My Rogue’s road to 85 has reached the finish line today. I dinged in Twilight Highlands, earlier than Benie did. I can thank Mount Hyjal for that, for giving me an “early lead”.
But the fireworks and chorus aren’t happening for me. I don’t deserve to be 85. Why? I still hit like a feather while the enemy hits like its made out of a brick wall. Yet I read on Wowhead after failing to do a ‘defend thing’ quest three times; that “Blizzard has come to the conclusion that dungeons and raiding are the only things players care about, and that everybody quests in groups.” This is very true of what I went through to get this far.
When I was 84 and in Uldum, it was like I was still a Level 80, because I was still taking too long of bringing one guy down. Was told that I would do better once I get Cata gear. This appears to be untrue as I have full Cata quest gear now.
Speaking of Uldum, before I got there, I was at Menethil Harbor. The boat left as I was flying in. Tried to get on it but it left before I got close enough.
Before the boat came back, the sky/ground turned red. I knew what this meant. Deathwing’s coming! Sure enough about 20 minutes later, I see him to the east of me, burning away but way too far to kill me again. I decided to fly over to him, and saw him disappear. Then the sky/ground went back to normal.
So anyway… I’ve done quests Benie didn’t, including one I assumed was a Horde-only quest. The one I saw of this small Horde group trying to bring down this 83 Elite. I too had to do it. Guy nearly took my head off, but I got unexpected help from allies.
The elite moves slow, which gives you time to lure him to crock egg traps to slow him down even more. Trouble is, there’s mobs everywhere around this pit that can aggro.
Later, I had to do this quest for the king of Ramkahen, of getting this small group up this mountain. Sounds simple, but here’s the twist. There’s three times you have to defend the group from a dozen enemies, on your own, and if they die you fail the quest. I gave up trying to do it. 😛 I doubt Benie could do this, as it requires a high-DPS person. Each one of them has high health and high hitting.
Seeing I wasn’t going to get to 85 in Uldum, I was forced to go to the Twilight Highlands. Did the King’s quests in SW to get to the zone, and went there. While doing quests there I suddenly ran out after doing the defending the siege tank one. Turns out you have to do the one that involves getting flagged for PvP to continue questing. Fortunately, the Alliance already has control of the beach. So all I had to do was fly over to the flag.. and boom. Quest done. Turn in, and I got more quests.
I was at the area where I remember Benie doing the hilariously-named quest; “They Took Me Pants!“.
I was doing the one that involved killing the Dragonmaw orcs there. Was at 100% XP, yet didn’t ding when I turned it in. One more kill to go. Killed and “Congratulations, you’ve reached Level 85!” showed up in my General tab.
It took me awhile to get over that I finally did what I wanted to do, which was to get my Rogue to 85. But no celebrations were done. Half of me did want to start dancing, like I did when I hit 80. But the other half did not. And so I flew back to the portal to SW and went to GS.
The night was mainly quiet. A few people tried to duel me. Two auctions in the AH I put in expired, so I flew back to SW to put them back in. Noticed the Hero’s Call! board had a new quest.
I thought it was probably “Hero’s Call: Tol Barad!”. Instead, it was about trolls that suddenly shown up in Stormwind Harbor. So I flew over and saw the Darkspear trolls needed help in STV. I assume this had to do with the 4.1 patch, of ZG coming back.
Flew to STV, did some quests, got this cute Panda Cub pet, then had to defend the Rebel Camp. As I said earlier in this blog post, I died three times and wanted to scream bloody murder.
You see, I’m having to defend the camp from an infinite onslaught of trolls. Soon as the quest is started, it’s like all the trolls target me. Even using Stealth, they can see me as if I’m not.
I went to Wowhead, and see I’m not alone. Others were also raging over this quest, saying it’s impossible to solo. And there’s where I saw, what I copypasta’d in here. Since then I started to think “Maybe I do deserve to be 85.”
Back in GS, was this duel going on infront of me. After the duel, they started talking about how they leveled in Cata, so I “stepped into” their convo by saying I hit like a feather and they hit like a brick wall. And asked one of them if my Druid would do better.
He looked at me and said “lOL NO”. For him to say that, proves I suck at Melee classes and don’t deserve 85. I don’t even deserve 280% flight speed.
But take a look at Benie. He sucks too. But he can solo alot better than my Rogue can. Yeah, he had trouble getting to 85. But not as much as my Rogue did. My Hunter can freeze. My Hunter can Feign death… Rogues can’t.
I like to give the person that told me “rogues are wow on easy mode” a piece of my mind. Hunters, to me, are “wow on easy mode”.
One last thing. Before the duel was going on, I asked one of them who was a guildie of Terlarer’s guild, Spawn More Overlords, why he hasn’t been back on. He seemed like he went AFK so I waited. Then he says “ok”. And “OK”, and “banned 8 days for spamming”. I questioned him thinking he was talking about me, but he was still talking about Terlarer, saying he spammed his guild chat and was banned for it.
I tried to ask more, like “When will he be back” and “What was he spamming”, but the guy doesn’t know. So this answers why he hasn’t been back in a week. Last time I saw him was when I hit 77, and he said to keep it up.
Hopefully he’ll be back soon. I need his advice badly.