Being that I don’t have a guild to help me with heroics/ToC, that leaves me forced to PUG everything, which is also a tough situation.  It seems as if everyone in the LFG channel wants to see your achievement for the instance/raid they’re trying to put together, and/or have you doing 5k+ DPS.  Which is ironic, seeing that I found my way into a VoA25 run and only 2 folks were doing 5k DPS.  We cleared the place without any problems.

I guess in some way I can understand why people are being so “elitist” about PUGs.  Nobody wants to wipe and nobody wants to carry some random player who’s completely over their head.  I understand that.  However, sometimes you have to think about the player and their class.  Quite frankly, in ToC, I’ve done more DPS than people better geared than me, in full epics nonetheless.  They’re either paying the hybrid tax, weren’t paying enough attention, or didn’t know how to play their class.  Either way, I led the chart in my mix of epics, blues, and a few greens.

I’ve mostly been running the daily heroic/heroics for emblems and farming regular ToC for gear.  That will have to continue until I’ve swapped out all of my greens, at a minimum.  I only have 3-4 of those left.  Hopefully I’ll have full purples in a week or so, which will open doors to raiding guilds on my server.

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1. Noob vs. Onyxia

If you’re like me, you look for every advantage in the leveling game.  I pick and choose my quests based on efficiency and difficulty.  If I know it’s going to be a tough quest, where I may die in the process, I’ll move on to something that yields the same XP with fewer chances of downtime.  I move from area to area quicker than you should, in order to always be on the cutting edge of XP gains from killing mobs and completing quests.  It’s the little things that add up to get you to the level cap quicker than ever.

I’ve found my next avenue to speed up the leveling game.  With the introduction of Wrath of the Lich King, a number of heirloom items were introduced to assist those leveling their alts.  By gaining tokens from Wintergrasp, and Emblem of Heroism, you can exchange them for gear that levels as you level.  In addition, it provides +10% XP per mob kill or quest turn-in.  Epic.

I choose the cloth shoulders, Exquisite Sunderseer Mantle, since the alt I’m working on is a clothie.  Not only that, but anyone can wear cloth.  So when Jaltar is working to level 90 with the next expansion, he can benefit from these shoulders as well.

Being account bound, you can mail these shoulders around to your characters as you wish.  I’ll be able to use these on all of my alts, to assist them in the leveling process.  I’ll definitely check in once I’m able to utilize them and see a real effect.

What are some of your habits in speeding up the leveling process for your alts?

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