Back Again 9/11

I am back again after a little hiatus. I had some computer problems, immediately followed by hurricane problems but I have finally been able to get back on and do some playing.

I have been playing my Holy Priest Brieonna mostly, healing normals until I get back into shape and can heal heroic's again. That doesn't mean I haven't been playing my Druid Wranngar or Hunter Brieanna because I have, I have been doing Heroics and normals on those two also.

One of the unfortunate side affects of my system crashing is that I lost the thousands of screen shots I had and the hundreds of links to items from Thottbot that I had. I guess I will be starting over on that. I do have a lot of the images on a flash drive so I am not totally lost, but I didn't back up my links for some reason.

Going forward I plan on trying some raiding again. I also have my work cut out for me earning Valor Points for the 378 Valor gear that is now available.

Brieonna - Level 60 Holy Priest

I got Brieonna to level 60 tonight and got her a Snowy Gryphon flying mount and 225 riding skill so she can fly it. That was a total of 275 gold, 225 gold for 225 riding skill and another 50 gold for the mount itself. That is not bad at all. It used to be 800 gold for the riding skill and another 100 gold for the flying mount. I did some daily's today and will need to keep doing them so I can get the Tome of Cold Weather Flight, so she can learn cold weather flying in Northrend at level 68 instead of 77.

I did a combination of questing and random dungeons to get the 2 levels I needed. I did one run through Lower Blackrock Spire, where she got her Worg Pup, and 2 runs through Ramparts in Hellfire Peninsula, in Outlands. In the Outlands you get really good XP from quests and of course you get good XP from doing random dungeons. I got a couple pieces of new gear and have a quest for Blood Furnace which will give me a nice pair of pants to upgrade the pair I got yesterday, a lot more spellpower.

Brieonna is moving along nicely and will be in Northrend in a few days I think.

Breeonna 3/22/10

The past couple days I have been working on getting Breeonna leveled up. That is going really well, I leveled her up 8 levels in 2 days, from 18 to 26.

I have been doing quests, yellow, orange and red ones only, I drop them if they turn green. That ensures me maximum experience gains from each quest I do. I have also been doing dungeons on her. Today I ended up in Wailing Caverns for the random daily. That wasn't too bad, I had done that one before on Wranngar, the only problem was our tank had a Gear Score (GS) of 5... Gear Score is used to determine the quality of a persons gear. 5 is not good. To give you an example Breeonna, at level 26, has a Gear Score of 800. Our tank was wearing gray and white gear, some of it was the stuff you are born with. Needless to say we didn't get that random done. I have also done Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep and Stockades, all of those went well. I did Shadowfang Keep twice yesterday.

I am now going to be questing in Duskwood before moving on to Stranglethorn Vale.

I Smell a Giant Rat

I was leveling Brieanna's fishing skill today in the Underbelly, on the dock at Cantrips and Crows Tavern, when I caught a Giant Sewer Rat. I have been trying to catch one of those on Wranngar and Gomorra (who have 450 fishing skill) for months now, and Brieanna gets one with her 365 fishing skill. This gave me the achievement I Smell A Giant Rat but more importantly it gave me a Giant Sewer Rat pet.

This is one of the rare pets that usually takes a long time to get. I can't even count the hours I have spent on Wranngar and Gomorra trying to get this pet, but it has been a lot. So far out of all my characters Brieanna has had the best luck fishing. In her first two days of doing the Shattrath daily fishing quest she got Toothy's Bucket and Snarly's Bucket. In her first week of doing the daily fishing quest in Dalaran she got a Bone Fishing Pole and she has also gotten other great rewards from both. Every day when she does the daily fishing in Dalaran I expect to see a Jeweled Fishing Pole in her Bag of Fishing Treasures.

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.

Shattrath Daily Fishing - The One That Got Away 2/10/10

Today when Brieanna went to see Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, he gave her The One That Got Away for the daily fishing quest. This is a nice easy one that I hadn't done on her yet. I think there is only one left that I haven't done now, Bait Bandits.

This one had me heading over to Lake Sunspring (34,43) in Nagrand to catch the World's Largest Mudfish. I have my spot I go to and have always had good luck there on Wranngar and Gomorra, it worked out well for Brieanna today too. I got my Mudfish in 12 casts and was on my way back to Shattrath. Once I landed there I headed over to see Old Man Barlo and trade in my Mudfish for a Bag of Fishing Treasures. Today it contained 6g79s29c, 5 Sharpened Fish Hooks, which is good, I am getting a nice stockpile of those, and a Razor Sharp Fillet Knife which I sold to a vendor for 4g28s.

The Kalu'ak Daily Quests 2/9/10

I did the daily quests for The Kalu'ak on Brieanna today. There are 3 of them and they each take me about 5 minutes to do.

The first one I do is Preparing for the Worst in Borean Tundra. For this one I just have to run around and collect 8 crates of supplies and turn them in. This one is worth 500 reputation for me and 5 gold. Pretty simple and it sometimes it corresponds with the daily fishing when it is in Unu'pe.

The next one I do is Planning for the Future. I have kind of mixed feelings about this one. For this one I have to collect 12 Snowfall Glade Pups and deliver them to Trapper Mau'i at Moa'ki Harbor. The way I do this is I go into their village, kill the parents and steal the pups. Not sure if that is right or not, but it is worth 500 rep and 5 gold.

The last one I do for them is The Way to His Heart.... For this one I have to net some Tasty Reef Fish, it takes me 7 although the quest says to get about a dozen, and then lure a bull cow over to a sea cow so they can find true love. Just call me cupid. This one is worth 7g10s and 500 rep.

So basically I am getting around 17 gold and 1500 rep a day doing these.

Daily Cooking and Fishing Quests 2/9/10

There is really nothing new to say here, the daily fishing and cooking in both Shattrath and Dalaran were the same as they were yesterday. Apparently after the shutdown, extended 4 hours, Blizzard didn't even take the time to reset the daily's... I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings...

I got the usual stuff form all these daily's nothing exciting.

Manual: Heavy Frostweave Bandage 2/8/10

I went to Zul'Drak today to see if I could get Manual: Heavy Frostweave Bandage to drop while Brieanna was still level 73. I couldn't get any quests there so I just killed the same mobs that dropped it for Wranngar and Gomorra. I wasn't having any luck, I killed about a dozen mobs with no drop. While I was killing mobs there I leveled to 74 and was able to grab some quests. I went right back to the same spot and started killing mobs again and got it on my 3rd kill.

This dropped for all 3 of my characters now at Rageclaw Den around 33,64, which is South of Light's Breach in Zul'drak, there is a pretty high drop rate for it, around 20%. This is a BoP book so the only way you are going to get it is if it drops for you. From what I gather, from personal experience and reading up on it, you need to be at least level 74 and have at least 390 first aid skill to get it to drop, Brieanna's first aid skill was 402 at the time.

If anyone heads out there after reading this post and gets it to drop, or has had it drop there, let us know how it worked out for you.

Knights of the Ebon Blade and Sons of Hodir Daily Quests 2/8/10

I did my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade and The Sons of Hodir again today, I am starting to get burned out on daily's. I will be able to get Brieanna her 300 riding skill tomorrow along with a swift flying mount so it is all worthwhile though. It is costing me 5,095 gold for 300 riding skill and the swift flying mount. I did these daily's on both Wranngar and Gomorra today.

I did the Knights of the Ebon Blade first like I always do. This had me heading out to the Shadow Vault to pick up Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire! and Shoot 'Em Up, then over to Death's Rise to get From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering. These take me about 20 minutes from the time I first land there until I am flying out again. I make between 66g15s to 79g38s on each depending on whether or not I turn in Intelligence Gathering. I also make about 10-15 gold each on drops I get doing these. The Documents you need to collect for Intelligence Gathering have a very poor drop rate so I usually only end up handing that one in once a week or so.

From there I was off to do my daily's for The Sons of Hodir. The ones I do for them are Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These also take me about 20 minutes on each from the time I land until I am flying out again. I make 66g15s on each from these plus whatever drops I get which usually run about 10-15 gold each.

The Kalu'ak Daily's 2/8/10

I have been doing the daily's for The Kalu'ak the last few days on Brieanna so I can get her reputation to exalted with them and buy the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. I am about 1/3 of the way through revered now so I need to do the daily's for a while to get exalted. I got a nice new fishing pole for her today from the daily fishing quest in Dalaran, a Bone Fishing Pole, with +30 to fishing skill, but I really like the look of the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole and want that too.

The ones I do for The Kalu'ak are Preparing for the Worst, Planning for the Future and The Way to His Heart.... I also had to do a bunch of other quests to get my reputation to where it is now, they got me to revered.

Knights of the Ebon Blade and Sons of Hodir Daily Quests 2/6/10

I did the daily quests for the The Sons of Hodir and the Knights of the Ebon Blade on Wranngar and Gomorra for the past 2 days. I need to get some gold together to get Brieanna her 300 riding skill. You don't make much gold doing nothing but battlegrounds and that is all I have been doing lately.

For the Knights of the Ebon Blade I do Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire! and Shoot 'Em Up, which I pick up at the Shadow Vault, and From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering which I pick up at Death's Rise. I don't turn in Intelligence Gathering every day because there is a very poor drop rate on the documents you need, I just collect them as I get them and turn it in once a week or so. These take me about 20 minutes and make me around 66 gold a day plus drops per character.

For the Sons of Hodir I do Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These also take me about 20 minutes and I make around 66 gold plus drops on each character.

Shattrath Daily Cooking - Super Hot Stew 2/6/10

Today when I went to see The Rokk, (61,15) in Shattrath, he had Super Hot Stew for Brieanna.

I grabbed the 2 Mok'Nathal Shortribs and 1 Crunchy Serpent I needed out of the guild bank so all I had to do was fly over to Blades Edge and kill a Abyssal so I could cook it over it's corpse. That was pretty easy and when I had my Demon Broiled Surprise I flew back to Shattrath and handed it over to The Rokk.

Today I picked Barrel of Fish for my reward and got 4 Zangarian Sporefish, 6 Figluster's Mudfish, a Fishbone Toothpick and Recipe: Skullfish Soup. That made it a good haul, the recipes are what I am after from this daily. I have them all on Wranngar and Gomorra.

Shattrath Daily Fishing - Crocolisks in the City 2/4/10

I did the daily fishing quest in Outlands today for the first time on Brieanna. I have been working on her fishing lately and finally got it up to 250. I say I am going to get 25 points a day until it is maxed but I will probably only get 10 a day because leveling fishing is so boring, especially at this level when all you are catching is garbage fish.

When I went to see Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, he had Crocolisks in the City for me which is the one I was hoping it was, it is the only one I can do at my level of fishing. This one had me taking the portal to Stormwind where I fished at my spot in the canals. It took me about 14 casts to get my Baby Crocolisk. I took the portal from Stormwind to The Blasted Lands, then went through the Dark Portal and took the flight path to Shattrath. I flew over and gave Old Man Barlo the Baby Crocolisk in exchange for a Bag of Fishing Treasures.

When I opened my Bag of Fishing Treasures it had 6g73s52c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking, a Broken Spyglass, which I sold to a vendor for 2 gold, and Toothy's Bucket. I was pretty excited to get Toothy's Bucket. That is a pretty rare pet you can only get through the Shattrath daily fishing quest and I got it on my first daily fishing quest ever on Brieanna. Wranngar did this daily for months and never got it, Gomorra has it.

Brieanna - Northrend 2/2/10

I got Brieanna to level 68 and hit Northrend today. I am on the final leg of my journey to 80. I have since leveled her to 69.

When I got into Northrend I picked up all the quests I could find then got to work. I got some nice gear as rewards and her gear score has jumped about 500 points. I am having no problem picking any of the herbs I am finding and that is a relief, I will be able to continue leveling my herbalism as I go along. I still remember all the quests from when I took Gomorra through there not too long ago and that saves me time.

One thing I am pretty happy about is being able to learn to fly there at level 68 instead of 77. That is going to save me a lot of time. Right after I got there Wranngar purchased a Tome of Cold Weather Flight for 1,000 gold and sent it to Brieanna so she could learn to fly in cold weather. If you already have a level 80 in Northernd you are able to do this and as I have 2 there it was no problem. Tome of Cold Weather Flight is BoA (Bind on Account) and requires level 68 to learn so I was able to mail it to her. It is consumed when you use it so you still pay the 1,000 gold for each character to learn it.

I also worked on my fishing skill and got that up to 232. I did a quest for Nat Pagle which got me a new fishing pole, Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole. Almost as nice as the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole, with the +25 to fishing skill opposed to the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole with +30, but no where near as nice looking. It will do until I can get my Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole.

Brieanna - Shadowmoon Valley

Brieanna is level 67 now and questing in Shadowmoon Valley. That is probably where I will finish up Outlands because I can head to Northrend at level 68 which I am about 6 bars away from.

I got Bireanna a new Hunter's pet today, The Kurken, which is a core hound, from Stillpine Hold (49,13) in Exodar. I have been thinking about getting her a new pet for awhile now. This one is an "exotic" pet meaning you have to have a point in the Beast Master (exotic pet) talent in your talent tree to tame it. It was level 12 when I found it but jumped to level 62 as soon as it was tamed. It is now level 64. I am pretty happy with it's performance so far. It would be higher but I spent most the time since I got it in the battlegrounds and it doesn't get XP from that. It is a really cool looking pet and I have had a couple people comment on it already. I have only seen one other one and that belonged to a Horde player in the battlegrounds. The only problem with it is I can not switch to Marksman spec in the battlegrounds with it because I have to be in Beast Master spec to summon it. I might still use my wolf in the battlegrounds so I can go Marksman, I am not sure, I will have to see how I do in Beast Master Spec.

Brieanna - Grand Master Herbalism

I have been working on Brieanna the last couple days and she is moving right along. She is level 66 now. She got a couple of her levels in the battlegrounds as I have been doing a lot of battlegrounds on her.

She is currently questing in Nagrand and that is going well, a lot of XP and the quests are easy for her to solo. She got her Herbalism up to 375 and had to go to Northrend to train for Grand Master Herbalism. This is great because it means I can pick anything I find in Outlands. I am finally ahead of the game on that one. Her Skinning is moving right along too, she is up over 400 on that. Needless to say I have no problem skinning anything I kill in Outlands.

I will be spending a lot of time on her going forward as I am looking forward to getting her to 80 and really hitting the battlegrounds and getting her geared. I love fighting in the battlegrounds on her.

Daily Cooking and Fishing 1/30/10

It's been a pretty couple busy days for me, I have been leveling my Hunter Brieanna so I am going to summarize the cooking and fishing for the last couple days. Nothing exciting to tell on these anyway.

On the 30th the daily cooking was Cheese for Glowergold. I did this on Wranngar and Gomorra and as usual I had to run all over Dalaran getting Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses and finishing up with getting the piece of Aged Dalaran Limburger in the wine and cheese shop. I delivered those to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange and got the usual rewards. nothing special. I didn't do the daily cooking on the 31st, I just never got around to it.

The daily fishing on the 30th was The Ghostfish. I also did this on both Wranngar and Gomorra. This went pretty quickly as it usually does with the exception of the travel time. It takes a little while to fly from Dalaran out to Sholazar Basin. I got the usual junk form this one, nothing special here either. I didn't do the daily fishing on the 31st.

Brieanna Level 62 - 1/28/10

I worked on Brieanna some more today and got her to level 62. Mostly I worked on her skills. I got a few of them leveled up pretty well. I got her Herbalism up to 331, I can now pick anything I come across where I am questing. Her skinning is coming along well too, it is up to 403 now and I don't have any problem skinning anything I come across and I shouldn't, the cap for skinning in Burning Crusades was 375. Her cooking is moving right along, it is up to 386 and is probably as high as I can get it until I am in Northrend and able to get more recipes. The only two skills I can work on are first aid, I can get that up to 400 before I hit Northrend, and fishing. Her fishing needs work and I am not looking forward to that. Leveling fishing is probably one of the most boring skills to level. Her fishing is at 151 so she has a long way to go, she is about 200 points off where she should be.

Brieanna - Level 61 - Flying in Outlands

I got Brieanna to level 61 tonight. I did that in Alterac Valley. This was the first time I ever fought in a battleground on her and didn't do too bad. She came out in the top 5, for Alliance, for damage and kills in most the battles and in the top 10 in all the battles. She now has a total of 699 lifetime honorable kills and some marks and honor. I dual spec'd her before I went in because I wanted to be Marksman in the battlegrounds instead of Beast Master, that is working out well too.

I also did some questing in Outlands and found out, when she hit 60, that you can buy your expert riding skill (225) at 60 and get a flying mount. I got that at Honor Hold in Hellfire Peninsula. Now that she can fly the questing should go a lot faster and will certainly be easier. I will have to get it on Wrangar, my Deathknight, too.

I am going to stay out of the battlegrounds now until she is level 65, then I will be back in there and do nothing but battlegrounds until she is level 70.