Along the path to 80.
Posted On Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 By Jay
First and foremost, I’ve been taking my time to get to 80. The raid content will still be there. I may not participate in the guild first, but I’ll get there.
I’ve really been enjoying the slow trek. The quest hubs are in small digestible chunks, roughly about 30 minutes to complete an area and move on. The lore is interesting, although I care nothing for the tuskarr, they happen to be a means to an end.
What I am enjoying is the new equipment, instancing and class balance. I’m spec’d holy with 11 points to shadow for mind flay and 2 points into meditation from disc. It rocks! This is the first time since Warhammer Online that I’ve been able to effectively level as a healing class. And man is it awesome!
Instancing is by far the creme de la creme in WotLK. The encounters are well done and will prep the majority of players for 10 mans. Following that, I hope the 10 mans train the player to accomplish the 25 mans. Hopefully, we’ll see raiding be a larger part of the average players play schedule than last expansion. If raiding becomes the norm instead of 5 mans, many studies in social dynamics of gaming will likely need to be updated.
So far, I’m almost 73! I’ve run Utgarde Keep thrice, AZ twice and nexus more times than I can count. Nexus is by far the most epic of the three with AZ being the most fun. The keep has the better loot, I just find it uninteresting. Instancing is where its at!
