Okay, we finished all the practice jousts and charging, but then we got offered the “dailies”.
One was “A worthy weapon” where you find 4 hyacinth plants and take them to some girl sitting by Drak 'Mar lake. i think I can do that one, but can’t find the lake. I flew to Wyrmrest and headed east toward Naxx, but haven’t been able to locate it.
The second daily - the one where they want you to come up with 15 Aspirants’ seals?
I have two and I’m supposed to have 5 per day, so I guess if I don’t get 5 today, I lose the 2 I do have?
One of the first really tough one in that series is tghe one where you go after Scourges in Icecrown. Well I got one, but died right afterward. This was an 80, and I’m still just a 78 (although in 8% points I’ll be 79) so he was tough to kill.
So my question: Are there any other quests in the Tournament I can do that won’t kill me? If not, I’ll go back to K3 and clean up some other stuff as well.
The lake is off to the north of Naxx; there’s a big staircase leading up from Dragonblight into Zul’Drak and the lake is just southeast of the staircase. Once you get there, you’ll see a little circle in the middle of the lake - you have to go swim in the circle and then you can use the flowers. Don’t forget to click on the sword after you do that - the lady leaves the sword but doesn’t give it to you.
This quest is a bit different day by day - there’s another quest where you kill a fire elemental and then use his spark to free a chick trapped in ice way down in Howling Fjord, and another quest where you go to a lake in Grizzly Peaks and kiss frogs until you find the one that’s an enchanted maiden. (Hope a certain someone isn’t jealous about that.)
There are Scourge all over the place in Icecrown, and they’re all fairly tough, but if you go for the ones near the Argent Crusade’s town in the southeast part of the area, they’re only about 78 or 79th level - it’s the spiders that I think you’ve already fought. Anyway, those guys count for the quest so you might want to go kill them instead of the guys closer to the tournament grounds.
The thing with the 15 seals isn’t actually a daily quest - the seals are the reward you get for doing a daily quest (like the sword or killing the scourge or doing the practice stuff), and the quest for the 15 seals is basically a quest to do the dailies for a few days after which they’ll let you go on to the next part.
ETA: This was in reply to Quasi’s questions about the AT quests.
You won’t lose your Aspirant Seals. You get those as a reward for the other dailies. There are three dailies there, and when you’ve done them enough to accumulate 15 seals, you turn them in to complete the first step in a series of such quest lines.
You can do the various weapon quests without too much trouble. They’re all variants of the “bring somebody in another zone some stuff to get a mcguffin” theme.
IIRC, the other two are a jousting quest where you ride a vehicle (this one is a horse) in a particular area and kill a certain quota of mob types, and the kill undead one. Both of those may be a little tough on a level 78 melee character like your warrior For the latter one, you have to pick your battles and pull very carefully. There are isolated mobs you can pick off without getting others involved. Maybe hover above that area on your flying mount, and watch how the grouped mobs move…time it to pick off a roaming individual.
ETA2: The jousting thing may be at the second stage of that quest series. Tom’s post reminded me the first one is just a generic kill X scourge mobs deal.
BTW, have any other hunters noticed their pets coming into game with really really low health?
Not on zone or on call, I don’t think, but the first time called or if already out, when I log in, my poor pet is low health and, I think, pretty pissed. It’s like he’s mad I left him overnight or something
But as this happens even if I’ve only logged out due to a crash <which I’m getting lots of now, something I’ve never had an issue with> or to switch toons, I am afraid it might be a new feature?
Oh, and there is a bug regarding the Wrathful stuff, but the bug is in the requirements, which are no longer necessary as the season is officially over. World of Warcraft Forums
Blue Post -
So purchase away!
People complain that in two months the next season will start and it will be useless, but as I’m not an arena junkie and only ever had arena points because of Randoms, it is still one up from what I have.
Whether the greens in Cataclysm will eclipse them, as the ones from Wrath did, remains to be seen.
Thanks for the help, Tom and Oak. I got those dailies taken care of (1st time I’d ever done dailies) and got 5 of them done. Also got the blade out of the water.
So I’m right now at 79 (finished up by grinding some Scourge spiders) and heading down the “home stretch”.
I thought it amusing when I got the message after finishing 2 dailies, that I could only do 23 more today!
So I’m told that after 80, one concentrates on gear? How so? Does some magical “gate” heretofore unseen open up in the Auction House?
I also would like to learn how to “farm” for stuff. For instance, “heavy” borean leather is made from normal borean leather by killing off massive quantities of gorillas. Is there then a “recipe” for combining it?
Every now and then I find myself breaking off the questing specifically to go and kill some game which drops the borean leather, send it to Wollkie (“double l”) who then auctions it.
Also I was surprised to see that ice spider silk is a very expensive commodity, and that Cataclysm plans to add archaelogy as one of the professions. However, a pre-requisite to doing archaeology is cooking - have I got that right - and if so, WHY cooking?
I haven’t seen anything world-wide other than the tremors (which I’ve also felt in Durotar and Tanaris). There is an interesting little conference going on in Thrall’s throne room, though (it was probably already mentioned, but I’m in two different Cataclysm/WoW threads here, one on each of at least two other message boards, and a weekly guild diary over at Daily Kos, so I can’t be expected to remember where I heard about what!).
Cooking, hrm…all I can think of is ‘potsherds’ ! Maybe you need to be able to recognize ancient cooking vessels…
And yep, the heavy leather is a recipe you can get from the trainer <if you’re a leatherworker>.
Combines them right up. I’d show you a screenshot but right now the LW profession window seems very broken. I can’t bring it up, though I know it’s there.
and yep, been feeling the shakes in Ironforge, but we just figured it’s either the Dwarves tunnelling too deep or the alchemists blowing something else up again.
*** Edit…either the interface is really slow, or something…by the time I got back from posting this, my LW list had sorted itself out alright. Heavy Borean Leather is definitely there, takes 6 borean leathers to make one.
Visit the leatherworking trainer in Alliance Keep, I believe he has the recipe.
I wouldn’t pick up leatherworking just to make heavy leathers, Quasi. If a leatherworker needs heavy borean leathers, he’ll just buy up regular leather and make it himself. You’ll cash out better by selling both normal leathers and herbs.
The key ring is every key you’ve found that can be reused. They used to take up bag space until they created the key ring – think of it as just another bag. It doesn’t hurt you any to keep all your keys. If you start destroying them you may find yourself locked out of somewhere you’ve previously been if you ever want to go back.
Quasi, the “gearing up” thing you hear about turning 80 revolves mostly around people doing dungeons, raids, or PVP. You accumulate Justice Points for running heroic dungeons, raiding–and possibly a few for regular dungeons, but it’s been so long since I ran anything non-heroic at 80 that I don’t know what rewards are available. Justice points can be used to purchase upgrades to your armor, weapons, and other equipment. For PVP, you earn honor points that work similarly, but can be spent on gear with stats more suitable for PVP. In Cata, there will be a tier of points above Justice/Honor that will be used for some of the best gear in the game short of the best drops from the hardest raids.
For your style of play, gear really isn’t that important. It sounds to me like you do mostly solo questing and/or grinding. For that, you’ll be fine with quest rewards, loot drops, and maybe buying an odd piece off the AH here and there. I would not spend huge amounts of gold on buying gear before Cata starts. Odds are that some of the early quest rewards in the expansion will offer upgrades over what you’re wearing now.
Thanks, guys. I was just wondering what was available to Wolkie after level 80. I have a few alts that I want to play which are in different classes, but didn’t want to leave him completely, being that he’s (IMO) unique as to weapons/dress/mounts.
Point taken about the leather/herbs (need to work on my herbalist skills as Wolkie), but would it be best to let one of the alts do the archaeology then, since the game wants to run that profession with cooking?
I think archaeology is a “secondary profession” - one of those that every character can have, like how you can do First Aid, Cooking, and Fishing on any character in addition to major crafting/gathering professions. So really you could do it or ignore it on any character.
Apparently, da Wolk’ can now kiss frogs without the fear of getting warts. Got all three of my dailies in, and now going for one called “Something About The Squire”. It was great going to Moonbrook last night and seeing the old countryside. And, of course, Heather at the Sentinel Hill Inn, who asks if Wolkie didn’t get her John Deere letter?
Also, I’m not clear as to what “mats” the scribe needs to make my glyphs? Papyrus and a pen, maybe?
Maybe you need to be able to recognize ancient cooking vessels…