by Shillingworth » Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:21 pm
I'll argue against the gearing up side of things. I have been loving HoT because of how easy it was for me to catch up, went in with just 4600ac and now sit at 6000ac just 3 weeks later. At around 5600ac, which is actually a lot easier than it sounds now, a paladin can effectively molo in basement of HoT with either a DPS or Healer merc, which pretty good XP. It does help to have friends/guildmates that can invite you to missions from HoT until your well enough off to tank them yourself, as those are incredible AA XP, some even drop really nice stuff that is otherwise a lot more time consuming to get your hands on.
I think class specific clickies are the hardest part, even the group version of OoW Bp can take awhile for faction and drops. After leveling, aaing, and equiping a paladin (which is the easy part), getting used to all the abilities and their quirks is perhaps the greatest time sink (but this can probably be said for all classes).
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