Re: Rested xp

Rob Wynne <doc@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Brian Westley <westley@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rob Wynne <doc@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Brian Westley <westley@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
My two pacifist characters don't kill mobs, so they always have
full rested XP from about level 2 onwards, which is also totally
worthless to them.

How high have you managed to get them, out of curiosity?

Noor hit 80 a couple weeks ago, I'm back on Reinisch who is
4 bars into level 37, having just done the BS questline.
Ahimsah, another player who is a pacifist paladin who I
sometimes quest with, is level 39.

So, is it that you won't kill mobs but will group with people who will?

No. Neither Noor nor Reinisch group with people to do quests
that kill mobs, and they will typically rarely group. Reinisch
has grouped with another pacifist player Ahimsah, Noor solos
pretty much everything.

I'm genuinely curious how that works, otherwise.

Basically, you do everything else. Delivery quests, try not to miss
"bread crumb" quests, gathering quests, etc.

Reinisch just this week dropped 278 mining to level up blacksmithing
for an hour to do the questline for the barbaric armor set, and has
already dropped smithing to go back to mining (miner/engineer).
Engineering is almost a requirement so you can use Target Dummies
to do gathering/collection quests near mobs.

However, for both Alliance and Horde, you will eventually run out
of quests, and hit the max on exploring XP (you generally don't want
to explore too far above your limit, because there's a cap depending
on your level for exploring XP, so you lose XP you could have gotten
if you had waited to explore later when your toon is a higher level).

For Horde it's about level 15 (but getting past level 8 is difficult,
Reinisch had to go explore Alliance starting areas to get past it),
and for Alliance it's about level 23.

That's when you have to do daily battleground quests.

Reinisch has it easy; nobody complains about a healer in battlegrounds
who just heals instead of fights. Noor is harder to justify, though.
I've built her as a WSG flag runner (all +stam, Green Whelp Armor
from level 30 to 50, two Freezing Bands, net-o-matic, etc), and
she's pretty good at ninjaing flags in Arathi Basin. Even so, I
was glad to stop doing BGs with Noor.

There have been a few "accidents" -- Noor uses bombs that stun
and Ice Grenades to escape in WSG or stop flag cappers in AB,
but both cause damage that can kill players low on health.
Even Reinisch killed a player trying to cap a flag when he hit
him with his staff to stop a flag cap in AB and his Psychic
Scream was on cooldown. Noor has also gotten a little XP for
NCP kills in AV, and when she groups to capture the towers
around Auchindoun. Plus both of them get "credit" for player
kills in BGs because they're grouped with all the other players.

Alliance also has one way to get XP not available to Horde;
fishing up Strange Engine Parts in Zangarmarsh from Steam
Pump Flotsam (Horde just get a Broken Engine Part to vendor).
It's a rare catch, but Noor fished up 103 of them for over
1.25 million XP.

The seasonal events can have some good XP too; the Midsummer
Fire Festival had two daily quests that got me levels on
both toons.

Noor has listed every quest she's done on the blog (Reinisch's
quests aren't listed) and there are over 20 movies up of various
quests they've done at http://pacifistundeadpriest.blogspot.com

So any Alliance smith on The Venture Co realm who's a completist,
bring your gold, I'm planning to put up each one for 95G/300G
bid/buyout.

Um, I'm on the Venture Co(US) as Alliance. But what I'm looking for is a
couple of cooking recipes. :)

Oh, I can do those too. Both of my pacifists have Booty Bay alts
(Reinischbb on Venture Co) so it's easy to get most of the cross-
faction stuff up on the AH. What ones did you need?

Lately I've been doing recipes on Noor, but I can do some on
Reinisch. I don't overcharge much either, just 2G/4G bid/buyout
for them.

If you can, tell some blacksmiths you know about the Barbaric
plan set coming up; I've been selling "flyers" about it in the
goblin AH by putting up letters mailed to myself and posting them
for 1 copper.

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Merlyn LeRoy
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