I’m sorry I haven’t been writing - there’s a lot to write about, but I haven’t sat down and spent the time. Forced downtime is always good for writing, so here I am ;)

Ding, 80!

I hit level 80 six days ago, which was just under 2 weeks of real time.

I wasn’t the first to 80, nor was I even the 10th to 80. In fact, the day before I hit 80, our guild had 15 people hoping to get into the very first raid of 10-man Naxxaramus.

Yes, my main character is in a bit of a “Hardcore guild”, and it took some serious concentration and work to get to 80 and prepare for being able to be considered for this week’s raid group.

My Method Of Leveling This Toon

For the most part, I did quests to level this toon up. For the most part, I did them solo.

Once I realized that the low-level dungeons didn’t award any type of reputation, and that the drops were nice but only sidegrades from the gear I had from Burning Crusade, I did the dungeons only so I had some experience with them and had a chance to see them.

At level 78 I started getting into the 78+ dungeons more often: The Oculus, Halls of Lightning, Utgarde Pinnacle to note. I went into them so I could get the 78+ “dungeon blues” gear as a way to finally replace my level 70 epics, since the blues had better stats overall.

I Leveled As Holy

Initially, I put some points into Shadow and tried to have this Shadow/Holy cross that would still let me heal well in dungeon instances, but have some extra utility while solo’ing.

I found that I wasn’t all that interested in learning how to best use the Shadow skills, so I just went back to a pretty balanced Holy/Disc mix and Smited, Shadow Word: Pain, and Shadow Word: Death’d my way through everything, for the most part. Yes, I saw some pure DPS classes come alongside me and blast through two or three things to my one, but my quests didn’t take a huge amount of time just the same.

Now, at level 80, I’m a deep Holy build, with Circle of Healing and Divine Guardian as part of my skillset.

My First Faction Focus

Once I realized the first few instances awarded no faction reputation points at all, I wondered about how Heroics would work in WoTLK.

In Burning Crusade, one needed to get to Honored with various factions in order to buy a key to gain entry to the Heroic version of the dungeons once you hit level cap. In WoTLK, one just needs to hit level 80, and with no extra effort one is able to enter into Heroics.

But, faction reputation is important, because at various reputation levels, Quartermasters offer recipes and Glyphs and gear goodies that a serious player wishes to obtain.

For example, The Wyrmrest Accord offers a helm enchant at Revered which is good for Priest Healers: Arcanum of Blissful Mending.

But how does one gain reputation with these guys in order to reach Revered?

Stay tuned, I’ll be posting that information soon :)

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