Check Point - 3/30/2010

Thought I would post a blog about how I enjoy the different classes. I've played them all (except Death Knight) to at least level 20, which I know isn't that high, but I felt like letting you know how much I liked or disliked the classes during the early stages of the game.

Paladin
The Paladin was my very first roll when I started WoW over a year ago. To tell you the truth I didn't much like the Paladin in the early levels (I think up to 20) because I thought the mechanics (judgement, seals, etc.) was confusing. The whole game was new to me at the time so I think the Paladin was just too challenging for me. That is why I rerolled to something easier, the Rogue, which I will get to next. I also didn't like the fact that I couldn't pull mobs to me because there was no range weapon or spell that I could use.

I then started playing him again to level to 30 and got the Exorcism spell which solved the pull issue. I also began to understand the mechanics of using the Paladin and in fact I really started enjoying the class. I love having a strong spell for pulling in mobs and also being able to melee with the mobs. After the fighting is done, all I have to do is heal myself. A very self sufficient class. Especially since they can also wear heavy armor. Right now this is one of my favorite classes, although if I do end up pulling to many mobs, I tend to die rather quickly. I have to time my heals right.

Rogue
This, I suppose, would be my main character although he's only 4 levels higher than my second alt. I rolled him second because I thought it would be an easier class. I wouldn't say that the rogue is easy to play but it was nice to have something different than the Paladin at the time. I'm not much of a stealth guy as I felt it took to long to move around. But I did use it if I was going up against multiple mobs. I really liked dual wielding and also the poisons. After leveling the Rogue for quite a while though, I got burned out. It seemed like I was doing the same thing over and over again so that's why I rolled again.

Warrior
My 3rd character and he is almost to 30. At first I didn't care too much for the mechanics of the Warrior, but I have learned over the past month to really enjoy it. It is becoming really easy to kill multiple mobs, even if they are higher level than myself. All it is is charge, rend, block, revenge, thunder clap, and so forth. The only bad thing is I have to use bandages quite a bit, but lately that hasn't been the case. I may fight 3 mobs at once and then after they are dispatched I look down at my hp and only about 10-20% is gone. That's basically filled up by the time I get to the next group of mobs. I'm really enjoying my Warrior.

Mage
My Mage is my 4th character and I rolled him because I wanted to try out the true caster class which I rarely do when playing rpg games for some reason. I haven't played my mage in several months as he is next on my list to level to 30 once the Warrior is done. But, I think I remember enjoying the mechanics behind the mage. I would frost the mobs and then hit them with spells until they were dead. Created my own food and water so didn't take long to recoup between fights. I look forward to getting back to my Mage this week (maybe tonight even).

Warlock
For my fifth character I wanted to try out a pet class. I was really wanting to stay human as I knew the starting area better so I went with the Warlock instead of the Hunter. My warlock is at 23 right now and I actually really enjoy playing this class as well. The Void Walker as the tank is very nice. It makes it pretty simple to level with the Warlock. It is difficult sometimes to manage the Void Walker and make sure he doesn't pick up too many mobs. Although when this happens you can simply start high tailing it away, because once a couple of mobs focus on you, you're in big trouble with only cloth armor. I can't wait to get back to this class as well.

Druid
For my sixth character I decided I wanted some new scenery so I went with the Night Elf Druid. Ugh. This is my least favorite character. I've already played a Mage which is basically what the Druid is in regular form, just a lot less powerful. I had already played the Warrior, which is the bear form, but with a lot less options. I just got the cat form at level 20, or maybe I have to do some quest for it first, not sure, but since I have already played the Rogue it seems like it would pretty much be the same but with less options, like bear form was. Maybe it will be better, I'm not sure. I tried to play the Druid in Bear form but it was so darn boring. I thought regular form was at least a little interesting, but unfortunatly I died a lot because my spells were not that powerful. I know a lot of people like the Druid but I just haven't found anything to like yet. Hopefully it gets better, but I'm not looking forward to leveling him to 30 when the time comes around.

Priest
After the Druid I wanted to come back to the Human lands so I rolled a Priest for my seventh character. I didn't think I would like the Priest much so that is why he's my last human character. Something about healing didn't excite me too much. But when I started playing I actually grew to enjoy it. It was nice to hit mobs and be able to have some powerful heals to keep you alive. The only problem was the mana drain. I have to stack up a lot of juices and take breaks between fights. He's at level 20 right now so I look forward to seeing how he does on the way to 30 in the next couple of months.

Shaman
The next character I was just trying to get one of the last classes in. So number eight was the Shaman. I wasn't too excited about using totems and even after leveling to 20, I'm still not that excited about them. They're ok I suppose but they annoying as well. I suppose the good thing about the Shaman is that he can survive since he's not too squishy like other caster classes. The Shaman never really excited me that much.

Hunter
The final character (since I don't have a DK yet) was my Hunter. Not sure why I left him for last, mostly because I couldn't get a Human Hunter. I wish I didn't wait so long though, because I really enjoyed leveling my hunter to 20. Much like the Warlock, it's great to have a tank out there while you sit back and shot your gun or bow and arrow. It's really simple to play the Hunter and leveling is a breeze. I can't wait to get back to him.

In order, this is how I would rank the classes (from worse to best):
9. Druid
8. Shaman
7. Rogue
6. Priest
5. Mage
4. Warlock
3. Warrior
2. Hunter
1. Paladin

So I suppose Paladin wins out so far, but it may just be because I've just played him recently. We'll see if my feeling change in my next check point blog.

Daily Blog - January 11, 2010

Played several hours over the weekend and got all my characters up to level 20. My Druid didn't take too long as I was halfway there before the weekend started. Needed a lot of drinks to get there though as his mana ran out quickly. Bought him a horse and once I start playing him again I will try out the new cat form. Hopefully it's better than the bear form. Next up was my Priest which I've mentioned before is one of my favorite characters. I take down mobs left and right and never die. It may take longer to kill off mobs, but there's usually no waiting in between fights as his mana rarely gets low unless I'm fighting multiples. It was easy to get to 20 with him. I also bought his horse. Finally it was my Shaman that was left. I brought him to level 20 last night. Wasn't too difficult, but not really excited about using all the totems. I got his elephant afterwards.

My next step was going back to my original character, the Paladin. I think it's been several months since I've played him, but I think I will go ahead and level him to 30. Looking at his quests my Paladin still hadn't completed all of his quests in Westfall, so went back there and started going through them. All I have left there now is the Lighthouse quests. Should be simple since he's level 20. Once I finish Westfall, I'll head over to Redridge and get through all of them. I'm pretty sure I won't be level 30 by then so I'll finish up by going to Darkshire.

Daily Blog - January 8, 2009

Didn't play last night as I watched the college football championship instead. I did learn that I can get travel form for my Driud since it went to level 16 after that patch a while back. I hadn't played my Druid in a while so didn't realize it before yesterday. Should be playing tonight.

Daily Blog - January 7, 2010

Played my Druid once again last night in Redridge. Dinged level 19 and halfway to 20 now. It's a slow process. Had to buy a lot of food and drink to keep this fella alive. Working on the goolash (or whatever) quest right now and got everything except for the condor meat. That will be difficult because the condors are in dangerous zones, at least they are for my Druid. I'm using his magic instead of the bear form. Not sure if it's easier using bear or not. I just think using the bear form is so darn boring....

Not sure if I'll play tonight as the championship game is on.

Daily Blog - January 6, 2009

I played my Druid last night, but skipped the leveling of my skills and went directly to just leveling my character. I spent a couple hours around Redridge and got half-way to level 19. I really dislike my Druid. His mana goes too fast and once that's gone his health goes fast as well. Maybe I have the wrong gear for him..... I will play again tonight, but if my wife plays then I'll be playing my Warlock.

Daily Blog - January 4, 2010

Another long weekend and I was able to get in some more playing time. I finished leveling my Warlock to 20 and bought a new mount. Then I realized that he gets the skill to summon his own special mount...oh well. Next I am supposed to work on my Druid, but I think the Druid is one of my least favorite characters and I really enjoyed playing my Warlock so I went ahead and kept on playing my Warlock instead. I'm currently at level 22 right now. I've got my wife to come back and play as well. She's a level 18 Rogue so I helped her level last night. Maybe I will play my Warlock when I'm playing with her and level my Druid when I'm playing by myself. I'm going to be really busy at work for the next couple of months though so may not get a lot of time to play.

Meet Dotsmadasix, my Balance Druid....

This is probably my least favorite character. It just is not that exciting changing into a bear. It's a Warrior with less options. When I get the cat form, it will be a Rogue with less options. Not very fun to me. I hear the Druid shines more when he is further along, but I guess we'll see. Here are his stats:

Level - 18
Strength - 29
Agility - 48
Stamina - 35
Intellect - 45
Spirit - 52
Armor - 453
Leather - 150
Skinning - 120
Fishing - 150
Cooking - 180
First Aid - 150

My Druid is pretty much middle of the pack in all stat categories. He is my Leatherworker so he makes armor kits for all my alts, but that's about it. As I said, pretty boring character. He ranks #7 overall.

Daily Blog - August 3, 2009

Only played a little over the weekend. Got my Druid up to level 18 and that was about it. Played a little Oblivion on my Xbox 360 and also watched a couple of episodes of Carnivale Season 2 which is an HBO tv series that was on some years back. Not too bad of a show, just very dark. Once my wife starts playing again I think I want to use my Priest to heal her while she's leveling.

Daily Blog - July 30, 2009

Played a few hours last night. Mostly just fished my way up to 150 for my Druid and also did some of the delivery quests in Redridge. That's about it. I'm halfway between level 17 and 18 right now so I've decided not to update any of my gear. Shouldn't have much trouble leveling to 18 tonight if I have time to play. After that it's off to my Preist.

Daily Blog - July 29, 2009

Had the electrician put in a electrical outlet and run my video wires through my ceiling yesterday. (only cost me $45!) I also mounted my projector to the ceiling and plugged everything in. My screen size for playing WoW is now at 10 feet and looks great. After all that was done my wife and I played for an hour or so. I used my Druid and we completed the Lighthouse quests in Westfall. I'm at level 17 now and moving over to Redridge to get to level 18. Hopefully I'll be able to do that tonight.

My wife got another character last night, which will make it her third. Her first was a Paladin, but she says it's too difficult and confusing to play. She's been using a Rogue which she thinks is easier. Now she rolled a Warrior which should also be easy. I'm thinking she may start becoming an Altoholic like myself.

Daily Blog - July 28, 2009

Was getting ready to play last night with my wife, but had problems with my system while using the projector. Everything automatically zoomed after I did the Function F8 on my dell laptop. Messed up everything when I tried to map my keys. Took a couple of hours to find a fix for it. It had to do with my microsoft mouse that I use at work. After that was finally fixed I added ctrl and shift to my extra Logitech mouse buttons and then redid my interface for my Druid and mapped my keys based on advice I found online. I use the esdf keys for movement and then my normal combat moves I use qwrt12345zxcv and then my healing goes to ctrl qwrt12345zxcv and I'll use shift qwrt12345zxcv for my forms. Everything else can be clicked with my mouse. Once I got all that taken care of it was already too late to play. So maybe tonight I will get around to actually playing.

Daily Blog - July 27, 2009

Only played a little bit over the weekend. My wife is level 16 with her Rogue so I played my level 16 Druid with her last night in Westfall. We're currently working on a strategy to fight against the Murlock magic users. We pulled in too many at one point and quickly died.

I bought myself a bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse this weekend from Logitech and am trying to get used to using it. It's somewhat backwards from what I have been using. I was just using my lap top touchpad for my mouse, using the arrow keys for movement and then assigned all my skills to letters on the keyboard. So I would move with my right and and select skills with my left hand. Now I'm changing it to moving with my left using the WASD keys and selecting skills with my right for my mouse. There's a lot of buttons on my mouse though so I think I can actually move with my mouse if I can figure it out. Then I can go back and map my skills to my keyboard and select them with my left hand. It seems faster to do it his way rather than moving my mouse around all the time. Maybe I'll do some research online today to see what other people do.

Daily Blog - July 20, 2009

Had a busy weekend so didn't get to play much WoW. I had a wedding to go to on Saturday and a Birthday to go to on Sunday. In between all that I was trying to get my new home theater room set up. I bought my first projector which is an Epson 1080P and also a new 7.1 home theater system from Onkyo. Hooked everything up and projected onto my wall in my game room (still waiting on my screen to be delivered) and everything looked and sounded fantastic. Last night I hooked my computer into the projector and my sound into my home theater system and it was freaking awesome!

The picture above is blurry because of the camera I used, but believe me it's extremely clear in person and it was about a 106 inch screen size, not to mention the sound was spectacular. It shook my house.

Anyway, I did level my Druid's first aid to 150, so now I will work on fishing.

Daily Blog - July 17, 2009

Quickly finished leveling up my Leatherworking for my Druid last night and also leveled my cooking to 180. I received a lot of gold for the things I sold the night before so I was able to buy medium leather and medium hide. I aslo started leveling my first aid. I think I'm around 80 right now, so I'll be able to quickly level that tonight if I play and then move on to fishing which will probably take a while.

Daily Blog - July 14, 2009

I leveled my Paladin's engineering up last night so I could make my Hunter some bullets. I made 1,200 bullets and sent them over to my Hunter. That's about as far as I got though. I went to bed early (around 10) last night. I've been staying up past midnight for the last several days and it's catching up to me so I decided to take a break. I also helped my wife a little bit. Tonight I should be able to take my Hunter back to Duskwood and kill more wolves for medium leather and finally get my Druid's Leatherworking up to 150.

One other thing - why doesn't the WoW armory ever update? It's so sporadic. Sometimes it'll update every day, other times it won't update for weeks. Pretty crappy if you ask me.

Daily Blog - July 13, 2009

Played several hours over the weekend but didn't get too much accomplished as far as my goals are concerned. I'm still working on leveling my leatherworking for my Druid, I think I'm around 135 or 140. Right now I need medium leather to level the profession and the auction house prices are too high (around 5 gold per stack). I remember back several months ago when I started playing in December 2008 I would sell leather on the auction house for much cheaper. I believe the server was fairly new back then. I would sell a stack of light leather for about 1 gold and be happy, now they go for 2-3 gold. Same with copper bars as well.

So now that it's too expensive to buy I have to go out there and collect it myself. I've been using my Hunter because I find it easier to kill mobs that are a few levels higher with him. I went to Duskwood to kill some of the wolves to get my leather. It takes a long time, and I somewhat regret giving up skinning for my level 34 Rogue. I could have easily gotten medium leather with him in Duskwood, but unfortunately I switched him to herbablism instead. Oh well, it's more difficult to do herbalism with a low level charcter than skinning so I'll just use my Hunter for now. While getting leather I actually got him up to level 19.

Also, in the past week my wife has started to play again so I've been helping her. She only had one character before (paladin) and she thought it was a difficult class to play, so I told her to be a Rogue. She's enjoyed it so far, but is having a little trouble in some areas. She is trying to master the technique of drawing only one mob at a time. The Rogue is a little squishy if you get too many mobs on you at once. I went ahead and helped her with some armor and weapons to make it a little easier.

Maybe tonight I'll be able to collect some more leather, but my Hunter has now run out of bullets (heavy shot) so I need to make some more with my engineer, but unfortunately my engineer is only around level 40 or so. So I'm working on leveling my Paladin's engineering profession so he can make heavy shot for my Hunter.

It sure is slow going leveling all my alts.

Daily Blog - July 10, 2009

Finished getting my Hunter to level 18 last night. Did the Lighthouse quests and then several of the delivery quests in Lakeshire. Got the Multi-Shot skill which I believe is an essential skill for a Hunter's arsenal. Of course, I won't get to use it for a while as now I've moved on to Dotsmadasix, my Druid. I need to upgrade leatherworking for my Druid which won't take much time considering I'm already at 115. My Hunter is a skinner so maybe I'll take him out to Redridge and kill some of the beasts over there that are part of my quests anyways. I can try out my new skill and get some leather for my Druid. That's a good idea. My goal this weekend is to get my Druid through level 18 and then start on my Priest. I actually enjoy playing my Priest.

Daily Blog - July 9, 2009

Played a few hours last night and finished gearing up my Hunter. He's now ready to get to level 18. Tonight I will be in Westfall doing the boring Lighthouse quests and probably do some more quests in Redridge before I make it to 18. Probably won't take that long because my Hunter is stacked. I'll be using my tank bear as my pet. After I'm done with my Hunter I'll move on to my Druid which is probably one of my least favorite characters. When he's in his bear form it just seems so limited, but when in his normal form he's pretty weak. I know that there are some better forms latter on though, so I'll keep plowing through the levels.

Maybe by the time patch 3.2 comes out I'll have all my alts to level 20. If I do then I'll be able to buy a mount for all of them (if I have the gold ,of course). I heard that they are lowering the level requirement from 30 to 20. Not so sure if I like them lowering the requirement all the time, but I suppose since all my characters are around 20 it really helps me out. Now if my characters all just reached 30, I would be kinda pissed off.