8/4/09
Patch 3.2 hit today, while I'm at work....cough cough. Hmmm, maybe I should go home? :)
Well, since I can't talk about the new patch yet, I'll talk about powerleveling engineering. Being a gnome rox for engineering, recipes give skillups longer, and your crafting max limit is +15 of the normal cap, allowing you a taste of the level above you.
I made 9 Arcanite Dragonlings while skilling up, as Clockwrkmage was the first toon on Daggerspine to hit 50, and able to advance engineering past 300. I never make an item without getting a skillpoint for it, if I can help it, and this recipe got me from 330ish to about 340 (I think).
Remember that warrior that attacked me in Felwood? I think he had around 2500 health, way over my 1900 health. Well, I'd do a heck of a lot better in a fight against him now, being able to have my Stamina Trinket, 4K bubble shield, and my new stamina/crit/SP goggles. From 1900 HP to 3k HP, in three easy steps!!!! (and a few hundred hard steps, and a few K gold, but who's counting?)
I could have made this for my goggles, but I don't care about the spirit that much, and I had already made my goggles of choice for right now.
Oooh, I wants! Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite. And, requiring 420 engineering to make, but only 390 to use......Noise Machine. 375 engineering + 15 racial max skill cap = 390 engineering. Gnomes get the coolest toys.
Well, since I don't have my two favorite burst damage items (Gnomish Lightning Generator and Hand-Pyro Mounted Pyro Rockets, I shall have to make do with an old favorite of mine. Gnomish Death Ray. One of the main reasons I took up engineering, and my favorite trinket for any newly minted level 35ish alt. Cloth wearers don't get to use the Harm Prevention belt, but they can use the Nigh-Invulnerability Belt.
However, if you open up the comments on the Death Ray, the consensus is that you actually DO want to take damage while charging it. I usually would use the Harm Prevention Belt to absorb the damage, but I noticed I wasn't getting more than 900 damage or so when doing so, so I had stopped using the Death Ray. I think my new strategy will be to use the Death Ray, THEN pop the Nigh-Invulnerability belt to deal with the incoming damage from the mob/player I'm fighting.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
"They Love me in That Tunnel" - Or, the quest for Twink Enchants
8/3/09
Clockwrkmage was on a mission this weekend. The mission was to commit xenocide on a whole bunch of furbolgs in Felwood, all in the name of cleansing the land and allowing another tribe to lay claim to valuable mineral rights, yadda yadda. I didn't care, all I knew was that at level 50, I'm allowed to bump my 2 professions (enchanting & engineering) up to 375, and I figured on making use of the 15 agility 1h and 25 agility 2h weapon enchants (From Timbermaw Hold)as a profitable way of leveling enchanting.
Twinks pay big for those to be put on their weapons, and they're actually really good enchants for any class that uses agility (rogues, hunters, feral druids). Instead of putting enchants that proc (and often don't), why not use an enchant that boosts dps, crit, and I believe dodge rating, all at once, all of the time?
My former twink Doomslinger is using it on her Twisted Chanter's Staff, and I haven't had the urge to upgrade her weapon because of it.
But, I digress. Using the level 48-51 southern furbolg's to level was good, because I got rep and good xp at the same time. I only intended to go to Honored, since that would allow me to turn in feathers and quests as I built them up, not waiting until Revered like the guides tell you to do. Bullkathos is doing that on Demon Soul, and it's a long, agonizing process, knowing you could turn in 100+ feathers at 300 rep per 5 feathers, giving you an instant 6000+ rep, but holding off until Revered, because that's when mobs stop giving rep for killing them.
Killing the those mobs was fun, but also dangerous. Since Felwood is so close to Orgrimmar, and Deadwood Village has a Horde quest to kill Overlord Ror, it's natural to assume that I'd be seeing Hordes pop up occasionally. Two encounters stick out in my mind. The first, being attacked by a level 51 warrior while I was level 48 still. He charged in and attacked me while I was finishing off 1 mob, so round 1 went to him.
Round 2 went to me, with my Gnomish Shrink Ray cutting him down to gnome size, and my Mechanical Dragonling getting in his face and landing some good hits. He made the mistake of focusing on the dragonling, which made me think he hadn't ganked many hunters.....Ignore the pet, go for the master, the pet disappears when your enemy dies!
Round 3 went to me again, though he ignored the negligible damage from my Gnomish Battle Chicken and went for me, a Frostbolt followed by Firebolt followed by Fire Blast took off a chunk of his life, then Frost Nova to hold him in place for Arcane Torrent, and a Fire Blast and a few Arcane Explosions took him down. Didn't even have to use my Gnomish Cloaking Device to buy myself some breathing room.
Final round 4 went to him, as I had tired of spamming /target player name to try to find him when he rezzed, and wanted to get back to grinding. Even popping my Mithril Mechanical Dragonling didn't help this time, as he got too close and just kept hitting me too fast.
After that, he rode off, probably figuring this was a waste of his valuable ganking time, since it wasn't an easy kill for him.
The flip side of that was meeting a level 48 Tauren Hunter, who ran along the hills behind all the Deadwood, obviously coming just to kill Overlord Ror. I had actually just overpulled or something, as I remember having to drop a target dummy, drop a Fel Iron Bomb for its daze effect, Frost Nova, and I think I even Blinked to be able to bandage a little. I ended up having to wand the final mob to death, as I was totally out of mana. Ahh, I remember, I had pulled a mob over, killed it, and immediately was attacked by a mob that spawned right there. We had a running firefight, and ended up by ANOTHER mob spawn.....Whew! Anyway, the hunter applauded my being able to pull that off, so I /bowed and /thanked her. I then /pointed to Overlord Ror, who had just spawned, and /pointed to her, then back at Ror. She got the hint that I would help her, so she sent her pet in, and I rained some firebolts and arcane torrents into him to help out. After that, she did the same /point thing, so I said /no, and went back to killing deadwood.
It's always nice to be able to connect with someone, even if you don't speak the same language, and be able to realize there are nice people everywhere, even on PvP servers.
Clockwrkmage was on a mission this weekend. The mission was to commit xenocide on a whole bunch of furbolgs in Felwood, all in the name of cleansing the land and allowing another tribe to lay claim to valuable mineral rights, yadda yadda. I didn't care, all I knew was that at level 50, I'm allowed to bump my 2 professions (enchanting & engineering) up to 375, and I figured on making use of the 15 agility 1h and 25 agility 2h weapon enchants (From Timbermaw Hold)as a profitable way of leveling enchanting.
Twinks pay big for those to be put on their weapons, and they're actually really good enchants for any class that uses agility (rogues, hunters, feral druids). Instead of putting enchants that proc (and often don't), why not use an enchant that boosts dps, crit, and I believe dodge rating, all at once, all of the time?
My former twink Doomslinger is using it on her Twisted Chanter's Staff, and I haven't had the urge to upgrade her weapon because of it.
But, I digress. Using the level 48-51 southern furbolg's to level was good, because I got rep and good xp at the same time. I only intended to go to Honored, since that would allow me to turn in feathers and quests as I built them up, not waiting until Revered like the guides tell you to do. Bullkathos is doing that on Demon Soul, and it's a long, agonizing process, knowing you could turn in 100+ feathers at 300 rep per 5 feathers, giving you an instant 6000+ rep, but holding off until Revered, because that's when mobs stop giving rep for killing them.
Killing the those mobs was fun, but also dangerous. Since Felwood is so close to Orgrimmar, and Deadwood Village has a Horde quest to kill Overlord Ror, it's natural to assume that I'd be seeing Hordes pop up occasionally. Two encounters stick out in my mind. The first, being attacked by a level 51 warrior while I was level 48 still. He charged in and attacked me while I was finishing off 1 mob, so round 1 went to him.
Round 2 went to me, with my Gnomish Shrink Ray cutting him down to gnome size, and my Mechanical Dragonling getting in his face and landing some good hits. He made the mistake of focusing on the dragonling, which made me think he hadn't ganked many hunters.....Ignore the pet, go for the master, the pet disappears when your enemy dies!
Round 3 went to me again, though he ignored the negligible damage from my Gnomish Battle Chicken and went for me, a Frostbolt followed by Firebolt followed by Fire Blast took off a chunk of his life, then Frost Nova to hold him in place for Arcane Torrent, and a Fire Blast and a few Arcane Explosions took him down. Didn't even have to use my Gnomish Cloaking Device to buy myself some breathing room.
Final round 4 went to him, as I had tired of spamming /target player name to try to find him when he rezzed, and wanted to get back to grinding. Even popping my Mithril Mechanical Dragonling didn't help this time, as he got too close and just kept hitting me too fast.
After that, he rode off, probably figuring this was a waste of his valuable ganking time, since it wasn't an easy kill for him.
The flip side of that was meeting a level 48 Tauren Hunter, who ran along the hills behind all the Deadwood, obviously coming just to kill Overlord Ror. I had actually just overpulled or something, as I remember having to drop a target dummy, drop a Fel Iron Bomb for its daze effect, Frost Nova, and I think I even Blinked to be able to bandage a little. I ended up having to wand the final mob to death, as I was totally out of mana. Ahh, I remember, I had pulled a mob over, killed it, and immediately was attacked by a mob that spawned right there. We had a running firefight, and ended up by ANOTHER mob spawn.....Whew! Anyway, the hunter applauded my being able to pull that off, so I /bowed and /thanked her. I then /pointed to Overlord Ror, who had just spawned, and /pointed to her, then back at Ror. She got the hint that I would help her, so she sent her pet in, and I rained some firebolts and arcane torrents into him to help out. After that, she did the same /point thing, so I said /no, and went back to killing deadwood.
It's always nice to be able to connect with someone, even if you don't speak the same language, and be able to realize there are nice people everywhere, even on PvP servers.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Clockwrkmage needs a mount
9/15/08
Well, over the weekend I brought most of the stuff I’ve been getting on Ally side over to Horde side for Demon Soul and Darrowmere. The friend that has been helping me on the opposite faction got fired from my company, so I don’t know how long he’s going to keep paying for WOW. You know you have too much stuff when you have your OWN guild bank, with 3 tabs, most of your 10 toons have all their bank bag slots purchased, and you STILL have a problem with having too many items. I have probably about 300+ Essence of Air on each of my toons, mainly because it was pretty cheap to bid/buy. I think it’s used in high level blacksmithing recipes, but I’ve got way too many of them. I just made 5 Goblin Jumper Cables XL with Kishigishi, and that barely used up any of the mats I have on her. I need to stop buying, and need to start questing.
So, in that light, I did. Granted, I still took some time to log into the toons camping the Darkmoon Faire on each of my servers, but I concentrated on Clockwrkmage on Daggerspine last night, and got her from 28 to level 30. I was spurred on to do that because I tried to kill Mor’Ladim by Raven Hill, and just barely lost. I led off with Frost Bolt, immediately followed by Fire Ball, and then the instant cast fire blast. After that, I used a Big One, followed up with a fire blast, then frost nova and arcane missiles. I tried tossing up a Target Dummy and bandaging myself while he was distracted, but that healing overrode what little aggro the dummy was putting out, and he turned back to me. I was able to get off a second Big One, hoping it would finish him off, but no such luck. I had no health left, and he had no health, but he was able to get off one last attack, and that was enough to finish me off, and waste all the bombs I put into the fight. I hate being defeated, so I continued on to finish off my other quests, vowing to come back at level 30, when I would have a Mechanical Dragonling to help me out on my fights.
Also, I gotta go back and take care of Gahz’rogg and Blaze in Redridge Mountains. The main quests I did to get from 28 to 30 were the Legend of Stalvan, Worgen in the woods, and the Embalmer quest lines. While killing skeletons for the Night Watch quest line, I ran across Mor’Ladim, and got kilt. I finished my quests, did some of my turn-ins, went to Stormwind for the Defias Docket questline, and hit level 30. It’s mount time!!!!!!............well, kinda. Surprisingly, for an engineering freak, I’m not a fan of the Mechanostrider. I find it too noisy for my tastes. However, I’m already at Revered with Stormwind, so maybe Clock will find herself a nice horse to ride in the near future.
Well, over the weekend I brought most of the stuff I’ve been getting on Ally side over to Horde side for Demon Soul and Darrowmere. The friend that has been helping me on the opposite faction got fired from my company, so I don’t know how long he’s going to keep paying for WOW. You know you have too much stuff when you have your OWN guild bank, with 3 tabs, most of your 10 toons have all their bank bag slots purchased, and you STILL have a problem with having too many items. I have probably about 300+ Essence of Air on each of my toons, mainly because it was pretty cheap to bid/buy. I think it’s used in high level blacksmithing recipes, but I’ve got way too many of them. I just made 5 Goblin Jumper Cables XL with Kishigishi, and that barely used up any of the mats I have on her. I need to stop buying, and need to start questing.
So, in that light, I did. Granted, I still took some time to log into the toons camping the Darkmoon Faire on each of my servers, but I concentrated on Clockwrkmage on Daggerspine last night, and got her from 28 to level 30. I was spurred on to do that because I tried to kill Mor’Ladim by Raven Hill, and just barely lost. I led off with Frost Bolt, immediately followed by Fire Ball, and then the instant cast fire blast. After that, I used a Big One, followed up with a fire blast, then frost nova and arcane missiles. I tried tossing up a Target Dummy and bandaging myself while he was distracted, but that healing overrode what little aggro the dummy was putting out, and he turned back to me. I was able to get off a second Big One, hoping it would finish him off, but no such luck. I had no health left, and he had no health, but he was able to get off one last attack, and that was enough to finish me off, and waste all the bombs I put into the fight. I hate being defeated, so I continued on to finish off my other quests, vowing to come back at level 30, when I would have a Mechanical Dragonling to help me out on my fights.
Also, I gotta go back and take care of Gahz’rogg and Blaze in Redridge Mountains. The main quests I did to get from 28 to 30 were the Legend of Stalvan, Worgen in the woods, and the Embalmer quest lines. While killing skeletons for the Night Watch quest line, I ran across Mor’Ladim, and got kilt. I finished my quests, did some of my turn-ins, went to Stormwind for the Defias Docket questline, and hit level 30. It’s mount time!!!!!!............well, kinda. Surprisingly, for an engineering freak, I’m not a fan of the Mechanostrider. I find it too noisy for my tastes. However, I’m already at Revered with Stormwind, so maybe Clock will find herself a nice horse to ride in the near future.
Clockwrkmage busts loose
9/5/08
I got off work early yesterday, so that allowed me to run through AH toons early, and actually think about questing. Clockwrkmage, my lvl 24 Gnome Ally mage, has been level 24 for probably 6 months. Since I’m getting a lot of my characters over the level 35 range on Daggerspine, I decided it was time to level her a bit, so I get her to 35 as well, and unlock 225-300 enchanting, since they’ll be needing higher level enchants as they level up. I flew over to Redridge Mountains, and started blasting the Blackrock Orcs around Stonewatch Keep and Illgar Tower. I took down Tharil’zun pretty easily, but I guess I hadn’t gotten a quest for him yet, since he didn’t drop his head. I then had the bright idea of taking on Gathll’zog and Blaze by myself. Not a good idea for a level 24 mage to take on a level 26 elite humanoid and level 24 elite dragonling by themselves. Bad, BAD idea! I wiped on them a couple of times, before deciding to take on easier prey.
As I was killing the Shadowhide gnolls, I partied up with a level 27 priest, and we worked pretty well together. He was very good at shielding and healing me, and I was dishing out the pain to groups of 3-4 level 26 gnolls at once, thanks to the crapload of Big Iron bombs, Solid Dynamite, Mithril bombs, and Hi-Explosive bombs (lvl 235 engineering) that I had saved up while camping the AH. I love being a gnome engineer, the +15 engineering racial really comes in handy. Hi-explosive bombs rival Goblin Land Mines for power, and you don’t have to wait the 10 seconds for them to arm themselves. Lil Timmy's Peashooter dropped while we were questing, and the priest was decent enough to greed on it, same as me. I won it, which was cool, since my twink Doomslinger only has the Lovingly Crafted Boomstick at the moment, so that’ll boost her dps by 1, which is good for a twink. After we both got our Shadowhide pendants, the priest had to leave, so I decided to go towards the Burning Steppes, as I had heard you could die there, and resurrect right next to an engineering vendor that has the Deadly scope recipe. Well, that got put on hold, as I was asked to join 2 warlocks dealing with the Blackrock Champions quest, along with the escort quest that starts in that cave. I really, really hate escort quests now, they take too friggin’ long, and there’s so much opportunity for a high level ganker to kill you, and make you do the quest over again. I led the party in damage against the mobs, bombs being dropped everywhere, and sheeping the casters on the outskirts.
With those quests done, I headed back up to the Burning Steppes, got inside the entrance, and promptly got killed by a mob. The ONLY spirit healer there is at the Fire Scar, which is conveniently located right by a HORDE Flightmaster, and the engineering vendor is in a cave a little farther back. I rezzed, bought the Deadly scope recipe, then began corpse-hopping down to Morgan’s Vigil in the south eastern portion of the map. I got the flight point, and flew the heck out of there. I turned in a bunch of quests at Lakeshire, and ended up at level 26 and a half. Not bad for a couple of hours of questing.
I got off work early yesterday, so that allowed me to run through AH toons early, and actually think about questing. Clockwrkmage, my lvl 24 Gnome Ally mage, has been level 24 for probably 6 months. Since I’m getting a lot of my characters over the level 35 range on Daggerspine, I decided it was time to level her a bit, so I get her to 35 as well, and unlock 225-300 enchanting, since they’ll be needing higher level enchants as they level up. I flew over to Redridge Mountains, and started blasting the Blackrock Orcs around Stonewatch Keep and Illgar Tower. I took down Tharil’zun pretty easily, but I guess I hadn’t gotten a quest for him yet, since he didn’t drop his head. I then had the bright idea of taking on Gathll’zog and Blaze by myself. Not a good idea for a level 24 mage to take on a level 26 elite humanoid and level 24 elite dragonling by themselves. Bad, BAD idea! I wiped on them a couple of times, before deciding to take on easier prey.
As I was killing the Shadowhide gnolls, I partied up with a level 27 priest, and we worked pretty well together. He was very good at shielding and healing me, and I was dishing out the pain to groups of 3-4 level 26 gnolls at once, thanks to the crapload of Big Iron bombs, Solid Dynamite, Mithril bombs, and Hi-Explosive bombs (lvl 235 engineering) that I had saved up while camping the AH. I love being a gnome engineer, the +15 engineering racial really comes in handy. Hi-explosive bombs rival Goblin Land Mines for power, and you don’t have to wait the 10 seconds for them to arm themselves. Lil Timmy's Peashooter dropped while we were questing, and the priest was decent enough to greed on it, same as me. I won it, which was cool, since my twink Doomslinger only has the Lovingly Crafted Boomstick at the moment, so that’ll boost her dps by 1, which is good for a twink. After we both got our Shadowhide pendants, the priest had to leave, so I decided to go towards the Burning Steppes, as I had heard you could die there, and resurrect right next to an engineering vendor that has the Deadly scope recipe. Well, that got put on hold, as I was asked to join 2 warlocks dealing with the Blackrock Champions quest, along with the escort quest that starts in that cave. I really, really hate escort quests now, they take too friggin’ long, and there’s so much opportunity for a high level ganker to kill you, and make you do the quest over again. I led the party in damage against the mobs, bombs being dropped everywhere, and sheeping the casters on the outskirts.
With those quests done, I headed back up to the Burning Steppes, got inside the entrance, and promptly got killed by a mob. The ONLY spirit healer there is at the Fire Scar, which is conveniently located right by a HORDE Flightmaster, and the engineering vendor is in a cave a little farther back. I rezzed, bought the Deadly scope recipe, then began corpse-hopping down to Morgan’s Vigil in the south eastern portion of the map. I got the flight point, and flew the heck out of there. I turned in a bunch of quests at Lakeshire, and ended up at level 26 and a half. Not bad for a couple of hours of questing.
Time to level professions on Darrowmere
8/6/08
Well, since Clockwrkmage finally hit level 20, it’s time to make him a Runed Golden Rod. But Golden Rods are currently around 7-8 gold in the Darrowmere AH, so that means it’s time to level Wartraveler (my warrior) up to level 20, and get him started on Blacksmithing. I don’t mind losing out on mining, since I know what recipes to use to make the professions pay for themselves. War will be making Silver and Golden Rods, and probably having Clockwrkmage posting some at a higher price to make War’s rods look even more competitively priced.
I gotta say, I love actually getting out of the town and playing my toons. I spend so much time looking for bargains in the AH, I forget how the game isn’t supposed to revolve around that. It’s really fun to just go out and hit monsters, and be geared enough so I don’t have to bandage/eat after every 1-2 kills. When you can clear an encampment within a few minutes, when other people at the same level take a minute for each fight, and have to heal up after…..that’s a great feeling.
When I had Annihilus be run thru Wailing Caverns, I wasn’t passively trotting after the high level. I fought alongside of him, and was able to take down quite a few of the Elites myself.
Well, since Clockwrkmage finally hit level 20, it’s time to make him a Runed Golden Rod. But Golden Rods are currently around 7-8 gold in the Darrowmere AH, so that means it’s time to level Wartraveler (my warrior) up to level 20, and get him started on Blacksmithing. I don’t mind losing out on mining, since I know what recipes to use to make the professions pay for themselves. War will be making Silver and Golden Rods, and probably having Clockwrkmage posting some at a higher price to make War’s rods look even more competitively priced.
I gotta say, I love actually getting out of the town and playing my toons. I spend so much time looking for bargains in the AH, I forget how the game isn’t supposed to revolve around that. It’s really fun to just go out and hit monsters, and be geared enough so I don’t have to bandage/eat after every 1-2 kills. When you can clear an encampment within a few minutes, when other people at the same level take a minute for each fight, and have to heal up after…..that’s a great feeling.
When I had Annihilus be run thru Wailing Caverns, I wasn’t passively trotting after the high level. I fought alongside of him, and was able to take down quite a few of the Elites myself.
Leveling a few alts
8/5/08
Well, I buckled down over the weekend, and got my Darrowmere rogue Thrillkiller from 11 to 17, clearing out most of the quests in the Ghostlands. I also discovered that there’s a flight point by Zula’Aman, which I had never discovered before. :)
I also took most of Sunday to level my Darrowmere mage Clockwrkmage from 11-20, finally FINALLY unlocking 160-235 level in enchanting (luv the +10 passive BE bonus). Now I can start putting some useful enchants on my toons, and get them to grind out levels faster.
I even found the time to get a run thru WC for my undead twink Annihilus, getting her what equipment I could from WC, while keeping careful watch that I didn’t get to level 20. I was fortunate that Serpent's Shoulders and [Venomstrike] dropped, but I totally regret grinding rep with Tranquillien. I got 2 cloaks [Glowing Lizardscale Cloak] and Sporid Cape], both of which are better than the cloak you get at exalted status with Tranquillien. I should have just come to Xroads at around level 12, and gotten runs thru WC until I got all the drops I needed. Oh well, live and learn.
It will be interesting having a rogue twink, since I’m used to having hunter twinks. I just need to level Jewelcrafting to 150, get some enchants slapped on my equipment, get GavelofPain to level 20 and turn him into a leatherworker to make me a Deviate scale belt, and I’m set. GavelofPain is level 10, btw. In October I’ll have been playing WOW for 2 years, and I’ve gotten only about 8 toons up to the 40ish level. I wonder why…….
I know I overplan stuff, but I’m a very defensive player, and I like to have the best equipment available. I’m actually proud of myself, I didn’t make sure that all my stuff for my level 10’s were enchanted, and I didn’t make the same mistake as I did on Demon Soul, where the toons banks were totally filled with a succession of gear to wear at different levels. Instead, their banks are filled with recipes for their future professions. :)
Well, I buckled down over the weekend, and got my Darrowmere rogue Thrillkiller from 11 to 17, clearing out most of the quests in the Ghostlands. I also discovered that there’s a flight point by Zula’Aman, which I had never discovered before. :)
I also took most of Sunday to level my Darrowmere mage Clockwrkmage from 11-20, finally FINALLY unlocking 160-235 level in enchanting (luv the +10 passive BE bonus). Now I can start putting some useful enchants on my toons, and get them to grind out levels faster.
I even found the time to get a run thru WC for my undead twink Annihilus, getting her what equipment I could from WC, while keeping careful watch that I didn’t get to level 20. I was fortunate that Serpent's Shoulders and [Venomstrike] dropped, but I totally regret grinding rep with Tranquillien. I got 2 cloaks [Glowing Lizardscale Cloak] and Sporid Cape], both of which are better than the cloak you get at exalted status with Tranquillien. I should have just come to Xroads at around level 12, and gotten runs thru WC until I got all the drops I needed. Oh well, live and learn.
It will be interesting having a rogue twink, since I’m used to having hunter twinks. I just need to level Jewelcrafting to 150, get some enchants slapped on my equipment, get GavelofPain to level 20 and turn him into a leatherworker to make me a Deviate scale belt, and I’m set. GavelofPain is level 10, btw. In October I’ll have been playing WOW for 2 years, and I’ve gotten only about 8 toons up to the 40ish level. I wonder why…….
I know I overplan stuff, but I’m a very defensive player, and I like to have the best equipment available. I’m actually proud of myself, I didn’t make sure that all my stuff for my level 10’s were enchanted, and I didn’t make the same mistake as I did on Demon Soul, where the toons banks were totally filled with a succession of gear to wear at different levels. Instead, their banks are filled with recipes for their future professions. :)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Kickin' names and takin butt.....wait, there's something wrong here
1/9/08
I worked on Clockwrkmage last night, because she’s stayed at level 20 for at least a couple months now. Since she’s my Ally enchanter, I need to get her to level 35 early, so she can get the 225-300 enchants ready for my other toons. I knocked out all the quests around Loch Modan, the area above the Badlands. I died a couple of times when I got swarmed, once when I was taking the rare trogg and his buddies in the excavation site, and the other time when I was taking on the ogre shamans. Once I regained my familiarity with spell/bomb/frost nova rotation, I didn’t have anymore problems. When I took on Chok’sul, I used Frost bolt and Fireblast on him, dropped a Goblin Land mine, froze him and his buddies in place, and used Flamestrike. Once the land mine went off, his buddies were dead, and he followed soon after. Pretty good for a level 22 Mage, taking on 2 level 22 ogres and a level 22 Elite. Squishies can kick butt too!
Morticide is currently serving as my Horde Darkmoon Faire farmer, logging in every hour or so to scan for higher level herbs, motes, and high level gems that I can sell for a profit or use myself. I also buy the level 35 healing potions, since 10 silver is a steal considering what the mats could sell for on the AH. Level 2 and 3 scrolls are nice to pick up, since you can just send them off to other characters, and they’re always on sale.
I worked on Clockwrkmage last night, because she’s stayed at level 20 for at least a couple months now. Since she’s my Ally enchanter, I need to get her to level 35 early, so she can get the 225-300 enchants ready for my other toons. I knocked out all the quests around Loch Modan, the area above the Badlands. I died a couple of times when I got swarmed, once when I was taking the rare trogg and his buddies in the excavation site, and the other time when I was taking on the ogre shamans. Once I regained my familiarity with spell/bomb/frost nova rotation, I didn’t have anymore problems. When I took on Chok’sul, I used Frost bolt and Fireblast on him, dropped a Goblin Land mine, froze him and his buddies in place, and used Flamestrike. Once the land mine went off, his buddies were dead, and he followed soon after. Pretty good for a level 22 Mage, taking on 2 level 22 ogres and a level 22 Elite. Squishies can kick butt too!
Morticide is currently serving as my Horde Darkmoon Faire farmer, logging in every hour or so to scan for higher level herbs, motes, and high level gems that I can sell for a profit or use myself. I also buy the level 35 healing potions, since 10 silver is a steal considering what the mats could sell for on the AH. Level 2 and 3 scrolls are nice to pick up, since you can just send them off to other characters, and they’re always on sale.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Clockwrkmage needs moar Dragonlings!
11/13/07
Well, I finally got back to my first Ally character Clockwrkmage. I decided to make the Mechanical Dragonling trinkets with her, since she needed to finish powerleveling so she could make Spellpower goggles for my Shaman, Druid, and Paladin. So, I made 8 trinkets, to be distributed when my other characters hit level 30. With the patch that hit this morning, that might not take as long as it did with my Horde account, due to increased XP from quest rewards, and easier requirements for leveling.
Well, I finally got back to my first Ally character Clockwrkmage. I decided to make the Mechanical Dragonling trinkets with her, since she needed to finish powerleveling so she could make Spellpower goggles for my Shaman, Druid, and Paladin. So, I made 8 trinkets, to be distributed when my other characters hit level 30. With the patch that hit this morning, that might not take as long as it did with my Horde account, due to increased XP from quest rewards, and easier requirements for leveling.
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