confirmed: people saying that leveling is a joke are overgeared.
bolded the important partYou sure about that? My DK had ~5.5k gs and barely had 4 days played at 80 before cata and leveled to 82 in about 5 hours played. Leveling is very easy, only done a few instances which was more for a change of pace. Not hurting for life after multiple pulls, my dps sucks because I'm blood spec but that is to be expected. I think I've actually only had to stop to eat once and that was because I blood boiled off my mount like a nub. Should be 85 by tomorrow night and I'm not going all that hardcore, didn't touch beta, just questing.
I think its less the DK and more the Blood aspect of it. I find my Blood heals are obscene while leveling. Not to mention I'm stacking mastery from my T10 so most things cannot even break down my blood shield. But for instance an unholy buddy of mine has to rest a good bit.
confirmed: people saying that leveling is a joke are overgeared.
my priest is wearing typical leveling gear. I hit 80 the other day and went straight to Vashjir in my Northrend green/blue leveling quest rewards.
my rotation went from mindblast -> mindflay x2 -> SWD -> end fight at 100% mana/health
to mindblast -> mindflay x20 -> SWD -> end fight at 50% mana/health
and going straight from northrend to cat, you can't actually queue up for the level 80 Cat instance.
I only did Hyjal last night and got 2 full levels out of it. I wasn't expecting that much. The only annoying part was waiting for respawns. I haven't done any of the instances yet, how were they? Are they pug-able?
you are barely 1/2 way through hyjal maybe less actually
I think it was like 90/115 quests at that point... that's what it shows through carbonite quest. I mentioned earlier in the day yesterday I was stuck at 74 then I found a quest hub in the northwest area. I'm 75% to level 82.
But I don't know why I just thought of this now... as a rogue I'm just gonna hit Nemesis without the turtle to help DPS... stealth and tag it first. Hopefully others won't notice it's gray to them while they dps. That's gotta work. /cross-fingers.
Bunch of my guildies hit 85\84 last night. They seem to not be trading out their tier bonuses just off pieces and weapons. Anyone else having this experience or are they doing it wrong?