Forget about buying gold, what about power lvling

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:26:00 GMT, "Ferk" wrote:

>There are tons of people paying for power lvling.
>
>Lv1 - 70 $249.99
>
>I think this is alot worse than buying gold..

Agreed completely. I really don't see the point in powerlevelling; what's
the use in having a lvl 70 character that you've got no clue how to play?
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Naomh - Draenei Priest (lvl 70)
Sealgair - Dwarf Hunter (lvl 70)
Rosad - Human Warlock (lvl 70)
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Sgoildubh - Human Mage (lvl 53)
Beag - Dwarf Paladin (lvl 52)
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On Sep 6, 2:04 pm, Bynahmar wrote:
> those are the lvl 70s you see that have no clue as to how to play
> their toon.....personally I think it's stupid, like putting somebody
> who's never driven before in a formula 1 race car.....

For a person with only 1 70 that they had pl'd, then yes, but as
people get more and more 70's it is less true. I've played a mage and
druid to 70 (druid was feral from 1-60, balance from 60-70, and is now
resto for endgame). I've played a hunter up to level 65. As such I
know melee mechanics, I know caster mechanics, I know healing
mechanics. Give me any caster or healing class and I can be ok at it
in 2 hours tops. I can be GOOD at that class within a few days. I
still haven't actually done any powerleveling (it's too expensive and
poses too great a risk), but if Blizzard themselves offered the
service for a lower price (to existing 70's natrually) I certainly
wouldn't mind having a 70 priest and warlock to raid with too.
Luckily they're starting to realize this idea and the next expansion's
new class will start partially "powerleveled" already (given the same
restriction I mentioned - you have to have an existing high level char
to have learned mechanics from), and they're reducing the leveling
time for other classes.

Mike
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wrote in message

> On Sep 6, 2:04 pm, Bynahmar wrote:
>> those are the lvl 70s you see that have no clue as to how to play
>> their toon.....personally I think it's stupid, like putting somebody
>> who's never driven before in a formula 1 race car.....
>
> For a person with only 1 70 that they had pl'd, then yes, but as
> people get more and more 70's it is less true. I've played a mage and
> druid to 70 (druid was feral from 1-60, balance from 60-70, and is now
> resto for endgame). I've played a hunter up to level 65. As such I
> know melee mechanics, I know caster mechanics, I know healing
> mechanics. Give me any caster or healing class and I can be ok at it
> in 2 hours tops. I can be GOOD at that class within a few days. I
> still haven't actually done any powerleveling (it's too expensive and
> poses too great a risk), but if Blizzard themselves offered the
> service for a lower price (to existing 70's natrually) I certainly
> wouldn't mind having a 70 priest and warlock to raid with too.
> Luckily they're starting to realize this idea and the next expansion's
> new class will start partially "powerleveled" already (given the same
> restriction I mentioned - you have to have an existing high level char
> to have learned mechanics from), and they're reducing the leveling
> time for other classes.
>
> Mike
>

I like how GUILD WARS has an option for a level 20 (their level cap)
characters for PVP-only but PVE players start at level 1.

Altho you can play PVP with a lower level PVE character, it's a nice
flexibility.

-- Ken from Chicago
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On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:26:00 GMT, "Ferk" wrote:


>I think this is alot worse than buying gold..

Agree like the other people. I actually find leveling the most fun
part of a characters life. Endgame is not that fun in my opinion, so I
don't only find it worse than goldbuying, I find it pretty pointless
as well.
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"Thomas Jespersen" wrote in message

> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:26:00 GMT, "Ferk" wrote:
>
>
>>I think this is alot worse than buying gold..
>
> Agree like the other people. I actually find leveling the most fun
> part of a characters life. Endgame is not that fun in my opinion, so I
> don't only find it worse than goldbuying, I find it pretty pointless
> as well.

Agreed. Buying gold is only for getting the best gear, powerlevelling your
professional skills (by buying mats from AH) buying epic mounts.

I have a level 50 hunter main that twinks my lower level alts. Just dinged
31 with my rogue and he only needed money to level up his leatherworking and
for early armor. Now with questing I get better armor than I can buy. Also
at major cities by the time I can use high-level armor, I've usually found
or been rewarded better armor thru questing.

-- Ken from Chicago
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Well I have been wondering about the changes in 1-60 leveling that
bliz is talking about. Double exp maybe????

but for power leveling NO WAY

Too many stories of people saying they lost accounts to this stuff.
You are in KANSAS or something and I guess that bliz knows you didn't
move to China for a week. LOL

I have read more and more post about well I got leveled from 30-60
got on my account and 2 days later account frozen.
NOW this is bliz at its finest...NOT
so the power levelers got their money then the person gets banned????



On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:08:06 +0200, Thomas Jespersen
wrote:

>On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:26:00 GMT, "Ferk" wrote:
>
>
>>I think this is alot worse than buying gold..
>
>Agree like the other people. I actually find leveling the most fun
>part of a characters life. Endgame is not that fun in my opinion, so I
>don't only find it worse than goldbuying, I find it pretty pointless
>as well.
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"Thomas Jespersen" wrote in message

> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:26:00 GMT, "Ferk" wrote:
>
>
>>I think this is alot worse than buying gold..
>
> Agree like the other people. I actually find leveling the most fun
> part of a characters life. Endgame is not that fun in my opinion, so I
> don't only find it worse than goldbuying, I find it pretty pointless
> as well.

totally agree, i fact I'm starting to get a little, not worried but, not too
happy I'm reaching higher levels. I'm at 58 now and dont want to be 70, I
just hope the expasion comes before I reach 70.

What I'd like to know is, do the power levellers take over the account while
levelling and hand it back at the desired level? If so why on earth would
someone want that, it's a story for god sake, you level on the way through
it. It's like reading the last page of a book before you start.

and how do people know what a farming bot is?

cheers.
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powerleveling not only makes someone totally clueless about their
character and its mechanics... It is not fun at all.

I remember when I was level 30 I was helping a friend killing Hogger
in Elwyn when a level 11 warlock was fighting mobs nearby using her
imp. I helped her then asked "why don't you use voidwalker?".. she
said void what?.. since I already have a level 20 warlock i gladly
showed her where to get the quest and helped her get the void. When I
was level 40 she asked about succubus since she was now 20. I helped
her out too... we used to chat a lot then suddenly she wouldn't reply
to my chats. then I saw her level rise like crazy.. She reached level
70 while I was struggling at level 55. Then she suddenly started
talking again.. my obvious question was "powerleveled?"... She said
yes... she was playing for a couple of weeks then she didn't log in
for a while. last week I saw her online. She was complaining about how
boring the game was... I told her that it is boring because of
powerleveling.. I told her that she missed a lot of the best aspects
of the game. And most importantly the feel of satisfaction when you
see your character at max level with some "not-bad still to upgrade"
gear and a flying mount at your command, knowing that you have earned
every piece of copper you have and a story for every piece of
equipment on you.... She agreed... and sadly stopped playing that
character ((Wasted Money))
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"Tigero" wrote in message

> powerleveling not only makes someone totally clueless about their
> character and its mechanics... It is not fun at all.
>
> I remember when I was level 30 I was helping a friend killing Hogger
> in Elwyn when a level 11 warlock was fighting mobs nearby using her
> imp. I helped her then asked "why don't you use voidwalker?".. she
> said void what?.. since I already have a level 20 warlock i gladly
> showed her where to get the quest and helped her get the void. When I
> was level 40 she asked about succubus since she was now 20. I helped
> her out too... we used to chat a lot then suddenly she wouldn't reply
> to my chats. then I saw her level rise like crazy.. She reached level
> 70 while I was struggling at level 55. Then she suddenly started
> talking again.. my obvious question was "powerleveled?"... She said
> yes... she was playing for a couple of weeks then she didn't log in
> for a while. last week I saw her online. She was complaining about how
> boring the game was... I told her that it is boring because of
> powerleveling.. I told her that she missed a lot of the best aspects
> of the game. And most importantly the feel of satisfaction when you
> see your character at max level with some "not-bad still to upgrade"
> gear and a flying mount at your command, knowing that you have earned
> every piece of copper you have and a story for every piece of
> equipment on you.... She agreed... and sadly stopped playing that
> character ((Wasted Money))

I've used levelling guides (Caellistis 12-20, Youri 20-30, Jame 30-40,
40-50, 50-60), tho I've levelled up to 12 on my own, to get a feel for
character abilities and talents. Slowly working up levels, you get used to
various abilities, learning to use them, also learning tactics:
--setting freezing traps, siccing bear, then aimed shot or setting freezing
traps, starting aimed shot, siccing boar before aimed shot completes;
--using charge as a warrior and keep attack to keep up rage as long as
health is good or using bow / gun to lure mobs away;
--using seals as pally since it's only ranged attack he has or dynamite
since pally is an engineer;
--having my mage freeze enemies in place then attack them or if too many,
sheep the most powerful, finish off the lowbies, rinse, repeat;
--using stealth as rogue to distract and garrote / ambush / cheap shot
opening move, then backstab, backstab, then sinister strike, then ghostly
strike, then gouge ... and wait while creep is stunned and you're regaining
energy and eviserate for finishing move--but if really high then expose
armor to weaken him or bandage to heal myself while it's stunned; or if
overwhelmed simply vanish (having learned to stock up on flash powder,
unlike my main's feign death which doesn't need a reagent and has a
relatively quick cooldown unlike vanish's 5 minute cooldown, ugh).

-- Ken from Chicago
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