Alterac Valley - Again

A while ago I swore off battlegrounds because QQ Premades were screwing up the queues so bad you couldn't get an evenly matched BG. Most the Alterac Valley's I was in would start off with 10 Alliance against 40 Horde. Out of the 10 Alliance 6 would be AFK so you were basically starting off outnumbered 10 to 1. The reason for that is QQ Premades loading up the battleground queues then not accepting when the queue popped. I started doing dungeons after that and liked those. It has been about a year since I was in a battleground and I didn't think I was missing it at all.

Last night I went into Alterac Valley (40x40) on Brieanna just to see how the battlegrounds were now (I was bored). It wasn't too bad actually, I had a great time and did another one after that. In my first battleground in a year I came in 4th in damage and 5th in killing blows, I guess I didn't forget too much in the year I was away.

I am going to do a few more to get the honor I need to upgrade one of my rings, my last piece of 333 gear. Once I have that I probably won't bother with any more BG's, but it was nice to get in there again for a little while.

The Battle for Alterac Valley 11/24/09

I fought in 26 battles tonight in Alterac Valley on Wranngar. We had 16 wins and 10 losses. The Alliance was doing Ok in there tonight for the most part. Alterac Valley was also my daily battleground today.

We had one battle we won on reinforcements, we were just slaughtering the Horde. We drove them back from SHGY all the way to the Frostwolf Relief Hut then we took that away from them too, they were rezzing in their cave :). That was a great battle, I ended up getting 276 honorable kills out of that one. I got a lot of honor tonight too. We did a few Blitz's and a few almost Blitz's where we won fast but didn't do it in under 6 minutes. The Horde did a few Blitz's as well. Lately they seem to be trying to Blitz a lot. Over 3/4 of the battles I was in I would say they tried the Blitz. They were not successful on all of them, obviously, but we did have some pretty short battles we lost.

In one of the battles I was in we had an alleged Warrior 'Tank' tanking Drek. They said I was taunting Drek off of them. What I used was Demoralizing Roar which reduces his armor but no real threat. It gives the lightning bolt over his head when I do it and they thought I was taunting him off them. The problem was they were just a crap tank that couldn't hold him. He kept getting away from them and killing the healers. If Demoralizing Roar can pull a mob off you when you're tanking you should just stick to defending towers or DPS and leave the tanking to someone who can hold him. And if I was pulling him off he would have been on me, not the healers. Just some sorry excuse for a player trying to blame someone else for their incompetence.

The Battle for Wintergrasp 11/24/09

I fought in 3 Wintergrasp battles tonight on Wranngar, 2 wins and 1 loss.

In one of the wins we were defending and in the loss we were also defending. In the last battle I fought in the Horde were defending the keep and we won that one. The secret when the Horde are defending the keep seems to be to get their southern towers down as fast as possible. Once you have those 3 towers down it is pretty much wrapped up from what I can see. All that's left after that is clean up. Of course the Horde are trying to destroy the southern towers when we are defending the keep so we have to defend those as best we can as well.

The Battle for Alterac Valley 11/23/09

The battle for Alterac Valley wasn't going well at all tonight. I fought in 15 battles on Wranngar, 5 wins and 10 losses, Ouch!

The Alliance just couldn't seem to get it together tonight. We had the usual problems, AFK, not working together as a team, people taking SHGY early in the game and, the usual, not having enough people in a tower to hold it when the Horde came to back-cap it.

I have changed my opinion on SHGY. Sometimes it seems to work when it gets capped by the Alliance. The times that seem to work out Ok are when we have all our towers capped or when we have IBT and TP capped and the Frostwolf towers almost capped. You still run the risk of all the Horde rezzing in their cave and piling into Frostwolf Keep but if you have a lot of people there it is not too bad, gets you a lot of kills :). It seems to be a good idea too when we are winning on reinforcements. When we have SHGY it seems like everyone wants to stay there and defend it, that's why taking it early in the battle hardly ever works out. But if we have our towers capped and the Horde ran us out of Frostwolf Keep then it helps us keep them from capping IWB and SHB. It also keeps everyone close to Dun Baldar so we can get our bunkers back. It is a risky situation and you have to play it by ear.

Unfortunately we did have a few times where it was held right from the start of the battle and cost us the win. No one ever stays to guard Iceblood Graveyard or Snowfall Graveyard and sometimes that is Ok as long as we're not holding SHGY. If we are not holding SHGY the Horde don't seem too interested in those GY's. People will guard Frostwolf Graveyard but usually half heartedly. As long as not too many Horde show up we can keep it. FWGY can be an important one to keep as it keeps the Horde from rezzing and running right back into FW Keep if they decide to defend the Keep.

Anyway I did get some good honor tonight and a lot of kills, I think I ended up with over 1,400 kills for the night. I am on track to get my 100,000 lifetime kills and my "of the Alliance" title this year.

The Battle for the Isle of Conquest 11/23/09

I decided to spend some time fighting in the Isle of Conquest tonight to get more familiar with it. I haven't done a lot of battles in there yet, I have previously only fought in there when it was my daily, and want to learn more about it. I went in on Wranngar and we won the first 2 battles I was in and lost the last one. As in any battleground there were a lot of AFK in there. That problem just isn't going to go away or get any better I guess.

We won the 2 battles by breaching the Horde keep and killing the Horde General. I don't even know his name off hand but I will get that along with some screen shots of him. I was in on both of those kills. In the battle we lost the Horde breached our keep and killed our General. I was manning one of the cannons at the top of one of the towers in our keep for awhile tonight, that was a lot of fun. You use the cannons to lay down a wall of fire and also launch rockets at the siege equipment the Horde are bringing in to breach our keep.

The Battle for Wintergrasp 11/23/09

I fought in 2 Wintergrasp battles tonight on Wranngar, one win and one loss. In the one we won I got in at the start, actually a few minutes before the start, so I was there when it all started. We barely won that one but in the end we did.

In the second battle I was in, the one we lost, I got there about 1 minute before it ended. I really didn't have time to do much besides run around the courtyard and kill a couple people before it was all over. I didn't bother to stay around and kill Horde afterwards, that is only fun when you win.

I am really not familiar enough with Wintergrasp yet to start giving any kind of opinion on it but I have been doing all of them I can so I can learn more about it.

The Battle for Alterac Valley 11/22/09

The battle still rages on in Alterac Valley. I fought in 15 battles on Wranngar tonight, 9 wins and 6 losses. It is hard to believe the Alliance are still making the same mistakes after all this time but they are.

We had a couple losses because of someone taking SHGY which usually results in a turtle if they do it early in the battle. Another thing the Alliance does time and again is start a cap on something then walk away from it while it is clocking. Everything in Alterac Valley takes 4 minutes to cap. The main places they do this is Iceblood Graveyard, Snowfall Graveyard, and the East and West Frostwolf Towers. The Towers are the stupidest part, they will click on the flag, anyone can do that, then they jump down to stand on the hill. A single Rogue or Druid in stealth mode can go up into the Tower and back-cap it without any opposition and they do it time and time again. The Horde know this, it is about the only place a single Horde will go and back-cap something. This happens time and again and people still do it. On the average we usually cap those 2 Towers 3 or 4 times before they burn... Another mistake they make all the time is leaving 1, or at most 2, people to guard IBT and TP. The Horde always bring at least 3 if not 4 or 5 people to back-cap either of those towers but people still do it every battle...

In spite of all the problems and stupidity we did have some good battles tonight. We won a few more battles on reinforcements, I am wondering if this will end when the holiday weekend is over. The only reason I can think of is the Horde have their share of weekend warriors and AFK although the Alliance does seem to be playing better in some of the battles I have been in. We still have the stupidity of taking and holding SHGY and the problem with people leaving towers undefended/underdefended while they are capping, I don't think that will ever end.

I fought in a Wintergrasp battle tonight, the Horde really suck in there. We were defending again and we had no problem holding the Keep while destroying all their towers.

My daily battleground was WSG today. I wasn't going to do it but then decided to give it a shot and see how we were doing in there. To say we were doing poorly would be a gross understatement. Everyone was interested in fighting in the middle. There was no flag carrier support and there was no attempt made to get our flag back. I hate WSG and dropped the quest after that one loss. I may never go in there again. It was almost like they were farming HK's in there which is just stupid, if you are going to farm HK's you go to Alterac Valley.

The Battle for Alterac Valley 11/21/09

The battle for Alterac Valley rages on. It is still the Holiday weekend in Alterac Valley and there are a lot of battles being fought there. I fought in 31 battles on Wranngar today, 17 wins and 14 losses. It was also my daily battleground again today.

For the most part the Alliance were doing Ok in there. Both the Alliance and Horde were doing a lot of Blitzing. We did at least 6 today and the Horde probably did that many too in the battles I was in. The biggest problem the Alliance is still having is not being able to work together as a team, that is what causes most of our losses. A high percentage of the rest are people taking and holding SHGY. The rest are just poor playing and AFK. There were a lot of AFK in all the battles I was in. People are reporting them more now though, I think it is because they are removed after a minute of being flagged inactive. Now when I report to the team someone is AFK I also add, "lets get them out of here so we can get someone in here who will fight", that seems to motivate people to report them.

We had some really good battles that we won on resources. The Alliance have been winning more battles on resources than I have ever seen them win before. Usually we only win when we kill Drek. The Alliance has been playing a little better than usual lately too and that has a lot to do with it. I am almost going to be sorry to see this holiday weekend end, and that is not something you will hear me say often. I got a lot of kills this weekend and have passed the 70,000 lifetime honorable kills mark. I got a lot of honor too and upgraded a lot of my gear.

I fought in 2 Wintergrasp battles too, both of them wins. The first one I fought in the Horde were defending Winterguard Keep and we took it away from them. In the second battle I fought in we were defending the Keep and held onto it throughout the battle for another victory. I need 5 more marks to get another piece of gear I have my eye on, maybe I will get it tomorrow.

Battle In Alterac Valley 11/20/09

The daily battleground today was Alterac Valley. I did it on Wranngar and we won the second one I was in. I ended up fighting in 20 AV's, 10 wins and 10 losses. The new big thing now seems to be The Alterac Blitz. The only problem with that is the people saying "STRAIGHT TO DREK, DON'T STOP FOR ANYTHING" aren't bothering to check and see if we have a tank that can tank Drek at 200% health plus 4 Warmasters and 2 Frostwolves, and healers that can keep him alive, so half the time we get there and can't do anything. That was the case a few times today. We didn't necessarily lose those battles, we just didn't Blitz.

We had the usual problems of fighting in a battleground on it's holiday weekend, the weekend warriors and twice the AFK. People are starting to take an interest in reporting the AFK again it seems, maybe it is because they are AFK'd right out of the battleground after a minute.

We did have a couple wins on reinforcements and those were nice. Those were long battles with a lot of fighting and a lot of kills :). We pushed the Horde back from SPGY to SHGY then took SHGY in one reinforcement battle. I don't usually recommend taking SHGY but in this battle it was Ok because we were winning on reinforcements anyway. I got a lot of kills in that battle and another one. In the reinforcement battles we had to pile 8-10 people into IBT and TP to keep them. The Horde never go to take a tower back with just a couple, they always group up so they figure they will have anyone there outnumbered by at least 2 to 1. We surprised them a few times :). They don't even go to take a mine back unless there are at least 3 of them because they figure it was taken by 1 Alliance. I only got about 700 kills tonight in the battles I was in but I had a lot of fun.

I fought in 2 Wintergrasp battles. I should say I was in 2 Wintergrasp battles, I was in the first one from the start, a win, and got into the second one seconds before we lost. A mark is a mark though.

Alterac Valley - Daily Battleground 11/19/09

The daily battleground today was Alterac Valley. It also happened to be Alterac Valley's Holiday weekend and you know what that means, all the weekend warriors and twice the AFK. Unbelievably we won the first one I was in. I ended up fighting in 31 battles on Wranngar, 16 wins and 15 losses so we were running about 50%, although we had a long losing streak followed by a winning streak.

We won most of the battles by killing Drek but also won a few on reinforcements. We had the usual problems, a lot of AFK, people taking SHGY and causing us to get wiped out at Frostwolf Keep and the Alliance not working together. Usually at the start of the battle people will come up with a plan. It seems like most people agree with it. Then the gate goes up and people are spitting out other plans. That is where it falls apart because people no longer know what we are doing..... If the Alliance could just pick a plan and stick to it, like I am sure the Horde do most times, we could win a lot more. I am beginning to believe the rumor that the Alliance is made up of mostly children.

We did a few The Alterac Blitz but that fell apart when the group changed too much. You get to pretty much stay with the same group of people for awhile if you re-queue right away but eventually it filters out. We did them right in a row but then the group got too thin, including people who said you can't do the Blitz in a pug group....

I fought in 2 Wintergrasp battles too, both of them wins. We were defending in both battles and did a fine job :). I needed 5 more Wintergrasp Mark of Honor to get my Titan-Forged Rune of Determination. That replaced my Medallion of the Alliance.

All in all I ended up getting 1,471 honorable kills and 51,200 honor so it was a pretty good day.

Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground Again 11/18/09

Eye of the Storm was the daily battleground again today, what's that, 3 days in a row now? I did it on Wranngar and we were sucking as bad as usual in there. A lot of AFK and a lot of Flagtards. It took 5 battles for us to get a win, we could have won a couple of the other ones but people went Flagtard and that cost us. It almost seemed like it was still the Holiday weekend. Of course when you only have 15 people a couple AFK really hurts. Blizzard needs to get off their ass and do something about the AFK problem which is worse than it ever was even though they are allegedly "doing something about it". Anyway I finally got it done and got my 19g86s and 1241 bonus honor. I only got around 500 kills today, about half of what I have been getting but I didn't spend as much time in the battlegrounds today as I have been lately.

I did fight in 13 Alterac Valley battles, 9 wins and 4 losses. It sounds like we were doing Ok in there doesn't it? We weren't really, it was some pretty piss poor playing. We won 3 battles on reinforcements which is a lot for the Alliance, we usually don't win on reinforcements. The reason for that is some moron taking SHGY half way through the battle and causing it to drag on forever. A lot of people were pretty mad in a couple of the battles when someone took it, I can't repeat what was said here but you get the picture. In 2 of those we were in the process of capping FW East and West Towers and the RH when someone took it and caused all the Horde to rez in their cave. Naturally they grouped up and overran us at FW Keep and took everything back. We were trying to summon Ivus the Forest Lord again in the last battle but one of the people standing right there was AFK...... We only needed one more. I hate AFKers. They are completely useless. Anyway the Horde overran us and killed the Druids before we got a 10th person. It didn't matter anyway because the Horde were down to 12 reinforcements by that point.

The new thing in AV now seems to be rush Drek then see if you have a tank when you get there. Yeah..... Lost a couple that way. When you go after Drek with all the towers up you have to deal with Drek at 200% health (each tower that is up gives him +25% health), 4 Warmasters (each tower that is up represents a Warmaster) and 2 elite Frostwolves. Needless to say you need a pretty good tank. A plate wearing tank. And you have to kill him quick. People don't seem to realize that or maybe they just don't think.

Finally A Different Cooking Daily 10/28/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and grabbed the daily cooking and fishing. The cooking today was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf for a change. It seems like every time I got on it was Cheese for Glowergold, my least favorite. The last 5 times as a matter of fact. The daily fishing was Blood Is Thicker which is also another easy one.

I did the cooking first as usual. That had me heading down into the sewers in search of Infused Mushrooms. It didn't take me long to get the 4 I needed although it seemed like a lot of other people were running around picking them too. Once I had the 4 Infused Mushrooms I needed I headed over to the bank to grab some Chilled Meat to cook them with. I cooked them up and delivered my meatloaf to Orton Bennet upstairs at Curiosities and Moore in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices in it. Not too bad a haul today.

I did the fishing next. I headed over to Un'upe then flew straight inshore until I saw a Marsh Caribou to kill. I killed him and got covered in blood then flew back to the shore and jumped in the water creating a blood pool. I fished in the blood pool until I had 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy. Once I had those I flew back to hand them in to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran in exchange for a Bag of Fishing Treasures. Today my Bag of Fishing Treasures had 6g56s54c, a Glow Worm, an Unusual Compass and 4 Deviate Fish. I have certainly had better days fishing. You know what they say though, "A bad day of fishing is still better than a good day of Cheese for Glowergold". I sold the Unusual Compass to a vendor for 2 gold so at least I got something out of it.

I headed off to do the rest of my daily's after that, starting with the Knights of the Ebon Blade which had me heading over to the Shadow Vault. I picked up Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire! and Shoot 'Em Up there, then headed over to Deaths Rise to get From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering. All in all these 6 don't take me long as long as I don't waste time trying to get the documents for Intelligence Gathering after I am done with the other 2. I get some pretty good gold from these.

I headed over to K3 and did Overstock. This is a fast, easy quest that causes no damage, no repairs, and gets you 12g96s. It only takes a couple minutes and you're on your way. I never miss this one if I am in the area. All you have to do is lay out mines and kill invaders when they run over them. I lay all mine out in one area they seem to funnel through and it only takes a couple minutes to get the 12 I need.

I was off to do my daily's for The Sons of Hodir after that. I do 5 of the 6 available there, Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. The one I don't do is Thrusting Hodir's Spear. I skip that one because there is way too much time and effort involved in that one for the reward you get. I have never done it in it's entirety and I hear people complaining about it all the time. The general opinion seems to be don't waste your time. I'll go along with that. I got my 5 out of the way pretty quick, turned them in and got my gold. These pay pretty well also.

I got back on a little bit later and did the daily cooking and fishing in Outlands. Today the cooking was Soup for the Soul and the fishing was The One That Got Away, nice and close to each other. I didn't get anything worth mentioning from those, aside from 5 Sharpened Fish Hooks which I can use, but I did get Sinister Squashling, which is a companion, when I went trick or treating in Duskwood. That's one more to my pet collection.

Daily's Cont... 10/27/09

I got back on Wranngar a little later and did some more daily's.

I did all my daily's for The Sons of Hodir, Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These, as usual, did not take me long. I think the longest part of these is getting all the Essence of Ice I need for Hot and Cold. I am realizing now that I am putting in the photo's how few I have for The Sons of Hodir. I will have to make a note to get more as I go along.

I did Overstock in K3 which is always a fast easy one. This one takes a few minutes, causes no damage you need to repair, and gets you 12g96s. I always do this one if I am in the area.

I did all my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade with the exception of Intelligence Gathering. I got some keys, opened some chests, but as usual I didn't get any documents. The ones I did do were Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise! and No Fly Zone. This don't take long either and get me some decent gold.

I got more gold from all the crap I looted off everything I killed which is always nice. I loot everything I kill and make an extra 20-30 gold a day, when I do all my daily's, just from that.

Daily's 10/27/09

I got on Wranngar today and just did the daily cooking and fishing. Today the cooking was Cheese for Glowergold, no surprise there, that's what it's been the last 5 or 6 times I have done it. It is getting pretty old I'll tell you what. That is my least favorite daily cooking. The fishing today, from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, was Monsterbelly Appetite. That's the same one I did last time I did the daily fishing too. At least that one's not bad, not as bad as Cheese for Glowergold.

I got the cooking out of the way first as usual. It took me a little while today to get it done as I got it around 1:30, just a half hour after the daily's roll over and who knows when the server came back up, they were doing maintenance today. It took me awhile to get the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses as everyone seemed to be doing it at the same time. I finally got the 6 I needed and got the piece of Aged Dalaran Limburger right off when I went to the wine and cheese shop looking for glasses. I combined them on the platter provided, by right clicking on it while I had all the ingredients in my bag, and headed over to see Glowergold. He gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 5 Northern Spices in it. Not a bad haul today.

I was off to Unu'pe next to do the daily fishing. I took the flight path over there and headed out to the icebergs off shore. I found a school of Monsterbelly's pretty quick but it disappeared after my first cast. I found another one right near it and got my Bloated Monsterbelly on the first cast from that one. I headed back to Dalaran to hand it in. When I got there I went to see Olisarra the Kind, (36,37) the Grand Master First Aid Trainer in the Magus Commerce Exchange and gave her the Severed Arm, she is going to attempt to reunite it with the fisherman who lost it. Good luck there, it looked pretty digested to me. Anyway she gave me a Bag of Fishing Treasures for my trouble that had 10g74s40c, 2 Elixir of Water Walking and a Tower Key which I sold to a vendor for 16g66s66c. Not a bad haul for this one either.

It's Halloween in World of Warcraft

I did a couple daily's on Wranngar today, but I spent most my time running around to all the Inns getting candy and the 6g63s that goes with it. Believe it or not I made over 160 gold off just trick or treating.

The daily's I did were the daily cooking in Dalaran which was Cheese for Glowergold again. It seems like every time I do it lately that's what it is. There were A LOT of people on when I logged on and I thought it was going to take me forever to get it done but none of them were doing the daily cooking apparently. It didn't take me long at all to get the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses I needed, and when I ran over to One More Glass, the wine and cheese shop in Dalaran, the Aged Dalaran Limburger was sitting right there waiting for me. I combined the wine and cheese on the platter that was supplied to me when I picked up the quest, by right clicking on the platter, then delivered it to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange. He gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices in it. Hardly worth the little bit of time it took...

I skipped the daily fishing today, Dangerously Delicious, because I just didn't want to deal with it. Instead I headed to Shattrath and did the daily cooking and fishing there which was Super Hot Stew and Felblood Fillet. I didn't get anything worth mentioning from either of those.

I hit a few Inns there, in Outlands, then headed back to the Dark Portal and hit A LOT of Inns in Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. That is where I got most the gold. I did hit 2 in Dalaran but that was about all I hit in Northrend. Maybe tomorrow, or the next time I get on, I will run around Northrend and hit those. Maybe, maybe not.

Today's Daily's 10/16/09

I got on Wranngar today and got all my daily's done on him, then I hopped on Gomorra and did the daily cooking and fishing on him which was my least favorite cooking again, Cheese for Glowergold, and Monsterbelly Appetite for the daily fishing.

I got the cooking out of the way first. I had to run all over Dalaran getting Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses which really didn't take me long today. Once I had all those I needed I was off to One More Glass, the wine and cheese shop there in Dalaran. I got the Aged Dalaran Limburger I needed pretty quick on both and combined the wine and cheese on the platter supplied to make a wine and cheese platter. With that in hand I headed over to see Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange. He gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag on each.

Wrann's Small Spice Bag had 4 Northern Spices in it, he got screwed today.

Gom's Small Spice Bag had 2 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it, he made out a little better than Wrann.

I was off to Un'upe for the daily fishing after that. I took the flightpath over there and headed out to the icebergs to find a Monsterbelly School. I got my Bloated Monsterbelly on the second cast on Wrann and the third cast on Gom. I headed back to hand those in to Olisarra the Kind, (36,37) the Grand Master First Aid Trainer in the Magus Commerce Exchange in Dalaran in exchange for a couple Bags of Fishing Treasures.

Wrann's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 6g64c, 3 Pygmy Oil, 3 Deviate Fish, a Runic Mana Potion and a Sealed Vial of Poison. Sealed Vial of Poison starts a quest to go down into the Underbelly, the sewers below Dalaran, and deliver it to Alchemist Cinesra. That only takes a minute and gets you 13g23s, not a bad deal at all.

Gom's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 9g45s70c, 3 Pygmy Oil, a Tower Key, which I sold to a vendor for 16g66s66c, and 4 Deviate Fish. I guess they both made out ok on this one today.

I was off to The Shadow Vault next to do my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's after that. I got Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire! and Shoot 'Em Up there, then headed over to Death's Rise to grab From Their Corpses, Rise!. No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering. I got these out of the way pretty quick including Intelligence Gathering which I stuck around for afterward and collected all the documents. Blizzard really needs to up the drop rate on the documents, first you have to kill something to get the key, then you have to find and open the chests. You are lucky if you get one in 5.

I was off to K3 from there to do Overstock. I can't stress enough how fast and easy this quest is to do and it gets you 12g96s for a couple minutes of your time. You don't have to fight anything and there is no contact so you don't have any repairs to pay for afterward, it is all profit. I got that done in a couple minutes as usual and I was off to do my daily's for The Sons of Hodir.

The ones I do for The Sons of Hodir are Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. There is one more that I never do, Thrusting Hodir's Spear. I don't think it is worth the time and effort you have to go though for what it pays. The ones I do don't take me very long at all, about a half hour, and I get some pretty good gold from them as well as meat and leather from looting and skinning. I got a piece of Artic Fur today from one of the mobs I skinned.

All in all I made around 250 gold today from these daily's, drops, and the rewards I sold.

Daily's 10/15/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and did all my daily's. The cooking today was Cheese for Glowergold again, my least favorite. I have gotten that one the last 3 times I have done the daily cooking. The daily fishing was Jewel Of The Sewers. Neither took me very long today.

I did the cooking first. That had me running around Dalaran looking for Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses. I got 4 of them in the Inn and 2 more in The Legerdemain. After that all I had to do was run over to the wine and cheese shop and get the Aged Dalaran Limburger, I found it upstairs as soon as I got there. I combined the wine and cheese on the platter supplied to me and delivered it to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices and 4 Baby Spice in it. Not a bad haul.

I did the fishing next which had me heading down into the Underbelly, the sewers below Dalaran. I headed over to my spot in the Black Market and got my piece of Corroded Jewelry on the second cast. I think that is the fastest I have even gotten it. I headed back topside and turned it over to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran in exchange for a Bag of Fishing Treasures. Today my Bag of Fishing Treasures had 8g34s53c, a Glow Worm, an Unusual Compass, which I sold to a vendor for 2 gold, and 4 Deviate Fish. Not a bad haul I guess but I have certainly had better.

I headed over to the Shadow Vault after that to get my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's. I got those and the ones at Death's Rise done pretty quick and turned in. These usually don't take me long and pay some pretty good gold. The ones I did were Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering. I finally got all the documents I needed so I could turn in Intelligence Gathering. Someone was doing Shoot 'Em Up when I got there to do that so I waited. It was one of those people that are all over the place, shooting harpoons in every direction. I just waited until they were done as they usually tag a bunch of them but don't kill them. Then when I kill them they get credit. It took them quite awhile to get the 15 they needed then I went and did it, it took me less than 2 minutes.

I took the public transportation to K3 after that and did Overstock, a really fast easy one that pays 12g93s. I try to never miss it when I am doing daily's, especially if I am doing The Sons of Hodir as it is right on the way.

You guessed it, I went over and did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir after that. I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These don't take long at all and pay pretty well. All in all I got over 200 gold from these daily's today.

Daily Fishing and Cooking 10/13/09

I only had time today to jump on quick and do the daily fishing and cooking on Wranngar. The daily cooking was Cheese for Glowergold, my least favorite, and the fishing was Blood Is Thicker which is a pretty easy one if not a little time consuming with the travel.

I did the cooking first. It didn't go as fast as the last time I did it, it took me a little while to get the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses but I got the Aged Dalaran Limburger as soon as I went into the wine and cheese shop.

I combined the wine and cheese on the platter supplied to me, by right clicking on it, and delivered it to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 2 Northern Spices in it. Hardly worth logging in for that.

I did the fishing next which had me heading over to Un'upe. I took the flightpath out of Dalaran. Once I got there I flew straight inland until I found a Marsh Caribou. I killed that, getting covered in blood, then flew back to the shore and jumped into the water to wash myself off and create a blood pool. I fished in the blood pool until I had my 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy then headed back and handed them in to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran. She gave me a Bag of Fishing Treasures which had 7g15s9c, 5 Pygmy Oil and a Whale Statue in it. I sold the Whale Statue for 11 gold to a vendor. I only made out a little better with this one... I know there are still some good rewards to be had from this one so I will keep plugging away at it. Maybe I will be able to get on later and do a few more daily's.

More Daily's 10/11/09

I got on both Wranngar and Gomorra today and did some daily's. I only did the daily cooking, which was Cheese for Glowergold, and the daily fishing, which was Jewel Of The Sewers again, on Gomorra today but I did those plus my Knights of the Ebon Blade and The Sons of Hodir daily's on Wranngar.

Cheese for Glowergold didn't take long at all today. I got the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses I needed on Wrann right in the Inn and got 4 of the 6 I needed for Gom in the Inn also. I got the other 2 at the wine and cheese shop. I got the Aged Dalaran Limburger right away when I got to the cheese shop on both too. Once I had all the ingredients I combined them on the supplied platter, by right clicking on it, and delivered it to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange. He gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award for Gom and 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices and 3 Old Spices for Wrann. Not a bad day for either of them today.

I did the daily fishing after that which had me heading down into the sewers below Dalaran, into the Underbelly. I headed over to my spot in the Black Market and got the piece of Corroded Jewelry pretty quick on both, 10 casts on Wrann and 7 casts on Gom. I turned them in to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran in exchange for a couple Bags of Fishing Treasures.

Wrann's had 10g24s76c, 3 Pygmy Oil and a Worthless Piece of Green Glass in it.

Gom's had 7g25s55c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking, 3 Solid Gold Coins and 4 Deviate Fish in it. Neither of them had anything to write home about there.

I was off on Wrann after that to do my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. I got them out of the way pretty quick with the exception of Intelligence Gathering which I didn't even get a single document for today even though I opened 6 chests..... The ones I did do were Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise! and No Fly Zone. These don't take too long and pay pretty well.

I was off to K3 after that to do Overstock. As usual this only took me a couple minutes and got me 12g96s before I was off to do my Sons of Hodir daily's.

I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim for them. These went really quick today and I got some good gold from them. It is really starting to add up now so Blizzard will probably reset my password for someone who they figure needs the gold more than I do.....

I am going to try and get Gom more involved in the daily's again to recover some of the gold I lost when I was hacked but I really don't have anything I need to buy right now. There is another expansion coming and you never know what that will have to spend your gold on.

Daily's 10/10/09

I got on Wranngar tonight/early this morning and got my daily's for the 10th out of the way. I did the daily cooking and fishing first. The daily cooking today was Sewer Stew and the daily fishing was Jewel Of The Sewers. A couple easy ones.

The cooking had me heading down to Crystalsong Forest. I took the portal down and headed over to the spot by the ruins directly under Dalaran. There was only one other person there picking Crystalsong Carrots so it took me less than 2 minutes to get the 4 I needed. I headed back to dalaran, using the portal, and got 4 pieces of Chilled Meat out of the guild bank to complete the ingredients. I cooked up my stew and delivered it to Ajay Green at the Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with another Dalaran Cooking Award and 4 Northern Spices in it. Not a bad haul.

Since I was in the sewers I headed over to my spot in the Black Market to fish up a piece of Corroded Jewelry for the daily fishing. It took me 9 casts to get it today, not bad. I headed back to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran to turn it in. She gave me a Bag of Fishing Treasures for my trouble. That had 8g9s85c, 4 Pygmy Oil, 5 Solid Gold Coins and 2 Deviate Fish in it. Not the best return on that one today.

I was off to the Shadow Vault after that, to do my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. I got my daily's there and headed over to Deaths Rise for those. Once I had them I did them all except Intelligence Gathering. I only got one document today. The ones I did do were: Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise! and No Fly Zone. These don't take long as long as you don't waste time trying to get all the documents every day. Out of all the keys I got and all the chests I opened I only got one document..... They need to up the drop rate on this one a little.

From there I headed over to K3 to do Overstock. This is a quick and easy one and as usual it only took me a few minutes and got me 12g96s before I was off to do my daily's for The Sons of Hodir.

For The Sons of Hodir I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. There is one more, Thrusting Hodir's Spear, that I never do because I think it is a waste of time and effort for the return. These didn't take me long either.

All in all I made over a couple hundred gold today, it is starting to add up again. I learned my lesson, if Blizzard can't, or won't, do something about their security I am not going to put a lot of gold in the guild bank because it is only a matter of time before I will be hacked again. I will put some gold in there weekly as needed.