Wranngar - Level 81 Feral Druid

I have started working on getting Wranngar, my last level 80, to 85. He has one advantage over the others in Vashj'ir, he can breath underwater and also has swim form which greatly increases his swim speed. I think it is faster than the seahorse mount you get from the quest in Vashj'ir but other people have said no. Until I can find someone to race I won't know, but it seems faster.

He is currently questing in Vashj'ir and will be there for a bit still. I had a bunch of gear that I sent to him from my other toons, drops mostly, and some gear he made so he is not doing too bad on gear. His dps is pretty low but I am writing that off to my not having played him in over a year. I think the last time I played him was to get him to level 80 and then some PvP to get 100000 Honorable Kills. After that I pretty much lost interest in him.

His skinning is around 480 now and his leatherworking is 501. He is making good gold off quests and drops and I am thinking about dual speccing him to Feral/Balance, so I have been keeping the caster gear he gets from quests and drops too.

I am working on him on and off so he won't be 85 tomorrow but he will get there eventually. I did have one bad moment when I hearthed from Vashj'ir and found myself in Dalaran which is a ghost town now. I had to fly back to the shore then take the boat back to Stormwind where I made sure I reset my hearth stone to.

Brieanna and Brieonna Level 85

I finally got Brieanna and Brieonna to level 85 over the last couple days.

I got Brieanna to 85 first, then the next day I got Brieonna to 85. I left Uldum too early on both of them and thought I was going to run out of quests in Twilight Highlands and have to go back to Uldum to quest at much lower XP, but it worked out.

I made a lot of gold leveling Brieanna's Herbalism to 525, over 2,000. That was the same with Breeonna's Mining, that made me a couple thousand too. I am not selling the leather from any of my toons as my Druid, Wranngar, is going to need it for Leatherworking. His Leatherworking is currently 501 so he is coming along. Getting him to that level took almost all the leather I had sent him but I am not worried, I still have him to level up to 85 too and he will get a lot of leather doing that. Wranngar is the only 80 I have left to level.

Brieanna Update 2/12/10

Brieanna is moving right along. She is level 75 now, less than 3 bars from 76, and has her Herbalism and Skinning, her primary professions, maxed out at 450. She also has her cooking maxed at 450, her First Aid at 436 and her fishing at 351. She recently got her 300 riding skill.

She has gotten almost all of level 75 in Alterac Valley fighting Horde. She has 14,151 kills now and is getting more every day. I love fighting on her in there, I love the range she has with a gun and bow. I would like to level her to 80 in the battlegrounds and get her PvP gear so she has most of it when she turns 80 but the queue's are so long for AV I don't see that happening. There were 3 days where I spent over 4 hours a day in queue and never got in. Just yesterday I started being able to get into AV again.

Recently she got her 300 riding skill. That cost me 5,000 gold plus another 95 gold for a swift flying mount for her to ride. I didn't have enough left over at the time to get her an Armored Snowy Gryphon, but I got her one today. That was another 1,900 gold. She is pretty much all set for mounts now.

If you would like to read about her exploits in AV and other battlegrounds, check out her blog Aspect of the Beast.

Skinning as a Profession 12/27/09

One of Bireanna's primary professions is Skinning. Yesterday she put some leather on the auction house she got from skinning, 2 stacks of thick leather and 4 stacks of heavy leather. Skinning is a money maker, especially if you don't have a profession that uses it and you are free to sell all you skin. The leather she sold yesterday made her 70g60s. Altogether she has made over 350 gold from skinning and another 80 or so from Herbalism. That is in the last week. At this point this is paying for gear upgrades and training. Once she hits 80 it will be all profit. When she gets to the Outlands she will really start making money, the higher the level of the animal you skin, the more the leather sells for.

Herbalism is her other profession, this is a money maker too. I still need to work on getting that leveled up. I was at a point where I could pick most things I found where I was questing but have passed that now and can not pick anything where I am currently questing. I will have to go back and work on leveling that up so I can pick as I go along questing. The reason this is harder to level than skinning is because you have to find Herbs as you come across them while you can skin almost any animal you kill.

Wranngar 12/29/08

I got Wranngar to level 80 today. I hit 80 at 4:14PM Eastern time on 12/29/08. I ran out of quests and I ended up hitting 80 doing the dailys in Icecrown. I went and got my training which ran me close to 200 gold, used my talent point then headed to Storm Peaks to do some skinning. I got enough leather to make another Inscription bag which I sent to a guild member who could use it. That gave me another point in Leatherworking, my skill is now 418. I will work on that some more. Right now I am just happy to have finally gotten to 80. If I get back on later I am going to hit the battlegrounds, I have been waiting a long time to get back into them. After that I will probably work on Wrangar.

Update: I did some battlegrounds on Wranngar tonight. I fought in 4 AV's, all losses. It is also the daily battleground today. The Alliance was doing really bad in all 4 battles. We only had one battle where we were in Frostwolf Keep and ready to down Drek but the Horde got Vann first. In the other 3 we lost on reinforcements defending the cave. I got 76 kills and around 1200 honor so it wasn't too bad. It just felt soooo good to be back in the battlegrounds :). I am interested in winning right now though because I need honor. After that I went and did some exploring. I have all of Outlands explored and got the Achievement for that, now I am working on Azeroth. After that I will have to do Kalimdor and I will have Eastern Kingdoms done. All that will leave is North Rend. I have about half of that explored. Once I have all of those explored I will get the title: Explorer.

Wrangar 12/09/08

I played my Deathknight Wrangar for awhile today and got him to level 65. I made a Death Gate and went to Ebon Hold to get my training done. He is making pretty good progress. I am questing in Nagrand and seem to be able to get quite a few quests so I am going with it. When I get to 66 I will see if I can start in Blades edge. Keeping all the quests yellow and orange gives me a lot of XP and they are still usually soloable. I would rather quest alone than in a group, less squabbling and you never have to wait for anyone. I think I will work on my Herbalism and maybe fishing tomorrow. Cooking too. That way I won't use up any of my rested XP and can build it up. My skinning is still at 425 because I didn't really have any quests that called for killing anything I could skin. I skinned anything that someone left and looted and a couple things that attacked me but I didn't get a level out of it.

Wrangar 12/08/08

I played Wrangar for a bit tonight. I got a few bars on him but stopped when I ran out of rested XP. I was questing in Nagrand tonight. I got my skinning to 425 and got a lot of leather. I don't know how high I will be able to get my skinning in the Outlands, I think I can get it to 450 there, it is just going to take a lot of skinning. The levels in skill are few and far between now because of the level of the mobs I am skinning. I am having no problem playing a Deathknight and I like it. I wasn't sure I would because I had a Warrior once, my first character actually, and I didn't really like it at all. I went to North Rend to see if I could learn any more bandages for my first aid and there was nothing. I looked it up and the manual for the next bandages is a BoP drop off a mob :(. I guess it is going to take me a while to get that as it drops off mobs in North Rend. I think I will get Wrangar to 65 tomorrow though, then I might try for a Worg Pup. I have the quest, I just have to go in and get one. This is a picture of a Death Gate, it is what Deathknights use to transport back to Ebon Hold.

Wrangar 12/07/08

I played Wrangar for awhile today and got him to level 64. I got his skinning up to 416. I am questing in Nagrand now, doing the Nesingwary Mastery quests. A lot of the mobs are level 66 or higher but I am having no problem with them and I am getting a lot of Thick Clefthoof Leather along with all the Knothide Leather Scraps and Knothide Leather I am getting. I have already made around 40 gold selling the lower level leather I was skinning and now I am getting into the stuff that makes really good gold on the auction house. I am about 1/3 of the way to 65 but I ran out of rested XP so I will probably be playing Wranngar until he is out of rested XP. I think he has about a level and a half rested.

Wrangar 12/2/08

I played Wrangar for awhile tonight and got him to level 62. I was questing in Hellfire Peninsula and Zangarmarsh. I was in Zangarmarsh when I leveled. So far I can skin what I kill there so I am happy about that. My skinning is up to 334 now, there is not a whole lot of stuff in Zangarmarsh that you can skin after killing. I completed all the quests I could solo in Hellfire and got killed by the Fel Reaver while I was skinning a Hellboar. The first few quests I have done in Zangarmarsh have been pretty easy and I am about half way to 63 now. I am running out of rested XP so I will probably be on Wranngar tomorrow, he should have some rested XP, maybe the rest of the level :).

12/1/08

I worked on both my characters tonight. I got Wranngar to level 72 and went and got his training done. I also got my skinning maxed out to 450 on Wranngar tonight. I think skinning is one of the best professions as you can skin most of what you kill as you go along. I also took up skinning as one of my professions on Wrangar but hadn't done anything with it. Tonight while I was questing on Wrangar in Hellfire Peninsula I had to kill Ravagers and Hellboars and I was getting aggravated because I was letting all that leather go that I was too low level to skin, level 1. Finally I had enough and decided to level up my skinning before I went any farther. I went back to Stormwind and started killing and skinning. It took me a little while but I leveled my skinning from 1 to 330 so now I can skin what I kill in outlands. I took Herbalism as my second profession but only got that up to around 10, I will have to work on that later. At least now I can skin as I go along and not waste all that gold I could have been making off leather. I will get Wrangar to level 62 tomorrow and maybe higher.

Brieanna 9/28/08

I played Brieanna for a little while today, I got her to level 36. I went to Ironforge and got training for me and my pet. I still have 7 more points until I have 300 cooking skill, then I can see how high I can get my cooking. I need to work on my fishing some more too, I think it is 151 now. I think my skinning was at 269 when I logged off today so that is coming along well. I dropped mining (I had forgotten how much I hated mining) and took up herbalism so I need to level that, it is at 1 now :(. I was a little bored leveling today so I played Wranngar most of the time.

Brieanna 9/6/08

I worked on leveling Brieanna a little today, got to level 22. I did a couple quests in Lakeshire to level then went back to Stormwind and got my training. Only 8 more levels to go until mounted. I hope to have some more time tomorrow to get a couple more levels in. It won't be long until I am riding again. I sold a bunch of the leather I had been skinning and got over 20 gold for it so that was a nice surprise.

Yonezoe 6/9/08

I hadn't seen Yonezoe in a couple days but I saw her tonight. She is level 64 now and she was doing the Clefthoof Mastery, Talbuk Mastery and Windroc Mastery Quests in Nagrand. I gave her a hand on Wranngar and we quested for a couple hours. I got a lot of leather out of that :)). I ended up with 72 Knothide Leather Scraps, 53 Knothide Leather and 8 Thick Clefthoof Leather. I turned the Knothide Leather Scraps into 14 Knothide Leather then I turned all the Knothide Leather into 13 Heavy Knothide Leather. I got about 65 gold worth of leather helping her out tonight. I put 2 stacks of Heavy Knothide Leather I had on the auction house for 68 gold buyout each stack and sold out in less than 5 minutes. That was 130 gold I got after the auction house cut. Skinning can be very profitable.