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At this point, I’m not sure if I’m more warrior or priest, but I hit 60 as a warrior first, and have yet to hit 30 with a priest. 🙂

1. For the first 5 levels, kill EVERYTHING in sight, everywhere you go.
2. Find out what gathering profession’s goods sell best on your server, and pick that profession for financing your clothes and wands.
3. Don’t waste money on potions, with the exception of a maximum health potion to save your butt if you’re getting hit by multiple mobs.
4. Use your wand to save mana. You’ll need your mana to bubble and heal in a bind.
5. After level 10, only buy armor that increases your stats. Don’t bother with a huge stat in one category (i.e., Belt of Intellect +9 INT) if there is another item with 2 decent stats that add up to a bigger bonus.
6. If you’re in a grinding mood, get kill quests. If you’re bored, get point A, point B quests to boost your XP.
7. Don’t forget to use Inner Fire at all times. Your health will stay up longer after your bubble goes down with that extra 15% damage reduction.
8. Strike with a casting spell first, preferably a DOT, followed by instant casts, and finish the mob off with the wand to regenerate your mana for the next fight. I do not carry drinks of any kind while grinding.
9. If you accidently pull 2 mobs, at least put a DOT on one of them while you take care of the other.
10. Keep the best wand possible. With this style of fighting, your wand will influence your killing rate, and thus your leveling rate, the most.

I hope this list helps you in your adventures as a cloth-wearing healer.

Maybe it’s not the Horde. Maybe it’s not the Alliance.

It’s bored people.

When I logged in last night, there was some major ganking going on in Hillsbrad. I landed at the Tarren Mill flight point and immediately got stunned and backstabbed. It was a short little “fight.” The evil-doer was a “??” level druid. There were two of them at first, then it got up to about 8 Alliance.

In the afternoon, I was making my way toward the Hillsbrad Farms to give the Elixir of Pain to a dog, had been fighting a few farmers for a few minutes to gain access to the dog, and along came an elf priest who Shadow Word: Pain’d me, and whacked me with her staff and kept running. Thanks for the 4 minute ghost run for nothing.

I’ve never done any such thing as a toon on either side. Then again, when I’m bored, I go play the AH, not make other people’s experience miserable. As in real life, the World of Warcraft world would be a better place if people would just abide by the golden rule. I mean, seriously, how hard is it to think, “if this happened to me, I’d be pissed?”

Is it just that being remote, representative bits of information allows people to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t? I think so. I think most of the people who do are doing that kind of stuff are the same ones soiling their pants if someone gets out of the car that they just honked at, not the ones getting out of their car because they were honked at. I don’t believe insecurity exists nearly as much in MMORPGs, with the exception of large guilds where there are obviously more talented people with higher ranks, gear, etc. When it comes to just wandering around the countryside in Tier .5 gear, sure, why not kill the little 25 trying to finish his quest? It will be fun to see how fast he dies.

Anyway, I need to get back to work. 🙂

It’s a great number. A U.S. quarter of a dollar, discounts on renting cars (or at least no surcharges), silver anniversary, auto insurance discount, etc. The list can get extensive, but this is a World of Warcraft blog, not a list blog.

Check out Deadr’s profile to see some good AH work. I believe it’s set to show my gold amounts. Last night, I passed 65g at level 25. I immediately went to the Auction Hall to buy more stuff. I logged off with 50g in my bags and over 50g in auctions that were priced to sell.

Now for a diatribe about Alliance jerks in my next post.

Deadr hit 24 yesterday. Two days of grinding and a bunch of quests with Rhone in Hillsbrad will do that for a priest. My AH work is going well. I’ve got some darn good equipment for my level without doing instances yet. I dropped a pretty penny of about 12g on my Necrology Robes because I wanted the +12 Int. There is a really nice wand that appears every now and again, but it uses Nature Damage, so I’m passing on the temptation.

Nothing much more to write about until some big sales go through or I get into some groups in some instances.

Now that Gnomicidal has brought it up, and I am blocked almost every turn I make at work, I’m assuming that this is the game that he is talking about:

I found a lot of stuff written about it on Wikipedia, but there are a lot of gaps in there that I am sure are on the developer and gaming sites.

My overwhelming question is: is it a free subscription? It looks like Sony has the rights to subscriptions, but there is no price mentioned, if there is one. My take on this pretty much stands as being grounded in WoW. Now that I’ve already spent the money to buy the game and the months of fees, I’m either going to get the expansion or switch to Guild Wars. I just won’t have much time to be playing games after getting married, anyway.

The graphics look cool, but I think my geeking should be limited to buying cool hardware and a few high-end games that push the limit, but don’t suck you into a hole for hours at a time. I am looking forward to playing Project Offset when it gets off the ground. The graphics are just mind-blowing. After an upgrade, I’ll surely be getting Doom 3 and Quake 4. I’ve got quite a bit of freelancing to do before I go down that road, though.

The question everyone is asking themselves and their guildies is: “When the expansion comes out, are you going to start a new toon?”

My answer to that question is, “Yes, and no.” I will be quite happy to keep plugging away at Deadr on Burning Legion because I finally got his cool spells in my spellbook. As for Kargath, I don’t really have any interests in anyone aside from a passing interest in getting Grimr a mount. Those last 2 levels take forever, though, and are so boring. I think a change of pace on that server would be fun. If I start a Blood Elf, he will be well-funded, too.

So, what will it be for you? Elite status or new adventures?