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hunter and between their pet and my fire elemental courtesy of the fire elemental totem we one shot teribus i rode back to turn the quest in and found myself exactly 1000 xp short so i flew up to blade s edge mountains during the flight one person in guild logged in but i wasn t too concerned about that i landed found a couple of lynxes and there was nobody in blade s edge either that morning i nodded in satisfaction it was done and only one person was online to notice and that person didn t notice for 10 minutes or more in which i got a belated i didn t notice you d dinged gratz at lunchtime i logged in got some quests done and much to my delight nobody noticed or noticed enough to say anything that one of the leftovers had finally made it to l70 after work i logged in to run some more quests and i joined up with my questing buddy to start work on shadowmoon valley some things about shadowmoon valley never change by then i got maybe one or two whispered congrats of the i didn t notice you d dinged variety my standard response was i snuck in the back door first thing in the morning when nobody was looking pretty much as i liked it that night was a guild first attempt at gruul s lair and i was happy to not be in attendance i had gold to make via questing and a mount to attain by early evening i was sitting on about being 150 gold short if i pooled all of my gold and i blinked that s a lot closer than i was at the beginning of the day i told my leveling buddy have you been looking at the gold rewards they re 10 gold per quest well yeah but i still wasn t expecting it to rise that rapidly later that evening my leveling buddy took off for the gruul raid and i continued to quest and get across the the gold finish line sometime before the raid started i pooled all of my gold took a deep breath and set off for shadowmoon valley again i handed over what was for me an obscene amount of gold for the flight skill 800 gold and then selected the nondescript standard looking griffon as my flying mount another 100 gold and because i m me i was flying around in blade s edge and accidentally dismounted oops and given the proximity of all those baddies i had to take rez sickness double oops at least i provided entertainment and then after supporting me for so long it was my turn to support my leveling buddy she went into the raid feeling like her dps was lousy and that she was going to be carried by all of these players who d raided naxx while she hadn t gotten inside the place at all luckily for me one of the raiders streamed the gruul event so i hopped on to watch i turned on my analytical mind and watched the first couple of pulls on the first boss and i was impressed by what i saw you re doing really good i told my questing buddy seriously bringing the heat there yeah but we wiped that happens it s how it was for us in naxx we work and get things down and then finally once we figure it out we ve suddenly got it and then they brought down the king on a subsequent attempt did you see my dps she asked excitedly hell yeah you re doing great gruul dragonkiller was next i watched the first couple of wipes and although the spacing wasn t the greatest i saw the potential you ve got this i told my leveling buddy on the third try the first shatter phase came and went with minimal deaths as long as they can keep team evil upright you ve got the dps to take him out another shatter phase and then another and critical dps pieces stayed alive go team evil gruul was rapidly approaching a growth point where he d simply deal too much damage for the healers to keep up with but the dps was still there and steadily bringing him down 10 7 5 3 1 boom yay my questing buddy exclaimed you did it it turned out later courtesy of warcraft logs that the gruul kill was the worst on the server one healer mentioned that her gear was so bad that she didn t even get a parse rating that to my mind means that without the gear it was mostly skill and some luck that helped bring about the kill and i was incredibly proud of my questing buddy who acquitted herself well let s not talk about my leatherworking skill level let s just say that it s in the apprentice range i continue to hear stories about how people quit their guilds based on the behavior of guild leadership and others favoring one raid over another or one group over another all of this was entirely preventable given enough planning and proper management but the more i see how things shake out the more i realize that proper management is sorely lacking in the majority of guilds out there i did that later and then after a bit of time in eastern plaguelands aka nobody goes there to skin so it s a good place to skin if you want to be left alone i moved on to silithus when i was skinning there the average number of toons in the zone was 6 pretty much how i d always found the place before classic came along again i didn t record the conversations in this post so it s approximate there s an addon that the guild promotes for use called guild roster manager that has a ton of automatic tracking features and alerts when things happen such as leveling or when people go afk for a while maybe that s good for a large guild to have officers use it but from my perspective it s pretty damn invasive for joe average to utilize and as it goes without saying every level that i made that i never got a gratz on unlike the main leveling bubble that sprinted to outland the moment the dark portal opened is highlighted there by grm and their users so i knew pretty much that a decent subset of the guild didn t give a crap about the leftovers if they weren t gonna say anything even though the alerts were right in their faces to be perfectly clear i m not exactly sure why we re trying to kill gruul at all anybody who kills all of those black dragonflight dragons is an okay person in my book but that s how the raid goes my nickname for the warlocks posted by redbeard at 1 20 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels leveling self tbc classic sunday june 27 2021 a moment of relief and joy the last of the leveling shamans or the leftovers as one of the group call ourselves has arrived in outland it s been a long time coming and she s got a long way still until l70 but the hardest part is over several of us banded together to help her in a blackrock depths run and that coupled with a judicious use of summoning her toon at l57 to get a couple of hellfire ramparts runs in pushed her over the top i m incredibly happy for her and for what the leftovers have accomplished we ve got this posted by redbeard at 3 11 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels shaman tbc classic thursday june 24 2021 at the crossroads of practicality and desire i am now at a very weird intersection in my leveling process i want it to slow down and i m not even sure that i can slow it down either well let me clarify things a bit the reason why i want to slow the leveling down is because i d prefer to get flying right as i ding 70 and my preferred leveling process appears to be working against me for that when i arrived in outland brig had 40 gold in her pocket that s right 40 not 400 i don t have a toon that has all my gold either until brig came along card has the most gold of all my toons at roughly 50 100 gold depending on which day of the week it was naxx put a gigantic crimp on my ability to earn gold as i spent a lot of time farming mats so i could attend the naxx raids and for those who would say to just farm herbs to sell on the auction house i was doing that until the cost of the potions and or raw materials on the ah outstripped my ability to sell the herbs i was farming and once the price of firefin spiked well i grabbed my fishing pole and hit the shores of wetlands it was only in the final few weeks of naxx that my gold situation began to trend upward as we wiped and i died less and less in naxx itself one more point i did get world or boe drops that i would try to sell on the ah but i rarely was able to pull that off i mean i even got the disgusting oozling as a drop in western plaguelands and even putting it up at less than half of the price of the other sellers i couldn t get any takers go figure it s only now with the new expac out there that i m getting some takers on the greens and enchanting mats i ve been putting up still the leveling of 1 to 60 was an exercise in speed not wealth generation even though the only things i bought were food and water until a shaman gets water shield around l62 they are a huge water hog and i do mean huge i d be slowly gaining ground on gold while leveling and two things would happen i d ding and have to go get trained and the price of water kept going up i d have a couple of stacks of water on me when i d go out into the field and every time i came back in to sell junk and get more water the overall fluctuation would be such that i d net a lot less than i thought and once i hit the range for the l45 water i d net zero the obvious answer was to get a friendly mage to give me some water but i was in such a hurry and on at weird enough hours that the alternate method of finding a random player create a group switch to card add card and have card make and distribute water i did that once and afterward i thought this is stupid all this work for a couple of stacks of water it may have been free but as every other goblin in game will tell you time is money friend and i didn t have that much time to sit around and do that on a regular basis so i did what any other slightly insane leveling shaman would do switch to l35 water and change my rotation to minimize spellcasting it may have been rough at times but in the end it did help me become a better shaman because of one thing enhancement shamans are supposed to be masters of white damage aka the regular non magic damage so i learned to be patient and let my white damage attacks do their job and only cast when i d get maximum impact from something it stretched out my mana use and it also helped me manage totems when i used them better and getting water shield has been a godsend i rarely drink when out in the field and when i group with people for quests or instances i typically get some water given to me as a courtesy you know just like how it used to be back to the original point of this post getting to outland has been a gold boon for me but like i alluded to last week the gold demands are higher my need for water has lessened but repairs have gone up and the training costs blowing 30 gold per level on training hurts a lot and the way the shaman s toolkit is designed i can t not skip some training in favor of others all of this has added up to the reality that i m sitting at l69 partway through the level and i m about 500 gold short of the total cost of flying skill mount so i m doing other things rather than questing working on my skinning skill which will eventually net me some gold on the ah helping other players level and running instances that are on the lower end of the scale the first two ssc and hc instances respectively to help out lower level toons get leveled still i think it likely that i ll have to ding l70 to gain access to the excess gold gained by having no more xp to accumulate it ll be a blow to my pride but i can wait on getting to the tempest keep instances one final note i have decided to honor my commitment to the raid lead team through phase 1 but i will re evaluate things after phase 2 is announced while i d like to think things will improve i believe it highly likely i ll want to go back to where i was and leave the guild to do that will require me to give up my raid lead position and i m fine with that i will have given things a fair shot and if it s not working out for me it s not working out and i do have options so it s not like i m giving up on wow classic other people liked stranglethorn vale but i preferred wetlands due to the lack of competition before you ask no i didn t ask any of the other mages in guild they were all busy running instances and leveling since the dark portal had opened some of them had friends from their old days join them in guild and they ve been running with them as much as they can so why bother them posted by redbeard at 11 23 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels guild leveling shaman tbc classic friday june 18 2021 friday thoughts tbc classic edition by the time this posts i will most likely be sitting at l66 somewhere between 1 2 and 2 3 of the way through the terrokar quests and will have gathered enough playing time to get a better feel for tbc classic it still feels distinctly weird to see a crowd in shattrath city or at the inn at honor hold but i m getting used to it so without further ado here are my thoughts about the burning crusade classic 18 days after launch it takes a lot of effort to not level in outland seriously i get it i get it this is kind of my thing running instances will net you xp questing will net you xp exploring will net you xp and all of that adds up quests back in the old world yes you get xp for them i actually got 4 bars worth of xp just going back and forth finishing up about 5 6 old questlines still in my quest pile so even if you do not go to outland but instead pick up say silithus quests at l60 you can get a surprising amount of xp about the only thing that does not net you xp are the gathering professions but you end up with surprise xp simply because you have to kill the occasional mob standing on top of a gathering node so the fact that i m almost l66 means that i ve been logging in and actually doing things in game it may sound like a lot given that i m 7 days into outland by now but really it isn t tbc classic brought in quite a few retail players and it shows the most obvious flag that you ve encountered a retail player is their casual disregard for politeness when out questing you see in retail as long as you get a hit in that enemy counts for you as well as anybody else in wow and tbc classic that ain t the case here it s first hit gets the reward and since the retail crossovers frequently can t be bothered to discover those little quirks of the system they come across as colossal jerks especially when you politely whisper about grouping up to take down mobs i recently was questing in zangarmarsh when an ally toon ran past me and pulled about 6 naga in the surrounding area and once they dpsed the large pack down the toon threw me an invite i honestly don t know what the fuck that player was thinking maybe that i d be grateful that i d have such a badass that i d be grouping with but i immediately turned it down a few minutes later i met up with a mage who suggested we group together to finish the quest we were both on and for the next 15 minutes we had a pleasant time talking about magecraft while killing naga in fact i received ...