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petertrei

5/1/2011 2:57:00 PM

Well, I'm giving it a shot.

Thanophobe is a worgen warrior. I hadn't done a warrior, or a worgen,
and I'd rather maximize my interest over a minor improvement in my
chances through familiarity (aka boredom).

I've had to start twice - the first time he aggroed a named mob at
level 6 by accident, and died. I should have used the worgen racial to
run away, but didn't think of it. I've had one other close call when I
DC'd while fighting a mob, but got back on with about 25% health. I
think that's going to be the plan killer.

He's now up to lvl 10. He's got 6 hierloom items, and the 35% xp boost
is quite impressive. Still need to figure out how to use the gun - its
equipped, but I thought you no longer needed ammo.

Victory Rush does indeed allow him to deal with a number of mobs and
maintain health. He's finally got mining and herbalism - I'll have to
see how that does for xp.

On a slightly related note, my main is now herbing at over 450/hour in
Winterspring - guild bonus + VPD + Crusader aura, and very little
competition.

pt
8 Answers

C J Campbell

5/1/2011 7:38:00 PM

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On 2011-05-01 07:56:39 -0700, Cryptoengineer said:

> Well, I'm giving it a shot.
>
> Thanophobe is a worgen warrior. I hadn't done a warrior, or a worgen,
> and I'd rather maximize my interest over a minor improvement in my
> chances through familiarity (aka boredom).
>
> I've had to start twice - the first time he aggroed a named mob at
> level 6 by accident, and died. I should have used the worgen racial to
> run away, but didn't think of it. I've had one other close call when I
> DC'd while fighting a mob, but got back on with about 25% health. I
> think that's going to be the plan killer.
>
> He's now up to lvl 10. He's got 6 hierloom items, and the 35% xp boost
> is quite impressive. Still need to figure out how to use the gun - its
> equipped, but I thought you no longer needed ammo.
>
> Victory Rush does indeed allow him to deal with a number of mobs and
> maintain health. He's finally got mining and herbalism - I'll have to
> see how that does for xp.
>
> On a slightly related note, my main is now herbing at over 450/hour in
> Winterspring - guild bonus + VPD + Crusader aura, and very little
> competition.
>
> pt

I got a female orc hunter all the way to level 15 before she died. Her
pet aggro'd a bunch of Naga. She died three times there but she has not
died since. She is now 18.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

Shiflet

5/1/2011 9:42:00 PM

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"Cryptoengineer" <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a81aee9d-1d74-489e-aaa8-5e8e7606da1f@f18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> Still need to figure out how to use the gun - its
> equipped, but I thought you no longer needed ammo.

You put "Shoot" on your action bar somewhere, and click it.

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5/2/2011 12:05:00 AM

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"Cryptoengineer" <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a81aee9d-1d74-489e-aaa8-5e8e7606da1f@f18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> Well, I'm giving it a shot.
>
> Thanophobe is a worgen warrior. I hadn't done a warrior, or a worgen,
> and I'd rather maximize my interest over a minor improvement in my
> chances through familiarity (aka boredom).
>
> I've had to start twice - the first time he aggroed a named mob at
> level 6 by accident, and died. I should have used the worgen racial to
> run away, but didn't think of it. I've had one other close call when I
> DC'd while fighting a mob, but got back on with about 25% health. I
> think that's going to be the plan killer.

Pretty much. Playing russian roulette with a revolver someone else hands you , it has
nothing to do with your choice.
Does the next update have a killer bug? does this update have a killer bug?
Ever logged in at low health like pets do? I suspect you may also be flagged for a short
time at login sometimes. Banker in AH logs in, PVE, but dead. Some evidence of a fight
just ended.
You can DC and logon to find yourself some distance away..and probably dead.

I gave it a couple of tries and never got much beyond lvl 20, 20 being very easy to get
to, I think every death was a glitch.
I don't say it is impossible, just a lot of luck.

Anyway , xp gear ? thats not hardcore!, naked and pvp flagged is hardcore :-)

Good luck anyway. "Cryptoengineer Lord-o-Lotto" :-)

petertrei

5/2/2011 3:31:00 AM

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On May 1, 8:04 pm, "| || ||| ||||| || |" <|||||||||||||||||||||>
wrote:
> "Cryptoengineer" <petert...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:a81aee9d-1d74-489e-aaa8-5e8e7606da1f@f18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Well, I'm giving it a shot.
>
> > Thanophobe is a worgen warrior. I hadn't done a warrior, or a worgen,
> > and I'd rather maximize my interest over a minor improvement in my
> > chances through familiarity (aka boredom).
>
> > I've had to start twice - the first time he aggroed a named mob at
> > level 6 by accident, and died. I should have used the worgen racial to
> > run away, but didn't think of it. I've had one other close call when I
> > DC'd while fighting a mob, but got back on with about 25% health. I
> > think that's going to be the plan killer.
>
>  Pretty much. Playing russian roulette with a revolver someone else hands you , it has
> nothing to do with your choice.

Well, we'll see. Now up to 16, out of the worgen starting zone.
Continuing on Bloodmyst for a while.

> I gave it a couple of tries and never got much beyond lvl 20, 20 being very easy to get
> to, I think every death was a glitch.
> I don't say it is impossible, just a lot of luck.

> Anyway , xp gear ? thats not hardcore!, naked and pvp flagged is hardcore :-)

Don't care. People remember the first to do it, not the first to do it
with arbitrary handicaps.

BTW, with 7 (I counted) heirloom items, my lvl 1 worgen had a wow
gearscore over 1400 :-)

pt

Neil Cerutti

5/2/2011 10:55:00 AM

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On 2011-05-02, Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, we'll see. Now up to 16, out of the worgen starting zone.
> Continuing on Bloodmyst for a while.

That's really pretty good. I managed to get killed many times in
the Worgen starting zones. There are lots of ways to mess up
compared to other starting zones I tried.

--
Neil Cerutti

petertrei

5/2/2011 3:02:00 PM

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On May 2, 6:55 am, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote:
> On 2011-05-02, Cryptoengineer <petert...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, we'll see. Now up to 16, out of the worgen starting zone.
> > Continuing on Bloodmyst for a while.
>
> That's really pretty good. I managed to get killed many times in
> the Worgen starting zones. There are lots of ways to mess up
> compared to other starting zones I tried.

A big part of it is that my toon is heirloomed to the max - not just
the 4 xp granting items, but also his two-hander, his ranged, and a
healing trinket. These all grant *good* dps, armor, stamina, haste,
crit, and other stats. Just putting the stuff on at level 1 gave him a
1400+ wow gearscore. I'm also willing to spend a good deal buying
green and blue upgrades in the AH - essential since I'm not taking
this guy in instances at all.

With the 35% xp boost, I'm outleveling the mobs I have to kill pretty
easily, and the heirlooms are the equivalent of very good blues. So,
he's seriously OP for the zones he's in.

Just out of curiosity, I did try going from 14->15 without questing -
only gathering and world random mobs. It worked pretty well. I get
about twice as much xp for gathering a node as for killing random
mobs.

I'm toying with the idea of dropping herbalism at some point, and re-
taking it, to see if I can level continuously in a starter area. Its
not clear if the xp from herbing scales with the herb, my level, or my
herbing skill. Alternatively switch to skinning - can't skin every
mob, but if it gives xp on top of killing them, it may be a faster way
to gain xp then herbing.

One thing I didn't really expect, though I should have, is the very
linear nature of questing now: you can't pick up 20 or so quests at
once, and just decide which to take - you get only a handful, and
often they all have to be completed before you can get the next
batch. This makes it much harder to avoid high-risk encounters. I do
try to read up on them in Wowhead before I try them, to avoid
surprises.

pt

Neil Cerutti

5/2/2011 3:06:00 PM

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On 2011-05-02, Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing I didn't really expect, though I should have, is the
> very linear nature of questing now: you can't pick up 20 or so
> quests at once, and just decide which to take - you get only a
> handful, and often they all have to be completed before you
> can get the next batch. This makes it much harder to avoid
> high-risk encounters. I do try to read up on them in Wowhead
> before I try them, to avoid surprises.

Unless you are playing in a zone that came into the game at BC or
Wrath, high-risk encounters have been mostly removed. Ghost Lands
is kinda shocking now compared to other early areas.

--
Neil Cerutti

Jason Tinling

5/2/2011 3:13:00 PM

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On May 2, 8:01 am, Cryptoengineer <petert...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm toying with the idea of dropping herbalism at some point, and re-
> taking it, to see if I can level continuously in a starter area. Its
> not clear if the xp from herbing scales with the herb, my level, or my
> herbing skill. Alternatively switch to skinning - can't skin every
> mob, but if it gives xp on top of killing them, it may be a faster way
> to gain xp then herbing.
>

> pt

No XP for skinning (since you gathered it killing the mob to skin)
The herbalism drop/reacquire is interesting, but I think XP on node
gathers is a function of both your own level and the level of your
relevant gathering skill.