Workin Hard for the Money

So they give druids travel form at 16 now, which is brilliant! It was certainly helpful to me, because the push to 17 involved a lot of exploration, and the extra speed was perfect for outrunning angry mobs who were much higher level than me.

17 to 18 was rough. The non-combat quests I could pick up were few, and most of them were red. That was great in that they gave me huge amounts of xp, but worrisome in that I may be depleting my stockpile of available quests before I even get to them.

I won't lie, I bought my way through most of 17. I did the Tranquillien quests for spinal dust and rotting hearts, and then the wool turn-in for every single faction cloth quartermaster. My nest egg was absorbed in a hurry, and I spent lots of time mining, fishing, and working the auction house like a pro. It was especially expensive because the first cloth turn-in is wool, which in spite of being the second lowest level cloth type, tends to be the rarest and most expensive on the auction house. When the time comes to do the silk cloth turn-ins, it should be far easier on the gold bag.

All the same, I'm at 18 and nervous about my ability to keep this up. I may have to go into hibernation at some point, until the next round of experience-giving holiday event quests. I'd like to stretch it as far as I can before resolving to go heal instances. We'll see!

Holidailies

On my main character, I was never really diligent about dailies. Even back when I was working to get my Netherdrake, I was quite casual about completing them. I'd meet people who would panic because server reset was approaching and they hadn't finished their worldwide round of dailies yet, and the attitude seemed a little extreme to me.

However, for Tenzin and the lucky timing of Hallow's End, I've been more diligent about daily quests than ever before. Every day I logged in to do the headless horseman quest (putting out fires is quite the pacifist activity, and other characters would always dispatch the Shade of the Horseman).

Those halloween dailies got me from 12 to 15, a huge and very important jump for me, as I'd completely run out of non-combat quests. It looks like in the future I'm going to be much more active in any world holiday events that give XP (I've got my eyes set on the elder coin thing)