pre-WOLK release levling thread

[Xar]

If I were hitting 70 soon I wouldn't grind all the bg s2 pieces, the drops and crafted boe items are decent enough to get you to mid 70's imo. I'm not replacing my s2 stuff anytime soon but the time and effort needed for them isn't worth what you can get starting wrath. If anything I'd definitely grind the spell mace again then grind gold with dailies. Lot's of gold. Trade skills and training are costing a lot. Luckily I pooled lots of gold onto each copy before copying to beta.

QFT.

PvP gear is getting killed in 3.0. (disabled stats in instances). Don't waste your time on it UNLESS you just really want to PvP your eyes out.

Do you happen to have a Blizz source Fur? I'd like to read up on it. I thought just resilience was becoming useless for PVE but the other stats, like stam, int, etc. +dmg were all the same. I'll try walking into UK later on my shammy and see what happens if I don't hear back from you.

[Xar]

I meant just resilience. I havent' heard of any other stats getting killed on PvP gear. Lemme go find that.

Ok whew!!! Thought my gear would be totally useless there for a bit. I have 3 shammies copied over to Northrend but because of lag haven't done much with them. Would have been 5 but gave one key to my wife and one to a good friend in WoW that's been good to me over the years. What beta server are you on Fur? (PM me if you want to try running something on Northrend, I have my 70 healer & 3 shammies there).

[bundeswuhr]

Best plan? When Wrath hits, take a week or two off WoW.

Wotlk comes out one day before my end of year exams inch:

[Kel]

I meant just resilience. I havent' heard of any other stats getting killed on PvP gear. Lemme go find that.

Do you think they look for ways to screw druid tanks or just discover them naturally?

Though I can see a lot of plate wearing tanks having issues with this too as many items are being changed to lower the defense rating on them in favour of adding strength and people may have been thinking 'oh but my resiliance makes me uncrittable still, so it's ok'.

But mainly they seem to be breaking druids... again.... I'm glad I quit raiding on my feral tank

Edit: Just had a look into it and they've changed SotF to 6% rather than 3%, so maybe this won't be as much of an issue for druids as I thought it would be.