Hey, I’m doing the same with my old bank alt! In my case it’s a human destro warlock.
RNG annoyance with the Timeless Isle: My ret paladin has spent enough time there to reach Honored with Shaohao entirely by turning in his daily quest, while my sub rogue, also doing only the daily quest for rep (just not interested in grouping up to grind mobs) is barely past Friendly. But despite the difference in time-investment between the two, my rogue has found a total of five Burdens, while my paladin has found … one.
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(World of Warcraft) has spent enough time there to reach Honored with Shaohao entirely by turning in his daily quest, while my sub rogue, also doing only the daily quest for rep (just not interested in grouping up to grind mobs) is barely past Friendly. But despite the difference in time-investment between the two, my rogue has found a total of five Burdens, while my paladin has found … one.
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I’ve seen some of that too. My main is pretty much completely done with TI, and while he was grinding there the Burdens just rained down. I still have one in the bag. I guess I could replace the LFR necklace with a Burden-upgraded Timeless Lavaliere, except those seem to have completely stopped dropping. :mad:
On the other hand, the only Burden any of my 4 alts running TI have ever seen is the “guaranteed” one in the Blazing Chest. And appropriate token drops for whatever class each alt is seems to be pretty unlikely, it seems. I don’t know how much gold I’ve spent mailing tokens around to try to distribute them to toons who can use them.
I don’t understand why the RNG turned on me, except that it’s random. But I like the T-shirt my son has: “The dice are trying to kill me!” (with pictures of polyhedra dice showing various critical fail rolls).
I finally ambushed my last lowbie and got the Arena Grandmaster trinket and achievement. Whee.
Haven’t been to TI in over a month and I don’t miss it. I still want Huolon’s mount, but I’m also still chasing 6 other mounts (Deathcharger, Fiery, Blue Proto, TLPD, Al’ar, and the Stonecore one).
I also just decided I want Exalted with Hellscream’s Reach for the two pets and two mounts, and that I want to stockpile a crapload of Pandaria herbs and ore for my alts just through my main’s garden.
It’s random impulses like these that have kept me busy 15 months after hitting 90 despite not being a raider.
I’m still working on my rogue. Hit 80 yesterday, mostly from BGs/Dungeons. The WotLK dungeons are ridiculously easy these days. People are doing 2K dps from the low-mid 70s now. That used to be the threshold for heroics. Boss mechanics have been nerfed…or maybe I’m remembering the heroic versions. That one boss…the one guarded by three “forgotten ones” or some such…that used to cast a spell that made the party fight duplicates of themselves…doesn’t do that anymore. Is just a simple tank & spank now.
After months of grinding, I finally got the left half of the Bindings of the Windseeker to drop. Literally, 6 months of weekly solo Molten Core runs after when the right half dropped off of Garr.
I was so jaded that I when I looted Geddon, I saw the bindings and there was no elation, no joy. You’d think an exceedingly rare drop would elicit some happiness.
No. Just relief. A thought very much like “at last, the long nightmare is over” went through my head.
After that, it was just grinding out the 20-odd arcanite bars I needed for the rest of the recipe.
I have to respect the insane dedication it took to get this legendary back when you’d have to pull an entire 40-man raid together to farm the bindings. Compared to that, I had it easy, since the only thing it depended on is whether I gave a damn that particular week.
I am never setting virtual foot into Molten Core ever again.
Next legendary: Sulfuras. I have everything except another 47 arcanite bars. :smack:
Got the Proven Healer title on a druid alt that I barely remember how to play. Still bitter that I can’t do it on my priest, but priests suffer so much from downscaling in Proving Grounds (whereas druids remain pretty OP at ilevel 463). It just can’t be helped. Doesn’t matter I guess, since the title is account-wide. I can wear it on my priest… and warlock and mage, heh!
So anyway. Other than the quest for the legendary cloak, which I’ll complete within the month (on titan runestones now), I’m pretty much just marking time until the next expansion. I’m wondering which healer is most likely to be OP in WOD. I have all 4 at 90, so I can pick whichever I like to level first. I feel like disc priests have been in the sun for so long that we’re due for a nerfbat…
I finally reached exhalted with the Kirin Tor Offensive, so I got my Primal Direhorn mount. Nothing better than being a hunter riding a Primal Direhorn with a Direhorn pet and a baby direhorn companion.
I’m still trying to figure out if there’s anything worth crafting for blacksmithing. I’ve got enough balanced trillium to make one of the epic pants for sale, I’ve already got a set to wear (and two legguards of winged triumph in the bank, thanks RNG). With Trillium at around 10 gold each on my server the mat cost is 1120 gold, and pants are listing for around 10,000. I guess there’s not much point in making lighting steel anymore, since I’d just be turning living steel ingots into weapons and reselling it for almost no profit. And you can barely give away blue 476 gear.
I’m really not bothering with my warrior’s blacksmithing. He hit level 90 and 600 BS too late in the expansion to make it worthwhile to make much of anything. I did just remember a couple days ago that he could socket his bracers and gloves, so I did that. Mostly he’s just mining (and “growing” on his farm) and smelting ore, then sending the results to my paladin/alchemist to convert into Living Steel, which my warrior then simply sells.
Three of my 90s are in full Tyrannical PvP gear; two of the three who are not are only missing rings and trinkets, which are useless for transmog (really the only reason I collect the gear), so with the new PvP season coming up I think they’ll just save up their Honor to purchase the Grievous gear when it becomes available for HP. My remaining 90, my tauren paladin, is still missing a couple transmoggable pieces, so hopefully she can pick those up before the current gear goes away.
I’m trying to level up some battle pets. Just got my primary team to 25 across the board, but I need to bring up a lot of low-level specialty pets. For instance, Terrible Turnips for safe captures.
I uncovered a cheap little trick to powerleveling a low-level (level 5+) Turnip.
Make him lead pet in a team with 2 25s. I’m using an aquatic (I forget which) as the main fighter, since it has good damage output and self-healing.
Pick a fight with a level 23-25 pet. (If the Turnip is very low level, pick a lower-level opponent. A turnip is very slow, so it has to survive its opponent’s first attack.)
On the Turnip’s first attack, nuke the opponent team with Sunlight. Odds are good every pet on the opponent’s team will be tagged for a smallish amount of damage.
On the next turn, switch out to your main fighting pet and win the fight.
The Turnip tagging all opponents of significantly higher level will yield craptons of experience. My first fight with a level 5 Turnip dinged him to level 9 in one fight.
Even now, at Level 13, it’s 2 levels every three fights.
You don’t actually have to hit all of the opponent pets, you don’t even have to hit any of them. If a low level pet ends at least one round as the front-line pet it will get full XP. And if you have any non-90 alts you can get quite a bit of XP for your toon too; about as much XP for a battle as for a normal quest for your level. There are plenty of times during leveling when it’s faster to pet-battle rather than quest for toon XP.
Once you build up a bit of a stable you can use 1 or 2 lvl 25 pets on the Pandaren tamers with a low level pet along to soak up all the XP and level very, very quickly.
Huh. Live and learn. Even in the context of WoW, ignorance is fought and occasionally vanquished.
Still, I’m have some uncertainty about the part I highlighted. If my lowby initial pet is slower than my opponent (as practically guaranteed for a Terrible Turnip), if I switch him out immediately after taking the first hit (instead of attacking or passing), would that count? Or do I have to either pass or attack on my 1/2 round and withdraw in the next round?
All things being equal, if my choice is to pass or do something useful, I’d rather do the latter, even if the net effect on XP from participation is the same.
For pet battles I used to rely almost exclusively on a tag team of lashtail raptor and/or sand cat with “devour”. Since critters are one of the most common types, they slice through a critter and end up with full health. Just stick the pet you’re leveling out for one round, and the other two eat the other team.
This doesn’t work against the epic trainers, for that you need specialist type matching. But for normal capturing/leveling it works great.
Sure, better to do something rather than nothing. There are certain trainer battles where you know when the opponent is going to do a non-damaging move so you can swap in then out a low level pet and take zero damage. If you start the battle with the low level pet then they either have to attack or pass to get XP.
Xu-Fu is also amazing for the same reason (and part of my team for grinding around Halfhill). Prowl & Feed will one-shot pretty much any of the wild critters and heal to full. Put a flyer in the 3rd slot to take out the aquatics and you’ll almost never have to run to the stable master to heal.
Makes sense. And also, to some extent, explains why it felt like your advice had limited applicability. I’m not doing trainer battles. I’m still trying to complete my world capture and battle achieves, so I’m focusing on wild pet battles while leveling my stable.
I only just finished the Outland trainer overall battle and I haven’t challenged any Grandmaster trainers. TBH, I’m just not at that point yet. (Largely because I don’t have a wide enough variety blue 25s of all appropriate familes and breeds.)
Proving that it’s never too late to learn something new … I recently learned something new about playing my Ret Paladin (123 days /played). I had always reserved Hammer of the Righteous for those times that I found myself fighting more than one mob, simply because it was one of my few AoE attacks. It was only a couple weeks ago that I finally noticed that HotR has a secondary effect, Weakened Blows, which reduces my opponent’s physical damage output by 10% for 30 seconds. So I’ve started using it in every melee situation now, using it in place of my first Crusader Strike.
On another note, are there any skilled Arms Warrior players here? Because if my Arms warrior has a genuine stun in his toolbox, I’m going blind trying to find it. I’m looking for the warrior equivalent to my ret pally’s Fist of Justice or my rogue’s Kidney Shot. The stun that will interrupt those “uninterruptible” spells.
Ah, that’s why I couldn’t find it - I was just looking at skills, not talents. So my warrior’s Thunder Clap apparently normally works just like my paladin’s Hammer of the Righteous, but I can add a stun effect with a talent.
My rogue hit 85 last week, so it’s time for Panda Land. Again. I’ve been leveling mostly through bgs and dungeons, so I’m maxed out at 4K honor points. Got my eye on the lvl 85 pvp daggers. They’re much better than the heirlooms I’ve been using. Is it worth it to get them for the grind to 90? Will they be replaced soon? I need to buy something to burn some honor points, and I’ve got all the mounts…
