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Maexyn

It was Maexyn's turn for a push so she spent level 36 doing the second tier quests in Stranglethorn, then spent level 37 in the Alterac Mountains. The ruins of Alterac were soloable as the ogres in the town are no longer elite. They were levels 38-39 but no problem.

I had some excitement when she was attacked by a level 39 elite ogre. She drained life while the voidwalker tanked, then as the voidwalker was about to die she sacrificed it and continued draining from within the voidwalker bubble. She did it, she killed it and it wasn't all that close: she didn't need pots or healthstone. I don't know if it was a nerfed elite ogre but it was tougher than the non-elites. It is Maexyn's first notable elite kill and it didn't even take that long, about a minute (two lots of DoT's).

I realised that Maexyn is coming into her own. She can handle pairs of mobs easily now, DoT up the first then DoT and drain the second and the first is normally dead before the second. While she was waiting for a quest target mob to respawn she did laps of his house grinding on level 39-40 syndicate guys. When the guy appeared he was level 40 and went down no probs.

I used the voidwalker for this grinding. The slightly increased speed in killing things with the Succubus doesn't make up for the hammering Maexyn gets and I always get into health/mana management difficulties. Grinding with the voidwalker, she can go for hours without needing refreshments. She was achieving hunter-like ruthlessness, maybe better: it was the voidwalkers health that was dropping after a few fights, not Maexyn's. The felhunter has it's spell lock now and it works perfectly against healers. I still haven't tried the imp, maybe at level 40 when she can tap it's mana.

At level 38 she went to Stormwind and got a lot of useful next ranks to her core grinding skills (drain life/drain soul) so she will be even more ruthless, or use a lot more mana, time will tell.