Weird Terrain Glitch in Tempest Keep Raid
Apr 5, 2008 WoWGrrl
Life’s busy these days but whenever I have a free evening that coincides with a raid night within my guild, I sign up and bring along my extensive collection of consumables and a great attitude about doing my best no matter how many times we die or whether there’s a chance of a gear upgradeLife’s busy these days but whenever I have a free evening that coincides with a raid night within my guild, I sign up and bring along my extensive collection of consumables and a great attitude about doing my best no matter how many times we die or whether there’s a chance of a gear upgrade on my part. My joy is not in progression, exactly, but in being able to do something cool when I actually have the time to go.
In my guild that regularly fields 25-man raids in an evening, or breaks down into occasional multiple 10-man raids for badge runs on less-populated nights, we’re currently working on the boss “Al’ar” when it comes to Tempest Keep. Of course, we’ve already downed Void Reaver multiple times as well, but recent raids had us putting up attempts on Al’ar and learning new strategies to beat her.
In heading through the hallway which leads to Al’ar, there are some difficult pulls with Tempest Falconer humanoids and their swarms of Phoenix-Hawk Hatchling flying beasts… the beasts interrupt spells with a strong knock-back effect and are a major pain in the butt for a Mage who is trying to cast a channeled AOE spell to burn (or freeze, in my case) the flying beasties down.
I don’t recall if this happened before, but this recent run I noticed that the knock-back effect was blasting me up onto the walls, and I believe after I got blasted up high enough, I was out of the range of the AOE knock-back effect and could Blizzard away quite freely.
Unfortunately, between pulls I was to exit the hallway to let the tanks get aggro on the swarms before I joined in, and therefore I didn’t stay up on the wall to test my theory about being out of range of the knock-backs.
Does anyone know?
And hey, I finally figured out how to highlight a certain portion of my pictures in a useful way - go me who isn’t used to Photoshop at all… ;)
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Farming Sporeggar Rep For Alchemy Transmute Recipe
Apr 2, 2008 WoWGrrl
One thing my Mage does every day that I can get online is check cooldowns on the various transmutes I’m capable of doing: Can I Make Shadowcloth? Can I Make Spellcloth? How About Primal Mooncloth? What Alchemy Transmute Shall I Do Today? As a Shadowcloth spec’d tailor, I get 2 ShadowclothOne thing my Mage does every day that I can get online is check cooldowns on the various transmutes I’m capable of doing:
- Can I Make Shadowcloth?
- Can I Make Spellcloth?
- How About Primal Mooncloth?
- What Alchemy Transmute Shall I Do Today?
As a Shadowcloth spec’d tailor, I get 2 Shadowcloth every 4 days, but only 1 of the Spellcloth and Mooncloth. I’ve pondered looking for a Spellcloth/Mooncloth spec’d tailor to tip in order to get 2 cloth for my mats, but I haven’t yet run across anyone I could make an ongoing deal with and decided not to waste my time advertising on the Trade line since I don’t hang out in cities very often.
Instead, I decided to use my cooldowns whenever they come up, whether I’m specialized or not. I then collect the cloths created and do occasional trades with guildmates who are gearing up, generally trading materials for cloth and thus stocking myself up for more transmutes over the following weeks.
Alchemy As A Route To Materials
I use my Alchemy Primal transmutes every day, generally changing Primal Water into Primal Air, or Primal Air into Primal Fire, keeping the Primal Fires stocked for the two different tailoring cloths I transmute every four days. Since I’m a Transmute Spec’d Alchemist, sometimes, on a rare occasion, I get extra Primals from my transmutes, but it’s not very often.
In terms of extra transmutes thanks to my specialization, the best I’ve gotten was when one Primal Air turned into FIVE Primal Fire. I liked that one, but haven’t seen a repeat that nice.
Transmutes For Primal Earth
Primal Earth, at least on my server, is one of the most low-value Primals around. Cheap cheap cheap to buy compared to other primals like Air, Water, and Fire.
But, in all of my Transmute discoveries, I haven’t discovered any useful transmute for using up Primal Earth (and sorry, Earth to Life doesn’t cut it), so I finally turned to WoWWiki and looked up their list of all the Transmutes available, and found this one:
Recipe: Transmute Primal Earth to Water
Niiice transmute! Primal Earth is very cheap on my server, whereas Primal Water is a decent mid-range primal. Sure, I’d love to have Earth to Fire, but that’s just a dream…
At any rate, turns out it’s a reputation reward for attaining Revered with the Sporeggar faction. When I looked at my reputation chart, I was barely into Friendly. Blarg. So, I headed to Zangarmarsh to grind on some Bog Lords.
Bog Lords, Friendly To Honored
I’m not much of a reputation-mob grinder, I get bored quickly, so it took me 3-4 sessions of clearing out the Bog Lords to get from Friendly to Honored, probably playing about 20 minutes each time over a day or two. I kept reminding myself that the Bog Lord Tendril and Unidentified Plant Parts were turn-ins I’d be able to use with up-and-coming toons for their own Sporeggar and Cenarion Expedition rep, but that would only hold me for so long.
Sanguine Hibiscus, Honored to Revered
After deciding I’d rather leverage my money than my time, I went to the Auction House and kept an eye out for Sanguine Hibiscus that were listed at a reasonable price (which looks to be around 1g each and below at this moment, but I didn’t write it down at the time).
I lucked into a stack of 250 that was up for 300g and despite it being on the expensive side, the fact that I could turn them all in and get from Honored to Revered right away was worth it to me. I believe that buying out annoyance via small sales efforts every day (to keep the cash flowing) is well worth the cost when I do it.
And there we are, Revered with Sporeggar and after flitting around on my mount for a while in Zangarmarsh, I had the 25 Glowcap I needed in order to buy the Transmute recipe.
Recipe: Transmute Primal Earth to Water - what a great addition to my repertoire!
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