Forum Discussion: Daily Grind or Instance Grind? How Do You Level An Alt?
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Personally I am very very excited for Cata, I am burnt out on the Lich King expansion, and honestly dieing for a new chapter to the story line. We still have Ruby Sanctum, but to be honest I can’t find that much interest in the Raid myself.
I have recently turned my attention to an old friend of mine, an alt Druid named Cowseeum whom I haven’t really touched in probably near a year. When I picked him up again I believe he was level 35, and right now he is sitting at level 47 over on Silvermoon (US).
I want to play him as a healer but with leveling as Feral I wasn’t really getting to practice the art of druid healing. Before I quit him last the dungeon finder hadn’t been implemented yet, and I was doing the regular questing grind because it was just to hard to try and find runs. Now that I have picked back up on Cowseeum I started just queuing once a day to get a run as Feral, and try to nab up any healing gear I could while I was in the instance. When I first started queing up it generally was taking anywhere from 10-30 min to find a group. Now that I have a full healing set I am popping in the Que usually under a minute, because of the need for healer’s. Needless to say my leveling is going quite fast these days, and I am keeping him up in good gear. I had a few DPS heirloom pieces on him as Feral, but I don’t currently have any healing heirlooms for him at all. Still I am running through levels at lightening speeds.
With the system as it is right now I think I will probably bring up a priest, and maybe a warrior as well, leveling them strictly as Tanks and Heals. I mean I am anxiously waiting for the world event and then the xpac to drop. Im not interested in Ruby Sanctum that much, and I really want to have some alts this time around.
So tell me about what you are doing now. Is Ruby Sanctum keeping your apetite down? Are you leveling Alts? Have you started playing NES emulators to pass the days until Cata drops? Jump in the Discussion.
I have had the fun of leveling every class, in every starting zone. I've even done Ashenvale because I was tired of Freewind. I finally deleted all of my toons except a bank alt (who had all of my heirloom gear) just so I could have a challenge.
I moved all of my caster gear to the alliance side, created a priest, and power leveled her through instances and battlegrounds. My downtime was spent farming deadmines for ore. When I hit 80 (it wasn't long at all), I transferred back to the horde.
I had never actively done pvp before, and grew to love it as a priest. She is in her first 2v2 and learning the ropes. Suddenly, WoW has changed for me because of the different approach. I have a warrior I started on the alliance side as well (level 72 now), just because everything, especially Northrend, is so much different.
I am definitely looking forward to Cat. I'm a leveler and a grinder, not a farmer. It's weird, I know. I need new places to explore!