Because it is not possible to have too many alts, and because the rocket is too freaking cool, we have recruit-a-friend going right now. We had been planning to do it since the rocket announcement and were just waiting until after kid’s weeks. So now Approximate has a new two person flying mount and we are grinding up soon noobies in Singal Abstract Noun.
Profusion and Invariant (mk2) are the pair, a mage and a lock. The times I tried a mage they always felt too squishy in contrast to my hunter. Dying a lot gets old. It helps to have the levels fly past with the RAF bonuses though. Still, we did find out the hard way on Sunday that that this pair simply can’t AOE level mobs 3 levels higher. Our last leveling pairs have been bear/tree, pally/boomkin and warrior/priest so we got a bit spoiled. Still, we are finding the right pace for two glass cannons.
We just dinged 26 over lunch. The plan this time is to grind to 60 just about every class we don’t already have alts. It will probably take a second RAF pair (getting Analogue the rocket too) in order to get them all. But we do have it for 3 months so we might as well make the most of it.
Last time we did RAF was with our druid pair (Reversion and Analogue). That time we were too pumped druiding to go back and use RAF on any other pairs. This time we will do better and get the most out of it. I am still not sure which classes I will use level granting and which I will actually grind.
Fortunatly on the SAN server we had already leveled a few characters to between 7 and 14. That is not much, but by using gather professions and a good auction addon we already had 50 or 100 gold (not sure how much. She keeps the checkbook).
Getting all the new 60s to 80 will be a chore. We certainly will not do them all at once and we are sure to be more sick of the Outlands than ever before. At least the instances anyway. The warrior I most recently ran though there only actually did something like 26 quests in the whole place. That was without even running Slabs, Dark Portal, any of the tempest keep 5 mans or magister’s terrace.
It goes pretty fast if you don’t grind without rested. With multiple alts at 60 that should be easy.
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May 10, 2010 by ReversionLFM
Soooo…. what’s your strategy for duo-ing glass cannons? My husband and I duo, but we always seem to choose something tanky and something healy — warrior/priest, shaman/paladin, druid/druid. How do you adjust for the clothies with no heals? Do you like it, or do you miss the gogogo of the survivable pairs?
Two glass cannons is hard but our first pair we levelled together was my mage and his hunter which, while slightly more survivable than mage/warlock, is a similar dynamic. You have to communicate well, pull carefully, and be prepared to die. Any one or even two mobs die. It’s when you get four that you are screwed. Having a pet class helps – voidwalker or hunter pets make good front men.
It can be frustrating, and I feel crippled without healing abilities (my last serious levelling projects have been druid, paladin, priest, shaman) but it’s fun to have to think about how you’re doing things.
The trade off of survivability for damage means you want to kill things Faaast. So you set up your pulls to well and learn your rotations. You do a lot more single target but that target darn well is dead before he can take more than a swing or two. Because it is less forgiving you have to be more forgiving… of each other as you run back fromt he graveyard.
Also you just simply can’t expect to do red quests. Stick with yellow ones and you will plow through them fast. Try some thing few levels high and you end up in a very frusturating wipe fest.
Charging in and killing them all can be fun but so can be sitting back at extreme range and going: ‘that one’ *FOOOM* ‘now that one’ *FOOOM* ‘ok this one’ *KABOOM!*
The gogogo pair is limited in that they HAVE to AOE packs or it takes a long time to do anything. So that is its own sort of risk. I don’t know that we died any less because being ‘invulnerable’ leads to a lot of risk taking.