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Deathrokk has hit 100 (that’s Number Nine on the “Ding 100!” list).
Yes, I’ll wait for you to get over the shock.
I’ll touch on this briefly. I leveled Deathrokk like so: enter zone, do quests until zone outpost is selected, do all bonus missions and grab some treasures along the way. Maybe, maybe a dungeon in there (all, what, one or two of them?). Rinse repeat. I feel like this one went quicker, but it was definitely a plus to level as Blood. I didn’t get a War Mill (barely got Garrison Level Two), and since I wasn’t really doing any questing anyway my main upgrades were the heirloom items. Ghetto gear FTW!
I focused a little on picking up some of the followers in the zone (as long as it didn’t involve running a long questline to unlock). That meant my follower roster was on the lower side once Deathrokk hit 100. I decided to pick up the Inn and buff that bad boy to lv 2. Treasure Hunter trait! MOAR MUNNIES!
Now that I had the Inn, I thought to myself “Self, you wanted an excuse to run dungeons. Do the Inn daily quests.”
But the queues?
“Yeah yeah. Let’s look at some of the perks though. If you do ten of the quests, you’ll unlock the Level Three Inn and get Treasure Hunter missions. You’ll also get some practice running tougher content, and maybe step up into raiding. LFR at least.”
Still…
“There’s also some pretty sweet upgrades and toys that could spice things up.”
Spice things up? What kind of toys are you talking about? Nipple clamps and feathers?
“Never mind. Now come on. What’s the worst thing that can happen?”
Sometimes waiting around at the Inn isn’t the worst thing. What you do there, is.
Well okay. I pulled a couple of the quests hopped into the queue.
What the F….
Sigh.
I popped into Skyreach. I ran the instance, killed the end boss… but where the Hell was this Sky Crystal I was supposed to pick up? Wowhead claimed the crystal was sitting on the table just after the first boss. Strange. I read a bit further and Ta Daaaaa!
ONLY AVAILABLE IN HEROIC MODE! AS WERE MOST OF THE OTHER QUESTS! WHO RUNS HEROIC QUESTS ANYMORE!?
Okay, okay. Deathrokk hopped into the Proving Grounds and got Silver. Should be fine for Heroics.
Damn fine, I must say.
Now it was just a matter of picking the right dungeons to –
WHAT THE F-
SIGH
Well I was almost there. I could just queue up for a regular dungeon, maybe get a gear upgrade and some experience running the dungeons before I stepped into Heroics. I’d just queue up and…
FUUUUUUUUU
I understand now why all of this is associated with the Inn. I need a drink.
World of Windwalker
The experiment continues.
I remember when I first started leveling my Windwalker monk. I figured I’d play around until level twenty or so, pick up the daily quest (which gave a 60m xp buff), and probably lose interest. Playing him in PVP seemed amazing, but that had more to do with what I expect was the Call to Arms for PVP being Warsong Gulch, given the amount of xp and honor I was getting per match. Once the sweet perks dried up, and I kept dealing with Alliance groups who seemed to forget which way to go to find the Horde flag, I began to feel like the Windwalker experience was starting to sour.
Then I remembered that PVE is also a viable way to level. Better, some might say. Especially with a 50% xp buff through heirlooms, and 50% through a daily quest. So I booted up my Zygor Leveling Guide and decided to try my luck with AI mobs.
Merculees is now level 34. Zoom.
I enjoy playing the Windwalker monk but I can’t pin down exactly what the draw is. I’m still using the killswitch macro (which you can read about HERE) but even if I wasn’t, there isn’t any complex patterns when it comes to killing with the Windwalker. Healing, rez, debuff, silence, all things the Death Knight can do. Maybe it’s the rolling, or the flying dragon kick that I like so much. Maybe it’s just something different than the plate-wearing killers I’m used to playing. Judging by the Crash Course video, things don’t change all that much at endgame either.
The drawback to leveling so quickly is that my professions are falling behind. I only have one – Mining – but I’m now in zones I can’t mine in because my skill level is too low. My playtime is still limited, so I can either continue leveling my monk, or go back and level my professions. I had considered getting skinning as well, given the amount of animals I was killing. I’d get xp leveling both professions (not so much with the skinning until the animals turned at least green), but I’d make more by completing a single quest at level.
I also started running dungeons. The xp is nice, the other players are hit and miss. No comments about anything I’ve done, good or bad (but how often do random players in a group make positive comments about anyone other than themselves anyway). No news is good news I guess.
The PVP is something I still want to do. But I admit, it’s frustrating. It’s tough running to a flag, or a node, and being the only one nearby. You look at the map and see your teammates either clustered together somewhere way off from where they should be, or so spread across the map it looks like the zone has measles.
Serenity now, serenity now.
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