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.
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Currently lving a prot pally and the original plan was to have him be first to 80. Although after so many lvs and bad pugs already I probably put him on hold to lv a death knight to 80 first since they seem capable of dpsing quite well at same time while still being able to tank.
Starting a Deathknight, playing it till I get bored, then hopping on my druid and exploring Northrend. Can't wait!
First i'm going to lvl my main char atm , a human mage (currently pvp) to 80. Haven't decided yet if i'm going to get him to pvp or pve.
After, i'm probably going to make a DK, mainly because its a new class.
And then, my first ever char, the old orc warlock, that i made after seeing the old school drakdog movies. He's currently a full green and blue, because, after a week i dinged 70, me and my friends rerolled allience -_- (but thanks to that i now have a super IMBA mage :P ).
Im going to level my Balance Druid main to 80 1st.
For some reason people always choose them second =/. I know you'll choose a DK over a druid once you've leveled your rogue Bastosa ;P, just becuase they'll be the new class and totally untapped.
Ill prob roll a DK as soon as i install LK (like many thousands of others will lol) but wont level him very far at first.
I also have a rogue alt thats in his 50s atm so ill hopefully get him to 70 before LK =)? It seems rogues are just the perfect 2nd-to-70 alt for loads of people...
i dont know what im gonna do yet prolly gonna lvl my 3 70's to 80 and then gonna make a DK due to the fact my server is going to be overrun by DK's at the beginning
I think ill just lvl my Mage... my first to hit 60, 70 and probs 80 too... i feel like mages are getting scrampled every time a bridge patch hits... so iam enjoying finding new specs and ill probs just level my mage... maybe my lock or pally afterwards
I'm definitelly trying out Metamorphosis on warlock first - after that my warrior is going next.
I ll level up my hunter =) And wanted to find out what DK have to offer too... But anyways i ll just check dk out (maybe make 1 - 2 levels) and ll level up my hunter... maybe when my hunter ll be 80 i ll level up DK or my alt draenei Priest (70)
Im going to lvl my main hunter troll to 80 and get a nice fresh start with PVE and try to be one of the first on the server to down high end bosses. After that i will lvl a DK, but im not shure tho.
I'm rollin out my DK. Screw my 70's.
well i was playing hunters for a year and a half but the at the start of spet. i rolled a dwarf warroir(lvl 45 atm) and will be taking him to 80. and my friend will hopeing be useing RAF soon.
My first toon to 80 will probably be my Hunter. Fallowed very closely by my Holy priest (who was my first 70). My priest lvled with a Prot pally and even when the pally (who was 20 lvls behind my priest when we started) got higher. She always came and helped me out. Now with the expansion so close we are planning to lvl the two together and when a time comes that I want to keep playing, I will just switch to my hunter and go nuts.
Probably take my first and most loved toon, my Tauren Hunter to 80 first. then my Draenei warrior.. I want to make a DK for dps purposes... And also level a paladin for healing, so basically I can cover all the roles. You know, be the guy to go to.
I got 3 lvl 70's ( NE Hunter,NE Druid and a Dwarf Rogue)
My hunter has been my main since day 1, i like it the most of every class. But i'm going to roll a deathknight. Because they are unique, we all know the other classes by now and they are so different. So: DEATHLKNIGHT, ALL THE WAY!