2/21/08
It’s all about the Goblin, baby! I finally got to be able to powerlevel it, and it went pretty well. I started by having Tsuris send over the 7 Dusky Belts he had made while powerleveling, so I could make the Gnomish Harm Prevention Belts for all my non-cloth wearers. I made a few Mithril casings to get to 232 engineering, then the 7 belts, which got me to 239. Going back to the trainer got me the Gnomish Battle Chicken plans, and that got me to 240, where I was able to do the Death ray trinket (by the way, no engineering skill is required to use it). After that, engineering got dumped, and immediately relearned. I powerleveled it back to 200, and talked to the Gnomish engineering trainer in Ironforge, who advised me to go to Tanaris and read the “Soothsaying for Dummies” book to respecc my profession. I traveled to Dustwallow Marsh, then went south along the mountain coast. This brought me out right at Steamwheedle port, and I was able to respecialize at Narain’s house. After that, I ran over to Gadgetzan, got the flight point, and hearthed back to Ironforge. It says on my General Tab that I’m a Goblin Engineer, but I’m not a card-carrying one. I’d like to be but aren’t. Reading the book supersedes getting the quest, and apparently the need for a card too. While I was in Gadgetzan, I was able to talk to Nixx, and pick up a few of the lowest level Goblin recipes (Construction helmet and Mining helmet). However, he does not offer Membership card renewal, which means I can’t gamble on getting the Pet Bombling recipe as a reward from renewing the card. Unless there’s another trainer that will allow me to renew, I’m outta luck. I can still get all the Goblin recipes, but what happens when 14 days in game time go by? Will I be locked out of Goblin Engineering? What is weird is that the Gnomish engineering trainer did have the membership card renewal available still, so I tried that to see if there was a glitch, and it would reward me with the Bombling recipe. I’ll have to wait 24 hours to see if I get the schematic in the mail, otherwise I’ll have to go to a GM.
(Edit 11/14/08)- Nope, once you choose a specialization, that's it. You can never get the other spec's non-attack pet. You can drop Gnomish engineering, respecc in Goblin, get all the Goblin recipes, but you'll never be able to get the Pet Bombling. And vice-versa, if you go Goblin first, you'll never get Lil' Smokey by respeccing. I usually have my Paladins gamble until they get the Lil' Smokey recipe, THEN respecc and go Goblin.
I also was pondering where to go to powerlevel my mining skills, as I like to be prepared for any vein I run across. Dustwallow Marsh has a spider cave in the north west that has a few Mithril veins that spawn. I think Kishi will need to spend some time there, and get her mining up to at least 220, so she can use the mining enchant gloves and the mining helmet to mine Truesilver veins. There’s a few Truesilver veins that spawn in the Shimmering flats, and that’s probably where I’ll be leveling her next, so I’d like to be prepared. I sent Hangfire to Azshara to camp for Deepdive helmet schematics, and I’ll send Ryo to the Hinterlands for the Mithril Mechanical Dragonling recipe, since I’ve long since sold all the ones I’ve picked up.
I do hope I’ll be able to get the Pet Bombling schematic, since I got and made the Lil’ Smokey non-attack pet, and it would cool to switch between the 2 pets and impress people. If I do go Gnomish then Goblin with Clockwrknyt on my Horde account, I think I’ll wait until I turn level 35, accept BOTH specialization quests, turn in Gnomish first, and hopefully the Goblin one will stick around.
Oooh, one last thing, I also came up with a new Macro for paladins.
#showtooltip
/cast Divine Protection
/equip Gnomish Harm Prevention Belt
This is nice for when you’re about to get ganked, or need some extra protection for a boss. You bubble up of course, but you also equip your handy-dandy little Gnomish Harm Prevention belt, automatically swapping it for whatever belt you currently have equipped. This starts the cooldown of 30 seconds before using it, but you still have a few seconds of Protection left (depending on what level of Divine Protection you’ve unlocked), so there should only be a little bit of unprotection before you have a fresh, longer lasting bubble up. The funny thing about the belt is that when it backfires, it still protects you. With the Jumper cables, if they don’t work, it just activates the cooldown timer. With the belt, if it backfires, you get Banished. You’re invulnerable to all damage for 20 seconds, but you can’t take any action (so Thottbot says).
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Beastmaster Twink in Battlegrounds
2/20/08
I didn’t really do much for a few days last week, just posting my auctions and making gold. However, the weekend started off with a bang! Doomslinger, my hunter twink, actually got played in a battleground!!!!! I turned in a couple of quests from the Deadmines to level up to 19, and immediately headed for Darkshore. I ran up to Ruins of Althalaxx, logged out, and brought Ryoushigishi over. I had him use Find Treasure tracking to easily find the Cat Statues, cleared the area of all naga, and brought in Doomslinger to open the statue. The first 3 were dummies, but the 4th had a lvl 19 Ghost Saber, so I dropped the interim pet I had picked up, and tamed the cat easily. After that I headed back to Stormwind to get the cat’s loyalty up by killing enemies that were still green to me, so the cat would receive XP. I did the quest Trouble on the Coast, where you have to kill 28 murlocs on the coast of Westfall. I completed it, but didn’t turn it in, because I was only about 300 xp away from leveling at that point.
After that I got a 100 health enchant put on the Tunic of Westfall, and on a whim, actually ran to a battlemaster and joined the queue for Warsong Gulch. I’m a very cautious player, and I hate being made fun of, so I had been hesitant of doing this with my Horde twink hunter Sansetsukon. By this time however, I have spent a lot of time playing hunters, and have a lot more of an understanding of how to use them and their pets. Warsong Gulch was fun! 10 Allies against 8 Horde, and it seemed a lot of the players didn’t know what they were doing. They were just meeting in the middle, and duking it out. Only a few players bothered running for the flags, so the Alliance ended up winning. I did find out that all my items still worked in battlegrounds, including my engineering bombs! It’s very satisfying to toss a bomb at a group of enemies, and see them all get weakened to the point where a few shots will take them out. We won the game, and I had 27 kills and 14,000+ damage, which was a few thousand above anyone else in the game. Beastmaster Hunters Rule!
I also leveled up Kishigishi (paladin) and Ryoushigishi (hunter) in Southshore. They’re my 2 highest characters, both were around level 32, and they had professions that complimented each other. Kishi is a miner, and Ryo is a skinner. Where in Hillsbrad Foothills does that complement each other? The yeti caves, of course! The yeti’s are humanoids, but they can be skinned for medium and heavy leather, and there’s a few Iron/Gold/Mithril deposits that pop up randomly in the cave, along with the occasional Solid Chest. I would start Kishi killing yetis from one of the small cave offshoots on the bottom, kill towards the middle, then log out and bring in Ryo to skin what I had killed. He would continue killing and skinning into the other offshoot, then log out to let Kishi mine whatever Ore veins were in there. They were also very good at killing any Horde that came into the caves too. After the first level 29 druid stealthed over and attacked me from the back while lvl 32 Kishi was busy taking on 2 yeti’s at once, and caused me die from the yeti’s, I adopted the same concept that most WOW pvp realm players have. “If it’s not my faction, kill it!” Every other Horde character that came down there got killed. I think Ryo got about 6 kills, and Kishi got about 4. I only died when they got a ??? Horde mage to come in and fireball Kishi to death. But, I ran right back over there and unleashed hell right back on the next Hordie I encountered. Kishi got to about level 208 Mining doing this, but I was getting bored of logging in and out, so I decided to take her adventuring, and clear out some of the quests from Southshore.
While I was doing the Mountain Lion and Syndicate Footpad/Thief quest in Corahn’s Dagger, a level 36 Warlock attacked my level 34 paladin while she was at half health from finishing off a mountain lion. He Feared me, of course, and as I ran uncontrollably towards the cliff edge I decided to go with it. I bubbled up and jumped off, and ran out of sight of the warlock. I was annoyed, and so I was like “F* it, you’re on!” I didn’t care if I died, and figured I probably would, but I wanted to make this squishie hurt. Kishi had gotten a Goblin Mortar trinket off the AH a while back, and I’ve used it sparingly so far, as I can only reload it once I’ve dropped engineering and built it back up to respecc for Goblin engineering. I ran back around, and saw the warlock chilling on the side of the hill with his void walker. I fired off the Goblin Mortar at a long distance, to stun him and heavily damage both of them. I ran up close and used my stun ability to keep him locked up, and finished it off with a Solid Dynamite blast. Incidentally, I discovered the Goblin Mortar DOESN’T have a shared cooldown with the rest of the engineering bombs. Since it’s a trinket, I guess it makes sense. I had a hunch that he might try to Soulstone resurrect, so I ran over the hill while still targeting his corpse. Once I was out of sight, he did, so I came back to stuff some more dynamite into his face.
After that, I ran over to Sofera’s Naze, because there were too few Footpad’s in Corahn’s Dagger. I finished that quest up, and decided to keep heading north to Gallows Corner to do Crushridge Bounty. Since it was a drop quest (collect 9 knucklebones from the ogres), I knew it would take a lot more than 9 ogres to get all of them. I decided to speed things up a bit. I let off a Mechanical Harvest Reaper robot, and that little guy stuck by me for 10 minutes, doing almost as much damage as I was. I was using my sword/shield combo, because the ogres tended to block my 2-handed hammer swings too much, and I was doing about 70-80 damage each hit. The little reaper was doing about 50-60 damage each hit, and helped my grind immensely! I completed the quest, hearthed home to Southshore, and found that I had cleared out most of the quests I could do in Southshore. I flew to Ironforge and Stormwind to turn in some quests, and finally dinged 35! Finally, I can make some Gnomish Harm Prevention belts and get skill points for them, and make the battle chicken/Death ray at level 240. Then, I drop engineering, pick it back up, level to 200, talk to Narain Soothfancy in Tanaris, and respecc to Goblin. After that I think I’ll have Kishi be the keeper of the Mithril Mechanical Dragonlings, by making 9 of them in preparation for when each of the characters turns 40, and another 9 to use for Arcanite Dragonlings when they turn 50.
I also outfitted Kishi in Scarlet – The Chain of the Scarlet Crusade, to be precise. I had picked up the chest for about 50 gold, and the boots for probably about 5-10 gold, and of course the rest of the items were cheap. I got a +100 enchant for the chest, and 7 stamina for the gloves, and did the wrist and boot enchants myself. I think Kishi has about 1900 health now, but she’ll have to wait until I get into the Scarlet monastery to complete the set, since the leggings are a BOP reward from a SM boss.
I didn’t really do much for a few days last week, just posting my auctions and making gold. However, the weekend started off with a bang! Doomslinger, my hunter twink, actually got played in a battleground!!!!! I turned in a couple of quests from the Deadmines to level up to 19, and immediately headed for Darkshore. I ran up to Ruins of Althalaxx, logged out, and brought Ryoushigishi over. I had him use Find Treasure tracking to easily find the Cat Statues, cleared the area of all naga, and brought in Doomslinger to open the statue. The first 3 were dummies, but the 4th had a lvl 19 Ghost Saber, so I dropped the interim pet I had picked up, and tamed the cat easily. After that I headed back to Stormwind to get the cat’s loyalty up by killing enemies that were still green to me, so the cat would receive XP. I did the quest Trouble on the Coast, where you have to kill 28 murlocs on the coast of Westfall. I completed it, but didn’t turn it in, because I was only about 300 xp away from leveling at that point.
After that I got a 100 health enchant put on the Tunic of Westfall, and on a whim, actually ran to a battlemaster and joined the queue for Warsong Gulch. I’m a very cautious player, and I hate being made fun of, so I had been hesitant of doing this with my Horde twink hunter Sansetsukon. By this time however, I have spent a lot of time playing hunters, and have a lot more of an understanding of how to use them and their pets. Warsong Gulch was fun! 10 Allies against 8 Horde, and it seemed a lot of the players didn’t know what they were doing. They were just meeting in the middle, and duking it out. Only a few players bothered running for the flags, so the Alliance ended up winning. I did find out that all my items still worked in battlegrounds, including my engineering bombs! It’s very satisfying to toss a bomb at a group of enemies, and see them all get weakened to the point where a few shots will take them out. We won the game, and I had 27 kills and 14,000+ damage, which was a few thousand above anyone else in the game. Beastmaster Hunters Rule!
I also leveled up Kishigishi (paladin) and Ryoushigishi (hunter) in Southshore. They’re my 2 highest characters, both were around level 32, and they had professions that complimented each other. Kishi is a miner, and Ryo is a skinner. Where in Hillsbrad Foothills does that complement each other? The yeti caves, of course! The yeti’s are humanoids, but they can be skinned for medium and heavy leather, and there’s a few Iron/Gold/Mithril deposits that pop up randomly in the cave, along with the occasional Solid Chest. I would start Kishi killing yetis from one of the small cave offshoots on the bottom, kill towards the middle, then log out and bring in Ryo to skin what I had killed. He would continue killing and skinning into the other offshoot, then log out to let Kishi mine whatever Ore veins were in there. They were also very good at killing any Horde that came into the caves too. After the first level 29 druid stealthed over and attacked me from the back while lvl 32 Kishi was busy taking on 2 yeti’s at once, and caused me die from the yeti’s, I adopted the same concept that most WOW pvp realm players have. “If it’s not my faction, kill it!” Every other Horde character that came down there got killed. I think Ryo got about 6 kills, and Kishi got about 4. I only died when they got a ??? Horde mage to come in and fireball Kishi to death. But, I ran right back over there and unleashed hell right back on the next Hordie I encountered. Kishi got to about level 208 Mining doing this, but I was getting bored of logging in and out, so I decided to take her adventuring, and clear out some of the quests from Southshore.
While I was doing the Mountain Lion and Syndicate Footpad/Thief quest in Corahn’s Dagger, a level 36 Warlock attacked my level 34 paladin while she was at half health from finishing off a mountain lion. He Feared me, of course, and as I ran uncontrollably towards the cliff edge I decided to go with it. I bubbled up and jumped off, and ran out of sight of the warlock. I was annoyed, and so I was like “F* it, you’re on!” I didn’t care if I died, and figured I probably would, but I wanted to make this squishie hurt. Kishi had gotten a Goblin Mortar trinket off the AH a while back, and I’ve used it sparingly so far, as I can only reload it once I’ve dropped engineering and built it back up to respecc for Goblin engineering. I ran back around, and saw the warlock chilling on the side of the hill with his void walker. I fired off the Goblin Mortar at a long distance, to stun him and heavily damage both of them. I ran up close and used my stun ability to keep him locked up, and finished it off with a Solid Dynamite blast. Incidentally, I discovered the Goblin Mortar DOESN’T have a shared cooldown with the rest of the engineering bombs. Since it’s a trinket, I guess it makes sense. I had a hunch that he might try to Soulstone resurrect, so I ran over the hill while still targeting his corpse. Once I was out of sight, he did, so I came back to stuff some more dynamite into his face.
After that, I ran over to Sofera’s Naze, because there were too few Footpad’s in Corahn’s Dagger. I finished that quest up, and decided to keep heading north to Gallows Corner to do Crushridge Bounty. Since it was a drop quest (collect 9 knucklebones from the ogres), I knew it would take a lot more than 9 ogres to get all of them. I decided to speed things up a bit. I let off a Mechanical Harvest Reaper robot, and that little guy stuck by me for 10 minutes, doing almost as much damage as I was. I was using my sword/shield combo, because the ogres tended to block my 2-handed hammer swings too much, and I was doing about 70-80 damage each hit. The little reaper was doing about 50-60 damage each hit, and helped my grind immensely! I completed the quest, hearthed home to Southshore, and found that I had cleared out most of the quests I could do in Southshore. I flew to Ironforge and Stormwind to turn in some quests, and finally dinged 35! Finally, I can make some Gnomish Harm Prevention belts and get skill points for them, and make the battle chicken/Death ray at level 240. Then, I drop engineering, pick it back up, level to 200, talk to Narain Soothfancy in Tanaris, and respecc to Goblin. After that I think I’ll have Kishi be the keeper of the Mithril Mechanical Dragonlings, by making 9 of them in preparation for when each of the characters turns 40, and another 9 to use for Arcanite Dragonlings when they turn 50.
I also outfitted Kishi in Scarlet – The Chain of the Scarlet Crusade, to be precise. I had picked up the chest for about 50 gold, and the boots for probably about 5-10 gold, and of course the rest of the items were cheap. I got a +100 enchant for the chest, and 7 stamina for the gloves, and did the wrist and boot enchants myself. I think Kishi has about 1900 health now, but she’ll have to wait until I get into the Scarlet monastery to complete the set, since the leggings are a BOP reward from a SM boss.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
....altoholic urges rising......
2/4/08
Woo7!!!! My last toon on Horde side Demon Soul is now an Engineer! I had been wanting to give my Leatherworker shaman Kukoshakaku engineering, but his bags and bank were packed too full of mats for leatherworking (along with armor/weapons he’d have to level to use). So, I leveled him from 21-25 this weekend, cleared out some room, and powerleveled him to 225 engineering. I also leveled his fishing from 140-175 while I was in Tarren Mill, since I had to go over there for the shaman quest “Call of Water.” I was trying to get the Thick Murloc armor recipe from the tradesman there, but it never spawned, even though Thottbot said it would. So, I had Sansetsukon get it from the leatherworking supplies vendor in Booty Bay, since Sansetsukon is stationed there to try to sell off Deviate Scale belt recipes to Ally players. I finished off Kuko’s well-rested XP while running to the Horde camp in 1k Needles, since I hadn’t gotten the Barbaric Leggings recipe yet, and it’s a pretty good item to make.
Speaking of leatherworking, I maxed out Tsuris’s Leatherworking at 225 on Daggerspine. I realized that I’d want to make 7 Dusky Belts, since they’re used in the Gnomish Harm Prevention belt recipe, and I have 7 toons that can wear leather. Now I just have to level up Kishigishi to level 35, so she can use them to top out her engineering to get to 240, so she can get the Deathray and Gnomish chicken recipes from the Gnomish trainer, and then dump engineering, level it back up to 200, and click on the book at Narain Soothfancy’s house at Steamwheedle Port. That will let me take up my end goal of Goblin engineering. I’m not sure if I’ll do this for Clockworknyt, since the Chicken doesn’t seem to do much. I’ll have to see if the Deathray rocks some socks against other players, or if I should not even bother making it.
Other items of note: I picked up the Robes of Arcana recipe for 15 gold and the Shadow Hood recipe for 8 gold with Preyonyou, my Draenai Priest tailoring alt. Robes of Arcana are used for a Warlock quest, so they’re always in demand. The Shadow Hood recipe isn’t blue, but I’ve only seen it twice, because it seems to be a rare drop. It’s a very nice hood that gives 11 intellect and +shadow damage to lvl 27? Cloth wearers, so it would be perfect for Warlocks and Shadow Priests. Warlocks especially, because I always pull with Shadow bolt, and immediately put 2 DOT shadow words on the mob.
I might also be starting up some more toons on Darrowmere, Horde side. One of my friends at work, the girl who got me into WOW, moved her toon there from Demon Soul. Since it would cost me $250 to move all 10 of my toons, I think I’ll just make a few to ten toons over there instead. I think I’m going to avoid making Tauren toons, and make a lot more Blood elf toons instead. Maybe a few Orcs, if I can avoid the whole greasy hair look. Yeah, I’m a snob, but I have the philosophy that if you’re going to be staring at someone’s butt for hours on end, it might as well be nice to look at. That’s why most of my Alliance toons are women. I think I’ll make a BE hunter, bring them all the way to Thunder Bluff immediately, and have them work on the TB startup quests. That way he/she will be well on their way to Exalted by 40, and able to get their Kodo.
Woo7!!!! My last toon on Horde side Demon Soul is now an Engineer! I had been wanting to give my Leatherworker shaman Kukoshakaku engineering, but his bags and bank were packed too full of mats for leatherworking (along with armor/weapons he’d have to level to use). So, I leveled him from 21-25 this weekend, cleared out some room, and powerleveled him to 225 engineering. I also leveled his fishing from 140-175 while I was in Tarren Mill, since I had to go over there for the shaman quest “Call of Water.” I was trying to get the Thick Murloc armor recipe from the tradesman there, but it never spawned, even though Thottbot said it would. So, I had Sansetsukon get it from the leatherworking supplies vendor in Booty Bay, since Sansetsukon is stationed there to try to sell off Deviate Scale belt recipes to Ally players. I finished off Kuko’s well-rested XP while running to the Horde camp in 1k Needles, since I hadn’t gotten the Barbaric Leggings recipe yet, and it’s a pretty good item to make.
Speaking of leatherworking, I maxed out Tsuris’s Leatherworking at 225 on Daggerspine. I realized that I’d want to make 7 Dusky Belts, since they’re used in the Gnomish Harm Prevention belt recipe, and I have 7 toons that can wear leather. Now I just have to level up Kishigishi to level 35, so she can use them to top out her engineering to get to 240, so she can get the Deathray and Gnomish chicken recipes from the Gnomish trainer, and then dump engineering, level it back up to 200, and click on the book at Narain Soothfancy’s house at Steamwheedle Port. That will let me take up my end goal of Goblin engineering. I’m not sure if I’ll do this for Clockworknyt, since the Chicken doesn’t seem to do much. I’ll have to see if the Deathray rocks some socks against other players, or if I should not even bother making it.
Other items of note: I picked up the Robes of Arcana recipe for 15 gold and the Shadow Hood recipe for 8 gold with Preyonyou, my Draenai Priest tailoring alt. Robes of Arcana are used for a Warlock quest, so they’re always in demand. The Shadow Hood recipe isn’t blue, but I’ve only seen it twice, because it seems to be a rare drop. It’s a very nice hood that gives 11 intellect and +shadow damage to lvl 27? Cloth wearers, so it would be perfect for Warlocks and Shadow Priests. Warlocks especially, because I always pull with Shadow bolt, and immediately put 2 DOT shadow words on the mob.
I might also be starting up some more toons on Darrowmere, Horde side. One of my friends at work, the girl who got me into WOW, moved her toon there from Demon Soul. Since it would cost me $250 to move all 10 of my toons, I think I’ll just make a few to ten toons over there instead. I think I’m going to avoid making Tauren toons, and make a lot more Blood elf toons instead. Maybe a few Orcs, if I can avoid the whole greasy hair look. Yeah, I’m a snob, but I have the philosophy that if you’re going to be staring at someone’s butt for hours on end, it might as well be nice to look at. That’s why most of my Alliance toons are women. I think I’ll make a BE hunter, bring them all the way to Thunder Bluff immediately, and have them work on the TB startup quests. That way he/she will be well on their way to Exalted by 40, and able to get their Kodo.
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