Pilgrim’s Bounty = Cooking Leveling

Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Cila

If you’re like me and have a ton of alts, you end up neglecting your secondary skills.  “I’ll save it for 80″ is the usual motto.  For me, it’s only when I decide to take a toon from “alt” to “main” status that I level up cooking, first aid, etc.  And then it’s a hassle to get from 1-350.

Enter Pilgrim’s Bounty.  This holiday has a quest chain that literally takes you from 1-350 cooking skill in an hour or two.  It just requires running around 3 capital cities for a bit.  If you’re Alliance, it’s kind of annoying to do this since you’re stuck taking boats and the Deeprun Tram.  However, if you’re horde, it’s a cinch to just take the airship from city to city.

My suggestion is if you have any alt over the level of 50, take the time to do this quest.  Heck, even if you don’t, do it anyway and get as high as you can.  It’ll save you a lot of pain down the road and it only comes one a year.

We sure are

Tags: achievements, Altaholic, cooking, levelling, pilgrimsbounty

Yup, one more 80

Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Cila

*sigh* Another one?

I swear, I’m taking a levelling break.  Even I’m bored with putting 80s in my toon collection box.  This actually happened a few days ago, but work has been busy and the baby hasn’t been sleeping, so time to do anything outside of those is minimal.

This one is a bit special for me.  This is my toon that I’ve totally levelled up on the Alliance site and in The Other Side guild.  I actually have a Horde druid who raided some T7 and now just sits dormant on another server.  I was tempted to faction transfer him over, but I was so close to 80 already (75 at the time faction transfers came out) that I didn’t bother.

What’s interesting is that I’m trying Boomkin as my alternate spec along with my Tree spec that I love so dearly.  Boomkin has an advantage over Feral for me for two reasons.

1. Less bag space wasted because you have a big gear overlap

2. Can actually do decent AOE damage on heroic trash.  It’s amazing how useless you can feel on 3 and 4 mob pulls.

I’ve only ran an instance or two so far, but I’m liking it.  I actually haven’t healed at all yet, even though I’m totally setup and gearing for it.  Until I feel my healing gear can compete, I’m PUGging as a DPS and rolling on the heal-y gear (of course, I’m asking first).  I figure a week or two of that, and I should be in good shape to heal heroics and T7 again.  I can’t wait.

Otherwise, I’m just running dailies for the time being.  I want to get at least honored with Hodir for the shoulder enchant and will probably stop doing it after that.  I just can’t be bothered grinding those dailies…  they’re pretty terrible.  I’m finding that I’m actually caring about this toon, as opposed to my hunter.  If it wasn’t for all the achievement points on Cila, I’d seriously consider making a change on mains.  I love the idea of being useful in 2 of the 3 main roles… something I don’t get on my warlock or my hunter.

Tags: ding!, druid, flouria, levelling