Thanks all for the warlock tips - I’ll try your suggestions
My warlock had to waste a bunch of time fishing yesterday. She’s level 62 now and halfway through Hellfire Peninsula, but her Cooking skill was stuck down around 280 so she couldn’t cook any Outland recipes. I managed to raise it to 295 with what little meat I could find on the AH. Then the only recipe I could find to get from 295 to 300 was Mightfish Steak (had to travel to Booty Bay to buy the recipe). Do you know how long it takes to fish up five Large Raw Mightfish? :mad:
And the previous day I raised her fishing score 50+ points trying to fish up 20 Sunscale Salmon in Moonglade.
My level 87 rogue has started in with the cooking stuff at Halfhill, and I’m a little confused. Am I seeing correctly that cooking specific school recipes (as a rogue she’s emphasizing the Way of the Wok) does not raise your overall cooking skill? Her basic cooking skill is sitting at 549, and the one Wok recipe she knows, despite being orange, is not raising either the “general” or the “Wok” skill past 549 (so it looks like the school score won’t go past the “general” score either).
That shouldn’t be the case. Your highest cooking school raises your overall cooking skill to match. You should be able to acquire a skill point from your base Wok recipe to get 550, at which point you get your 275 stat food recipe (good until 575, iirc), then your two feasts (5 skillup for the 10man feast, 8 for the 25man), then your 300 stat food at 600.
It can happen, tho: my cooking skill is currently at 580, yet my highest school skill is at 575 (4 of them, actually). The 5 extra points are from the Darkmoon Faire: that quest raised my cooking skill, but not the individual school skills. I’m not bothering cook feasts until I have a nice pile of leeks, trying to reduce the amount of Stuff in my bags.
Destro Warlocks getting some love in the next patch, more Embers tyvm:
Rain of Fire
[ul]
[li] Aftermath will now grant Rain of Fire’s damage over time effect a chance to generate Burning Embers.[/li][li] Rain of Fire no longer requires Immolate to be present to generate Burning Embers.[/li][li] Rain of Fire’s damage over time will now hit every 1 second (was 2 seconds). The damage animation for the damage over time effect will no longer always display.[/li][li] Conflagrate now generates Burning Embers.[/li][/ul]
Add this to the new Warlock specific quest line to (probably) grant green fire and we are getting a lot of attention.
Don’t forget to do a daily cooking quest at one of the capitols. It’s +2 cooking. I am almost at the same point as you. Cooking 285, with stacks of buzzard meat and ravager flesh and recipes that need 300 skill before you can use. And bear flank turns green at 285 and grey at 295. This explains why bear flank is ridiculous at the action house. One gold for a fucking single bear flank? And the thing is, I have no need for cooking, but I want to level all my skills at the same time.
So the choices are:
Farm bear flank, probably need 50 to move from 285 to 295.
Fish for mightfish from Blasted Lands. (I got a few salmon which is a trainer recipe, turns green at 285 and grey at 295 too. There are also darkclaw lobsters but you need a recipe for those.)
Do a daily cooking quest every day for a week. You can’t do two a day.
So after an hour of fishing, I collect one stupid mightfish.
Lemur, I am pretty sure that you can get a cooking quest in Silithus in that range. Around 285-300, and it’s orange or yellow past 300. It uses sandworm meat, which is easily farmable on the worms all around the zone. Go to the cenarion post near the flight path and the innkeeper there should have the quest for you.
According to battle.net, “smoked desert dumplings”, the sandworm recipe, requires 310 cooking.
Doing a couple more daily cooking quests isn’t that hard. I’m at 391, so that’s just 5. And there’s no hurry, because I’m just collecting the mats for 300+ cooking anyway, I don’t need the food since I’m a paladin and can heal myself.
I’ve been sucked back in to the game. Re-upped about 10 days ago or so. Got my mage up to 88.5, hoping to hit 89 tomorrow to queue for Horseman. I’ve been trying for that damn flying horse for years…maybe this year I’ll get it.
Think I may have screwed myself out of doing all the quests in that first area…Jade Forrest? Something like that. I sort of blundered into that battle quest that destroys the huge statue before I did the Dawn’s Blossom questline, and now there are no quests in that town for me.
Yeah, I think that the huge statue being destroyed is kind of the climax for Jade Forest, although IIRC correctly there are a few quests immediately afterward where you have to try and minimize the fallout.
If you’re 88 though, you probably want to move on to a different zone. On the Pandarian zones, even if you haven’t explored the area, the map of that area will show you where questgivers and flight points are (with little icons on the unexplored areas of the map). That might be helpful as you start a new zone.
There are several questlines in the Jade Forest which are still available after the snake goes boom; if those ones aren’t available, maybe you just finished that thread. Unlike in prior expansions, in this one there are many diverging threads, rather than only linear or only converging ones.
Those exclamation points Runestar mentioned indicating quests you can do will be there for JF still, although there are some which open at level 90.
Still, at 88, I second the recommendation: you’ll get eq with higher ilvl from other areas, making it easier to enter Heroics. I tend to finish any area before moving to the next and my main’s ilvl required a trip to the AH.
Yeah, I’ve pretty much given up on doing every quest in each zone on this toon. I dinged 89, so I’m queueing for Horseman once/day and otherwise questing in Dread Wastes now. DW is challenging, but fun. Any overpull is run away or die at this stage, but such is the life of a squishy mage. I’ll pay those mobs back when I come through with my tankadin in a few weeks.
There are some really interesting DW-zone only buffs given out by the paragons that can really help out with overpulls. IIRC there’s one that gives you what’s essentially a free pally bubble and full heal if an attack would otherwise kill you (3 min cooldown on effect).
Well, I re-rolled over on Cairne just to get back into the swing of things. Decided to stray over to a DPS class, but picked a Shaman because a) never done one seriously before, b) can try out healing if I want to later.
Was able to earn a pretty big sum of gold (at least by noob standards) by just taking up two gathering professions… like way more than my main ever even had back in the old days. Not even a drop in the bucket by endgame standards, but it’s been comfortable.
Not sure if it’s just alt-itis or if I’m just not feeling the Shaman lifestyle though. Thinking of maybe trying a caster, or another drood. Maybe I’ll stick with it at least through 40.
Is the SDMB guild still a thing on Cairne? Do you invite noobs to just hang out and chat while leveling?
My rogue became my richest character by being strictly a miner/skinner, so I learned my lesson and no longer take crafting professions on leveling characters. If I want a specific crafting prof I just wait until I get a character to max level and then powerlevel the profession. I think my priest on Lightbringer, when she hits max level, is going to replace my mage as my tailor. Ever since Cataclysm, I think Blizzard forgot that mages do things other than dungeons/raids/battlegrounds (places they have tanks to hide behind and healers to … heal them. Since the beginning of Cataclysm and continuing into MoP, I’ve found soloing a fire mage to be nothing but frustration.
Speaking of my rogue, she’s questing around Halfhill now. While tracking down hops for Chen Stormstout, I ended up at that farm that’s swarming with virmen. And holy crap, I was repeatedly getting my ass handed to me by those things. I couldn’t attack anything without, I swear, six more of them descending on me. Then there’s the quest where I had to rescue the farmer’s daughter from the virmen. I have no idea how I’m going to do that quest on my characters who can’t stealth. I simply could not attack a single virmen in that warren without bringing another half dozen of them down on me. I ended up having to stealth all the way through, sadly ignoring the plethora of mining nodes in there. I don’t think I can even stand in the entrance and try to pull them 1 or 2 at a time, because there’s a roaming group of three of the little ones (and they seem to be the ones who do all the damage) who seem to run a completely random path, up and down the entrance tunnel and in circles all over the main “rooms” of the warren, and they continually showed up every time I tried to attack something :mad:
Oh yeah, and the Way of the Wok trainer specifically told me that I could find carrots on “any of the virmen around here”. So far, I haven’t found a single carrot anywhere but on the AH.
During the Darkmoon Faire there is a cooking quest that ups your skill by +5 on completion regardless of which level you’re at. Don’t forget that one - it’s worth 5 daily cooking quests! And you just fish up five fish, which are certain catches once you have the quest and fish at the shore on Darkmoon Island.
The three specs are melee (Enhancement), caster (Elemental) and healer.
As for that “rescue the lady” quest, my hunter and warlock did it vewwy, vewwy cawfuwy! And by hiding behind a turtle/blueberry. Squishier classes are planning on waiting until they can fly.
I can’t get to enjoy rogue in groups, but there are many places where that ability to just go sneak sneak sneak what do you mean no pockets to pick sneak sneak past a bunch of baddies is heavenly.
I think it’s only the “original capitals” quests that are incompatible, you can do multiple daily craft quests if they’re Old World, Northrend and Shattrath.
I have found carrots, leeks, turnips and witchberries on mobs, but the best source is of course the farm. You can get dropped/picked along with your crop “gifts” once you open the farm, but can’t get them from Dark Soil; you also won’t get Tiller rep from picking your crops until you’re doing their quests at level 90. But the carrots still grow just fine (well, for tomorrow it’s witchberries - and ftr the daily “special crop” is the same for every toon).
I did the Farmer’s Daughter quest on my mage without dying. Just had to take it painfully slow, pulling one of the larger mobs at a time, and using various healing tricks after each fight…I have both the evocate/heal and cold snap/heal options available, plus food, bandages, etc.
Yeah, I realized my dumbness a little while after I posted. So maybe I’ll give that a go I more meant I might like to try a mage or a warlock.
There’s like a dual spec feature though, isn’t there? Meaning I could switch back and forth between the two specializations without too much hassle if I wanted to play around with elemental? Obviously all my Agility gear would do squat for me as a caster, but it’s probably enough to at least play around.
I more meant I might like to try a mage or a warlock.