11-11-2008, 01:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-12-2008, 05:41 PM by Bob the Beholder.)
Quote:Now, for a topic that's a bit of a pet peeve of mine:Levelling/Questing Addons. That is, addons that direction you to quest drops, areas where the mobs are, even going so far as to put a directional arrow up for the really challenged. The way I look at it is, check the quest out. Read it (not just the summary, the whole thing) and you'll be told where to go, and what to get/do when you get there. Pretty straightforward. I've now been in both betas, and there are some unclear quests out there...but that's what the feedback button was for. I used it liberally. When I needed to. The quests I saw (going through 4 zones) were all pretty straightforward, and if you read the quest, pretty easy. Some of them were a bit trickier, but that was due to the mechanics of the quest, not difficult semantics. In the 4-ish years I've been playing, a quest has only stumped me a handful of times. A quick question in /g cleared it up, too. But there are others who swear by them. That they couldn't level without them. That they do it the 'proper' way on their main, but then use addons to level their alts faster. I do admit that has me a bit boggled...the quests don't change. Once you've done them, you will know what to do on any toon doing that quest. So, what's your take on levelling/questing addons?
I use an addon with a levelling guide. Not because I can't figure out the quests or don't know where to find things, but because I have four 70s, and all the grind up to at least 60 for me is just a time sink. I know the quests, I've done them over and over and I just don't care to spend much effort planning out my levelling. So I use an addon with a built-in levelling guide so that I know I'm wasting as little time as possible, and don't have to spend time remembering which quests are where, and planning out which zones to go to and when.
Generally, once in Outland, the quest density is high enough that even though I have seen it all before, for the most part, a guide is just pointless, because you can basically just wander off in a random direction and stumble into more quests than you could find in some entire zones in Azeroth. So I generally turn it off.
Also, in Northrend, I will not be using levelling guides or addons, because I have not seen it all before, and, from all I hear, the quest density of variety of levelling routes is even better than Outland.