Life after 70?
Well, let me just start here by saying that I game. I like it. I have a very pac-man mentality when it comes to leveling. I like to level, to "ding," to get the good gear and take down a dungeon boss with the best of them. I like playing.
I've played WoW obsessively till I've dinged 70 on my Warlock. She's a bad chick-- she appreciates multiple deaths! (I do, myself, specialize in dying in exotic places) . All my friends are level 70. Now, what on earth are we going to do? I've saved up the unthinkable 1000 gold (est.) for my flying mount. I now am the proud owner of a ebon griffon.
What'd was the first thing I did? I flew STRAIGHT UP from the vendor. Then I flew around the Shadowmoon Valley and gathered herbs. Why is Nightmare vine $15/gold for a measly 10 stack? Because the monsters that hang out beside them WANT TO EAT YOU. Plus, picking up Nightmare vine gives you a DoT. I am not happy with this because as a 'Lock, it is my job to hand out the DoT's. Nasty buggar!
I then took advantage of the new land-grab-flight questing method by getting the coordinates some quests at Allakhazam and then landing on said cordinates, picking up quest item/turning into a box (what is up with Blizzard? Too much PCP? Overworked? Underpaid?) and then immediately flying away.
I have not, however, dismounted in the air like my friend Ty has. Nor have I flown over Horde airspace in order to be promptly shot down. I imagine I will add those both to my repetoire in short order.
Hell, it had only been barely over a week since I got my epic mount-- the Warlock spell Dreadsteed. I had so much trouble controlling myself on it that I promptly got stuck behind the flagpole in Stormwind-- yknow, the one by the ramp to the flight path. Had to open the "trouble ticket" section and rewind my ass.
After all that level 70 fun and games, I respec'ed from demon (bai bai big-freaking-axe-Lux-babysitter!) to what I thought was a SM/Ruin build. It... ummm, didn't end up being that way. I'm more of a hybrid. Since more and more often I'm being demanded to do cc (that's crowd control, to the uninitated) I didn't want to ignore the demon tree all together. I got improved Healthstone, Imp, Succubus, and Voidwalker. That basically blew my abilities to get all the way to SM in the Affliction tree and Ruin in the Destruction tree. So far I don't freaking like it.
I've got to learn how to play again, it seems. I was killing my Felguard alot recently. Either I wasn't monitoring his health or his Cleave was getting too much aggro in instances or something, but I ended up needing more firepower and BBB's tankage. (I was also aggravated by the fact that my Felguard and Ty's Felguard's names were both Shaagun. Every macro that was written "give x to Shaagun" had to be rewritten when we were grouped together. A pain. WTF random demon names, Bliz?)
So it's me and the BBB again. Big Blue Babysitter, aka Blueberry, aka Phantaz, aka my guardian the first 45 levels in game. I kill him alot, too. Please see above comment about learning to play. (I do have the instant VW clickie trinket because I made my friends go back with me to the Sunken Temple to do the feather quest. Ty trashed his! Idiot! That's a free shard, if anything, if your VW gets dispelled. I've found myself without shards and needing pet-age ASAP so I've used my clickie instead of casting an Imp. Marvelous!)
Pets aside, I can DoT with the best of them. I think I'm pretty good in groups. I've already gotten another guild invite from
When I started my 'Lock I read alot about the class and I determined that I should go SM/Ruin. Well, I hated playing. Could. Not. Do. Anything. By. Self. What I didn't understand in the beginning was that to level you need to be able to kill things, not spend countless game-time doing a corpse run from one side of the Wetlands to the other (Crocolisks anyone? Cloth Armor? Yummy snacks! HATE. MURLOCS.) Then Ty transferred to our server and reguilded with us. Thank god, we had someone who actually knew how to play my class. Not like the other countless someones who I partied with, all of whom said "oh yeah this is an alt, my main's a 70 lock. You need to be doing ______ (insert ridiculous instruction here)."
Ty said, "Go Demon." And I did. And we were twinkies. Both being the only Warlocks in our little guild and both being the only humans. Both with matching Felguards named Shaagun. And all was good.
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