Re: Adventures in Kara and Paladin leveling

On Jul 31, 8:35 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:18:49 -0700 (PDT), lcpltom <lcpl...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

First I would like to thank all the quitters out there, who
effectively limited my Kara run last night to 10 badges. I would also
like to issue a special thanks to the quitters who joined the group
long enough for me to waste a shard to summon them, only to leave
moments later. You guys are the best.

Ouch, but hey, at least you didn't join a group as a replacement, enter
the instance, get saved and then have everyone quit before killing the
next boss, so get zero badges and basically no opportunity to get any
more until the reset (yes that's happened to me a couple of times)
Really wish it was possible to not get saved until you actually do
something :-/

And after all
that, the T$ hunter/mage/warlock glove token drops. There is no
hunter in the group. Only my warlock and a mage to roll on it. Mage
rolls 15, I roll 85. Got my first raid tier item.

Grats! Always nice to get those :-)



After this the mage quits the group. Hes not the first to leave, the
first left right after maiden, but that was fine, he helped find his
own replacement and told us beforehand he had to go. The mage just
dropped group and teleported without saying a word. Then we notice
our uber feral main tank and uber holy main healer have disconnected.
We wait a while and they never return. Through the whole instance one
player in the group was harrassing our off-tank in raid chat. It was
obvious they knew each other, but that the off-tank didn't know who
the other guy was. He kept trying to figure out who the guy was but
was never really able to. So we spend a while in LFG trying to get
new members. We get ourselves back to 9, but still need a good healer
to fill out the group. Then one of our replacements, who I had just
summoned less than a minute before, said "this is lame, I'm going to
run this with a friend", drops group and starts to teleport. Just as
his teleport is about to complete, the off-tank says "you're already
saved to this instance". Ha, take that waster of soulshards.

Ok, that's a situation where the saving is a good thing :-P

Thats when everything came crashing down though. We rez him, and
while waiting this other player who had been harrassing him all this
time ran down and pulled the group of 2 at the bottom of the ramp, on
purpose, laughed in party chat as he died, and dropped group. This
was followed by the hunter and another player as well. We're now down
to 6 people. There are no healers in LFG. The few people that are in
LFG want to do a fresh run, not join one in progress. Basically,
we're screwed. So the group ends. I walk out with 10 badges and T4
gloves. That puts me at 123 badges, only 27 more to go.

Ack, so annoying when that happens, it's near impossible to get
replacements for anything. I'm much the same; I won't join one in
progress because the item I most want drops off Attumen... so I'd really
rather not get saved so I have zero chance of getting it that week.

Then I ran into the big issue, I don't know of any horde paladin
trainers outside of Silvermoon and UC. That led to a long trip back
to UC at 24 to train.

There's one in Orgrimmar iirc - go into Thrall's room and have a look
around, pretty sure there's one in there. Which means that paladins get
more trainers than druids - my druid always had to return to thunder
bluff for training or else teleport to Moonglade (yeah there's one in
Silvermoon but that's really convenient when you're questing in the rest
of Eastern Kingdoms and don't have the EPL flightpath...)

My goal, for the time being, is to get him to level 50. I plan on
going hedgehog pally, possibly around level 40, to hopefully speed my
leveling. It will be nice having a bank/AH alt that can DE the trash
greens I send him.

Sounds like a plan, hedgehog was good fun for my pally once I switched
in the mid 40s anyway.
--
EU-Draenor:
Balgair (70 Human Rogue)
Naomh (70 Draenei Priest)
Sagart (70 Undead Priest)
Rosad (70 Human Warlock)
Eilnich (70 Blood Elf Warlock)
Sealgair (70 Dwarf Hunter)
Buinne (70 Troll Shaman)
Tairbh (62 Tauren Druid)
Beag (60 Dwarf Paladin)

There is 1 more horde druid trainer out there, in Feralas. Hes in the
eastern most hut of Camp Mojache.

I read that hedgehog got good at level 35, but if I have to get all
new gear at 35 to go hedgehog, then get all new gear at 40 when I make
the switch to plate, I might as well wait till 40 and make both
switches at the same time.

I had the S1 warlock gloves, essentially the same gloves as the T4
gloves. S1 has a little more stamina, a lot less int, a little less
spell crit, and a little less spell damage. But also has a 50% chance
to resist pushback on casting fear, and some resilience. Still,
getting the T4 gloves felt like more of an accomplishment, so I found
an enchanter, got +20 spell damage enchanted on them, and equipped
them. I kept the S1 gloves, put them in the bank in case I ever do
decide to do some PvP.

And I have joined a group as a replacement only to not down a boss
before. And it really sucks. I joined a heroic MgT group when it was
the daily. They were already on Kael, so I lost my chance at the
trinket (conincidently, the trinket I wanted dropped for them, had I
been able to join the group earlier...). We failed a few times on
Kael and the group fell apart. So, saved to the instance, at the
goal, but no group to complete it. Lame.

Probably the worst out of all that is I had a quest to talk to someone
inside Kara. And when we got to Curator I saw the yellow ? on my
minimap. After curator I used an Eye of Krilogg to go spy on where I
needed to go. The guy was in the next room after you go down the
ramp. Had we been able to clear down to that, I could have turned in
the quest and moved on to whatever quest comes after that. I also
have a quest to kill Prince. I've killed Prince before, but not when
I had the quest. I would have really liked it if we could have gotten
that far. We had a really good group until it just fell apart like
that. Wish it could have held together longer.
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