Questing? Who Needs Questing?

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Just before midnight on June 19th, Eride reached level 80. It wasn't that momentous. We had just killed the second to last boss of Oculus and loot was being distributed. I almost completely missed grabbing a screenshot when it happened. Happily, I was able to switch to healer (green) dragon rather easily after a test wipe. Spam #1 on boss, then it's a warlock style health funnel (#3) on the party.

At 80:
  1. BOA gear didn't appear to grant extra XP; when turning in a quest. I flipped between a level 80 green chest and the boa chest and saw the same 7500 xp for a hyjal quest. 
  2. BOA gear has an estimated iLevel of 187. 
  3. By replacing my wrath BOA gear, with cata greens, I was able to get to up to an ilevel of 216. I spent approximately 150g at the AH and bought 4 or 5 ilevel 265+ gear. 
  4. Questing in Hyjal, is, well, boring. At least compared to dungeon running. (IMHO). I completed 16 quests into the area, picked up a nice 275 green quest reward staff, then looked for something else.
  5. Dungeons have lost their locate me, before you play me requirement. At i226 gear score, I was able to queue up for BRM and TOT.
  6. So far, mana hasn't been an issue. I can only remember one DK tank who I couldn't manage to keep alive and it wasn't because of OOM issues. He would take damage in 40% hits, but this same tank also had patience issues. He started a boss fight in ToT before all the DPS was even back from the graveyard. b'bye, vote-kick!
  7. Gear sites like Wow-heroes.com and askmrRobot.com are now (starting to be) relevant; providing gear options.
  8. During the last 2 dungeons, Throne and Blackrock, dropped a trinket for her. This means that she's replaced all pre-cataclysm BOA gear. This brought her gear score up to i277.
  9. Leveling isn't THAT much slower with only 1 BOA piece (cloak) and perks available with a level 16 guild. After the 16 quests, I ran 1 heroic wrath (70 justice points) and 2 normal cata dungeons (140 justice points) and dinged 81.
  10. At 81, 2 more of the Cataclysm dungeons opened up to me.
So, will I be questing my way to rep with Hyjal? Oh, probably not. I think my best option will be continuing to running dungeons, then start questing in Deepholm. That way I can get the nifty shoulder enchants. (hyjal's are BOA, so I can mail them from Elk).

Comments

  1. Xayíde@GurubashiJun 27, 2011, 8:49:00 AM

    Don't forget that you have to do quite a few quests in Hyjal in order to be able to have access to the new quest hub in patch 4.2!
    I was leveling my mage this weekend and made sure I did all the quests up to "Aessina's Miracle" before moving on.

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