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then level 82 it took about 20 minutes or so to do the whole chain happy fishing posted in uncategorized leave a comment assignment goblin operative posted on january 24 2011 by dev back in early december i wrote a post about wanting to change my poor long suffering rogue from a human into a goblin i say long suffering since he has undergone several racial incarnations at this point and a few faction switches to boot i did it the first time before there were any faction changes at level 56 i was so tired of being undead i deleted him and rerolled as a troll sadly it didn t stop there and i am at the point where i now rp him as an agent of ravenholdt manor i look at each change as a new assignment he has been given and his new race as his disguise for wherever lord jorach is sending him after seeing and later playing the goblins i still wanted to make him one then last week while i was in the midst of uncertainly about which main character to play i found myself inspired by the horde for life podcast to try out the wyrmrest accord server on the horde side i mulled it over for awhile okay i asked my wife if spending the money was crazy but in the end i bit the bullet with her patient smile of support and made the change i knew from past experience that the main things he would lose with a faction change were his crusader title and all of his rep with the silver covenant sunreavers faction at least he got to keep his argent tournament tabard and can still use it although he kept all of his horde faction reps i was surprised that his orgrimmar rep was changed over to goblin now he is only neutral with orgrimmar but he did keep his wolf mounts and can still use them i guess if i need to do one rep over again then orgrimmar isn t a bad one there are lots of quests around that grant the rep even if i decide not to go back and take it to exalted while regaining my crusader title it is sure nice to be settled though wyrmrest is turning out to be a great server and i am so glad i made the move posted in uncategorized 2 comments why do these 5 levels seem so daunting posted on january 21 2011 by dev when i log on these days i have continued to suffer from an odd feeling of restlessness i don t think its burnout especially so early in an expansion but something is certainly up with only 5 character levels ahead of me i have had less motivation than ever to level my existing 80 s or even new characters beyond level 30 or so this lack of leveling ambition feels strangely out of place given the new content and races and race class combos that are now available this should be the perfect time to start fresh perhaps even on a new server and do it all over from scratch so what keeps holding me back whenever i have felt like this in the past i have just started a new guy and off i would go this time around i have noticed that i stall out on all of these new alts once i began to get serious about their professions this expansion may have only added 5 character levels but the professions have advanced as if it were a full 10 level expansion with 75 more points and the addition of archeology i have found that starting a new character seems like a more daunting task than ever this got me thinking about the next expansion and what it might bring my guess is that the next and subsequent expansions will all consist of 5 levels this seems like a reasonable expectation especially if blizzard is shooting for an 18 month development cycle for new expansions increasing the cap by 5 levels is probably more achievable with that time frame in mind i think the next expansion will also include a content update to outlands and any remaining parts of azeroth that haven t been already done however i think the professions will continue to advance by 75 points each time from this point forward i feel that a character s leveling will be much easier to max out than their professions this is especially true with fishing and now archeology both of these are pretty hefty time sinks to level up i think we may very well have seen the last of the 10 level expansions i doubt blizzard is in any hurry to have the max level reach 100 stretching those levels out over the next three expansions makes a lot of sense posted in uncategorized leave a comment diving back in posted on january 18 2011 by dev still struggling to find a new main for this expansion i decided to level my original main a tauren hunter while i puzzled it out with a three day weekend i had a little more time to play him than normal and managed to take him from 80 82 and get him into deepholm i may be slow but it took me from 80 to 81 to feel comfortable with the way hunters work now i shelved him after the change from mana to focus not because i thought the change was bad but because i didn t feel like taking the time to relearn the class right then since i felt like i was in a bit of a holding pattern anyway i thought it was a good time to dive into it and i m glad i did so for the time being i will be writing about life as a soloing hunter it s a great soloing class but my struggle will be when i try out battlegrounds again on him at 85 i had a mixed experience with it during bc and wrath but hopefully i can have fun with it until i settle on a new guy to level posted in uncategorized leave a comment the goblin starter experience revisited posted on january 14 2011 by dev i still haven t settled on a new main but in experimenting with a few more alts i decided to try out a mage again but this time a goblin the only downside is the linear no options 13ish levels of questing to get him out of their racial starter area i really didn t want to do all of this again but i was enjoying him despite the robes and no melee so i kept going going though the goblin starter experience a second time was a little easier and i even paused a few times to enjoy the best parts and grumble at the worst i have been better able to see a few of the problem areas this time around and i want to mention them kezan first if you like the vegas style of kezan as i do then don t rush to finish it once you leave it s gone for good i only wish i could come back to hang out at higher levels i really enjoy these first 5 levels so it s nice that i can go back on alts anytime i roll a new goblin just to mess around there again the islands the questing here is where i started to get antsy again in my personal opinion the island zone where you wash up on shore should have been close enough to swim or find a raft over to the echo isles so you could continue on to durotar if you so chose this way you could head off to the other early horde zones if you like or stay with the goblin quests i know this stage sets your character up for joining the horde but i just feel like it goes on too long there are a few bright spots where these quests are interesting or fun but many of them feel like filler to me you know what i think they are filler between taking skulzy my hunter though and coming back on gonzo i played though the worgen starter experience to check it out as well by comparison the worgen zones were great from 1 13 i never got bored or wished i could head somewhere else i think that the content and quests for the goblin storyline fell short of what was needed to match the worgen starter experience as a result the goblin zone feels stretched by comparison i feel like there are several quest hubs that i could easily skip but you have to do them to progress and still get the best parts of the story i guess blizzard needed to add this filler so the two starter experiences dropped new characters out with the same amount of experience sadly the goblin zone suffered for this the fate of candy cane then almost at the very end there is one quest that actually irritated me as a player i really hate it that you are forced to kill candy cane to finish the goblin zone i frankly didn t care that she hooked up with my old buddy chip and then gallywix she wasn t a girl you could count on gonzo knew that from the outset he certainly wasn t going to kill her over it it makes me wonder what bad dumping that blizzard writer had that made them feel killing this npc was necessary for all goblin players i am guessing the females have to kill chip in a similar fashion to get to get off the island and into the rest of the game that is somebody with a lot of bitter feelings toward their ex i should be clear here that i don t mind that the quest is in the game but i think it should be an optional side quest and not necessary to progress to the final confrontation with gallywix i don t think gallywix even mentions her death in the final fight with no other option and to his eternal shame gonzo did the quest and killed candy to get off the island the real kicker candy is a hostile mob but she doesn t aggro on you you actually have to initiate the fight you can t even lie to yourself that it was all in self defense i know i sound a bit dramatic here but i just think this particular quest was one of the creepier ones i have had to do in this game gonzo had come to really despise his old assistant sassy she had him by the balls and she knew it there was no profit in what she wanted and he didn t want to do it when he saw candy standing atop the overseer s platform in the slave pits he knew she was bad news he had always known that but she was still special to him he guessed he was a sucker for a pretty face as he approached candy he gathered bands of shimmering energy around him candy looked at him in disbelief sweetie don t hardening his resolve gonzo said sorry it s just business the fight didn t last long candy was no match for gonzo and they both knew it tears welled up in his eyes as he released wave after wave of destructive force at her she rained blows down upon them and he let them all land hoping she would find a killing blow it never came he encased her in ice and then lashed out with a final burst of energy that left her lifeless on the platform the deal with sassy was clear he had to bring her candy s heart in payment to get off this island gonzo wept over her body but did the deed her brought her heart back to sassy and spat in her twisted face sassy gonzo said mark my words one day this ll be you i don t care how long it takes but you and your cronies will burn i will see to it sassy tested the weight of the heart in her hand she appraised the little package and looked at gonzo with a broad smile full of pointed teeth she blew him a kiss there was more to do in the deal but once it was all settled they sailed for orgimmar the first thing gonzo did when he set foot in the city was hit the bars and get sloppy drunk posted in uncategorized 2 comments adrift in uncertainty posted on january 10 2011 by dev like the balloon here i am still drifting along while i contemplate where i want to go in this expansion in my previous post i described the awesome advantages of playing a mage and the good points in general about playing a dps caster i have continued to play my mage since that post and in the process i quickly discovered a few glaring oversights to my original praise of my class race choice 1 in general i am not a fan of cloth armor and robes in particular as an alt it s no problem but as my main maybe i could get used to it but i don t think so that being said i think the night elf males look better than most in robes 2 spellcasting is cool but i like to swing melee weapons yep i like to hit things with big sword or mace despite knowing that the classes that use them will be dependent on those weapons for their base dps 3 this is the most important factor despite how hard i have tried i just like the horde better than the alliance there is no contest and i am done kidding myself it s fun to play on the alliance side but what keeps me wanting to log in every day is the chance to play as a tauren orc or goblin i still think shadowmeld is an awesome racial but night elves are not for me if i am going to stealth pause it will be as a druid or rogue i guess i am happy to discover more about myself as a player but it still leaves me in limbo for what class to focus on in cataclysm as i am still shopping for a new main for this expansion i will have to see which melee dps classes are the least gimped with the limited weapon choices i will have come endgame facepalm and here i was so sure i had it all figured out posted in uncategorized leave a comment new expansion new year and a new main posted on january 5 2011 by dev i am promising myself that this will be the last time don t get me wrong i love leveling alts they can be great diversions as my previous posts can attest but i simply don t have the time to develop new main characters anymore secondary skills take forever to level up and old factions are usually long thankless grinds oh and don t get me started on great titles like explorer and crusader a main character is a huge time investment any way you look at it despite the time spent on my mains from the previous expansions i have known for the last several months that a change was in the air for me taking a new approach to playing has been nagging me ever since i realized i should drop my old physical dps classes for a caster as i kept playing my old and developed characters i knew i was just postponing the inevitable still it has been hard to let go and i even leveled my paladin recently to 85 in the hope that i was wrong i wasn t and i know in my heart i need to start again this time around i have decided to make the most informed choice possible cataclysm is a new start for the game so i am going to make it a new start for me as a player as well during the last few months i have weighed my options and tested new classes while leveling my old ones this is what i came up with number 1 needs to be a caster a few months ago i had an epiphany when i realized my approach to class choices had been off the mark since i began playing wow it is hard to admit that the classes i have leveled along with their professions achievements faction grinds etc don t provide me with what i need as a player it kind of sucks actually it reminds me of the old dutch proverb that says we grow too soon old and too late smart if you have found your way to this blog the odds are that like me you solo some or even most of the time if you can find the fun in pvp which i did then there is a gear progression open to you even as a soloer once you get to the endgame that endgame is battleground pvp the gear you can get for just honor is always a season or two behind but i have found it to be something to work towards more than that i have found i enjoy the challenge of battlegrounds my problem has been that i went about choosing my classes all wrong here is the thing if you want to do battlegrounds with only gear from honor you should really be playing a caster any class that relies on weapon damage as its base damage will underperform compared to casters maybe that sounds a bit...