A quickie!

Very, very little happened today. I got my druid to 73 and my priest to 71, I got up to 265 000 on the AH and that's it. I just didn't get the chance to play. The only noteworthy thing is that I'm out of rested XP now, so my leveling will slow down for a bit.

Progress

Nothing major happened during the last few days, but I am making some progress. My warrior is 77 now and I'm planning to spend some of the rested bonus on both my druid and my priest today. Larthas is working on some Outland rep grinding and also needs to cap his valor and conquest points for the new week. Other than that, it's been a slow few days. My auction business slowed down a bit, because the prices of materials weren't that nice, but I managed to score some cheap supplies yesterday, so that should speed up. My total gold has been varying from as high as 260k to as low as 245k. It's at around 253k now. Oh, I also had to spend 8.5k for epic flying for my last two alts, so that slowed it down also.

Bye, bye, Outland!

Yep, it’s true guys. Today was the last day I will ever have to spend leveling through Outland. That is, it will be the last day, unless Blizzards decided to revamp Outland in the same way they did with Vanilla zones, at one point in the future.

It took some repetitive questing, some help from a friend (Ring of Blood) and some time, but I’m finally done. All of my characters are now level 68 or above. This also means that my leveling goal will be put on hold for a while. It seems that Northrend experience will be nerfed by around 30% in the next patch, so I decided to wait for that before I continue. I will, however, continue to use up my rested bonus so it won’t be wasted. Who knows, by the time 4.3 gets here, I might get past Northrend with a char or two.

In any case, I think I’ll try and focus on my paladin for a while now. There are achievements to be unlocked, gold to be made, gear to be acquired.

Scroll of Resurrection

No, not the actual Blizzard service, just a fitting name for this post. Yes, this blog died on me. For a few months, even the game died on me. I enjoyed getting Cataclysm and leveling my main to 85 through the new content, but then some crap started happening. 

I wound up in a hospital for nearly a month and was stuck in a lengthy recovery after that. My subscription time ran out and to be honest, the desire to renew it wasn't there. Then a few months ago Blizzard managed to reel me back in with a free week of game time. 

I'm not playing as much as I used to, though. I decided on a new goal. I will try and get one character of each class to 85, continue with my Auction House gold earning and once the leveling portion is done, drastically reduce my game time and continue to play casually. As you can see, the larger part of my goal is nearing its completion. I have 7 characters completely leveled, and 3 other characters at 60 or higher. I hope to reach my goal within a month, but it might take slightly longer, since I'm about to lose a lot of my free time due to college.

It's good to be back!

The computer is finally working so, at long last, I played the game again today. Mind you, I have a headache, so I haven't played nearly as much as I would like to. I managed to spec Larthas and have been practicing my new priority system. I have also done the Hallow's End daily and spent some time rebuilding my settings with the new Zero Auctions addon. It work's pretty much the same as always, except you have to confirm every auction now.

Other than that, I didn't play much. I will probably try and spec some of my other characters tonight and spend more time at it tomorrow if the headache is gone.

On a related note, glyphs seem to selling like crazy still, so I should probably try to get in on that.

Faster Leveling...

So you are leveling your fifteenth alt and it's getting a bit dull? Well, you could do some stuff that makes leveling a bit faster. For instance, once you reach a high enough level to queue for a new dungeon, take a few minutes to travel around Azeroth and take all the quests you can for that dungeon. Take it one step further, even. Start leveling in zones connected to the right dungeons. You will get some more advanced quests and you will lose less time on traveling around.

Secondly, make use of the cloth turn in quests, if you have the cash. They are quick and easy to solve and will give you a nice experience boost. Just remember, only the first runecloth quest for each faction gives you experience. No use in doing it more than once.

Thirdly, once you get to 57, go to the Eastern Plageulands and do all the turn ins you can there. Dark Iron scraps, Cores of Elements, anything you can buy on the auction house, you buy and it will probably give you enough experience for the last level before outland. It usually does for me, but I'm not sure of the exact total you get.

Other than that, make not of quick and easy quests you can do just by traveling around or getting something of the auction house. They might not be worth it on this character, but you can get stuff in advance for the next character you will be leveling.

Now, if you really want to take it to extremes, try leveling a few alts at once. Leave them at inns so they can get rested bonus and simply queue a random dungeon ever now and then to make use of the bonus. You could be leveling one alt normally, and just do randoms every few days on others. It might not be the fastest way to get them all to the cap, but it will give you most for the least amount of time invested.

I am aware some of these things will change now that Cataclysm is around the corner, but if you have the right mindset, you can find similar opportunities even in the revamped world.

Getting, closer to Outland...

Today, I again did my dailies and auctions, skipped the heroics this time and went straight to Salthra. Sadly, i had some distractions during the day, so I didn't level as much as I wanted. I am currently level 56, but i will try to at least get to 57 before i go to bed. In any case, I will be in Outland tomorrow, hopefully.

EDIT: Well, surprisingly, i managed to actually get to 58. I cleared most of the quests in Winterspring, which got me to a bit over 56. Since i had a messenger quest to Chillwind Camp, i decided to go there next, since it's a good leveling area. When i got there, i did some of the introduction quests, two of the cauldron quests, the Lightbringer series and the quests Chromie gives me in Andorhal. After getting to 57 and turning in some quests, i rode to the Eastern Plaguelands where i logged off and switched to my banker. I bought a bunch of turn in items like Savage Frond, Core of Elements, Dark Iron Scraps, etc. and this gave me enough experience to get to 58. I immediately went to Outland and right now, Salthra is sleeping in the Honor Hold inn.

Sadly, I don't think I will be playing allot tomorrow, because my laptop is overheating and i urgently need to get it cleaned properly.

Hi, my name is Larthas, and I'm an altoholic...

After posting my auctions and doing the jewelcrafting daily, as well as the heroic dailies on both Lasthar and Auiraya, i continued to level Salthra some more. He is 52 now, soon to be 53. Hopefully, i will get to Outland tomorrow. I have most of Un'Goro Crater to complete, so it shouldn't be a problem. If i manage to miss some quests, I can easily continue on to Felwood and Winterspring.

Leveling, achievements and progression.

Since it has been a while since I've posted anything (you can find the reasons on my other blog), some stuff did happen this time. I pretty much geared my alts as much as i can from heroics, and i leveled my rogue to 48. My guild also managed to kill the Lich King on 25man, so, while I'm still not a Kingslayer, i am 2/12 on 25man HC. For now, I've killed Marrowgar and the Gunship which are probably the easies fights there.

As for gold, I'm nearing 120k and my rogue will soon contribute with leatherworking, hopefully. After that, it will probably be my mage with tailoring.

Altoholism, gearing and other stuff...

Past few days have, again, been somewhat uneventful. I did some heroics on my alts, level Salthra to 39, did the routine AH stuff and that's about it. Today, i tried a few runs of ToC5 with a guildie. Me for the healing trinket and him for the melee dps trinket. We were both unlucky, sadly, so we might try again tomorrow.

Since i really don't play that much, i will probably spare the 2 readers i have from boring status updates. If something fun and interesting happens, you will be the first to know. If not, there is no point in writing how i didn't do anything.

Routine...

Not much done today. I did some dailies, did some auctioneering and even leveled my rogue a bit. All in all, just a routine day. Also, my brother in law was here so I looked over his characters a bit. He doesn't have Wrath of the Lich King yet, but he will probably get it soon, because his hunter reached level 70 today. There is another thunderstorm tonight, so no raiding, sadly.

This is becoming a habit...

Yes, yes, I know, I know, again with the "no posting" thing. All i can say is, when you have exams, and your gaming time is limited, you really don't wanna spend it posting about how much you don't game.

So, what did Larthas do?
Well, he managed to kill Professor Putricide and the Blood Queen in ICC25. Finally the guild got a full group, and these bastards fell like Patchwerk. We then proceeded to one shot the Dreamwalker encounter and then wiped a few times on Sindragossa. This happened over a week ago, and after that, i did not raid at all. Also, yesterday i managed to get my Bloodsail Admiral title with a guild mate. I also continued to push my reputation with the Buccaneers to honored so i would be ready for when i try for the Insane in the Membrane achievement this summer (or maybe sooner, who knows).

As for Hastral, he barely did a heroic or two.

In other news, Auriaya is 80 now and she is a pretty good tank already. I got two pieces of T9 and some other minor upgrades, so i sport about 29k health unbuffed. I also manage to do a JC daily each day so i got a bunch of recipes now.

I also leveled some of my other alts and managed to get Lashtar to 40. He can sell some glyphs now, but it will require me getting to at least level 65 in order to really be effective.He does have an epic ground mount now, so that means leveling will be faster.

Well, that's about it. I have 3 more exams this week, and then a bunch of lab work, but things should start to clear up, at least partially, by the end of the week.

Routine...

Again, some jewelcrafting dailies done, a level or two gained on my alts, a thousand or two gold earned and i started a guild ICC10 run with Larthas. Also, i managed to do the weeklies on both Larthas and Hastral. I also try to do the normal Northrend daily on Auriaya, so i can maybe buy a T9 piece for her as soon as she gets to 80 (which will not be to soon).

Uneventful...more of it!

Again, not much happened during the last few days besides me doing the dailies. I also managed to earn a few thousands after buying a heap of cheaply priced gems and cutting them. I'm still trying to decide if i should spend my frosties on Larthas for PVP or Tank gear. Also, i got a level or two on some of my alts.

Exam season over...

...and another one is nearing! Well, not exactly exams, but i have lots of lab assignments to do, so i wont be doing much gaming of any kind. Things are going slowly in World of Warcraft. The guild has hit a wall, so we are not really progressing in 25 man content. I did get a few achievements in 10 man, but nothing major. I've spent some time leveling some of my alts, and i got Auriaya to level 72 so she can now easily do her jewelcrafting dailies. I already got some of the more popular cuts, so she is making money that way now. I got about 70 000 gold total.

As for Larthas, he also got back into PvP. I got a few new gear pieces and i am now part of a proper 2v2 arena team with a friend of mine. We aren't really that good yet, but we're getting there. Hastral decided to use his frost emblems to buy 2 pieces of Tier 10, since getting Shadowmourne obviously isn't going to happen.

I got a bunch of alts now, so i try to level one or two when their rested bonus gets maxed out. That way they level pretty fast and no rested xp is wasted.