Guides, mechanics, comparisons and stories about life on the server.
The most common reason a newcomer quits PvP on 3.3.5a sounds like this: "I get killed in three seconds, it is impossible to play". Almost always it has nothing to do with the class or with your hands. It has to do with…
Read moreOn x3 rates level eighty arrives before you have read half the quest text in Northrend. The side effect is predictable: your character is standing in Dalaran in a jumble of greens and blues, with an honest "Friendly" on…
Read moreAffixes almost never make a dungeon simply "stronger". They change the geometry of the run: some corridors become unusable for fighting, individual packs become twice as expensive. People who read affixes as a difficult…
Read moreOn an x3 rates realm a character reaches eighty fast, and the wallet does not speed up along with it. And that is where the unpleasant part shows up: almost every piece of gold advice boils down to "farm mobs for longer…
Read morePeople fail their first heroic at 80 not because they lack damage, but because of two things: someone walked in wearing unenchanted quest greens, and after the second wipe the group stopped talking. The first is fixed i…
Read moreA solo player lives under different conditions than someone with a guild bank: nobody is going to toss them twenty stacks of Frostweave Cloth "just because", and there is no one to leave an order with for a set of smith…
Read moreOn x3 rates, leveling to 80 takes neither a month nor a weekend — somewhere in between. That's an awkward range: grinding like you would on x1 makes no sense, and blasting through like on x10 isn't going to happen. Belo…
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