44 lock, with time to spare
My little experiment going to a lock has proven pretty potent, not sure if its that I am getting better in general or if I am just a good lock.
My play time is not all that long, and I just leveled to about 44.5 yesterday. I have been following (loosely) a guide on how to level quickly, and it has paid of really well. I am not naming it cause.. well.. cause if I bring another toon along I don’t want to see a bunch of folks doing what I want to be doing (and some q’s are kinda odd..).
As a lock I got a free mount, but have had over 100g now on 2 occassions. If you read me often, you know I throw my gold away on little nuggets here and there. So its not that I’m a miser or anything. I just noticed.. casters don’t NEED new weps/armor/gear all the time. I mean, my gear is (I think) very good. I’m not great by any stretch of the imagination, but i”m doing well. I have 10, or 11 blues on (I can’t remember) and I have bought NONE of them(2 are warlock q’s..). I have gotten the rest in dungeons, and all the while skinning/looting/mining and just building up a good stockpile of… well gold. I have been sitting back getting the ingredients I’d need to powerlevel engineering for my pally, I am close to getting him where I want him. HE will be my “project” toon. By project I mean, he’ll have “neat” things.. grenades.. deathray’s.. his own crafted armor.. etc. First of all Pally’s are like juggernauts.. all but unstoppable(but terribly slow moving). I have, at whatever teen lvl I’m at.. killed a lvl 20 guy. alone. thats at least 6 lvls above me, and almost unreasonable to accomplish.
Anyway.. So I have a lot of money, for me since I see things on the AH for like 300g. I have about a hundred gold. I continually find myself buying new gear, not because I need it, but because I THINK I want it. Like now, I bought a ton of +shadow damage gear. Nothing blue, its all green actually. I will use that as my “PvP set” since dieing in a PvP battleground is not a big deal, and I really just wanna see what kind of damage I can do to ppl. As a lock, there is no real BOOM (I’m affliction), so if you’re in a fight already you might not notice the dots on you. My favorite are warriors for dots.. usually I only put 2 on.. siphon life, and corruption. Corruption is my money maker, its instant and my biggest damage maker (plus it can give me a free shadowbolt (Boom) for no mana on occasion). Siphon life cause.. well I drop that on as many as I can.. Mostly cause it gives me a SMALL amount of life over a long period of time.. so if no one notices the siphon, or just can’t remove it.. I am getting basically healed. Not a ton, but every little bit helps. Plus if nobody is noticing me I can drop corruption on them, and then drain life (which heals me a bunch). I have issues with lifetap in a battleground. Something bad about draining my life while there could be a rogue behind me getting ready to kill me. Just seems bad..