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They nerfed Hogger? *sob* He was legendary!

Personally as the new player here. I asked just because in my experience new expansions are ~100% aimed at endgame players. Not lowly starting players. I remember the Death Knight being greyed out when I created my character.

But anyway

Thanks for all the feedback. I hit 15 Pld and wife hit 19 Mage (d@mn evening college classes) We did hit a snag where the quest givers are not giving me the same quests because my level is too low. I guess I'll just have to find a way to xp up 4 levels to catch her.

RE: Guilds. I've been /invited out of the blue to 3-4 now, but havn't accepted anything yet. I honestly havn't looked into the advantages of guilds yet. Mainly because I ran an endgame Linkshell(guild) in FFXI for 4 years. I don't want to go back to scheduled events, deal with emo members, deal with loot hogs, drama, etc.

RE: professions I found a trainer for mining since I see the mining points out in the wilds fairly often I'm going to casually do that while exploring/leveling. I'm wondering in the long term I've seen for Pld at least its mentioned using high level self crafted ?gems? to augment some the gear into better items. Or is it better to look at blacksmithing to be able to make the plate armor in the first place?

RE prices - Found the AH. Looked at my amazing wallet with 39 silver in it and the fact that I couldn't find any equipment ( was mainly looking for new weapon ) for less than 1 gold and most going for multiple gold. I'm guessing WOW or at least on the Doomhammer server inflation is king and the paltry 1-6 silvers I get for some of the more recent quests have just been depreciated into joke rewards ( I <3 the 1000 experience point rewards though) I guess I'll just keep going and hope to find better stuff than I have gotten through quests.

Dueling - Why in the world would a level ~15 peson challenge me at level 5 to a duel. I stuppidly accepted and died in 1 hit. Is this just griefing or someone stupid or something else?

Tep Human Pld 15
Server - Doomhammer

The dueling happens and annoys me to no end, I really wish there was an option to auto-decline all duels (according the the last poster there IS an interface option for duels so I'm off my laptop to go looking for this interface option) The only interface options I found blocked trade and guild invites ... I'm on a PVE server because I want to play against the machine, not get randomly jumped or harassed. Doesn't help that world events are set up to take place in duel areas... or is it that duels started happening there because of the traffic for world events? I had 4 or 5 random duels offered up to my various characters while doing the brewfest world event this past week just because I dared set foot outside the gates of stormwind or something :)



Edited, Oct 4th 2011 6:53pm by Gwenorgan

I corrected another poster info (very politely) and you came wearing your tin foil hat to tell me I'm wrong, so I guess I'm a ****.

For quests and items I have found wowhead to be extremely helpful. And if you want a site that does good character break downs, I would recommend noxxic.com. It does a good job of setting out what are good rotations, gear and gear buffs, talent tree specs etc...

Leveling, you can always do a couple quick BGs every ten levels and grab the nice WSG bows that will fairly easily hold you over til the next one. Once you get to Outland, the quests will give you fairly awesome stuff.

Proper kiting will prevent you from having to endure anything on many solo mob encounters. And, of course, don't forget proper pet control.

I'm a bit late to the party, since I pretty much totally agree with the last two.

I also levelled my hunter in the BC era - when elites, linked mobs, and groups carefully positioned to be picked up by runners were common as opposed to nonexistent, when quest reward selections were like an ingredient basket from "Chopped", and the talent trees had been neither streamlined nor normalized.

And even then, I'd say that the only class that could make the weapon damage argument were DPS warriors. Hunters have kiting tools they don't, a pet they don't, and an aggro dump they don't. Even more, it's important that hunters learn how to use those tools, so being somewhat underpowered in raw damage terms isn't a bug, it's a feature.

Don't worry too much about gear, you can level without armour at all (though it's rather slow) and by questing with your wife you should be able to kill most things very easily, if you are struggling you might want to think about pulling less mobs at once or if there's anything you can do to take less damage (mages get counterspell early on which you can use to interrupt spell casts, you should have a stun ability, etc) rather than spending gold upgrading items. You will level fast enough that you'll outgrow any items you buy rather quickly.

Once you start selling things on the AH you should see your gold situation become much healthier (my alts are usually able to sell stacks of copper ore for 5g or more, so you can make quite a lot of gold from the stuff you gather at early levels).

I would recommend making an AH alt, you can either level it out of the starter zone or just make a mad dash for the capital city at level 1 (you might die if you aggro a mob though). You can then post items that you think might sell to this character (a long with some silver to pay for listing fees), this means that on your leveling character you just need to post items to your alt to clear them out of your bags, rather than having them taking up bag space until you get back to a capital city (or making unnecessary journeys to sell them).

Bags are one of the best investments you can make at lower levels as the more things you can carry the more you can sell later. If you are feeling brave enough to try the LFD tool you can buy tabards for each race (e.g. Stormwind for alliance, Undercity for horde) which lets you collect reputation if you wear it when running dungeons. At revered reputation (you get rep for questing too, so keep an eye out for that as well) you can buy a 16 slot bag, so if you can get revered with several races this will save you a nice bit of gold. Personally I wouldn't bother buying anything smaller than 14 slots and when looking at prices of 16 slot bags keep in mind that some are bind on equip (so you won't be able to sell them later) while others do not bind (so you can sell them when you get larger bags or pass them on to an alt).

You left off the difficulty in not stabbing severe clam stackers when running random dungeons.

Maybe that's just me, though.

Edited, Oct 7th 2011 6:34am by Poldaran

But less Jimmy Fallon.

Yup

Can you use it in BGs now?

I want to say you used to not be able to. Having found myself in one with no healers a while back, and being dismayed as I was unable to change spec. But as far as I know I could have been 'in combat' at the time, as it was part way through one. I don't remember checking, and my memory isn't that great anyway.

Edited, Oct 7th 2011 3:22pm by someproteinguy

I'm pretty sure you have to switch specs BEFORE the bg starts. I sure wish they had triple spec!