The Team Awesome Experience

Just a quick update to let you know the leveling guides page has been updated to reflect the new guides Jame put on Wow-pro.com.

The Team Awesome experience:

As you probably read below we now have a feral druid companion joining us, so we are in 2 teams of 2. I will be charging along with Mortition and we hope to bring chaos to every area we find.

We do not plan on following any guide for the first 3-4 levels when we are in the DK start zone, and I strongly encourage anyone else rolling DK to do the same. From what I’ve read and heard from people on the Beta, it’s an amazing experience, so soak it all in. These moments don’t come around very often.

These are the headphones I purchased just for the occasion: http://www.sennheiser.co.uk/uk/icm.nsf/root/05343

I can assure you they are great for Warcraft and superb for watching movies and listening to your IPOD with when you just want to chill.

Either way none of us will be using our normal USB headsets and loading Ventrillo until we have fully experienced the DK Start zone. We’ve given us a plentiful for 4.5 hours to get this done before we have to think about power leveling.

Then it’s power leveling all the way to 70 and we plan on following Jame’s outland guide, but we’ll add in the instances as well once we reach the end of each zone.

Finally at 70 I will take the Zeppelin to Northrend with my wife who plays a Shaman where we will again take our time.

I’ll try to update the blog as much as possible with screenshots/videos of our journey and I’ll be updating as soon as we clear each zone in Outland.

Not long now!

5 Days Left – Team Awesome is nearly ready

So 5 days left till WOTLK.

I’m encouraged by Jame’s response to our plan of 3 DK’s, 3 Specs. He believes the Auras that all 3 talent trees bring will help us a lot. He’s also released a new guide for Outland levelling which he reckons we should follow and skip the instances, though I’m sure we’ll burn through them quickly if we can find people and we’ve got all the quests.

All we need now is Game to deliver our WOTLK on time and we’ll be ready to rock at midnight of launch!

In the mean while, final preparations continue…I still need more mithril but Tanaris has been very good to me so far. I think I’ll take another run around there later to get the final bits.

The annoying thing is when I stare at my bank I realise how much cash I could make if I just sold all this ore!

Now the only thing left is to decide on a 2nd profession since most Blacksmithing stuff is now BOE…I’m still tempted to do it however.

The Levelling Team

So I’m starting this blog 6 days before WOTLK and I hope to include a lot of Pictures, Videos and Guides that I find and write myself for my Death Knight.

Tired of the Paladin after 3.5 years of playing Holy in all my raids for the guild Something Different on Shadowsong – EU, I decided to switch to the Death Knight.

I’ve settled on my name which is Kovah (Havok in reverse, and thanks to my wife for the help on this) who in the not to distant future will be venturing around Shadowsong with 2 other Death Knights from my guild.

Our plan on launch – 70 by Friday evening

So who’s on the journey?

Kovah – Blood Elf DK (Blood Spec)
Mortition – Orc DK (Unholy Spec)
DKMex – Tauren DK (Frost Spec)

We shall be known as Team Awesome!

As you can see we’ve tried to have one of us from each tree. We think it’s going to be exciting this way as well as allow DKMex to be our tank which he might very well be at LVL80 for the guild.

Mortition has suggested the following plan of action for the Wednesday night/Thursday morning of release (feel free to comment):

Wednesday:
Conditioning stage – ensure you’ve slept from 5pm – 11pm Server time

Thursday Morning:
00:00 – Log on
00:01 – Create Characters
00:03 – Starting zone – This will be done without vent as we immerse ourselves in the DK starting zone. Some of us even purchased $150 headphones just for the privilege.
04:30 – finish starting zone – tea/biscuit/breakfast break – get on vent with USB headset (no more sexy sound for this part, though the headsets aren’t soo bad, just a shame my laptop speakers suck)

04:45 – Mail across all items from bank alts to Deathknights and prepare for Western Plaguelands/Eastern Plaguelands using the guide form Jame’s web site. (I’ve posted this in a seperate post)

06:00 – Head through the Dark Portal and start HFP

11:00 – finish HFP (absolute latest) – another tea/food break 62-64
11:15 – start Zangermarsh
13:30 – Nap until 16:00 as one of us has to attend a lab at university
16:15 – More energy drink related heart palpitations and continue Zangermarsh
23:00 to midnight – Sleep with zangermarsh finished more than likely onto Nagrand 65-66