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The middle age crisis is here, the Orc has hit level 30. I feel the need for a hot new sports car… er… mount, but I can’t get one for another 10 levels!! Bah. So I took my frustrations out on Sharptalon. This is big griffon thing that flies near the Horde area (Splintertree post) in Ashenvale. Used to be that handing in the quest would give you some 25 Badges of Justice , but now it’s just a worthless cloak. However, if you’ve done the other two hunts (a big bear and a big cat) then you’ll get a pile of XP for finishing this one. Time to level – 1 day, 20 hours, and some change. Not too awful, considering their was some time spent skinning, flower picking, running to Org to buy new gear, a bit of wandering, etc. Eternea has decided to play the PvP twink game, which is cool. Got my head handed to me by a (Human) Rogue Twink the other day. Ouch. He was only 5 levels lower than me… Flower picking, why am I doing flower picking (herbalism?) 1) I’m going for the heal, since Warriors can never have too much healing. 2) I’m going to stash the herbs and at level 55 make a Death Knight and level Inscription on the DK. Why not create the DK now? That’s not doable for new players and the Gnome and I want the tips here to be accessible to new players, not just the crusty ol’ experts out there. Earned something like 5k gold on my banker, some of which has been spent (bunch of Frostweave bags, for example) and some of which has been sunk into more inventory to resell. So, leveling… I was using the iDemise leveling guide (yep, really) till about level 24 or so. As far as I’m concerned, the grade is FAIL . Minor issues first, then the big one, which really might not apply to you: The guide is an addon which shows a small window on your main screen. The quests are listed in order and a waypoint arrow points the way to the next quest. This is fine, except that you cannot scroll through the quests. So if you want to skip to the next step you have to delete the current step from the guide. Wouldn’t it have been easier to just add scrolling? The guide does tell you when to go train, but probably doesn’t point you to the correct trainer and, if you’re not ready to level or you’ve passed that point already, you’ll have to manually delete that step. For some reason it does not tell you to pick up flypoints when hitting a new area and it assumes you know how to get to a new areas. You probably do if you’ve been playing awhile, but not if you’re a new player. While the guide does track how many of this and that you’re supposed to pick up for any given quest, it give no info on how to complete the quest, pointing you to the quest log. Not a biggie, but a previous iDemise guide did give you tips to complete quests. This guide will send you into the various instances in the game, which is fine if you want to do them and can grab a group. If you’re in a solo frame of mind then you’ll fall a bit behind as you skip those quests. The big one – My computer is a bit behind the times and it gets a bit laggy, here and there. I get the loot lag fairly often. When running the iDemise guide I got a 6 second freeze after killing mobs. Which is awkward if you’re fighting more than one. Kill a mob, freeze. Next mob, freeze. Unfrreeze, dead, corpse run. Rinse and repeat.I unloaded the guide and the kill lag was completely gone. I sent that note to the iDemise people, but they haven’t (yet) responded. Hopefully they do. If you have a hot computer you probably won’t even notice this issue. There are a couple of other issues, but I think that’s enough for now. The current guide looks like a beta test to me. Their previous guides provided more info and the addons didn’t lag my system, at all. As far as I’m concerned, right now, with my system, the iDemise guide gets the big not recommended. I switched to Zygor’s guide, which I’ve been using for awhile and consider to be the best thing out there for fast leveling. It addresses all the above issues, doesn’t lag my system, and the author (and team) actually answer emails and their user forum posts. It’s highly recommended. If you’re interested you can check it out here or read a long review that I wrote elsewhere: Zygor’s leveling guide review . If you read their forum you should find a couple of posts by people who got their characters to 80 in a bit over 6 days. On to 40 Ok, now it’s time to blast to 40 and get that faster mount. Too bad I can’t put wings, spoilers, fatter paws, and a turbo on a wolf… Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Post this to MySpace Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Add this to Google Bookmarks
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