Day 2: A new revelation!

Etsuko is now level 12. I will begin with a complaint all shamans are familiar with: The Call of Fire quest chain sucks the ass of life. Hey Blizzard, if you didn't know, walking around in your expansive world kind of sucks.

I am very prone to trying to min/max, and last night I was trying to max experience while minimizing walking time. This lead me to, as I had been doing for the first 9 levels, shock-kiting with my teeny earth shock. This is akin to covering yourself in delicious sauces, running by some raptors, and then pelting rocks at them while you run.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, you essentially shock something as you run by, and keep running, and when your CD is up, you jump, spin, cast your shock, then spin back to the original way you were running before you hit the ground. This way, you keep going in the direction you want to travel while earning some XP. This works well at the lower levels because mobs don't run as fast as you. When they do, I throw down my earthbind totem.

However, because I'm a big noob, last night I died a couple of times while doing this because I was determined to take the shortest path to everywhere I was going, which meant I ran through a lot of mobs. And you don't want to be stringing extra mobs around when you're doing that, it turns out.

It wasn't so bad though, because I had a revelation as I took a spirit rez at the Razor Hill graveyard: Dying and spirit rezzing is the best way to travel. The penalty at this level is 1 minute of rez sickness and of course doesn't really cost anything, especially with Big Daddy supporting her. So in the next few levels, I plan to die a *lot* more often.