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It'll be bad for every race, but for mob drops you could probably stand at one spawn point spamming attack to hopefully get the tag and they will have fast respawns. I'm not going to try and get 60 in the first week or anything so I plan on leveling to 4 or 5 via exploring and probably getting the book after the initial zerg has thinned slightly. But if it isn't given a dynamic respawn I'll head to the gnome zone and get the imp that way; I don't want to grind 5-10 with no pet.

The human imp quest requires a groundspawn book. As of right now, it is not affected by dynamic respawn and takes ~4 minutes to reappear which makes it even worse than the kill quests. Supposedly that is being addressed but I don't know if it will be in place by Saturday.

Isn't this working as intended for vanilla?

You're missing warriors, who are the best tanks in vanilla and also top tier dps. Most classes either have one role that they excel in, or several that they are mediocre at. Warriors can be top of the heap in two and I don't think any other class can say the same in vanilla.

I'm pretty sure you can wand and then start channeling DS and have the wand damage land after you being channeling, but I can't remember if wand damage has a travel time on nost or not.

It's fine to have a few resto druids in a raid. Some guilds will run a feral and/or oomkin too, but very rarely more than one of either. If you think you'll have the most fun playing a druid then go for it, but be aware that you will more than likely be resto at 60 for most content.

Larsen, Imp Drain Soul does not require a Drain Soul tick getting the kill to proc. Any of your spells/wand getting the kill will proc it, but your pet getting the kill will not. It is absolutely worth getting and using rank 1 on targets that are near death, especially with a macro or addon that can automatically keep your inventory clean of excess shards. I do agree that Imp CoA is generally a waste. While leveling, you should think about it on a per-mob basis rather than raw DPS... what are the odds that the extra 1-3 damage per tick cause your target to die significantly sooner? Would the extra damage allow you to expend less mana to kill a typical mob? In my experience, no. Sometimes a target might die one tick sooner but with a pet and multiple DOTs ticking and the usual play style of moving onto your next target before the original one dies anyway, it very rarely provides an actual improvement to efficiency or speed. I get more benefit from other talents.

Human Warlock imp quest requires a book groundspawn, it has a ~4 minute respawn on the Nost realms currently and has been that way since the servers relaunched. Even with an instant respawn it'll take people a while of standing and spam-looting when the new server launches. Right now it'll be faster to go do the gnome quest instead which tells you how broken it is. Dynamic respawn for quest items would be great, and I'm 99% sure it's not implemented yet despite what somebody claimed.

That's not a grinding guide...

7/21/23 or some variant isn't a terrible warlock build for early pve while also being solid at farming and passable at casual PvP. But I know what you mean; being able to level and do 5mans as an affliction play style makes the SB spam of vanilla raiding feel boring.

Swineflu is correct that it's a level 1 spell, you just don't start with it by default and have to train it. I always figured it was a level 2 spell but I guess not.

edit- I was mistaken, disregard.

That's supposedly been hotfixed already but yeah I guess we can't be sure it'll happen again.

Edit- This info is probably wrong, sorry. Lesser Magic Wand will probably be the original white version which is terrible, not the much better green version you see on most vanilla databases. So I wouldn't count on using one or at least look into whatever wand quest there is in your 10-20 leveling zone and complete it ASAP. Best bet will probably be to take enchanting yourself and DE low level green weapons (most have 80% chance to be Lesser Magic Essence) and then buy some of the wood required (38 copper each) and try to find someone who has powerleveled enchanting to 75+ and have them make the level 5 wand for you. And have the mats for the level 13 wand ready so you can do the same thing once you've leveled some more. I wouldn't count on getting reasonably priced wands from the AH early on.

Higher areas give more exploration exp, don't they? Has anyone come up with routes to higher level places where you can avoid mob aggro? edit- Exploration exp is scaled based on your level apparently, so it's probably not worth trying to get to super high level zones. But yes it seems like finding an efficient route to get a few levels might be a viable alternative to the starter area.

That would be classified as multiboxing and is bannable.