The Owls ding 80 - then proceed to get annihilated in arena

[Owltoid]

Owltoid, Weirdowl, and Owlive hit the magic 80 last night. Boy, that felt good. I was able to get a nice chunk of experience by doing the WotLK version of Ring of Blood in Zul'Drak. After one hit 80 I started removing them from group and tagging with those who still needed to ding. Weirdowl was the last to hit 80 and did it by farming a fast respawning 76 elite that he would tag and all three would demolish.

After hitting 80 and playing with my talents a bit I headed off to BGs with some friends. It was actually alot of fun. Alliance loses 80% of the time in Dalaran's BG and I'm happy to say that with the three owls and my two friends we turned the tide in two ABs. Having all cooldowns up for 3x starfall and 9x treants with a pally healer to keep you up was enough to overtake nearly any node that was in contention.

My friends logged off and I created the long awaited 3v3 arena team "Curiously Strong". I may rename Weirdowl and Owlive to versions of Owltoid for the entire Altoid theme, but I doubt I'll actually make the effort.

Arena was eye opening. Yes, I only have 11k health, mostly cloth gear, and I'm horrible at 3v3 when multiboxing. Even with knowing all that I was still surprised how quickly I died. One rogue can take down all three moonkins in about 9 seconds. A pally can demolish all three before the bubble runs out. It was pretty incredible. This is not the arena I remember with my warrior Jugz who sailed to a 1950-1975 rating without too much trouble.

The nice part is that by the time I have the gear to give arena a solid shot they will hopefully have had at least one balancing patch. I know I just need to be patient. Although I did go a solid 0-10 last night, I was able to kill one dude... hellz yeah! Small victories (that's one guy in one match... so 1/30).

Congrats to those who got easy points off of me. Even though I'm at a disgusting 1350 rating, there's not much more to go down but a whole lot of room to go up! At least BGs is still fun, even with crappy gear. I can hear them cursing MB now when three stealthed druids attack the lone defender. Even though they have double the health of me, and likely double the offensive power, I have 3x which is still greater than a geared one!

[Caspian]

Have you looked at the craftable resil gear? it is not the best for sure but it will get some resil and you should end up with a lot more HP and decent SP. It is also fairly cheap to make, and usually even cheaper to buy because people make it to level their LW? It is a good starting point I think.

[Owltoid]

Have you looked at the craftable resil gear? it is not the best for sure but it will get some resil and you should end up with a lot more HP and decent SP. It is also fairly cheap to make, and usually even cheaper to buy because people make it to level their LW? It is a good starting point I think.

Honestly I've been so busy leveling and trying to tweak multiboxing parameters that I have absolutely no idea what gear is available. I'll definitely look into that! I have about 8.5k gold saved up. Originally I thought I'd get three epic flight forms, but since I already have tons of dropped follows I'm not sure epic flying would even work for me.

Thanks for the advice!

[puppychow]

definitely get epic flying, there is an insane amount of gold to be made doing quests in all the zones plus dailies (Sons of Hodir, Icecrown, etc) and without a epic flyer you will be tearing your hair out. There are a few spots where you have to basically wait a few seconds for everyone to "phase" back and then refollow, and its especially bad inside Icecrown, but I run 5x team and all have epic flyers and while I yell at the screen daily due to phasing, I don't lose anyone in the zones without phasing (Howling, Sholozar, Dragon, Grizzly, Gundark, Borean).

[Owltoid]

definitely get epic flying, there is an insane amount of gold to be made doing quests in all the zones plus dailies (Sons of Hodir, Icecrown, etc) and without a epic flyer you will be tearing your hair out. There are a few spots where you have to basically wait a few seconds for everyone to "phase" back and then refollow, and its especially bad inside Icecrown, but I run 5x team and all have epic flyers and while I yell at the screen daily due to phasing, I don't lose anyone in the zones without phasing (Howling, Sholozar, Dragon, Grizzly, Gundark, Borean).

I'm debating whether I should take the 8.5k gold and try to powerlevel JC on all three toons just enough to be able to do the daily. I'm not sure how much the dragon eyes go for on Dalaran, and I'm also not sure if they current high prices will continue into the future. It's an odd feeling not knowing anything about level 80. At level 70, since I only had to concentrate on one toon I knew exactly what I wanted as soon as I dinged in BC. Now I just feel a bit lost.

Hell, I don't even know if 8.5k gold would be enough to get all three druids up in JC high enough to do the daily JC quest.

[genocyde]

Arena is indeed nuts right now. You want to see quick deaths tho.. find your way into 5v5. I went in with my PvP team (moonkin,3xmage,priest).

The worst match I've had so far.... I started a Prayer of Healing on my priest; According to my combat log my priest was the last to die... that cast did not finish. They aoe'd my whole team of 5 in under 2 seconds.
I think their team was something like hunter hunter moonkin mage 4 dps team with a priest healer. Granted hunters AOE Volley is ridiculously overpowered right now but the strat was insane.

It was the map with the two elevators and their priest threw out his 10 second 30 yd aoe stun (divine hymn) and stunned my whole team before the match even started. I trinketed my priest and immediately hit my PoH out of sheer terror that I was under attack before the match started; I could not even SEE the other team yet. The gates dropped and so did I x5 in under 2 seconds... I did not enter another match that week. I just queued and let it expire 9 times and went back to heroics.

So far I am 0-20 in arena. I was able to get off one good game so far. I hit a DPS toon with 3x PoM Pyroblast followed by 3x fireblast with the moonkin spamming moonfire.... 55k dmg almost simultaneously (pyro has travel time fireblast does not) in 2 casts worth of combat.... He lived. I have yet to kill an opponent in 5v5 and all my toons are over 400 resil and good overall gear set.

My hat is off to you for your successful kill!!!! :thumbsup:

[Dominian]

11k is insanly low!

Im at 16k and i still feel that i barley have hp.

[homerjunior]

I sit at 24k on my DK 5v5 buffed my clothie teammates are on 18-21k

[Multibocks]

definitely get epic flying, there is an insane amount of gold to be made doing quests in all the zones plus dailies (Sons of Hodir, Icecrown, etc) and without a epic flyer you will be tearing your hair out. There are a few spots where you have to basically wait a few seconds for everyone to "phase" back and then refollow, and its especially bad inside Icecrown, but I run 5x team and all have epic flyers and while I yell at the screen daily due to phasing, I don't lose anyone in the zones without phasing (Howling, Sholozar, Dragon, Grizzly, Gundark, Borean).

I'm debating whether I should take the 8.5k gold and try to powerlevel JC on all three toons just enough to be able to do the daily. I'm not sure how much the dragon eyes go for on Dalaran, and I'm also not sure if they current high prices will continue into the future. It's an odd feeling not knowing anything about level 80. At level 70, since I only had to concentrate on one toon I knew exactly what I wanted as soon as I dinged in BC. Now I just feel a bit lost.

Hell, I don't even know if 8.5k gold would be enough to get all three druids up in JC high enough to do the daily JC quest.

They are going to go down in value since JC is getting a combine that can produce Dragon's Eye, Sure it costs a frozen orb, but I am swimming in those right now.

[Owltoid]

Thanks for the heads up. I won't be powerleveling JC then