As an introduction to myself and my WOW addiction http://armory.wow-europe.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Anachronos&n=Bobflintston
A level 62 Dwarf Hunter with no special knowledge to pass on, just an attempt to document my WOW activities.
I am still a relative Noob to the game having played for about 9 months now. Bob is my main with a handfull of Alts setup, to help distract me from the task of fully leveling in the shortest time. There are hundreds of ways of playing this game, and mine is about trying to round off my Toons with as many skills as possible. I originally setup enough characters to master all the trades/skills and this can be a time consuming activity, spending hours at the postbox and the AH.
My first Toon - Dumpyrustnut was the simplistic Warrior - charge - crash - kill or be killed variety. I dragged him to the low 20's and then created Bobflinston. I read about the Hunter having a pet and thought that this must be a bit more challenging. My wife who is not usually interested in Computer Games - took an interest and also created a Hunter - Wilmaflint.
The Roster soon looked like this:
Bobs Team
Dumpyrustnut - Dwarf/Warrior - Mining/Blacksmith
Bobflinston - Dwarf/Hunter - Skinner/Leatherworker
Greatboo - Gnome/Rogue - Engineering/Enchanter
Buffster - Human/Lock - Herbalist/Alchemist
Flim's Team
Wilmaflint - Dwarf/Hunter - Miner/Engineering
Flimsystone - Night Elf/Hunter - Skinner/Tailor
This created a nice created a nice little production line where nothing went to waste. As a Noob, I wanted to do everything inhouse, not realising that this is where a good Guild comes in very handy.
It was Flim who discovered the joys of a good leveling Guild, and Bob was soon drafted in to enjoy the banter and the free assistance/gifts that came with the Guild.
The biggest problem was that we were sharing one computer and fights were starting to breakout in the Bob household. After 4 months of this unhappy situation it was decided that a second computer might not be such a bad investment.
During this time Flim became a serial - grouper and Bob became a lonely solo hunter (In my opinion this is how the Hunter should be played). Flim also suffers from Altism, which is a most debilitating disease, affecting the ability to level the main Toon.
Bob and Flim remained 10 levels apart for several weeks and so grouping was not so much fun for Bob, playing the minder. Being a Noob and a solo Hunter, I tended to only do the instances when Flim was ready, this of course meant easier quests and less XP.
When Bob hit Level 50 - The Burning Crusade was released. The mass exodus of Level 60's who had previously been helping people to level, doing endless instances, disappeared overnight. Bob discovered that Felwood, Winterspring, Western Plaguelands, Un'goro had become deserted. The Noob was left to grind his way up - leveling every 3-5 days.
When I finally hit 58 whilst doing the quest chain for the Fallen Hero of the Horde, it was too late jump through the portal. So off to bed on a high, with a day at work to read about what awaited me in the Outlands.
In the end I rushed home from work, jumped through the portal, ran to the Gryphon point, flew to Honor Hold, obtained the Master levels for Skinning/Leatherworking/Cooking and flew back to Azeroth to level up to 60.
My logic being that everybody else had gone at level 60 with Tier armour and weapons and that a Noob 58 Hunter was just cannon fodder for the Legion and the Horde. Having been squashed several time by a Fel Reaver I was probably right to do so.
Anyway up to date, I am now Level 62 and just about to complete most of the solo quests in Hellfire. It's time to find some friends/guild/PuG to bash the Horde into oblivion.
