That still happens, sort of, but I consider smelting copper to be highly useful when starting Mining, at least when you’re leveling a character. You don’t get to mine Tin until 65, but if you don’t spend a few hours explicitly hunting nodes you’ll start running into Tin long before you’re able to touch it. Smelting a few stacks of copper to at least get you to 40-45 (47 is when copper turns green, gray at 70) speeds up the process significantly.
In your case, it’s probably not as good as skilling up entirely by mining, but the money you can get for copper isn’t really worth the time investment post-60 IMO, and Smelting to accelerate your Mining Skill helps you get out of the lowbie zones faster and get out of their hair.
I recently leveled mining on my Shaman (to go with her Engineering), and nowadays you can infact get through a lot of it by smelting. There are a few bits here and there where everything is gray, but you can get very large chunks of the low level minerals done by smelting. I’m pretty sure I got the whole Mithril levels done just by buying it from AH and smelting it.
Of course the old world minerals are expensive as all hell and you’ll easily end up spending 400-600g just to get to the point where you have to start gathering Thorium for skill ups, so I wouldn’t exactly recommend it unless if you have more money than you can spend on your daily dose of blood elf hookers and blackjack. Leveling mining by gathering ore is by far the best option.
Yeah, I’m primarily thinking of the first 65 points in which you can only get copper. Once you can get Tin (and Silver shortly thereafter), your earning potential goes up dramatically, and it becomes a lot easier to skill up, especially since Copper gives you points until 100.
Took my paladin to make a second attempt at egg hunting, and brought along my Black Mageweave Vest and Leggings just in case I got “bunnied”. I did, and got the picture! No bunny tail, though
Found the Elegant Dress in my first egg, and eventually found the full Tuxedo. Kissed a female dwarf in her Elegant Dress while wearing the Tux under my own Dress to get the Blushing Bride achievement. Hid an egg in SW. Ate 25 chocolates. Bought the Spring Robes, planted a flower in Badlands, and now I’m in Kalimdor to plant flowers in the other four deserts.
Re: the Hard Boiled achievement - can you remain in bunny form while flying or riding, or do you have to hop and boat all the way to Un’Goro? Sounds like a royal pain if so! No wonder the “buff” lasts an hour.
Yeah, I’ve gotten very little skill mileage out of smelting. Unless you manage to learn the smelting skill at precisely the skill level it becomes available, it’s not going to help much. By the time I’ve found enough of a particular ore to make it worth going back to smelt, the smelting skill has already gone green. I once smelted 49 bars of thorium while it was green and gained 1 whole skill point.
If you just get yourself to Un’goro, chances are decent that someone else is there doing the achievement, too, and you can party with them and use the Blossoming Branch to turn each other into bunnies.
And failing that, you can always set your hearth to Silithus (or Gadgetzan), go back to open some eggs, get turned into a bunny, hearth back to Silithus (or Gadgetzan), then hop to Un’Goro from there. Takes some planning, obviously, but also gets the job done if you can’t find anyone willing to bunnitize you, and without having to run across the entire continent.
We’re not going to dismiss you for anything, Quasi. It’s just that I tend to skim song lyrics instead of actually reading them, and I don’t think I’m familiar with the song you posted, so I would be pretty useless in commenting on it. Just a hint, though…be careful about posting the full lyrics to a song on here. The mods are likely to take it as a copyright violation and snip them. I don’t think, knowing your situation, they’d punish you beyond a gentle reminder about copyright, but better safe than sorry.
I can’t comment on the music, I tend to play while listening to Dropkick Murphys or Glen Miller as pandora seeds. There’s something that just feels right with the current content and big band music, or maybe I’m just weird.
I was just having a better day than usual yesterday, and got caught up in it, I reckon. When you live alone and are dealing with crap like this, believe me, you hold on to the reins of those days and ride them out.
I am so fortunate to have friends like you and jay who understand this and are willing to cut me some slack.
Quasi may I add to the other posters to say that I am really enjoying reading your posts? It is like we are levelling up with you, we can imagine it so well because we have all been to those areas you are currently questing in, some of us many times.
I haven’t put the hours in as many of you in this thread but I do have a level 23 Warlock, a level 40 Paladin and my little Dwarf who is only level7. Do you know what I did for the first time last night? I watched my toon fighting from an angle other than the behind watching his back. Why did it take me so long to do this? It’s bloody amazing! When Vengeance kicks in and the hands begin to glow the highlight so far. I feel rather dumb.
I aim to tackle The Scarlett Monastery soon what is the closest inn for the Alliance? Currently in Stormwind so it is going to take a while to get there.
Now that’s a long way which means I’ll have to spend an evening riding there and log off in the wilds before tackling the instance another evening. A shame.
It’s just that I tend to skim song lyrics instead of actually reading them, and I don’t think I’m familiar with the song you posted, so I would be pretty useless in commenting on it. Just a hint, though…be careful about posting the full lyrics to a song on here. The mods are likely to take it as a copyright violation and snip them. I don’t think, knowing your situation, they’d punish you beyond a gentle reminder about copyright, but better safe than sorry.
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