2012 in 2012 February Update

Here is the February update for the 2012 in 2012 challenge. I'll start off with the table.

Name	Server	Class	Race	Level
Chuckem	Demon Soul	Mage	Blood Elf	85
Chuckita	Demon Soul	Paladin	Blood Elf	44
Tanadrenis	Vashj	Hunter	Blood Elf	4
Ottochuck	Kel'Thuzad	Death Knight	Draenei	8
Augustelly	Darkspear	Hunter	Draenei	1
Augustember	Kel'Thuzad	Shaman	Draenei	3
Shamary	Vashj	Shaman	Draenei	1
Lerrenz	Darkspear	Paladin	Draenei	1
Nochuck	Kel'Thuzad	Paladin	Dwarf	1
Oonoreen	Vashj	Paladin	Dwarf	4
Flintfoul	Darkspear	Shaman	Dwarf	1
Foghalnar	Darkspear	Priest	Dwarf	1
Fynevisock	Darkspear	Death Knight	Gnome	5
Gnowangie	Vashj	Priest	Gnome	3
Turpsterr	Darkspear	Warrior	Gnome	1
Huntermary	Vashj	Hunter	Goblin	4
ChuckMAN	Demon Soul	ShaMAN	Goblin	28
Kalchuck	Kel'Thuzad	Rouge	Human	37
Alkala	Vashj	Rouge	Human	4
Gwynstacy	Demon Soul	Hunter	Night Elf	11
Velyyindre	Darkspear	Mage	Night Elf	1
Gluug	Earthen Ring	Death Knight	Orc	71
Ottochuck	Demon Soul	Druid	Tauren	16
Calola	Vashj	Warrior	Tauren	2
Dachuck	Earthen Ring	Priest	Troll	24
Augustember	Earthen Ring	Shaman	Troll	2
Matington	Darkspear	Druid	Worgen	1
Earnwell	Darkspear	Rouge	Worgen	1
Denrowlez	Darkspear	Warlock	Worgen	15
Dunncan	Kel'Thuzad	Warrior	Worgen	1
			Total:	381

My first impression is that I added quite a few characters this time around (13 to be exact). It makes the list look a little longer, but ultimately more daunting when you notice all the level 1 character there. If you can remember back to last month's update I only had 17 toons represented, I now have 30 toons spread over 4 servers.

My progress has changed from 336 levels to 381 levels, and improvement of 45 levels for the month of February. However my goal is 148 levels per month to reach 2012 by January 2013. My percent complete as of last month was 16.7% and after February I am now at 18.9% to goal. The biggest change is that now I need to complete 163 levels/month to reach my goal. Ouch.

The other thing that I have been focusing on is getting 2 of each class and race represented. In my 30 toons I have 2 of everything except Warlocks of which Denrowlez is my only one. As for races I have only have 1 orc (Gluug) and no undead. So I suppose once I finish bring all of these toons to level 20 I need to go back and focus on the horde side a bit more. Here are some tables that show my breakdown.

My most improved characters over the last month have to be Denrowlez who did not exist last month but has now made it through the Worgen starting zone and into the Night Elf territory. Standing at level 15 he is not only my highest level Warlock and Worgen, but he is my highest level character on Darkspear.

An honorable mention should go out to Gluug my main DK who moved from 69 to 71. I know that doesn't seem like a lot but compared to the first 1-5 levels that I have been seeing a lot of; it took some time to move Gluug up 2 levels. I was also running a lot of random heroics with Chuckem to try and get his item level up to where I can use the raid finder. I want to see the end of the expansion before the new one come out and in order to do so I need to have a character with an item level of 371 to enter the raid finder. Chuckem's item level is now at 356 (and rising).

JD Kenada over at Amateur Azerothian asked the participants in the 2012 in 2012 challenge to answer a question in our updated post. It basically was about how the world events affect our leveling. Well, I’m a bit of a non-participant in the big events. I have yet to complete a single world event for the achievement/title. Although I try to incorporate some questing related with the events I usually just go for the low-hanging fruit of the first few achievements before I move on. Therefore they don’t really affect my leveling as I don’t spend too much time on them.

The first one I really tried for was the Noble-Garden one, but I was never able to get the “Shake Your Bunny-Maker” achievement to get the “Noble Gardener” achievement and title. I remember hunting eggs for hours, then eating 100 of them and getting frustrated when I tried to find females of every race to put rabbit ears on. That was in 2010 and sort of soured me on the events; I enjoy them but I never really get around to completing them.

Finally, if you follow the blog at all you will notice that there has been some changes. Lord of Assets is not just a WoW blog anymore. I'm not going to get into this here (as there are several posts already that do) but my interests are ever expanding and changing to I wanted to reflect that in my posts. I still play WoW and I'm still working on the 2012 in 2012 challenge, but I also do a lot of other things.