Baby Shadow Smiting
This week, when I have been bothered to play, (which isn’t much) I have been playing on my baby priest – Ahnara. She’s spent six levels grinding red dragon whelps, with very little questing (around 3 quests which happen to be on my way to-and-from the whelp spot). I have found my tolerance for grinding levels has grown and, even though I very quickly run out of rest xp, the extra 10% of rep from killing critters from my spiffy heirloom shoulders makes for rather reasonable xp per mob. No luck with getting a whelpling yet, but the mobs are still green for another level so here’s hoping…
On hitting 30 I, of course, went to pick up my new mount – it’s so nice to be able to run the length of Wetlands that little bit faster – going between Menethil and the whelp grinding spot was the only tedious part of grinding there! A lovely black stallion to go with with my Haliscan set (which I’ve thankfully not gotten sick of looking at yet).
I am enjoying the priest ‘experiment’ – as I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve never really been a cloth-caster player but playing my shaman as elemental has been a nice bridge to that – I’ve learned how to play ranged caster without being stomped into the ground all of the time. Also, priests are hardier than I could have hoped – with shield, renew, piles of dots and the odd holy nova I have taken down about 5 same-level mobs. I do have the advantage of extra hp through my twinky enchants, though (around 26 extra stamina overall at the moment) but I still feel more comfortable playing my priest than I had imagined I would.
Still, I’ve not hit the dreaded mid-30’s Stranglethorne borefest yet, so we’ll see how long I last! hehe.
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I would have never played a priest in WoW if they didn’t have the ability to solo! ;) While the class does have its ups and downs, what makes the ride worthwhile is that Blizzard has consistently made an effort to keep the class fun and viable in all aspects. One phrase I never hear any more: “You’re a support class. Get over it.” I love that. <3
About STV, I loathed that zone and went straight to Shimmering Flats (should start at 30ish) and Desolace. I was forced to go back to STV when achievements came out and I needed to knock out a few nameds, heh.
Spifty looking priest although you really do need to roll a shorty next time. Too many tall people in your roster!
Haha, I *just* wrote a post about how I have alt fever again… I’m looking to start a new alt, from scratch, maybe even on an RP server (/gasp!)
I love that black stallion. It’s one of my favorite mounts =)
Hm – grinding whelps is a leveling strategy I have not thought of at all, although it provides some incentive – maybe you could get a whelp! I might have to do that in some dry spells that I know I’ll get on my alts.
I’m really glad you’re enjoying priesting – it really is rather fun, isn’t it? :)
@Beli: I am not a huge fan of Shimmering Flats either – the best quests in that zone are the horde ones, which I miss!
I do rather need another small char – I might go all the way and roll a gnome next ;) Shame they have no healers! :(
@Anea: Yep, I couldn’t grind so much without some small incentive so whelps it is
Mob levels -
Red: 23-27
Green: 35-36
Black: 39-43
Azure: 50-54
With some small questing breaks for a level here or there you could grind them most of the way from level 22 – 60 :) For more sanity, you could grind a level of whelps here or there between levelling through quests – I plan to do all of the dense quest zones and then return to killing whelps until I’m of a level to do the next dense quest zone.