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Jun. 16th, 2011 02:44 pm* I can't explain what controls my interest level in a given class. By all rights I should be in love with druids -- they combine rogue stealthiness (though not picpocketing, alas), melee bash-heads-in-ness, and self-heal, not to mention instaflight. (Leaping off cliffs and birding halfway down will nev... well, it might get old eventually, but not for a really long time. And why is it that druids can bird instantly, but worgen can't drop to all fours instantly? anyway.) And yet I am more obsessed with leveling my warrior -- which has the bashing head in thing going for it, but doesn't stealth and doesn't heal outside of bandages and potions -- to the point where my warrior, which a week or two ago was somewhere in the 30's, is now almost 63, whereas in the same period my druid went from 65 to ... 66.
* (leveling is kind of crazy, between heirlooms and guild rewards and guild perks. zoooooom.)
* Wintersaber trainer repgrind is really kind of laughably easy now. Used to be that the only way to get rep with them (and thus the only way to get their mount) was to run quests that took forfrickingever and were a pita even if you were outleveled for the area. (Originally it was on the order of 840 quest turn-ins; when I was half-assedly trying on my shaman, the quests gave about five times as much rep, meaning "only" 168 quest turn-ins, of a very obnoxious quest that was still a pita to do. Now? One set-up quest, and then twenty fairly easy daily quests, and bam.
* Then again, Timbermaw has gotten kind of like that too. I did repgrinding on my (shaman) tailor, not because I *needed* the recipes (especially since shamans don't tend to wear cloth items) but to be completionist. This involved a lot of running around killingewoks furbolgs a lot. My warrior was just following the normal quest line and is up to revered already.
* (and the wintersaber thing is especially ridiculous if you're a goblin engineer -- although five out of the six times I've used the transporter, I've ended up on fire, which rather sucks for a class with no self-heal -- but still, I don't have to be hearthed in everlook or travel there, just transport and do the quest and whoosh back to wherever I'm actually leveling at.)
* It turns out that being used to a shaman can lead to embarrassing situations like dungeonating with a fury warrior that had a shield equipped. (I'm used to weapon-and-shield because that's the best equipment for my shaman; plus which, I sort of forgot that I could dual-wield already, and was sort of stuck in a rut thinking I had to wait until I got the talent that let me dual-wield two-handers.) Amusingly, I discovered this not because someone said "Hey, you know you might get better damage output if you dual-wield rather than have a sword", but rather because someone was mocking me for being the most ridiculous thing he'd ever seen. I refrained from saying "yeah, and this from a hunter who doesn't use misdirect and complains when he gets aggro."
* I will actually be the first to admit that I don't have a clue how to do warrioring. Especially in groups. Solo, I've got a setup that works well enough -- battle stance; charge to start out, victory rush if it's up; pummel if I need to interrupt; slam, overpower, execute, when they proc; rend always up, sunder armor if I'm not feeling lazy, battle shout always up, thunderclap and demoralizing shout and sometimes piercing howl if I'm dealing with more than one at a time; otherwise a semirandom mix of strike, bloodthirst, heroic strike, and hamstring as necessary -- which isn't probably the most efficient but it's comfortable enough. But things that work for solo play don't work for group play. The one group I was in I switched to berserker stance, because charge doesn't work when I'm not the tank and anyway I don't have to worry so much about getting pummeled myself, but I'm ass at managing threat, and /because/ I'm not the tank and therefore not getting pounded on I rarely have enough rage built up for, er, anything. And okay technically as a warrior I could tank, but a) not specced for it (need prot, not fury, as far as I know) and b) not at all used to defensive stance. And also see above re solo play not being group play; when I am solo, I have to basically be dps as well as tank, so my mindset is there, not wholly in tank mode.
* Motes of fire are obnoxiously scarce.
* (leveling is kind of crazy, between heirlooms and guild rewards and guild perks. zoooooom.)
* Wintersaber trainer repgrind is really kind of laughably easy now. Used to be that the only way to get rep with them (and thus the only way to get their mount) was to run quests that took forfrickingever and were a pita even if you were outleveled for the area. (Originally it was on the order of 840 quest turn-ins; when I was half-assedly trying on my shaman, the quests gave about five times as much rep, meaning "only" 168 quest turn-ins, of a very obnoxious quest that was still a pita to do. Now? One set-up quest, and then twenty fairly easy daily quests, and bam.
* Then again, Timbermaw has gotten kind of like that too. I did repgrinding on my (shaman) tailor, not because I *needed* the recipes (especially since shamans don't tend to wear cloth items) but to be completionist. This involved a lot of running around killing
* (and the wintersaber thing is especially ridiculous if you're a goblin engineer -- although five out of the six times I've used the transporter, I've ended up on fire, which rather sucks for a class with no self-heal -- but still, I don't have to be hearthed in everlook or travel there, just transport and do the quest and whoosh back to wherever I'm actually leveling at.)
* It turns out that being used to a shaman can lead to embarrassing situations like dungeonating with a fury warrior that had a shield equipped. (I'm used to weapon-and-shield because that's the best equipment for my shaman; plus which, I sort of forgot that I could dual-wield already, and was sort of stuck in a rut thinking I had to wait until I got the talent that let me dual-wield two-handers.) Amusingly, I discovered this not because someone said "Hey, you know you might get better damage output if you dual-wield rather than have a sword", but rather because someone was mocking me for being the most ridiculous thing he'd ever seen. I refrained from saying "yeah, and this from a hunter who doesn't use misdirect and complains when he gets aggro."
* I will actually be the first to admit that I don't have a clue how to do warrioring. Especially in groups. Solo, I've got a setup that works well enough -- battle stance; charge to start out, victory rush if it's up; pummel if I need to interrupt; slam, overpower, execute, when they proc; rend always up, sunder armor if I'm not feeling lazy, battle shout always up, thunderclap and demoralizing shout and sometimes piercing howl if I'm dealing with more than one at a time; otherwise a semirandom mix of strike, bloodthirst, heroic strike, and hamstring as necessary -- which isn't probably the most efficient but it's comfortable enough. But things that work for solo play don't work for group play. The one group I was in I switched to berserker stance, because charge doesn't work when I'm not the tank and anyway I don't have to worry so much about getting pummeled myself, but I'm ass at managing threat, and /because/ I'm not the tank and therefore not getting pounded on I rarely have enough rage built up for, er, anything. And okay technically as a warrior I could tank, but a) not specced for it (need prot, not fury, as far as I know) and b) not at all used to defensive stance. And also see above re solo play not being group play; when I am solo, I have to basically be dps as well as tank, so my mindset is there, not wholly in tank mode.
* Motes of fire are obnoxiously scarce.