F is for Farming

No I'm not talking about Farmville you freaks!

Farming in WoW means going out and doing nothing but gathering materials to create items from your profession (or others if you're one to stock up and sell on the auction house).

You're a miner?  Ok.  You go out and collect as much ore as you can.  Every last deposit you find, you harvest.

You're a tailor?  You go kill mobs and gather as much material from drops as possible.  Then you eat up your gold and gems (if you have them) making items of clothing to sell.

That's farming in a nutshell.  It's time consuming and can be boring but sometimes it's a necessity of playing.

D is for Ding & E is for Experience

A twofer today!

DING!  That's one of my favorite things to do in WoW and likely explains the numerous characters I have.  Running end game stuff is fun but sometimes you just wanna feel like you're really accomplishing something so you jump to a lowbie character and grind to ding the next level.  Yep that's all it means.  It means completing one level and getting to the next.  But how do you do that?

Every mob kill, every quest turned in, every dungeon run gives you experience (or XP as we call it).  The lower levels are pretty easy and in an hour (if you have that kind of time to run non-stop) you can get from level 1 to probably 5 in nothing flat.  But the higher you go, the longer it takes.  Lluvy is stuck at level 74 because of the millions of XP she needs.  Not to mention she's hella squishy and dies with just a couple of hits.  It took me a total of 11 days over a 4 month period to get Heralyn from level 55 (the level a Death Knight starts at) to 80.  And let me tell you, that ding of 80 was soooooooo much better than when I got Lluvy to 70!

D is for Dungeons

I think my absolute favorite dungeon is the Deadmines.  I've made many runs with lowbies and think it's hilarious to get a HUGE group of mobs all together and just wail on them one by one.

"HEY YOU! *wack* Haha you're dead!"

The Deadmines are full of pirates.  And the last part of the dungeon is on a big boat. It is so awesome!

The Stockades are pretty fun too... especially as a high level character.  LOL

My other favorite original dungeon is Uldaman in the Badlands.  I love running that one solo!

I don't have too many in Outland that I jump over myself to get into.  And many of the Northrend ones are fun but I have yet to see them all!

I still have yet to run all the way to the Lich King.  One day I swear I will have Shadowmourne regardless if it's just junk by the time I get it!!

Here is a shot of Lluvy and Andur at the end of Uldaman... had to wait on a guildie to help us unlock the final door because back then you had to have at least 3 people.