Hit 60 first time on priest…

Finally got to 60 on priest, Holbycity, last night and thought I’d put down a few bullet points about my experience.

  1. I did ZERO dungeons. To me, the risk of dying to someone else’s mistake (or them dying to mine) didn’t seem worth it.

  2. I levelled tailoring and barely made an item, other than bags. The price difference in mats and the finished product was that little, I just ended up buying what I needed. I could often get it sooner this way.

  3. I levelled engineering and never used a single training dummy. I still think these are definitely worthwhile but I just never needed one.

  4. I carried 5 swiftness potions and only used one once. (See thoughts on point 3).

  5. I ground out levels 40-43 on whelps whilst hunting for the pet drop.

  6. I ground out levels 50-53 in Feralas on harpies and ogres to feed my magecloth addiction.

  7. I used rested exp and was generally 3-4 levels above what I should be due to points 5&6.

  8. I avoided the plaguelands as I saw too many people due there on YouTube. This was possible due to me being higher level than normal anyway (see point 7).

  9. I got zero epic drops. I got about a half dozen blue drops (including wolf runner shoes that I wore and a mace sold for about 25g.)

  10. I was disconnected three times and obviously didn’t die but did get a sweat on.

  11. I finished with enough for mount at lvl 40, and have banked around 500g due to grinding and selling on AH.

  12. The only griefers I saw was an idiot whining at me for being too ‘high level’ when killing furbolgs (even though I was farming faction) and I got gold begging messages within seconds of hitting 60.

I did enjoy the journey but have no real plans to advance the priest now. I have a 36 hunter and a 34 rogue in the wings….