147926-leveling-through-dungeons-only-ouch

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I decided I was going to make an alt for when I'm done piddling around on my progression engineer. So I rolled a human warrior tank and threw on the costume from the login special:
 
 
My other characters I leveled through questing, so this was going to be an interesting change.
 
I blasted my way to level 10 and jumped into academy. I met a lot of really awesome new people and helped show many of them the ropes, offering build advice and sometimes even logging into one of my 50s to help a struggling group out. Several are added to my friends list now which is awesome! Almost everyone was kind and patient with their fellow party members - but oh my god am I sick of running academy now. A million runs and over 10 hours of cumulative queues later I am finally level 20! On to storm tal..oh wait. I don't have the gear to run storm talon. I'm in full support gear so questing for gear is going to be a huge bummer, and I could only find 2 upgrades on the AH - not nearly enough to even look at the entrance to storm talon without bursting into flames (turns out humans are pretty flammable!).
 
So I'm probably going to just shelf this character. Anyone looking to level through dungeons, please please please have a guild that can run you or just give up and quest. I absolutely love wildstar, but if this was my first experience I'd be turned away before giving it another chance. The lower level dungeons were clearly not meant to be run, and definitely not in this fashion.
 
Thankfully, this isn't my first experience. I quested to 50 more than once, and hit the end-game gear progression curve with full knowledge. The end-game progression feels great to me and I absolutely LOVE this game and will continue to play it until my fingers fall off.
 
Leveling through dungeons alone? Hell no. Never again. I mostly wanted to level through dungeons to meet new players and help them along, but yeah no. NOPE. Nopenopenope.
 
			
				
	Edited December 8, 2015 by Frosthaven	
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So I'm probably going to just shelf this character. Anyone looking to level through dungeons, please please please have a guild that can run you or just give up and quest. I absolutely love wildstar, but if this was my first experience I'd be turned away before giving it another chance. The lower level dungeons were clearly not meant to be run, and definitely not in this fashion.
 
Leveling through dungeons alone? Hell no. Never again. I mostly wanted to level through dungeons to meet new players and help them along, but yeah no. NOPE. Nopenopenope.
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If you're gonna do that, use the XP flasks too :P
You CAN do it (like leveling purely through PvP) but expect to put more work into it.	
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If you're gonna do that, use the XP flasks too  :P
You CAN do it (like leveling purely through PvP) but expect to put more work into it.
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			Why did you skip the level 15 adventure? That gives gear that would get you plenty ready for STL. (You also don't need amazing gear for STL.)
			
				
	Edited December 8, 2015 by Naunet	
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Why did you skip the level 15 adventure? That gives gear that would get you plenty ready for STL. (You also don't need amazing gear for STL.)
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I died enough tanking academy properly while over-scaled and over-geared that I'm not super confident in healers at this level just yet (though I met a couple of great ones).
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Maybe the reason you died in Academy is due to bad interrupts by your group?
 
Except for the final boss, the place barely needs healing if people are interrupting & moving out of red - which was the entire point of the dungeon. I was there on double-xp weekend as a level 10.... with the weapon being my only support item (the one you get from pre-dungeon quest). After the 2nd boss, I put Quick Draw on my bar and started pewpew, because the group didn't need a full time healer. Well except for a dps stalker that even Jesus couldn't save, but let's not talk about him.
 
What level is your experiment err tank now? If you're on NA servers, I'll queue with you on my nooblord slinger.  :D
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Did this with a stalker using flasks of advancement, renown exp flasks, and flasks or R&R (+ signature subscription). 
Leveled 1-10 in quest zones EZ with new head start.
Popped flasks and hit academy
Farmed a few academy (really not that many, flasks op) and hit 20
runed academy gear with tank runes 
Hit STL, no issues surviving at all (little issue with threat)
Flasks still op, dinging like crazy
Get all stl/kv gear and continue to rune them with cheap armour/hp runes
Dinged to 50 very fast. (Just from KV runs), without even touching SSM
Things to note
Flasks make life easy
Runing even with crappy runes is critical
Buying cheap AH gear can be really helpful, but I did not, so not required.
Be prepared to disband some groups, but don't call it quits. Some healers are just too new to the game.
With all exp buffs listed above, you can get from 30-50 in a morning with flasks just from KV.
Going to roll another engi and do the exact same thing again over Christmas when I get some time off work. I plan to record the whole thing, if you guys are interested.
 	
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Did this with a stalker using flasks of advancement, renown exp flasks, and flasks or R&R (+ signature subscription). 
Leveled 1-10 in quest zones EZ with new head start.
Popped flasks and hit academy
Farmed a few academy (really not that many, flasks op) and hit 20
runed academy gear with tank runes 
Hit STL, no issues surviving at all (little issue with threat)
Flasks still op, dinging like crazy
Get all stl/kv gear and continue to rune them with cheap armour/hp runes
Dinged to 50 very fast. (Just from KV runs), without even touching SSM
Things to note
Flasks make life easy
Runing even with crappy runes is critical
Buying cheap AH gear can be really helpful, but I did not, so not required.
Be prepared to disband some groups, but don't call it quits. Some healers are just too new to the game.
With all exp buffs listed above, you can get from 30-50 in a morning with flasks just from KV.
Going to roll another engi and do the exact same thing again over Christmas when I get some time off work. I plan to record the whole thing, if you guys are interested.
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Going to roll another engi and do the exact same thing again over Christmas when I get some time off work. I plan to record the whole thing, if you guys are interested.
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Quick Side Note Edit:
Is something sketch going on with the match maker? I've been in a few 5+ hour queues that would never pop, then leave and re-enter the queue and get immediate pop. There's a chance that I rejoined at just the right time, but it's a small one since it's happened 3-4 times in the past 3 weeks.
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 I could only find 2 upgrades on the AH -
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I could only find 2 upgrades on the AH - not nearly enough to even look at the entrance to storm talon without bursting into flames (turns out humans are pretty flammable!).
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Thanks for the trade advice, but I gave up on leveling through dungeons. It was a pipe dream with the queue times, so my warrior alt is now trying his best not to do something he'll regret over in whitevale while questing.
 
 
Make me collect one more shiny. I DARE YOU. C'mon, I'm waiting for it.
			
				
	Edited December 10, 2015 by Frosthaven	
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			What you don't realize is that Yatish is right behind you, waiting to Tonberry stab.	
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Don't mess with the Lopp. Those level 60 guards will f*** you up faster than you can say: "oh, shiny!"
 
And, yea, sorry to hear you abandoned leveling through dungeons. That's always been a nice idea, but flawed in practice for one reason or another. You can still try to shout out in zone chat if anyone wants to team up for dungeon.
			
				
	Edited December 11, 2015 by Elo'naa	
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Make me collect one more shiny. I DARE YOU. C'mon, I'm waiting for it.
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Do it!  And give me the parka that Lopp was wearing... I needs shiny parka for costume.
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