Oh, One More Thing…

By alex

I HATE those elites that run around the netherwing ledge!!!

OMG! Leave me alone already!!!!

And to cap it all off there’s no graveyard on the island! So that makes things worse!!!

Netherwing Quests – First Impressions.

By alex

Hey everyone!

Hope all are well and have had a wonderful Christmas!

I’m back at work today sadly, but off from tomorrow till the 2nd of January. So its going to be …

GRIND GRIND GRIND GRIND!

I want my nether drake!!

So lets have a look at the daily quests then…

Gather Nethercite – Collect 40 nethercite ores and hand them in – once per day.

I’ve just been collecting nethercite whenever I find any full stop! So then i can do it the first thing in the morning and not worry about arguing with other people who are farming the ore.

Gather Nether crystals – Collect 40 Crystals and hand them in – once per day.

This quest is a little more about luck than just gathering things. They’re random drops from mobs on the island as far as I’ve found so far.

Poison the Peons – Poison 12 Peons and kill them!

This quest is rather time consuming for a paladin as you have to go around Shadowmoon valley killing “beasts” all over the place to get there “Fel Glands”

The first time i did this quest i asked in general chat for some advice and a mage was in the area doing it also and did some nice aoe grinding for the glands while i healed him!

Netherwing Eggs – These things are really rare!! Although saying that i found 3 last night in the space of 30 mins (1 collected, 2 dropped from mobs)

It seems blizzard have a sense of humour too – as they put 1 on the peir where those 2 giant elite guys are guarding the netherwing crystal trasporters!

Kill some Netherwing Transporter Dudes - I forget how many you have to kill as it appears I’m not able to do this quest! I don’t have any sort of ranged attack that can reach these buggers. If anyone has any advise on how i can pull these sods i would be eternally grateful.

I’m almost friendly having only really done 2 days of quests and even then i didn’t do all of them so hopefully tomorrow I’m going to spend a lot of time grinding for crystals and fel glands and eggs!! Bur first i need to get some more bag space!! Or at least manage to empty a bag in the bank so i have somewhere for gems/cloth/trash as my bag space is very limited. I do have a 28 slot mining bag that is very useful indeed. But it cant be used to hold anything other than Ore/bars and motes/primals of fire/earth.

I’m going to try to make exalted before the 1st of Jan! That’s my mission! Or at least get as close as i can!

Its going to be hard work, I only wish you could hand in ore more than once per day!! Never mind!

One of the great things about having a fast flying mount is i feel like i should be out there grinding ore!! Like last night – after an hour of grinding rep for netherwing i didn’t have much time left before i had to log so i did a couple of laps of nagrand!

I love afk horde’s flagged for pvp! Bwahahaaaa!!!

I managed to snag a lot of adamantite ore and even did a little Mote of Fire grinding in the elemental ledge as it was empty!! should have cleared the whole place really but wanted more ore!!

20 Adamantite Bars sell quite nicely!! So I’ll be throwing as much time/effort as is needed to get my friend back his 1200g! I’m hoping it wont take me too long! then i can start saving up for Gwindle’s epic flight form! I logged her this morning and had to fly somewhere quick…..*yawn* 60% flight speed sucks!!

Then i can start speed-herbing!! LOL!! Farming herbs with a druid is simple! We don’t even have to jump out of form to pick the herbs!!!

I just wanna get home and farm!!!

Anyway I’m going to kara tonight – not sure what toon I’ll take in…gwindle or fire… I don’t really need anything from the badge vendors for firelight so i think I’ll take Gwindle as she can upgrade quite a lot of her boomer gear now with gear from the badge vendor!!

Christmas Comes Early!!

By alex

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

ZOMG I’m so stuffed!! Too much food, and I’ve managed to snag my mums laptop to do some blogging and maybe get onto WoW later.

Anyway Christmas Eve i was online helping a friend take his alt through Scarlet Monastary.

Someone on the guild was asking for some advise on where to farm some signets/arcane tomes and i told them about the spot I’d found in Shadowmoon Valley. I also commented on how farming there had gotten me very close to getting my epic flyer/training.

Suddenly I got a whisper from one of the guild paladins. He asked how much gold i needed to get my flyer/training.

I told him that i only needed 1200g.

It really does amaze me how generous some people are!

He promptly loaned me the 1200g i needed and followed me to Shadowmoon Valley and i picked out my Swift Purple Griffon!

Wow!! That huge increase in speed is amazing! My friend showed me where to go to pickup the start of the Netherwing quests!!

I flew up to the Netherwing Ledge as fast as i could and got the biggest fright ever when suddenly i was transformed into an orc, and my mount into a netherdrake.

I didn’t have much time, so i did a few of the quests before signing off for Christmas!

I took a few screenies but I’m not at home so I’ll post them up tomorrow when I’m back!

Anyways enjoy the rest of your day!!

Oh and to Galo – That sword i got was this:

Crystalforged Sword

So close I can almost taste it….

By alex

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

So in just 24 short hours we’ll all be festively enjoying christmassy food, opening presents and generally having a good time!!

So with Christmas upon us, the raiding schedule is empty so I spent most of the weekend in Shadowmoon Valley!

I’ve found an awesome place to farm gold, Sunfury Signets, Netherweave cloth, Arcane Tomes, Random Greens, and even a really nice blue item!

So the reason I was living in SMV all weekend was I wanna get my epic flying mount as you know!

On friday night I had 2300g on my banker. I think I did 10/12 hours hard grinding all weekend. When I logged on earlier this morning to check what bits had sold my banker was at just under 4000g!!!

Wowee!!!! Nearly 2000g in 2 days!

It wasn’t hard either, just mind numbingly dull, but I put some music on and just ground away!
The place I was farming was where all the Sun Fury Blood Elves are Near the Black Temple. I’d go up the ramp, turn left at the top, then left again at the steps and all the way along the lower balcony to the end. Then I’d fly back to the bottom of the ramp and start again. 1 cycle would take me about 10/15 minutes so the respawn rate is really fast.

One of my guildies helped out as well! He had just completed the Shartul Transporter fight in Orgri’la and got a really nice Paladin Tanking Sword that I’d never seen before (spell damage and shield block value as well)

He linked it guild chat and I whispered him saying that it would be worth a fortune on the AH. He said did I want it!!! I was like OMG! It would help loads in my saving up for my mount, but I said no cos it would have been worth quite a lot!

He insisted and said he didn’t need the money as he had 6500g anyway! (Damn!!!)

So he posted it to me! Then I popped it on the AH, and it sold for nearly 250g!

He’s not been online since he gave it to me when I’ve been on but I will be thanking him a lot!! and will pay him back after I get my mount!

So from a money making point of view i had a very successful couple of days!!

My girlfriend has been playing a little as well over the past year, and recently has managed to get her mage from level 18 to level 24! Over the weekend I got a guildie to take her through Deadmines, Stockade, and Shadowfang Keep. While she didn’t get much in the way of XP from these instances I did manage to get a lot of quests completed for her and got her up to 26!

I have tried leveling mages before, but never managed to get past level 15, so its nice to see how over powered mages are at lower levels. It was fun actually! I quite enjoyed having so many different spells to play with on one character.

So with my Flying mount well within my grasp I’m getting excited! Then I can start clawing back the money getting exalted with netherwing and get Gwindle her epic flight form!!

Boomkin Anhiliates Gruul!!!

By alex

Oh am i a happy warcrafter this morning!!!

Last night the SSC was cancelled again due to cancellations, so we scraped together a group for Gruuls.

I was standing there logged in as Firelight summoning in people from the stone when i noticed quite a few people were on there alts!

ZOMG!!!

“Hey do you mind if i bring Gwindle my druid?”

“What spec is she?”

“She’s feral at the mo, but her best gear is Balance”

“Ok no problem – get her here!!”

So i logged out, logged on as Gwindle quickly ported to SW and respeced to Balance!

The Boomkin was back baby!!!

So off we went!

Cleared Trash to HKM.

We had to reset the 1st try as the mage tank lagged out and died so we went back in – res’d the dead and got him down this time!

Oh look!! T4 Shoulder Token for druids!!!

“Bids for T4 Shoulder token for druids”

“7″

No more Bids come in! Woohoo!!!

We go on, and take down gruul on the 2nd attempt also and then go to Ironforge for the Christmas party!

I’ll post some pics of that later!! it was proper funny!!!