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Bawx

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Opened a ticket, told them what's up, GM moved the ticket to a specialized guy, he's going to take care of it for me. He asked which item I wanted, so I'm assuming they'll just mail it to me. :)

Woke up this morning, got mail from Blizzard, it's the Battle Mage Baton. :] Awesome customer support.

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Anybody got a good guide to level JC? Been wanting to do it for awhile now on my Warrior and with me slowly leveling up my DK's mining skills, i'm starting to stockpile enough ore or able to quickly farm the mats needed to power level it. Google, got me a bunch of seemingly outdate guides or gold farmer websites. :(

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Anybody got a good guide to level JC? Been wanting to do it for awhile now on my Warrior and with me slowly leveling up my DK's mining skills, i'm starting to stockpile enough ore or able to quickly farm the mats needed to power level it. Google, got me a bunch of seemingly outdate guides or gold farmer websites. :(

http://www.almostgaming.com/wowguides/wow-...burning-crusade

Try that i used that website for the blacksmithing guide found it good.

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Slane

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http://www.almostgaming.com/wowguides/wow-...burning-crusade

Try that i used that website for the blacksmithing guide found it good.

Came across that guide with the same exact format at like 10 other sites. Don't really wanna follow a guide where every other paragraph is a link to a gold guide. I was following Highlander's guide from the WoW EU forums, just wasn't sure if there was anything comparable or cheaper to follow. Farming most of the mats, or at least as much as I can while I level mining/skining on my DK, but I'll now I'll have to buy some eventually.

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Could anyone post a good unholy build to level/tank with? Currently level 64 and leveling as blood, want to try unholy out.

Get your ghoul pet, that'll give you between 250-300 more dps. You will lose some survivability, but dps output is alot higher so it depends on your playstyle.

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It's been a while since I've played. I logged in to continue working on a deathknight that I started months ago: grinding away at instances with friends who are now working on their third or fourth level 80 character.

Without the draw of difficult end-game content it's very hard to be motivated to play at all. I kinda miss the confusing cluster-**** of learning to raid in Molten Core and I still really miss Sunwell. My guild has moved all 'real' raiding to PTR: they're planning to 'practice' the 3.1 content so that they can complete it very quickly when it goes live.

I'm hoping that I hear back that it's very challenging and that we'll spend months clearing it. Unfortunately it sounds like that won't be the case. Also sad to hear that we have yet another 'vehicle' fight. Not only do they completely eliminate character progression, If I wanted to play as a firetruck (or whatever vehicle they decide to make) I wouldn't have rolled a priest.

Has anybody been to MC lately?

I've heard that Domo is pre-spawned now and you no longer need to bring the water to douse the runes. If that is the case can you skip directly to Domo and then summon Rag?

A few friends have been tossing around the idea of making level 60 AV twinks. A full avenger's paladin swinging a Hand of Rag, a Conqueror's warrior with Dark edge, or a Netherwind Mage with an Acolyte Staff would be amazing a fearful thing. Plus they'd make a bad-ass looking bank-alt.

I'm partial to the idea of farming AQ gear because you 'know' what's going to drop every week. Hoping to get the right Tier 2 tokens from Onyxia/Rag and BWL sucked then as much as hoping for your set tokens sucks now.

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I'm hoping that I hear back that it's very challenging and that we'll spend months clearing it. Unfortunately it sounds like that won't be the case. Also sad to hear that we have yet another 'vehicle' fight. Not only do they completely eliminate character progression, If I wanted to play as a firetruck (or whatever vehicle they decide to make) I wouldn't have rolled a priest.

Has anybody been to MC lately?

I've heard that Domo is pre-spawned now and you no longer need to bring the water to douse the runes. If that is the case can you skip directly to Domo and then summon Rag?

The first boss is going to blow, and then if you leave towers up it becomes more challenging, err I mean annoying.

And you just don't need water to douse the runes. Once you the boss(s) assoicated with the rune it automatically douses itself.

It's good to see you back though Evn. :)

And grats Spookie.

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Art3x

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It's taken me months and months to get this character to level 70.

How in Gods name do people have 3 and 4 level 80 characters?

You could get a character to 70 with about 10 days played or less before wotlk, its even faster now.

I've gone from 55-72 in less than 2 days 10 hours, and that's with quite a bit of wasted time.

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It's taken me months and months to get this character to level 70.

How in Gods name do people have 3 and 4 level 80 characters?

It's your first character, correct? Once you get used to it, you get better at leveling quicker. And using addons like QuestHelper help with that as well, as it shows you a good path to take to finish as many quests as you can before turning them in. And after your first character, you spend less time discovering stuff and running instances, which makes leveling take longer.

I only have 1 level 80 and 1 level 70 (hit 70 before the expansion came out) and I'm working on another at 74 right now. This latest one is going a bit slower as I'm trying to run all the Northrend instances, rather than only do them later as heroics.

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Bawx

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Yeah that makes sense, sometimes I just run around and discover stuff.

I only have 13 days played on this guy, with a lot of wasted time latey 'cause I don't have WOTLK. :[

I kind of what to start a new guy and level it as fast as possible just to see how fast I can do it.

(extra key anyone?)

Would this staff be good for my mage at level 77? 86g on AH seems like a bargain, look at that spell power!

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I kind of what to start a new guy and level it as fast as possible just to see how fast I can do it.

(extra key anyone?)

Multiple characters per account (50 total 10 per server). Why do you need a key?

Staff's fine and it's cheaper than you will usually find it. But to be honest I wouldn't worry about buying any gear at all. Plenty of quests rewards, dungeons, heroics that will give you far better gear and make you raid ready.

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Xilo

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Yeah that makes sense, sometimes I just run around and discover stuff.

I only have 13 days played on this guy, with a lot of wasted time latey 'cause I don't have WOTLK. :[

I kind of what to start a new guy and level it as fast as possible just to see how fast I can do it.

(extra key anyone?)

Would this staff be good for my mage at level 77? 86g on AH seems like a bargain, look at that spell power!

TBH, AH gear really isn't worth buying until you get to 80 or are making a twink. You usually will replace it pretty quick from either quest rewards or instance drops.

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