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My return to WoW, a few thoughts.

usenet

10/10/2011 10:43:00 AM

Morning

3 years ago I gave up WoW, for no real reason, I just got bored. I had
a couple of L63-64s and a load of lower alts, but nothing higher.
WotLK was coming up and I hadn't come anywhere near completing BC, so it
seemed a good time to save some money and stop playing.

3 months ago (or whenever it went free to play for L20?) I had some
spare time and fired up the client to see what this Cataclysm stuff was
all about.
In that time I have levelled a Goblin Hunter from L1 to L85 (Grobbler :
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/draenor/Grobb... ), a
Tauren Priest to L52 and a couple of other lower levels. :D

A few thoughts.

Levelling is fast, very fast. I'm in a L25 guild (who seem like a good
bunch) so have that bonus, but on levelling Grobbler I was skipping
zones all over the place, and didn't do any instances, yet still hit L85
in just under 7 days played. My first L60 in vanilla took 13 days!

I started off missing the epic scale of vanilla wow, the zones felt like
zones. These days the world just feels like a huge bunch of quest hubs
linked together. I think I prefer the Cata way of doing things now, but
I do miss the sense of achievement in Vanilla WoW, when you managed to
grab all the instance quests, saved up your rest time, and spent 3 hours
in Wailing Caverns, on a full run, which gave you a full bar of XP! :D

PvP is still as fun as ever. The L70 epic PvP gear is really good stuff
and I was still using most of it at L80. The rest of the gear is pretty
worthless until L85 though.
Hunter at L85 PvP is pretty poor though, basically cannon fodder. Even
MM spec I don't really have any burst damage to speak of, but i'm having
fun with traps and camouflage defence of flags :)

The dungeon finder is great, even if some of the pugs players are just
plain awful. I'm running my priest to L85 purely by instancing. I have
the pvp shoudler heirloom, and the cape and head guild heirloom on him,
and in combination with the blue drops from instances, he is pretty well
geared for his level,
(http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/draenor/Moo... )
so healing is a cakewalk in the main. Apart from when you get a poor
tank... Obviously it is always my fault when we wipe!
Not sure how long I can carry on instancing all the way. I am throwing
in a few pvp games along the way, but I suspect BC and WotLK might be a
bit more of a chore purely dungeon running.
I've just started running BRD in the dungeon finder, too bloody long
these days, and a bit of a mess, but I hadn't seen it before so it was
nice to visit. Be glad when I level past it though.

Started on some rep grinds, and have a couple at exalted, but finding
them a bit boring, might carry on, or might give up and just do PvP at
L85.

Anyway, if you see me running around on EE-Draenor, give me a wave :)

T.
55 Answers

Neil Cerutti

10/10/2011 11:49:00 AM

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On 2011-10-10, Trooper <usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> Levelling is fast, very fast. I'm in a L25 guild (who seem
> like a good bunch) so have that bonus, but on levelling
> Grobbler I was skipping zones all over the place, and didn't do
> any instances, yet still hit L85 in just under 7 days played.
> My first L60 in vanilla took 13 days!

Solo questing is the flat-out fastest way to level unless you are
using a Recruit-A-Friend triple XP bonus, in which case
chain-runing instances is faster. Leveling slows down at 60
somewhat, and again at 70. Although they'll be cutting the level
70 grind by one third or something when 4.3 is installed.

> I started off missing the epic scale of vanilla wow, the zones
> felt like zones. These days the world just feels like a huge
> bunch of quest hubs linked together. I think I prefer the Cata
> way of doing things now, but I do miss the sense of achievement
> in Vanilla WoW, when you managed to grab all the instance
> quests, saved up your rest time, and spent 3 hours in Wailing
> Caverns, on a full run, which gave you a full bar of XP! :D

Part of that is surely nostalgia, but yeah, the smooth and slick
questing is a big change. And it does feel mighty weird to
abandon a zone with quests undone, especially now that you
definitely miss story segments that way. In the old world,
running both Loch Modan and Westfall at the same time didn't seem
that strange. Right now it would feel kinda like two different TV
shows. On the other hand, Loch Modan is one of the zones that
still feels kinda old school. Dustwallow March is basically
unchanged as well.

> PvP is still as fun as ever. The L70 epic PvP gear is really
> good stuff and I was still using most of it at L80. The rest
> of the gear is pretty worthless until L85 though. Hunter at L85
> PvP is pretty poor though, basically cannon fodder. Even MM
> spec I don't really have any burst damage to speak of, but i'm
> having fun with traps and camouflage defence of flags :)

I haven't dipped my toe into level 85 PVP yet, but I'm working my
way up to it.


> Started on some rep grinds, and have a couple at exalted, but
> finding them a bit boring, might carry on, or might give up and
> just do PvP at L85.

There are a few you are obliged to get (the ones for your
shoulder and head enchants), but otherwise you can skip it, I
think.

> Anyway, if you see me running around on EE-Draenor, give me a wave :)

May the fun continue!

--
Neil Cerutti
"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."
e. e. cummings

usenet

10/10/2011 11:58:00 AM

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Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:

> On 2011-10-10, Trooper <usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> > Levelling is fast, very fast. I'm in a L25 guild (who seem
> > like a good bunch) so have that bonus, but on levelling
> > Grobbler I was skipping zones all over the place, and didn't do
> > any instances, yet still hit L85 in just under 7 days played.
> > My first L60 in vanilla took 13 days!
>
> Solo questing is the flat-out fastest way to level unless you are
> using a Recruit-A-Friend triple XP bonus, in which case
> chain-runing instances is faster. Leveling slows down at 60
> somewhat, and again at 70. Although they'll be cutting the level
> 70 grind by one third or something when 4.3 is installed.

True, but it feels longer that way, or to me it does. I find an hour in
pvp or instances goes much quicker than an hour questing.
I'm glad i've gone through the Cata world that way at least once, but a
mixture os always best in terms of speed feel, as opposed to outright
speed IMO.

>
> > I started off missing the epic scale of vanilla wow, the zones
> > felt like zones. These days the world just feels like a huge
> > bunch of quest hubs linked together. I think I prefer the Cata
> > way of doing things now, but I do miss the sense of achievement
> > in Vanilla WoW, when you managed to grab all the instance
> > quests, saved up your rest time, and spent 3 hours in Wailing
> > Caverns, on a full run, which gave you a full bar of XP! :D
>
> Part of that is surely nostalgia, but yeah, the smooth and slick
> questing is a big change. And it does feel mighty weird to
> abandon a zone with quests undone, especially now that you
> definitely miss story segments that way. In the old world,
> running both Loch Modan and Westfall at the same time didn't seem
> that strange. Right now it would feel kinda like two different TV
> shows. On the other hand, Loch Modan is one of the zones that
> still feels kinda old school. Dustwallow March is basically
> unchanged as well.
>

Definitely nostalgia talking. I remember my first run to TB from Org on
my first character took 45 minutes! Wouldn't want to do that again.


> > PvP is still as fun as ever. The L70 epic PvP gear is really
> > good stuff and I was still using most of it at L80. The rest
> > of the gear is pretty worthless until L85 though. Hunter at L85
> > PvP is pretty poor though, basically cannon fodder. Even MM
> > spec I don't really have any burst damage to speak of, but i'm
> > having fun with traps and camouflage defence of flags :)
>
> I haven't dipped my toe into level 85 PVP yet, but I'm working my
> way up to it.
>

I was never a fan of PvP first time round, my opinion was tainted from
the gankfest of my first character server, which was PvP. Now i'm on a
PvE server and can choose to do PvP on my own terms, I love it :) Its a
completely different game to PvE though.

>
> > Started on some rep grinds, and have a couple at exalted, but
> > finding them a bit boring, might carry on, or might give up and
> > just do PvP at L85.
>
> There are a few you are obliged to get (the ones for your
> shoulder and head enchants), but otherwise you can skip it, I
> think.

I've got the PVP shoulder enchant, and am working on Therazane at the
moment. Hyjal gave me some nice boots though...

>
> > Anyway, if you see me running around on EE-Draenor, give me a wave :)
>
> May the fun continue!

Indeed!

T.

S U N risr

10/10/2011 12:21:00 PM

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>
>> Started on some rep grinds, and have a couple at exalted, but
>> finding them a bit boring, might carry on, or might give up and
>> just do PvP at L85.
>
> There are a few you are obliged to get (the ones for your
> shoulder and head enchants), but otherwise you can skip it, I
> think.
>

True - If you do anything rep wise, you need to get deepholm. That's
your shoulder enchants, then depending on your class, one of the others.

Hyjal rep is the quickest now, just by running the fireland dailies.
Deepholm and highland rep are easy as well as there are a bunch of
dailies there. Uldam is a slow grind with two dailies and I don't think
earthen ring has any.

Tabbards are your friend for rep grind in instances. :)

Speaking of which - One dumb thing I've always noticed in game, but
never saw mentioned anywhere. What's the point in having a full
exalted bar? I mean, I'm running a dungeon or grinding dailies and I
hit exalted. The second I do, I switch tabbards, even in the middle of
a run. My rep bars say "exalted" but are only like 100 points in or
close to it, as I stop earning rep. What's the benefit or point in
earning that 999 points of rep in exalted? Shouldn't it just checkmark
fill in the whole bar once you hit exalted? Unless I missing something
important about having a full exalted bar. Once your exalted, your
exalted....Never quite got that.

Neil Cerutti

10/10/2011 12:21:00 PM

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On 2011-10-10, IYM <"S U N risr"@optonline.net> wrote:
> Speaking of which - One dumb thing I've always noticed in game,
> but never saw mentioned anywhere. What's the point in having
> a full exalted bar? I mean, I'm running a dungeon or grinding
> dailies and I hit exalted. The second I do, I switch tabbards,
> even in the middle of a run. My rep bars say "exalted" but are
> only like 100 points in or close to it, as I stop earning rep.
> What's the benefit or point in earning that 999 points of rep
> in exalted? Shouldn't it just checkmark fill in the whole bar
> once you hit exalted? Unless I missing something important
> about having a full exalted bar. Once your exalted, your
> exalted....Never quite got that.

Since I've been maxing city reps for the Crusader title I've been
thinking about that, too.

I believe it might be possible to lose Exhalted level for reps
that can go up and down, though you probably wouldn't not lose
achievements. So the 999 might act as a buffer of sorts. It's
still weird.

--
Neil Cerutti

Catriona R

10/10/2011 1:10:00 PM

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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:42:40 +0100, usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid
(Trooper) wrote:

>Levelling is fast, very fast. I'm in a L25 guild (who seem like a good
>bunch) so have that bonus, but on levelling Grobbler I was skipping
>zones all over the place, and didn't do any instances, yet still hit L85
>in just under 7 days played. My first L60 in vanilla took 13 days!

Yeah it sure is fast now, a shame for me when I love questing, I keep
having to turn exp off so I can finish a zone before it goes green!
Fantastic for the people who think "the game begins at 85" and want to
get there asap, for the rest of us it's more of an annoyance tbh. I
like making progress, sure, it's nice to feel I'm getting somewhere,
but sometimes it feels rather too fast.

>I started off missing the epic scale of vanilla wow, the zones felt like
>zones. These days the world just feels like a huge bunch of quest hubs
>linked together. I think I prefer the Cata way of doing things now, but
>I do miss the sense of achievement in Vanilla WoW, when you managed to
>grab all the instance quests, saved up your rest time, and spent 3 hours
>in Wailing Caverns, on a full run, which gave you a full bar of XP! :D

Hehe think that's partly nostalgia. I did love vanilla at the time,
how massive and epic the world felt, how you had to run around
everywhere to level up, but I can see why it needed sped up now the
level cap is 25 levels higher than it used to be. I think it's a bit
too fast in places, but it's certainly better than it used to be. Not
10% convinced by the levelling flow where you can't skip quests out or
else you have to leave the zone though, that's a little too rigid and
lacking choice of a levelling path. The zone-wide storytelling which
results is usually very good though, I'll forgive the lack of choice
in zones like Stonetalon, Silverpine, Hillsbrad etc - they could never
have put such great storylines in under the old questing system.

>The dungeon finder is great, even if some of the pugs players are just
>plain awful. I'm running my priest to L85 purely by instancing. I have
>the pvp shoudler heirloom, and the cape and head guild heirloom on him,
>and in combination with the blue drops from instances, he is pretty well
>geared for his level,
>(http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/draenor/Moo... )
>so healing is a cakewalk in the main. Apart from when you get a poor
>tank... Obviously it is always my fault when we wipe!

Of course! :-) I did that a year or two back, had a priest levelling
via instancing, not only was every death or wipe my fault, but it was
even (apparently) my fault for "dpsing" when I got aggro from the adds
the tank hadn't touched, when I healed the tank! Sometimes I think it
should be compulsory for everyone to experience more than one role so
they actually understand what the heck is going on instead of just
criticising :-P

>Not sure how long I can carry on instancing all the way. I am throwing
>in a few pvp games along the way, but I suspect BC and WotLK might be a
>bit more of a chore purely dungeon running.

Guess it depends how many of them you've experienced before - WotLK
has some pretty good dungeons that are worth seeing at least once. You
probably won't get to see the later additions since they're lvl 80 and
dungeon finder folks will be looking at Cataclysm dungeons by then,
but the earlier ones aren't bad either. Thankfully they're tuned
relatively easy so terrible players can usually still get through them
lol.

>I've just started running BRD in the dungeon finder, too bloody long
>these days, and a bit of a mess, but I hadn't seen it before so it was
>nice to visit. Be glad when I level past it though.
>
>Started on some rep grinds, and have a couple at exalted, but finding
>them a bit boring, might carry on, or might give up and just do PvP at
>L85.

Tol Barad rep is worth doing for the weapons, if you're not doing
raids or anything else likely to give you one. And as other have said,
Deephlm plus whatever faction gives your head enchant are also
worthwhile (I love being a caster there, get revered just questing
Hyjal, no further action needed :-))

>Anyway, if you see me running around on EE-Draenor, give me a wave :)

/wave :-)
--
EU-Draenor:
Sagart (85 Undead Priest)
Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (85 Troll Shaman)
Eilnich (85 Blood Elf Warlock)
Balgair (80 Human Rogue)
Ruire (80 Blood Elf Paladin)

usenet

10/10/2011 1:31:00 PM

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Catriona R <catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:42:40 +0100, usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid
> (Trooper) wrote:
>
> >Levelling is fast, very fast. I'm in a L25 guild (who seem like a good
> >bunch) so have that bonus, but on levelling Grobbler I was skipping
> >zones all over the place, and didn't do any instances, yet still hit L85
> >in just under 7 days played. My first L60 in vanilla took 13 days!
>
> Yeah it sure is fast now, a shame for me when I love questing, I keep
> having to turn exp off so I can finish a zone before it goes green!
> Fantastic for the people who think "the game begins at 85" and want to
> get there asap, for the rest of us it's more of an annoyance tbh. I
> like making progress, sure, it's nice to feel I'm getting somewhere,
> but sometimes it feels rather too fast.
>

I've enjoyed doing the Cata zones while at L85, just finished Twighlight
and about to go do Vash as I skipped that. Good source of cash too!


>
> >The dungeon finder is great, even if some of the pugs players are just
> >plain awful. I'm running my priest to L85 purely by instancing. I have
> >the pvp shoudler heirloom, and the cape and head guild heirloom on him,
> >and in combination with the blue drops from instances, he is pretty well
> >geared for his level,
> >(http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/draenor/Moo... )
> >so healing is a cakewalk in the main. Apart from when you get a poor
> >tank... Obviously it is always my fault when we wipe!
>
> Of course! :-) I did that a year or two back, had a priest levelling
> via instancing, not only was every death or wipe my fault, but it was
> even (apparently) my fault for "dpsing" when I got aggro from the adds
> the tank hadn't touched, when I healed the tank! Sometimes I think it
> should be compulsory for everyone to experience more than one role so
> they actually understand what the heck is going on instead of just
> criticising :-P
>

Had a tank last night who was pulling way too much and we barely
survived one of the pulls. I asked him to be a bit less gung ho and he
asked what the problem was :) I said that if he had pulled just one
more mob we would have wiped. His answer? "That's why I didn't pull
another one" :D So he somehow knew I could handle 10 mobs, but 11 was
one too many... I just laughed at him and carried on. We wiped twice,
but completed it in the end.

Also, had a great mage in the last group of the night. Bitching at the
disc priest who had joined as a DPS about how he should be shadow if he
wants to do DPS. Ignoring the fact that the priest was 2.5 times his
damage on the meter :) Add to that he would pull random mobs, call for
a heal, then ice barrier(?) after he got it. Genius... :D

> >I've just started running BRD in the dungeon finder, too bloody long
> >these days, and a bit of a mess, but I hadn't seen it before so it was
> >nice to visit. Be glad when I level past it though.
> >
> >Started on some rep grinds, and have a couple at exalted, but finding
> >them a bit boring, might carry on, or might give up and just do PvP at
> >L85.
>
> Tol Barad rep is worth doing for the weapons, if you're not doing
> raids or anything else likely to give you one. And as other have said,
> Deephlm plus whatever faction gives your head enchant are also
> worthwhile (I love being a caster there, get revered just questing
> Hyjal, no further action needed :-))

I've done a bit of Tol Barad, but I always miss the pvp battle. I
generally only do the quests if i'm there for the battle, there is
something I just don't like about the zone. I suspect it is that I
can't fly...

T.

Catriona R

10/10/2011 2:14:00 PM

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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:31:01 +0100, usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid
(Trooper) wrote:

>Catriona R <catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:42:40 +0100, usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid
>> (Trooper) wrote:
>>
>> >Levelling is fast, very fast. I'm in a L25 guild (who seem like a good
>> >bunch) so have that bonus, but on levelling Grobbler I was skipping
>> >zones all over the place, and didn't do any instances, yet still hit L85
>> >in just under 7 days played. My first L60 in vanilla took 13 days!
>>
>> Yeah it sure is fast now, a shame for me when I love questing, I keep
>> having to turn exp off so I can finish a zone before it goes green!
>> Fantastic for the people who think "the game begins at 85" and want to
>> get there asap, for the rest of us it's more of an annoyance tbh. I
>> like making progress, sure, it's nice to feel I'm getting somewhere,
>> but sometimes it feels rather too fast.
>>
>
>I've enjoyed doing the Cata zones while at L85, just finished Twighlight
>and about to go do Vash as I skipped that. Good source of cash too!

Sure is, Im loving actually having money on my high lvl characters,
usually it's only my main who's got much money but questing is really
nice cash now :-)

>Had a tank last night who was pulling way too much and we barely
>survived one of the pulls. I asked him to be a bit less gung ho and he
>asked what the problem was :) I said that if he had pulled just one
>more mob we would have wiped. His answer? "That's why I didn't pull
>another one" :D So he somehow knew I could handle 10 mobs, but 11 was
>one too many... I just laughed at him and carried on. We wiped twice,
>but completed it in the end.

Lol, at least that was a funny one, think I'd have just laughed too
:-)

>Also, had a great mage in the last group of the night. Bitching at the
>disc priest who had joined as a DPS about how he should be shadow if he
>wants to do DPS. Ignoring the fact that the priest was 2.5 times his
>damage on the meter :) Add to that he would pull random mobs, call for
>a heal, then ice barrier(?) after he got it. Genius... :D

Argh, the joy :-P Reminds me of a boomkin I had in a group at 80,
bitching the entire run about the deathknight who'd joined,
newly-dinged in blues and greens with a few tanking pieces still on.
Now this was at a time where frankly you could duo those instances
with a healer and tank and no dps, and the DK was putting out a
healthy 4.5k dps despite his not-amazing gear (maybe not high but I've
seen 85s doing worse). Boomkin meanwhile was spending so much time
typing and not fighting that the DK outdamaged him....

>> >I've just started running BRD in the dungeon finder, too bloody long
>> >these days, and a bit of a mess, but I hadn't seen it before so it was
>> >nice to visit. Be glad when I level past it though.
>> >
>> >Started on some rep grinds, and have a couple at exalted, but finding
>> >them a bit boring, might carry on, or might give up and just do PvP at
>> >L85.
>>
>> Tol Barad rep is worth doing for the weapons, if you're not doing
>> raids or anything else likely to give you one. And as other have said,
>> Deephlm plus whatever faction gives your head enchant are also
>> worthwhile (I love being a caster there, get revered just questing
>> Hyjal, no further action needed :-))
>
>I've done a bit of Tol Barad, but I always miss the pvp battle. I
>generally only do the quests if i'm there for the battle, there is
>something I just don't like about the zone. I suspect it is that I
>can't fly...

I probably shouldn't give this away when you're on my server but
there's one very good thing about that zone - the fish pools ;-)
Fathom Eels when cooked currently sell around 8g *per fish*, since
most folk who used to fish there stopped when Molten Front came out,
including me tbh but I'm picking up fishing on my alts for those pools
alone! The downside is you really need some form of water walking
unless you can be bothered fighting off respawning mobs on top of you
constantly, my priest and shaman are fine, druid found it a pain and I
didn't bother trying on my warlock. Very easy money though :-)
--
EU-Draenor:
Sagart (85 Undead Priest)
Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (85 Troll Shaman)
Eilnich (85 Blood Elf Warlock)
Balgair (80 Human Rogue)
Ruire (80 Blood Elf Paladin)

usenet

10/10/2011 2:32:00 PM

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Catriona R <catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:31:01 +0100, usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid
> (Trooper) wrote:
>
>
> >Also, had a great mage in the last group of the night. Bitching at the
> >disc priest who had joined as a DPS about how he should be shadow if he
> >wants to do DPS. Ignoring the fact that the priest was 2.5 times his
> >damage on the meter :) Add to that he would pull random mobs, call for
> >a heal, then ice barrier(?) after he got it. Genius... :D
>
> Argh, the joy :-P Reminds me of a boomkin I had in a group at 80,
> bitching the entire run about the deathknight who'd joined,
> newly-dinged in blues and greens with a few tanking pieces still on.
> Now this was at a time where frankly you could duo those instances
> with a healer and tank and no dps, and the DK was putting out a
> healthy 4.5k dps despite his not-amazing gear (maybe not high but I've
> seen 85s doing worse). Boomkin meanwhile was spending so much time
> typing and not fighting that the DK outdamaged him....
>

Add to that, he pulled, called for a heal, ran out of my LOS then
bitched at me when he died. Before I had a chance to reply, someone
else in the group piped up "dude, you pulled 4 mobs, expect to die..."
:D So very rare that you get people sticking up for you in groups these
days, most just want to go through as quick and quietly as possible.

> >
> >I've done a bit of Tol Barad, but I always miss the pvp battle. I
> >generally only do the quests if i'm there for the battle, there is
> >something I just don't like about the zone. I suspect it is that I
> >can't fly...
>
> I probably shouldn't give this away when you're on my server but
> there's one very good thing about that zone - the fish pools ;-)
> Fathom Eels when cooked currently sell around 8g *per fish*, since
> most folk who used to fish there stopped when Molten Front came out,
> including me tbh but I'm picking up fishing on my alts for those pools
> alone! The downside is you really need some form of water walking
> unless you can be bothered fighting off respawning mobs on top of you
> constantly, my priest and shaman are fine, druid found it a pain and I
> didn't bother trying on my warlock. Very easy money though :-)

Heh, i've never bothered with fishing, but I might start now ;)

In return, another nice little earner, in Duskwood in one the catacombs
(I think it is Mordant Fel?) there are a huge amount of ghouls who drop
wool, who respawn faster than you can kill them all as long as you don't
kill the elite mob inside. You'll spend more time looting than killing.
In 30 minutes I picked up about 100-150 wool, which goes for about 30g a
stack.
I'm currently using the wool to level tailoring on my priest, but i'll
probably be back at some point to get more :D

T.

Catriona R

10/10/2011 2:54:00 PM

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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:32:00 +0100, usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid
(Trooper) wrote:

>Catriona R <catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:31:01 +0100, usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid
>> (Trooper) wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Also, had a great mage in the last group of the night. Bitching at the
>> >disc priest who had joined as a DPS about how he should be shadow if he
>> >wants to do DPS. Ignoring the fact that the priest was 2.5 times his
>> >damage on the meter :) Add to that he would pull random mobs, call for
>> >a heal, then ice barrier(?) after he got it. Genius... :D
>>
>> Argh, the joy :-P Reminds me of a boomkin I had in a group at 80,
>> bitching the entire run about the deathknight who'd joined,
>> newly-dinged in blues and greens with a few tanking pieces still on.
>> Now this was at a time where frankly you could duo those instances
>> with a healer and tank and no dps, and the DK was putting out a
>> healthy 4.5k dps despite his not-amazing gear (maybe not high but I've
>> seen 85s doing worse). Boomkin meanwhile was spending so much time
>> typing and not fighting that the DK outdamaged him....
>>
>
>Add to that, he pulled, called for a heal, ran out of my LOS then
>bitched at me when he died. Before I had a chance to reply, someone
>else in the group piped up "dude, you pulled 4 mobs, expect to die..."
>:D So very rare that you get people sticking up for you in groups these
>days, most just want to go through as quick and quietly as possible.

Heh glad you had someone to stand up for you, feels a lot better when
that happens :-) Always wish I was quick-thinking enough in those
situations to come up with something like "I'm a healer, not a miracle
worker, if you wanna tank get some plate or fur" :-P

>> >I've done a bit of Tol Barad, but I always miss the pvp battle. I
>> >generally only do the quests if i'm there for the battle, there is
>> >something I just don't like about the zone. I suspect it is that I
>> >can't fly...
>>
>> I probably shouldn't give this away when you're on my server but
>> there's one very good thing about that zone - the fish pools ;-)
>> Fathom Eels when cooked currently sell around 8g *per fish*, since
>> most folk who used to fish there stopped when Molten Front came out,
>> including me tbh but I'm picking up fishing on my alts for those pools
>> alone! The downside is you really need some form of water walking
>> unless you can be bothered fighting off respawning mobs on top of you
>> constantly, my priest and shaman are fine, druid found it a pain and I
>> didn't bother trying on my warlock. Very easy money though :-)
>
>Heh, i've never bothered with fishing, but I might start now ;)

I used to only bother on one character but it's such nice money it
felt very worthwhile picking up fishing on my alts that were running
those quests :-)

>In return, another nice little earner, in Duskwood in one the catacombs
>(I think it is Mordant Fel?) there are a huge amount of ghouls who drop
>wool, who respawn faster than you can kill them all as long as you don't
>kill the elite mob inside. You'll spend more time looting than killing.
>In 30 minutes I picked up about 100-150 wool, which goes for about 30g a
>stack.
>I'm currently using the wool to level tailoring on my priest, but i'll
>probably be back at some point to get more :D

That sounds good indeed! I'll remember that whenever I want wool (or
gold!) on my alts then, thanks for the tip!
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Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
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Eilnich (85 Blood Elf Warlock)
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Ruire (80 Blood Elf Paladin)

usenet

10/10/2011 2:59:00 PM

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Catriona R <catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:32:00 +0100, usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid
> (Trooper) wrote:
>
> >Catriona R <catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> >
>
> I used to only bother on one character but it's such nice money it
> felt very worthwhile picking up fishing on my alts that were running
> those quests :-)
>
> >In return, another nice little earner, in Duskwood in one the catacombs
> >(I think it is Mordant Fel?) there are a huge amount of ghouls who drop
> >wool, who respawn faster than you can kill them all as long as you don't
> >kill the elite mob inside. You'll spend more time looting than killing.
> >In 30 minutes I picked up about 100-150 wool, which goes for about 30g a
> >stack.
> >I'm currently using the wool to level tailoring on my priest, but i'll
> >probably be back at some point to get more :D
>
> That sounds good indeed! I'll remember that whenever I want wool (or
> gold!) on my alts then, thanks for the tip!

Just need to find an equivalent for silk now, hardly ever see that on
the AH for some reason.

T.