Yer I was surprised about that, as you can download the game why not allow people to purchase it online?! I suppose the publisher would loose out then on CD sales.

Bring on more on demand downloads! Its one of the reasons I love steam

They could make more though.
Still charge £25 knowing they will see all the money & cutting out all the middle men.

Anyway, where should a level 48 Lock go to level next?
Nothing left in hinterlands, tanaris (except ZF but cant find a group) or stranglevale.

Yer guessing he means quest wise

Im all confused where you quest now they have changed the leveling speed. Last time I did it on my hunter I ended up skipping a load of zones.

48...
Swamp of Sorrows, Azshara, Feralas, Searing Gorge are all easily doable.

http://www.bloodelvesofwow.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/azeroth.jpg
Gives an idea on where to go and when, also gives the old flight paths (there are more now)

I was wanting to do Mining and Blacksmithing to get stuff for myself really.......or isnt that always the best way to go about it? Was wanting a HUGE weapon or something like that once I got good enough. Is that the way to do it??

Quote from: Eggtastico

Its pointless taking alchemy or enchanting or anything where you make anything because all you make is sh*t & it gets expensive.

WRONG!  

Alchemy & Enchanting are about the only two crafting professions that continue to make a decent amount of money once everyone has hit the level cap. I will admit that enchanting is not only a bitch to level, but is very expensive - however if you get a rare enchant early on (in an expansion for example) you can charge what you like as people have no alternative but to buy it from you. See Crusader enchant on newly opened realms as an example of this.

As each new instance is released people get new gear. New gear equals new gems and enchants. To get the new gear, raiders need pots, and lots of em. They buy them as farming takes up valuable raiding time.

Engineering/blacksmithing/leatherworking are the ones that really fail. After a couple of months at the level cap crafted gear is almost always outclassed by instance/PvP gear.

Regarding buying online, Vivendi (publishers) wont allow it as they dont get the money - damn Frechies.  

*edit - Egg, try Un Goro, maybe a little tough, but as a lock you should be okay to do the first lot of quests. I managed it at that level as a holy Paladin recently.

my alt is maxed out at 225 on enchanting & alchemy. nobody wants my lower level stuff & Im still miles away from lvl 35 to up it to 300.

I used to look on the AH & buy the green armor/weapons that was under 20s & ending time short. you can pick up quite a few items if your patient.

To be boosted or to recieve a boost is to have a player much higher level than the instance is designed for, run a lower level character through it.

For example, the missus boosted me through ZF on her level 70 rogue, when I was playing on my level 45 paladin. The mobs do very little damage to a level 70, meaning my level 45 could sit back and let the level 70 do all the work. Dont beg or spam for boosts, its one of the most annoying things people do. Ask a guildie - you are in a guild and didnt create one just for the bank space, right?  :mrgreen:

Boosting is a reasonable way to level up, but is mainly used to get pieces of gear for the lower level character (or to complete quests in your case). Doing the instance with a group of a proper level will net you greater rewards, not only in XP (as being boosted results in much less XP gained by the lower level character), but also it will teach you what to do in a group - Croud control, tanking, healing, etc etc.

Mining/Blacksmithing is useful for a warrior, especially as a first character. More recently, the introduction of Season 1 Arena gear aquirable (sp?) with normal honor points has reduced the usefulness, but still a nice way to get some gear if you dont like PvP. Dont worry too much about this until you hit level 70 though.  

*edit - Reading through my replies I see Ive made a few comments that might seem odd. Remember one thing, once you hit level 70 WoW becomes a different game, sure you can quest and kill normal mobs, but a new world of instances, raiding, and PvP open up. Most of my comments are there to make life easy for someone who doesnt have a level 70 character already - having a 70 that can support a new character makes leveling very different to starting from scratch. Some people like the leveling process, and once they hit 70 start a new character. Others (like myself) hate the process and only when I start doing top end instances and raids do I begin to have fun.

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my alt is maxed out at 225 on enchanting & alchemy. nobody wants my lower level stuff & Im still miles away from lvl 35 to up it to 300.

To be honest at that level the stuff you can make is crap - not your fault, its just the way the game works. Once you get to 375 in those professions (300+ is only available once you install the Burning Crusade expansion pack), you will be able to learn some brilliant recipies. Healing pots that restore 3000 health, enchants that temporarily give the wielder of a weapon 120 agility, etc etc.

raiding is 10 / 25 man content and can only be done at 70+ (ignoring the lvl 60 stuff as its no longer run really) I add the + because you need to gear up once you hit 70 before you can really head into it

We all start somewhere, Im still learning alot (lots of theroycraft mainly) and Ive been playing since release and have 4 70s and some other highish toons

Learn by asking and doing. There are LOADS of sites out there with both usefull and useless info