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Re: First Things First
Posted by Wildchild » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:21 am
Practice makes it perfect :>

I can see you crying about over aggroing and dying all the time, any time soon

Re: First Things First
Posted by Wildchild » Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:19 pm
Ahoy thar! I'm glad to hear that you are progressing well :) As for jousting problems... It's really not that hard: 1. Keep your 3 shields up all the time (rebuffing shield wheneve...

Re: First Things First
Posted by Wildchild » Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:16 pm
You are welcome. And Trial of the champion NORMAL mode is easy as pie. I did it tons of times with my low lvl alts at arround lvl 77-78. When you are dps, or even healer, you don't...

Re: First Things First
Posted by Wildchild » Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:00 pm
Forgot something ... :) Wear your Kirin tor tabard since you need the rep from there for head enchant (revered) You need Sons of Hodir rep for shoulder enchant. (great quest line, ...

Re: First Things First
Posted by Wildchild » Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:50 pm
Hey there mate. I was personally touched by your honest post, so i registered on the forums to give you my answer. I'll try to help you with some advices. And encourage you a bit, ...

Re: First Things First
Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:50 pm
by Wildchild
Forum: Mage

Hey there mate. I was personally touched by your honest post, so i registered on the forums to give you my answer.

I'll try to help you with some advices. And encourage you a bit, since you said that posting your armory link would be embaressing. Keep this in mind. EVERYONE WAS A NOOB WHEN THEY STARTED TO PLAY THE GAME (new player, SHOULD NOT be taken as an insult. In army, or even professional sports, when you 'start' you're a rookie aka noob). It's nothing wrong with that, you don't know something, you learn, you progress. After killing so many raid bosses, i still giggle when i remember my first ever character back in early vanilla wow, how i leveled, what gear i chose, how i performed in instances, pvp, interactions with other people etc. Good memories tbh

No matter what you did for the past year (smelling flowers is nice, so is stargazing) you'd have to get some gear together. It is nothing 'dramatic'. Back in tbc, i leveled my mage from 60 to 70 without getting a single piece of armor in the process (i did have full t2, which was great in vanilla, not so great in tbc). And with that farmed battlegrounds, heroics. That means, that it's totally normal to sell all your EPIX loot at level 80, and start from scratch, and then gear yourself up again to the same (if not better) level you were.

So, you possessing no gear, is not a problem. So, consider your self that you just dinged lvl 80 two hours ago, and are eager to get some gear.

The most important thing is, however that you LEARN TO PLAY your class, and produce maximum from what you have (gear wise)

So reading forums about your class, what spec to play (there is more then one viable spec), what rotation to use, what glyphs to put there etc.

Now, you have to see what you have at your disposal.

Do you have time? (check)
Do you really want to gear up your mage? (check)
Do you have the will for that? (check)

That is all you need really. Blizzard has made wotlk in that manner that casual players can have great gear without much effort (wich is good and bad at the same time).

Now.
You need to check Auction House, and see is there anything 'cheepish' for sale. Bear in mind, that doing daily's each day will net you around 200g. Doing quests you didn't finish while leveling up will provide you with gear, and at least 5-6k gold. Plus there are proffesions that will help you get even more money. (money speeds up things, it is not necessary)

With item lvl 187 you can do heroics without a problem, you just need a nice bunch of people that wont punt you cause your dps is not over 9k. You can get that trough questing.

Now, i was about to write a little guide for you, but i saw that there are some great guides out there, so i'm gonna post a link to you. If you have any questions, you can ask either there (if you are in US) or on eu forums. Dont be affraid to be flamed a bit (it's nothing serious, it is just the INTERNETZ, don't take it personally, since, everyone was a noob when they started their games).

You can always ask here, and i'll try to help as much as i can, and im sure some other people with xp will too.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 3739&sid=1 (us forums)
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.htm ... 0431194169 (eu forums)

As for my personal advice on gear, it would be something like this.

- Check the craftables, but don't buy them off ah, go and farm the mats, OR buy mats and tip someone 10g to make it for you.
- Do normal lvl 80 instances, especially Trial of the champion. When i say do, i mean farm, untill you get everything there for you. Trial of a champion takes 15-20 mins to complete, it's not a problem.
- Find yourself a leveling guild, or a guild that's just about to start raiding (even if you don't plan to raid). Doing guild runs trough heroics is great, you'll make new friends, get some lewt, l2p like a pr0 (hopefully) and generally have more fun. And 'fresh' guild that's about to start raiding IS going to farm heroics, if not for loot, then for Emblems.
- spend some time surfing the net, reading forums etc on your class, try to learn it inside out, cause trust me SKILL is more important then gear. You change gear with every patch, skill progresses, and stays

That's it for now, i don't want to intsagib you with my wall of text. If you have questions, ask

Stay safe,
Wild.