I now have 3 of my 5 characters beyond level 90 and in their garrisons. My next goal is to have all of their garrisons with their profession buildings unlocked, Store house and barn. The store house is to ease the burden of sharing resources across the characters and the barn is to support the tailor. The other two character’s harvesting needs are supported without me having to place a specific building myself, as they need mining and herbs plots that come free as you level the garrison. Getting the free resources supplied by the garrison to the appropriate character, is one of the main reasons I’ve prioritized the Store before other beneficial buildings. Shuffling via game mail is already getting old.
Not You Again!
One of the reasons I rarely do alts unless I’ve played a game for a LONG TIME, is that the content feels stale in the 2nd and 3rd go around. There have been few exceptions to this rule. The two games where I did alts relatively close together but enjoyed the ride again were Rift and GW2, both of which had considerably more content than you needed to level. Hence on my alt, I only redid a small portion of the quests I’d experienced the first time around.
For the early 90s in WOW that’s not going to be the case. The road to your garrison is a handcrafted experience that requires you to complete certain quests. This is unfortunate. As I’m doing it on my third character in such close proximity, I can feel quest fatigue settling over me. I’m not knocking WOW for this. The experience they’ve crafted is very well done and some of the best quests I’ve seen from Blizzard. I wish this style of PVE content and phasing technology had been in place for Burning Crusade, which played out the events of Illidan, my favorite lore character.
Killrogg Deadeye talking smack. I really do enjoy the cut scene and RPG style questing
I doubt their intent is for you to parallel rush characters into their garrisons. However, the benefits of having a garrison on each character, quickly leads you down that road. If for nothing more than having XP generated from Follower Missions. Still, I’m taking responsibility for the fact that I’m deciding to rush them forward all at once.
Oh really? One of us is going to run home to mommy before this is over & it ain't gonna be me!
On the upside of doing so, I’ve zoned in on the class that will become my main. They’ve done some really nice things to the Warlock and after a 7+ year absence, I will be returning to where it all began. Saylah, the first character I created in WOW, did hardcore raiding with and played for 3 years straight without ever creating an alt, will once again take center stage as my main in WOW.
I'm also playing my Warlock as my main... :) she was already 90 so I didn't have to do the instant level up...
I have tailoring and enchanting buildings so I guess I'd have to give one up if I wanted to get a storage house?
I haven't use the instant level up yet... was thinking about my 86 Mage alchemist/herbalist but I notice I can't get the herb garden without doing a quest on my 93 Warlock and Wowhead says you have to be like 95 or something... (IIRC)
I've only been back just a few days myself and still trying to figure it all out...
Posted by: AnnaBella | December 11, 2014 at 09:36 AM
It's a lot to figure out if you're a returning player. At level 2, you do have to decided between 2 profession buildings or the Storage House. My priest and warlock are both tailor/enchanter as they used to be on different accounts. I was going to have the priest tailor and the warlock do enchanting allowing each to have the store.
Unfortunately, I realized yesterday that Hexweave is BOP!!!! so can't be traded and creating it on a 24 hour timer. Therefore it's more beneficial to have both characters making hexweave for the own use. And since you can only wear 3 pieces of hexweave I can have each concentrate on only level/obtaining certain recipes and craft each other's items. So that was a wrinkle I didn't realize until I was into things already. It's not made obvious.
Posted by: Alysianah aka Saylah | December 11, 2014 at 12:21 PM