Comments on: Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em

By: Gnomeaggedon

Gnomeaggedon — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:21:16 +0000

Battlegrounds…
The level 60 and then level 70 PvP gear rocks, you queue while questing, have 15-30 minutes of something different and then buy nice gear.
But then, I would say BGs…

By: Herr Drache

Herr Drache — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:43:26 +0000

Hello, my name is Dragon, and I don’t mind HFP. I know I’m an outsider.
That being said, if you dislike those zones:
- get rested
- Wear heirloom items and be in a guild with the bonus XP thing
- Archaeology and mine / herb (get the gatherer enchant!) while being in LFG and/or BG queue (can you be in both?)
- Trade chores with your family members. “Run me through dungeons and I’ll do the trash/dishes” :)

Sorry, that’s about all that I can suggest. I leveled a Lock through PvP to 85 (except for open-the-portal-quests) and dungeoned a Disco-priestess. All other 6 85s got the questing treatment – and I leveled my wife’s hunter for her as well. Apparently I don’t mind getting in the zone and grinding away ;)

By: Pawzy

Pawzy — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:16:23 +0000

I, too, -loathe- HFP. I’m also guilty of deleting alts that I get tired or bored of. Every few months, I think I need to “clean house” and delete a few, unless I feel attached to them. I’ve been leveling a new batch of alts, seeing as my main’s guild has gone on hiatus from raiding until we’ve gotten level 90 in MOP. Boom/resto druid (69), Ret/holy paladin (77), Unholy/frost DK (77) and ANOTHER Bear/cat (69). All but the bear/cat are on a different realm from my “home” one, so no heirlooms for them.

-Boomkin: Winterspring to 59, Blasted lands to 61, HFP to 62, Zangar to 65, Blade’s edge to 68. At this point, AV weekend happened, so I got nearly 2 levels healing through that.

-Pally: Silithis to 60; and because I hate HFP that much, Blasted lands to 61; HFP for one level, Terrokar to 65, spammed 65 to 69 in LFD as heals, quested in B.Tundra and D.Blight until 77 in between dungeons. I’ve never gotten a paladin this high before and I find I enjoy holy spec the most.

-DK: I went through old world gathering mats to level crafting while spamming dungeons until 62 or so, did HFP for gear quests, farmed in Terrokar while LFD spamming, went to Netherstorm as soon as I was able and savored every single quest I could there. I actually hit 72 in Nagrand.. but I was farming Mag’har rep (wanted the colbalt talbucks badly!) while queued for BC heroic dungeons. Did 72 to 77 almost all in AV. I’ve found I really enjoy playing Frost in BGs.. when I’m not in the graveyard waiting to respawn. Otherwise, I’m hanging out with my buddy, Timmy the Wonder Ghoul, and questing. This is my first DK to break the 70 barrier and NOT get deleted! The chances of her getting to 80 before MoP are very high.

-Bear/cat: This is my dirty, rotten, spoiled and twinked beyond all reason pet alt. Every heirloom that is beneficial to a bear or cat spec is on that character. When on this toon, I ask myself this: Do I want to eat monster face (tank a dungeon) or nom on other players (pvp as cat)? Whichever I feel like, I do. She does not quest, unless it is in a dungeon.

By: Verath

Verath — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:49:33 +0000

I’m currently levelling a Paladin through all the new content, and with full heirlooms and two gathering professions I’m doing well leveling in the old world even post 60. I’m currently about to ding 62, and I’m questing in Winterspring. Just gather as you ride, and you get xp for handing in gray quests just as you would were they green. And it’s fun!

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:58:00 +0000

I really like the revamped Winterspring, I think it’s worth questing through if you want to follow the story. If you haven’t done Felwood yet, perhaps try Felwood-Winterspring and see just how much Timbermaw rep you can get without really trying, then moan and complain about how hard it used to be?

By: Ely

Ely — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:00:18 +0000

I hate to say it but I mainly used lfg to level ( and got my hubby to play for me :P ) only went to areas to level my profs :)

By: Ellifain @ Khaz'Goroth

Ellifain @ Khaz'Goroth — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:18:24 +0000

Hold off on going to hellfire.
To be a little different, try running ALL the Vanilla 60 Instances (BRD Upper city, LBRS/UBRS) as well as those forgotten zones like Winterspring or Silthius… Theres some fantastic content out there.

And like what Tsudrats says, pick content you haven’t done in a while – and this may include levelling via BG’s or spamming LFD.

Elli (no longer retired!)

By: Bristal

Bristal — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:53:33 +0000

Recently did the whole of Blade’s Edge for the first time. Really enjoyed it. Would run it again.

My recommendation is to do an entire zone. Folow the story, do the instances, don’t jump around. Much more satisfying.

By: Kemonojin

Kemonojin — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:57:30 +0000

Seems like you get at least one flight path per zone automatically now. May not have all of them, or the best placed one, but at least you can get there. I once dragged someone around half of Kalimdor getting flight paths… he’d gotten to 80 by the recruit a friend levels, and didn’t even have gear… was still in the stuff you start with.

By: Tsudrats

Tsudrats — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:40:20 +0000

My general rule of altoholic leveling (the condition not the addon) is to pick regions I’ve not run for a while even if it feels a bit insane. This time round I’m camping Silithus until I’ve cleared the place of quests as it’s something I’ve never actually managed to do before I go bouncing off to Outlands. You could also sit in Azeroth and just lfd until you can go to Northrend. I had a guildie who lfd’ed from 60 to 80. A bit of a pain come raiding at the time as he had no flight paths to speak of and needed summons half the time.

Not sure I could do those instances that much.