Purrfection - Chapter 1

A druid is born.

 

After the best part of three years listening to Razor's Druid Fetish, I have finally buckled and rolled my first druid so that I can continue to argue about druids with him but from first hand experience.  I have played most classes and have a Warrior, Priest, Mage and Shammy all at 70 so I think it will be fun to truly compare the druid to other classes.

 

I rolled a female (of course) night elf on Medivh and Razor helped with naming her Purrfection and over the last couple of days have levelled her from 1 to 10 (and still fully clothed), so the time has come to post.

 

I would never admit this to Razor, but I have actually had a lot of fun so far.  I think the starting zone is the best of all the alliance races with so little running around required for the quests, although the weigh off is having to go all the way up to the top of that damned tree over and over.  I did find it amusing that it only took me a couple of minutes to work out that spamming moonfire was not terribly effective or mana efficient, and it staggers me that so many high level pvp'ers still haven't worked that out.  :P

 

The second zone was mostly just as much fun.  Yet another tower/tree to keep going to the top of, but again the quests made levelling and exploring easy and fun.  However there was one exception.  There is a quest called Twisted Hatred that involves going into a cave just north of Dolanaar which was just incredibly frustrating.  The respawn rate of the mobs in there is absolutely ridiculous and took all of the enjoyment out of the day.

 

I continued my journey to level 10 and after getting lost and stuck in moonglade I completed the quest and got bear form.  Now I feel like a real druid!  From here, I really don't know what I will do.  I am very tempted to go to the Eastern Kingdoms where I know all the quests, but also tempted to stay on Kalimdor and see those quests for the first time (I have always avoided them).  I also don't know whether to continue levelling as normal and enjoy the druid or to dual box and use my mage to power level / boost Purrfection.