User:WoWWiki-Strcat
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Moved to Shu'Halo
Three friends Roy, Kurt and my self are going to play on the Shu'halo, the Tauren, server. (I dont see a page for that server on the wiki). (side bar) We are all over 40 years old. I might be the oldest at 49.
We are from Harford County in Maryland, that east coast USA. (I mostly put this here for people searching. Maryland has no search hits on the wiki, until now) If we get a few more, we can make a guild.
Right now we are getting in contact with a chat group We type:
/join strcat /chatlist strcat
to get that done.
Right now we are planning to play once a week Monday's starting at 1830ET. We added Thursday same time.
macros
My assist macro I got from the wiki is gone. Here is my copy.
/focus [modifier:alt] /stopmacro [modifier:alt] /assist focus
I changed shift to alt to my liking, other then that its what I got here on the wiki. IMHO Everyone should have an Assist Key... not just the 'F' key. IMHO, You Must know when and how to Assist to work well in a group. Read the Main assist page. Do it now!
Chars on Shu'halo
Kurt's characters:
Digsby - 50 priest - trying to catch Roy's 58
Cowvin - 38(39?) druid - haven't levelled recently, don't want to get ahead of Bob's warr
Zenissa - 29 mage - trying to catch Chloris
Moobee - 28 hunter - my tauren for the cow group
Gorigg - 22 lock
(2 Nov 2007)
Roy has lots of Horde peeps:
Scouser Druid 70
Warstar Warlock 58
Fightstar Warrior 40
Doomstar Mage 38
Drustar Druid 26
Dreadstar Shaman 20 - haven't clicked with the class yet
Direstar Hunter 21 - ok
Tanstaffl Paladin 21 - too difficult to master
Roguestar Rogue 20 - fun
Grokstar Priest 8 - abandoned will be replaced - just hate being a Priest
(2 Nov 2007)
Jamie, Druid (27), Rogue (Chloris at 30), Warrior (Deloris at 11), Priest (Porous at 7).
I have: StrChr: Shaman 62 Heals/ off tank / some DPS Inetd: Lock 66 DPS / off tank StrCat: Priest 50 Heals StrStr: Warr 41 Tank StrFry: Mage 45 DPS StrCow: Druid 34 Heals/DPS/Tank StrTok: Rogue 40 DPS (8 Feb 08) -- surely out of date even as I post this.
Power Leveling
What I am describing was called Power Leveling long before there was a World Of War Craft.
On Ever Quest power leveling was healing. Since EQ gave the experience to the player that did the most damage. You could not group to make this work. But WoW makes this easer.
To be in line with current wiki terms this could be "Power Towing". But I don't like that term. But what the wiki is calling Power leveling is actually Power Soloing or Experienced Soloing (ie. soloing and knowing what what you doing).
There is good info on the pages Power leveling and Character_Towing, Its just simply not Power Leveling
Classic Power leveling -- is when a bigger player provides experience to a lower level player at a rate that is faster then the lower level player could get on there own. (Thus not soloing).
One way is to group up, kill stuff and do quests. This is mostly playing the game in a group with higher level players. This is perhaps the way blizzard would want you to do it. I call it playing the game. If you are the lower level player in a group the wiki is calling this Character_Towing. Its not all that special unless you are perhaps running two accounts your self. This is perhaps the way blizzard would want you to do it. Since in groups with a level ranges of over say 4 or 5, and the amount of experience gained is reduced. More and more until you are getting one exp per kill. This is the draw back of Character_Towing.
A good way to get around this is to not group or to Power Level someone. Playing WoW If the lower level player does some damage to a monster that player will get credit for the kill no mater how the monster is killed. So the simple thing to do is let the lower player pull a monster or two and the higher player tank and kill the monster. Thus giving the lower level player all the experience as if soloing the monster.
Targeting at first glance can be a problem. But with the MA macro I provide you can easily target the incoming monster. It would be good to make a /target player-name macro as well. This is good for healing and seeing when to hit the MA key. the Character_Towing page has some more useful macros and hints.
Be sure to group up for turn-in's and for traveling from place to place. I have tried to MA people that just run away. Have there own ideas of where to go with out telling the higher level player, If this happens you can not see them on the mini-map so group up and make then wait for you. Just be sure to disband before the next pull.
Blizzard has taken away some useful tools like the sole stone of the warlock and the priest's shield unless you are grouped up. But this should not stop the post pull kills and most simple heals that can keep the experience rolling in. Character_Towing points out the power of AoE kills, witch is great for Power leveling if the low level players can live long enouph to pulling multiple monsters for the high level player to kill.
etc
Old link for a friend who was warrior with no shield -->User:Strcat/girbot
