TBC Favorite Classes

 My favorite classes in The Burning Crusade Classic are a surprise to me.  

I'm not a fan of my usual favorite, Feral Druid.  Slow slow fights...zzzz.

Warlock and Mage are just ok.

The classes that shine, and that I have been leveling slowly so they could stay on level with our dungeon group are Holy Priest, Protection Warrior, and not so held back Hunter.  I've sent my Hunter ahead just to be a money maker because her fights are so quick.  

The Holy Priest is really an effective PVE fighter and can hold her own better than most.  The Protection Warrior is tough and has very little down time between fights.

Here are my Classic Priest, Hunter and Warrior with their Shadowlands counterparts.

We now have a second set of dungeoneers, with my sister tanking and brother in law healing, so I am going to move my Priest and Warrior ahead. 

I like the Priest and Warrior so much, that I activated a set on another of the Classic servers to try their hand with other people. Practice, practice, practice.

On the live servers, I gained access to Lightforged Drenai, Dark Iron Dwarf and Void Elf, and created twos Priests and a Protection Warrior to be.  I want to run those in dungeons as well, to compare how the classes play in the two versions.

Dark Iron Dwarf Prot Warrior

Lightforged Drenai Priest

Void Elf Priest

Can I Keep Her?

 The new travel form for druid? So cute. Adorable! I love her to death.  She has a permanent smile.

Back to the Future: Outlands Adventuring

I'm such a fool. I thought I'd I'd have to wait till Wrath of the Lich King for the game to be as familiar to me as the present day game is.

Oh, no. Upon reaching Hellfire Peninsula with my Hunter, man, everything is "right where I left it".  I know where quests are, I know the map before it's filled in.  Home again, home again.  

I've remarked in the past different areas of the game seem cut off from each other, they aren't the same thinking, somehow.  It starts right here.

The money and xp drops into your pocket.  Your armor rewards are great, or sell for nice gold.  There are dailies.  It's so night and day from "the Old World".

I will say the stories are better in the Old World.  Also, I really hate to see my beloved treasure chests go by the wayside.

Alas, Gnomeregan

 

For my Holy Priest, her first TWO wipes in a dungeon.  Gnomeregan. Last Boss! So sad!

Wrath Dreaming

 

Ha. As I finally have a character (Hunter) within a level of entering the Dark Portal, and questing and getting loads of gold, I find myself dreamily thinking of Wrath of the Lich King.

So many quality of life changes.  The only ones I don't see that are on my perennial list of "I wish they were here in TBC" are more mailboxes and flight paths.

I also really find the Horde domination of Kalimdor to be sooo annoying.  That horde camp for instance that stretches (or seems to) most of the way through the center of Feralas. Even worse, I had a level 37 character trying to make the ride through Feralas to Thousand Needles, and avoiding the camp left my character at the mercy of a wolf several levels higher.  Insult to injury, when you die you're in the freakish middle of the Horde Camp, so you have no choice but to go back to your body.  Grrr. Grr!

So, it is revealed that the Horde used to "own" Kalimdor, and it was given back to them in Battle For Azeroth.  See, I was so used to all of the Alliance quests and outposts from "the future" that it has been a shock seeing hardly anything there in these old world areas.   It's empty space for the Alliance with the added pain in the (someplace) of Horde outposts every two blasted feet.

Thanks for listening.

Here I found a delightful list of all of the things to do in game when Wrath comes out, whenever.

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_3.0.2

The Deadmines: First Time Tanking It, Only One Death (Mine) Blah Blah Blah

 I guess the title says it all!  I've done the Stockades and Wailing Caverns with our family group.  This was my first time tanking the Deadmines, and with a PUG.

The Goblin Foundry!  Oof!  Somehow every Engineer got pulled.  It felt like it anyway.

Still we lived!

A Paladin dropped out with an "I gotta go!"   So we made it all the way through with four.

My Warrior is level 26 and everyone else was low 20s and a 17.

I think it helped me be less frustrated that everyone seemed to be pulling because in my family, it's Mages, light those fires!  Whoosh, Whoosh!

I missed my sister as a healer big time.  Good thing my character was set up to do Blackfathom Deeps and she had lots of potions in her pack.

My Warrior is really the only one of my characters who can tank that I like tanking with.  She actually can fight well and holds aggro. I just have to keep running over and grabbing it from people.  

I can see though, even among my family, when I'm the Healer everyone is nice and loves me, when I'm the tank, any problem is a problem with my Tanking.  No wonder nobody does pugs.  I'm going to continue though.  The world needs my girl.

No Worries, No Level Scaling

 Atherne is having the best time on Argus. Joking.

 

Somehow I thought I could whip through the quests there and get, as it turns out, A Light Forged Drenai or Void Elf, not a Dwarf. Oops. 

I really disliked Legion and did not pay attention to details.

As it turns out, Atherne is whipping through stuff, as everything is 45-47 and she's 57.

Even a truly awful dungeon, Seat of the Triumvirate, I've never been in before was easy for her.  A boss and ten adds?  Poof!

 

Even so it was a pain.   And now I'm to fight Antorus?  I should check, maybe she doesn't have to go in there.

My reputation is now only Honored with Argus so we'll be in Blizzard's version of Hell, before they came up with Shadowlands, for a bit longer.

I feel the need to stroll through TBC's Dustwallow Marsh to cleanse my palate.