Week 7 - Paladin Appreciation

Paladin week came at an inconvenient time. Currently, most of our guild are offline with holidays, work, or having babies and other huge life-changing things, so there have been very few people about to assist with things and the paladin was one of the characters that had a lot to finish.

Featured here with Erik the Skyfin Juvenile and her usual choice of transmog. Details for the transmog can be found listed here

Meet Brenhild. I had levelled her to 110 and then pretty much abandoned her aside from missions each day. Whilst it is a healing class, for some reason I struggle as much with Paladin healing as I do with Monk healing, but this time I have no idea why. It may just be that I hate the levelling part so much as a melee that I put it off until I just feel that the learning curve has escalated out of all proportion. And of course, each expansion I do that just adds to the difficulty of getting back into it. I think I'll make a concerted effort next expansion to get the paladin working a lot earlier to see if that helps.  As healers, Paladins are pretty powerful and always seem to have a very strong role in each expansion.

The Paladin class mount. Matches nicely with her favourite armour too! I love how shocked Brenhild looks to see it!

So, what did I do this week? Well, the first part of the week was very limited as with no one around in guild and my hatred of PuG groups, I was bottle-necked on progress by the need to do dungeons for the class hall quest chain. In the absence of my minions, The Author stepped in to valiantly assist by dragging my sorry plate-clad backside through the necessary dungeons. Thank you, once again! Once that first bottle-neck had been cleared, I rushed on to complete the class hall. I am very thankful that at this point in the expansion, the mission times and requirements for a lot of the quest stages have been reduced as they no longer slow the process down quite as much. After this, it was time to do the class follower and mount chain along with the Broken Shore chain. I had to hold off with the Argus quest chain as  I still needed to level the new followers that were granted from completing the quest hall and one of the early requirements there is "6 followers at 900 ilvl". As I had to go do the start of the Suramar quest chain in order to be able to purchase an item needed for my mount quest, I thought I'd also treat you to a view of just how silly Dwarves look carrying Nightborne.

This leaves us all set for Priest week! See you there!

Alt Appreciation: Weeks 5 & 6, Monk & Paladin

I'm back!
I seem to still be in one piece with another scar to add to the collection (much larger than planned, almost covering the entire of my lower leg). Still waiting to hear if I'm now cancer-free, but I've recovered enough to be back at the computer. I'm getting tired a lot more often than normal so I'm still ending up needing a lot of rest, but hopefully, I'll be back to my usual self by expansion time.

As I missed two weeks of alt appreciation, I'm adding them together in the one post as I managed very little other than tidying up their UIs.

Monk

Cinnamai & Erik the rat

The monk I levelled to 90 is a lovely Pandaren named Cinnamai. I created her to heal with (yes, no surprise there) but I never managed to really get into the feel of the class so she has ended up mostly unused as one of my crafting army. In fact, she has probably been one of the biggest contributors to my gold fund in the past months as her enchanting scrolls sell very well.

Her transmog is a collection of green quality quest rewards from relatively low-level quests (below 60) as I wanted her to look as plain as possible.

Quenhild & Erik the cooking bot

I do actually have another quite high-level Monk on my main server which may seem odd as I never quite managed to find them comfortable to play. I just couldn't decide if I wanted to have a Pandaren or Dwarf Monk so I levelled them both to 80 before deciding on the Pandaren purely because the professions I'd picked up on her were more useful to me at the time. My Dwarven Monk, Quenhild, I think I actually prefer now though and I wish I'd chosen the other way around. She's still there though in case I fancy levelling her up instead!

Paladin

Alasen and...Erik!

My Paladin has a strange place in my heart. I find her tedious to level so every expansion she seems to be the last healer to level up. Then by the time I have her at max level I run out of time to actually do anything useful with her in a group. Maybe Warlords of Draenor will be the expansion this behaviour changes?

Alasen is one of my very few Draenei characters. I quite like the transmog set I planned out for her too. Its rare for me to have skimpy outfits on my characters, but this is a set that very few people seem to use as it's not as revealing as some of the plate bikinis. The colour also matches very nicely with Erik the Li'l Tarecgosa and it's nice to show that pet off occasionally.