Hey all, sorry for not posting for a while, I got a bit carried away with gold farming and was able to purchase my level 300 riding skill on Saturday! Yes that is right, in ONE week I raised 5000g, needless to say I really don't want to see any more Felweed, Dreaming Glory, Fel Lotus or Adamantite Ore
for a long time! I take that back, the herbs I will continue to farm because Swift Flight Form makes it SO easy.
In addition to all the loot I got while doing the Flight Form chain, since Wednesday I have added the following gear, Gargon's Bracers of Peaceful Slumber and Mitts of the Treemender. I still have a few greens on my toon, but I am working hard of finally replacing them, the goal is to have all purples by the end of August, so very obtainable. As far as Druiding goes nothing else really has been going on. I will try to think of another guide to post/something interesting about WotLK here soon.
-Zeffy
Monday, July 28, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Epic Mount
Yes, getting the Epic Mount is the pinnacle of any level 70 but to a druid it means so much more. We get the sexy Swift Flight Form!
/hawt
So loving to farm, I have been doing mining and herb circuits like a mad man. Right now I am making roughly 300g a day from posting these mats in the AH before going to bed. Not bad, add on my 150g a day from dailys and I am on pace to have my mount by July 31st (taking into account the 2000g I have farmed since Friday, yes I had 38s to my name Friday morning). Just in time for a nice birthday present to me! I will need to farm for Lower City Rep as well, not only for Lower City Prayerbook, but so then I can do the final quests in the chain. Getting two Prayerbook's will increase my +heals by 60, good stuff and the rep is not that hard to farm, esp on heroic when I can farm for badges as well.
The 5000g price tag seems like a lot at first, but its totally doable. The best advice I can give is STOP BUYING SHIT!!! Yeah I know you want that gem, but do you really need to spend 600g on it right now? no you really don't, there are other options as far as acquiring the gem. Most quality gems are available to purchase via Badges, so get going. One full run through Kara will net you more then enough Badges of Justice to buy it from the vendor. It might seem cruel not spending money, but if you do it right it will only take two weeks, and in the grand scheme of things that is well worth it.
Here are some helpful tips that everyone can use, no mater their professions (unless you play on the Misha server, if I see you doing this on my server I will find you and rape your dog. just kidding... or am I?)
1. Loot EVERYTHING. Even grey items they do have value at the vendor, even if you sell it for 1s that 1s more towards your goal and like your mom always said pocket change adds up.
2 a. Get to know common AH values. Some people just don't understand how the AH works and to me this is mind baffling. I have made good money in the past scanning the AH looking for items that are way under priced, bid on them and then resell them at a higher price. This is just like the real world buy and sell, you might be making 30s per flip, but that is 30s you did not have to work for.
2 b. Get to know common vendor values. Sometimes you can sell something for more to a vendor then you can in the AH, this applies from greys to greens, mostly greys and whites. while scanning you might see that someone placed Netherweave Cloth for some ridiculously low price. BID on it, don't buy it. If you win the auction don't even think twice and sell it to the vendor. Obviously there is no demand for that mat at this point on your server so why waste your money trying to repost it on the AH. Sell it and get your money! You could always do what I call the Rabbit Hoard method. Win it and put in in your bank and take it out once you realize there is a high demand for that particular item. This method yields the biggest return, but it requires a trained eye in the AH
3. Run alts through instances. People with alts just want to level their toon quick. and while you are spending your time at the AH pay attention to trade talk. Sometimes you will see that someone is offering up 10g for a run trough Stocks/Dead Mines. DO IT. these runs are easy and its free money. Greens will drop and if the dude is not a dick you can roll for them too and sell those in the AH. Twinks need gear too, remember?
4. Solo lower level instances. There is money in lower instances and you just don't realize it. Instances drop a lot of greens, greens that Alts love to buy. Make money off their laziness do the grind work and you will be rewarded. Remember here I am a Resto Druid with no other sets of armor. If I can do it you have no excuses.
5. Become a cheep ass. Don't buy water, beg your Mage friend to make some for you. your ONLY expense should be repairing armor during this grind. everything else is a luxury. You don't need to buy pots through the AH, do dailys that reward pots, they gotta come from somewhere.
6. Do Daily's. Daily's net between 10-20g per quest. Its easy money and easy rep, two things that every player wants to have more of. Grab a buddy and you can fly through 10 daily's in an hour, especially the Isle daily's.
7. Set goals. I can not tell you how important this one is. Don't set yourself into the mind set of I need 5000g NOW. break it up. A good goal would be, "today I want to make 200g from daily's and 200g in the AH" by doing that it makes the task less daunting.
8. Have fun. This might seem obvious, but a lot of people treat WoW like it's a job. Remember this is after all just a game. If you don't get your mount in two weeks, who cares? all that matters is that your are having fun! So get out there and I will see you in the skys
-Zeffy
/hawtSo loving to farm, I have been doing mining and herb circuits like a mad man. Right now I am making roughly 300g a day from posting these mats in the AH before going to bed. Not bad, add on my 150g a day from dailys and I am on pace to have my mount by July 31st (taking into account the 2000g I have farmed since Friday, yes I had 38s to my name Friday morning). Just in time for a nice birthday present to me! I will need to farm for Lower City Rep as well, not only for Lower City Prayerbook, but so then I can do the final quests in the chain. Getting two Prayerbook's will increase my +heals by 60, good stuff and the rep is not that hard to farm, esp on heroic when I can farm for badges as well.
The 5000g price tag seems like a lot at first, but its totally doable. The best advice I can give is STOP BUYING SHIT!!! Yeah I know you want that gem, but do you really need to spend 600g on it right now? no you really don't, there are other options as far as acquiring the gem. Most quality gems are available to purchase via Badges, so get going. One full run through Kara will net you more then enough Badges of Justice to buy it from the vendor. It might seem cruel not spending money, but if you do it right it will only take two weeks, and in the grand scheme of things that is well worth it.
Here are some helpful tips that everyone can use, no mater their professions (unless you play on the Misha server, if I see you doing this on my server I will find you and rape your dog. just kidding... or am I?)
1. Loot EVERYTHING. Even grey items they do have value at the vendor, even if you sell it for 1s that 1s more towards your goal and like your mom always said pocket change adds up.
2 a. Get to know common AH values. Some people just don't understand how the AH works and to me this is mind baffling. I have made good money in the past scanning the AH looking for items that are way under priced, bid on them and then resell them at a higher price. This is just like the real world buy and sell, you might be making 30s per flip, but that is 30s you did not have to work for.
2 b. Get to know common vendor values. Sometimes you can sell something for more to a vendor then you can in the AH, this applies from greys to greens, mostly greys and whites. while scanning you might see that someone placed Netherweave Cloth for some ridiculously low price. BID on it, don't buy it. If you win the auction don't even think twice and sell it to the vendor. Obviously there is no demand for that mat at this point on your server so why waste your money trying to repost it on the AH. Sell it and get your money! You could always do what I call the Rabbit Hoard method. Win it and put in in your bank and take it out once you realize there is a high demand for that particular item. This method yields the biggest return, but it requires a trained eye in the AH
3. Run alts through instances. People with alts just want to level their toon quick. and while you are spending your time at the AH pay attention to trade talk. Sometimes you will see that someone is offering up 10g for a run trough Stocks/Dead Mines. DO IT. these runs are easy and its free money. Greens will drop and if the dude is not a dick you can roll for them too and sell those in the AH. Twinks need gear too, remember?
4. Solo lower level instances. There is money in lower instances and you just don't realize it. Instances drop a lot of greens, greens that Alts love to buy. Make money off their laziness do the grind work and you will be rewarded. Remember here I am a Resto Druid with no other sets of armor. If I can do it you have no excuses.
5. Become a cheep ass. Don't buy water, beg your Mage friend to make some for you. your ONLY expense should be repairing armor during this grind. everything else is a luxury. You don't need to buy pots through the AH, do dailys that reward pots, they gotta come from somewhere.
6. Do Daily's. Daily's net between 10-20g per quest. Its easy money and easy rep, two things that every player wants to have more of. Grab a buddy and you can fly through 10 daily's in an hour, especially the Isle daily's.
7. Set goals. I can not tell you how important this one is. Don't set yourself into the mind set of I need 5000g NOW. break it up. A good goal would be, "today I want to make 200g from daily's and 200g in the AH" by doing that it makes the task less daunting.
8. Have fun. This might seem obvious, but a lot of people treat WoW like it's a job. Remember this is after all just a game. If you don't get your mount in two weeks, who cares? all that matters is that your are having fun! So get out there and I will see you in the skys
-Zeffy
Monday, July 21, 2008
Understanding WotLK: Part 1 of ?
I like most you other trees have been drooling over the new talents that are coming with WotLK later this year. I have been reading what everyone has been getting excited about, and it has surprised me that this has not come up much. I am speaking about the aura we have while in ToL.
In Burning Crusade we gain these benefits while in ToL
25% of spirit bonus healing to all party members, speed and mana cost down by 20%
In WotLK this form will take on a bit of a change.
The line that I would like to talk about is in the third yellow one. Notice how it says party and RAID members? This is HUGE and does not seem to be causing much of a buzz.
I am just starting to experience end game BC so most of this is coming from speculation. I noticed just this past Saturday as I was finishing up the Kara run with the guild that my aura was not affecting members in the other group. To me this seemed like a waste. We speced this way to maximize our healing, and if the Aura was only acting like a buff to the four others in our group. That means during a raid anywhere between 5-20 people are not gaining the buff of increased healing received. From a purely physical stand point this does not make seem to follow any sort of logic. How can an Aura just go, Him? no screw him, he is not in my group so I will not benefit him, but will travel halfway across the map to get that guy!
I was placed in the same group as another Resto Druid and I noticed something interesting as well, our Aura's stacked! this means that the other three people in our group were getting two + healing buffs! I have never seen my Lifebloom so powerful, I don't think I even casted one Rejuvenation on a fellow party member.
Now imagine endgame of WotLK and your guild is on a 25 man, wouldn't you want at least four trees with you, allowing for four stacks of the aura to build up on the raid? The amount of + healing received would be HUGE! Stick a Shadow Priest in with the other four druids and you will have an insanely mana efficient healing brigade. And now that trees can cast all healing spells in this form, you can divvy up the healing assignments, lets say three trees dedicated to HoT's and the other in charge of any long cast time healing such as Healing Touch or Regrowth. This group would be nicknamed of course HoT Domination (patent pending).
Ohh I can not wait for WotLK to come out, but until then i will be reading up as much as I can, and performing /drool at just about every single opportunity
-Zeffy
In Burning Crusade we gain these benefits while in ToL
25% of spirit bonus healing to all party members, speed and mana cost down by 20%
In WotLK this form will take on a bit of a change.
The line that I would like to talk about is in the third yellow one. Notice how it says party and RAID members? This is HUGE and does not seem to be causing much of a buzz.
I am just starting to experience end game BC so most of this is coming from speculation. I noticed just this past Saturday as I was finishing up the Kara run with the guild that my aura was not affecting members in the other group. To me this seemed like a waste. We speced this way to maximize our healing, and if the Aura was only acting like a buff to the four others in our group. That means during a raid anywhere between 5-20 people are not gaining the buff of increased healing received. From a purely physical stand point this does not make seem to follow any sort of logic. How can an Aura just go, Him? no screw him, he is not in my group so I will not benefit him, but will travel halfway across the map to get that guy!
I was placed in the same group as another Resto Druid and I noticed something interesting as well, our Aura's stacked! this means that the other three people in our group were getting two + healing buffs! I have never seen my Lifebloom so powerful, I don't think I even casted one Rejuvenation on a fellow party member.
Now imagine endgame of WotLK and your guild is on a 25 man, wouldn't you want at least four trees with you, allowing for four stacks of the aura to build up on the raid? The amount of + healing received would be HUGE! Stick a Shadow Priest in with the other four druids and you will have an insanely mana efficient healing brigade. And now that trees can cast all healing spells in this form, you can divvy up the healing assignments, lets say three trees dedicated to HoT's and the other in charge of any long cast time healing such as Healing Touch or Regrowth. This group would be nicknamed of course HoT Domination (patent pending).
Ohh I can not wait for WotLK to come out, but until then i will be reading up as much as I can, and performing /drool at just about every single opportunity
-Zeffy
Weekend fun
This weekend started off with me getting pretty drunk and seeing the Dark Knight. In case you have not seen it yet I will not say anything other then I was disappointed with the lack of screen time with my favorite villain, Two-Face.
I then went home and dropped Enchanting like I said I was going to, picked up herbalism and grinded out 80 some levels and helped some guildies run Shadow Labs. I was hoping that Idol of the Emerald Queen would drop, but I had no such luck, some pair of gloves dropped instead.
Woke up Saturday morning and continued grinding. Well I don't know about you, but I absolutely LOVE grinding, call it a sick fetish, but there nothing better then after spending hours on end on a repetitive task to finally get what you wanted. I got this skill up to the 180's by mid afternoon and then went into Shadow Labs with the guild with the intent of obtaining the idol. The guild was really helpful and we tried downing Hellmaw three times and it never dropped, but the same pair of gloves from the night before did. I then had to go, my friends came over and we went to the pool. after the pool we went out for pizza and some adult beverages and then watched Beerfest. They left, and I was a bit tipsy and I logged in to check on my AH items, I was immediately invited into a group by one of the Guild Officers. He told me that we were going to finish our Kara run right then, and that we were not going to do it on Sunday like it was planned. We finished it up, and I received the following loot Boots of the Incorrupt, Pantaloons of Repentance and lost on a roll Stainless Cloak of the Pure Hearted. I am waiting to socket the Pantaloons and then I will be sporting them, but I don't know about the Boots, they have better base stats then my current shoes, but the shoes I have on right now I have socketed. I will just hold onto them for now. So my first time in Kara resulted in a full clear, not bad.
Sunday was spent farming for Herbs, I did reach 375 and as I was logging one of my tank friends said that he needed a healer for SL and was wondering if I would heal for him. I went and I realized why I hate playing in PUG's. everyone was immature, but i dealt with it. we downed Hellmaw and guess what dropped? if you guessed Jaedenfire Gloves of Annihilation for the third time this weekend then you would be wrong, Idol of the Emerald Queen DROPPED!!! /JOY. but like how all immature PUG's go, drama ensued and it broke up. I really could have cared less because I got what I needed. I guess getting more rep for Lower City would have been nice, but it was late and I needed to go to bed so I could be functional at work today
I then went home and dropped Enchanting like I said I was going to, picked up herbalism and grinded out 80 some levels and helped some guildies run Shadow Labs. I was hoping that Idol of the Emerald Queen would drop, but I had no such luck, some pair of gloves dropped instead.
Woke up Saturday morning and continued grinding. Well I don't know about you, but I absolutely LOVE grinding, call it a sick fetish, but there nothing better then after spending hours on end on a repetitive task to finally get what you wanted. I got this skill up to the 180's by mid afternoon and then went into Shadow Labs with the guild with the intent of obtaining the idol. The guild was really helpful and we tried downing Hellmaw three times and it never dropped, but the same pair of gloves from the night before did. I then had to go, my friends came over and we went to the pool. after the pool we went out for pizza and some adult beverages and then watched Beerfest. They left, and I was a bit tipsy and I logged in to check on my AH items, I was immediately invited into a group by one of the Guild Officers. He told me that we were going to finish our Kara run right then, and that we were not going to do it on Sunday like it was planned. We finished it up, and I received the following loot Boots of the Incorrupt, Pantaloons of Repentance and lost on a roll Stainless Cloak of the Pure Hearted. I am waiting to socket the Pantaloons and then I will be sporting them, but I don't know about the Boots, they have better base stats then my current shoes, but the shoes I have on right now I have socketed. I will just hold onto them for now. So my first time in Kara resulted in a full clear, not bad.
Sunday was spent farming for Herbs, I did reach 375 and as I was logging one of my tank friends said that he needed a healer for SL and was wondering if I would heal for him. I went and I realized why I hate playing in PUG's. everyone was immature, but i dealt with it. we downed Hellmaw and guess what dropped? if you guessed Jaedenfire Gloves of Annihilation for the third time this weekend then you would be wrong, Idol of the Emerald Queen DROPPED!!! /JOY. but like how all immature PUG's go, drama ensued and it broke up. I really could have cared less because I got what I needed. I guess getting more rep for Lower City would have been nice, but it was late and I needed to go to bed so I could be functional at work today
Friday, July 18, 2008
Enchanting
WOW talk about a money SINK!!! I am getting tired of this profession and I am going to be dropping it next time I log. There are a bunch of enchanters all over my relem and most the mats that I would need for a chant I can get from the AH/gathering. I am going to pick up Herbalism, I am more of a gatherer then a crafter anyway. If you would like to sway me from this decision please leave a comment.
I will try to update the progress of this excursion during the week, but I am hoping to be a 375 Herbalist by July 25th... What can I say I love to grind.
Speaking of grinding I got my mace last night. I needed 25200 honor to purchase it, and as I exited my final AV last night I had 25206 honor! damn did I get lucky!!!
The plan for this weekend on top of going from 1-375 herbalism will be to farming Heroic Shadow Labs for Idol of the Emerald Queen. Right now I still have an idol I used while leveling in the outlands attempting to be a feral druid (having all my points in resto) with the help of my real life buddy, the honorable Mage Voxyn (sorry ladies, he's taken)
I will try to update the progress of this excursion during the week, but I am hoping to be a 375 Herbalist by July 25th... What can I say I love to grind.
Speaking of grinding I got my mace last night. I needed 25200 honor to purchase it, and as I exited my final AV last night I had 25206 honor! damn did I get lucky!!!
The plan for this weekend on top of going from 1-375 herbalism will be to farming Heroic Shadow Labs for Idol of the Emerald Queen. Right now I still have an idol I used while leveling in the outlands attempting to be a feral druid (having all my points in resto) with the help of my real life buddy, the honorable Mage Voxyn (sorry ladies, he's taken)
Thursday, July 17, 2008
THANK YOU!!!
I would just like to thank Bellwether over at 4haelz for helping me out so much with everything! She has helped me better understand how to raid heal, how to manage a blog, how to post links, and I even took my build off of her model! I owe you big!!!
/Salute
-Zeffy
On a side note, I am really close to getting Merciless Gladiator's Salvation. I have all the marks I need and have 22000 of the 25200 honor I need. I should have that by tonight, that way I can start focusing more on Heroics, Daily's and farming for my Epic Flyer
/Salute
-Zeffy
On a side note, I am really close to getting Merciless Gladiator's Salvation. I have all the marks I need and have 22000 of the 25200 honor I need. I should have that by tonight, that way I can start focusing more on Heroics, Daily's and farming for my Epic Flyer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Popping the Kara Cherry
I got my laptop back last week on the 9th and the only thing I have been doing since then is WoWing. I have brought my +heals from something in the 900's to a respectable 1201 buffed. This was done using mostly enchants and inscriptions and the classic Golden Spellthread. I have also been constantly farming AV for honor, and man do I have a ton of marks with nothing to spend them on. so instead of throwing them away I have done the next best thing, spent them on worthless crap! Now I have Stormpike Battle Charger as well as a the Stormpike Battle Tabard and I still have over 40 marks. While playing I met up with this toon call Flagen from the Uthar server who had the best AV macro I have ever seen. Basically it tells each group what their responsibilities are. I will post this macro once I get onto my laptop to grab it.
Then last night I went on my first Kara run. OMG SO much fun!!! although we stopped at Shade, we cleared everyone up until then with the exception of Nightbane. I took as many photos as a Japanese tourist and once I get on my laptop I will post them. In Opera we faced the Big Bad Wolf like I hoped because I really wanted Red Ridings Hood's Cloak and guess what, IT DROPPED!!! it felt so good to finally replace Ogre Slayer's Cover
Here are some pictures I took of the Exploits
I got my first Kara Badge of Justice when we downed Attumen
Really easy fight as a Resto Druid, to be completely honest I thought this was a trash mob the entire time it was that easy.
Next up we took on Moroes... I loved the setting, whats for dinner? HOW ABOUT SOME DEATH!!!
fun fight, kept lifeblooms rolling on the tank and we were done
Next we took on the Maiden, I went down during the fight, but my group was able to finish her off.
there I am staring at her wanting to put my branch into her... i mean....
we cleared some more trash mobs and went to the Opera Event. Like I mentioned before I really wanted the Wolf and we got him!
Next time I face him, I hope he does not come after me with my new Red Ridings Hood's Cloak hehe.
We tried to take on Nightbane and that was an epic failure... so we moved onto the Curator
at this point a guildie came on and noticed that we were running three different groups through Kara
yeah for farming badges/gear
Idlehoof was easy enough
And then we ended the night on a strong wipe to Shade... Asshole trapped me and I forgot to Shape Shift to get out of there...
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