beastmaster. I decided to stick with a Marksman twist and started on Improved Aspect of the Hawk rather than the beast buffing talents. Asking for trouble? I'm tempted to respec her for mortal shots (more crit damage) over improved arcane shot. I want to see those big numbers floating up the screen Agro? Bring it on. Biggest number seen so far is 750 for an aimed shot. Want to hit 1000.

Maexyn

Maexyn did finished off Wetlands and ran Southshore and Darkshire and is now level 30. She got a new DoT for her 30th, Siphon Life, transfers health from foe to her but it looks a bit mana expensive and didn't make a vast difference.

I finally twigged that I should be ROUTINELY using Drain Soul to finish mobs off for the mana boost it gives. She can kill something and still be 100% health/95% mana after a fight. The only downside is that her bags are always full of soul shards which is why I wasn't doing it before. I really need a 'destroy a soul shard' hotkey. Voidwalker is still > Succubus.

I also specced her in 'Nightfall', a nice little talent that gives her a chance at an instant cast Shadow Bolt. These are awesome and can take half a mob's health instantly, a 'die now' button. You lose the mana boost from drain soul but it makes up for it in fun factor. Also, like that hunter talent that I've forgotten the name of, it's something to make a fight less boring, waiting for the eight second window where you can have a blast (in two ways).

She's got the 'enslave demon' talent that sounds fun except I'm not sure there are that many demons in Azeroth to toy with. Outlands should be fun...

Being 30 she can now go on the quest for her own fel thingy, although my research shows it's only useful for pvp and since it involves running around the Barrens I'm not entirely sure I can be bothered.

She did a quest that involved getting a flower from Stalvan's garden and another from Wetlands and when she turned them it at Stormwind she was told to give some guy some beer to drink. The guy drank it and then dropped dead. Then nothing. What? Broken quest. The reward would have been a pointy warlock hat so I was quite disappointed.

Maexyn has been coming into her own recently. I enjoy running her, it's interesting to learn a different class.