The STORM Crow!
March 10, 2009
Today is the day I found out that in order to achieve epic flying, you have to pay 5000 gold. Considering it costs me several hundred gold just to repair my gear, I am not very hopeful for getting that any time soon. I got my first real taste of having the ability to fly by touring Outland and leveling my mining. Though it sucked getting it up, it’s now at 350, which means I can mine in Northrend! Cobalt ftw!
I’m dissapointed at my inability to push decent dps as a feral druid. I ran Nexus today, my first exposure to a Northrend instance–and I went in as DPS. I was the lowest level toon, but still the lowest damage dealer (though only by about 20K, beaten out by an elemental shaman). The DPS was decent, definitely, and I did a good job helping the tank maintain aggro, but compared to the damage dealt by the balance druid who was also in the raid (he topped the damage charts by a longshot) I paled in comparison. I’ve never really played a caster, and I don’t particularly have a desire too–but I’m seeing that it is much easier to push high DPS as a balance druid as opposed to feral.
Feral does have its ups, however. Before the first boss, our tank had to leave, and so I was promoted to MT. I was voted much better than the previous tank (though, he was a DK, so I don’t know how impressive that is) at holding aggro, but didn’t come even close to the damage he had been doing (obviously), however, we did amazingly, managing to get all the way to the final boss before dying, and then only once before defeating her. The funny thing is, the group consisted of 3 druids including myself, one of each spec. It was ridiculous, druid tanking, druid healing, druid topping the damage charts, each doing their job perfectly. I’d say that the only place the druids lost today was trying to melee dps. Oh well, it was a valiant effort. I still like cat form and will probably stick with feral through my Northrend leveling experience. I’m fine with being a tank.
Coldarra has now been defeated, and I move on to finish the borean tundra. 70-71 is a long trip in comparison to 69-70. Oh, dear…. I’m in for quite a ride.
March 10, 2009 at 4:02 pm
use your achievement list as a guage. there is an achievement for doing x number of quests in a certain zone. this will let you know if you’ve basically done every quest in a zone before you leave it. i think there are roughly 5-8 quests MORE in a zone than the achievement requires so. anyways, hope that helps. level however you want — let the game be fun.
all your ore are belong to me.