Where To Get: Eye Of The Sea
Mar 31, 2008 WoWGrrl
FISHING QUEST! Check out what I got this morning as a reward for doing the daily fishing quest: Eye of the Sea - +15 stamina, unique-equipped, Bind on Equip - this thing should be able to be sold on the Auction House! The closest gem in the AH right now is a rare/blue gem with +12 stamina, and [...]FISHING QUEST!
Check out what I got this morning as a reward for doing the daily fishing quest:
Eye of the Sea - +15 stamina, unique-equipped, Bind on Equip - this thing should be able to be sold on the Auction House!
The closest gem in the AH right now is a rare/blue gem with +12 stamina, and this Fishing Daily quest reward gem is the same as one of the epic/purple gems from the challenging 10-man raid instance Zul’Aman!
I can’t even find information on wowecon.com about the value of this gem yet, it’s so brand-spanking new.
I wonder if I’ll ever get that same reward on the same toon for the fishing daily, or if it’s a “get it once, that’s it bud!” setup?
I’ll be sure to let you know!
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Ode To Blackrock Depths
Mar 29, 2008 WoWGrrl
Well, I’m sure this won’t be a proper “Ode” since I’m not sure what that would be. In my world, it’s just about giving reverence to something that has influenced you in some way. Blackrock Depths is a HUGE instance that, before the expansion pack hit with its extraWell, I’m sure this won’t be a proper “Ode” since I’m not sure what that would be. In my world, it’s just about giving reverence to something that has influenced you in some way.
Blackrock Depths is a HUGE instance that, before the expansion pack hit with its extra 10 levels and huge improvements on gear, was a “player barrier” for me in my leveling guild. The difference between taking a group into Sunken Temple and into Blackrock Depths was quite noticable, to the point where I actually had to think about a little bit of class balance when forming groups to go in.
It made sense, however, because Blackrock Depths and the whole Blackrock Mountains instancing areas were End Game raiding zones or preparation for End Game raiding, and there had to be SOME kind of transition between easy-to-zerg dungeons and the ones that required 10+ people to tackle.
These days, however, BRD isn’t near the challenge it was. Between improvements to the strength of equipment and the nerfing of the difficulty of the dungeons and bosses, players can be much lower level and survive in BRD where before the small guy would have caused a wipe of the entire party (at least in the guild I was in) prior to expansion.
But, it’s still a great dungeon for getting experience through mob murdering and quest turn-ins, along with upgrading gear for your 50s characters so they can be dressed in pretty blues and occasional purples before they hit the Outland where a lot of greens are huge upgrades over those dungeon blues and purples.
But with how much easier Blackrock Depths is than it used to be, it makes me wonder - what level should I start considering taking my healer into the old 60s dungeons of Dire Maul, Lower Blackrock Spire, Strat and Scholo?
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What’s The Longest Corpse Run Back?
Mar 27, 2008 WoWGrrl
So, the other day a friend and I exchanged dungeon runs. I took his little Rogue through a few arms of Scarlet Monestary and he took me and another of his friends through part of Blackrock Depths. At level 53 and 50 respectively between myself and the other friend receiving benefit from the dungeon ruSo, the other day a friend and I exchanged dungeon runs. I took his little Rogue through a few arms of Scarlet Monestary and he took me and another of his friends through part of Blackrock Depths.
At level 53 and 50 respectively between myself and the other friend receiving benefit from the dungeon run exchange, we didn’t do much but stand back for the most part, although for most of the grouped battles, I put a few heals out on my friend and his pet and had to fade and shield a few times.
I was fine with the healing as long as I waited long enough from the start of the fight to send my first heal out, but on occasion I would send that first big heal out too soon and no amount of fading or running towards the pet “tank” could save me.
Faced with the run back, I had a lot of time to contemplate corpse retrieval runs I’ve done to various instances over the past few months. Now that there’s a new graveyard super-close to Razorfen Kraul and Razorfen Downs, is the graveyard run to Blackrock Mountain (which houses Blackrock Depths, Blackrock Spire and Molten Core) the longest corpse run in the game?
WTB a shorter corpse run back to BRD…
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Things That I Find Entertaining
Mar 25, 2008 WoWGrrl
I’ve been doing a bunch of AFKing on World of Warcraft lately, while I work in another window typing something out or editting some video or still frame I had recently taken… While I’ve been doing my thing in the other window, occasionally interesting things happen in WoW and I come bI’ve been doing a bunch of AFKing on World of Warcraft lately, while I work in another window typing something out or editting some video or still frame I had recently taken…
While I’ve been doing my thing in the other window, occasionally interesting things happen in WoW and I come back to it on my screen in time to take a screenshot.
Entertaining Photo #1: What Does AFK Mean To You?
Don’t even ask me about the character name I chose here… I just needed to log in and watch the Video Compressing window do its thing before I closed out of WoW to do editting on yet another video.
So, I logged in a brand new character and moved it away from the starting spot and then proceeded to AFK. I guess to this guy, AFK just means “don’t just duel, send an invite, too”.
Entertaining Photo #2: Quick Shutdown After Restart
I do find it entertaining that even though there isn’t a patch/code update that we players have to download, there are times when extra shutdowns/restarts are needed after the Maintenance day, in order for everything to get back to running smoothly again.
Is it the sudden onslaught of pressure on the various servers as everyone re-logs in and stresses a lot of the same systems what’s causing it? (authentication is the first to mind, but once I’m already logged in, those problems cannot be seen by me anymore)
At any rate, sometimes Admins starting shutdowns can’t give you the full 15 minutes warning they’d like to before it goes down, and this past Tuesday was one of those days on Zul’jin.
Entertaining Photo #3: Ursius The Evasive
Ursius sought me out while I sat, AFK, on my Frostwolf Howler mount after I had taken some winter-scene pictures that I ended up not even using in my wee video about the Frostwolf Howler and where to find its vendor in the Alterac Mountains.
Ursius, the named bear in Winterspring, just HAPPENED to stumble across me when I AFK’d on a hill still within sight of the town of Everlook.
Ursius, who I hunted and hunted and hunted for, using Beast tracking even, to help my friend take him down for that stupid Winterspring quest.
Ursius, who we NEVER FOUND when we were actively tracking and exploring for him.
I find such ironicisms highly entertaining.
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Getting Past The Felwood Timbermaw In The Tunnels
Mar 23, 2008 WoWGrrl
One of the challenges a level 50 player will face is the journey they are encouraged to take from Felwood into Winterspring and Moonglade. I recently made the journey with both my Priest and my Rogue, and discovered something helpful! About The Timbermaw And The Tunnels Progressing through the tunnelsOne of the challenges a level 50 player will face is the journey they are encouraged to take from Felwood into Winterspring and Moonglade. I recently made the journey with both my Priest and my Rogue, and discovered something helpful!
About The Timbermaw And The Tunnels
Progressing through the tunnels that connect the zones of Felwood, Winterspring and Moonglade, players who haven’t done the “right quests” in Felwood will find themselves attacked and killed over and over by Timbermaw Warders and the likes.
If you make a wrong turn and go to Moonglade when you meant to hit Winterspring, that usually means more deaths and more running back to retrieve your corpse and continue the run a little further. And if you decide to kill those Timbermaw in the tunnel, you’re making life more difficult for yourself because these are no standard mob - they’re Timbermaw and they have reputation associated with them.
Rep Rewards For Timbermaw
There are reputation rewards if you do enough of the right quests, but that’s not what this entry is about. Check out WoWWiki for rep reward information.
Running From Felwood To Winterspring Or Moonglade
I remember this “death relay” being almost a ritualistic rite of passage in my levelling guild before the expansion hit. That memory combined with my not wanting to put any efforts into ANY quests in Felwood on my way through to Moonglade to turn in a Maraudon quest, my Priest died three times on the way through recently, fearing and bubbling the whole way.
When I went to bring my Rogue to Winterspring, I discovered that there’s a simple solution to the problem with the Timbermaws - complete one quest and your reputation will move to “Unfriendly”, at which point they’ll ignore you completely when you run past them in the tunnels!
The Quest: Deadwood Of The North
Nafien is where this quest begins. I’m too lazy to go out and find the coordinates of this guy, so instead I’ve added a map from Thottbot.com that marks where he is.
The quest itself is a standard “mob grinding” quest that requires you to kill a certain number of X mob, Y mob and Z mob before returning to the quest-giver to receive your reward or the quest for the next stage of the chain. The mobs can be found immediately to the west of where Nafien is found - I generally jump off the cliff beside Nafien and start into the Deadwoods from there.
Once you turn in the completed quest, you’ll be elevated to “Unfriendly with Timbermaw Hold” and can run freely through the tunnels, dancing and mocking any Timbermaw you see!
(If you’re a miner, there are a couple of spawn points around this quest area… and of course, Felwood is excellent for Herbalism practitioners.)
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