I find it rather annoying sometimes when WoW veterans complain about the game being “too easy” and whatnot nowadays. What’s wrong with the game being more streamline and fun, especially when you have 80 levels to chew through? If you’re just starting, not making progress right away is discouraging. Blizzard made the changes for a reason, because they will keep users, especially new ones, interested/hooked/addicted. Who really wants to spend hours upon hours grinding like you used to have to? If I had started playing back then, that would have turned me off to the game completely. I want to progress, not feel like I’m wasting time in game while I’m wasting time in real life. That’s wasting time squared! You’d think veterans would rejoice at not having to spend a week getting from one level to the next. I’m forced to believe it must be the “I had to suffer, and you should too” mentality, which is just silly. Yes, we get it, you had to really work for it. Good for you, I respect you for it. Buts seriously, who doesn’t want a more enjoyable leveling experience? Many veterans probably wouldn’t roll many alts if it was as hard as it used to be.

I’ve told some stories on another thread around here about the duo-leveling that the hubby and I do (glad you enjoyed the ramble, BBB!), and we’re working on another pair now. Bear + ele/resto shammy was pretty silly OP, but to our surprise the current ret pally + disc priest combo is just ridiculous. We’ve mowed down a dozen and a half orange mobs in under ten seconds. Thank you kind person who trained the second group into the spot we were fighting–our biggest problem is actually collecting enough mobs in one place for the shredder.

We had initially tried ret pally + mage, but the hubby kept screaming, “Where are my healing buttons?!?” so the mage is now banking while the hubby grows a fourth (and final as there are no other options) healer to 80. I’m not sure about the ret pally, however. At least now that we’ve gotten to 50, I have more than 2 buttons to push. Maybe I’ll try some holy–what’s that sound? Oh, just the guild having hysterics.

I’ve a shaman waiting in the wings for Cataclysm, so I’ll be doing something a little different while everyone and their mother is a worgen druid. I feel that I’d really enjoy the shaman class, but I just don’t like the Dra-how’s-that-spelled race’s body models. The females wag so very, very much when moving that I can’t look at anything else on the screen; rerolled as a male, but now I spend my time worrying that he’s just going to capsize. Unfortunately, I don’t like dwarfs’ looks/animations either. /sigh Having a character I enjoy, or at least don’t mind, watching is sadly quite important.

I have to admit, reading your previous post about twinking out a baby warrior with heirloom gear inspired me to make an alt of my own! I cleared out all the wintergrasp marks and triumph badges my hunter had laying around and bought the leather chest, dagger (dunno why, but dagger looked the most appealing to me), haste trinket and leather shoulders heirlooms and made myself a little feral druid twink. That was yesterday. The twink is now level 26 and I’m trying to learn this whole bear tanking business and having a blast while I do it! =)

In bear form, I feel like a juggernaut.. until I run into a dps pally who refuses to take off righteous fury. In cat form, I gleefully slice up any and everything I set my beadly little eyes on! Healers have not had much to do when I’m tanking, so they take up dpsing ’til a heal is needed. All in all, it feels great! It’s a big change from my being a brand new player at the launch of TBC. I miss some of the wonder I had while leveling my hunter and how dungeon groups were not always crazy AOE fests. I get annoyed at dps on my druid who keep saying “gogogo!” when I’m still learning how to tank! A few people got mad and left the groups, but I’ve been developing a thicker skin with each instance I run as a tank. ^_^

For now I’m leveling horde toons when I get really bored but otherwise have been spending a lot of time on my Hunter at 80 just destroying everything.

If I were to delete a toon it would have to be one of the classes i’m kinda meh about like my rogue or warlock… but those classes were also hard for me to stick out and level so deleting them would destroy a lot of work on my part. On the other hand I could delete a class I love to level such as my hunter or priest… but then would also delete a lot of the memories and joys on the original toon.

Server and faction transfer is really looking like the best option… suppose I should start saving the 55$. Course the real trick is finding another server…

I find it rather annoying sometimes when WoW veterans complain about the game being “too easy” and whatnot nowadays. What’s wrong with the game being more streamline and fun, especially when you have 80 levels to chew through? If you’re just starting, not making progress right away is discouraging. Blizzard made the changes for a reason, because they will keep users, especially new ones, interested/hooked/addicted. Who really wants to spend hours upon hours grinding like you used to have to? If I had started playing back then, that would have turned me off to the game completely. I want to progress, not feel like I’m wasting time in game while I’m wasting time in real life. That’s wasting time squared! You’d think veterans would rejoice at not having to spend a week getting from one level to the next. I’m forced to believe it must be the “I had to suffer, and you should too” mentality, which is just silly. Yes, we get it, you had to really work for it. Good for you, I respect you for it. Buts seriously, who doesn’t want a more enjoyable leveling experience? Many veterans probably wouldn’t roll many alts if it was as hard as it used to be.

So, ye: I’ll vote for huntard (Though Locks still gave me a hard time)