Dang, Jpy! I just checked Joana's guide, and you're pretty close there! :D
FuriousPaul did it in 10 hours 7 minutes, so sub 10 might be doable indeed!
GO JPY! o/
Great job! Sub 10 would be a real achievement. I’m liking your google doc as well with all the notes. A potential future guide? :razz:
Great job! Sub 10 would be a real achievement. I’m liking your google doc as well with all the notes. A potential future guide? :razz:
Maybe so, will probably add my 5-12 route sometime today.
Dang, Jpy! I just checked Joana's guide, and you're pretty close there! :D
FuriousPaul did it in 10 hours 7 minutes, so sub 10 might be doable indeed!
GO JPY! o/
It’s worth noting that IIRC he played on a fairly quiet fresh launch server for his record run back in the day. There are a LOT of people on Northdale (fluctuating from 5-9k over the last couple months, depending on time of day) so for example I had to wait about 4-5 minutes for Sarkoth and Yarrog alone. My time at leaving Valley of Trials was 30 minutes, that was ~16% of my entire starting area run just waiting. There were much worse scenarios of waiting (I’m not afraid to grind Beasts like a mad man, so not really too bothersome for me personally) from 10-20 because it’s a longer process.
Anyway, here’s the recording of my 1-5 for the run posted here:
Well done jpy and teeb for those times! Cool idea :smile:
Well done jpy and teeb for those times! Cool idea :smile:
Always room for more!
Level 30 @ just under 29 hours
Thoughts: Honestly I think this could be shaved down to as low as 20 hours with a very polished run. My skinning is 225 as of hitting 30. In hindsight I don't think Skinning is an efficient investment considering the time added for Hunter in particular (and Warlock, Shaman, Druid, Paladin for that matter as they all have either hefty movement speed increases or free mount at 40). You won't be hurting as much by not getting that mount right at 40. I'm also thinking that not investing in ranks of Bite (only Claw) could be potentially more efficient looking at DPS meter at various levels. Spirit/Intellect can be seemingly just as viable as Agility due to lessening downtime for food/water (and consequently reducing the cost by needing to buy less), I'd focus on whatever leather piece gives more overall stats and if it's close between two pieces then just pick your poison.
I plan to finish leveling this Hunter to 60 to practice Maraudon farm before Classic launch and to also improve my 1-10, 10-20, and 20-30 times.
I'd like a sub 2 hour level 10, sub 10 hour level 20, and sub 25 hour level 30.
Awesome work. Interesting to see you are considering spirit and intellect - this would help weapon skill-up times after each ding as well meaning more hit and more dps theoretically.
I’d also scrap skinning seeing as with a hunter, there’s the extra running time between your ranged position and the corpse itself. Not to mention limited bag space and the time taken to dispose of grey items before you can skin.
I’ve heard also that Hunters make good DM farmers doing princess only runs for gold etc. Definitely something I am interested in for future income.
Kind of awesome that you have turned yourself into a speed-runner and great to see some real thought going into these runs. Will be great to see the run honed over time so I can steal your strategies! :razz:
Really though awesome work:
teebling Dire Maul Tribute is the pinnacle of Hunter gold farming but Maraudon is the start (also Princess is Maraudon) as you can do it with essentially leveling gear. You need to invest gold and time in your character to be able to handle DMT and we’ll have to wait and see how Blizzard handles Dire Maul itself (many private servers added or changed mechanics because they felt the farm was too strong).
Sub 22m Valley of Trials tonight (my 2h 27m level 10 was 30 minutes for comparison). Unfortunately I got stuck in the loot bug (character stuck in looting animation and you can't loot anything) around Sen'jin so I had to call it before I could try pushing for a sub 2 hour level 10. :/
Rekt by a bug, sour. Would you get better times on the other LH server? Would be a lot less busy at Valley...
teebling I actually did consider that but in the end I decided it would be better to practice with people around as the goal is to get ahead of the pack come launch and there will be plenty of people around then. I’ve restarted probably 10 runs in the past week from people refusing to group when they solo tagged Sarkoth or Yarrog lmao.
@teebling I actually did consider that but in the end I decided it would be better to practice with people around as the goal is to get ahead of the pack come launch and there will be plenty of people around then. I’ve restarted probably 10 runs in the past week from people refusing to group when they solo tagged Sarkoth or Yarrog lmao.
MonkaS reset :lol: Fair enough. I got stuck there on my warr run as well, had to wait for respawn twice I think.
Had a pretty nice run last night at 1-10 but unfortunately I made a pretty big mistake right at the end forgetting to train Concussive Shot before leaving Razor Hill and selling myself short 1 stack of Arrows (I ran out at 9.85 lmao). Two mistakes costed me about 10 minutes of /played. Dinged 10 @ 2 hours 24m and some change, about 3 minutes better than my previous best. Think I’ll push this one to 20 and 30 to see how much I can improve times without Skinning. Will post /played when I reach those levels.
E: current route skips all Echo Isles quests and grinds level 8-10 mobs near Org for 9-10.
Had a pretty nice run last night at 1-10 but unfortunately I made a pretty big mistake right at the end forgetting to train Concussive Shot before leaving Razor Hill and selling myself short 1 stack of Arrows (I ran out at 9.85 lmao). Two mistakes costed me about 10 minutes of /played. Dinged 10 @ 2 hours 24m and some change, about 3 minutes better than my previous best. Think I’ll push this one to 20 and 30 to see how much I can improve times without Skinning. Will post /played when I reach those levels.
E: current route skips all Echo Isles quests and grinds level 8-10 mobs near Org for 9-10.
Have you times a good echo isles run yet to compare the grinding section to?
Keep it up man some pretty impressive times right here!!