When do we get to kill the final boss in LFR? I need his drop to advance the legendary…
I do like how easy LFR has been so far, though. I enjoy just zipping through LFR to see the content without the hassles of the regular version. Think I burned out all my hardcore circuits back around Everquest II or so.
Early January I think, but unless you’re sitting on 125 Abrogator Stones the drop from Imperator is not what is limiting your progress on the legendary quest.
Treasure seeking:
Has anybody else completed the Frostfire Ridge treasure-hunting thing with the “Young Orc Traveler” and the “Young Orc Woman”?
Gave me the feels (as the kids say today).
I also just completed the Shadowmoon quest chain wherein Velen mumble mumble K’ara mumble Y’rel … for the second time, and found myself with tears in my eyes, again. Anybody else? (Trying to avoid spoilers, sorry.)
Oooh, I know the storyline you’re talking about, that was very emotional wasn’t it? I got a little choked up watching that. (Maybe the first time I ever got choked up playing WOW!)
I am not sure about the Orc Travelers though, I haven’t seen many, if any, quests in Frostfire. I’m not sure I’ve even mapped out the whole place.
I’ve done a lot of the treasure-hunting, though… enough to get the 200 Treasures achievement [Master Treasure Hunter] I think it was? There are some REALLY tricky ones, here and there. Some of the tightrope-walking ones in Spires of Arak were very frustrating! Others that fell along zone borders would be confusing - you’d have to enter from some obscure cave in Nagrand, and follow some tunnel under a mountain into the next zone, that sort of thing.
And then there were quite a few treasures in Nagrand that required using those gliders. There’s still a handful of those that I haven’t bothered getting yet.
Well, I got choked up with the original Darrowshire/Little Pamela storyline in Eastern Plaguelands. It was such a touching story, and one of the coolest things about this game. I think it’s a credit to Blizzard that, in a game about WAR, they throw in these little touches that remind us that WAR SUCKS. I don’t know if you ever did the original Darrowshire quest line (the new, shortened, easier version just doesn’t have the same emotional impact), but Cranius did a great song (he didn’t write it, but he made it famous) and video for the story:
I don’t think there are any Alliance quests in Frostfire, but we can still loot the various “treasures”. The “Young Orc Traveler” is one of the treasures:
[spoiler]In the middle of Frostfire, you find a “Young Orc Traveler”. He’s dead. Rifling his corpse, you find a letter from a young female orc — his beloved. He and she are from different clans, but they are in love, and have made secret plans to meet and, eventually, marry (he was a hunter, she was a trapper, and they met when they accidentally ended up almost killing each other). But … dude’s dead. There’s no quest given, but if you later find the “Young Orc Woman” (also dead) and rifle her corpse, you’ll find a letter from him. If you still have the stuff from the Young Orc Traveler, you can combine the two, and you’ll get a +AGI neck piece (useless to my human paladin, obviously, but it will be useful to my orc rogue, now that I know what to do). But, storywise, it was kind of a Romeo & Juliet thing. The young male orc died to a random wild animal attack; the young female orc froze to death waiting for him to come to her. It was tearjerking.
It doesn’t matter which order you discover them.
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In other news, I got my 10th toon to level 90. I had eight 90s at the end of MoP:
Human female ret paladin (my very first toon, and still my main)
Night elf female shadow priest
Draenei male arms warrior
Draenei female fire mage
Human female subtlety rogue
Night elf male beast mastery hunter
Tauren female ret paladin
Orc male subtlety rogue
Shortly after WoD dropped, I got my dwarf female protection paladin to 90 (though I haven’t done much with her since then). And, finally, yesterday my human female destruction warlock hit 90. I elected to not have her learn MoP flying, since she’s going to go directly to Draenor (well, eventually). Learning MoP flying would just be a waste of gold; she only has about 8k gold. Of course, without flying she can’t do Tillers dailies …
And that gold thing is going to be an issue in WoD. I’m pretty sure my level 100 paladin has already spent close to that much just building her garrison. And earning gold seems to be a problem in WoD. I think Blizz is deliberately trying to suck some excess gold out of the economy. Of course, that isn’t going to stop people from trying to sell crafted purplez and purple BOEs for 30k+.
But speaking of my paladin’s garrison, she upgraded her Barracks to Lvl 3 today, and her Dwarven Bunker to Lvl 2. She’s questing in Nagrand right now, and just did the Ring of Trials quests. Those were hilarious — I loved listening to those ogre “announcers”. But I was kind of disgusted that the final reward was some bracers that were a downgrade for me. Though they probably wouldn’t have been a downgrade had I not gotten a “rare upgrade” on the quest reward bracers she had.
Delvar Ironfist is still the only follower I have who can fill the “bodyguard” role with my barracks. Though it’s kind of cool having him follow me around. He and I fucking lay waste to everything we encounter 
I just wish he was … some other class. It just feels “weird” having a DK tagging along with my paladin. Yeah, yeah, I’m a “Wrath baby”, and I know that the final raid rep faction for Wrath was the “Ashen Verdict”, a collaboration between the Argent Crusade (mostly paladins) and the “Knights of the Ebon Blade” (Death knights).
As a major annoyance, I found the vendor selling PvP gear at 50g for each piece. I said, “Hot damn! 660 gear for gold!” and eagerly decked out my paladin to the tune of several hundred gold … only to discover that that particular gear is only usable in “War games”. And you can’t even use it for transmog :mad: That 2h sword looks fucking cool.
I’m also kind of annoyed to discover that I can’t upgrade my garrison Inn to Lvl 3 without doing all of the dungeon quests.
I think they changed that to only require about half the quests now. Lvl 3 doesn’t really seem to be worth it, though. Only gives access to some gold reward quests, I think. I quit running heroics on my main since the loot stopped being upgrades for me.
Just upgraded my Salvage Yard to Lvl 3. Looking forward to seeing some of those rewards I’ve read about.
On the downside, I might get a little playtime tomorrow, but then I’m traveling for Christmas and won’t get to play for several days.
With my Dwarven Bunker, I’m still trying to understand the logic behind what qualifies as “Iron Horde” for the purpose of collecting “Iron Horde Scraps”. I’ve killed a bunch of brown orcs, but no scraps.
It would appear that Blizz “hotfixed” this “trick”. Yesterday I ended up with 18 Fat Sleeper Eggs, and tried to deposit 8 of them in my bank, and I got the message “Can’t split this stack”.
I dunno. In the fashion of proverbially useless forum posts, I’ll just say “it still works for me”.
It was working for me just a couple of hours ago. I had a partial stack in the bank, butchered some fish I caught, and separated out a stack of 10 and a stack of 7 and banked the seven.
Maybe a stack consisting purely of eggs just-now harvested from fish can’t be split, but a stack starting with eggs that could be stack-split still can be?
Huh. I split a stack of eggs just this morning…
Do the mounts we train for the stable quests ever become regular mounts? Seems like I’ve been training them an awful lot for no real purpose…
I managed to split one the last time I tried. Don’t know why it wouldn’t let me do it that first time.
My orc rogue, Dugramm, finally finished Frostfire Ridge last night. Very surprised to discover that the ending cinematic for that zone was considerably easier than the one in Shadowmoon Valley. The major difference was similar to the general questing difference between the two zones. In Frostfire, it seems you constantly have NPC helpers on quests (which, as a subtlety rogue, mostly drove me nuts - hard to be stealthy when your “helpers” keep pulling aggro), whereas in Shadowmoon you have to do almost everything solo. Same thing with the ending scenarios. Big crowd of allies in Frostfire; soloing everything in Shadowmoon.
I think I may need to investigate 5-man dungeons this expansion, after sitting them out for the last two.
So, no questing in Tanaan Jungle? I finished up Nagrand and expected a cookie crumb quest to Tanaan Jungle and couldn’t find one. Then I hit up the WoW forums and found posts from the end of November saying Tanaan wasn’t open yet and that maybe it’ll come in a new patch.
Anyone know anything about it?
Scenario. I meant scenario. :smack:
Tanaan Jungle is to be a level 100-only zone, to be opened up in a later patch. 6.1?
ETA: Oh, and as an erotic spanking enthusiast, I was delighted when, after entering Gorgrond, I met a female goblin NPC named Jenny Clobberbottom
You recruit her as a follower shortly. Have fun leveling your 'Bottom!
I’ve been off getting married and getting sick (totally unrelated :D), so no recent major in-game news for me. I did get the Southshore Slayer title last night by winning my first (and only) Tarren Mill vs. Southshore battleground, though. My first slice of Shadow Priest DOT pie was served to me at the pond there many toons ago, so the win felt pretty good.
Yes, they become “Trained (animal)” In your normal mount list. My Orc typically runs around town on the snarler wolf.
How long does that take? The last mob I killed while training was Ironbore–something like that–a borer worm on the beach in Nagrand.
You can get the six trained mounts, and then do the Nagrand bosses again with the Claw item in your inventory (6 bosses x 6 mounts) for a Frostboar mount. I got that one today.
From the WoWHead Stable Guide: