Asshat GL story I heard I while back: The guild I was in at the time decided we needed to boost the GBank’s gold supply, and so decided to implement a voluntary “tax” on members lvl 60 and higher. It was no big deal, just a small weekly payment based on your level. In exchange, everybody who paid in had access to repair money from the GB.
One guild member was a little hesitant about the tax because of something that happened in his previous guild. His GL had announced the GB needed more money, and so he asked all the higher-level members to make a one-time deposit of something like 100g into the bank. Everybody did so.
The next day the GL showed up on his shiny new epic flying mount. :smack: Most of the rest of the guild said, “Congratulations. See ya!”
I’ve been doing more actual questing lately on my main (as opposed to just running dailies), and earned [The Summit of Storm Peaks], the achievement for completing 100 quests in Storm Peaks, on 11/21. Then I headed to Argent Vanguard and started doing the quests there. Finally, finally I get to see this “phasing” I’ve heard so much about in action!* I did the whole starting quest chain there, up through the big battle with the cannons, and it’s cool the way the battlefield has remained clear of enemies (and is in fact now littered with undead corpses), and the Argent Crusade soldiers there all cheer me every time I go through there. Then it was off to clear out the three Scourge bosses on the other side of The Breach, and they’re all still dead. And finally, capturing and helping establish the base at Crusader’s Pinnacle. Very Cool Stuff.
- Okay, I guess I’d previously seen some phasing over there with the Sons of Hodir**, what with those various relics in their fortress (Fjorn’s Anvil, Hodir’s Horn, Helm, and Spear) that weren’t there before I did the quests to fetch them.)
** I’m only doing 4 of the 6 SoH dailies now. I’ve been skipping Thrusting Hodir’s Spear anyway, after the first few tries just kept ending with me getting dropped from a height and dying. And I’ve stopped doing the one for the big worg den mother - that one is just boring, following a ghosty worg around waiting for it to eventually find something for me to hit.
So now I’m doing the quest chain for Tirion Fordring (holy crap, he’s … grown … since I “rescued” him back in the Plaguelands) to find a cure for that Crusader who’s infected with the Plague. The bit where you have to go talk to Remulos back at Moonglade appears to be bugged — when I talked to the druid at Argent Vanguard to get a portal to Moonglade, I had to ask her four times before the portal finally appeared. Then for the return trip, it took six or seven tries before Remulos successfully opened a portal for the return trip. In both cases, the NPC would make the gestures and there’d be a poof sound, but otherwise nothing would happen. When it was the druid at Argent Vanguard I figured it was related to the massive lag I was seeing in Northrend (even away from Dalaran), but then I decided it was a bug when the same thing happened in Moonglade.
Anyway, now I’m at Wyrmrest Temple picking up the chain where I left off last night. And … I’ve decided which faction I’m going to grind rep with next. I talked to the Wyrmrest Accord quartermaster and saw what she has to offer … I’mma get me some new pants! And a Tailoring pattern for a 32-slot Enchanting bag (did I mention I’m a Tailor/Enchanter?) and a new 1-hand sword! Okay, I don’t normally use a 1-hander and shield, but the sword is better than the 1-hander that’s sitting in my bank. It’s a shame that the plate chest piece only comes in a tank version, though. But at least the pants will make a nice PvE replacement for the Savage Saronite Legplates I’ve been wearing for a very long time. Does the Wyrmrest Accord offer more dailies than just the one where you fly around on a red dragon and shoot down blue dragons? I’ve still got the Wanton Warlord quest sitting in my log … do more dailies open up when I finish that?
And speaking of rep grinding, where the hell do you go to earn rep with The Silver Covenant? The only Silver Covenant outpost I’ve even seen is the one down in Crystalsong Forest, and there are no quests there. (Interestingly, I recently noticed for the first time that, despite the fact that doing the Dal cooking daily earns Kirin Tor rep, the NPC handing out the daily belongs to The Silver Covenant. What’s up with that?) I’d really like to get Exalted with the Alliance Vanguard, and it appears that the way to do that is to earn rep with the four sub-factions: Explorer’s League (Current status Friendly, 4029/6000), The Frostborn (Friendly, 1378/6000), The Silver Covenant (Neutral) and Valiance Expedition (Exalted). I’ve done, as near as I can tell, all of the Explorer’s League quests in Howling Fjord and Storm Peaks, and I simply don’t think I’ve seen them or their quests anywhere else in Northrend, so I’m not sure how to get past Friendly with them. I’ve done all the Frostborn quests in Storm Peaks, and they only seem to have the one daily (that one’s kind of fun). And as I said, I haven’t seen a single Silver Covenant quest.
On the PvP front, I didn’t do any BGs yesterday, but I somehow ended up in a conversation with a lvl 80 warlock in SW who is an experienced BG participant, and he/she (I never actually saw this person) offered to group with me for BGs in the future, along with a few of his/her other BG partners. I cheerfully accepted the offer, realizing that BGs will probably go a little better if I’m able to actually coordinate actions with a team instead of just having a bunch of disconnected people running around doing whatever looks best at the moment. So we’ll see how that works out.
