Yay RP! Boo WoW! (Sort of)

[thistle_chaser]

I've been playing WoW a few years now, way long enough for FFXI to be out of my brain and WoW fully replacing it. Or should be. So there I was, happily skilling enchanting on Clove, when suddenly it became time to train for a higher skill cap. "Level 75 required." ARG! How do I forget that skill cap is tied to level EVERY SINGLE TIME

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[blightheart]

I'm in the same position on my enchanter alt. He has to be 65 to get any higher in tailoring OR enchanting... but the leveling options for level 55-65 are not very appealing. Right now he's in Silithus. As a priest..... ugh.

[thistle_chaser]

Ugh, that range is the worst one. Alliance have it a bit easier (Blasted Lands for Alliance isn't so bad.) Did you do all of Swamp of Sorrow?

Too bad you can't level herb on him, I can get two levels in SoS just picking herbs (and they're so close and so many nodes, it goes really fast).

I just can't do Silithus. Ever. It's an ugly zone full of bugs and the quests are just awful. I generally go back and do green quests instead of going there. instancing is an option as well, but at this level range you run into all the new DKs...

[blightheart]

No I haven't done Swamp of Sorrows yet. The warchief command board sent me to Silithus and so I dumped SoS because the "GO HERE!" quest was green. Silithus is horrible for priests because it's just littered with mobs. I had to have a friend come help me on some of the quests because it was just ridiculous...

I may switch to SoS though. I think he's 56? 57? So Outland is on the way. Not that it's that much better, really.

[thistle_chaser]

I highly recommend SoS. Quest-hating me doesn't mind it there. Phased areas are used in a really good way. There are a lot of quests really close together. The XP feels very fast. Plus the quests are actually interesting! (Again, unfortunately Alliance quests are better, but Horde's are still good. Alliance folks get to raid the Horde town there!)

Outlands at 58 is god awful. I'd wait until you have flying. Even on a good/easy job, like Hunter, that place is just so painful on foot. Heck, it's painful not on foot too, but on foot it's to the 'I'd rather quit WoW than do this' level for me.

[kelen]

I still miss FF11. It still makes me long to run around with Carby and go fishing. :( :( My arms? They do not miss FF11 at all. Not one bit.

Still think about it quite often too. Like I found this 3d render someone had done of Draque the other day. Man, I miss my scruffy guy.

[thistle_chaser]

I miss it a lot, too. It's a different game now though, there would be no going back, even if we wanted to. :/ Nai went back not long ago, though I think it was just a month visit.

I miss your scruffy guy, too! ;)

[kelen]

That's why I haven't tried to ever go back. That and all those details that really annoyed me. No soloing really, that ANYTHING after level cap was controlled by certain guilds.. the list goes on and on.
I'll keep all my fond memories, of the people like you, of what I did enjoy, and let it stay in the past. :) Hell, I'm not even playing any MMO these days. Wow is there if I need a fix.

[thistle_chaser]

I couldn't go back, even if I wanted to, not without starting over. A year or so back I thought I'd return for a visit, but Thistle is gone and can't be recovered. :/ One or two of the crafting mules were still there to be recovered, but they're all level 1...

Agreed though, I'll keep the good memories, which is mostly around you people. <3

[veloxe]

They had the brilliant idea to increase the level caps of the crafts. Currently they are bumping them up to 110 but people pulled some old stuff out of the DATs that's always been around but they never did anything with:

98-110?: Expert
108-120?: Authority
118-130?: Luminary
128-140?: Master
138-150?: Grandmaster
148-160?: Legend

[thistle_chaser]

Wow, that's both scary and really, really interesting. Some of the crafts were so hard to level, I can't imagine taking them further than 100!

I sure would like to be a Legend of crafting though.

[veloxe]

The worst part is how hard it could be getting skillups close to 100. I can only imagine the chaos of trying to go from like 128-129. 5 million synths later...

[thistle_chaser]

Each synth costing 5 million...