Coming back...

[Monkofdoom]

Hello all,

It's nice to see the community has evolved so much over the past 18 months and seems busier than ever.

I've decided to come back to WoW (and therefore multi-boxing) for a while and thought I'd say hi.

I activated my main account on saturday and 42 hours later was at 80 (I'm sure questing is easier now) and I've just been down the shops to purchase 5 more copies of WOTLK to get the team going again.

I look forward to be around and speaking to you all as always.

- Monk

P.S. Los - I'm glad you finally made it to 70! :p


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Update:

Thought I'd point out that I'm now on Grim batol EU - yay for transferring costs of an army

[Owltoid]

Sorry if I misread, but did you level from 70 to 80 in 42 hours?!?

[Monkofdoom]

On my single hunter yes, not with a team. Although my hunter still had some giantstalker on :O

But then when I originally level'd in vanilla and tbc I was considered fairly fast, I do have 300 + days played on hunters D:

[falsfire3401]

Heh...my embarassing times /played:

* My main toon, 80 hunter, has less days /played than an old, abandoned L61 warrior alt
* My replacement main, recently faction-transferred rogue, has over 90 days /played, over 60 of those at level 60, but only 1 day at 80...yet has 6 or so 25-man epics already...
* Meanwhile my boosted-to-60 and tri-boxed 60-69 warlock is sitting at just under 2 days /played...


Took me about six weeks to level my first (solo) hunter 70-80 (playing only 2-3 hrs a day, 5 days a week), about four weeks for my 2nd 80 (rogue). We'll see how long my tri-box team takes to go from 68 (arrival in northrend) to 80...so far I'm just under L70 and about four hours in

[Monkofdoom]

Leveling at the end of the day just comes down to play style and ability to grit your teeth, yes there is some skill but mainly it's a case of just getting it done and taking advantage of what's around you....

I entered wotlk not knowing anything... I asked an old friend "So where do I start" they replied "borean" My next question was "how do I get there....?" I knew nothing about the new world or changes.

I got on a boat from stormwind in the end and set sail... Looked for quests and off I went.

Now I took advantage of several new aspects of the game as I learned about them...

Firstly... AV now gives you XP - So I didn't want to grind bgs for xp... however this gives you 2 advantages. IF you get ganked or you are waiting for quest mobs to respawn then enter an AV. On my server it's instant... So I wait till the last second to join the av then enter. Run to the first hut boss and kill him, 20k xp in about 3 minutes and I leave. I don't care if the av wins/loses or what I just get that quick xp boost and my mobs have respawned.

Second comes my more cunning approach, what happens (generally) when a new av (or any bg) starts? Everyone buffs everyone... so I que for an av once an hour (av has more players so more chance of buffs), run to the gate get 5 - 10 buffs and /afk. In 30 seconds I've gained health, spirit, +atts and intellect (plus countless 10-15 minute buffs). This really speeds everything up when solo'ing and allows you to do the tougher quests.

Finally I don't waste time... I didn't visit Dalaran until level 80... In fact I didn't even train any new skills until 80. I just kept going without "wasting time". You may argue getting skills at some point is worth it but every time you level? not a chance.

Just a few examples of taking advantage of the situation.

Also, I didn't sleep during the process.... Going to sleep means I have to remember what I was doing next... I only got food/drink whilst flying somewhere or auto running along a path! It does mean crossing your legs though sometimes ;)

I'm sure if I did another character now I know the maps I could do it faster still but it's boxing time :)