Another 80 in the Stable

Posted on October 13th, 2009 by Cila

Breylyn, my hunter, has finally hit 80. It was actually a little frustrating at the end, to be honest. 79 was a very quick level, which was a first for me. Usually 79 might as well be two levels. I generally do it in Storm Peaks, but I dinged in Zul’Drak, so went to the Basin instead.

Armed with my trusted Tour Guide, I proceeded to run through Sholazar as quickly as possible. I’ve never done Sholazar as far as I did this time around, and it was pretty enjoyable… and then with 5% left, I hit Returned Sevenfold. This quest is REALLY hard for a hunter to do. Unfortunately, it was the only quest I could do in Sholazar, so I attempted it 4 times before giving up.

With nothing else to do, I had to head off to start Icecrown for my last 5%. This took about 10 minutes.

I immediately went to Stormwind, got my dual spec, and talented up my second spec. I decided to go with the most popular Survival spec out there, the 0/15/56. I grabbed all the proper glyphs (Explosive Shot, Kill Shot, Serpent Sting, Feign Death, Revive Pet and Mend Pet) and some 80 blues off of the AH.

I then went to Crystalsong, tamed myself a 78 Sinewy Wolf, specced him with a solid PVE spec and was on my way.

I was ready to go and run an instance to figure out this new spec and see what kind of DPS I could do… but no one in the guild was on so I was stuck just logging off and going to bed.

*sigh*

I’ll let you know of my progress with Survival. It should be fun to learn something new.

Tags: breylyn, ding!, hunter, sholazar, survival

Breylyn Hits 78

Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Cila

My little “hunter that could” hit 78 last night in Zul’Drak. To celebrate, I headed off to Valgarde and got myself a shiny new Sawed-off Hand Cannon. Might as well put some of that rep to use… though I have to admit that I wish I had grinded more of the 4 main factions. There really are some decent upgrades to be had once you hit 78, and I’m not eligible for any of them.

I’m really getting psyched about the idea of running some 80 content with her.  I REALLY love the hunter class.  They really get a bad rap, but if done right, it’s done of the most nuanced and toughest classes to play “correctly”.  I’m still undecided on whether or not I’ll do Survival or Marks on my second spec…  I’m assuming Survival, since I won’t have the Armor Pen. (not to mention how it was nerfed anyway) to get competitive DPS.  Plus, having another toon with Replenishment doesn’t hurt either.

On another note, I’m finding the west side of Zul’Drak to be some of the buggiest quests in Northrend. I think they tried to do too much. I basically had to look up the “right way” to do the Drakuru quests in Wowhead because they were either obvious or bugged. It took me about an hour to get 5% of a level because of this.

In the end, I just skipped the rest of the quest chain and moved on to Argent Stand… and lo’ and behold, I got 5% more in about 5 minutes. I don’t think I’ll go back there, since this isn’t my achievement toon.  It’s bad enough I don’t have the Zul’Drak quest achievement on Cila — no way I could do it twice.

Tags: breylyn, hunter, levelling, zuldrak