Monday, December 3, 2007

WoW Journal - 4-December-2007

I had an interesting weekend in World of Warcraft, and didn't get around to post about it yesterday. Saturday was exclusively spent on my level 70 characters. My warrior found a guild group to do the Ogri'la group quests. That resulted in him getting an Apexis Crystal, with which I bought the Ogri'la Aegis, a very nice tanking shield. Then I switched characters, but stayed in that same guild group with some modifications, and we did the Ogri'la attunement quest chain for my priest and and another player.

So now my warrior has access to 7 daily quests, two in Skettis, the cooking daily, and 4 in Ogri'la. My priest doesn't have cooking, and not being honored yet he only has 3 Ogri'la quests, for a total of 5 daily quests. But I'm not doing all 12 daily quests every day, that gets boring pretty quickly. I'm more likely to do 6 quests with the warrior (skipping the Skettis escort), and between zero and two with my priest. The biggest difference between the two characters is that the warrior already has his epic flying mount, while the priest is still saving up for one. And that makes a huge difference for the Ogri'la bombing run. With the epic flying mount I often can destroy all 15 stacks of cannonballs without being hit or landing even once. With the normal flying mount I got shot down every single time, and sometimes already on the approach. I ended up riding around with the epic non-flying horse, standing next to the cannonball stack, casting shield, mounting on my flying steed and immediately throwing the bomb. Then I get shot down, but with the shield on and not having left the ground that doesn't do much harm.

My warrior also started the next quest series leading to more daily quests, in Shadowmoon Valley for the Netherwing. But I'm at the step where I need a group now, and will have to ask around for one to continue. Strangely the daily quest I enjoy the most is the cooking quest, probably because there is a random quest out of at least 4 different possibilities every day. Each quest involves traveling to a different zone, and the quest only pays 8 gold, so it isn't as fast a money-maker as the other quests. But you get free meat for your cooking, and a chance to find a rare recipe. I already have the Kibler's Bits, and Hot Spicy Talbuk recipe. But I read there is also some fish soup and the even rarer (but apparently useless) chocolate cake recipe. Fun!

On Sunday I mostly played my mage. The leveling speed really increased at lot, I got from 27 to 31 in one day, albeit while playing a lot. At level 28 I got invited to a very good pickup group to Razorfen Kraul. I hadn't realized before that they had lowered the level requirement for that by around 4 levels. Previously I would have thought 28 to be too low for RFK, but now it went just fine, we cleared out the whole place. Not much luck on the loot side though, we had two priests and the shadow priest won the roll for the robe with the spell damage bonus. After that I soloed a lot of quests in Hillsbrad, Stonetalon Mountains, and Ashenvale, until I hit level 30.

At level 30 as a mage you get a class quest for a very nice wand. Only problem is that you aren't really able to do that quest at level 30 until you receive a lot of help. First I had to travel to Dustwallow Marsh, to Tabetha, a mage living in a hut in the south. I promptly got killed while trying to escape from some spider and getting aggroed by a lot more mobs on the way, but it turned out that there is a graveyard next to Tabetha's hut, which got me to her very quickly. I was also able to get the new Mudsprocket flight point. Then, after an easy intermezzo in Thousand Needles, I had to get one book out of the Scarlet Monastery library, which at level 30 wasn't even on my list of possible dungeons in the LFG window. But a friendly level 70 mage from my guild ran me through the library, so I got the book, another book for a quest in Thunder Bluff, and the robe and dagger from Doan, even if I can't use them for a couple more levels. Wow, a level 70 mage sure can blast his way through SM fast! It reminded me why I wanted to level up my mage in the first place. :) Next I had to kill level 32 to 35 trolls in Arathi. Both Thottbot and Allakhazam show strange false data for non-existing level 30 "Witherbark Troll", but what you really have to do is to kill the witherbark axe throwers and other trolls south of Hammerfell. Now this is possible for a level 30 mage, but dangerous and slow. Not good news if you need 10 quest items with a 25% drop rate, and have to kill 40 trolls. But I had barely started when a level 70 Alliance warrior turned up. Which was already strange in the first place, because what does a level 70 want in that corner of Arathi Highlands? Apparently playing the gallant knight to pretty blood elf ladies (even if the player behind them is a guy). He waited until I had pulled and thus locked a troll, then easily killed him. And he continued to do so until I had my 10 quest items. No communication possible, except for emotes, and I didn't do more than wave and curtsey. Nice guy, or very, very bored. Or both. :) Last step of the quest required me to charge the 10 sticks from the trolls at the circle of outer binding in the same zone. Which wouldn't have been a problem, except for the level 38 and 39 level thunder elementals swarming around the place. So I needed help from another level 70, but this time I could use one of my own. I simply logged on my level 70 warrior, traveled there, cleared out the place, then quickly logged the mage on and completed the quest before the respawn. Back to Tabetha I got the wand, and all the quest xp rewards got me to level 31. Wow, I hadn't done anything than this one quest series to get from level 30 to 31, but of course I had a lot of help.

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