12/14/2023 0 Comments Wow noteaI was struck by how much it resembled Qeynos back in old EQ… at least the flat, walled front of it. We committed, got in over our heads, tried to run after I ran out of mana to heal, and… sorry Capers. He is a level 11 elite, maybe not dungeon boss quality, but at least a serious dungeon trash mob, and we had some trouble with him… though that trouble was largely due to the belief that we might be able to handle him. We went off to get our quota of quillboar kills and along the way ran into Captain Flat Tusk in the middle of a fight. I ended up grouping with somebody else with the same plan, an undead warlock named Capers.īut even paired up, we were not safe. There were a couple of quests to run which involved getting deep into areas where respawns behind you could be an issue, even a couple of levels ahead of the curve. So I did what I used to do back in the old days and ran over to another starter zone, in this case Durotar, in order to run some still green quests to build up a little more easy xp. After going after a couple of quests out there and having to flee a couple of times due to things like a level 16 hyena wandering in among the level 12 stuff I was stalking, I decided that I might like another level or two, just to be safe. If you watch the Deathlog addon, you quickly get a sense that The Barrens is a dangerous place. I had done most of the quests and had met at least one of the local named celebrities. Meanwhile, Hurmoo, my tauren druid, was about wrapping things up in the starting zone that is Mulgore. There will be a blog post about this plan later should we end up deciding we have had enough of starting over from scratch. Potshot’s plan is a set of rules for post Hardcore play to give a scoring system that puts a little of the edge into dying, but which would not require an ongoing need to start from scratch. (Or if you don’t want to do the starter area yet again.) When you die in Hardcore you get a free… if somewhat convoluted… way to transfer your character to a normal vanilla WoW Classic server if you’re invested and want to carry on with that character. The shock and realization that every death was going to lead not just to a feeling of loss, but also, and more importantly, a need to replay the same content yet again, led Potshot to formulate a possible alternative plan. This led to a re-order and restart of the rest of the group so that when I arrived back from Hawaii and hit level 13 I was actually ahead of the curve rather than being behind. However, I really shouldn’t have worried too much about being behind as Ula’s level 14 hunter Moolaloo ended up taking the terminal swim in an oasis pool in The Barrens while I was away. But at level 11 I built up enough to burst ahead two levels pretty quickly. I had forgotten that you don’t start to accumulate it until you hit level 8 or so. I was a little worried about the whole rested xp thing at first because I noticed early on that I wasn’t accumulating any. I left having just hit level 11 and was able to very quickly jump to level 13 in an evening of focused effort. A week away gave me a full level of blue bar. This was mitigated somewhat by rested experience. Being away for a week seemed like it was going to set me way back with the group. I have been the least diligent of the three of us in playing Hardcore as I have a mild desire to get another character to level 80 in Wrath Classic. Some tidbits from the experience so far to catch myself up.
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