Shealin - Level 52 Fire Mage - 9/19/10

I got on Shealin for a little bit today and got her to level 52. I did some questing in Un'Goro Crater and one dungeon, Blackrock Depths Prison.

I was having some problems with lag while we were in the dungeon but I made it through and that is where I leveled to 52. I did a couple quests you get when you first go into Un'Goro from Tanaris and made my way to the flight point and grabbed a bunch of quests there. I am still a long way from 80 and I only have a month and a half to get there before the expansion comes out.

I ported myself to Ironforge after I leveled and got my training done. I hit the auction house to see if there was anything I could upgrade but the only thing that was better than what I had, the person wanted five times what it was worth so I passed. It is really not worth spending too much gold on stuff when you are leveling because you outgrow it so fast.

Hopefully going forward I will have more time to play and will get Shealin to 80 before the expansion comes out. If not, it is not the end of the world, I still have 5 more I will have to level up to 85 and regear.

Shealin - Level 51 Fire Mage - 8/14/10

I haven't been getting on much lately and if I don't watch it I'm not going to have my Mage, Shealin, to 80 before the expansion comes out.

I am not too worried tho, it is going to start getting cold here soon so I will be sticking to the indoors more which will give me more time to play :).

I did two dungeon runs through Temple of Atal'Hakkar, A.K.A. Sunken Temple, on Shealin Saturday. That got me to level 51. We had a couple nice runs. The first group I got into was already in progress, they were about half way through. We finished up without any mishaps, then the next group I got into had the same Druid Tank and Pally in it. That run went really smooth too. I got a nice pair of gloves out of there on the second run.

The Tank in both those runs was great. The Druid was Tanking and the Pally was off-tanking and I didn't pull anything off them, they were holding aggro really well. I was running about 200 DPS more than the next highest person and finished the second run over 80K DPS ahead of the next highest overall. That is the BoA gear tho, that and a lot of AoE's which really add up to some nice DPS because you are hitting and damaging so many mobs at once.

I did a little bit of questing in Tanaris too while I was on. I have the rest of level 51 rested and who knows how much of level 52. Add the double XP to the 20% XP gain I get from killing mobs while wearing my BoA gear and it doesn't take long to level.

I am going to try and get on during the week more, there are people I used to talk to every night that I haven't talked to in awhile.

Shealin - Level 50 Fire Mage 8/7/10

I got on Shealin for a little while this afternoon and got her to level 50. It has been a couple weeks since I last logged on, I have been pretty busy.

I did a run through Blackrock Depths Prison and that got me leveled to 50. Me and another person from my server leveled to 50 at the exact same instant and everyone thought we were doing "Recruit A Friend" but we didn't even know each other, it was just a coincidence. Anyway that got me to level 50 and I teleported to Darnassus to learn to make a portal to Darnassus, then teleported to Ironforge to get my Mage training.

I did part of a quest in Tanaris while I was on too but didn't get to finish it in the time I had. I talked to a few people who were wondering where I had been. I had a lot more time on my hands before and was on all the time, now I am lucky to get on for a few hours every weekend. I am planning to get on tomorrow and get a few more hours in, I have a lot of rested XP and might be able to get to level 52.

Shealin

I didn't get a chance to get on at all during the week, but I finally had some time to get on this weekend for a couple hours.

I did a couple dungeons on Shealin and some questing in Tanaris and got her to level 49.

I did 2 runs through Maraudon Yellow and a run through Blackrock Depths. The run through BRD was a lot of fun and we kept on going after we completed the Prison so I got a lot of good XP out of it. I also had lag so bad towards the end I couldn't move most the time and ended up disconnecting a couple times before I finally gave up.

The farther we went into BRD the lower my DPS got. The reason for that was the farther in we went the higher the level of the mobs got. The higher level the mobs got the more casts I missed, resulting in lower DPS. My hit rating is pretty low even though I drink a potion to raise it by 10 for an hour. There is just not a lot of cloth gear with hit on it. I have +5 hit enchanted onto my boots and an amulet for my neck with +11 hit but that is only 16. With the potion it is 26, still not great. When I get to level 80, the gear I will be getting will have hit on it as well as some trinkets I can get. Hit cap for a caster is 17%, right now my hit rating is about 2.5%. I have a long way to go. I was missing about 1 out of 3 casts towards the end of my run through BRD on mobs that were 4 to 5 levels higher than me.

Like I have said before, I am in no hurry to get to level 80 on this one, I am going to take my time and enjoy leveling it. My job now keeps me away from WoW during the week for the most part but I get on when I can and make sure I get some time in on the weekends. I will get to 80 eventually :).

Shealin - Level 48 Fire Mage - 7/18/10

I didn't have time to play much at all this week. I got on for a half hour here, an hour there but didn't really get much done on Shealin.

I did have a few hours between last night and this morning though, and got her to level 48. I did only dungeons this morning as the wait time was really low so I could get in fast. I did dungeons and some questing last night.

I am still stuck in Maraudon for the most part. I did 3 runs through Orange and one through Yellow last night along with one run through Zul'Farrak, which we queued into, and one run through Blackrock Depths, which we queued into. I was with a pretty good group last night and we stuck together, running dungeon after dungeon. I got a lot of XP from that. I hit 48 last night.

Today I did one and a half runs though Maraudon Yellow. About half way through the first run I started getting bad lag and really high latency, around 1200ms. I stuck it out even though I thought I was going to disconnect a couple times I was lagging so bad. After I got out I logged out and back in and my latency was good again, around 300ms. I queued for another dungeon, got Maraudon Yellow again and made it about half way though that before the lag hit me again. It got so bad I would freeze up for a full minute and when I unfroze everyone would be gone, onto the next mobs. I finally made it though that one too though. When I got out my latency was normal and the lag was gone.

I decided to try one more and got Temple of Atal'Hakkar, a.k.a. Sunken Temple. That went pretty well until we got down into the middle area, then the lag hit worse than ever. After 5 minutes of that I finally disconnected and didn't bother logging in again. I might try to log on for a while again tonight, I'm not sure.

Shealin - Level 46 Fire Mage - 7/11/10

I did some more questing and some more dungeons on Shealin and managed to get her to level 46. She is moving along nicely. As usual I was in queue for a random dungeon the whole time I was playing, except when I was in a dungeon, and I did quests while I waited. I got caught in a sandstorm in Tanaris while I was questing, it wasn't too bad, I have been in worse.

I finally got out of Maraudon Purple and into Maraudon Orange. I also had one run through Zul'Farrak that I got a lot of XP and a level out of. Then it was back to Maraudon Purple again. The speed at which I am leveling I should be done with these soon tho.

When I turned in all the quests I completed in Zul'Farrak and a couple I didn't have time to turn in before I went in there I leveled again to 46. Only 34 more levels to go.

Shealin - Level 42 Fire Mage - 7/8/10

I haven't been able to get much play time in over the last few days but I did get some time today. Shealin is now level 42 and has a lot of rested XP so the rest of this level should go by pretty fast.

I was questing in Tanaris and doing dungeons. The dungeon I am stuck in now is Maraudon Purple. Maraudon is so huge they broke it into, I believe, 3 parts, Purple, Orange and Yellow. You get credit for each part and get the achievement when you have completed all 3. I have run Purple 4 or 5 times now. I can remember doing this when it was all one part, which you still can if you want to, and it used to take hours on end. I am happy they broke it up.

I got Shealin her Armored Brown Bear as soon as she hit 40. The price on that went down, maybe because it is the 6th one I have bought? I don't know but I doubt that is the reason. It is more likely they just lowered the price. It cost me 750 gold each for the first 5 but this one only cost me 712 gold. That is with no Kirin Tor rep, the more rep you have with them the lower the price gets. Because I get them at level 40 it is impossible for me to have any rep with Kirin Tor as they are in Dalaran in Northrend, a place I am not supposed to be until level 68.

As I have said before I am in no hurry to level this one, I am just going to work on it when I feel like it and get to 80 when I get to 80. I did what I set out to do with Breeonna and that was level a character 1 to 80 in less than 10 days /played. I got her to 80 in 8 days 14 hours /played. I don't even know how much time I have /played on Shealin, I haven't even looked.

Shealin - Level 37 Fire Mage - 7/1/10

I worked on Shealin some more the last couple days and got her to level 37. I can now portal myself everywhere except Shattrath and Dalaran. That's ok though, I got a Mage to port me to Dalaran the other day, where I set my hearthstone to home, so I can just hearth there and use the portals to go wherever I want.

I have been doing a lot of dungeons and a little questing. I have done all the Scarlet Monastery dungeons now. I did one run through the Cathedral today but I was only 36, the minimum level to be in there, and my DPS was pretty poor. The reason it was so poor was because I couldn't hit anything. The mobs were too high and I was missing with most my casts. The group I did the Armory with queued into there instead of a random after, that was how I got in there. In a random I wouldn't have queued in there yet. I also did a couple runs through the Library too.

I did two runs through Razorfen Kraul. One of them was fun and the other not so much fun. We had a pretty bad tank in one run and I ended up doing a lot of tanking myself. I thought he was one of those tanks that could only hold aggro on one mob at a time but that was not the case, he couldn't even hold aggro on one. He was a Warrior and Warriors have an AoE that they use when taking multiple mobs to get aggro on all of them. I am not sure what it is called, Stomp or Thunder or something, but he wasn't using it. I finally pointed out to him he was tanking multiple mobs and he should be using his AoE. He used it a couple times after that and it went better for those times but he wasn't using it all the time for some reason. Maybe he didn't want to tank.

Yesterday we had this jerk that queued into Scarlet Monastery Graveyard as a tank. He was a Druid but when he got there he said he wasn't a tank, he was a healer. Apparently he had done this before, according to someone in the group. What he was doing was queuing as a tank because tanks get almost instant queues then refusing to tank. He just didn't want to wait for the queue. At that point someone else would tank, if they could, but then there would be two healers... Idiots like that should be banned from the game. They screw it up for everyone.

Shealin - Level 32 Fire Mage - 6/29/10

I didn't have as much time to work on Shealin tonight so I only got her to level 32. Still, 3 levels tonight wasn't bad.

I did dungeons mostly tonight. Actually I only did one dungeon, Scarlet Monastery Graveyard, over and over. It seems to be the only one I am queuing into now. Hopefully that will pass as soon as I hit level 33. SMGY is short and boring. There are no good drops for me in there, the last boss drops a couple nice items but they are off-hand and shoulders, I have a 2 hand weapon and BoA shoulders so I can't use them.

Hopefully tomorrow, when I hit 33, I will start doing Scarlet Monastery Library, Armory and Cathederal. They are longer and more fun, not to mention a lot more XP.

Shealin - Level 29 Fire Mage - 6/28/10

I worked on Shealin some tonight and got her to level 29, she is coming along nicely. I did a few quests but mostly dungeons.

I did a couple runs through Stormwind Stockade, a couple more through Razorfen Kraul and a couple through Gnomeregan. I get a lot of XP out of the dungeons, that is how I was able to get 6 levels tonight.

I had to leave one of the runs in Razorfen Kraul I was in because I was lagging so bad I couldn't loot or cast. I was having some serious problems with lagg earlier in the day but it straightened out later on. It was so bad that I would try to loot something and it would take up to 2 minutes for the loot window to open. When it finally did everyone disappeared because they were not lagging and I had to go find them. I would try to cast a spell at something and I would just stand there with my hands flaming until it finally said my target was dead without me even casting anything. I got sick of that pretty fast and logged off for awhile. When I got back on it was better.

We had a really bad time in one of the Gnomeregan runs I was on. I lost count of how many times we wiped but it was a lot. We had a so-so tank and a Hunter that kept pulling stuff. At one point he pulled what must have been 20 mobs at one time. We were towards the end and I didn't even think there were that many mobs left alive in there. Needless to say that was another wipe. Then, all of a sudden, the Hunter left. We didn't have any more problems after that. By the time we finished I had two pieces of gear that were red and two that were yellow. I came across a couple graphics glitches in Gnomer and have attached one.

I am in no hurry to level this one up and am having a good time playing it so I think I will keep doing mostly dungeons to get my levels as they are the most fun.

Shealin - Level 23 Fire Mage

I figured it would be quite awhile before I started another toon, I was wrong. I got bored the other day and decided to try a Mage. I made Shealin, equipped her with the 5 pieces of BoA (Bind on Account) gear, I had from Brieonna, and started leveling it.

It is funny that I am excited about hitting 60 DPS after getting almost 5,000 DPS out of my Shaman Breeonna.

I am not putting any kind of time frame on getting this one to 80, I am just going to level it and enjoy it, no pressure. I figure I will still get it to 80 in 10-12 days /played anyway, that seems to be the casual time for me to get a toon to 80 now.

I have been doing a lot of rendom dungeons on her and have been topping the DPS meter in most of them. Of course I have about 1,000+ gearscore over most the people I am doing the dungeons with so I should be topping the meters.

I got a mount yesterday when I hit 20 and that makes a lot of difference, it sure beats running anyway.

I will be leveling this toon after I do my daily heroics and some daily's on my other toons so it will probably take me awhile to get to 80. That's ok, there is no rush.