BC good practice?

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:21 am

I'm thinking that this will get you a jump start on lvling. Drop any weird quests that aren't going to be immediately finished (AQ drape, ring, item), and go to an area that you haven't really quested in. (Winterspring, EPL, Silithus, etc or a combination of all of them)

Xpac comes out and you go turn them in, insta XP

Need money? Buy 14/16 slot bags now. Put them up on the AH once all the new BL/Dranei alts get made and are spending their monies like crazy.

Everyone can get quick first aid so farm that wool/linen/silk/mageweave now!!

You're a warlock? Advertise summoning services. You need an alt in the major city/barrens advertising and your main in Kargath, 1k Needles, Un'Goro, Silithus, etc etc

You're a mage, man you have it made. Lowbie water, food, ports. cha ching!

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:02 pm

Have 3-4 stacks of runecloth ready before you head into Outland - I didn't, and it took me so long to get enough runecloth to learn netherweave bandages that I had enough netherweave saved to take me straight to heavy netherweave

Heavy runecloth bandages are green for at least 10-15 levels before you can learn netherweave, so you'll need a lot of runecloth!

If you're a skinner, make sure you've got the +5 enchant at minimum, preferably Finkle's Skinner or Zulian Slicer - the first skinnable mobs you're likely to kill much are 60-61, and you need 305 skinning to skin the 61s... and you don't get a skillup for every mob, more like every 4-5 mobs.

If you plan to level a new race to 60, pick up any useful stuff that's going dead cheap at the moment; it won't be half so cheap when you get to the stage of needing it and supply's dried up because everyone's in Outland (this especially applies to stuff like the group buff books from the 5-man instances - those skills are not trainable in beta currently, so you need the books, even though the AQ books etc are now trainable)

If you hear a roar and the ground starts to shake... RUN!

Skyfire · Post by **Skyfire** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:57 pm

Shattrah portals > Mage portals.

Sorry.

Post by **Rollie** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:23 pm

Ya, but how do you get back to Shattrah more than once per hour ;p

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:46 pm

Be a mage?

The way I work it is flying from wherever I am in Outland to Shattrath, portalling to IF, doing my auctions and training, then hearthing back... seems the fastest way to get around for those of us who aren't mages (or shamans - am I right in thinking they can hearth every 15 minutes?)

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:53 pm

Astral recall is 30 min. kek

Naraht · Post by **Naraht** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:03 pm

no, it's 15. ^__^

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:08 pm

Naraht wrote:no, it's 15. ^__^

Definitely 15. Plus it doesn't use the hearthstone cooldown, so technically you can get in 5 hearths per hour if you use the hearthstone first or last.

I'm hoping skinning might actually become useful again in BC, since I've got 315 skinning but I haven't used it for anything except skinning bosses (ony, etc.) in a long time since rugged leather prices dropped through the floor.

This week is gonna involve a lot of farming...

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:14 pm

Skinning will definitely be useful I think, I found I couldn't skin enough to supply my leatherworking skillups and I had to buy quite a bit, at least until 350 skill... now I'm 350 I'm held back by other stuff, such as not having enough rep to get orange recipes, or not having enough non-leather ingredients. Leather is needed in huge quantities to make anything though, so skinning should be profitable for some time

oiseaux · Post by **oiseaux** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:20 pm

My warlock is a skinner, but man do I hate the amount of scraps I am getting. I am level 64 and at level 373 skinning and still get scraps on level 68 mobs.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:30 pm

I get them off lvl 69s

Not found a skinnable 70 yet but I'm not expecting things to change when I do...

Good going on killing 68s at 64 btw, I haven't tried more than +3 levels, and generally stick to +1 or +2... rogues need a buff lol, I get hurt so badly in most fights that it really isn't funny at times

Very unpredictable, one fight I'll only lose a few hundred health, the next I'll lose 2/3 of it... on the same mobs. Can't see what makes it work sometimes and not others, I just know I've used more bandages and flash powder on beta than in the entire time my character's existed on live, and as a result I'm very cautious about what I fight

oiseaux · Post by **oiseaux** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:13 pm

I have died more times in Beta than I think my warlock has died to PVE in her whole wow career. The amount of gold I have spent on repairs is sick. Has to be over 100G now, but I am the exploring type person. I have all of the flight paths in Outlands, which makes it fun. I bought myself one of those Dragonhawk pets in Netherstorm. They are the sweetest looking things!

Yes I can take something that level 68 but it isn't fun nor easy. lol The amount of resists is unbelievable. If fear gets resisted more than 3 times in row, I go down.

If I were Demonology specced, I bet I could take something level 69 because the felguard is amazingly overpowered...=p

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:17 pm

Hehe ouch on the repairs! I've only died a handful of times, but cloak of shadows+vanish is a useful strategy

If I hadn't been a rogue I'd have died a lot more often I think, takes a while to learn what I can and can't do, and some places are a bit too crowded with mobs...

At least I don't get resists, just a lot of misses and a lot of being hit very hard

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:22 pm

Another TBC tip...

While that lift might look like it's a solid thing going up and down, it isn't, so if you're not sure you'll make it, wait for the next one.

Yeah, guess who just got on one only to have it vanish under my feet and the fall kill me

Skyfire · Post by **Skyfire** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:35 pm

Learn to Slow Fall...

Oh, wait.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:24 am

Even if I'd been on a class with slow fall it's kinda hard to activate it while already falling, and on a mount

Doesn't matter now though (at least till the end of beta), flying mounts ftw

gummy7 · Post by **gummy7** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:37 am

Miners, start collecting raw ore. You're going to make a mint come the 16th. Everyone who's rolling new characters are going to be taking jewelcrafting and it's going to be metal and gem intensive. Grab a lot of copper and thorium and pack it on a bank alt.

Skyfire · Post by **Skyfire** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:01 pm

Balgair...

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you can dismount while in midair. You can also activate Slow Fall in midair.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:27 pm

Yes, strangely enough I'm not stupid...

However doing both quickly when in an unexpected fall isn't easy...