tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76376722697037312162024-03-13T08:03:59.967-07:00Kassandra's ChronicleAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783087083763505413noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637672269703731216.post-11475118856767255012013-11-28T16:59:00.000-08:002013-11-28T16:59:11.782-08:00The Daily Circuit<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
For those who love pets and pet
battles, the daily legendary circuit is a great way to grab some
extra gold, along with pets to put up for auction, pet bandages, and
of course, battle stones. As an added bonus, you will run across all
kinds of rares while flying from battle to battle, which is even more
gold in your pocket. The quest rewards alone total just under 140G
for doing all three of legendary beast dailies and the four Pandaren
spirit tamers. I generally do my circuit during off-peak hours,
ensuring I snag more rares. I generally make around 500 gold doing
this run, which takes around an hour to do. This does not count
anything I might pick up to auction.</div>
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Start at the Shrine of Seven Stars
(or shrine of two Moons if you are a dirty, nasty hordie) and pick up
the three legendary beast quests. This was the part where I was
supposed to tell you, “Follow the route shown below.” Sadly my
CorelDraw does not want to play nice with my WoW screnshots. So this
was will be an all text explanation.</div>
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The only pet battle you will engage
in in the Vale is a fight with No-No, a nuclear disaster of a beaver.
Best bet for fighting him is to use three moths, all with alpha
strike, cocoon strike and moth dust. Use moth dust when its off cool
down, use cocoon strike to avoid being hit by No-No's dive ability
and otherwise spam alpha strike. Do not attack when the beaver dam
is up, pass until the dam is down.</div>
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Along the way to No-No you might
run across the rares cracklefang, Ai-Ran of the Shifting Cloud,
Spirit of Lao-Fe and Shadowmaster Sydow.</div>
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After defeating No-No, your next
stop is the Dread Wastes to take on Gorespine, who is by the coast in
the southwest.. From this point on you will be using the “Howl-Bomb”
team for all of the legendary beast fights. For those who are newer
to pet battling, this team consists of an Unborn Valkyr (with Shadow
Shock, Curse of Doom, and Unholy Ascension), a Pandaren Water Spirit
(with Water Jet, Whirlpool and Geyser) and Chrominus (with Bite, Howl
and Surge of Power). The basic strategy is to open with the Valkyr,
spam Shadow Shock, until she is close to death. Get a curse off and
on her resurrection round, cast Unholy Ascension. When the Valk goes
down, bring in the water spirit. Cast Geyser, followed by Whirlpool.
Then bring in Chrominus and cast Howl. If the beast lives through
this, cast Surge of Power. This team works better on some of the
legendary beasts than others, so bring some pet bandages, RNG will
probably dictate you have to restart a handful of your battles.</div>
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After Gorespine, comes the Pandaren
Water Spirit. Follow the coast line to the extreme southeastern
corner of the zone. You may run into Zandalri Warscouts and Omnis
Grinlock along the way. For this guy, I use a Jade Owl and spam
slicing wind, using lift-off to avoid the dive attack. Jade Owl can
sometimes solo this fight. Round out your team with an Oily
Slimeling (with Absorb, Corrosion and Acidic Goo) and a Mirror
Strider with Water Jet, Healing Wave and Pump.</div>
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Then onto Greyhoof, and along the
way you may spy Torik-Ethis and Jonn-Dar. Greyhoof uses the standard
howl-bomb team. Greyhoof is in the Valley of Four Winds, in the
southwestern part of the zone, near Nessingwary's Safari.</div>
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After Greyhoof, skip down into the
Krasarang Wilds to fight Skitterer X'ia. You might meet the rare
Cournith Waterstrider along the way. X'ia is a standard legendary
beast fight. Once you done, head back into the Valley of Four Winds
to face off against Lucky Yi, a giant cricket. Keep an eye out for
the rare mob Blackhoof while on your way. For this fight don't waste
your time spamming Shadow Shock. Cast Curse of Doom, followed by
Unholy Ascension and execute the rest of the strategy from there.
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You then have along flight over
to the Jade Forest to fight Kawi the Gorger. There are several rares
to look out for along the way. After Kawi, you fly north to square
off against Nitun and the fly west to fight the Whispering Pandaren
Spirit. The Whispering Spirit is a bit of a pain, as his first pet
is a moth, with moth dust, that seems to always hit and frequently
stun. Best team I have come up with for him is a Celestial Dragon to
open with (using Moonfire, followed by Arcane Winds, followed by
Flamethrower, and repeat ad infinitum), Bonkers (with Jab, Dodge and
Tornado Punch) and a snail (with Ooze Touch, Acidic Goo and Dive).</div>
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After the Whispering Spirit its on
to Dos-Ryga and from there onto the Thundering Pandaren Spirit. I
use a team of Arctic Hare, Pandaren Mechanical Dragonling and Bonkers
for this guy.</div>
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You round out the circuit by doing
Kafi, the Burning Pandaren Spirit and Ti'un the Wanderer.</div>
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Here is a list of co-ordinates, in
the order I do the circuit:</div>
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/way Vale of Eternal Blossoms 46 59</div>
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/way Vale of Eternal Blossoms 47 65</div>
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/way Vale of Eternal Blossoms 42 69</div>
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/way Vale of Eternal Blossoms 30 78</div>
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/way Vale of Eternal Blossoms 11 70</div>
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/way Dread Wastes 73 20</div>
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/way Dread Wastes 25 28</div>
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/way Dread Wastes 26 50</div>
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/way Dread Wastes 39 61</div>
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/way Dread Wastes 61 87</div>
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/way Krasarang Wilds 14 35</div>
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/way Valley of the Four Winds 18 77</div>
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/way Valley of the Four Winds 25 78</div>
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/way Valley of the Four Winds 88 18</div>
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/way Jade Forest 39 62</div>
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/way Jade Forest 48 71</div>
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/way Jade Forest 42 38</div>
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/way Jade Forest 57 29</div>
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/way Jade Forest 28 36</div>
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/way Kun-Lai Summit 73 77</div>
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/way Kun-Lai Summit 67 84</div>
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/way Kun-Lai Summit 64 93</div>
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/way Kun-Lai Summit 35 56</div>
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/way Townlong Steppes 57 42</div>
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/way Townlong Steppes 72 79</div>
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So there you have it. Along with
the gold, there are pet bandages, pet treats that increase experience
gained by pets, and battle stones. A perfect way for a pet
enthusiast to make some gold in an hour. Again sorry for the lack of
graphics, hopefully the list of waypoints will suffice.</div>
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Peace.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783087083763505413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637672269703731216.post-30077639543281860412013-11-18T17:27:00.000-08:002013-11-18T17:27:14.497-08:00Goals<div class="MsoNormal">
This may sound like
a no-brainer, but one of the most important things you can do when making gold
is to set goals and then stay on track.
I recently became interested in gold making (or re-interested) as I
noticed Kassandra’s gold approaching the 100K mark. I set short-term goals of getting to 100K and
once reaching this benchmark, not allowing my gold to dip below 100K. </div>
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I achieved these
goals easily enough. Things is for
weeks, I did not set any new goals, and realized it last week when I saw Kass’s
total gold at 102K. I had been spending
gold as soon as it came in. I dropped
18K to craft myself one of the panther mounts, I figured as a jewelcrafter it
was kind of obligatory that I had at least one of the panther mounts. Let’s not forget pets. There are all kinds of pets out there that I
am just too lazy to farm for, so I turn to the auction house and activate my
spending spree ability. So for weeks my
gold on Kassandra hovered around the 100K mark.</div>
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I have decided to
switch into high gear, or at least stop treading water. I figure that I can make 10K a week without
too much work, and that based on this, if I work at it and save, by the time
the end of January rolls around, I should have at least 200K if not more. This is my new goal, reach 200K (optimistically
reach 250K) by the end of January, and not let my gold dip below this. If I make more in a week, if I reach my goal
sooner rather than later, well then I might indulge myself in some reward
spending. I will also set new goals once
I reach my current goals. My long term
goal is 500K by the time the new expansion hits.</div>
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I have one more
week of being out of town and in a state of exile from Azeroth. I did manage to take a quick (9 hour drive)
home this weekend. I did my pet trainer
circuit, and made notes, so that once I get back home I can post my guide. I also found around 4K in my mailbox from
successful auctions I had posted a week ago.
I posted some new auctions and am curious to see what will be waiting
for me when I get home.</div>
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I managed to reach
a few other goals with a single day of playing.
I always max out cap my valor each week, and this week was no
exception. I also beat the Celestial
Tournament again, and picked up Chi-Chi, leaving me with just Yula to
acquire. Finally, I was able to get the
Tideskipper from Serpentshrine Caverns, leaving me with just needing the
dragonhawk pet from Tempest Keep to get
my raiding with leashes part two achievement.</div>
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Now it is time to
think about my blogging goals as well.
My initial goal was simply to start a blog and make regular posts, which
I’ve done. I even worked up the nerve to
submit a post to Power Word Gold’s Hatchery.
For those of you that don’t know, Power Word Gold is a well-know blog
about, what else, but making gold. The
Hatchery allows new writers a forum to post their work, gain exposure, and
possibly gain some feedback as well.
Building on this, my new goal is to make more of my posts guides, along
the lines of my previous post about beating the Darkmoon pet master and how to
make gold with pet farming. Along with
that goal, I am also setting the goal of adding tables and screenshots to my
future blogs, to make them a little more visually appealing. I am not much of a graphic artist, so this
will be a rather slow process for me.</div>
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That’s it for the
week. Come the weekend I am going to dive
in to Azeroth and my next blog as well.</div>
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Peace.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783087083763505413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637672269703731216.post-51740094504794961142013-11-13T14:28:00.000-08:002013-11-13T14:28:23.021-08:00Jeremy Feasel: Pet Battle Guide<div class="MsoNormal">
I am out of town
for the week, so that means no Warcraft for me, since WoW and crappy hotel
internet do not play together well. I’ve
decided to run home (a 10 hour drive) for the weekend for the express purpose
of doing the Celestial Tournament, since another win will get me my third pet (who
will be Chi-Chi). Then it’s back to
Azerothian exile for the week before things return to normal.</div>
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Despite being out
of town, I did want to keep up with this blog.
I worked up the nerve to submit my last post to <a href="http://hatchery.powerwordgold.net/">The Power Word Gold Hatchery</a> the
other day. I am already at work on a
detailed guide to doing my favorite pet tamer/rare hunting circuit, and I have
promised myself to include graphics for this one.</div>
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I wanted to include
at least one useful tidbit in this post, instead of it being a mere update of
what I’ve been up to, so here is my guide to battling Jeremy Feasel, the
Darkmoon Fair pet master. The team I put
together is actually a fusion of many different posted strategies I have run
across for beating this guy.</div>
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Jeremy Feasel will
open the fight with his pet ‘Judgment’ which is essentially a Darkmoon Eye on
steroids. Judgment belongs to the magic
family and all of his abilities are magic abilities. My opening pet is a Pocket Reaver. The Reaver is a mechanical, so all of Judgments’
abilities are weak against my opening pet.
I chose the following move set for my Reaver: Metal Fist, Quake, and Fel Immolate; or in
shorthand 1,2,1 . Below is how my
rotation goes on the Pocket Reaver:</div>
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Round 1: Quake</div>
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Round 2: Quake continues</div>
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Round 3: Quake continues</div>
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Round 4: Fel Immolate</div>
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Round 5: Metal Fist</div>
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Round 6: Quake</div>
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Round 7: Quake continues</div>
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Round 8: Quake continues</div>
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Around round 8 or
9, Judgment should go down. At this
point your Reaver will be low on health, if he hasn’t already died and activate
his failsafe. Jeremy Feasel will bring
out Honky-Tonk for his next pet, which is just a super-charged Darkmoon
Tonk. Honky-Tonk belongs to the
mechanical family and all the abilities he uses against you are likewise
mechanical. The Reaver’s Fel Immolate
ability is an elemental attack and therefore is strong versus mechanicals, like
Honky-Tonk. Spam this ability until your
Reaver goes down. Honky-Tonk will
already be banged up from eating all the quakes.</div>
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Once your Reaver
goes down, bring out a Celestial Dragon.
The move set to use on this guy is 1,2,2 . If Honky-Tonk has plenty of health open with
Starfall and follow up the next round with Arcane Storm, this allows Arcane
Storm to gain a damage boost. If
Honky-Tonk is near death cast Arcane Storm immediately. Either way, once you have cast Arcane Storm, follow
up with spamming flamethrower. It is
imperative that the weather be arcane winds when Feasel’s last pet comes out,
as the weather effect will prevent the last pet’s stun.</div>
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Jeremy Feasel’s
last pet is Fezwick, an annoying Darkmoon Monkey that belongs to the beast
family. He uses two beast attacks and a
humanoid attack. As mentioned above, the
weather MUST be arcane winds when Fezwick comes out, so that his stun ability
is negated. If your Celestial Dragon is
still up, continue to spam Flamethrower and use Arcane Storm on cool down.</div>
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Once your Celestial
Dragon goes down, your third and last pet can be any hard hitting mechanical
pet, using mechanical abilities of your choice.
I personally use a Son of Animus, but a more obtainable pet would be the
Darkmoon Tonk. </div>
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I have used this
team against Jeremy Feasel about a half dozen times and I have yet to
lose. With the next fair being a few
weeks out, you have plenty of time to obtain and level the pets I mentioned.</div>
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Peace.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783087083763505413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637672269703731216.post-47703702824345759172013-11-09T17:01:00.001-08:002013-11-09T17:01:37.753-08:00Pet Sales<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lately I have been
dabbling with pet sales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the
things I like best about selling pets is the deposit on auctioning a caged pet
is low, a mere one silver to run a twenty-four hour auction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would take me a hundred listings before I
even lost a single gold piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pet sales
are slow, at least on my server, but I am going to wager most pets, if priced
right, should sell within a week or two. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This guide assumes
that you are a veteran pet battler and that you have the Tamer title.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are a complete novice to the world of
pet battling, you will not be able to go after the quested pets I mention
below, but you will be able to farm the pets from the raids, as well as deal
with the vendored pets.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first order of
business is determining what pets are cageable and where they are obtained
from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two broad categories of
tradeable pets that you will regularly deal with are pets that drop from
instances/raids and pets that are purchased from vendors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure there is the Guardian Cub which is a
tradeable pet purchased from the pet store, or pets like the feline familiar
that are obtained during seasonal events, but raid drops and vendors are the
two common sources you will be dealing with on a regular basis.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So here is a table
of easily farmed pets from instances and raids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A well geared 90 should be able to solo farm for most if not all of
these pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This list is not all
inclusive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drop rates on most of
these guys is in the neighborhood of 10-15%, so if you regularly farm these
instances you should routinely be acquiring pets to sell, especially if you
have multiple 90s to farm with.</div>
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1657</div>
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Menagerie Custodian</div>
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Karazhan</div>
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Karazhan</div>
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1657</div>
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The Eye</div>
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1368</div>
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Lesser Voidcaller</div>
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The Eye</div>
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Pocket Reaver</div>
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The Eye</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I said, the list
is not all inclusive, but these are eight tradeable pets that are easily
farmed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that all of them
command a decent amount of gold based on their mean auction value (I used mean
Alliance value).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the drop list, you
can add doing the four Pandarian Spirit Tamer Quests (adds another four pets
for you to possibly obtain) and the three beasts of fable quests (adds another
three possible pets to obtain).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
pets also will generally auction for 1000 gold or more.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The list of
vendor pets is huge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This guide will
focus on two of these pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just my
instinct that these pets have enough of a cool factor and enough obscurity as
being obtained from a vendor that they will sell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two vendor pets I flip are the Ghostly
Skull and the Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot, both of which are purchased from
vendors in Dalaran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To add value to
these pets, both of which are of uncommon (green) quality, I use a stone to
make them rares. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you regularly do the
beasts of fable and pandaren spirit tamers, you will be swimming in stones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Count on getting a couple hundred gold for
each of these that you auction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can also try
leveling some of the little critters you plan to auction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are numerous guides out there that
explain how to level a pet to 25 in an hour or so, if you don’t already know
how to do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t necessarily
have to raise your pets to 25 either. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This week I have made around 10K in pet sales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know this hardly makes a goblin extraordinaire,
but it’s enough money to make me happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of what I earn, I simply spend on pets that elude me or that I am
too lazy to go out and farm.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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</span>They are everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Item level,
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s take the pet
score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This may be a number you are not
familiar with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.wowprogress.com/">Wowprogress</a> is a site that ranks all
kinds of things, realms, and characters by item level, guilds by progression
and more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the rankings on this
site is something called a pet score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Without knowing anything about how the site makes a ranking
determination you could make all kinds of assumptions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might assume that the number of pet
battles or the number of PvP battles you have one might be factored into
computing this score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One assumption I
made was that the number of pet related achievement points was factored into
this score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other day I found out I
was very wrong in my assumption.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my guild, is a
shaman, Wildsong by name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is (or was)
the undisputed pet champion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it’s a
collectible pet, she has it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has the
Ethereal Soul Trader; she has the various rare drops from throne of
thunder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has over 500 unique pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In checking her ranking, she is first in the
guild and fifth on the server for pet score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This, of course makes perfect sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It did until the other day.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am online the
other day, plodding about and an achievement toast comes up in guild chat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Wildsong has earned the achievement Taming
the World”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along with that toast was
another one announcing she had defeated Grand Master Aki.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was stunned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got the tamer achievement a long time
ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would have figured Wildsong did
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I congratulated her on her
achievement and took the time to ask how the Celestial Tournament was going for
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her response was that she had not
yet beaten it, but now that she had beaten the tamers in Pandaria, she had hope
and confidence.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it would
have gone without saying that she would have beat not only the Pandaria tamers,
but the Tournament as well, based on her pet score and ranking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have managed to beat the Tournament five
times now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have two of the reward pets
to prove it and am working on the third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My ranking is second within the guild and ninth on the server.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently these scores and rankings followed
some logic I was not familiar with.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked into
exactly how WoWprogress computes these numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They do it based solely on the number of pets you have, the level of
said pets, and the quality (rare, uncommon, etc…) of said pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance a level 25 rare pet is worth is
worth 62.10 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same pet as an
uncommon is worth 57.32 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A rare
level 23 pet is worth 51.96 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is entirely feasible that a player could never fight any tamers and simply
accumulate a huge collection of wild pets from Pandaria and have a huge
score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fill up all 1000 pet slots with
bandicoons and marsh fiddlers and level them to 25 and you too could have a
high pet score and ranking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s do the
math.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I decided to capture every wild
pet in Pandaria with a quality of uncommon or rare, and then level them to 25 I
am quite sure I would be first on my server.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let’s assume that I wind up with 75% uncommon (750 pets) and 25% rare
(250 pets).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My pet score would then be
750*57.32 (this equals 42,990) plus 250*62.10 (this equals 15,525.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My total pet score would be 58,515.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By way of comparison, the number one pet
score on my server is 17,088.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The number
one slot in the entire US has a score of 36204.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearly we can
only draw limited assumptions from Wowprogress’s pet score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My hypothetical collector of bandicoons and
marsh fiddlers would probably be ranked number one in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This same hypothetical character would
probably never win a PvP pet battle, would not be able to defeat most tamers
and would probably have very few pet achievements.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All numbers are the
same in this regards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s take
iLevel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The common wisdom seems to be
that higher iLevel generally equates to higher performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This of course is simply not true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing I seem to have plenty of is
trinkets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a nice mix of tanking
and DPS trinkets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s say that my
highest iLevel trinkets are my DPS trinkets (these will be the 553 pieces from
SoO normal) and that all my tanking trinkets are from LFR (so my tanking
trinkets are iLevel 528).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A flex raid is
forming and they need a tank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decide
to cheese iLevel and equip my 553 DPS trinkets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sure this will give me a boost in iLevel, but probably won’t really do
wonders for my performance as a tank.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about DPS?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The higher the DPS, the better the player,
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People seem to forget that not
all characters are created equal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s
take a shadow priest and a frost mage ad let’s say they are geared to LFR level
(they both have an iLevel of exactly 528).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the end of a boss fight, the meters announce the frost mage did 219K
DPS, and the shadow priest did 165K DPS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Must be the mage is some kind of hero and that the shadow priest might
need to learn his class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thing is, this
is the expected performance for both classes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Check out the site <a href="http://www.noxxic.com/wow/dps-rankings/realistic#528">Noxxic</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This site tells you the projected DPS for a
character based on their class/specialization and gear level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the example I just used, each character is
doing their expected amount of DPS.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could go on and
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numbers have their uses, but
players have a very bad tendency to dogmatically make assumptions about numbers
and take a raw number as some kind of gospel truth about a character’s
performance or worth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Playing with
numbers requires just a little bit of thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s not as simple as “character x has higher DPS and therefore is the
better player”.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This seems like a
good place to conclude.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783087083763505413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637672269703731216.post-54289711279820303992013-11-01T17:26:00.000-07:002013-11-01T17:26:56.191-07:00Minimum Wage
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I have been raiding a lot as of
late, and so have started to pay more attention to repair costs and
money in general, as repairs tend to add up and become expensive
quickly. It occurs to me there is probably an average 'wage' in
Azeroth, so today I thought I would examine money making. I have had
an active interest in making gold for some time, ever since Burning
Crusade hit. I have also never been a goblin, I might use the
auction house on occasion, but I am more of a blue-collar type when
it comes to gold making. I have generally relied on farming,
questing and grinding.</div>
<br />
One of the more proletarian ways to
go about making gold, is to run a daily routine on the Timeless Isle.
The other day I decided to estimate what exactly I generally make
for every hour I spend on the isle. I time myself and actually found
I was out farming mobs for longer than I would ordinarily. The three
daily quests I do take less than thirty minutes.<br />
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Between quest rewards and vendor
trash I made 184 gold. Not factored into this, was a stack of 20
wildfowl breasts I accumulated from killing those obnoxious pink
flamingo looking mobs over and over. Also not factored into my
profits were the 11 motes of harmony I got. I could have certainly
used the resulting spirit of harmony to buy and then auction any
number of things such as golden lotus or trillium ore. I am just
going to wing it and estimate that if I auctioned the wildfowl
breasts and used the spirit to buy some commodity and auction it, my
earnings for one hour of time on the isle would be 225 gold.<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
This is about as proletarian as
things get. So based on this very limited experiment, I would say
the Azerothian minimum wage is 200 gold, give or take. If your
intake is less than this per hour then you are either A. raiding or
B. Sitting in a city and trolling chat.</div>
<br />
A minimum wage player, who plays a
mere 10 hours a week, makes 2k a week. This means the same player
makes 8K a month. Obviously repair costs have not been factored in.<br />
<br />
Based on all of this, it is not the
least bit hard to make gold. I proved this by spending an hour doing
three easy quests and farming mobs. I wasn't even trying. You might
think I intentionally made huge pulls or pulled non-stop to inflate
my earnings during my test run. You'd be wrong. I did things at my
normal, rather slow pace. You might not become a goblineering
millionaire, but you can certainly live well enough on minimum wages,
at least in Azeroth.<br />
<br />
Peace.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Dandelion
Frolicker.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first thing I
like about this guy is that it’s a humanoid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Humanoids, in my opinion, have one of the best racial perks out of all
the pet families, a self-heal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those
new to the pet scene, any round a humanoid does damage, they heal themselves
for 5% of their maximum health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
frolicker is a speed breed and has 1400hp at level 25, so every time he does
damage he heals for 70hp.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second thing I
like about this guy is his move set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the first slot you can chose between ‘Scratch’ a strong basic attack versus
undead or ‘Bite’ a strong basic attack versus critters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I generally use the bite attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is because the Dandelion Frolicker is
part of my leveling team, and many if not most wild pet battles seem to involve
fighting critters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an added bonus,
the bite attack has a 100% hit chance, which negates RNG, so long as he is max
level and has no debuffs, he will always hit with the bite attack.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second slot consists
of defensive moves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have a choice
between ‘Frolick’ and ‘Barkskin’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Frolick gives your frolicker a 50% chance to dodge for two rounds and
Barkskin lasts 5 rounds and reduces the damage done by 67 for each attack
against you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use Barkskin in this
slot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When battling, I generally keep
this ability up all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between
the self-heal and Barkskin, you are negating 135 damage each and every
turn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also noticed that a lot of
the critters I fight in Valley of the Four Winds have an annoying ability called
poison fang, which leaves a DoT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
DoT is completely negated by having Barkskin up.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third slot
consists of utility moves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your choice
is between ‘Kick’ which interrupts an opponent’s round if you go first along
with doing damage and ‘Dazzling Dance’ which increases the speed of your entire
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kick is a strong attack versus the
dragonkin family.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mentioned that
this guy is part of my leveling team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The strategy I use for this team revolves around leveling carry pets
from level 10 to level 16-17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do all
my fights using this strategy in Valley of the Four Winds, which I think I
mentioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could bring in a lower
level carry pet, but there is a good chance he won’t see the end of combat if
you do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A level 10 can go in on the
first round and generally take a single hit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Between levels 10 and 15-16, a single battle should give you a whole
level, provided you are wearing your safari hat!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I avoid the aquatics and engage the
critters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biggest reason I avoid the
aquatics is the turtles you will encounter in Valley of the Four winds have an
attack called ‘Grasp’ which will prevent you from swapping pets for two rounds
if it hits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will occasionally get
the turtles as adds, so be mindful of this ability.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Dandelion
Frolicker can pretty much solo all the critter battles in the Valley, so you
can chose just about anything you like for your third pet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This week I have been using a spider, it’s a
beast so is generally strong versus critters and it has a heal.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using the Dandelion
Frolicker+Spider allows me to go for several battles before I need to heal my
team up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This team is the most efficient
I have found for leveling things in the 10-17 bracket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not yet used the frolicker in the
Celestial Tournament or against a trainer, so I will probably try that out this
week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very least, I think this
guy would do well fighting Yula (a dragonkin) in the Celestial Tournament.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Dandelion
Frolicker is somewhat hard to obtain outside the auction house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prices have dropped enough that this guy isn’t
too expensive; I personally paid 5K for mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Currently the mean price for one across all servers is 4.2K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are a purist you can try to farm the
drop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I haven’t has one drop, if
I do I am not sure if I will keep it as a back-up or try to sell it.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drop is from
the ‘Scary Sprite’ event on the Timeless Isle, which you can do once per day,
per character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This event is started by
clicking a large purple crystal located at coordinates 47, 73 on the isle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This turns all the nearby friendly sprites
hostile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For sixty seconds you need to
go on a rampage and kill as many sprites as possible, each one you kill has a
chance of spawning an add called ‘Scary Sprite’ that you must kill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pet drops from the scary sprite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some reason Wowhead lists the drop chance
as .08% from the ‘nice sprites’ which are the mobs you have to turn hostile and
kill to spawn the scary sprites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without
going into a long explanation, your chance at the drop is around 1-2% each time
you successfully do the event.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, cheers to the
Dandelion Frolicker, this week’s MVP.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see it’s
been a little while since my last post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, even if I can’t get my thoughts organized, I guess I should still
write something all the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
been very busy in game, mostly with leveling pets, which has become something
of an obsession for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am so obsessed
with pets, I am pretty sure that I am pretty sure I am going to experiment with
leveling cageable pets and then selling them on the AH, to see if leveled pets
sell better or command a higher price.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have led
off with the most important piece of news first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems my raiding woes have come to an
end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the tanks in team jade (for
new readers, this is my guild’s primary raid group) has burnt out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He approached me and asked if I was up to
taking his spot for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
ecstatic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was way more than I had
hoped for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will now be on a regular
three day a week raiding schedule in SoO normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On top of that, I will be the only plate
wearer in the group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is truly a moment
in serendipity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no idea why I was
approached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a DK in my guild
who is both senior to me and better geared than me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all I know he was approached first and
declined the offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a price to
pay, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our guild also runs flex
two nights a week, and I feel the responsibility to attend these raids, as the
flex raids are the only chance many have for raiding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means I will actually be raiding five
nights a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also need to improve my
game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My SoO tanking experience is
limited, and normal is definitely a less forgiving place than flex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On top of this, our guild is finding it hard
to continue funding repairs, as the bank is being bled dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means people will need to step up and
start doing guild scenario and dungeon runs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Naturally, I feel this too is something I am responsible to help
with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am actually looking forward to
all this increased activity.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I need to work
on my tanking game, it at least seems that I am right where I need to be on my
pet battle game (the PVE side at least).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I beat the tournament in one go this week and now have my second celestial
pet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chose Zao, the baby ox.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt he had the best appearance of the
three celestial pets I had to choose from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have also made the beasts of fable part of my daily routine, and have
gotten quite a few stones as a result, along with a cache of pet treats.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as I need to
organize my writing, I need to come with an organized daily routine and
priority list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this is my rough draft
of such a list:</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Run LFRs,
at least one a day, until I have collected enough secrets of the empire for the
meta-gem in the legendary chain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
should have this done within a week, unless I really get screwed on the
drops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have the trillium needed, so
after getting enough secrets, all I need do is down Nalak and the Thunder
King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Continue capping valor every week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until I am more comfortable with tanking SoO,
spend all valor points on tanking upgrades.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Level
one pet to 25 every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If time allows
continue doing the beasts of fable every day.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clear
Kharazan, Serpentshrine Caverns and Tempest Keep on the three characters I have
capable of doing so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Level, at least
partially, any pets obtained from this before posting to the auction house.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start
PvP pet battling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aim for at least two
matches a day, and record the matches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Take the weekly PvP pet battle quest.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Continue farming on the Timeless Isle.</div>
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This list is in rough order of priority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will work on becoming a better and better
geared tank first and foremost and then pet collection and sales, followed by
breaking into PvP pet battles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Timeless
Isle is pretty low on the priority list, which will take getting used to, as up
until now, it was the first thing I did when logging on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My alts will fall by the wayside for a while.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the most
exciting or insightful of posts, but like I said, it’s been over a week since
my last post and I wanted to keep momentum going.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783087083763505413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637672269703731216.post-23156104393179399282013-10-13T17:56:00.004-07:002013-10-13T20:27:24.210-07:00A Day in the Life...<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
So this is part a vignette, and
part a pet battle guide. I decided to kind of keep a journal of what
I was doing around Azeroth in a 24 hour period, starting with getting
home from work around 5pm the other night. If you couldn't guess,
most of what I did was pet battles, many of them failed attempts at
the Celestial Tournament.
</div>
<br />
Right off, I do my timeless daily,
namely kill twenty rares. I am creature of habit with this one, I
almost always start my sessions of doing this. I then pet battle
good ol' Little Tommy Newcomer. Since I was right there, I headed on
into the tournament. This week's line-up for trainers was Taran Zhu,
Chem Stormstout, and Wrathion. These trainers are decidedly harder
than last week's roster. Taran Zhu alone made the tournament a very
painful experience.<br />
<br />
So let's talk about Taran Zhu. His
team consists of three Pandaren Monks (humanoids) and he always opens
with Yen, whose ability of note is a blackout kick, a stun. This is
countered by opening with a critter, as they are immune to stuns. As
I have mentioned I follow Wowhead's guide, which makes this very
recommendation, and furthermore recommends a snail as the critter of
choice. This part of their guide is fine. The guide also has you
using a blighthawk and a fossilized hatchling as undead pets. There
are two problems here. First is the blighthawk's main nuke, infected
claw, only has an 85% hit chance, which in the world of pet battles
means it will frequently miss, especially when you need it not to.
On top of that one of the other monks has the power to periodically
blind your pet for a turn. The second problem is that the fossilized
hatchling is delicate, and the whole point of having him in the fight
is to bonestorm. I have never gotten off more than one bonestorm
with him.<br />
<br />
After perusing some forums, I
decided to apply a slightly different strategy. I open with the
snail, and instead of using a blighthawk I use a Creepy Crate, which
also has the bonestorm ability. I also make use of the crate's curse
of doom. This is still a difficult fight, but using the revised
strategy it is doable. Any week Taran is up, I plan on tackling him
first, so if things go south I haven't wasted too much time.<br />
<br />
This is the chronicle part. In
order for me to use the revised strategy, I had to go farm for a
snail, since I only had one, and a later fight also recommends snails
(more on that later). Then of course, after farming for just the
right snail, I had to level him, which I did.<br />
<br />
The next part of the tournament that
proved to be a pain was Chi-Chi. I am not sure how I got him last
week, but this week was a nightmare. As I started examining other
strategies, I realized that Wowhead's strategy was off. Their
strategy calls for using an unborn valkyr to lead, followed by two
nordrasil wisps, preferably s-breed ones. So far, so good.
Unfortunately they have Chi-Chi's rotation wrong. They properly list
turn three as when he goes ethereal and becomes immune to all
attacks. They then improperly advise that he again goes ethereal on
turn six, when in fact he does not do this until turn seven. The
long version is that Chi-Chi goes ethereal on turns
3,7,11,15,19,23,27,31... . You don't need to be a mathematician to
see the pattern here, and yes one of my fight's with this jackass
went for thirty rounds.<br />
<br />
The next problem is that in theory
the wisps should evade most Chi-Chi's attacks, since he spends so
much time with a reduced chance to hit from the wisp's flash ability.
In reality, Blizzard either cheats, or the particular Chi-Chi I am
fighting has uncanny accuracy. Wisps are rather delicate and can't
take a whole lot of punishment. Back to the forums for a revised
strategy. I find two. One advised using three snails and another
recommends using a voodoo figurine, a critter with stampede and
something else. Time to go grab and level more pets.<br />
<br />
I level two more snails as well as a
voodoo figurine. For some reason, I also farm a rare arcane eye and
level it as well. I ultimately go with a hybrid strategy. I still
open with the valkyr as before, and use snails for the other two
pets. This works surprisingly well. The strategy has to be executed
in a very specific way, the Valkyr is used exactly as recommended by
Wowhead (Turn1:Curse of Doom Turns 2 and 3:shadow shock Turn4:
unholy ascension). Both snails use acidic goo, ooze touch and dive.
The acidic goo debuff needs 100% uptime on Chi-Chi. On ethereal
rounds, use dive, otherwise use ooze touch.<br />
<br />
I am finally able to beat the
tournament for a week, making this the second week I am victorious.
With all the farming and leveling I did, I acquired a flawless stone+
a critter stone 9both being held in reserve), and a mechanical stone
(used on a tranquil yeti).<br />
<br />
During all this frenetic pet
activity, I took time out for a farming run with my guild to the Isle
of Giants. We spend about two hours there, and I came away with 511
dino bones, a duplicate Zandalari pet and a primal egg. We called it
good around 11pm my time, at which point I was about ready to pass
out.<br />
<br />
Before heading to bed, I remembered
it was the last day the darkmoon fair was in town and so of course, I
had to take a trip there to pet battle. I have been using a Wild
Crimson Hatchling, a Celestial Dragon and a Son of Animus. I have
had decent success with this team. So far no success in getting the
darkmoon eye to drop, but maybe next month.<br />
<br />
So there you have it, a chronicle of
one of Kassandra's nights in Azeroth. I intentionally left out a few
misadventures in LFR, as this is a whole different animal. Some day
when I am feeling particularly mean-spirited, I might rave for a bit
about LFR.<br />
<br />
Peace.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783087083763505413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637672269703731216.post-40786910460047863802013-10-12T02:14:00.001-07:002013-10-13T20:26:54.541-07:00What's in a name?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this
installment, I will tell you about the origins of Kassandra, after all, I did
promise to be more Kassandra-centric in my ramblings.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kassandra in her
original incarnation was born into the World of Warcraft as Cassandra (with a
C) sometime in 2009 during my deployment to Afghanistan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Previously my main was Veluna, a shadow
priest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since starting WoW way back
when, I had almost exclusively played as DPS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All of my alts were damage dealers and Veluna would occasionally heal
with mixed results, but was first and foremost a shadow priest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My deployment brought Veluna’s raiding career
to an end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to play while
deployed, but my internet was unstable and on the best of days I was running
1000ms latency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure I could have
been carried to a degree, but being an effective raider was not an option for
me during deployment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early on though, I
noticed I could usually ‘play around’ the horrid lag in 5 mans and overland
questing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t optimal, but it was
doable.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided that if
Veluna couldn’t raid, I would start a new character and play a new role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tanking was the easy choice; at least it has
some parallels to DPSing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I purposely
chose a character model similar to Vanessa VanCleef.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I was stuck for a while on what her (yes
I play female toons, almost exclusively) name would be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted something feminine, but not
cutesy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted something if not
original, at least not common.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
much thought, and in some desperation, I chose the name Cassandra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will notice that this is Kassandra’s
chronicle and the current warrior spells her name with a ‘K’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is a long story; maybe I’ll get to it
later.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Names are
important to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps it’s my RP
background, perhaps it’s just because I couldn’t stand to play a character
named ‘Chesseburga’ or ‘Qtpie’ or ‘Faxpaper’, all names I have seen in the
game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Azeroth is a fantasy world, and
there is nothing mystical or fantastic about a lame name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Face it; names are probably important to
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who would you rather go on a blind
date with, Brittany or Bertha?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought
so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In game terms, Brittany would be the
female mage, serving as the resident server QT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Brittany would be sure that everyone knew her status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bertha, she is of course the dwarf warrior,
played by a man in real life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
actually unsure or lukewarm about ‘Cassandra’ but I grew into the name, to the
point where I rolled an army of alts with similar names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time I rolled her, I think ever knew
one Cassandra in the real world, and she is the kind of person that is easily
forgettable the kind of girl that guys just don’t think about at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the here and now I work with a Cassandra,
and no she has no idea I have a warcraft character that bears her name.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, Cassandra’s
early days of tanking went well enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is really hard to screw up leveling in WoW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found I like tanking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It forced me to pay attention to mechanics to
a greater degree than DPSing ever did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It also forced me to pay attention to navigation within instances, and
where mobs were and how they pathed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
taught me leadership, which is probably the most important thing I took from
tanking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It taught me to play a very
active role in the success of a group, instead of my former passive mindset.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also found that
as arms warrior, Cass could DPS with the best of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I returned from Afghanistan, I actually
spent more time DPSing then tanking on Cass.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, why is there a
Kassandra?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What ever happened to
Cassandra?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My old guild started going
through rough times and thought a server transfer was the panacea to its
various ills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had Veluna, along with
several other max leveled characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
couldn’t pay to move them all, so in the end, I left Cassandra behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew in advance the server we would be
moving to and rolled a new warrior, Kassandra in her current incarnation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the release of Mists, she surpassed the
old Cassandra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a twist of irony, the
serve transfer did not revitalize my old guild, and Kassandra wound up
transferring back to the server Cassandra was on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Confused yet?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You should be.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s hard to say
what the future holds for Kassandra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
I mentioned earlier, I am not overly happy in my current guild and have begun
looking to see what opportunities are elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have mentally given myself a month to mull
things over, if I am still not happy then, I will leave my current guild, even
if it means I roll guild-less for a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have noticed that warriors don’t seem to be in high demand, either as
tanks or melee DPS by raiding guilds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nonetheless, I enjoy my warrior, and chasing the favored class is always
a losing proposition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the foreseeable
future I will remain Kassandra the warrior, although I will certainly indulge
my alt fetish, just to keep things fresh.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, what is in a
name?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spoke earlier about names, and it’s
worth going on some more about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well we
don’t choose the names we are born with (sorry Bertha); we do choose names for
our characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since a character’s name
is a matter of choice, I have no problem judging you based on your character’s
name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You choose ‘Notatank’ for a
name?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll find I have little time for
you and little inclination to have much to do with you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides names that are purely obnoxious, like
the above examples, there are names that are merely uncreative, overdone or
simply lame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you ever met a rogue in
game named ‘Nightsalker’ you know what I mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nightstalker is probably already taken though, so chances are the
stereotype rogue you met was actually ‘Nnighstalker’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or ‘Nytstalker’ or some other ludicrous
permutation of a fairly lame and uncreative name.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For once I am ahead
of schedule in my blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have so many
ideas floating around in my head; I could probably throw up a post every day
for the next week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will refrain from
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead I will concentrate a
little more on editing and improving my page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If some of what you have read so far seems like drivel, I offer the
defense that when most bloggers begin writing, what they write is drivel, but
that drivel slowly improves.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No promises about
what the next post may bring.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783087083763505413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637672269703731216.post-70288368984256607542013-10-07T17:46:00.001-07:002013-10-07T17:46:32.686-07:00The Archeology Blues
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Archeology is without a doubt,
the most boring profession in the game, its even worse than fishing.
Watching snails race is more entertaining. This is coming from
somebody who actually enjoys farming and understands the purpose of
grinding. I picked up the 'Insane” title+achievement
pre-cataclysm, and archeology ranks up with that in terms of pain.
At least fishing lets you stay in one zone. I swear the taxi guys
made a mint from me.</div>
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My first Indiana Jones want to be
was my shadow-priest Veluna. She went to max cataclysm level, and
then I stopped playing her. I repeated the whole process on a
paladin, and now I have started again on Kassandra the warrior. I am
not sure if Kass will max out or not. I have patience, I deal with
LFRs, I have the insane title, but I am not sure I have the patience
to go through leveling archeology again.</div>
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Thing is I have a rekindled desire
for the crawling claw pet and the Qiraji mount. Since Veluna was my
first archeologist, It's only fitting she be the one to go digging.
Two days later, no mount, no pet. Things about these items, they are
both Tol'vir artifacts, and the digsites only spawn in Uldum. This
means I spent a lot of time flying the length and breadth of
Kalimdor. I didn't keep records, but it seems on the average that
you have to go through four or five digsites before one will spawn in
Uldum. Not fun. On top of that, these items are ultra-rare. I have
read posts here the claim is which rare will surface first is random.
After leveling archeology twice, I say this is nonsense, its not
random at all. For the Tol'Vir the first rare you will discover is a
pendant that allows you to summon a swarm of scarabs. Rare number
two is a very date ring (it was good during early Cata, not so much
anymore). Yes, posters will deny this, but this has been my
experience.</div>
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Not all the archeology items are so
hard to come by. The pets and mounts from fossil archeology seem to
drop no problem, as does the pet from Dwarven sites. This is what,
of course, makes the Tol'vir items so attractive, their rarity.
Things easily obtained, things that are common, at best they are not
valued, at worst they are held in contempt. Case in point, all the
negative press on welfare epics. So in the end, I will keep digging,
because after all I do have the insane title, so I am just a bit
touched.</div>
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Not that two days of digging were a
total loss. For one, while traversing Tanaris, I noticed there was a
sandstorm. I vaguely knew there was some kind of pet in the zone
that only came out during sandstorms. Sure enough, I discovered a
whole bunch of Silithid Hatchlings waiting to be battled and
captured. I was able to snag a rare after a few battles. I also
managed to level from 87 to 88, I did a ton of digging, two instances
and some pet battles to do it. After tiring of Kalimdor, I decided
to continue digging in Northrend, and discovered a Nerubian rare, the
puzzle box of Yogg-Saron.
</div>
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Still two days off archeology have
left me physically tired. Its almost as seizure inducing as bad
anime.</div>
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
In the future I will do my digging
in more manageable chunks. An hour a day or so is more than enough.
Blizzard isn't removing any of the archeology rares that I know of,
so I have plenty of time. When a grind becomes a true grind, its
time to stop and move on to something else. You can always come back
to the grind later.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
This seems shorter than my usual
ramblings, but then again its not really a chronicle of Kassandra,
its a vignette of an alt. Next time I shall endeavor to remain
Kassandra-centric.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Peace.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The title says it
all, from the very first day I set foot in Azeroth, I have felt as if I were
behind the power curve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started
playing Warcraft several months after it was released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I played for several months before I became
even remotely serious about the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
first serious character was a warlock named Tensor, who never even reached the
level cap (he got to 53).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first real characters
were Veluna a shadow-priest and Amikatriel, a rogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Veluna is currently sitting at level 87,
Amikatriel is at 90.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Veluna and
Amikatriel, even when I actively played them, seemed to be more often than not
behind the power curve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Veluna’s raiding
career started in Kharazan, months after it was released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pinnacle of raiding back on those days
was the Sunwell, and Veluna saw the inside of that place a few times in the
last month of the patch, but never was in a group that could down even the first
boss in that place.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrath of the Lich
King was the kindest of expansions to Veluna.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I quickly reached the new level cap and was into the first raid (Naxx)
in no time at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the majority of
the expansion Veluna was right on schedule in keeping current with the
content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then real life happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had completed Naxx along with Ulduar and
was about halfway through ICC when I went on a military deployment to
Afghanistan for a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This brought my
raiding career to a screeching halt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Funny thing is, I had Internet over there, but 1000ms+ latency and
raiding do not play well together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
I did do during this period of exile was roll a paladin and a warrior and try
my hand at tanking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The warrior, of
course, is Kassandra, whom this chronicle is about.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I returned to the
real world and started actively playing Veluna again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was fortunate enough to get invited to a
serious minded raiding guild and managed to be right on track for the Cataclysm
expansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mists of
Pandaria hit, Veluna was abandoned and I again find myself behind the power
curve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kassandra never finished ToT in
normal mode, Tortos was as far as she got.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kassandra has yet to do SoO normal, and has only done the first wing of
flex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being behind the power curve is a
source of angst for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It occurs to me
that some of this is my fault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had I
continued Veluna’s career, I would probably be right on track, but no, instead
I changed characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This might have
not been a problem, but Kass was in an RP guild that never quite got its shit
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kass is now in a casual raid
guild, the one I spoke of in my rant, so prospects of getting current don’t
seem terribly great.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may have
noticed, I am a half-empty kind of guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When life gives me lemons, I do not tend to make lemonade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps all this angst about being
perpetually behind is a self-induced phantasm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let me try a different perspective.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last post, I wrote
about pet battles and specifically about beating the Celestial Tournament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While not a world first, or even a server
first, I am ahead of the curve here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are all kinds of people still beating their heads against the wall
or still needing to level the right pets for this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was reading a blog a bit earlier (<a href="http://www.alternative-blog.net/">Alternative</a>) and this blogger is
still working on the beasts of fable, which is now, as far as pet battles go,
dated content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have the beasts of
fable under my belt and have for a while now.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might be behind
the curve with normal mode raids, but I am right on track with LFR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More than that, I am not doing too shabby in
the gear department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every week of 5.4
has seen several substantial improvements to my gear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a tank my item level is 531 and as a DPS
it is 529.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall, and this is the
weird and wacky world of math, Kassandra has a 536 item level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not bad, this is close to the equivalent of
gearing every slot with gear from flex raids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is more to come too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
an alt that is a blacksmith and has been working steadily since the patch
released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In another week I will have
553 DPS legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still have two coins
this week, and I will probably roll these into next week.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mentioned in my
last post that I actually am wondering what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that in a way, I am actually not
behind the curve, I have some breathing room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have already done all my LFRs for SoO and have around 800 valor points
for this week (its Wednesday as I am writing).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Seems I might be ahead of the curve in some ways.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the things
I have fallen behind in, I have nobody to blame but me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Wrathion legendary quest line is an
example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not a huge fan of PvP and
balked at doing the battleground portion of this quest and eventually decided I
hated the idea of having to PvP so much, that I was just going to toss my hands
in the air and say screw it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
falling way behind, I finally decided I wanted the legendary bad enough that I
would grit my teeth and do what needed to be done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had just done this weeks ago, I would
have my cloak right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobody to blame
but myself.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other things,
raiding for instance, I can blame on external factors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t want to go into a huge rant, but
individual players are hostages to guilds when it comes to raiding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You as a player can do everything right and
everything you are supposed to do, and you may still find yourself on the
sidelines for one reason or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ll leave it at that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, all
you can do is work at the factors under your control and hope for the
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can also look at those around
you and come to the realization that in some ways, everyone is behind the power
curve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are just way too many
things to do and accomplish in Azeroth, so you can be a jack of all trades, but
a master of none.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Until next time.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Peace.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, my last post
was a bit of a rant, hopefully it didn’t quite make into the category of
rage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today I’ll try for something a
little more light hearted, so the topic will be pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may have gathered that pet battles are an
aspect of the game I enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my
earliest memories of the game was discovering an NPC somewhere in Dun Morogh
sold a snowshoe rabbit pet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I simply had
to have this pet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This pet is still in
game and costs 20 silver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in the
day, the days of Vanilla WoW, this rabbit went for something like 5 or 10 gold,
a veritable fortune a level 10 character, and I had to grind mobs to get enough
money to but the thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was my very
first pet and is what launched my interest in vanity pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pet that was the most memorable in
acquiring was without a doubt the disgusting oozeling. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent hours a day for weeks farming him. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fast forward to
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I currently have 426 unique pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>49 of them are max level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have most, but not all of the pet
achievements in the game, minus the PvP ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the week I will make a bona fide try at the tournament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have already made a few forays, and have
figured out how to down Shademaster Kiryn and Wrathion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would like to at least make it through the
tamers and try taking on the legendary beasts this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been hard at work scouring the
interwebz for suggested pets and leveling pets I think will work.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hands down <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/guide=1827/how-to-easily-beat-the-celestial-tournament">Wowhead</a>
has what I thing is the easiest to follow and most comprehensive guide for the
tournament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have most of the recommended pets, but still
need to level three of four to follow this guide verbatim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite my love for minipets and pet battles,
leveling is a bit of a chore and a grind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have worked out
my own strategy for Little Tommy Newcomer, although I am quite sure others have
figured out the same tactic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use
Chrominus, Darkmoon Zeppelin, and Son of Animus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I understand this might be difficult for some
as the Son of Animus is pretty rare and hard to come by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I open with Chrominus, who has the first move
against Lil’ Oondasta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use howl, which
debuffs Lil’ Oondasta so he takes double damage for two rounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oondasta counters with a frill blast, which
does massive damage and does a force swap on your pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your highest health pet is the one that is
swapped to the front line, in my case this is the zeppelin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Round two, I use the Zeppelin to call in a
bombing run and round three I use the rocket attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point, my zeppelin has just a sliver
of health remaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On round four I use
decoy, and then just pummel Lil’ Oondasta with rockets until he finally takes
out the zeppelin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the Zeppelin is
gone, I bring out Son of Animus and use interrupting jolt, touch of animus, and
batter; in that order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far this has
worked 100% of the time for me.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Timeless Isle
rares have stubbornly refused to drop anything at all for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may be I will be stuck buying most of
these critters off the auction house. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The update of the
moment is, I beat the tournament!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It did
take me a few tries and some tinkering around with stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Winning was all the more memorable because my
team lost to Xu-Fu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although my pet pool
for level 25s is not deep, I did some serious thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Xu-Fu was the last battle I had to win, and I
really did not want to start from the beginning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to try the Pandaren Water
Spirit+Chrominus trick, a one I have used on many of the Pandaren
legendaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those who may be new,
the strategy involves starting a fight with the water spirit and casting geyser
on the first turn and whirlpool on the second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the third turn you switch to Chrominus and cast howl, the howl causes
its target to take double damage for two rounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This results in both the geyser and whirlpool
hitting for double damage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This wasn’t
quite enough to kill Xu-Fu, so on round four I cast surge of power and this was
enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used my winnings to buy the
mini Xu-Fu pet and leveled him to 16 the same night.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing I have
noticed in the forums is that a large amount of players are complaining about
the celestial tournament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s too hard
many claim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sucks, it is entirely
based on RNG other say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I side with
those who say rubbish to this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
consider the tournament the end-game for pet battles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>End-game is not supposed to be easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure pet battles were originally made to be
light hearted, and for the most part they are, but the tournament is something
a little different, a little special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
for the RNG crowd, well there is randomness in everything in WoW, from specific
battles in raids, to what gear drops when successful in these battles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure there is RNG involved in the tournament,
but I certainly don’t think it’s to the point of being a show stopper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a lot of work in leveling the needed
pets for the tourney and some work trying and perfecting each teams strategy,
but to me it’s all worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have an
achievement that’s hard to get and was earned, and I have a pet that relatively
few have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things that are easily
obtained, things that are common, are generally not treasured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a note, this
week’s trainers in the tourney were Ion Goldbloom, Loremaster Cho and Sully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, this is what I consider to be the
easiest line up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be interesting
to see what next week brings.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In closing, this
has been a nice opening to the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
admit last week I was kind of down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along
with the tournament victory, I cleared Gates of Retribution and snagged a level
528 mace for my DPS set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The night
before I was able to pick up the 540 tanking trinket from Rook in a flex raid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can only hope the positive momentum
continues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other things I did in the last
few days, completed the master of the ways quest and grabbed the cooking school
bell, and made a Pandaren Treasure Noodle cart.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure what to
do with myself now, just like I’m not sure what I’ll be writing about in the
next installment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure something
will come to me.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I admit it, I have
been kind of stuck on what I would like to write about regarding guilds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After several days of reflection, it occurs
to me that I have some pretty concrete views (some may say odd) on guild
leadership and group dynamics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
always felt that guild leadership carries obligations and responsibilities just
as real world leadership does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as
real world leadership often seems to fail, so too does guild leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s start with a
post from my own guild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The names have
been changed to protect the innocent, so from here on out I will call my guild
‘The Evolution’, this was actually the name of an old guild my wife spent time
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise when I refer to specific
players I will be using aliases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I
am trolling my realm’s forums and stumble across a recruitment post for The
Evolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The post is written by the
guild leader and one quote in particular strikes me right away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He writes, “You should expect a chance to
raid. Either in one of the normal groups (Though Group 1 is filled, to my
knowledge), doing LFRs with others, or the upcoming Flex Raiding that we plan
to hit as soon as we can”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two things
strike me right away here.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First is the whole
to my knowledge thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean this guy
is the freaking guild leader, you would think he might have a handle on whether
a particular raid group is filled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it
isn’t filled you would expect him to have exact and specific knowledge on what
was needed, such as “we have a high need for healers of any type, a medium need
for ranged DPS, particularly an affliction lock…..”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I read from the recruitment post is the
guild leader doesn’t have a terribly firm grip on what roles are needed or the
current compositions of the raid groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This can only lead to bad things, like recruiting a potential raider,
only to give them a bench spot, an ultimately resulting in them leaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad for the player who wasted his time, bad
for the guild that is squandering a potential resource.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second is the whole
expectations thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He launches off with
a fairly strong promise, “You should expect a chance to raid.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far, so good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he goes on to say that this so-called
chance to raid might mean, “doing LFRs with others.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to be a dick, but do I really need to be
guilded to run LFR? No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My whole point
in joining a guild is to raid, real raiding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can remain solo and run LFRs just fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guilds can and should have expectations of
their members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise members can and
should have expectations from their guild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The whole thing is a two-way street, or should be.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This comes into the
responsibility and obligation part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
as guilds and their leaders have expectations of their members, members also
have expectations from the guild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don’t think too many people commit themselves to a guild for the mere sake of
committing themselves to a guild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I
approached The Evolution I was pretty clear about my expectations, I wanted to
raid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was given a trial run and told I
had a spot in raid groups two at the conclusion of the run, so I know I made my
expectations clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things is group two
is down to, like four members, so needless to say we don’t currently raid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the guild leadership is in group one,
which raids current content three nights a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole thing I take away from this current
state of affairs is that the guild leadership is doing well and having fun and
that is all that matters, those outside of group one can fend for
themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, friends and neighbors,
if I wanted to fend for myself, I would not have taken the time to join a
guild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I paid money to server transfer
to be in ‘The Evolution’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I come to raids
prepared with flasks and food, I read strats and watch videos for the content
we are doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I play to the best of my
ability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I contribute feasts to the
guild bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the guild wanted guild
credit for killing the celestials and needed bodies, I came and helped in two
kills, despite the fact I had already done my celestial kill for the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobody had to tell, ask, beg or order me to
do any of these things, I regarded them as my duty and obligation as a good
guild member.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hardly think I
am being unreasonable when I expect that guild leadership will have the same sense
of obligation to its rank and file and do right by them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can they fix raid group two?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There may be no easy answer, but it would be
nice to see they were at least trying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They could for example try to cross-level folks from the first raid
group into our suffering group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
certainly had no problems grabbing the top DPS out of our group to augment
themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God forbid they could even
recruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very least they could be
honest and issue a proclamation that might read, “we the leadership are doing
well and raiding three nights a week, we don’t really feel like devoting any
time and energy to group two, if you have any expectations to the contrary, you
may as well go looking for a new home, because you won’t be doing regular raids
here”.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also looked through some of the recruitment
posts from other guilds, to get a sense of what guilds seem to be asking for
versus what they feel they are obligated to provide to their rank and file.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing that struck me, was some guilds
were very one-sided in the loyalty department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am speaking of guilds boasting that their raid spots are ‘competitive’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is certainly a baseline of skill, gear
and performance that a guild should expect from an individual, but once that is
met, that individual should be treated as a valued team member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Competitive raid spots mean that as soon as
something better comes along, that player loses their spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guilds certainly don’t want to gear up
individuals only to have them move on down the line to bigger and better
things, so why would an individual want to work through content only to be
bumped off the team when a better player comes along?</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This post has
become something of a rant, on top of being delayed far longer than I would
have liked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time to bring this to some
kind of conclusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anyone is
actually reading this, I would love to hear your opinions on how long I should
ride out things in my current guild (a week? a month?? Head for the hills
now???).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long term commitment and
stability are big things to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
been in guild leadership positions before and HATE it when people use the guild
to grab gear and experience and then pack up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No guild wants to gear people to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By the same token, I see little point in remaining in a guild where my
desires are going unmet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I wasn’t
clear earlier, my desires are pretty reasonable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to raid regularly, two or three nights
a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to raid current and
relevant content, it doesn’t have to be heroic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I want to see progression, steady progress is all I want, I am not
looking for server firsts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty middle
of the line reasonable expectations.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, this is
coming to a close, I promise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a
little update first. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last night’s guild
flex raid did not take place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless
something develops tonight or tomorrow, this means an entire week of NO raiding
outside LFR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good times, good times.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay, for real,
rant button to off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next post, no
promises, whatever I feel like writing about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ll try to avoid another rant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this post I
promised I would talk about battle pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I should start by saying that collecting extras and selling them has
gotten me a nice chunk of gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
routinely farm both Kharazhan and Tempest Keep, caging and selling any extra
pets I pick up there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also been
farming on the Timeless Isle, and have managed to get two extra azure crane
chicks and an extra ominous flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
have sold, and most I only had to list once.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also been busy collecting and leveling,
with an eye on the Celestial Tournament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I came into 5.4 woefully unprepared in the pet department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think on release day, I might have had 26
max level pets, most of which were pretty lackluster.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the last few
days I managed to level ten pets, including the Lesser Voidcaller, Ghostly
Skull, Zandalari Kneebiter, and Sunreaver Microsentry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent an hour prowling around Mt. Hyjal
before finally finding a rare Nordrasil Wisp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After acquiring a flawless flying stone, I logged onto a worgen alt and
bought a Gilnean Raven, which I immediately upgraded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this pace, I am really hoping to be
tournament ready by next week, but we shall see.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thing is, the
tournament, along with Little Tommy Newcomer, need thought out teams that have
synergy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew Little Tommy’s pet was
Lil’ Oondasta, a beast, so I figured since mechanicals are strong all I would
need for the win was a team of three mechanicals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things are not that simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to RNG I was able to win maybe one in
four fights with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then checked the
forums and found out, yes, I was doing it wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read some guides, did some thinking, and
now generally win every battle vs. Little Tommy on the first go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even some of the older pet battle masters are
like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other night I was
fighting the Pandaren Water Spirit’s team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I opened with a highland turkey, which is not the pet to open with in
this battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The turkey has a CC, but no
avoidance mechanic, and was destroyed on the third round by the detonation of
both the geyser and whirlpool cast by the fish that the spirit opens the battle
with. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After losing, I healed and tried
again, this time opening with a moth and using cocoon strike to avoid the
dangerous geyser/whirlpool combo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
even this guy requires a team that has some thought put into it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have seen many forum posts where people complain
that fights are too hard, or that everything is dependent on RNG.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I disagree with these posts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My opinion is the great majority of pet
battles can be easily won by using very specific teams and using pet abilities
in a specific order and way.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did try the tournament just to see how it
ran and how far I was able to get, fully expecting not to win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My expectations were met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was pitted against Wrathion, Chem
Stormstout and Taran Zhu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to
down the first two in battles that were fairly close and got torn apart by
Taran Zhu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am confident that with the
right pets and more forethought before entering again, that the tournament
won’t be as hard to win as people are making it out to be.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The right pet
thing can be difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a bit of a
grind to level pets, especially if you try to level a whole bunch of them in
one go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tend to focus on one or two or
day, on days I have to work my day job, and go into all-out grinding on the
days I have all to myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole pet
thing renewed my interest in the Brawler’s Guild, since reaching rank 4 allows
you to purchase Clock’em, a mechanical pet who could be the Clockwork Gnome’s
twin brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stopped doing the
brawler’s thing month ago after reaching rank 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In two nights, without spending much time, I
was able to get through all the third tier bosses and reach rank 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Icy Veins has an awesome guide to everything
that has to do with the Brawler’s Guild, it is the only source I use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a part of me that wants to call
things good now that I have the pet, but the elitist, completionist part of me
will probably win out, and see me back brawling in an effort to reach rank 9. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps my next
post will return to a subject involving guilds, then again perhaps not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t exactly made my mind up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until then.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far my raiding
experiences in the new patch have consisted solely of doing flex raids with
varying sized guild groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first
impression is that the flex level raids are between easy and moderate in terms
of difficulty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guild was able to
clear the four bosses in the first wing the week it opened, a pace that is
reminiscent of Naxx.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course this is
only the first wing, and next week will bring the second wing with four new
bosses, so it’s a bit early to give a final opinion on how difficult flex
raiding is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to say that so far it
is a very nice break from the wipefest that ToT was, my raid group spent
somewhere in the neighborhood of three weeks and fifty attempts downing
Horridon.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those of you
who don’t know, boss drop loot in flex raids is personal loot, so there are no
worries about rolling against other raid members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are trash drops as well, and these
drops are not personal loot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For once fortune
has smiled on me, and from our first week of raiding I walked away with a new
tanking mace (it’s even itemized correctly) and a tier chest (I chose the
tanking version).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On top of this I
grabbed a 535 tanking helm from my adventures on the timeless isle and bought
some DPS pants with valor points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can
assure you that I almost never get gear at this rate, so this is a pleasant
change from the endless failbags and gold from a whole patch’s worth of LFR.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is now time to
turn to the main theme of this post, the semantics of raiding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of you have probably been in guilds that
field two (or more) raid teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
current guild has two raid teams as have several of my previous guilds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some guilds name their teams, most simply
refer to them as ‘Raid Group One’ and ‘Raid Group Two’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guild used to follow the later convention,
and for the curious, I am in group two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As of late, there is a new regime in town in my guild, no longer are we
groups one and two, we are now ‘Team Jade’ and ‘Team Red’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This change is not some random whim on the
part of the guild’s leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
refined exercise in semantics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
change in naming was discussed in chat and the explicit reason given for the
change was the group one+group two thing carried the implication that one group
was better, superior, more important than the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thing is, that this is the case, group
one (excuse me, Team Jade) is superior to gro… err excuse me Team Red.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Group one
is the better group; they are more progressed, have the better players, and
they are the more desirable of the two groups to be in. I know, this is a bold
assertion, but it’s a true one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most
obvious indicator of this is the progress of the two groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The end of patch 5.3 saw Team Jade
frantically making attempts on Lei Shen, the final boss in ToT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same point in time, Team Red was still
working on Tortos, the fourth boss in ToT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This disparity is huge. Playing word games will not change what is.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also discovered
the other week that my raid group has not a single guild officer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s raid, the raid leader and her
assistant have absolutely no officer powers whatsoever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I figured this out because the guild bank was
locked down with no explanation given (I would imagine someone abused their privileges).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The raid leader had to ask an officer to
withdraw food and flasks for the raid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is just bad business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A raid
leader should have at least some officer powers, considering they are
fulfilling a leadership role.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gets even
better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the advent of the new
patch, one of our better raiders was transferred to group one, pardon me, Team
Jade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We already have enough problems
filling our roster, so this did not help us in the least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot help wonder, if raid group two had
all the guild leadership in it, would this have happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guess is no.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could go on, but
you might get the idea that I dislike my guild, and nothing could be farther
from the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite all the issues I
just went on about, I very much enjoy my guild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the issue of disparity between raid
groups is common to most guilds that have more than one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, guilds generally don’t spring into
existence with a full roster of multiple raid groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guilds start with a handful of people, that
coalesce into a raid group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As time goes
on, the guild adds more people, eventually there are too many people for one
raid group to accommodate everyone who wishes to raid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A second group forms, but of course they are
a bit behind the power curve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As time
goes on, the inequality increases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
all, if you were the founding member of a guild that started raiding MSV, and
went on to HoF, how excited would you be to suddenly find yourself placed into
the newly formed group two to wipe repeatedly on the Stone Guardians?</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The easiest answer
to these woes is cross-pollinating the raid groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the studs in the 1<sup>st</sup>
group, can occasionally help out folks in the lagging group, while some of the
underdogs in G2 can come along with the strong group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly this rarely happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem may be too, that there simply are
not enough committed raiders to run two separate groups, which means time to
start recruiting.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enough rambling
for now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next post I want to talk about
pets some more, as I have spent a lot of my last week collecting and leveling
new pets, with an eye on the Celestial Tournament.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think one of
the things I promised in my last post was an update on how well (or not well)
my experimenting with pet sales in the AH was going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had also remarked that one of the new pets
in the game, the Azure Crane Chick, seems to drop from looting crane nests on
the isle about one in twenty times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
data starts to come in, Wowhead (<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/">http://www.wowhead.com</a>)
now has posted some drop rates, and right now they are saying a 2% drop rate
for the crane chick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I have not
managed to acquire another one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did
the Karahzan thing on one of my rogue alt and managed to grab both a Lil’ Bad
Wolf and a Fiendish Imp, both of which I promptly listed for a buyout price of
899 gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also discovered I had an
extra Pandaren Air Spirit, which I also put up for sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following day the imp and the spirit had
both sold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A quick run of tempest keep
had a Lesser Voidcaller drop for me.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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Staying on the
subject of pets, I have decided to make it a priority to level as many pets as
I can to 25, and perhaps next week, I will give the Celestial Tournament a
try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to level a Darkmoon
Zeppelin to 25 the other night, and I hoping by next reset that I will have
around 40 max level pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not
terribly difficult to level a pet all the way up in a single day, it takes
about an hour, and I use the following guide:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://fecklessleader.blogspot.com/p/pet-leveling-guide.html">http://fecklessleader.blogspot.com/p/pet-leveling-guide.html</a>
.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found this site through a link in
the warcraft forums, and after a week of using the advice there, I can say that
this is a guide that works.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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I think a good
main theme for this post should be time, considering I along with everyone else
am probably spending a lot of it at a certain isle that lacks it.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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One of the first
things I have noticed is that a lot of the elites are not so elite, at least
not to an iLevel518 arms warrior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most
of the generic elites are fairly easy to kill one on one at this level, a good
thing since the daily quest requires killing twenty of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rare or named elites are a different story;
you will most likely want a group for most of these if not all of these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also gotten some time in on my rogue
alt who is around iLevel 498, and things are a little tougher for her but still
quite doable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nice thing about the
daily is it gives 50 valor points, meaning just from doing that single daily, I
can knock out 350 valor points in a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On top of that there is a weekly quest on the isle, a kill and collect
type quest, which can be ground out in about an hour or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weekly gives 200 Valor points, so just
from questing on the isle you can grab more than half of your weekly valor cap.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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Here is a brief
rundown of the various elite mobs I have fought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again this is based on my experiences as an
iLevel 518 arms warrior:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Brilliant Windfeather:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An obnoxiously pink flamingo, err crane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Extremely easy fight, his one main attack is ‘Gust
of Wind’, which will sting if you are in front of him, and do nothing if you
are not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>This ability has a two second
cast and is quite easy to avoid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At most
he gets a single cast off in my typical fights.</div>
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</span></span></span>Gulp Frog:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another easy kill, its main ability is ‘Toxic Skin’, which applies a
stacking poison debuff that applies nature damage every time you hit him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One on one they are an easy kill, just make
sure to let the debuff drop off before going off to fight another one.</div>
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</span></span></span>Great Turtle:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He has two abilities of note, ‘Shell Spin’ and ‘Great Bite’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he retreats into is shell move away to
avoid being hit by the spin, which hurts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although a wowhead comment recommends avoiding the bite, I don’t find
this ability to be problematic at all and I simply eat it.</div>
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</span></span></span>Ironfur Great Bull:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very easy, he periodically casts ‘Ox Charge”
which requires you to move out of a very visible ground effect before the cast
completes (it looks like a shaman’s earthquake spell).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s more annoying than painful if you get
hit by it, as it applies a knockdown.</div>
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</span></span></span>Death Adder:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>An intermediate mob, his sole ability is ‘Huge Fang’ which he spams and
which hurts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use cooldowns for this
guy.</div>
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</span></span></span>Foreboding Flame:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another intermediate level mob, he has two
abilities of concern, ‘Spiritfire Bolt’ and ‘Spiritflame Strike’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bolt hurts and should be interrupted or
reflected, and the strike creates a large ground effect (a ring of blue flame),
which will hurt quite a great deal if you are in it when the cast completes.</div>
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</span></span></span>Jademist Dancer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This guy is somewhere between easy and intermediate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His sole ability is ‘steam blast’ which can
and should be interrupted or reflected, as it hurts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These mobs are closely packed and pat about erratically
and rapidly, which is where the difficulty factor comes in, you do not want to
fight multiple dancers.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The above list is
nowhere near exhaustive, but just a run-down of the easier elites on the isle.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s not forget
collecting timeless coins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though
the first week is not done, I am up to 21K coins, so I am guessing in another
two weeks or so I will have enough to pay the requisite 50K coins for a piece
of iLevel 535 gear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A guild run allowed
me to the loot the chest for the freebie burden of eternity, which I used to
make a tanking helm to replace my raid finder helm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just from the three easy dailies (the pet
battle with Tommy Newcomer, the kill quest and the trivia quest) you make 1600
coins a day, and this is less than an hour’s worth of work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The above mentioned mobs drop around 20-30
coins on the average, so you should be getting 2K coins a day for very little
work.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps I will
talk about raiding (so far limited to the flex difficulty) in my next post.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hello and welcome
and to Kassandra’s Chronicle, which I hope will be an ongoing chronicle of my
adventures in the World of Warcraft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had originally intended to start this blog several weeks ago, but due to the
dreaded writer’s block, never got around to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the rules I have set for myself is to mostly limit the blog to my
personal experiences in Warcraft, as opposed to an earlier blog of mine that
wound up regurgitating various tips and tricks published in other bogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This being the first week of patch 5.4, I
already have ample things to write about, so let’s get to it.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well I am not the
best pet battler out there, this is certainly an aspect of the game I
enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the last month I have taken
a renewed interest in this mini-game and have begun leveling pets again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I currently have 33 minipets at level 25, and
of course the goal is to hit 75 for the achievement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also started auctioning my extras and
have found this to be a not bad way to make gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I currently have three level 90s (warrior,
rogue and paladin) who are decently geared and capable of soloing Kara and
Tempest Keep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of these days when
things are slow, I will look into what (if anything) can be soloed in
Serpentshrine and Naxx.</div>
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Running these old
raids has already gotten me two extra Lil’ Bad Wolves and an extra Fiendish Imp
for auction fodder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All three of these
pets sold within a few days for between 700 and 1500 gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This hardly makes me a gold-making master,
but the circa 3K in gold was still a nice chunk of easily made money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing that stands out to me, the AH
deposit on these little beasties is low, a single silver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along with the old raids, I discovered that
the Azure Crane Chick drops from looting crane nests on the Timeless Isle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I have managed to get two, one for my
collection and one that I auctioned for 800 gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My personal estimate of the drop rate on this
pet is one per every twenty nests looted (5%), which is probably an optimistic
estimate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be interesting to see
what the actual drop rate is once there is more data available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also been trying for the pets that
drop from the Jademist Dancer and Foreboding Flame mobs on the Timeless Isle,
so far I’ve come up empty, but it is only day three of trying.</div>
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The patch has
also brought out two more NPCs to engage in pet battles with, Little Tommy
Newcomer and the Celestial Tournament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Defeating Little Tommy is a daily battle which awards 500 timeless
coins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has one elite pet, a beast
named Lil’ Oondasta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I personally use
three mechanical pets for this fight, which seems relatively easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to limited choices, I use an Anodized
Robo Cub, Son of Animus and Robo Chick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s not a pretty fight, but I generally beat the fight on the first try
with this line up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I imagine any three
mechanical pets (as they do extra damage versus beasts) will suffice for this
fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mechs also get a ‘free shot’ as
they instantly resurrect the first time they are killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for the celestial tournament, I haven’t
tried it out yet, as I don’t feel I have a decent enough line up of pets for it.</div>
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Over the rest of
the week I will be working on leveling more pets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A list of pets recommended for the celestial
tournament can be found here <a href="http://www.battlepetroundup.com/">http://www.battlepetroundup.com</a>
.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will also looking to pick more
duplicate pets for the AH and I’ll keep you posted on how well they sell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A caveat I should of mentioned earlier is
that most of my toons are on a low population server, so keep that in mind when
I mention anything related to the game economy.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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So it seems, unintentionally on my part, that
this first post has been very pet-centric. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my next installment, perhaps I will focus
more on gearing or perhaps raids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
again, maybe I’ll come up with some other main topic that is as of now
unbeknown to me.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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Peace.</div>
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