So far the scarcest item on my supply list are the Pristine Black Diamonds required for every libram turn in with the Shen'dralar. They've jumped from 120 to 200 gold in the auction house, and that's too steep to buy. I managed to find one yesterday in Scholomance (farmed up some skin of shadow there) and used it to turn in one tome. Did three Knot Thimblejack runs last night, and one ogre suit turn in this morning. If I do nothing but farm keys I might be able to get to Unfriendly tonight with two of the goblin factions.
I definitely want to keep up with the librams however. The darkmoon faire decks are a totally separate grind and can be done last, but the librams drop while I'm doing rep runs in Dire Maul so it's good to have the items on hand to turn them in when I can. And that means pristine black diamonds. I really wish these things had a higher drop rate. Even more so, I wish I'd kept the stack of them I had once upon a time when they were 1g each in the AH.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Fishing and Lies
Rugged leather, rugged leather, rugged leather. There's a reason why people can charge 100g a stack for this stuff and get away with it; once in a while you need to get something done and you absolutely must have rugged leather, and only a skinner can provide it. The stuff only comes from L50+ animals, and people never stay around Azeroth past level 58 anymore when the drops become common, they head straight to Outland and start questing.
Anyway, I need some of the stuff for making Ogre Suits for one of the two Knot Thimblejack quests in Dire Maul. Each turnin requires a couple of rune thread (easy), bolts of runecloth, and 8 pieces of rugged leather. I'm not paying 100g for a stack of leather, I don't care how much time it saves me, so the alternative -- is fishing.
I logged in my druid and grabbed my fishing pole and started searching for pools of floating junk to fish up mithril chests with, and because some of the notes said that I could get trunks from stonescale eel pools, I fished the eels also. Total lies. I ended up with three stacks of eels and only one trunk the whole time I was fishing eels. The floating wreckage was perfect though. I ended up with a lot of thick leather, plenty of bolts of runecloth, and enough rugged leather to do the job. Thankfully also, when you loot the gordok key and free Knot Thinblejack he leaves behind a cache of leatherworking/tailoring mats in a box and sometimes there's rugged leather in there also.
So about two hours of fishing STV, Feralas, and Tanaris, a complete clear of UBRS to farm for pristine black diamonds (none dropped all night) and a couple of clears of Dire Maul on my rogue and I was about 1000 rep higher on my goblin factions. This is going to take a long, long time to finish. I don't mind farming the older instances because all kinds of interesting stuff drops, and because my rogue is still an enchanter I can d/e the greens and blues I get and sell the materials. But I sure hope my Heroes Deck sells so I can blow money on buying pristine diamonds instead of farming them... I'm going to need about 80 of them all together, and I still need to buy/craft darkmoon decks too.
Actually, I should probably be farming Stratholme for the pristine black diamonds on my rogue instead. I wouldn't mind getting the Argent Champion title while I'm at it, and I need the abomination stitchings for libram turn-ins. I'll just have to remember to kill everything instead of stealthing past it all. I need blood of heroes too. And skin of shadow. Maybe I should spend an evening doing that instead of fishing.
So many things to do! Much better than twiddling my thumbs saying "nothing to do." Thank goodness I upgraded all my rogue's bags to 20 slots last night.
Anyway, I need some of the stuff for making Ogre Suits for one of the two Knot Thimblejack quests in Dire Maul. Each turnin requires a couple of rune thread (easy), bolts of runecloth, and 8 pieces of rugged leather. I'm not paying 100g for a stack of leather, I don't care how much time it saves me, so the alternative -- is fishing.
I logged in my druid and grabbed my fishing pole and started searching for pools of floating junk to fish up mithril chests with, and because some of the notes said that I could get trunks from stonescale eel pools, I fished the eels also. Total lies. I ended up with three stacks of eels and only one trunk the whole time I was fishing eels. The floating wreckage was perfect though. I ended up with a lot of thick leather, plenty of bolts of runecloth, and enough rugged leather to do the job. Thankfully also, when you loot the gordok key and free Knot Thinblejack he leaves behind a cache of leatherworking/tailoring mats in a box and sometimes there's rugged leather in there also.
So about two hours of fishing STV, Feralas, and Tanaris, a complete clear of UBRS to farm for pristine black diamonds (none dropped all night) and a couple of clears of Dire Maul on my rogue and I was about 1000 rep higher on my goblin factions. This is going to take a long, long time to finish. I don't mind farming the older instances because all kinds of interesting stuff drops, and because my rogue is still an enchanter I can d/e the greens and blues I get and sell the materials. But I sure hope my Heroes Deck sells so I can blow money on buying pristine diamonds instead of farming them... I'm going to need about 80 of them all together, and I still need to buy/craft darkmoon decks too.
Actually, I should probably be farming Stratholme for the pristine black diamonds on my rogue instead. I wouldn't mind getting the Argent Champion title while I'm at it, and I need the abomination stitchings for libram turn-ins. I'll just have to remember to kill everything instead of stealthing past it all. I need blood of heroes too. And skin of shadow. Maybe I should spend an evening doing that instead of fishing.
So many things to do! Much better than twiddling my thumbs saying "nothing to do." Thank goodness I upgraded all my rogue's bags to 20 slots last night.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
OMG. Dungeons Heroics and Raids! (Oh my!)
One thing I DESPISE about WoW: Farming. Farming Mats, farming badges, farming (my favorite thing $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$) Gold... all of it, I do not like farming, but... I am happy to anounce... my achievement (not actual achievement in-game...) of getting an entire set.
The set is very familiar to all level 80 mages: Khadgar!!!!!!!
This set I love, it is a purplish grey, and it is misty...
This set is bought from the cloth armor sellers in the "Threads of Fate" in Dalaran, across from the inn, "A Hero's Welcome". This set is bought with NO money, only Emblems of Triumph. I am thinking of farming the EXTREMELY HARD Bloodmage set, but... that would take hardcore raiding >.>... I need Frost Badges for that... well, below is the link to the armor sets.
Khadgar = http://www.wowhead.com/itemset=843
Bloodmage = http://www.wowhead.com/itemset=-247
Well, see ya!!!!!
(LFM: Simple ways to farm gold QQ)
The set is very familiar to all level 80 mages: Khadgar!!!!!!!
This set I love, it is a purplish grey, and it is misty...
This set is bought from the cloth armor sellers in the "Threads of Fate" in Dalaran, across from the inn, "A Hero's Welcome". This set is bought with NO money, only Emblems of Triumph. I am thinking of farming the EXTREMELY HARD Bloodmage set, but... that would take hardcore raiding >.>... I need Frost Badges for that... well, below is the link to the armor sets.
Khadgar = http://www.wowhead.com/itemset=843
Bloodmage = http://www.wowhead.com/itemset=-247
Well, see ya!!!!!
(LFM: Simple ways to farm gold QQ)
Going Insane
For me, there are two modes for Warcraft: Goal, and No Goal.
If I have no goal, I wander aimlessly and jump through hoops mindlessly hoping that something will spark my interest or feel slightly fulfilling. I use it somewhat as therapy for a frustrating work environment, so when my day isn't productive I want my play to be, to cancel it out. Sometimes it works, most times it doesn't.
If I have a goal then I can track my progress and strive for an accomplishment. It creates its own storyline as I progress towards my goal, and the little things that I do in between add meaning to the larger story. Even fishing or mob farming becomes interesting when I attach a progress bar to it. I get the feeling that I am building something, a feeling I don't get from work.
So, I have taken on the largest goal I know of: The Insane title for my rogue.
If you aren't familiar with this achievement, it is the single hardest set of reputation grinds in the entire game. It requires you to be:
The part that I was not looking forward to was the Bloodsail Buccaneer reputation, which ended up being incredibly easy. Just kill a bunch of Booty Bay guards over and over, and you're there. When you get to friendly you do the quest to get the Bloodsail Admiral's hat and get your title with the Buccaneers, and then grind the rest of the way to honored.
After that, you need to work your reputation back to exalted with the four goblin factions, which takes much longer. Currently I'm still hated with all four, although I've made some decent progress by turning in linen and silk at Ratchet and Booty Bay. You can see my reputations here.
The Bloodsail I got done on Friday, and then knowing how useful it would be to have a MOLL-E (portable mailbox) I dropped herbalism, leveled mining to gather materials, dropped mining, and leveled engineering to 435. I love engineering on my rogue anyway, it's a lot of fun. I've ended up already using the rocket boots a lot, for the little things mostly like running through those long tunnels in Dire Maul (grinding goblin rep) or running back to the beginning of Ragefire Chasm (farming linen there). That ate about a day and a half, just leveling that.
Now that the preliminary professions are done I'm going to be doing a lot of Dire Maul runs for both the goblin and Shen'dralar reputations, so I'll want to do two things before I begin. First, I need to take my druid fishing for lots of rugged leather and bolts of runecloth. The rugged leather simply can't be bought at any reasonable price on the auction house. If I get desperate for cash I can probably fish up a few extra stacks from the mithril trunks I find, because the market is crazy.
Second, I need to take my rogue through Scholomance, Stratholme, and Eastern Plaguelands to find Skin of Shadow, Abomination Stitchings, and Blood of Heroes to turn the librams with the Shen'dralar faction in Dire Maul. The rugged leather and bolts of runecloth are used to build the ogre suit for Knot Thimblejack in Dire Maul, and I get 75 rep every time I do that.
Thankfully other people have done this grind before and posted their tips on how to do it, so all I need to do is buckle down and spend the hundreds of hours farming to get it done. But when it is done it will be an achievement that few have ever gotten and no one can argue with the value of.
If I have no goal, I wander aimlessly and jump through hoops mindlessly hoping that something will spark my interest or feel slightly fulfilling. I use it somewhat as therapy for a frustrating work environment, so when my day isn't productive I want my play to be, to cancel it out. Sometimes it works, most times it doesn't.
If I have a goal then I can track my progress and strive for an accomplishment. It creates its own storyline as I progress towards my goal, and the little things that I do in between add meaning to the larger story. Even fishing or mob farming becomes interesting when I attach a progress bar to it. I get the feeling that I am building something, a feeling I don't get from work.
So, I have taken on the largest goal I know of: The Insane title for my rogue.
If you aren't familiar with this achievement, it is the single hardest set of reputation grinds in the entire game. It requires you to be:
- Honored with the Bloodsail Buccaneers
- Exalted with Everlook
- Exalted with Ratchet
- Exalted with Ravenholdt
- Exalted with Booty Bay
- Exalted with Gadgetzan
- Exalted with Darkmoon Faire
- Exalted with Shen'dralar
The part that I was not looking forward to was the Bloodsail Buccaneer reputation, which ended up being incredibly easy. Just kill a bunch of Booty Bay guards over and over, and you're there. When you get to friendly you do the quest to get the Bloodsail Admiral's hat and get your title with the Buccaneers, and then grind the rest of the way to honored.
After that, you need to work your reputation back to exalted with the four goblin factions, which takes much longer. Currently I'm still hated with all four, although I've made some decent progress by turning in linen and silk at Ratchet and Booty Bay. You can see my reputations here.
The Bloodsail I got done on Friday, and then knowing how useful it would be to have a MOLL-E (portable mailbox) I dropped herbalism, leveled mining to gather materials, dropped mining, and leveled engineering to 435. I love engineering on my rogue anyway, it's a lot of fun. I've ended up already using the rocket boots a lot, for the little things mostly like running through those long tunnels in Dire Maul (grinding goblin rep) or running back to the beginning of Ragefire Chasm (farming linen there). That ate about a day and a half, just leveling that.
Now that the preliminary professions are done I'm going to be doing a lot of Dire Maul runs for both the goblin and Shen'dralar reputations, so I'll want to do two things before I begin. First, I need to take my druid fishing for lots of rugged leather and bolts of runecloth. The rugged leather simply can't be bought at any reasonable price on the auction house. If I get desperate for cash I can probably fish up a few extra stacks from the mithril trunks I find, because the market is crazy.
Second, I need to take my rogue through Scholomance, Stratholme, and Eastern Plaguelands to find Skin of Shadow, Abomination Stitchings, and Blood of Heroes to turn the librams with the Shen'dralar faction in Dire Maul. The rugged leather and bolts of runecloth are used to build the ogre suit for Knot Thimblejack in Dire Maul, and I get 75 rep every time I do that.
Thankfully other people have done this grind before and posted their tips on how to do it, so all I need to do is buckle down and spend the hundreds of hours farming to get it done. But when it is done it will be an achievement that few have ever gotten and no one can argue with the value of.
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