I leveled a Horde Hunter up on a PvE server. I’ve played in PvP environments before and they can be frustrating. So I was working a way on this Hunter and got her all the way to 75. Then my guild disbanded and I lost interest in the toon and the class. I found it just frustrating to play and so I dabbled with some others. I have since figured out I wasn’t playing the Hunter right.
I finally settled on a Death Knight. A Horde DK at that. Along the way a work mate talked me into starting a toon on the server he plays on, but that meant if I wanted to play with him and his wife I had to go Alliance. So I started a Night Elf Druid. I really don’t like that class. It could be just me. Maybe I’m lazy as my friend keeps telling me the DK is drastically over powered.
So I’m going along playing my Horde DK and feeling good about it because I’m making progress. Then comes the pressure to get a toon to 80. Oh, but on his server so I can play with he and his wife. We also worked on another co-worked who opted to just pay to transfer his 80 Rogue over. So here they all are at 80 and I’ve got to do something. So I started a Draenei Death Knight and started working her up to 80.
It’s been work too. Trying to pick up as many levels as I can in a week. I’m not sure when I really started working on her but it’s been a coupld of months at least. I figured since I was going to make the effort to get to 80 so I could raid and such with my friends then I had better learn more about what I needed to do that. My DK is blood spec DPS. I’m getting better at that, but I’m jumping a little ahead. Up to the point of my second DK I hadn’t done hardly any dungeons. I was concerned that I would perform so badly that I’d get a crappy reputation on the server and would have a hard time later.
My friend tells me that dungeons are the way to go. You get good experience and good gear from them. And with the new Dungeon Finder tool now the opportunity to make a fool of yourself and tick off other players is now spread across all realms(server). Ok. So I get to play with people I may never encounter again. Less pressure if I screw up.
I dutifully begin doing one random dungeon a day using the Dungeon Finder. Some days it seems to take forever to get in one. That’s because I’m DPS. Other days not so bad. Some of the early dungeons I did we all did a lot of dying. Experience does count for something. One dungeon, apparently because of my gear level, I ran it 3 or 4 times. I finally got good at not dying on the last boss. There was one that we went through 2 or 3 wipes and 3 tanks. The third tank was a keeper and with that one we were able to finish the dungeon and not die again.
This brings me to where I am today. My Draenei Death Knight sitting at 6.5 bubbles into 79. I have a good chance, if I put the time in, of getting to 80 this weekend. Something I hope to do. Then I can work on leveling my Mining and my Jewel Crafting in between dugeons and getting better gear. I am finally approaching the end game stuff and really excited about it. It really is an accomplishment. This will be the first toon in any game I’ve played that I have gotten to the highest level.
My next plans? You mean in between working my way to the very last dungeon on super hard mode? Which will take a while since I’ve got to go back through all the dungeons on heroic and then 10 man and 25 man modes. Well, I started a Paladin on the same server that I think I may grow her up to be a healer. When waiting in the Dungeon Finder queue the hold up is always the healer or the tank. Who knows I may duel spec her to tank as well. Or I may duel spec the DK for tank as well as dps. We’ll see.
It will be nice to have finally reached the highest level in a game. I shall enjoy not needing to do stuff just to reach a higher level. At least until Cataclysm comes out. Then we’ll all be working up to 85 and the madness will start again.
See you in the Machine.
Originally published at: suguayproductions.com/joomla which has been discontinued.
