Never enough gold in the day.

So I've been buying things for alts, flying, Cold Weather Flying, and drooling over a few Dual Spec opportunities, and my (admittedly low) gold supplies just aren't up to the task of supporting this. So I'm concentrating a little more on my DK's professions, Saronite Shuffling and Scroll making to try to get some more gold infused into my characters. It's been going decently, but QA3 has a lot of grunt work to set up/adjust the prices for posting so many different cost items. So I've been devoting some time to working up a little program to do all that grunt work for me!

Nothing too fancy, just a little something to do the math/enter the data for me. Basically all I'll have to do is enter the price for mats then the program will, itself, calculate the lowest and highest value I'll try to sell my scrolls at. Just thinking about it right now, I can probably get away with pasting in the values myself, but eventually I'd like it to insert the values into the lua files that QA3 looks at, even query into something like the item value database that's built off auction scans to get the prices for the mats when it first starts... But that's for the future.

Other than that not much of interest going on. Been plugging away at most of my characters at once, trying to keep rested xp down by leveling through dungeons. Man, the queue for healers around 60 is just about instant, and the Tank queue is just about as fast, and pulls ahead towards 70. I'm hoping to get my DK more into tanking once I can get the Cobalt Tank set at 70, but I'm still feeling my way into a DW Tanking Frost spec. We'll see how that turns out... ^_^

But back to work for me now!
-LaFollet

Whoa...

So I've totally flaked out on a few things now while RAFing up some chars. Mostly it's been the level granting and when I should have been stopping those level grants. Also, I've had an epic math failure which will result in leveling my Hunter up more with RAF, or less and not getting to 60 fast.

I've got about 10 days left on the original 30 days and have a Priest, Shamen, Druid, Warrior, and almost Hunter to 60 (or can get there with level grants.) I've decided to forgo leveling a Rogue/something combo and save that for a Worgen alt, which leaves me without anything else to level after my Hunter. My mage is already planned to be Night Elf, and I don't like any of the race options for Warlock other than Worgen which obviously has to wait for Cataclysm. What I'll probably end up with is leveling my Hunter until I out-level the RAF bonus (4 levels higher than other character) then just drop the extra levels from making my Warrior 58 on my Hunter and just see where that ends things.

My Death Knight is now 65, Jewelcrafting at 400, Enchanting at 350. I'll probably focus on her after my Hunter to get high enough to do the JCing daily to start collecting tokens for cuts. I'm still not 100% if I'd rather prospect the Titanium Ore I get or sell it on the AH. Price cutting is pretty severe, so it might take a while to sell, but uncut gems just seem like a "waste" of money.

The one major draw-back of leveling so many characters so fast is I now have so many profession slots to fill...

Work...
Work...
Work...

-LaFollet

About a week? /NEWPOST!

So I splurged and got a Battered Hilt for my Paladin's Retribution set. Cost a bundle, 12k gold, but I figured it was worth it at the time, if just to have the sword and the experience in the end. And truth to tell, it was TOTALLY worth it. The quest line was great, with the usual WoWieness, like helping a Gnome Cloth Washer with his work, to the epic end at the Sunwell. What's even better though, is that's it's probably come close to doubling my DPS. I know, seems like an exaggeration, but it's what it feels like, and isn't too far from the truth. It's at least been a 60%-80% increase across the board. Of course the couple of upgrades I got about the same time probably helped things too... ^_^

A truly terrible Zul'Farrak PuG, followed by a truly awesome Zul'Farrak PuG both destroyed then rebuilt my faith in low-level instancing. I don't think I'll dual-box in instances again, but it certainly had it's moments. My Paladin/Shamen is 52/51 right now, just questing to finish up to 60, and I have plans to get my Hunter to about 30ish then grant levels to 60ish. Or I could just grant the current levels (after spreading the love to the characters I want) to get to about 30ish.

I think...

Unless I counted wrong...

Which is a possibility.

So I've been feeling drawn back to my old guild, who shouldn't know that I've been playing again. They've moved on to a much harder-core raiding mentality, with raids just about every night, and have lost the small-guild feel I liked about playing with the people I knew when we formed. That's what and where they were going from the beginning, I was just along because it was the people I enjoyed playing with, but at the end of my last time playing I wasn't so much as playing with them, as playing somewhere in the same group. It's a very subtle distinction, but the flavor and camaraderie that I had there just wasn't around anymore, and with the continued influx of new people it wasn't going to come back. Which is why I left and now find myself on a new server.

My Priest and Druid are kicking it Outlands style now. Random Dungeon Outlands Style!

It's been really interesting too, since as a Discipline Priest I have about a million different tools to use to shore up any group that comes up. But I've found almost the opposite to be true on my Druid. I've got a lot of different tools, several new kinds of cooldowns, but not a whole lot of breadth to my bread and butter healing tools. I know it's changes as I get closer to cap, it's just kinda weird right now.

I suppose that covers enough ramblings for now...

-LaFollet

Merry Christmas and all that stuff.

Well, it's been a while since my last post where my Priest/Hunter was at level 33. They've since completed the trek to 60 in 1 day 20 hours, right on the expected time investment from the guide I was following. Which is saying something because I wasn't super strict about not wasting time. I've since shelved both of them in the interest of my next duo, a Shamen/Paladin.

I've been leveling them in instances, Paladin tanking while the Shamen's on follow dropping totems and healing. I'm not going to say there hasn't been a few hairy moments, but overall it's been a cakewalk, the worst thing is dealing with some of the people you come across. Generally though it only takes one time of me letting them almost die/die when they pull to get them to follow my original directive of "Let me pull."

I've been switching between my Shamen and my Druid though for the last 10 levels or so, both with full Heirloom gear (for the xp bonus). It's been really weird learning two different styles of healing at the same time. I often want for my totems while on my Druid, or want to HoT up the DPS when AoE is going on when playing my Shamen. They both seem to have a lot more "Snap Tools" than a Priest or Paladin though, of course they're all fairly balanced, it's just that having access to tools that trivialize the Healing shortfalls I've fought against really is quite nice. ^_^

All that to say that the Paladin/Shamen/Druid love-triangle thing is about level 43ish (Paladin is higher, Shamen/Druid is trailing, with some level grants to keep up) and climbing fast. It's only taken me about 1 day to get to 43, with even more standing about that I did with my Priest/Hunter.

Hopefully things won't slow down much, and I can get the characters leveled that I want to get leveled. It's probably better to shoot for Cataclysm for all this plan than anything else, but who really knows how much time is left? And if I can eek out some profit in the meantime... ^_^

-LaFollet