A new day has arrived. I’m quite tired from my wacky schedule, but not super down any more. Thanks for the cool comments.
Last night, the best I managed was sending Grimr all my herbalism mats and getting his alchemy up over 100 before I ran out of briarthorn and earthroot. AH was empty of those mats, of course. I also got him to lvl 33 in a few minutes in STV with the gorillas just south of the first bridge. I forgot how easy it is to solo a hunter. I’ll tame a gorilla and a raptor tonight to learn some new skills. Then I hope to borrow a priest for a bubble and tame an elite in STV for their HP bonus.
Why am I wasting time with an alt’s alchemy? It’s a quick story about money. It costs too much money to solo a warrior on Kargath right now. In order to solo with good XP returns, you have to fight within 2 levels of your toon, and while questing, adds are just going to happen. If you play for 4 hours, it’s easy to go through 15 major health potions in addition to all the bandages, which usually drop off humanoids. This really wasn’t too bad when the potions were going for 4g 40s per stack of 5. I got on 3 or 4 days ago and found the lowest price was 8g, all the way up to 19g per 5 stack. It’s not going to happen, people. I don’t know what happened in Azeroth to warrant such inflation, but the mats are incredibly expensive now, too. All my Auctioneer stats on pricing for the mats were WAY off, showing a 100%-300% increase in prices from what they were just a day or so earlier.
Zapit, my mage, is level 16 and maxed out his alchemy at 225 until he levels to 20, which probably isn’t going to happen. I don’t like mage very much at all. I can’t do the mental/gameplay switch from a “hit me” attitude to not wanting to take any hits. Bottom line: I suck at mage.
Since Grimr is so close to 35, had good bags and gear, is a member of FoA, and is an easily soloable class, I’ll take him to 300 alchemy for my potion needs. With Gitr as an herbalist with a mount, things should fall into place in short order. Shoot, then I can make money off the potions that everyone is gouging me with now. That should be satisfying.
My big fun was buying Gitr a dual-wield set of Dawn’s Edge axes. I didn’t get much time to try them out. What I was really looking for was a good price on dual-wielding Flurry axes, but the only one that I saw was 395g. That’s just nuts. I’m not paying 800g for my weapons at my level, but if someone were to give them to me… LOL. As if. I flew down to Searing Gorge and tore my way down from Thorium Point to the second watch tower without popping a potion or stopping to use a bandage. My rage level was so high, I was able to disable, demoralize, sunder, and strike each and every mob like a weedwhacker through melted butter. Okay, maybe not that fast, but that’s what the Flurry axes will be like when I get them. I’ll look into getting Tox to do a +15 Agility enchant on each one and watch the damage soar.
It seems that there is a niche for me in high-level instances as a Fury warrior. Talion and Tox actually seem excited about seeing what a true Fury warrior can do, especially after they started comparing my STR stats with our MT’s. Get Gitr in some high-level gear and watch him go to town. I will certainly hit 54 this weekend, but probably not tonight if I’m concentrating on Alchemy and Herbalism. I can’t farm herbs in the zones that give me XP unless I spend a couple of hours working my way from Arathi Highlands herbs on up. What I need for the healing potions are around 270 skill, I think.
Have a good one.
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