Tuesday 19 August 2008

Heave! The BIG push to 70

It's been a while since I posted on here.  So much for keeping this going like a diary!  Hey, I'm a bit busy trying to rebuild my house in RL, give me a break. :)

So what have I been up to?  Well I've been spending quite some time dual-boxing Zuukar and Brahmin who are now at level 36 and steaming through Dustwallow Marsh. But over the last week I've decided to try and push Nefaros over the line and finally hit 70.  He's currently on the cusp of 68 having pretty much cleaned up in Nagrand but it's so hard switching back to the levelling pace in Outland after spending time in joys of pre 60 levelling. The great feeling of each ding is quickly quelled when you see it's now another 750,000 xp to the next level.

When I levelled Daxaar I'd hit 70 before touching any of Shadowmoon Valley or Netherstorm so this time I'm planning on hitting Netherstorm as soon as I hit 68.  I've chosen Netherstorm over SMV as I want to try and build my rep with the Consortium to get the Seaforium Charge Schematic which requires Revered.  I know I could head up there at 67 but I'm a bit of a closet completionist and having picked up all the quests from a hub, in this case Telaar I simply can't move on until at least 90% are complete, despite having done them all before.

About half way through 67 I started dual boxing Nefaros with Daxaar.  Although they've no healing capability whatsoever between them, a prot spec warrior and fire mage make a pretty useful team with Nefaros doing the splendid job of rounding up the mobs in a very Paladin-esq fashion whereupon Dax steps in and AOE's the crap out of anything left moving.  The other advantage of Dax tagging along is that he can pick up all those quests he missed out on...gold gold gold! The small level difference also means that when Dax is only on follow rather than grouped with Nef, the reduction to Nef's xp as a result of Dax "assisting" is negligible.

Given the amount of time between posts Nef will probably be 70 by the time I return.  Let's hope not.  Well, you know what I mean!