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> Congratulations! It's funny, though. I never cared one bit what my
> skill levels were at. I guess different things matter to different
> people.
Yeah, I seen a level 60's profile on a website, he had 1/75 in fishing and
cooking, but he had high level first aid, think he was a rogue or warrior.
> Same with class skills. I know when I started up my warrior, I had
> another warrior friend who had absolutely every warrior skill at top
> rank. I mean the guy was a protection/arms and still bought every rank
> of all the fury skills anyway. I never even bought half the skills.
> My guy has somewhere around 20 or so skills available for purchase at
> the trainer. Unless a patch changes things, those skills will still be
> sitting there unbought forever. That would drive my friend nuts.
Would drive me nuts too, I always buy every skill I can lay my grubby hands
on at every 2 levels. You never know when a certain skill may come in
handy, although there are a few skills ive never used or use very
occasionally (never used Divine intervention! virtually never used Blessing
of Light? or Seal of Fury - it doesnt work, I did use it in Strat to try and
get aggro off the casters but didn't work!) After spending 30 points in
retribution I only use Blessing of Kings to buff others. I heard after
Druids, Paladins are next in line for a fix, perhaps I'll come back to this
character then and prob respec to holy for instances. Im not sure I would
know the difference between fury and protection skills, well maybe I would!
> On the other hand, I love reputation. I am positive I have spent more
> time and money on raising my reputation than I have saved in the
> discounts you get for high rep. And yet I still hoard my cloth to turn
> in.
Yeah, I don't mind getting my rep up a bit too, then I got a bit cheesed
off. Whilst I was skilling up my weapons I was keeping Somatic Intesifiers
and Runecloth and the Scourgestones for Argent Dawn rep. Then I would buy a
Arcane Quickener and take them to the Writhing Haunt I think it is, since
its the most rep I could get, then I met a friend and said my rep is so and
so honoured, then I find out his is alot higher than mine, over half
honoured because hes been in Strat alot! Ahhh well. When I was skilling up
tailoring I went to kill some Deadwood to get the mageweave and skill up,
I'm a quarter through netural now, but it did get a bit boring and I bought
alot of cloth. I think I turned in some silk because I had a load of it
from doing SM, now I think it want's 60 mageweave which I haven't bothered
with yet. I'm revered with Stormwind, from doing quests, would exhalted
give me any benefits? I can't see any difference between Honoured and
Revered, I'm human. Other than getting a mount for exhalted with IF or
Darn, is there any other reasons to get high rep with another capital?
(other than 10% off at honoured)
> The only professions I have bothered with are gathering ones. I have
> one leatherworker guy who is still at around 100 skill. Other than
> that, all of my other professions are gathering.
Leatherworking isn't too bad as you can convert lower hides to higher ones.
If they gave that to skinning it would be alot more worthwhile. You can
make a bit of profit, well a tiny amount from converting hides, but no where
near as much as a bonafide gathering skill like mining/herbalism. Also you
would have to 'waste' alot hides to skill up to a level where you can
convert thick to rugged and whatever else you can do, so probably not worth
it. But you don't get the coolness of having other people in the game
wearing your creatations!
> Not too bad leveling up weapon skill on a warrior either. It wasn't
> nearly as easy with rogue or shaman. Shaman at least could heal
> himself, so he wasn't in real danger. But it still took a while.
> Rogue takes a while if you try to add a new skill later in the game.
> Rogue relies on high damage to balance out low survivability. When
> your damage is low too, it is pretty painful. I had to run from green
> mobs.
Thats quite a few classes you have played, I thought you said you didn't
level up weapon skills much! I played a rogue til about level 15, died
quite alot! But really with any class you die a fair bit in the early
stages, even with healing classes a 3 sec heal spell takes 9 secs, uses alot
of mana and by the time its finished your healed up to where you were when
you started. When leveling up a few different classes I thought oh this
should be fairly easy now as I've been playing my level 60 for a while I'll
know how to play the game better, but I still end up using alot of health
potions and dying a few times, I would be dying alot more if it wasn't for
those potions. I think they have grouped the mobs together so much they
want you to die alot in the early stages so you learn how not to die.
> I think you can feel good about your accomplishment. You might have
> spent all that time doing runs for lightforge gear and not had the
> right pieces drop. Or they drop and somebody else wins the roll. And
> if that happened you have nothing whatever to show for it. Your skill
> gains are permanent, tangible benefits.
Yeah, I guess. I also got phobic of getting new gear, some priest told me
that high level blue/purple plate armour costs alot to repair, which must be
true. So now I've decided to play a caster class and only have cloth to
repair. Took me a few weeks but I managed to get the full "Commander's"
gear, they are all greens and not a proper set, but it looks ok and is the
highest level set I can find for a level 60. Then in one Strat run I got 3
blues, I was the only person that needed them, some leggings and gloves and
a trinket. Now my outfit just doesnt look the same
If you see my
"Defence" its quite high as alot of the Commander's gear that was in the AH
was 'of Defence" but this sacrificed my Stamina which is painfully low!
> I can't believe you leveled up a paladin mostly solo this high, and now
> you're considering starting a priest. Man, you have way way more
> patience than I do!
Got a Priest level 19 at the moment, apparently after 20 it gets easier to
level up. I'm thinking of deleting it though as its a nightelf, originally
chose because I thought Shadowmeld might come in handy. Priest is the only
class that has different spells at level 10 and 20 for each race. A Dwarf
is supposed to be the best as they get an Insta-cast self healing spell and
an anti-fear spell. Night elfs only get Starshards, a channeled damage
spell and Elunes grace which is -27 ranged damage at highest level.
Starshards seems to be bugged, I sheild so it wont be interrupted, then cast
it but sometimes it doesnt work, yet it takes the mana!
Then again there is always the horde! Undead is the race to play for a
priest. Its just painful to start at 1 with no money, and my paladin might
bring in a bit of money. On the plus side you win at BG more
lol.
> Even the mage, with its high damage, was too much for me to handle. I
> couldn't stand having to sit down and drink constantly and I abandoned
> him pretty quickly. With my rogue I get tired of having to get into
> position for his attacks. His high damage potential was negated over
> time by the need for a lot of repositioning to face the target's back.
> I really like my warrior, he may not kill individual monsters real fast
> but there's very little downtime. I'm always doing something with him.
I found a mage easy to level up, although this was only the starting levels
and I probably had rest bonus lol. If you use your wand alot you don't have
to drink so much. You should try playing a priest, after every one on one
fight I'm down to 50% or maybe lower mana, with no free water to drink,
though spirit tap is a life saver you still have to drink a bit. Anyway
this is getting too long now!
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