Thank you kindly!

just a little something from an alt happy WOWer

Tazijin

like you mania i am always trying out new characters , when i think of the time i spend on them i guess i could have had 5 or 6 level 70 characters by now , this new year i intend to try starting off in different trees which i have only tried on a mage so far in frost and fire ,the result was little difference between the two up to level 30 , but hunter should be very different

its odd but the thing that i find the hardest at low level depends fully on what area i play in , if its a horde character i do not die while getting to level 13 no matter what area i play ,but in the human lands and the dwarf wow oops dead again is what i am thinking , hunter seems to survive easier in most areas after getting the pet though , i am not sure if thats just me or not ?

what i have found with my characters is the gold making does get easier once you understand the basics of the game and of course the faster levelling as i can get to 20 in about a days play now

it still drives me crazy though while on my main 70 hunter to see other hunters that want to melee , not because they have to because they are levelling a low pet , but because they think a hunter can melee , i could understand it if they were in survival spec and using traps and other things but most are not , i have even seen level 35-45 hunters not even with a pet trying to kill things solo ? i will melee with low level mobs just to remain used to melee and to try different tactics but to me the pet rules as a hunter , and concussive shot is my main shot again to stay in shooting distance , i still have so much work to do on my 70 hunter though i wonder at times why i bother with creating new characters all the time ,my armour is ok my manna pool is way below what i need , my crit at times hits around 2300 so thats not bad , but the average shot i do still needs work
i guess i get bored easily is the reason i am always trying new characters out and each character i try i do things a bit differently , on my latest i am trying to keep crit and my manna pool high but not keep buying stuff at auction . the health/armour level is not as high as i could get i guess but i survive and have only died once so far , but that was a bugged mob that linked 4 furbogs that i stupidly attacked , being the same level as them i just could not get away in time and as i used frost trap i ran straight into others , i also am trying to keep pet on aggressive which seems to be very unpredictable she will attack mobs when i get close sometimes and not others ? as they spot me and then my pet attacks ? also at times she will see a mob in the distance and off she goes , then she might get bloodlust ? and then she is like a red blur running at several mobs one after another or at times swapping to a nearby mob , all great fun and keeps me thinking fast , i cannot work out why on the same mobs in the same area my pet seems to have a very weird idea of what to attack and what exactly sets her off , is it an area she protects ? is it directional ? sometimes it does seem to help if i have left clicked a target but not always ? very strange to me the way that works , perhaps my pets were created with goblin engineering ? has anyone else noticed the weird aggressive mode ?

But I’ve had new characters in progress ever since. It’s not unusual for me to level a character to 10 or 20, realize I don’t like the name, and delete it — about once a month. (Truthfully that habit embarrasses me, but I figure a few wasted hours are nothing alongside the hours I waste on my ‘real’ characters. *grin*)

Anyway, even with all that experience I am still much happier with the reduced deadzone for levels 1-9. I never did like fighting toe-to-toe.

Having said that, I do play those 10 levels a bit differently than some other people: I only run back to deliver if my bag(s) are full or if I ran out of ammo. I usually grind a few more mobs and will sometimes even skip going to the trainer! On most chars I play, I usually only go to trainer first time at the edge of dinging 4! I usually level 4 by delivering that “meet the trainer” quest to him (thanks to LightHeaded I know how much XP I’ll get so I can watch my XP bar) because delivering it at 3 will still make it a “yellow” delivery, and dinging at the trainer means I can simply grab lvl 2 and 4 spells on a single trip. Then, most of the times I skip lvl 6 training as well, but it depends on what class I’m playing because some have “must get” spells, while others have “so-so” spells in those ranges…

But ONE thing I found that makes it MUCH easier to level in those earlier levels: having played a lot of other chars before! :)

My first char that never made it was a mage and I was almost to the point of quiting! Now, even with a mage, I can go through those early levels quite easily because I know what to expect from mobs, which ones run back to get help, which ones walk slowly, which ones charge you, which ones are tougher, where to go for the quest mobs/items rather than wandering around, etc, etc, etc…