Results tagged “Ameland” from From the Abbey to Outlands

I dinged 72 tonight in Borean Tundra, over a dozen quests still left to go, and wondered to myself. Is there a benefit to doing both of the starter zones, Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord? On beta I did both, and found I was barely halfway through Grizzly Hills before I got the quest in Dalaran to fly out to Sholazar. That was also before I had a 20% jump start in xp from my previously mentioned daily plan. I am almost certain I could get by pretty effectively without having to do the Howling Fjord, and instead moving on to Dragonblight right away. The lore of that zone makes it even more tempting, I assure you.

The flipside to all of that, of course, is gold. Cold, hard cash. If I do all the quests available as I go along, Borean, Howling, Blight, Grizzly, Sholazar, Zul'Drak, Storm Peaks, Icecrown, well I should hit 80 by Sholazar or Zul'Drak, I would think. In Beta I skipped a big chunk of Grizzly Hills to move on to Sholazar, and hit 77 about halfway there. I am pretty sure I would have left Sholazar late 78, or somewhere in 79 if I had stayed in Grizzly. This means it wouldn't have taken much in Zul'Drak, or maybe an instance or two, to hit 80 in that zone, leaving me roughly 2-2.5 zones of pure quest gold plus dailies.

This will be even better on Telaan, who will be leveled third, cause he is doing 2 dailies every day, and is nearing on 71.5. I suspect he will be into 72 before I pick him up to level again. How all of this might hit Ameland or Arita I am not sure, while I am pretty sure Connroe will be hit hard since he has about 22 levels to go and a long road to go. I think I will take him in chunks. In the end, this leveling thing can be tricky. In BC it took me 3 70s before I perfected it for Telaan, and I just do not know how close I can get this time to perfection. I had time between my toons to evaluate, collect, prepare. I do not see any Unidentified Plant Part type items that are tradeable in Wrath, so that might be hard. Time will tell, I suppose. What do you all think?

As I write this it is just over 48 hours since I installed Wrath of the Lich King and boy have I been busy! As I mentioned in a recent All Things Azeroth, I started off by making my Death Knight named Connroe, then I completed my daily plan. This plan was given to me by Makea of Murloc Queen and went like this: clear out quest log completely, travel around Outlands getting all of the daily quests you can, then log out on the Isle of Quel'danas and wait for Wrath launch. After Wrath is installed, turn the Isle dailies, then return to Shattrath to turn in dailies there. Once Done there, I flew out to the Netherwing Ledge and turned about 10 dailies there to complete the daily quest plan.

I did a full 25 dailies on two of my 70s, and the rough numbers from those dailies was roughly 300k XP and about 150g. The one mistake I made was on making the fishing daily as one, and it gives no XP or gold, just the bag. On my Druid I did 16 dailies, netting about 200k XP and about 100g. I personally feel that since I would have spent time in game anyway, and am not hurting for gold, that this was all a very good way to spend a few days ore Wrath. Once I finished the daily turn ins, I took all my 70s to Northrend and trained them in all of their professions, costing roughly 300g for two primary and all three secondary skills. Once they were all at inns, getting rested XP, I logged back to my Death Knight and got him through the first phase of the starting experience.

On day 2 I began to work on Connroe right out of the gate, thoroughly enjoying doing the experience when it counted. I quickly made it through the experience and stayed in Stormwind at the end to begin making use of the 1500 herbs I had stocked up to level Inscription. Right now Connroe is *350* and am waiting to hit 60 or so in order to train up to Grand Master. Connroe is also right now at 150 in Blacksmithing, though I may take a break from leveling that for a bit due to the large number of new Death Knight miners in the game, including some guildies. The last thing that I have spent time doing, or I guess lucked into, was that I got all 5 toons(Medros, Ameland, Arita, Telaan, and Connroe) hearthstoned in Dalaran. I knew it would take a couple days for Argent Dawn to see a nice number of 74 Mages, and I found one in Stormwind who was willing to portal all of them to Dalaran for a generous tip. The Mages I saw in /2 were talking 100-200g per portal the night before, and I was not willing to throw my gold away like that.

As for today, I intend to finish getting all my 70s the Borean - Howling - Dalaran Flight Path connections(all Tuskarr villages, Dalaran, and the alliance settlements) in order to facilitate easy travel through the first 3 zones of Northrend. Then, I think I am going to let Connroe rest a bit, and work on getting Medros to level 74, the point where he would have gotten the ability to go to Dalaran anyway. So, how have you spent your first 48 Wrath filled hours? Are you, like the SK Gaming/Nihilum mega guild, trying to get into raiding and clear Wrath on 25 man? Or are you just relaxing and leveling comfortably?

I have two hunters. I know, I know, one of them I barely mention in these pages. I kinda left him hanging at 41 when the leveling bump hit and I favored my new Paladin, Telaan, who is not happily propped up at level 70. While Ameland, my main hunter, is great and all, sitting with a perfected Marksmanship spec that I love dearly, I do so wish I could find a reason to level Traluun up. Then I just finished watching Big Red Kitty's Devilsaur video from the beta realms. Like in cartoons from days of old, a light bulb went on.

So here's my plan. I will still do my profession stuff and questing, what ever I have left of them, on Telaan, but then I will work when I can on Traluun. I did some quick math, and the point when Traluun can get the final Beast Mastery talent point would be level 60. That means that at Level 60, he can run over to Un'Goro crater and tame him a Devilsaur. I am pretty sure I can do 20 levels in a month or two, even on a boring hunter type like Traluun is now, and be ready for that lovely talent point when the 3.0 patch hits pre Wrath.

Have you ever rolled a second character of a class you already have, just to try out a new spec? Is there a spec you haven't tried that you plan to when Wrath hits? Let me know in the comments!

About the blogger

Ahh, where to begin? geekworld.ca? geekblog.net? Maybe wcradio.com? Where this blog began has many roots, and many beginnings. I, Dwight Wallbridge, the brain and personality behind this blog and my Characters Medros, Arita, Ameland, and Telaan, all found on the Argent Dawn realm along with my upcoming Death Knight Connroe, began blogging back in 2000 or 2001. I honestly do not know the date. Back then I was writing on a format called Daynotes. Then a day no one alive now will ever forget, never be allowed to forget. It was the Pearl Harbor of the modern era. September 11, 2001.

9/11 changed how I wrote. I tried to daynote the events, but they just happened too fast. I looked at pages of Dave Winer, Doc Searls, and other A-List bloggers, and they were able to quickly and efficiently update on the fly and post whatever they wanted. no HTML editors, no FTP clients. Instant communications. It took me until the end of 2001 before most of my content was on my blog, which if I recall started on blogger, then transitioned after awhile to the new, up and coming Movable Type platform.

That blog turned into it's own domain, which was Geekblog.net, hosted on first a Canadian host called Trinic, then on a neat outfit called Blogomania. That host rocked, cause they worked with me to keep my CMS(as they are called now) running, and helped me work out a payment plan I could live with. After awhile they got bought out and I bounced from host to host, never entirely happy.

In mid 2004 I got an email saying I was invited into something called a Stress Test for this up and coming game, World of Warcraft. I had never played an MMO before, pretty much refusing adamantly to pay a subscription to a game, but this test was free and I had enjoyed thoroughly the previous strategy games in the series. In September of 2004 I got the download link and was given the date of the stress test. It was a 10 day test, which ended up being extended for a week because of a hurricane or something in the US(I think is was Ivan), making a large number testers unable to play, and thus ineligible for the contest for a beta key.

I took the entire duration of the test off work, and let's just say I was hooked. I watched the boards after the stress test ended, and came across a post by a guy named Athalus. I watched the thread closely as he was talking about something I was incredibly interested in, internet radio. He wanted to start up a WoW based radio station, and I was all on board. Except I couldn't tell him cause I didn't have access to post. Eventually he posted his email and I joined the WoW Radio team as second to the owner.

I was with WoW Radio for a long time, first doing Midweek Review, then adding in the late morning music block when Blizzard settled on Tuesday mornings for downtime, and then my main show changed to Know Your Role to reflect my new RP perspective once I changed to Argent Dawn. I eventually left WoW Radio, leaving behind a lot of bitterness and anger, and moved to MMO Radio. I did not last long there, as I was wanting to do a fan show in a corporate environment.

A few months after I left MMO Radio, at the urging of a dear friend, Lelia, I launched Know Your Role as a podcast. While Lelia left shortly after, the show has continued, though it has has had it's ups and downs. It is now All Things Azeroth, Your World of Warcraft Podcast, and is done solo, when I have something to say, and time to say it in.

A month or so after the Dark Portal opened I launched this blog, From the Abbey to Outlands, back when my highest level character was 63(Medros). It began as a 'this is what I am doing in WoW' blog, but as my thoughts on topics became more lengthy and my trusted places to put those thoughts became fewer and fewer, I brought all my WoW thoughts to this place. I still blog my non game thoughts over at thegeeksblog.com. I may not be right all the time, but I will tell you like I see it and share my perspective on the game and all that I love about it. I hope you enjoy it.