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Babe Bridou wrote:
> hans escher wrote:

[snip]

>>Being in a group of 2 is probably optimal most of the time (a feeling of
>>being together and still some thrill)
> 
> 
> Two people in Stranglethorn is already a shield. Only the
> stronger/bolder/unaware players will attack you. Any group in
> Stranglethorn Vale is called a Ganksquad. Even if it's only a PVE
> group. Because questing grounds are common in STV. And when you go
> somewhere (basilisks & raptor, for example), you have to kill the
> opposite faction to be able to kill raptors and basilisks.
> 
> And inevitably, Ganksquad lead to counterganksquad, which leads to
> heavy ganksquad, which leads to Gankraid, which leads to the
> eradication of all reds in Booty Bay from a side, then from the other,
> until all settles in the Gurubashi Arena to get the chest, and after a
> good night of pleasant killing and dieing, you hearthstone to
> Orgrimmar, watch your Exp bar, and cry :D

Too true. :-)

I just wanted to interject that for the first time I am leveling up a 
priest beyond single digits, and finding it to be way more fun than I 
expected. I know that during some conversations a little while back, 
about the mage leveling project, you had warned me that lower levels as 
a priest were boring solo, but I am not finding them so. I don't know 
why--perhaps it's the experience of leveling a few mages--but I'm 
finding it very easy and a lot of fun.

A group of eight of us recently decided to all create new characters on 
Ursin, which is a fairly new PVP server. For some in the group it's the 
first PVP server; for me it's just a chance to experience a brand new 
environment with a bunch of good friends. My "senior" character on Ursin 
is Crawley, an Undead priest. He is just 16 now.

At 15 I took him down to Camp Taurajo to test him out against the 
Bristlebacks down there. I've used them as staple grinding for several 
characters, and I thought 15 was a bit low (you need to kill 16, 17, 18, 
and the occasional 19), but I wanted to test him out in a known location.

What a surprise! Crawley had no trouble with 16s, 17s, or 18s, and was 
able to survive several fights with multiple adds, or with 19s. I'm 
finding it easier to grind there with a priest than it was with an 
equal-level mage, even though I had lots of experience with a mage. The 
mobs don't die as fast, but Crawley has ground a whole level without 
dying at all, and without sitting down to drink more than three or four 
times the whole level.

Soloing a priest is just way easier and more fun than I expected. And 
it's almost like playing two totally different characters in one, 
because the experience of playing a priest in a group is so different 
from playing one solo.