Gitr

I had a really good night last night, despite running for 3 or 4 hours without any XP. Tox told me to go to Eastern Plaguelands and run up the river to get 3 kill quests. Those are my favorite kind. It’s like grinding with a bonus at the end.

The quests included demon dogs, bats, and meat from the grubs. Tox had dibs on evil bat eyes for the faire and Tal wanted larval acid. On the way to pick up the quest, as everyone will discover in that zone, the bats use fear. The area looked way too populated to feel comfortable fighting 2-4 levels higher than Gitr solo, let alone adding the danger of fearing.

I quickly found a level 60 NE hunter, named Kyeri, who was wandering around doing the same quest line. We decided it would be beneficial to share our 60 kills instead of needing to find 120 beasts between the two of us. The added dps would be a big help, too. And it was. We made quick work of most of the line. The drop rates on the carrion grubs was terrible for me. It seemed like if it was her turn to loot, there was a slab of meat. If it was my turn, nothing at all.

We ran into some problems with the resident Elite bat, Duskwing. We were fighting a couple of mobs and stopped to Thottbot something, when out of nowhere, Duskwing aggroed us. Neither of us would have made it, but hunters have this really cool thing called Feign Death. @#$@# ability. That’s for chickens. LOL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Having absolutely nothing to do with my night, except I encountered this on the way to help a couple of guildies in the Barrens, this situation had me laughing out loud. Notice the name of the elf on the right. Now look at the name of the guild of the human on the left. Now that’s classic. I REALLY want to know if that was planned, or if you can just guild yourself real quick while running around. If it’s 15 minutes of fame Baal is looking for, he got it.

While I was in AH doing a scan and buying hundreds of gold worth of goods, I got a request to go to Razor Fel Kraul. Having never been there, I asked some questions and found out that it is a little easier than Razor Fel Downs that I ran earlier in the week. It would be helping a couple of lowbies, 20s hunter and 20s warrior. One of them is an alt of a 60 warrior in the guild and the other is a great young guy just starting out with his main. We had help from Whitekahlan, a 49 warrior, for some of the time, but she had a previous in-game engagement to tend to. It is a real power trip to go into lower level elite instances like that. I was going from mob to mob with nary a heal for the first 5 minutes. Soon I was clearing whole rooms and letting the others just poke things in the butts.

My best moment of the run was when I hit the gong in Razor Fel Downs after we cleared Kraul. We’d recruited Stoutmantle’s brother, Masterchief, a 60 warrior with an orange 2H sword. He was amazing, even having an AOE of sorts. I’m not sure if it was a skill or a weapon/armor ability, but it was wicked. Anyway, he was off down another way when I hit the gong to take care of the spiders that would come. They came, 9 of them, but not until they killed our nice lowbies on the way to my room.

It was drops galore for them, because there were only 2 of them to compete, everything was their level or higher, and we had plenty of blues drop. I had a great time helping them so much. Dynomite should be able to get a lot of nice stuff in AH from the money he’ll earn selling off all the nice green drops. Stoutmantle wanted to take me to Stromgarde for a boss quest. It’s really hard to take 2 warriors into elite areas because there isn’t any way to lose the aggro off both of you. The best healing potion only heals me about 1/2 way. I got pretty good at changing stances, taunting, and using special abilities. We died several times trying to beat the bosses in the keep. It was time to call in the big guns. Talion was in IF and came right up. He had some trouble getting into the keep alive. He claims it was lag, but he is “just a priest.” We almost had a disaster when I initiated the fight by trying to get the mage first and taking the bosses by themselves. The mage wouldn’t pull and he aggroed the bosses on me. Tal only had 1/3 mana at that point. It got really close toward the end, but we got all three of them down.

It was a long, fruitful day, if only for getting my level. I hope all that time in the lower instances help out the lowbies for a long time to come. I’ll just keep pushing for 60.

I just finished upgrading the backend of the blog. This is my first post using the new software. So far so good. Please let me know if there are any problems from the upgrade.

-Gitr

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.

Sorry folks, not much to write about tonight. I got word today (after asking HR) about my bid for a promotion into the IS department. They have already selected another candidate, so I’m quite bummed out today. Going to bed early and I’ll play Gitr tomorrow in a much better mood.

Gitr took his first trip to Sunken Temple in Swamp of Sorrows tonight. He was joined with guild GM, Filetofish, Aurora, Talion, and Inebriate. Inebriate is a whacked out addict and has jumped to 57 already. 🙂 Hi, Neb.

The first task was to touch all the statues around the circle. It was pretty easy going with a 60 MT and letting me just go buck wild dual-wielding around. We were able to very easily take down the first boss we came to. Everyone had been there several times, so I was really on a follow-hit-loot mode. After we downed him, Fish had to log because of a pounding head and it was on Talion a bit more to keep us a live because I became MT. We went through the center and all the dragons to get to the next boss and called it a night.

Just as I got to The Hinterlands to turn in a quest, I got a whisper if I wanted to kill the dragon in Blasted Lands. Sounded like fun, so I got summoned. Strange. This looks like the jungle. I checked the map and saw we were just south of Felwood. We took a few minuted and got a few more people and went after the first dragon.

We dropped it with what I’d estimate as 12 people. It was REALLY easy with that group. No one came close to dying and I was pretty ineffective. I only got a few overpowers off. The first one didn’t put people to sleep or anything unusual. He just died. Someone saw another dragon up the ramp to the portal.

This dragon at least made it interesting. He put us to sleep every 5-10 seconds or so. Once again, I don’t think anyone was ever in any danger of dying, but this fight lasted about 2 minutes. It’s fun fighting things so big that they make a group look small. Pretty cool stuff.

After a portal to IF and another to Darnassus, I was headed to Wintersprings to quest for my next level. Considering I fell asleep in flight at both points, I decided to just try a couple of quests and leave it at that. I went after the 4 fragments in the ice and went to return the quest. I saw that I had 3 or 4 quests that all have turn-ins in Eastern Plaguelands. Great. I can’t even safely go through Western Plaguelands, let alone finish THOSE quests. Oh well. Since it was level 56 and pretty easy, I was willing to give it a go at killing for the 10 yeti hides. I got 3 of them before sleepiness really started to overcome me.

I went back to the inn to get rest, but not waste travel time tomorrow. There I’ll be after work to pick it up again.

An interesting topic came up today at work from Talion and Tox. They have been monitoring Gitr’s progress closely as they have melded FoA into a raiding guild for the mains and a mentoring guild with the alts for lowbies. With several recent departures in the family due to differences of opinion, moves, etc., there are suddenly far fewer warriors. Gitr just hit 53 tonight (YAY!!) and is getting very close to UBRS, LBRS, Scholo, etc.

This not only excites Gitr and me, but the officers. It’s probably something along the lines of “Fresh Meat” being stamped on my shield, but also a chance to add some more plate to a group. Admittedly, that was one of the main reasons I wanted to be a warrior.

The topic on the table is if a Fury spec tank should concentrate on AGI or not. I was quite ticked today to see that warriors got nerfed with the 1.9 patch with the decrease in Enrage bonus, despite the 5% increase in Bloodthirst AP. Whoopdie!! Anyway… If flurry is my “big thing” according to them, I should want to increase AGI to capitalize on it even further when Flurry trips. My previous thinking was that Enrage was my strong suit, therefore I wanted to GET critted more and have more STR to take advantage of the melee bonus, not speed bonus.

Now it’s all confusing. Maybe we can work this out. Let’s look at my current stats and gear:
Bonesnapper, Warlord’s Axe of the Bear, Ornate Shield of the Tiger, and Ornate Shield of Strength

This is really embarassing, but if anyone can tell me how to get this text to just appear after the images without having to use useless text as a place holder, it would be greatly appreciated. Blogger didn’t have this problem. You just put in line breaks, and the text moved down. I’ve never had such a problem with web-related formatting of such simple elements. I’m really hoping to get this down to just linking a photo and having text either wrap around it or appear below it. Oh, look. more text to go. Still not to the bottom of these 3 pictures yet. Ah, but to have it simple. That would be nice. I’d retire to…

After putting on a shield in place of the off-hand axe, the numbers change to the following:
With the Ornate Shield of the Tiger :

Finally, armor above the 5,000 mark! Now this is what I’ve been waiting for. With a bit more armor, I can last and last like the Energizer bunny. I can recruit a personal healer and hit the horde towns and wreak havoc. *dream bubble pops*
With the Ornate Shield of Strength :
Wait a minute. These can’t be the right screens. The armor should be the same. Sorry folks, but some dufus must have put in the wrong shot and deleted the correct one. I shall make sure he is given a just punishment somewhere in the vicinity of the Plaguelands tomorrow.

I think Gitr’s REALLY tired and needs to go to bed now. I’ll work out the problems with Neb in the morning.

OK, well, Neb didn’t come into work today. Must have been too much fun last night in the IF tavern. Back to the discussion, regardless of incorrect images. If Flurry is tripped by critting a mob, would one do more damage by further increasing the attack speed with AGI, or by increasing the power that comes with the already increased speed?

My thinking still remains that a warrior, regardless of build, will benefit more from always hitting harder and therefore critting for more damage regardless of having Flurry or not. In any given instance, I am always going to be hitting. I never stop in a battle. I don’t want to, I don’t have to, and most of all, I’d better not. The issue becomes a debate on hitting more often or harder.

This much is clear: as a Fury spec, I do NOT want Defense, Parry, or Dodge abilities. I want to get critted as well, and all of those will lower the number of time Enrage trips. Enrage is only good for a certain number of swings, so it really doesn’t really give me any gumption to increase my AGI if I’m enraged either.

All of this, and I still haven’t scratched the surface of what I did last night.

I got off work around 3pm and got home about 3:40 to begin downloading the patch. I got it from the GM on our forum site and started posting it on my blog as a mirror for the guild while the patch started installing.

As I logged in, I was immediately hit with an error from a CT component that decided to leave the guildie note button sitting on the screen when everything else was closed, even ALT-Z’d. So annoying. Then I was having mail trouble. No biggie, though, because the big money things that sold didn’t have any problem getting into my bankroll. I went to the AH to get some healing potion for a long night of questing and grinding, only to find 1 potion. Not one stack of 5, but 1 potion period. GAH!! I only had 7, but it was going to have to do until more went up for sale.

Gitr headed to SW to Booty Bay to Ratchet to turn in the corrupted water south of Ratchet. Then he rode down to Theramore and hopped on a Gryph to Gadgeton to ride down into Un’Goro Crater for questing. Before too terribly long, he had all 15 bloodpetals and 3 of the 16 dinosaur skins for the flyer. It was time to go back to AH and get some more potion. I hearthed back only to find that there were now zero potions. Zip, zilch, nada. GAH!

I flew down to Morgan’s Vigil to turn in a quest and try to grind some dragons for their skins. In the process of turning in the quest, I picked up another quest that involved shooting the broodings with a goblin gun and getting some essence. The problem, and it was a big one, was that you have to get close enough for them to flame you in order to shoot the gun. If you get too close, they interrupt the gun with their claws. It took 2 deaths to get 8 essences, but I got them. Level 52 dragons really pack a whollup on a level 52 with no fire resistance, because you can’t block all the fireball casts.

From there, I went to Feralas to finish some water stuff in the quest line and then I had to go to Felwood. I decided that I’d grind my way from the gryph point to the Emerald camp and get to level 53 that way. Just about there, and 40 minutes later, I dinged, mounted, and turned in the quest.

On my way down, I had been asking how to get from Felwood to Winterspring and Everlook. Guildies said I’d need a bubble and try to run through because no one could go with me to fight the furlbogs because of faction points. I got there, was attacked by a 52 and 53, killed them, and ran straight through with no problems. I don’t think they run fast enough once they see something, because I only got hit twice the whole way through the tunnel.

I explored enough to discover each area on the way to Everlook and immediately got the gryph point. I dumped some Un’Goro quests that I can get again and loaded up on Winterspring quests. I’d prepared when I went back to IF and got my new shields and axe to bring along. After getting the quests, I equipped the lava pants from BRD and an axe and went hunting. I went after a 53 chimera, I think. I’d never seen one before, and it wasn’t going down very fast at all. I used my last health potion on it. When it was dead, I looked to the left and saw a whole column of “your skill in axes has improved.” LOL. That explained it. I’d just gained 23 points in axes. I had a ways to go, so it was time to find something easier to kill. After running around and getting a couple more quests, I still hadn’t seen any easy kills, so it was back to IF for some AH stuff.

I got quite a few good buys for around 60g and was down just over 100g to go when I saw an epic sword, Dazzling Longsword for 115g. I hovered over it for my auctioneer and it said it goes for 295g minimum over the last 7 auctions seen. Quickly as I could, I logged in as Zapit and Druidr and sent Gitr all their gold and logged back in and bought it. I put it up and chuckled. I whispered Tox and linked him the sword and told him I got it. He replied with, “why?” When I told him why, he said that I should sell it. LOL. I was ROFLMHO. All told, I have over 700g in the AH right now. I just hope it sells.