Who Are You Getting To Level 80?
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iTZKooPA on Friday, October 3, 2008 - 69 Comments Tags: Alt, echoes of doom, expansion, grinding, heigan, level 80, level cap, leveling, power leveling, re-rolling, refer-a-friend, wrath of the lich king
iTZKooPA on Friday, October 3, 2008 - 69 Comments Tags: Alt, echoes of doom, expansion, grinding, heigan, level 80, level cap, leveling, power leveling, re-rolling, refer-a-friend, wrath of the lich king 
My fellow blogger Bastosa recently posted a nice article on the grind to level 80. It will be interesting to see how well the 5-man instancing team sticks together. From my previous experiences, running with a group of friends over and over caused us to become a bit competitive. One evening, we called it a night after a few productive hours of grinding XP. Well, we woke up to see that our Mage had stayed up all night to get three levels higher. It wouldn't have been the end of the world if he wasn't six levels higher than the lowest person, and refused to come back and help us. The Mage's overly competitive nature basically killed our group.Bastosa's logic – that a group leveling together in instances should create skilled raiders down the road - is sound nonetheless and I hope it works out for them. For me, I will be going the same route as a few of the commentators, questing and exploration. Here is the major difference though, I will be leveling my newly acquired level 59.99 Priest instead of my faithful Rogue.
Thanks to the Refer-A-Friend benefits, my buddy and I managed to level up a new set of alts to level 59.99 in under three days playtime. For the moment, we are both enjoying our never-before-played class and do not feel like stopping. By the time Wrath of the Lich King drops on November 13th, my new Priest should be 70. At that time I hope to have enough experience under my belt as a healer – yes, also my first healbot - to begin healing in all of the new 5-man instances. Heck, if all goes well and I ding 70 with time to spare, I will probably start a tank on that server. People always need a tank. We have to burn those extras hand me down levels somehow.
This isn't to say that I am abandoning my Rogue. I have been roguing since day 1 and have no intention of stopping. Yes, there have been ups and down through that time. Rogues were overpowered to begin with, causing us to be nerfed left and right. C'Thun was incredibly annoying as a dagger Rogue. Gruul is just annoying, and I still have little group utility (that will change with the Echoes of Doom patch). It would be nice to say that I will try to co-level the characters on my main server. Trading back and forth to get the most benefit from Rested XP, but honestly, that is just a pipe dream.
So what about you guys? Sticking with your main? Taking this opportunity to switch your main? Re-rolling Death Knight? Or experiencing the new content with an alt first?
Bastosa, best of luck to you and your group. Be sure to update us when you ding level 75. I can't wait to do the Heigan dance again – the pull to him...not so much.
Reader Comments (69)
im rolling DK i have a lvl 70 hunter and 9 druid ( yes he low lvl i dont play him a lot) but ill be rested xp switching with my DK and hunter
iam not very consisting it took me 2 years to get a 16 worrior a 35 rogue a a 36 warlock 55 druid 59 mage 70 hunter you know why my mage and my hunter were my first 2 char i even made i leveled druid first i gave up on him manly my prepaid time ended i started my mage got him to 26 stated my warlock and at level 28 i played me mage again oround middle of level 40 i gave up on him again and started my rogue get to high 20 and than give up than started my hunter first i went all to high 50 and than i started my druid gave up on him at level 28 and than i state my hunter again to level 60 got marshal gear and took turns wit all my low levels first my warlock to level 36 for the all the gear and powers rilly and than started to play my mage frost mage got him to level 53 and started playing my druid a tank btw got him to 55 and leveled my hunter to 67 a mark man hunter and leveled my rogue to 35 and got my hunter to 70 and got some gear for him and got my warrior and went BM on my hunter leveled my mage to 59 and level my warlock one more level the point of all these i guass is i read all you people talking about all your 70 and your plans i have bunch my self in fact i have trouble focusing in school because i ceap thinking of how cool its gointo be after the the new patch and WOTLK lukcy i have a short day so the point i wont be able to stick to one char my plan is get my druid and my mage to 60 so i get the new talent abillitys get some more gear for my hunter and when WOTLK comes make a DK try him out all the abillitys but i am not imprased with DK i want to try out all the new abilitys before i can really start leveling my char and iam opposed all char who have horde thier is nothing wrong having a small horde like i do its just a game after all what matters is who you pladge yur alegance to
i will lvl my druid first to 80 as feral, gonna respec to feral the talents look nice for feral as bear and also as cat maby we will see them outdpsing the damage meters
after my druid i will lvl my hunter he is now a pvper bm specced 12k health unbuffed etc etc 0% pveing with him now and surv spec looks REALY nice for wotlk
and maby i will lvl my mage because arcane spec looks insane
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LVLING FERAL DRUIDS FTW!
im so lvlin my lock to 80 :D. even though im lvl 38 -_-. but my friend (lvl 70 fury warrior) is gonna be runnin me through tons and tons and tons of stuff this weekend so ima be lvlin nice and fast!
I tried lvling in group 1-70,which worked well at start but bc some were on double the time of others,we went our seperate wa
our seperate ways at around lvl54ish and ended up having fun together at 70
I'd really like to roll a Death Knight, but I'm making myself wait until the huge Death Knight influx is over.
im waiting til i get my main(rogue on the scryers of same name) to 80 before i deal with the new class probably. knowing me, by the time thats done, there will be a lot less dks out and running by then
i am a slooooooooooow leveler
Leveling my main(Hunter) with my guild in 5-mans I think. If I get my priest to 70 before expansion I may switch that to be my main and roll from there.
I originally rolled a Troll Rogue... lvled her to 46, then my guild needed a dedicated healer. So I rolled a BE Priest, and fell in love with her. Grinded her to 70 (with a little help from my friends) and have been playing her ever since. I'm taking the time before the expac to go back and level my rogue. I think I needed the 6 month break from her to come back and appreciate her more.
I plan on lvling them both along with other guildmates in a combination of Quests and Instances. I'm a raider at heart, and want to enjoy all of the instances available in the expac! As for rolling a DK? I'll leave that to other guildmates, until everyone ISN'T rolling them as frequently.
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i am gunna level my first toon that i ever made to eighty. my warrior tank, took about a good 8months to get him to 70(back in 2007) but sense i did ive been lov'n every minute of it :D... tanking eh not so much bet gotta roll with the punches :/
then ima level my alt, my mage to eighty. sense i got him to 70 back in early summer of 2008. ive been dps dps dps and purple plum gear :D.
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I will level my lovely main, my horribly human mage. Yes, I now have many alts at 70 (5 to be exact) but none can match good ol' Gilnid.
I'll probably level my warrior to 80 first, if he is 70 in time for wrath (should be, he's 37.5 right now) And then my hunter, then a death knight. 3 80s will be enough for me, I know some of my more hardcore friends are going to have a server completely filled with 80s after they make a death knight.
i'm goona level my lock up then level my hunter up. after that iplan to roll a DK and make him a god of PvP. and i might make a gnome mage after that.
I was going to level my warlock then decided to level my hunter. Now I am between leveling a death knight or juts quitting the game. I think I'm going with the latter but we'll see.
Im gonna lvl my Blood Elf Warlock to 80 first, and maybe do some Death Knight on the side to get more "rested" xp.
Im gonna need my DK anyway, so i can get inscription, for my Tailoring/Enchanting lock.
I'm Gonna Level My Main First *70 Arcane/Frost Ally Mage* then probably my Alt *66 Combat Swords Ally Rogue* Then after all the DK hype and abuse i'll start one of those =]
For the longest time on Akama horde I only had a 70 resto shaman and a 70 combat swords rogue, but decided recently I wanted to get a few more 70s for wotlk...
I didn't have refer a friend but I managed to get a 70 hunter and 70 warrior as well.... I haven't tanked since my first alliance character back on onyxia... so I'm more dps than anything.
As it stands now I don't know what I'll level, probably the shaman or the warrior - though personally i'm unhappy with shaman talent trees. Titans grip - the reason I made the warrior, is also slightly depressing with its newest changes.
I guess it will all depend on what I'm feeling at the time, or perhaps I'll take it easy and just level all four when they're rested and work on a different one each day. Time will tell.
My moonkin coz Hybrids are your new overlordz :P (that and my friend had the whole DK thing covered)
I will be levelling my restoration shaman (horde) as he was my first ever character almost 3 years ago, cant wait to see what WOTLK can offer my shaman in terms of more healing and new spells.
I want to try playing mages then lvl up a death knight, I personally loved mages since day 1 and I haven't had the time to lvl an alt because of school
I'm going to start off leveling a Death Knight, mainly because everyone else is going to be putting it off to wait until the "Hundreds of people" finish. If everyone on my server is thinking that, then there probably wont really be hundreds of people, because they'll all be waiting for something that isn't there. After that, I'm gonna just work on tailoring and probably ignore my hunter until I get the magic carpet from tailoring.
sou horde !!!!!! legal na ally me ataco uma vez tenho um orc lv 70 !!!
ahah tenho amigo ally lv 50 ele ta no msn ele q me meta ahah
ally é (chato) :D