I might have mentioned I’m currently focusing my attention on a PvP realm, that’s where my pals are playing. The side-effect though is that my level 70 pallie lost all focus, due to sitting on a PvE realm.
My mage is level 60 and I thought, before doing the whole Outlands stretch, I’d see about raising 1-2 other toons, and started a new paladin.
“Heck, I did it once, I can do it again, right?”
Well no. I can’t. After the mage, after all the other toons I’ve played and leveled to a certain point, going from level 1 to 4 with just autoattack (hey, you can seal every 30 seconds too! woo!) waiting for stuff to die in about 12-15 seconds while a mage takes 5 seconds for the same thing did it for me. No way, not again, not before patch 3.0.2 changes things (assuming that it does actually change things at low levels, and I’m not holding my breath) and speeds the whole thing up.
What the motivation I had right after TBC, combined with discovering the new belf starting zones, was obscuring back then but is now just plainly obvious: the paladin currently totally sucks as a soloing and leveling class, from level 1 to level 70. No matter how you do it, even prot-grinding multiple mobs at a time without downtime, it just takes forever. I absolutely love the versatility of the class as a healer and a tank, but no other class makes the lack of soloability of tanks and healers in WoW 1 and 2 as painfully apparent as the paladin does. And this time around, Eversong Woods and Ghostlands aren’t new, in fact I could do it blindly.
And extremely slowly. Not.
That’s why the opening of PvE to PvP transfers, as reported by BBB, comes in extremely handy to me. A chance to take a toon I love at level 70 to the realm which currently has my attention. All other considerations are pretty moot, and the argument about going through 69 levels of gankage to “earn” the right is a bit silly nowadays, considering I had less than 10 world PvP encounters in 60 levels on my mage. Only since hitting Outlands do I actually see 1-2 alliance toons in the vicinity, and we tend to avoid each other. Azeroth was an empty world.
And there’s little ganking going on in empty worlds. So little “earning” opportunities.
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Hopefully Pallys will get some dps love, and be viable. Leveling from 65-70 as Prot pally were the worst 40 levels I ever did.
Oh I hear you. My paladin is stuck at 66 (or 67, it’s been a few weeks), and she’s going to stay there for quite a while. I managed 1-wherever mostly on my own, but with a bit of help now and again from hubby’s 70 ‘lock. I managed to distract myself with the “newness” of playing a melee class for a while, but Andrew hit it right on the head.. one level feels like 10 because it takes. so. LONG. I would be willing to bet my dear Saraabi has been at the level she is for as long as it took me to level a new hunter to 15 over the weekend. I’m addicted to the pew pews, what can I say?