Refer a friend to the rescue. So Elfy could have a horde side shammy we signed up for the refer a friend program. I signed up for the trial account and rolled, wait for it... wait... another druid! And Elfy rolled a shammy. The refer a friend had super xp bonuses, and we were able to get from 0-60 in a week. After level 60 our super xp bond was broken, and the grind now has been a little harder to swallow. I just need to suck it up, and do the two box thing. We have some really wonderful friends horde side who welcomed us back without question or hesitation. I'm looking forward to getting to 80 and being able to run all the instances with people we know how to raid with, and people we can just be silly with. I wish Elfy didn't have to grind all the rep again, or get all the gear again but at least we have a guild that things about eachother, and wants everyone to have things and enjoy playing. I just hope I can get into a groove, and get us through outlands and into northrend sooner rather than later. Thanks to my hatred of running things with my priest I didn't get to run any of the instances so I'm looking forward to seeing all that content for the first time. I'm just going to have to keep that in mind as I quest quest quest away.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
*Sigh*
I have been very neglectful of this blog. Elfy and I enjoyed (well, that's me keeing the glass half full) leveling our spacegoats through the new content. We joined a guild that said it planned to raid the new 10 man content, so that motiviated us to get to 80 so we could roll with the high levels. We got to 80, and I decided I did not want to raid with my shadow priest. >< I did not find it enjoyable to be expected to heal when I was not speced to do so. And I did not want to heal with my priest. So, while Elfy worked on faction for gear I started to power level a druid. Meanwhile, things kind of fell apart. The people were nice enough in the guild, but they seemed a little unwilling to let new people in to the "in" group. One minute Elfy is on the progression team, next minute he's not. He want to be a healer, they tell him they need dps. So he specs for dps and works on getting gear and numbers up to where they told him they needed to be. Then they tell him they need healers. Either way, he's not able to run in the 10 mans. Instead, they are putting in people who don't want to heal, or whos dps is very much below Elfy's. When he calls them out on this, they pretty much blow him off, and then imply he doesn't know what a progression team. Apparently our time raiding in Requiem, which was what, the 3rd ranked horde guild on our server at one point meant we knew nothing? Needless to say we quit the guild and went back Horde side to lick our wounds. This meant we left our level 80's, and my druid that I leveled as far as 66 (I leveled her 30+ levels in one week, that's how badly I wanted to raid with a druid). Our horde toons are level 70, so at least I have a 70 druid to fall back on. But Elfy was really enjoying the Shammy. This posed a problem.
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We're level 70 now. >< It took FOREVER to get from 60 to 70; at least, it seemed like it did sans our super XP bonus. And it will take FOREVER (more) to get to 80 (again). I still keep thinking: But I HAVE a level 80 with some good gear and faction. /cry
Chala is happy to once again be playing, well, Chala, and not her erstwhile substitute druid Lillabeth. Well, not quite erstwhile, because Chala is playing Lillabeth (yes... it gets confusing) to earn money for Elfy's... er... Scritch's... er... my super fast mount fund. You see, Chala (yes I really mean Chala this time) already has her super fast mount and all she needs is her cold weather flying skill. El... er Scritch only has his, well, no flying skill whatsoever. I appreciate my Cha... Lill... wife all the more for her willingness to grind mone... gold for me. :) Moo honey! o.O
~Elf(y)/Gwyn/Scritch/Whatever
Don't you feel like we have multiple personalities? When we are playing a lot I found myself almost calling you by one of your character names instead of David. I'm a dork!
We're now 25% into level 79 and the end of the XP grind is nigh. I can see light at the end of the tunnel. Right now, Scritch is gaining some much-needed rest bonus in preparation for the push to 80.
We've had some truly awesome support from our guildies and they made this experience MUCH less hateful (it's still pretty damned hateful though).
Once we ding 80 the real work begins. We have a ton of faction/badge grinding to do to prepare for end-game content. But that won't such nearly as much as grinding XP.
~Scritch
Postscript: I will never level another character to 80 again. Elfbite and Demonsfury can rot for all I care. :)
Post-postscript: Who am I kidding? I'll probably start leveling them next week. /sigh
We've been level 80 for a couple of weeks now and Scritch, my shaman, is mostly caught up to my alliance shaman in terms of gear and reputation. We've running heroics and I've even now switched to resto; having healed my first two heroics last night. What a joy! It's really cool to be playing my class the way I want to play it.
Our guild has run VoA, a 10-man raid in the Wintergrasp PvP area of Northrend. We did well, wiping only once.
We have three 10-man raids scheduled for this week: VoA (again), Obsidian Sanctum, and Naxxramas. I've been reading up on the strategies for the bosses so that I can lead the raids (something I've only done once--for our first VoA triumph), something I enjoy.
Lots of fun stuff to look forward to.
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