Comments on: ETA 70 to 80 in 28 weeks? http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/01/21/eta-70-to-80-in-28-weeks/ It's the end of the world as you know it - brought to you by a Gnome Mage with big balls of fire Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:14:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: gnomeaggedon http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/01/21/eta-70-to-80-in-28-weeks/#comment-1341 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:38:42 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=1932#comment-1341 @ Larisa:
said: either you’ll have to play alone longer – Probably, and I think I am resigned to this.
said: or you’ll have to speed up a little (using guides or mods) – already there and I will be posting about this in the near future.
- Social vs. Catch up – there’s the problem. This would be the 3rd incarnation (and toon) of WoW where I chose to speed level to keep up, rather than seeing the content. What I have found, is there is never time to go back.. Once I hit cap and are a part of the team, the team expects me to devote 100% of my gaming time to the group events… so no questing, exploring, rep grinds, dailies etc… just into the Instances.
- 3rd Route – Friends Alts: There is some potential in this. THD is suggesting he might kidnap his son’s toon once it gets close, and I noticed another friend’s toon was about my level… we shall see.
- The instance doesn’t matter, but being boosted (whether intentional or not) by geared 80′s just quite simply isn’t fun. My input could quite simply be click “Follow THD”, go watch TV.

@ Esdras:
Ahh yeah, I forgot about the difference flying mounts made to speed of questing, both reaching destination (while avioding unnecessary fights) and speed of hand in.

@Cassini:
Funny about the AoE thing… things were all fast… but I did experience Mage redundancy in a couple of forms.
1) We did use CC, the Shaman “frogged”
2) My food/water wasn’t good enough and was snubbed by all.
3) The Pally tank was probably doing more AoE damage than me just tanking.

@ kyrilean:
- Ahh see the problem is I have the equivalent of one of your weekdays per week.
- The other concern I have ( I know this is counter to my rush to 80) is that once I hit 80, the other questing areas will become “wastelands”. Sure the quests will all be there waiting, but I wont have the time to do them (Same thing happened in TBC)… but that is a different issue.
- I am happy to use Quest Helper or guides like James’, as I want to be as efficient as I can be, while still enjoying the ride. The leveling guides can remove a bit of the surprise from the quests, but at least you aren’t running in circles… but as I mentioned to Larisa above, I will get back to running in circles with the aid of “quest helpers”

@ Captain the first:
1) I’m sorry Captain, but this morning when I read your comment I got this Captain Sensible song (Wot!) in my head, and I just can’t get it out (The backing singers in particular)…
2) Back on topic.
- The only rush is to join back into the social aspect. Sure I can be on Vent (I always am, whether we are in the same space or not), but it isn’t the same as learning a new encounter together.
- Dailies… ahhh Weeklies… a topic for another post… Once again, playing one day per week means dailies are best described as weeklies, and while doing them, I am not doing the other things in the game (Which is one of the reason I am not exalted with SSO… I can do dailies, or I can do something different)
- I might start nagging my mates… well maybe not nagging, but suggesting if they are bored with endgame, and can’t move on until we are a full crew, then maybe it is time to revisit forgotten alts, or start a new one (or two).

PS: I can think of one way to increase my play time… but really divorce isn’t an option….
G&O!

]]> By: Captain the first http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/01/21/eta-70-to-80-in-28-weeks/#comment-1340 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:07:03 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=1932#comment-1340 I don’t see the rush… the people that have been at 80 after a little over 2 months since wrath release are bored out of their skulls already or working on achievements.

Once you unlock a few dailies you’ll actually be able to get a chunk of extra xp for no real effort so you’ll speed up a little. Gearing will also help the speed overall so you’ll probably come to 80 quicker than you ‘mathed’.

Don’t worry about it… have fun while you’re climbing up the ladder and if your friends are nagging you tell them to start a new level 1 character and to catch up :P

]]> By: kyrilean http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/01/21/eta-70-to-80-in-28-weeks/#comment-1338 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:55:01 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=1932#comment-1338 Granted I did it in two weeks because I spent 4-5 hours per day and 10-12 hours on the weekend leveling. I could have done it faster, but I read every line of text and got the quest achievement for each zone before heading to the next. Actually I hit 80 without ever setting foot in Icecrown or Storm Peaks and only doing about half of Zul’Drak. (btw quests afterwards gave me sooo much gold! :) )

I did use QuestHelper and don’t think it took away from the experience since I was reading all the text. I did avoid most of the instances because questing was actually more fun.

My advice: Don’t give in! Experience it in all it’s glory! I haven’t regretted it one bit and find I’m appreciating the endgame more.

]]> By: Cassini http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/01/21/eta-70-to-80-in-28-weeks/#comment-1337 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:18:33 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=1932#comment-1337 Without wishing to bring up the whole difficulty debate again (visit Tobolds blog if you want to participate in that again), your experience in Nexus is not only because you were being boosted. Trash is AOE tanked now regardless and dps classes just AOE them down. The only difference is you’ll use 5 players instead of 4 when not being boosted!

]]> By: Esdras http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/01/21/eta-70-to-80-in-28-weeks/#comment-1336 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:04:27 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=1932#comment-1336 I found it a very steady road and very enjoyable but i would not calculate 77/78/79 as the same speed to level as the rest.

At 77 you get your flying mount again and it pretty muched doubled the speed at what i was leveling.

Instead of half a level a day i done 78 and 79 a day a piece.

]]> By: Larísa http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/01/21/eta-70-to-80-in-28-weeks/#comment-1335 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:48:44 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=1932#comment-1335 I’m afraid it will boil down to a choice – either you’ll have to play alone longer – or you’ll have to speed up a little (making more out of the gaming time you have available), for instance by following Jame’s levelling guides or by using Questhelper. This makes it quicker, but you won’t savour it the way that you may want to.

But there is a choice you have to make. You can’t have both.
I would actually go for the social path, trying to catch up rather than slowly taking part of every little piece of content. You can catch up much of it afterwards. But that’s me.

Maybe there is an alternative, a third road after all, when I think about it closely. Persuade your friends to level their alts…

Really, does it matter which instance you tackle when you have your gaming nights? The important thing is that you can kill monsters together and have a laugh doing it. UK normal or HoL heroic, what’s the big deal?

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