Gitr Knows WoW

Gitr is going to try to organize some expeditions to get the Valor set. The stats are impressive compared to his current equipment. Assuming he can get his hands on the Stoneshield Cloak and gets his enchant on the off-hand Dawn’s Edge, the armor and weapons alone have the following stats:

3812 Armor
155 Strength
154 Stamina
90 Agility
35 Spirit

Since I can’t see my natural stats away from my system, I’m not sure what the final stats are, but I know they are something that Gitr could use, plus the set bonuses, which I’m also unable to find out here. Firewalls stink, you know?

 I’m going to try to organize a 10-man FoA Scholo and Strat run until I get all the pieces. Gitr should have dibs on all of it because he is the only warrior high enough to go, but is also so far behind the others, that nothing should be an upgrade for the resident warriors.

 I’ll update this with links and further stat info when I get access to my information.

Gitr really needs some rest to make leveling easier, so Druidr got some action. I took him from level 8 to 11 last night. I teamed up with a really awesome druid, Windwalker, who was level 11 at the time. She showed me the bear spirit and we finished the quest together. Then I went back to Elwynn Forest to try out my new skills and get used to casting/tanking/healing/tanking.

After 3 attempts at Hogger at level 11, I got him within 2% of his health, but was not able to succeed. Maybe with one level better health potion… I’ll get him tonight while still 11. I think killing a like-level elite would be a great confidence booster with playing druid.

I’ll get Hogger tonight and start farming and grinding up in EP some more. Gitr needs to plant the termites in the lumber yard now. I hear there are some long quest lines in EP for the mid-50s.

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.