Catriona R
2/27/2012 9:01:00 AM
Well, this week all I've done is play my ironman characters (player
created challenge, basically only white/grey gear allowed, no potions,
no outside assistance and the big one: die and you have to reroll),
not sure I've even logged into any of my high lvls - it's fun doing
something different for a change, and the low lvl zones are much more
challenging to work through this way; been a long time since I've
found myself switching zone regularly to get easier quests! So far
I've had 5 characters:
Iarnaig, troll rogue - died lvl 33 in Sargeron (Desolace); aggroed
stealthed adds with vanish on cd and sprinting away aggroed more,
oops.
Iarnaigii, troll shaman - still alive but only lvl 3, been playing my
alliance characters mostly.
Iarnaigtri, worgen priest - died painfully at lvl 4 after NPCs
abandoned him in a group of aggressive worgen and didn't help him out
:-(
Iarnaigiv, worgen mage - survived Gilneas, died in a cave in Darkshore
having not noticed a dead critter lets off a nasty cloud of poison.
Iarnaigv, gnome rogue - still alive! Lvl 35 and counting, several near
misses but hoping to get further :-)
Rogue is a fantastic class for this at lower lvls, stealth, sap, stuns
and evasion, plus of course vanish, let me avoid a lot of potentially
bad situations and give me an escape card if I find something's too
tough. I'm finding stuff is starting to hit me pretty hard now though,
many regular mobs take a big chunk off my health and a lot of named
quest mobs just can't be done until I seriously outlvl them*. I
started out trying to stick to yellow difficulty quests but now I'm
regularly jumping zones to get my quests to green, since a lot are
just too hard while yellow. And I'm only 35, a long way to go yet!
One rogue in the US made it to 69, from all I've read of his tales of
Outland, I won't get that far lol, remember finding that place hard on
my human rogue in TBC, when I was fully geared rather than just
wearing whites. Will see how far I get anyway, after this one dies I
might skip randomising the next one and deliberately pick something a
bit easier - hunter seems by far the best for this challenge, or
warlock for slightly harder (no feign death) but at least stronger
than a rogue! ;-)
*Best quest yet was Stitches in Duskwood - I was 29 when I was passing
through there and thought a 23 elite can't be that hard, can he? Um,
yes... cheap shot, evasion, already took a chunk of dmg through that
and then he crit me for 200 (I had 600 health total at the time, so
took me below half health after the other dmg), decided vanishing was
wise lol. Fun thing with that quest is the NPCs fighting him don't
take dmg and die, but keep him in combat so his health doesn't reset,
meaning with a lot of patience I did get him down, nuking then
vanishing, and waiting for vanish cd to rinse and repeat. Only took 4
vanish cds and 10 minutes :-P
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EU-Draenor:
Sagart (85 Undead Priest) Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (85 Troll Shaman) Eilnich (85 Blood Elf Warlock)
Ruire (85 Blood Elf Paladin) Balgair (85 Human Rogue)
Dubh (80 Orc Death Knight) Rosad (73 Human Warlock)