Recruit-a-Friend is insane. Last week my tauren druid was level 38 or something. As of yesterday, she is level 50.
Proof:
(I’m actually leveling as fast as a normal person levels now! Crazy I know!)
At this point the goal is to get her to level 60 as quick as possible for two things: a.) Outlands instances and b.) Wild Growth. Let’s discuss these. Outland instances… I don’t think words can describe how much I love these. It’s really funny cause during Burning Crusade I was like “Well the Outlands instances… they’re okaaaay…” but now that I look back on them, oh my gosh. Have I lately mentioned my undying love for Underbog?
But yeah, healing Outland instances on Tamaryn = one of the best things I’ve ever done in WoW and I can’t wait to do it again.
And Wild Growth I need. I feel like a gimpy tree without it. Nourish is handy but I can live without it. Lifebloom… as much as it saddens me to say it, I’ve used it like… three times since the latest nerf. Poor Lifebloom.
But yeah Wild Growth, give please. *grabby hands*
For the uninitiated in Alpha-Theta-Pike Fraternity, this means I now have in my possession: Two level 80 hunters, one level 80 restodruid, one level 53 hunter and one level 50 restodruid.
You are now free to leave copious amounts of comments about how I really need to branch out and experience more of the game. Go ahead, I’ll wait while you do that. /nod
Don’t worry though, I’ve started the World’s Most Adorable Gnome Warlock Ever and I’m going to pair her up with my long-forgotten paladin and they’re going to be the Team Chaotix to my Hunter/Druid Team Sonic. I’m excited for that.
In other news, I signed up for… something… tonight on Tawyn. I say “something” because it is either going to be “Finishing up 10-man Ulduar, or 10-man ToC”, according to the calendar invite. I’m kind of nervous about it being Ulduar because I’ve only done up to Thorim so far and I’m going to feel like a noob. >.>
It’s funny because I am totally not a raidy-type of person. I mean, I love it, but I can really only do it once a week or so and then I burn out for the week. So, I would actually be pretty okay if tonight’s dealy didn’t happen and then I could do alts instead~ ^^
I’m not sure if it was intended or not, but I chuckled when you mentioned “branching out,” in reference to your resto druids. But that’s just me.
I realize you’re more focused on the adventure itself than on the goal of reaching a high level, but if you decide you want to just start cranking out levels ASAP …
Get dungeon runthroughs and do dungeon quests. Doing ZF at level 40 on an RaF account, just one run plus the quests, takes you to level 42 and change. BRD and its plethora of quests are incredible if you have a skilled 80 running you through there at high speed. And Hellfire Ramparts is just dreamy for how quickly you can crank out full clears (you can start running it at 55!).
For reference, with the kind assistance of one of my guild’s tanks, I think my brother and I took our RaF toons from 1-60 in about 25 hours of playtime.
If you’re excited to experience the process of going everywhere all over again with your new toons, more power to you 🙂 Sometimes I wish I were more like that. But for me the appeal lies in the endgame, and so I develop strategies like these to get there ASAP.
Warlock and Paladin is an awesome leveling combo. When I was a tiny locklet, my pally friend would tank mobs and heal himself while I DPS’d, or sometimes I would VW tank/DPS and he would heal. Enjoy!
Don’t forget, RAF gives you the ability to do a 2-for-1 on leveling…. For every 2 levels the RAF gets you can give 1 level to a toon on the other acct (up to level 60)
Wild growth is … If its not on cooldown.. WHY THE HELL NOT?! i’ve been known to heal entire heroics with only wild growth and a lifebloom or two during boss fights.
I do use lifebloom a lot. mostly when I need to do something a bit insane, like heal through final boss HoL Heroic with people who are undergeared. 3 stacks of lifebloom on everyone 😀
I only use nourish when I need to though, usually when I have a tank taking silly damage, full lifebloom stack, wild growth, rejuv, and still needing more
I don’t think i’ve touched regrowth more than a dozen times since I hit 80 though, only when I want an extra hot up for my nourish glyph and I know I have time to put it up before a spike
That is one thing I like about healing though, can do it in very different ways, and as long as we get the result we try for, its all good 😀
I thought playing your druid is a way to branch out from the hunter world. I’m starting to try to level a baby druid myself, but w/o recruit a friend :(. I’ll get him leveled some day.
RAF is insane. I leveled a couple characters that way too. Your gear can’t keep up. Luckily Outlands makes that all go away. It’s a gearfest there!
I have a druid that moonlights as resto but I’ll be damned if I can get it right. I always wanted to be one of those cool, competent healers, but it eludes me. Someday, maybe.
It’s nice how many hunters would choose druid as their alt. I myself have an 80 bear/cat/tree geared to the teeth. Maybe it’s because we hunters are often curious about life as a pet?
P.S. Perl > UNIX shell programming. Nerf work.
I am also a hunter/druid person, even though I really want to experience all of the classes (only got shaman, paladin, and dk left to lvl). So I do branch out my favorites will always be hunter and druid by far.
I can’t agree more about burning out on raids! I really started out raiding somewhat seriously with Naxx, and that got old really fast. Since then I have gotten in enough Ulduar pugs to play through up to Yogg. Still no ToC 10 or 25 yet. Ulduar pugs are *usually* better, naxx 25 pugs fall apart almost every other time, sad. VoA pugs are pretty rough as well. Even with one guild that is a good guild and we one shot most bosses in the limited raiding time they have each night. I usually only attend one night a week, rarely two. It makes raids more fun when you only go once or twice a week to really appreciate the content. Anyway, that’s my long spiel about raid burnout ^_^
Sheesh! I also agree about Outlands instances too! I had just barely started playing when TBC was about all patched up. The underbog is beautiful, and I want all the bosses as pets, lol. Blood furnace is just a fun time of stacking piles and piles of dead orcs. I still have yet to check out the Tempest Keep! Can’t to do that sometime.
As far as resto druids, ya Wild Growth is great. I really love what I’ve got right now on mine – Idol of Awakening. Makes your Rejuv’s cost less than 400 mana, so I spam that and wild growth and you’re pretty much good to go. Everyone’s always ready for a swiftmend!
Well, hopefully you get to see some ToC 10! I know I’d love to at least check it out.
I know the focus of the picture’s on the tree, but I’m still going *squeebloodelfsquee!* 😀
It’s funny how Druid does seem to be a popular second class for Hunters–maybe it’s because they can fill all four of the roles (tank, melee, caster, healer) that Hunters can’t? Whatever the reason, I have known a bunch of Hunters with Druids that they play almost as frequently… I have a baby Druid too (I love new tauren bearform so much!), but with my Shaman and Warrior as well I dunno if it counts. =P
At least with a feral Druid, it’s fun to be amazing at soloing but in a totally different way than my Hunter. My little Tauren is pretty much unkillable, he can solo elites four levels higher than him. Questing goes a bit slower than on my Hunter, but being able to go bearform and tank is totally worth it.
((I used my usual andgle-bracket smiley faces and my post didn’t work…I think I ran up against my old enemy, the spam filter, again. So, normal smilies this time. :p))
Yo Pike, I’m happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but BRK had the best hunter blog OF ALL TIME.
Just sayin.
Hm, I only heal with lifebloom (with some nourish and wild growth for good measure). I keep a stack on the tank the entire instance and this makes healing more relaxing than being tank or dps.
rofl@Kanye west ^^