Setting goals in WOW
It is important to have goals in WOW or you’ll end up advancing at a slower than levelling a restoration druid or worse loose interest in the game. Personally I have a few goals, both short term and long term goals. When you’ve defined your goals you can break them down into more detailed tasks – and then start working on them.
My Short-term goals:
* Get Engineering up to 300
* Earn 20 Warsong Gulch badges to buy Forest Wind Bracers before levelling past 39 (13/20)
* Earn 20 Arathi Basin badges to purchase the mail boots before leveling past 39 (completed)
* Get Mining up to 300 before level 58 (I want to be able to mine as soon as entering the Outlands)
* Earn enough gold to buy a mount at level 40 (completed)
* Level to 47-49 before starting next round of glorious battleground PVP
Long-term goals:
* Get the hunter up to level 70 before next expansion (39/70)
* Max out Engineering (235/350)
* Max out Mining (180/350)
* Get full PVP gear
So right now I am spending all online time in Thunderbluff signing up for WSG games. With my limited play time I can usually manage to get around 20 badges over the course of a week. I’ve had about 50% wins so far in WSG and 75% in AB. Obviously the goals change as I level up.. I imagine that once I’ve reached Outlands I’ll add a few reputation goals.
What are your goals?
Sick with flu
I have been out of comission for almost a week. I’ve finally regained my health and then my little kid gets sick. Its a bad omen since he was the first one to get it meaning we are already in the next cycle. I hope we won’t catch it again.
Quaranteene protocol initiated.
Action in the Needles
So the other day my hunter finally reached Thousan Needles. I did get there a bit late so most quest where very easy for me. Now at 1k needles is usually where I start to bump into higher level opposing toons… and this time was no different. There is an escort quest up in the Highperch and alliance have a quest to collect poison sacks or something similar from that area. Anyway I was happily killing my way out of the area with the tauren escort when I spot a mounted dwarf warrior… and of course his level was ???.
At that time my hunter was 32.. and mounted meant that the dwarf was at least 40. The dwarf charged me and managed to chip away almost 50% health in the first round. However.. I did manage to wingclip him and gain distance and lay a trap… of course I managed to plop down the wrong one and the dwarf was incinerated (fiery trap). Both my pet and the escorted tauren started to bash at the little dwarf while I ran away for some distance… and then promptly started to kite him. I was sure I was going to eat an intercept – but none came.
The dwarf must have paniced, realizing that he was himself at 50% health. He started to target my pet. Big mistake. It allowed me to focus all DPS back on him… and voila – a dead dwarf! I checked him up on the armory afterwards and he appeared to have been level 47. Poor dwarf.
In the end I did not suffer one death in 1K needles… a new record for me.
My hunter is now 34 and questing away in Hillsbrad. Still very little PVP…
Earning gold through engineering
I’ve always loved the engineering profession but I’ve always felt that it was more for fun and a helpful for PVP (remember the glory days of the iron grenade?). When I started anew with my hunter I went engineering for the ability to craft ammo and other cool trinkets and relying on money generation to come from ore harvesting.
When training up engineering I made a large number a number of Deadly Blunderbusses , a semi-crappy rifle. I went to the AH to sell the stuff I made figuring that I get at least a few silvers worth out of it. There was already a couple of deadlies in AH – with the price tag set to 5 gold. Interesting. So I listed a few at 4.5 gold a piece. Two hours later I had sold 5 of them…. I have a feeling that it has something to do with a horde quest in Ashenvale, where a NPC requests a Deadly Blunderbuss as part of a quest objective. For alliance you could probably make a gold or two on Bronze tubes which is required for a quest in Duskwood.
I’ve been making these guns like crazy and sells about 3-4 each day. I have made a lot of gold in very short time for a new character that doesn’t have a main to support it.
I’ve also discovered that an accurate scope sells for about 5-6 gold on my server. Not bad. So all you engineers out there – go make some gold!
Warsong Gulch & Arathi Basin
Around level 26 I started getting serious about WSG and AB. Besides getting a "DING" going up against real people in the battlegrounds is what I really love in WOW.
I prefer WSG since I really think the fast paced capture-the-flag mode is exciting and calls for interesting strategies. However in WOW the matches in WSG often turns into honor grind somewhere in the middle. This is not what I sign up for. Those games can drag out for ages. Therefore I usually sign up for AB at the same time… By the time an AB opens up you can usually tell if the WSG game is a deadend or a great one. I’ve read somewhere that in an upcoming patch there will be a time factor in Warsong. I can’t wait. Right now fighting to collect the 20 or so WSG tokens you need for a PVP reward takes too much time.
Going into Arathi Basin at 29 is a whole other ballgame. It is fun, fast and interesting as people still have no mount or tier 4 talents. I had great fun defending the Gold Mine together with two other hunters (Slampan & Hottopic). Unfortunately they came from another realm so the odds of us three defending the GM again is slime to none. Needless to say nothing could get through our defenses letting our team focus on other nodes.
After a day and some odd hours in Arathi Basin I had enough tokens to purchase the AB boots. They are amazing for the level with an added bonus of increased movement speed! Nothing beats increasing movement speed before having a mount to royally transport you around.
My hunter has now turned 30… and while I gained the valuable hunter skill Feign Death it also means being the lowest of the low in the next BG bracket. I might stay away from the BGs until at least getting to level 35-36.
