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Uberfatkid
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I really want to hit max level with a druid however it is taking forever, but would it ever be bad enough to resort to powerleveling?
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I would recommend using a leveling guide of some sort. There's a good free one at wow-pro. But never resort to paying someone to level your character as it is against the TOS and your account could get banned.
Joana's Leveling Guide.
Fastest one there is, used it for both of my alts. Just google it.
Druids do not level as fast as other chars can. HOwever, The best sugestion I can give to make quick levels is to join a guild of players who are leveling too. Do not join a guild who are raiding end game ...many times your calls for help will go ignored and sometimes just anger the upper levels who will find you annoying.
Find some new chars using the WHO, and group up.
Torrential
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
^^^ Got to admin thats the best guide I have used :P
One thing to remember is that power levellers will do no more than you do yourself, they just know the best areas and best quests for each level. If you google there are plenty of free guides that will show you where is best to level as you go up.
The best advice i can offer is to quest, quest and quest some more. Some will insist that grinding is the way to go, but that will just bore you to tears, while you are questing it will surprise you how much xp you are making without even realising it. Better still find a like minded guild and join up with a few friends and power through some quests together or make a couple of level specific dungeon runs, that way you will gain xp fast, gain some decent equipment and have some fun with friends at the same time.
It must be Thursday, i never could get the hang of Thursdays.
The real fast way to plevel, is to find yourself a mage in the same boat. You heal, he aoes. Its actually entertaining to watch gnomes jump around. of course im biased being a gnome mage myself.
Back to the aoe, not only can you reap the rewards of massive experience, if in an underfarmed zone. The drops can be incredible as well. Ive never seen so many world drops, in dungeons, or raids, as i do frequently just going out and tapping 8 mobs and exploding all over them.
Feral druids tend to solo better since they have virutally no downtime. Pop up heal and then drop back down in cat/bear form.
Also using a powerleveling service is a very bad idea. First off, it's against the TOS you get caught your banned so all that money you spent to get to Level X is then wasted. Second, you're giving someone access to your account. Are you willing to entrust your account with a perfect stranger?
Use a leveling guid and just enjoy the game. Developing your character and enjoying the game should be your focus not blitzing to 70. I'm sure that gnome that hit 70 only 28 hours after TBC launched probably got horribly bored quickly.
Its up to you, do you have the money to spend on one? and would you risk getting your account banned?
However, I do respectfully disagree with DrowNobles version of druid soloing. I did it, and it was god awful. True there was little downtime, but the mobs took sooo long to kill ...especially in bear form. Higher end soloing (60-70) was ok, but the first 60 levels soloing as a bear/cat almost makes you want to leave the game
Torrential
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
Well the mobs will only take long to kill if you always use bear form. Cat can dps down a mob quickly, especially later on as you get more feral talents. Bear is useful to tank that occasional elite or quest mob, takes longer but they have a harder time killing you. I do agree that although feral is very efficient it can get dull really quick since you are basically doing the same abilities over and over. I was feral all the way to 58 and then I switched to balance and re-geared myself in Outland accordingly.
I don't agree that Druids level slower than most classes. We have almost zero down time which makes leveling/grinding in average faster than most classes. Plus, DPS on a Kitty druid is actually very high especially past Lv.60.
I agree with both of the above posters. My experience is that Druid soloing was slow. However, Good players playing smart ..I wager can make it level fast.
Torrential
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
Here are a few questions:
Which spec are you? Resto druids are the slowest levellers I know. They're painful. Make holy priests look like speeding bullets. Whilst ferals should be able to level pretty quickly.
How good is your gear? Do you have any rares (blues)? Are most of your greens within 6 levels of your current level? Good gear will allow you to level much faster.
Are you using the right gear? To level fast as a feral druid, you want high DPS in cat form. Which means you want every item you wear to give you +AGI or +AP.
Are you using your abilities properly? For example in cat form you can use stealth to get to quest objectives quickly, avoiding many of the mobs on the way. This can allow you to complete some quests very quickly.
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I don't think end game guilds take low level characters anyways, mostly for that reason to.
It sounds as if you may have played a druid prior to the last druid makeover. I would have agreed with your assessment in the original game, but recently Druids have become somewhat of a killing machine especially in cat form even at the lower levels. I found the same to be true of Paladins. My first character to 60 was a Paladin and it was a long journey, however after a couple of Paladin makeovers and a few respecs, my Paladin is now quite useful as a damage dealer. All the classes have gone extensive changes which for the most part has helped some classes that were a bit underpowered in my humble opinion. Course there are those who now feel that some of those classes are now overpowered
Some might think paying someone to powerlevel is unethical but it sure is handy. I guess it depends on the gamer and his goals.
I personally hate questing. For every 1 fun quest there are 20 that are just horrible. I like my MMO's sandbox style and prefer skill-based games with no levels. Since there are very few MMO's with skill-based systems and sandbox style, I have no choice but to stomach games like WoW.
Dont get me wrong, WoW is fun once the grind is over. Im just not interested in the lore from questing or the long grind. I want to raid and run the occasional 5-man heroic instance. I want loot so I can become stronger and more able to solo farm for more loot and gold.
Ive used powerleveling services twice in the past. Im using one now actually which will be my 3rd toon. My first was a mage. After the expansion, I got bored with the mage and noticed higher than normal demand for prot warriors. I did some of the grind to eliminate the costs and speed it up.
Its cheaper to pay powerlevel services to grind from 40-70. It will only take you a week to get to 40. Plus you can do a couple of things to help yourself out....
1. rep - power levelers dont do quests so you dont get rep. My mage was lvl 70 and neutral with everyone except the alliance side and those were only friendly. By grinding to 40 first, I was able to get all the alliance sides to reverred at least.
2. flight paths - go get all possible flight paths (except outlands). I did this at lvl 15, died a lot but I had them all.
3. every power leveler Ive tried always wants bandage skills and cooking to benefit their grind. By leveling to 40, I can get those skills to 300 and make the grind even quicker for them.
4. Get a mount. You dont get stuck with a mount the farmer chooses.
In a few more days, Im gonna have a lvl 70 warrior all ready to go. I can go run instances for my heroic keys. I can work on kara attunement. The boring part of the game is done.
It's also extremely risky. I doubt you will enjoy it when you pay someone to PL one character too many and your account gets banned!
It sounds to me that you like instancing (you mention heroics and karas). So why not just do most of your levelling in instances and ignore all the non-instance quests? Not only will you save yourself a large amount of money, but you will have decent gear and rep levels by the time you hit 70.
And as for your warrior - I've said before there is nothing more useless than a 70 warrior who has never tanked an instance.
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How often does Blizzard actually catch powerlevelers? From what I hear, only using bots and macros occasionally gets your account noticed causing it to get banned.
No idea if they catch em. But if I was them and I wanted to spot power levellers I'd be a little suspicious if I saw things such as:
- characters being played continuously for long periods of time (e.g. 60+ hours)
- the same IP address being used to play large numbers of different accounts (e.g. 20+) where the IP address doesn't belong to something like an internet cafe.
- european characters being played from Asia
Not saying any of these are definite signs of guilt, but they could be flags that may trigger human investigation.
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Funny thing you should mention only running a bot usually will get your account to pop...
I say that as PL is done by bots with a human watcher. So chances are you will get caught after a while doing that if you don't great on ya.
As for your PL warrior... I bet you my lvl 33 warrior will be able to tank better than your PL 70 warrior. If all you want to do is open end with no real levels. Play Morrowind. Or Oblivion. They are really open. (can damn near do anything.) And your level doesn't matter so much as your skill with things.
GL on your gimpy Warrior... PS don't ever group with me.
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If you mean paying someone to level your account for you, dont do it. Blizzard uses the warden program to track IP changes on accounts. You have practically no chance of getting away with it as the program is extremely effective. They will ban your account and I'm not talking a 3 day slap on the wrist ban, it will be a lifetime ban.
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There are guides as some have mentioned for PL'ing.
From what I hear, Hunter is about the easiest class to PL. I think it's actually easier than Lock, and Lock is pretty freakin easy.
Druid (at least for me) was the easiest class to level, however. I'm not just talking from a raw 'burn the mob down/next' perspective. I'm talking about the class from an all-inclusive perspective. With all of the various tools available to a druid, they really are grind-friendly/PL friendly.
Travel forms (flight @ 68 doesn't help 'the grind' much, but cheetah @ 30 and even cat @ 30 with 2 pts in feral for speed boost helps a ton... aquatic form was pretty useless, imho)
Extra 'hearthstone'ish ability with Teleport: Moonglade (if you don't have a way to set your hearth to Shat, and even if you do, it helps)
Prowl/Steallth (to sneak in/out and complete quests faster AND to avoid downtime due to ganks)
They don't depend on mana
They are still able to heal, however
They have a 'root'
They can cast ranged attacks
They can tank (or just shift into bear to survive a bad pull)
Great buffs
Don't have to worry about storing soulstones (warlock).
Don't have to worry about storing pet food or ammo (hunter).
(later on, you will probably carry a few sets of gear on you for RAIDS, however)
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While I wouldn't say that grinding a druid is 'cruise control' grinding like hunter potentially is, it's still very easy and has a lot of utilities to go along with it.
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