Well, I broke my plan last night. I hit 63, and the talent point was destined for Rapid Killing. Not too exciting for me I must admit because for whatever reason I rarely use Rapid Fire. I just don’t. It’s not handy on my toobar, I never feel the need to click it. I’m probably missing out!! *makes a note, use Rapid Fire*
What!? Anyway.
So when it came to allocating that precious point in Rapid Killing… I couldn’t do it. I knew it was the quickest way to get down to mortal shots and start getting my crit up… but the lure of The Beast Within was too great. I plopped my point in it and immediately tested it!!
After seaching around for the icon on the spellbook for 1 or 2 (5) minutes, I re-read the tooltip and realised it was passive. When I activate Bestial Wrath I will automicatically turn red too. Really? Dammit, I was looking forward to having a button. Never mind. I continued.
Find a mob, send pet, hit Bestial Wrath, AND!!!…. I turn red. Not big and red. Just red. Did I notice much difference? No I did not. But I susepct that is more down to the usabilityof it rather than stone cold disapointment for it being low impact (seemingly). For example, the prospects for it in PvP are huge. I use Bestial Wrath not only to make my pet into a person puree’ing chainsaw, but also to evade any tricksy magics that get put on him. *damn your eyes Fear*. Then you get the added bonus of turning you big red pet back onto the person that was casting on him, and chase him around a bit. Marvelous! So the thought of having that evade bonus for myself is a pleasing one. *I’m looking at you stunlock*
And I guess, in instance runs/raids I can see the benefit of having increased damage and some magic immunity for 18 seconds every 2 minutes is a good good thing too.
… but for Killing a spore bat in Zangermash - its boring!
Fishing and Cooking. Priorities?
As I talked about in my previous post, I’m spending some of my time at the moment with professions.
My main profs are Mining and Skinning. And for levelling I hightly recommend this strategy - I’ve rarely struggled for money. I could make more, but… I’m a bit lazy
I also took fishing, cooking, and first aid as secondary levels. Not uncommon. But I left them completely and only now (while my enthausiasm for levelling to 70 is low) am I looking at getting them up.
First Aid is all but done. I paid my way to 365 and I’m satisfied that the payback from making bandages was actually worth my while.
But Fishing and Cooking I have dreaded getting round too. I have meagre skill in both from experimenting with them, but as with all of my proffessions (with the exception of Skinning) I neglected them as I levelled and now I’m left with touring low level areas and grinding them up. Its ok though, its pretty fun for the most part if you have no other drivers at that moment.
… but that’s just it. I’ve got lots of inspiration! I want to level to 70, of course. I want to hit those skills at 64, 66, 68, and 70 (Oh Kill Command, Snake Trap, Aspect of the Viper… how I look forward to playing with you). I want to finish off my talent build and get all those remaining points in Mortal Shots. I want to join the guild in more instance runs. I want better armour and weapons!! I want… oh the list is long, OK!
However the game isn’t going anywhere, and that list of stuff will keep me interested in the game for the forseeable future, so I see now harm in taking time out to get fishing and cooking up. Afterall, they should benefit me in the long run. I understand there are some daily quests for some easy money, and I’ll finally be able to fish and cook my own pet food without Shoryuken (my Winterspring Frostsabre Pride Watcher) turning his nose up at it for being “too low level” for him. Bah!
Having all these bits and pieces to do keeps me coming back to WoW, but it is very confusing. Everytime I log on at the moment, I have no idea what to do. Do I level profs? Do I level and gear up Lof? Do I PvP? Do I level alts? Perhaps I need some sort of plan to organise my time online, because on more than one occasion I’ve attempted to do all three within a space of half an hour and that’s just frustrating! Nothing gets done.
Maybe something like (allocating days won’t work, I never know!), weekend time levelling, early week professions or PvP, late week instances if possible.
Hmm, might put some though into that.
… oh and also, how disjointed did this post get!
My main profs are Mining and Skinning. And for levelling I hightly recommend this strategy - I’ve rarely struggled for money. I could make more, but… I’m a bit lazy
I also took fishing, cooking, and first aid as secondary levels. Not uncommon. But I left them completely and only now (while my enthausiasm for levelling to 70 is low) am I looking at getting them up.
First Aid is all but done. I paid my way to 365 and I’m satisfied that the payback from making bandages was actually worth my while.
But Fishing and Cooking I have dreaded getting round too. I have meagre skill in both from experimenting with them, but as with all of my proffessions (with the exception of Skinning) I neglected them as I levelled and now I’m left with touring low level areas and grinding them up. Its ok though, its pretty fun for the most part if you have no other drivers at that moment.
… but that’s just it. I’ve got lots of inspiration! I want to level to 70, of course. I want to hit those skills at 64, 66, 68, and 70 (Oh Kill Command, Snake Trap, Aspect of the Viper… how I look forward to playing with you). I want to finish off my talent build and get all those remaining points in Mortal Shots. I want to join the guild in more instance runs. I want better armour and weapons!! I want… oh the list is long, OK!
However the game isn’t going anywhere, and that list of stuff will keep me interested in the game for the forseeable future, so I see now harm in taking time out to get fishing and cooking up. Afterall, they should benefit me in the long run. I understand there are some daily quests for some easy money, and I’ll finally be able to fish and cook my own pet food without Shoryuken (my Winterspring Frostsabre Pride Watcher) turning his nose up at it for being “too low level” for him. Bah!
Having all these bits and pieces to do keeps me coming back to WoW, but it is very confusing. Everytime I log on at the moment, I have no idea what to do. Do I level profs? Do I level and gear up Lof? Do I PvP? Do I level alts? Perhaps I need some sort of plan to organise my time online, because on more than one occasion I’ve attempted to do all three within a space of half an hour and that’s just frustrating! Nothing gets done.
Maybe something like (allocating days won’t work, I never know!), weekend time levelling, early week professions or PvP, late week instances if possible.
Hmm, might put some though into that.
… oh and also, how disjointed did this post get!
Time Management, profession grinding, and me.
There is so much for me to do in WoW, I could never complain of being bored with the game.
As it stands Lofgrin is level 63 and progressing towards 70 VERY slowly, and there are many reason why its such a meandar.
For one, I don’t feel the main drive to level right now. In the mid to late 40’s all I could think about was getting to 60. I don’t even remember the 50’s because it was a period of time where if I was on WoW, I was hitting it hard to get through the 50’s. Getting to 60 finally was a relieve, and I was very proud of the accomplishment - but I had an instant drop in motivation to get to 70, and I felt I’d missed some of the other aspects of the game driving to 60.
As such I’ve taken time to do other bits and pieces in the game, such as proffesions. These are time consuming, but a great deal of satisfaction comes from progressing them. I recently power levelled First Aid (from someone like 75 to 365 in one or two sessions). I had no quarms about buying items from the AH to get this because (1) I have very little patience, and (2) time spent grinding out mats is time I could be doing something else. You weigh up that cost and have your preferred way of working. In this example, I felt I’d be better off dropping X amount of gold on mats for First Aid rather than spend session after session located mobs, farming them, then managing the end product. Would it have saved me money if I’d done that? Not at all!
You see, say you spent 2 hours grinding away at Ogres in Arathi Highlands to get cloth. At the end of it you had 4 stacks of 20 cloth and a handful of silver. Fine, well done. Now you can level First Aid for that part, say by 60. You spent no money, and you’re feeling pretty good about yourself and you sit aloft you mountain of gold. Hurrah!
Well… actually. If you’d bought the 4 stacks of 20 cloth off the AH for say 75 silver each (3 gold), levelled First Aid up by 60, then spent the next 1 hour and 45 minutes in outland questing - then the end result would probably see you exceed 3 gold and therefore you would have made money from spending your time more wisely. And, if like me, your game time is limited or varied then this is the best solution I can see.
Everyone has their opinions, some people have time or far more willpower. Good for you - but this works for me.
As it stands Lofgrin is level 63 and progressing towards 70 VERY slowly, and there are many reason why its such a meandar.
For one, I don’t feel the main drive to level right now. In the mid to late 40’s all I could think about was getting to 60. I don’t even remember the 50’s because it was a period of time where if I was on WoW, I was hitting it hard to get through the 50’s. Getting to 60 finally was a relieve, and I was very proud of the accomplishment - but I had an instant drop in motivation to get to 70, and I felt I’d missed some of the other aspects of the game driving to 60.
As such I’ve taken time to do other bits and pieces in the game, such as proffesions. These are time consuming, but a great deal of satisfaction comes from progressing them. I recently power levelled First Aid (from someone like 75 to 365 in one or two sessions). I had no quarms about buying items from the AH to get this because (1) I have very little patience, and (2) time spent grinding out mats is time I could be doing something else. You weigh up that cost and have your preferred way of working. In this example, I felt I’d be better off dropping X amount of gold on mats for First Aid rather than spend session after session located mobs, farming them, then managing the end product. Would it have saved me money if I’d done that? Not at all!
You see, say you spent 2 hours grinding away at Ogres in Arathi Highlands to get cloth. At the end of it you had 4 stacks of 20 cloth and a handful of silver. Fine, well done. Now you can level First Aid for that part, say by 60. You spent no money, and you’re feeling pretty good about yourself and you sit aloft you mountain of gold. Hurrah!
Well… actually. If you’d bought the 4 stacks of 20 cloth off the AH for say 75 silver each (3 gold), levelled First Aid up by 60, then spent the next 1 hour and 45 minutes in outland questing - then the end result would probably see you exceed 3 gold and therefore you would have made money from spending your time more wisely. And, if like me, your game time is limited or varied then this is the best solution I can see.
Everyone has their opinions, some people have time or far more willpower. Good for you - but this works for me.