The Leveling Struggle

[killa162]

Ya sounds rough. Hitting the numlock key and maneuvering back to your corpse.

There's literally no penalty to dying in this game. I would cringe at some of these peoples responses to actually having to deal with exp loss on death or item loot PVP.

There's a reason why Nostalrius gets much more online attention than project 1999 does. Vanilla WoW is streamlined yet still challenging enough to be interesting, that good medium point. EverQuest 99 is the real hard game of the past, that people would ragequit after the 3rd death.

I watched Kungen play project 99 when he was in his EQ phase, not my cup of tea. I did play DAoC thou and I loved that game, just less player base than this private server, which is bad lol, no guild to play with when I'm free to do RvR.

[TyrantRC]

like someone said before, you'll learn to not die, and I'm not saying this in a sarcastic way, things like staying out of the road to avoid people 7 levels ahead of you, or pulling mobs one by one with distance pulls, watching your back while killing a mob to avoid ganks, being aware of where are the opposite faction towns so you can avoid where opposite faction usually pass through, not trying to solo that elite for that quest and instead lfg to do it, doing only yellow and green quests instead of trying doing that orange one because a guide say so, keeping bandages and hp pots and some invisibility/swiftness to escape ganks in the hotbar. Your are just used to the easy and casual wow. Yeah sure you can just try to powerlevel to 60 to enjoy the "endgame" but I'm pretty sure I will see you crying and whining about pvp in Hillbrad foothills or STV and ragequitting because of the "it's a pvp server, git gud" usual response

tl;dr: git gud

[killa162]

like someone said before, you'll learn to not die, and I'm not saying this in a sarcastic way, things like staying out of the road to avoid people 7 levels ahead of you, or pulling mobs one by one with distance pulls, watching your back while killing a mob to avoid ganks, being aware of where are the opposite faction towns so you can avoid where opposite faction usually pass through, not trying to solo that elite for that quest and instead lfg to do it, doing only yellow and green quests instead of trying doing that orange one because a guide say so, keeping bandages and hp pots and some invisibility/swiftness to escape ganks in the hotbar. Your are just used to the easy and casual wow. Yeah sure you can just try to powerlevel to 60 to enjoy the "endgame" but I'm pretty sure I will see you crying and whining about pvp in Hillbrad foothills or STV and ragequitting because of the "it's a pvp server, git gud" usual response

tl;dr: git gud

From being my level of 22 and barely getting by gold wise to pay for new abilities/ranks. What are some ways of getting cash so I can buy these invis/swiftness pots? I haven't played for two days but I've been at work so that's why. But when I get back to the game this weekend I'll definitely look into the other options. And I know of the stories for STV and Hillsbrad that their huge PvP areas. Going to have to come up with a plan or something to level outside of those area's till I pass the level requirement for the next area. And since then when I was getting ganked and so forth I been looking around more often then when you're in the starting areas, but looking only does so much if a feral druid or rogue opens on you. And yeah I'm just use to the recent stages of WoW, WoD, MoP, and Cata(little bit in cata) where it was basically easy soring to max. But Wrath to Classic were definitely the hardest from what WoW transformed into. Also I try not to do Orange or Red quests even if they are in the guide, they take to long to complete if you're slightly out of level to what the quest is. Unless I have to because that's the only available quest to do unless I find another zone that's the same level and do quests there and come back to the zone I'm currently in later.

Been thinking today at work that I could grind a level or 1.5 levels in the dungeon of my level and then continue questing, that may put me in another zone where PvP isn't as likely. But that's just a thought. More and more that I play Vanilla, the more I like it. But the more I play it, the more I have to get accustomed to how the gameplay use to be when the game launched with all the world PvP and such, since as WoW progressed world PvP died out. Specially died out when flying mounts came into the game.

[TyrantRC]

Also I try not to do Orange or Red quests even if they are in the guide, they take to long to complete if you're slightly out of level to what the quest is. Unless I have to because that's the only available quest to do unless I find another zone that's the same level and do quests there and come back to the zone I'm currently in later.

One thing I like to do when I have a dead level exp bar without quests and without zones that I would like to go is to farm materials for cooking, there is usually areas where you can farm mobs for these mats, for example recently I needed 1 level for my warrior and I didn't want to level up in HB foothills so I went to the river there and farmed a bunch or turtles to get 1 level to go to thounsand needles, got my cooking up and didn't have to deal with the gankers in that area, this works with turtles, murlocs for cooking and humanoids for cloth, if you farm a lot of mobs constantly you also get greens and boxes, also if you want to skip zones like those, do dungeons at least once, get the quests for the dungeons, I use atlas to check for quests but you can use this website like this http://db.vanillagaming.org/?quests=2.1717, the quests+mobs usually get you 1 level and a half or 1 level at high levels

[Saffron]

Guys, it's not like your dick gains an inch every time you point out how long you've been playing. It's perfectly okay to love a game but hate some of the aspects. It's also perfectly okay to have a good whine on the forums in a light-hearted manner.

[Multikai]

First, I have only been on a PvP server in the current retail so not sure what applies here (though from forums I would say there are more gankers there than here) and this info may be useless to you but I always tried to run in a group (keeps rogues off your back if that can't jump you from behind when you have no backup) and use the world to your advantage. Use back paths and use trees and bushes to mask your movement as you go. Always be aware of what is around you and if you see an enemy go by, expect he forgot something and could turn around at any time. Watch farming mats as you are vulnerable and usually exposed so you need to left click your mouse and slowly rotate around so you keep mining/farming but still have a view of what's around you. Basically avoid tunnel vision. Some of these tips may help and others may not so try out some and get practice. If you walk into an area and see dead animals everywhere, assume it's an enemy and not a friendly in the area.

Anyways, best of luck to you and don't give up and remember, when your max level and bored, go out and try to police some of these areas for the next group of lowbies making there way through.

[killa162]

Guys, it's not like your dick gains an inch every time you point out how long you've been playing. It's perfectly okay to love a game but hate some of the aspects. It's also perfectly okay to have a good whine on the forums in a light-hearted manner.

Best comment. Like for real I'm just jokingly made that picture with "ugh" purposely on it. Like I greatly well know that this is part of the game, just came to make a post to share stories. What a forum is for, don't like my post? Then don't comment .

[Desster]

Long walks build character and encourage you not to die.

You gotta lose the "eh I'll just grave rez to turn in faster" mentality

[Sonasol]

You just get into those situations where you just get to many enemies and die more than once? But the run back to your body looks like this?

http://i.imgur.com/SDjla9F.jpg

Sharing tales in Darkshore? I'll pitch in.

About a month ago I was in Felwood, by the Jadefire satyr camp (southern) doing the quest to kill Xavathras. I took a pause to approach the ledge and see the view from there. As I was returning, I get a tauren and an undead attacking me, while we fought, I got too close to the ledge and ended falling.. all the way to Darkshore.
So I release, and do more or less the same equivalent run from Auberdine you just posted. Only issue though, is that falling from Felwood leaves your corpse in a hill area that is unaccessible from Darkshore (akin to the troll village if youwill, only nothing in it). So after the run, I end up finding myself with no way to get in range of rez range of my corpse. As such, the only option left was to make the same walk in the opposite direction, returning to Auberdine, where I spend again some time finding the inconveniently placed graveyard, so I can take resurrection sickness, and head to pay the repair bill on full plate items combining the fall damage death, and the gy rez penalty.

Omg lol

[Rikkisix]

Eh, i know how you feel... On retail i once tried to run WC at lvl 19, so i ran through STV died twice. Being a warrior is hard knock life. I get to rachet and some SPOONHEAD WEGTRSAEJ kills me there not once but 4 times. I'm like whatever, i rez at GY boom he kills me there. Now i'm like Well i'm mad time to log off and play Halo 2, about an hour goes back My WC group of course kicks me. And i log back in. The same guy, Same spot is still there... At this point i just go outside... That is true grief, pissing some one off so baddly you litterly make them have a life...