Filed under: achievement, Cataclysm, Gerutwo, healing, instance, LFD, loot, Professions, PvE, Shaman, toon update, WoW | Tags: alchemy, DK Tank retards, fail pugs, professions, wow cataclysm instances aren't hard
Ran Lost City of the Tol’Vir last night and once the shitty DK tank dropped group after a death on the second pull we sailed through with ZERO DEATHS!!
I was almost ready to call it after that first shitty pull, when after Zoning in and switching to Resto Spec the DK pulls the first group of Tigers. I managed to pop a potion, drop mana tide and barely got through the fight. After finishing on zero mana, with the tank at about 15% I sat and drank. What’s the tank do? Pulls the next pack of mobs once I get full mana and run to catch up with the group. Fucktard then calls me out about it, and drops group when I ask him why he pulled with 25% health. I was super pissed off as it’s not the best way to start a run, and if any of the group had sided with him I’d have just afk’d and waited for them to kick me. As it was everyone else though the tank was a tard and we got a cracking Druid tank right away and proceeded to rinse the instance with zero trouble. The rogue had a habit of dropping to 50% health a lot, and lol’ing when he pulled another pack but we got through.
I managed to snag a couple of iLevel 333 upgrades as well which was nice.
We also had a guild run to Naxx to do a raid q for a quick 100 odd Justice Points which will help out on the way to grabbing another piece of gear in the next week or two. I’m totally in no rush to start on Heroics to be honest, I want to get comfortable with all the new instances before worrying about that.
I finally made the switch and dropped Mining on Gerutwo for Alchemy. I Power levelled it to 409 last night, and reckon I can cap it either tonight or tomorrow (depending on what herbs are on the AH and/or if I can be arsed to farm for what I need). I’m actually looking forward to having some pots and flasks for use (which with the bonus from the trinket will actually make me want to use them)
I actually managed to do the daily fishing and cooking quests as well which made a change. I really want to try to do these with some regularity so that I can get them both capped (although with the change to fishing meaning you can fish pools regardless of level) this is not so much a priority. Cooking on the other hand is something I really want to get capped, as while I’m selling the raw mats for a shocking amount of gold, I’m sure the prepared foodstuff would sell better (and help me out with some really nice buffs). I also need to get my finger out and make a start on Archeology, as having my Dorf on a Skeletal Raptor would be awesome.
I didn’t bother logging on the DK or the Warrior, but the Warrior is going to get his rested XP burned through before the end of the weekend though (hopefully) as I’m keen to start getting him into his 20’s. The DK is sitting in Zangarmarsh with 15 quests left to complete (which I actually think I’ll do before heading to Terrokar Forest)
Filed under: Alt, Blog, Cataclysm, DK, Gerutwo, healing, instance, Levelling, LFD, Professions, Shaman, toon update, Warrior, WoW
So I hit 85 on Boxing Day, and since then have run a few Dungeons through LFD while clearing some quests in the area’s I’ve yet to complete for Rep etc. These have been mainly in a Healing role as I haven’t enough time to wait 45 mins for a group and I’ve found myself leaving about 50% after 2 or 3 pulls (or wipes as is often the case).
While I’m now sitting at 92k/72k HP/Mana it’s not enough to overcome those players who don’t understand kill orders/cc requirements etc. As almost every blogger has stated, WotLK this is not. Profession wise I’ve not had chance to switch Gerutwo to Alchemy yet, but I’ve got about all the Herbs I need banked. I just need to find a spare couple of hours to do it. I’d like to have an evening of purely farming ore first to get some stacks stockpiled but the reality is that I probably can’t be arsed. I’ve kinda forgotten about Gerutwo as I’ve been playing the DK pretty exclusively (which is a shame as I really wanted to knock out the rest of the quests in the new zones with Gerutwo to get my rep up with the various factions and bank some more gold).
I have managed to get my DK up level 64 now, and he34’s currently about 2/3 of the way through Zangarmarsh. I got pretty bored with HFP even though it’s the first time I’ve been through outland as Alliance. I’m still not sure what Prof’s I’m going for though once he’s through Northrend. At the moment I’m still thinking JC\(dis)Enchanting. I’m not going to switch earlier as the XP gains from gathering are too nice to pass up (about 1k xp per node on level appropriate herbs\ore). I’ve not tanked anything with him yet, and that’s on my list of things to do this week. I might try solo’ing a few low level instances first in order to get the hang of the rotations etc, then again I might just jump in and see how it goes. I’m sure if I sign up for Ramparts or Blood Furnace as Tank it should pop pretty fast, plus I’ll have a couple of levels on the people that are in there which will give me a headstart on survivability/damage/threat (with luck).
I really want to give the Warrior some playtime in the next week, even if it’s just to burn through the rested XP that he’s accumulated and do some mining\herbalism while I’m at it. I also want to give tanking on him a go as well, but that can wait a few levels.
Filed under: achievement, General, Gerutwo, Levelling, loot, Professions, Shaman, todo, toon update, WoW | Tags: gear upgrades, questing, uldum shaman gear
NOTE – This post was somehow not posted and I found it in my drafts. Rather than re-write etc I’ll stick it up now and then follow up with the other posts
So with 85 rapidly approaching (hit 84 in Uldum last night) it’s time to think seriously about when\what\how to switch professions. I really want to drop one and power level the other the same night so as to not be left profession less. I’d also like to switch to something that I can recoup some of the expenditure by selling what I make to level (which is probably not going to happen with Alchemy). As I’ve only got 1 toon above 60 on this server at the moment (Dkeru the Worgen DeathKnight should hit 60 in the next week or so at this rate) I will need to keep Gerutwo with a gathering profession which compliments the new profession. Herb\Alch seems the way to go, as I’m finding there’s much less competition for Herbs than there are for mining nodes. Plus once the DK is 50 the plan is to level Herb\Mining around Azeroth one evening (going to by a big herb and a big mining bag for him) and then drop Herb once I get to 300. This should help Gerutwo out on the way to 300 Alchemy, and the Ore I’ll use to level the Dkeru’s JC’ing once he’s back in Outland. He can then Mine\JC his way though Outland\Northrend and all the JC stuff I can store to disenchant with Dkeru once I think he’s got enough Ore. I may even just have him fly round Outland getting upto max mining for the area
Uldum’s about 80% done, and I’m 4 bars from hitting 85. That’s unlikely to happen this evening as I’ll be finishing up wrapping and getting everything ready for Mr Claus to visit the kids tonight and getting the house ready for the influx of family tomorrow (both sets of parents, grandparents and sister in law + boyf). If I can get on for 30 mins to get a little closer to finishing the Uldum quests then I’ll be happy.
Uldum so far has been great. I’ve picked up the following upgrades in the last two nights (there’s also some other uncommon upgrades as quest rewards but they’ll be replaced pretty quickly as I go through Twiglet Highlands
And this – which isn’t an Uldum upgrade, but I’d forgotten to grab it while in Hyjal
Lucky drop of the night was this little bad boy from a chest in Uldum. I hardly ever get a rare drop that I can use, so this was a lovely little early xmas pressie. I’m not sure if I’m going to equip it or sell it on the AH and then add some cash to the profits to get the BoE Epic BS Caster Shield (I’ll leaning towards equipping it at the moment).
The other alternative is to get Shield of the Mists with 950 Justice Points (of which I only have about 400 at the moment) after a few more instances. I like the idea of having the additional spirit, and to be honest I think I could probably make do with a green quest reward shield for a little longer. I suppose it will all depend on the value of the shield on the AH. Although I’m sitting on around 15k, if I can get enough to pay for at least some of the cost of levelling Alchemy it would not hurt matters. I could alternatively use the cash for the DK to buy flying in readiness for him hitting 60 and going to Azeroth.
This leaves me at 84.5 with the following stats which aren’t too bad. Need to hit up some more instances in the hope of getting some loot and increasing Rep with the various factions.
I also need to head back to Deepholm to get rep up with the Earthern Ring before heading on over to Twilight Highlands I reckon.
So while I posted the short term plans for my Shaman and Warrior (the two active toons on my new server) here are some more things I’ve on my to do list . . .
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Get Guild Charter signed and buy Guild bank to store all the shit I accumulate
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Inscription Alt - I’m going to get Inscription on my Banker and level it to 75 to see what money I can make from it (heard there’s super easy money to be made even at level 75)
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Level Alchemy and another profession (to be decided) on Gerutwo to max
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Buy 310% flight for Gerutwo
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Get a Proto Drake for Gerutwo (don’t care what sort)
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Roll a DK, get him out of the starting area and then get him Enchanting and Jewelcrafting (so he can DE the stuff that he makes JC’ing)
These plans all rely on my continual levelling\questing with Gerru for a supply of herbs\ore unless I just go and splash the cash (which I might do with Enchanting, and Alchemy in order to get Gerutwo up to speed as soon as possible). I’d like to get the DK enchanting so that he can DE anything I find and also any drops I get from low level instances I’ll be farming on him (for cloth etc). I had fun playing my other DK through Outland (and while it didn’t take long in WotLK with the reduction to XP required it should be even faster)
Filed under: Cataclysm, Exploring, General, Levelling, PvE, Shaman, todo, toon update, WoW | Tags: instance entrances, questing, rep rewards, uldum
Headed off to Uldum last night as I wanted to find the entrance to the Vortex Pinnacle. However I got sidetracked by the quests there and found myself instead getting about 4 bars of XP. I’m currently about 2.5 bars from 84, and should get there this evening with a bit of luck.
One thing I noticed about Uldum is that the mobs are a step up from Deepholm, in that they regularly seemed to have about 50k health (as opposed to the 35k – 40k I seemed to recall them having down in Deepholm. I’m probably going to head back there before getting more into Uldum, as the main reason for going to Uldum was to explore and find the instance entrance (shown below).
Plan of action for the next couple of days
- Log on and jump straight into LFD as a healer
- Fly across Uldum to grab the entrance for Vortex Pinnacle
- Work out how to get to Deepholm as Alliance and then head there to pick up where I left off on the Horde side
- Hit 84
- Start a DeathKnight (probably a Dorf or Draeni) and try to power through the starting area (done it a few times now so it shouldn’t be too much trouble to bang that out in a couple of hours).
Filed under: achievement, Cataclysm, fail PuG, healing, instance, LFD, loot, PvE, Shaman, WoW | Tags: BC heroics, book of dark prophecies, fail pugs, guild runs, healing, new loot, Stonecore
So last night I hopped on into LFD as DPS and after a while Stonecore popped up. TO say the run didn’t go too well would be an understatement.
Tank had 60k health @ level 83 (not great but we could’ve worked around that), DPS was Warrior\DK\Ele Sham (me), Driud had the heals sorted (and couldn’t be faulted). I joined after a wipe on the first boss, and we then got through the Dragon boss with no real issues and moved onto the big stone dude. Things didn’t go too well with both Melee DPS not moving out of the bad stuff and thus a wipe ensued. 2nd attempt went better, but we lost the tank at about 10% and then DPS weren’t far behind. Drood bearformed and kited/killed the boss (after I reincarnated and the first heal on myself grabbed aggro from some adds that were aggroed when the bear hightailed it out of there. Still, the bear did the job and died just as the boss went down.
There was a couple of wipes on the next boss, and then on the run back in some mobs were aggro’d, the tank went afk and then people started dropping the group.
All in all a bit of a fail pug.
Next time I jumped in as Healer and we went through with no drama or deaths. Now this wasn’t down to me (we had an 85 Tank and an 85 DPS) but the group all knew their roles and the fight mechanics which made it a super simple and fast run. I was even slinging dmg spells out there as the only time I had to heal with any urgency was on the adds before the last boss when we grabbed all 3 packs, then the boss. Still the tank had 115k health, and a riptide, and a few GHW’s and he was back up to 75%. I don’t think I healed the DPS direct more than a couple of times all through the run.
Plus I grabbed a new Relic, which was nice after 5 bosses and nothing but Melee drops
I’m sure it says Prismatic Socket on the tooltip in game though ?
I then headed to Heroic Slave Pens and Underbog for a quick guild run. Probably grabbed 50G worth of vendor shite and a couple of achievements. Need to grab some Keepers of Time rep in order to get access to the Heroic versions of the instances which we wanted to do after that. Not likely to happen anytime soon though as too busy with other stuff in game.
Filed under: Alt, Cataclysm, General, Professions, PvE, Shaman, toon update, WoW
So having been back on a PvE server now for a few days (and back with my original WoW guild) I’ve decided to move Khomp across.
This means that the goblin race change I paid for only last week was officially a waste of time (although we’ll be rolling a new Goblin as the 4YO like the look a yoda hunter).
£15 for Server Transfer, another £15 for faction change and Geru is reborn as a Dorf Shaman (Gerutwo). Geru was my first proper toon and a bald dorf priest so rather than go space goat I’ll be making Geru v2.0.
In preparation for the server move I stocked up on about 50 Horde pets (snakes and prairie dogs) which I hope will make me a few hundred gold. Not that I’m in need of the cash as I’m transferring 22k on Khomp. This leaves me about 2k on the horde server incase I decide to go back and level my alts on there. I’ll send 2k to the new horde alt to get him started and then I should be able to faction change him as you can’t faction change with over 20k gold So far I’ve made about 60 gold on my level 16 Warrior from Herb\Mining. I think I’m going to now keep all the herbs\ore that I get from levelling so that I can switch Gerutwo to two non gathering professions and the 20k will help in power levelling. I’ve seen a few guides for profession power levelling where you can almost make your money back. Not sure which professions to choose though. I’d like enchanting (as that’s super useful for DE’ing quest rewards etc but a bitch to level). I might just drop Mining and go Alchemy to start with and then power herb in order to get what I need (may even consider dropping the 4k on 310% flying) to level alchemy. With Mana being an issue during early content, the extra from potions would be welcome, and transmuting\flasks etc should bring in a bit of cash. I’ve not had a JC, so that’s pretty appealing, but I might concentrate on getting one prof maxed before dropping the other.
Short Term goals are
GeruTwo (lvl 83 Shaman)
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Buy a Snowy Griffon
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Find all the entrances to the Dungeons
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Get to 85 and some guild runs with the new\old guild
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Drop either Mining or Herbalism and power level a more beneficial profession (alch probably)
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Start Archeology
Gerru (lvl 16 Warrior)
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Waste some cash on greens and enchanting scrolls to give him a bit more of an easier time doing 2. below (thinking a weapon enchant and some additional Stamina will be welcome)
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Level through LFD and give Tanking a proper try
So last night I made my Worgen, and rejoined my old PvE guild for some Alliance action. I was toying with going Hunter but to be honest I quite fancied having a go at Tanking (at least in the lower level dungeons) and I’m not prepared to sit around waiting for a lfd group as a dps.
I’m going Prot from the start, and will be levelling up through quests, lfd, and also hoping to do some BG’s as I really want to PvP with this guy at some stage.
I’m toying with transferring someone from my PvP server with some gold and a few enchants etc in order to smooth out the process, but I’m not sure if i can justify the expenditure of a realm transfer and then a race\faction change.
Filed under: Alt, Chunder, General, instance, Khomp, LFD, loot, toon update, WoW | Tags: alliance, Alt, goblin, healing trinket, horde, lfd, race change, the Stonecore
Well last night Chunder had a transformation into Khomp – the Goblin Shaman!
I also managed a Stonecore run through LFD, and picked up a healing trinket. I entered LFD as DPS and had to wait about an hour for a group to pop. I really hate the waiting around, and even though there’s a lot less hassle when you’re DPS I think my days as queuing as dps might be over (they most certainly will when I hit 85, and when I roll my new Alliance Alt)
Other than that it was a pretty boring night. I’m rolling over on my old PvE server this evening to see the alliance side of the world after the Shattering. Not sure on class yet, although it really needs to be a Worgen of some type. (leaning towards Warrior at the moment, as I’d like to PvP with him, although as I’ll be joining my old guild a healer would probably mean I’d be of more use.
I’m not really that excited about rolling a healer though, as having Khomp (who’s end game role will probably be healing) is probably going to be enough. I want a toon that will be fun to play through the levels and I really enjoyed playing my Warrior up to 60. I’ve thought about rolling a Paladin, but I can’t be a Worgen which is annoying. If I go Paladin then it would need to be a Dorf to be honest. I’ve no interest in playing a Human or SpaceGoat. The other class I’m thinking of is a Hunter, as I know that would be fun to level and play around with in lower level instances. While I like the idea of hybrid, I’ve found I much prefer ranged dps when in a Dungeon rather than Melee. Not really sure why this is to be honest, as while solo’ing I love smacking things with big swords\maces etc.
Filed under: Alt, General, Professions, WoW | Tags: Archaeology, Celestial Steed, Jewel Crafting, microtransactions, race change
Even though I rarely let him play (all videogame access is strictly monitored, even Lego StarWars and Angry Birds on my iPhone), his influence is super strong.
He mentioned he didn’t like the dragon I was flying, and really liked the look of the Celestial Mount. So I thought fuck it, and I coughed up the cash for one (I didn’t realise at the time it was going to be BoA which means I have it on all my toons which is nice).
He also said that he didn’t like the look of my main (big green orc), so what did I do . . .
Hello Battle.Net – 1 Race Change please
So tonight Chunder is undergoing a race change. I have no idea what the kid’s going to choose. I’ll post up tomorrow with a screenshot
In other news, I’ve decided to focus on an Alliance Alt – probably a Worgen Hunter rather than level any of the Horde alts I’ve got. I’ll probably switch one of the 70’s to Jewel Crafting and level them up with Ore from Chunder’s travels around the old world doing some Archaeology (which I’ve yet to try out).
