Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Battlegrounds 6/3/09

I did some battlegrounds tonight.

The daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients. We won the first one I was in, it was a killing. We won it in 2 minutes 15 seconds which could be the fastest one I have been in to date. We just ran right through them. We took down all the gates on the way, both sides. I usually only do this one when it is the daily but don't really know why, it is a nice battleground. I queued up for it again but left the queue after 3 minutes and did some Eye of the Storm instead.

In Eye of the Storm we did ok in 2 battles and lost one. Actually we did great in one battle and ok in the other we won.

The first one I was in we came off the rock and a couple people went to MT, a couple people went to DR and the rest of us went to FRR and BET. We took FRR right away as most of the Horde were at BET trying to cap that. They did get it capped but they didn't hold it long. Once we had the 4 cap going on we kept them pinned down on their rock until the end of the battle.

The second battle was pretty bad, you know you're going to lose when you come off the rock and 10 of the 15 people on your team run right to the flag. I call them 'Flagtards'. The flag is to EoS what Galv is to AV, a distraction. You can win with 3 nodes and no flag running, you can win with 4 nodes and no flag running but you can't win with no nodes and running the flag. They were in the middle fighting for a flag that they didn't even have a tower to bring to. Needless to say we lost that one.

The third battle I was in went better than the second but not quite as good as the first. We had a strong start, we got FRR, MT and DR, then everyone went Flagtard. No one was guarding DR and we lost it, there were only 2 of us at FRR and we almost lost it, it seemed everyone was either at the flag or MT. We never did get DR back but because we did have a 3 cap going for quite awhile before losing DR and the determination of the Flagtards we did win that one by about 500 points give or take a little.

I might get back on a little later and do some more battlegrounds.

Northrend Daily's 6/3/09

I did all my Northrend Daily's on both Wranngar and Gomorra tonight.

I did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir first. Wrann stopped off on his way there to pick up and do Overstock. Overstock is a really simple daily that only takes a couple minutes, causes no equipment damage and pays 12g96s. I try to do it every day.

I did the 5 daily's I usually do for them, Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These really don't take me very long, about a half hour on each toon, and they pay pretty well, 13g23s each.

After that I did my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. The one's I do for them are Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering. More fast and easy quests, these also take me about a half hour.

Gomorra 6/3/09

Gomorra made himself an Abyssal Bag tonight. It is a 32 slot soul bag for carrying soul shards. That is a pattern I was able to get for being exalted with the Knights of the Ebon Blade. It takes quite a few expensive mats to make one but I made all the cloth myself so it wasn't too bad, just had to wait as all the cloth has a 4 day cooldown.

Here are the mats required to make one:

4 Ebonweave
2 Spellweave
1 Eternium Thread

I am a Shadowtailor so I can make 2 Ebonweave each time but only one Spellweave at a time. I made all my cloth today, 2 Ebonweave, 1 Spellweave and 1 Moonshroud. I have a use for all of them from clothing to bags.

I also got Gom's Tailoring up to 450 today. He now has all his skills maxed, primary and secondary.

Northrend Cooking and Fishing 6/3/09

The daily cooking from Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome was Convention at the Legerdemain today. This is a quick and easy one.

I headed over to One More Glass, the wine and cheese shop down the road from Krasus' Landing. It took me a couple minutes to get my jug of wine on Gomorra but Wranngar got his right away.

All I had to do after that was cook up 4 Northern Stew for each from the Chilled Meat I keep on hand in the guild bank. I turned them in to Arille Azuregaze, the bartender at The Legerdemain in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag.

Gom's Small Spice Bag had 2 Northern Spices in it, he got screwed today but at least it wasn't Cheese for Glowergold.

Wrann's Small Spice Bag had 5 Northern Spices in it, he made out a little better.

The daily fishing I picked up from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran was Blood Is Thicker today. This is another easy one although there is some travel time.

I took the flight path over to Unu'pe in Borean Tundra then flew inland to kill a Marsh Caribou so I could get covered in blood and gore. Once I had that accomplished I flew back to the shore and ran into the water making a Blood Pool where the blood and gore got washed off me.

I fished the Blood Pool for Bloodtooth Frenzy until I had 5. That went pretty quick as I already had 2 in my inventory. It took me one cast to get the other 3 I needed and I was on my way back to Dalaran to hand them in to Marcia for a Bag of Fishing Treasures.

Gom's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 8g51s38c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking, 2 Crafted Stars and 3 Deviate Fish. Not a great haul but not too bad.

Wrann's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 8g41s7c, 4 Pygmy Oil and a Stuffed Shark Head which I only got 1g75s from a vendor for.

Going to do some battlegrounds next :).