🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:10:27 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <slrnn0hqbf...@stinky-local.trash.net> 
>  Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> I know you don't much care for the lore. What I hadn't realised was that you
>> considered questing in itself a chore as well (I had assumed you would just
>> do the quests without reading the story in the quest text, but that seems to
>> have been a wrong assumption; I stand corrected).
>
>I used to like questing. What I don't really like is solo questing.
>Also, the quest lines are not a challenge at all, so they all sort of
>bleed into one long slog through content where most everything dies
>without much effort or attention.

They made questing way too easy post-Cataclysm. It's slightly tougher
if you play as a healer spec in appropriate levelled gear (I was fine
in early lvls but by Nagrand struggling quite badly... I actually need
my Barracks bodyguard to make it not too painfully slow!), but there's
still not much lethal, the main threat is too-fast respawns in the
initial rush at the start of an expansion. I loved it when I retried
vanilla recently, anything above about lvl 3 involved actual thinking
about how to best approach it, and some quests could only really be
soloed with strategic corpserunning lol (not helped by vanish being
very realistically as broken as it truly was in vanilla, sigh...) 

That's also why I like the ironman challenge, as it's rather more of a
challenge trying to not die when you're wearing greys and have no spec
- now I know you wouldn't voluntarily do that, since you like to level
as fast as possible, but the playstyle is actually more challenging
and enjoyable if you were to try it!

>And its not just because my main is a hunter. My DK horde has hit level
>95 with my having absolutely *no* idea how to play her. Shes about 60%
>done with Frostridge I think. Maybe more. I just hit 1-6 repeatedly and
>she kills everything.

In all fairness, DKs are even more easymode than hunters ;-)
Especially if you have even a couple of high lvl bits of gear - my
rogue is 95 now and slaughtering everything easily thanks to a 620 BoA
weapon I got from archaeology... I guess when I get to Tanaan I won't
be 2-shotting everything but at present I can do even the group quests
with only 1-2 cooldowns, never needed to pop *everything* yet.


Although it may not appeal to you, there's some challenges you can set
yourself with all this easymodeness nowadays - someone on the ironman
forum suggested challenging yourself to solo every dungeon, at an
appropriate lvl. I ran out of steam around Scholomance, but it was
actually really fun as far as I got, would often have to turn exp off
and go to quest a bit to get some gear upgrades (heirlooms don't cover
every slot), or sometimes level up for a new ability before I could
beat some boss, but it was a fun challenge and a good way to make the
best out of how silly easy everything is now! The guy who suggested it
made it as far as Blood Furnace I think, haven't heard any more of him
since then but yeah, it could be a fun way to level a new alt.