The last character I leveled to max was the original Boat.
He was a gnome warlock, and the max level was 70 because The Burning Crusade had just been released. I kept getting distracted with engineering and other amusements but finally hit 70. And it was glorious.
But that's all behind me. Right now I'm a rank 17 Ironbreaker, just trying to get by.
I chose a tank because it always seem like I needed a tank. "That guy does too much damage we need a tank." So now I never need tanks anymore, but instead I always need healers. They are a little more difficult to find. And woe to the scenario groups (of which I've had a few) that lucked into one or fewer healers.
By now I've seen a lot of scenarios. Order doesn't have much of a wait for scenarios, a situation that was not unanticipated. I got through level 15 in about an hour and a half losing scenario after scenario. It was a blast.
Poverty is my biggest obstacle at the moment. Evidently making fifteen gold by level twenty is easy. This makes my 9g50 at level 17 that much more frustrating, as there isn't a lot of talk about how to make the money I'll soon need.
That is, if I make it to rank twenty. I think I will but it seems so distant. My free time started at 7 PM tonight, and it will be 8 PM when I'm finished with the blog. Then I have two more chores to do and then I can play the game. I always think I'll play a new game obsessively but that's rarely the case. I think I've spent more time playing Castle Crashers this week than I have WAR.
I've been procrastinating on my leveling. Level 40 just seems so far away.
Fortunately I enjoy the Ironbreaker. It does great damage, it can take a beating, and it has all sorts of nice things that tanks never had in WoW. I have a ranged attack I can cast on the run. It has a chance of doing huge damage to a low health target. I have a nice powerful DoT that eliminates those pesky NPC low-health runners. I have a knockback which is novel to me, but also much beloved.
I just fell asleep twice writing this sentence and the next. I'll take that as a good omen and wrap it up. I'll see you in game.
Oh, and my addon article is up today.
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I get in the same boat. har har, pun intended. I think "I'm going to play the hell out of this new game.' but then get distracted or end up busy or whatever.
I spent tonight playing a new game: Hinterland. It was actually a nice change of pace from WAR, when it was working right.
Hi Boat.
Just thought I'd say hi and thank you for the blog. I've had a good few laughs in here and the addon column is rather spiffy :)
I really know your pain both with the levelling and the gaming time - never enough of both. But I guess it can't be all that bad to be distracted from the game by real life if you're still having a good time :)
You're welcome chefen, I'm glad you like the blog :)
Scavenging is your friend! :)
I'm rank 18 with 21g... Also, I haven't purchased any tactics from my trainer that I knew I wouldn't use. That has saved me about 75 silver so far.
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