🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:38:38 PM UTC-5, pet...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, February 14, 2014 9:55:00 PM UTC-5, | || ||| ||||| || | wrote:
>> On 15/02/2014 11:59 AM, Lewis wrote:
 
>>>> My afflock just dinged 45 (halfway!). In instances, he shines on bosses
 
>>> Uh huh.
 
>>> It takes about 150,000,000 xp to get from 1-90.
 
>>> I think it takes less than 1,000,000 to get to 45.
 
>> although the xp isn't linear and is boosted up to 85 anyway
>> Lvl 1-5 is a minute, if you just start flailing
>>      1-10 is only
>>   60-70 progress per hour approximately halves
>>   half again for 80-85
>>   and about 1/4 on for 85-90
>>   ...roughly, depends how much you push
 
>> Even at 85-90 an affliction warlock can just breeze quests, even most of
>> the quest bosses. I can't say much about instances, they are much more
>> gear dependant and of course not solo.
 
> 9 days in and my lock is at lvl 64. Dungeons with quests now give about
> 3/4 of a level of xp. I realize plenty of people have gone faster, but I'm
> pretty comfortable. I haven't seen a quest mob I can't take down without
> trouble - I've died in non-instances only a couple of times when I was
> hit by several mobs at once - I'm still learning to use my defensive
> cooldowns.
 
> In instances, I find I can top dps charts when AOEing down 6+ mobs, and I can
> do very decent damage to bosses who take a while to bring down. But when
> there's only a few of mobs to deal with, or single non-bosses, my dps is
> pitiful - the lock's damage is all back-loaded, you set up dots first, and
> they don't do much until you use some other specific spells. As a result, the
> mobs are dying to the other players before I can do much.

Well, today my afflock dinged 70, 11 days from start. Dungeons with quests now
give only around half a level. At lvl 68 I did some quests pugging with a lvl 73
Ret Pally, who'd been away for a year. I pretty well matched his dps. 

pt