Tobold's Blog
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
 
WoW Journal - 26-July-2006

I'm still playing my lower level priest exclusively. He now got up to level 42, mainly by doing quests in Stranglethorn. I'll be glad when I see the last of that zone. But I also did some dungeon excursions, that's what I made the priest for. After several tries I not only finished the Scarlet Monastery main quest, which unfortunately gives only very bad loot for priests, but I also managed to win Whitemane's Chapeau, something I really wanted to have. Not because of the stats, although they are good, but because of the looks. Up to now I was wearing cowl or a sorcerer's hat. Now I'm really looking like a priest. :)

The one thing that playing on a new server didn't do was turning back time. Not only not for me, but neither for anyone else. Most of the experienced players did a mad rush to level 60 and are now starting to raid, much faster than on the first servers. Where that is really noticeable is in the demand for things that can't be rushed, like arcanite transmutes or mooncloth, which have a long cooldown.

Thanks to the farmers the prices for runecloth on the auction house are low, you can get a stack for as little as 1 gold 20 silver. That means I can make runecloth bags for less than 2 gold. But they sell for 4 to 5 gold, an excellent profit margin. I now hit 300 tailoring, and learned to make mooncloth and mooncloth bags. I'll make some for myself first before selling them, but I guess the profit on those is even bigger.
Comments:
you are excellent at tailoring tobold. but take the profit from that and invest in enchanting. Always in high demand.
 
Reading about your apparent enjoyment of priestly playing, and your new one inspired me to roll up my first Warcraft priest a few weeks back. I'm amused to find that for the first time, I don't find leveling to be ungodly hard as a healer.

It's quite shocking for me =)

Keep the updates coming. As this is my first Horde class, much less priest, I'm trying to follow in your leveling footsteps when possible...assuming a sort of road more traveled kind of analogy.
 
Oz, I think that the secret of leveling easily as a priest in WoW is in using the very best wand you can get hold of. Starting the combat with damaging spells and shadow word pain, bubbling up and finishing with the wand is only slightly slower than a full shadow priest spell attack. But during the time you use the wand, you regenerate mana, and don't end up out of mana after every fight like a mage or shadow priest does. So you end up killing more mobs per hour, with slightly slower combats, but much shorter downtime between fights.
 
Yes, the wand is the #1 item on my shopping list each time I check the AH. I don't really understand if there is a big deal between the types (fire/arcane/shadow/nature is what I've seen so far), but as I remember far too often seeing IMMUNE when my fire mage would go out killing, I've avoided all fire wands. Same with nature (since elementals will be on my kill list, if nothing else for profit reasons). Shadow wands, sadly, seem to be lower in damage than arcane so I switched to an arcane one. I haven't noticed any resist issues yet.

I'm amazed at how solo-able a WoW priest is, even a Holy build one. The after 7 years of EQ, knowing that except in very specific circumstances a cleric shouldn't solo (or very well equipped), it's fun to be able to do so.
 
What is the deal with Stranglethorn Vale? I see that place ripped to shreads time and time again on various blogs but I am yet to hear a grounded reason for it. Is it only terrible for Horde? I just rolled my first Horde character so I guess I will have to wait and see, but as a member of the alliance, I found it refreshing to be able to level many levels in one spot without having to jump around the world. Can someone tell me if this malaise towards SV is Horde based and if so, it would be great to know where else I should level my Orc so I don't waste valuable hours in a place that I have fully explored with my alliance characters. Thank you
 
A major problem with STV is Booty Bay being located at the southern tip of the zone, and yet STV is so freaking HUGE!

If Booty Bay had been located where the Horde village is, midway up the west coast, and the Horde village had been located on the southern tip, I think STV would receive much less Hate Mail.
 
Stranglethorn being huge and one-dimensional is one problem. But the main complaint is that it is neutral, so Horde and Alliance do the same quest. That doesn't matter when you are playing your first character, but when you are leveling your sixth character to past level 40, you've visited STV far too many times, and always did the same quests. Desolace isn't much better, but at least the quests for Horde and Alliance are different there.

I would need to count some large numbers, but I always had the impression that after level 45 there are far more different zones with different quests, while around level 40 everybody is in STV.
 
Ahhh I see. I didn't even think about the place being neutral; hence everyone gets the same quests. Thanks everyone for clearing that up.
 
I skipped STV on my first two toons. I just didn't want to deal with the rampant ganking. The first time I tried it for a spell was on my hunter and it wasn't bad at all. Shadowmeld, traps and a cat with prowl are very handy indeed. On my priest I did STV in earnest without any issues. I mean I got ganked but did my fair share in return.

I still find it funny that I can not only kill mindless mobs as a priest but other players too.
 
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