Quite few records have been broken today, by my Monk;
1. Highest-leveled alt.
2. First ever melee-class char that solo’d from 1-90 without needing my main’s help.
3. First ever char to keep the bags used when I started leveling all the way to 90. Yes. Still got the 6 and 8 slot bags.
A thing I noticed, which is similar to what happened when it came to leveling an alt a month after my main did in Cata, there was a lot less people. Which is good, due to very little, sometimes any competition for kills and collection quests.
But there was also a good, yet bad side to this. Of my Monk’s DPS being so shitty, I died a lot due to being overwhelmed. Do not want. 😛
Despite the blood, sweat, and anger coming from my mouth IRL, calling everyone that gets in my way just to piss me off; “you fuck!”, my Monk hit 90 in 1/4 the time it did my Hunter. I was at 100% XP in the Dread Wastes, so I basically started killing random enemies ’till ding. I think I killed like 10-12 Level 89 to 90’s.
I thank the 10% XP guild level reward increase. Leveling my Monk helped to raise my guild’s level even higher than that. In total, since my Monk was created, the guild went from Level 5, to Level 12. Which is pretty impressive for a guild that consists of just me and my alts. But I think the reason, is because Blizzard removed the level cap limits to guilds in MoP. I remembered back in Cata, there was a max per day or per week of Guild XP. That limit is gone.
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What am I going to do now, you ask? I grow tired of squishing bugs in the Dread Wastes. Started work on Tillers rep in the Valley of the Four Winds. You know, the faction that brings farming to WoW. It also makes Cooking have a purpose (to me). Halfhill has really helped boost my Hunter’s Cooking skill, from 31 to 527. And I feel sort of fortunate I ‘waited’ this long to get it up. Because it would be harder if it wasn’t for the 5 skill increase per cooked dish thingy of Halfhill.
Getting rep with The Tillers is unique. It’s mostly dailies, yes (kill quests, collection quests that make you want to kill yourself due to the number of people wanting the same thing you do), but it also involves you to grow veggies and wait ’till the wee hours of the next morning to harvest them (you can also do it when it’s day, if you wish).
And it isn’t just that. No sir. With a really high Cooking skill (525+), you can help make dishes to get people from The Tillers to like you. And the more they do, benefits come to your co-owned farm. Like the ability to grow even more veggies, and have automatic machines that will take care of those damn problems with planting, for you.
With my 525 Cooking, I can now cook advanced dishes, with the help from advanced Cooking skill trainers, called the “Way of the Brew/Grill/Oven/Pot/Steamer/Wok”. There’s even a title when you hit 600 with all of these trainers. One in particular may just give me an edge, allowing me to cook things that grant Agility, which is what my Hunter and my Monk need according to Mr.Robot.
This may also help my Druid and my Rogue, if I send them to Pandaria. And if I do, they’ll be a tag-team. Helping eachother level up. Would be interesting.
Most of these advanced dishes, recommend/require you to utilize the farm you’re co-owned with. Currently I got three “Juicycrunch Carrot”s, and a Cabbage. The carrots are to hopefully get me into the Way of the Wok, which will unlock the Agility cooking I mentioned in the paragraph above this one.
And the Cabbage, is for a daily for the farmer you’re co-owning the farm with. You also need Fishing for some ingredients for dishes. Fishing helps with Cooking.
The one thing about The Tillers, even when you get Exalted, you still need to use the farm to gather things needed for Cooking, in other words if you need more Agility-based things, gotta go to the farm and plant more to get more. And the seeds are a hell of a lot cheaper than going to the AH.
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What am I going to do after that? Depends on how good the Agility buffs are with my gear. Might start doing Scenarios, like get revenge for what the Horde did to Theramore (which is funny, because it’s still standing proudly in Kalimdor. Seems to be instanced, like Wyrmrest Temple; “Frozen in the past”). I am geared enough for them, on both my Hunter and my Monk. If I suck there, then I’ll work on rep from The Anglers, then Golden Lotus. But that’s a ways away. But who knows? I got the 10% rep bonus by the guild being Level 12. Might be sooner.