I’ve levelled Tantharos to level 10 now. I followed the same quest list as for everyone else I’ve levelled, however doing it with this character took a while as before level 10 you are essentially playing as a caster/healer which seems to take forever to level with and isn’t particularly good for soloing.

Once some of the newer talents kicked in at levels 8 things became easier, roots helped a lot in terms of reducing the amount of damage I was taking due to keeping mobs at a distance for longer.

Respecced Tantharos’ trades to leatherworking instead of skinning, which I’m doing with all the alts, see later post.

Tantharos trades are now as follows:

• Leatherworking: 79 (+79)
• Skinning: 22 (+21)
• Cooking: 14 (+10)
• Fishing: 10 (+10)
• First Aid: 21 (+20)

Current items

Slot	Item
Back:	[Ensign Cloak]
Chest:	[Footman Tunic] [Armour: +8]
Shirt:	[Blue Linen Shirt]
Tabard:	[Guild Tabard]
Wrist:	[Cracked Leather Bracers]
Hands:	[Cracked Leather Gloves] [Armour: +8]
Waist:	[Pioneer Belt]
Legs:	[Rugged Leather Pants] [Armour: +8]
Feet:	[Cracked Leather Boots] [Armour: +8]
Main Hand:	[Frostbit Staff]

Giving Tantharos the following bonuses:

• Agility +1
• Stamina +3
• Health +30
• Critical +1%

Druid Quest

The quest for pinging 10 as a Druid is the bear form quest called [10]:Heeding the Call which runs through a fair few quests taking you to Darnasus, which is a pain as I got a portal to Stormwind when I started the character and have no flightpaths set up!

Anyway, after getting another port back to Darnasus you talk to Mathrengyl Bearwalker and he sends you, via a spell, to Moonglade where you eventually have to talk to a bear spirit. After which you have to head back to the trainer in Darnasus which I thought would pose a problem for me as I didn’t have any flightpaths set up as I’ve mentioned.

Fortunately you get them set up for you so you can fly straight back to Darnasus. From there you have to go to Darkshore and kill Lunaclaw for [10]: Body and Heart who’s spirit will send you back to Mathrengyl Bearwalker who will in turn teach you the bear form.

Killing Lunaclaw was relatively easy. Once all the outside mobs had been cleared I used the moondust to summon him, pulled him outside then using a combonation of roots and any of the ranged abilities nailed him.

After doing this I hearthed back to Stormwind with my bear form and my nifty spell to get me to Kalimdor quickly.

Time played: 2 hours 16 minutes

I’ve levelled Tantharos to level 6 now. This was done by levelling to 2 in Shadowglen and then going to Darnasus to buy a portal to Stormwind. Then it was to Northshire to level from 2 to 6, completing all the quests there and a couple in Goldshire.

I grabbed all the trades for Tantharos once I hit level 6:

• Skinning: 1 (+1)
• Herbalism: 1 (+1)
• Cooking: 4 (+4)
• Fishing: 10 (+10)
• First Aid: 1 (+1)

I also upgraded all the items, as to be expected:

Current items

Slot	Item
Back:	[Ensign Cloak]
Chest:	[Cracked Leather Vest]
Tabard:	[Guild Tabard]
Wrist:	[Cracked Leather Bracers]
Hands:	[Cracked Leather Gloves]
Waist:	[Cracked Leather Belt]
Legs:	[Cracked Leather Pants]
Feet:	[Cracked Leather Boots]
Main Hand:	[Frostbit Staff]

Name:	Tantharos
Level:	1
Race:	Night Elf
Class:	Druid
Location:	Shadowglen
Played:	0 min

One of the new characters I’ve made in this levelling experiment.

Current items

Slot	Item
Chest:	[Novice's Robe]
Legs:	[Novice's Pants]
Main Hand:	[Handcrafted Staff]