Sons of Hodir 4/6/09

I did a lot of questing on Gomorra today. I am about 12 1/2 bars into level 78. I started the day off hated by The Sons of Hodir and finished it up 1057/12000 honored. Due to yet another glitch in the game I am unable to buy any of the honored items from them though. (Note* I did receive an e-mail from Blizzard customer support, after posting this post, stating that the items I was trying to buy appeared to be a higher level than my character. I went back and checked and they are correct, my bad. Now I feel foolish.) I also put in a ticket for another glitch that has been going on for a couple years. Every time they have a major patch or an expansion my Felguard comes out at half health, or less, when I dismount. This can be a real problem if you are dismounting because something dismounted you. My minion coming out half dead is useless to me. I am looking forward to their "We are aware of the problem and working on it, why don't you visit the forums" e-mail. That is their answer to everything, visit the forums. I don't need to visit the forums to know that my Felguard is coming out half dead, all I need to do is play my Warlock to know that. And I don't need to discuss it with other people, I just need it fixed. I am getting tired of having to heal him every time I dismount, it takes time and I am healing him with my health so it also costs me health too. Warlocks share their health with their minions.

Anyway I am now doing 4 daily's for the Son's of Hodir to the best of my ability with a half dead minion. The ones I am doing are Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm and Spy Hunter. Now I get to do these twice a day, Once on Wranngar and again on Gomorra. I'm not complaining though, they pay well and are pretty quick and easy. They have a 22 slot bag pattern I want to get for Gomorra, takes a lot of mats but, 22 slots! :). It will be a little while before I get that which will give me some time to make the cloth for my first one. All the cloth for it has a 4 day cooldown. Gomorra only has 2 changeable storage bags because he is also carrying a leatherworking bag and a soul bag. You can't change the bag that comes with the character when you create it but I wish you could, he is really hurting for space. On the plus side I can just pop my leatherworking bag into a bank slot before a raid and replace it with a 20 slot, or 22 slot in the future, bag. Update: I have an updated post that explains how to go from hated to friendly and unlock the Sons of Hodir daily's. You can find it here Unlocking The Sons of Hodir Daily's.

I did the daily cooking on both Wranngar and Gomorra today. It seems we are stuck on Mustard Dogs! now. Last time it was stuck on Infused Mushroom Meatloaf and that went on for 5 or 6 days. I ran around Dalaran picking Wild Mustard and it went pretty quick on both of them. Once I had the 4 I needed on each I hit the bank and got some Rhino Meat so I could cook up some Rhino Dogs, mmmmm good stuff. I made a couple Mustard Dog Baskets! and delivered them to Archmage Pentarus at Krasus' Landing. He is a man that really likes his Mustard Dogs. He gave Gomorra 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag with 2 Northern Spices in it. He gave Wranngar a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices in it, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and 9g93s. I took the 2 awards Wranngar got and bought 20 more Northern Spices for the guild bank. I have quite a few but Gomorra is also using quite a few lol. I am in no fear of running out though, I have around 490.

I did all my daily's on Wranngar tonight. I started with Overstock, a fast easy quest that pays around 13 gold at K3 in the Storm Peaks, then moved on to my daily's for The Sons of Hodir and finished with my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. Once I have Gomorra doing all of these too the gold will be pouring in. I can still pick up around 12-13 more daily quests so I will have to look around and see what is available and what they have to offer. Whatever they have to offer, if the gold is good I will do them.

Gomorra 4/5/09

I did get back on Gomorra tonight but I didn't get any closer to level 79. I had run out of buff food earlier in the day so I had to go to Howling Fjord to farm some Shoveltusk. I spent a while doing that, I had to get at least 40 pieces so I could make a stack of food, then headed back to Dalaran to cook it up. I made 20 Recipe: Tender Shoveltusk Steak which should keep me going for a while. I also got a bunch of Borean Leather and Borean Leather Scraps which I turned into Borean Leather. I don't get any XP off the Shoveltusks anymore but I need the food.

Questing, Questing, Questing 4/5/09

I did a bunch of questing on Gomorra today and got him to level 78. It is going pretty quick now. I was questing in Zul'Drak, even though I don't like it there, and K3 in the Storm Peaks. There were only a few quests in Zul'Drak that I really don't like, it is mostly the place I don't like, it is dark and depressing. I was questing in K3 when I hit 78 so I flew back to Dalaran and then took the portal to Stormwind. I got my training done then hit the auction house for some Superior Wizard Oil. I picked up 10, each one has 5 charges. I don't get into the big city too often, the big city being one with an auction house, so I stock up on whatever I need from the auction house while I am there. I am taking a break for awhile but as it is still early I am sure I will be back on later and might get half way through 78.

I did the daily cooking quest in Dalaran on both Gomorra and Wranngar today. It was Mustard Dogs! again so I was off to pick some Wild Mustard around Dalaran. It took me a little longer than it has the last couple times today, but I eventually got the 4 I needed on each. I headed over to the bank to get some Rhino Meat so I could make the Rhino Dogs I needed. Once I had those made I cooked them up with the Wild Mustard and made a couple Mustard Dog Baskets!. I delivered those to Archmage Pentarus at Krasus' Landing. He gave Gomorra 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards, 9g93s and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it! This is the first time I have gotten 3 awards in one day. The most Wranngar ever got was 2. That gave me enough to get another recipe and that's just what I did. I got Recipe: Worg Tartare and cooked up a few of those. Wranngar got 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices in it. I headed right over and got 20 more Northern Spices with the 2 awards and put them in the guild bank. Now I have about 486 in stock.

Farming Iceweb Spider Silk 4/4/09

I farmed up a bunch of Iceweb Spider Silk on Gomorra tonight. I did some questing in Sholazar Basin first, then I headed over to Zul'Drak to farm spider silk. I grabbed the quests that were there concerning killing the spiders and some bats. I was farming them at 38,55 from Trapdoor Crawlers and getting a decent drop rate. I had to kill 73 Trapdoor Crawlers to get 20 Iceweb Spider Silk. I headed over to K3 in the Storm Peaks after that because I saw a few quests there when I was flying through. One of those quests got me 5 more Iceweb Spider Silk :). Gomorra needs them for his Tailoring which I leveled to 435 tonight so I could get the level 435 tailoring recipes. I made my first piece of 80 gear, Frostmoon Pants, they will hold me over until I can get or make an epic to replace them. I had to fly to Dragonblight to the Emerald Dragonshrine to make a piece of Moonshroud so I could make them. I can only make one piece of Moonshroud at a time because I am a Shadoweave tailor. If I was a Mooncloth tailor I would be able to make 2 at a time. As it is I can make 2 pieces of Ebonweave at a time being a Shadoweave tailor.

With all the farming and questing Gomorra is over half way through level 77 and all the rest of the level is rested. I expect to be at least half way through level 78 on him tomorrow. I am getting close now :). I have been making between 200-300 gold a day questing, when I just quest, on Gomorra which is going to come in handy when I have to gear him.

I did the daily cooking in Dalaran on both Wranngar and Gomorra today. It was Mustard Dogs! so I was running all over the city looking for Wild Mustard to pick. I found a couple other spots today where it spawns. Well I know it spawns in all the grassy areas in Dalaran but I finally checked out a couple other locations and all in all it went pretty quick getting the 4 I needed on each. Once I had those I got 4 pieces of Rhino Meat for each of them out of the guild bank to make Rhino Dogs. When I had all the Rhino Dogs made I cooked them up with the Wild Mustard and delivered it to Archmage Pentarus at Krasus' Landing. He is always so happy to see me :). He gave Wranngar 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards, 9g93s and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices in it. A good haul for Wranngar today. I ran right out and spent the 2 awards on 20 more Northern Spices for the guild bank. Gomorra got 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards, a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices in it and 9g93s. With the Dalaran Cooking Award I had from yesterday I was able to buy Recipe: Very Burnt Worg. I cooked up a few of them for the guild bank.

I only did one other daily on Wranngar and that was Overstock in the Storm Peaks. This is a fast easy quest that pays around 13 gold for a couple minutes work. I try to do it every day but skipped it the last couple days in favor of leveling Gomorra to 77 so he could get his Cold Weather Flying Training. I will try to start doing my daily's for The Sons of Hodir and the Knights of the Ebon Blade tomorrow. I will if I have time but right now getting Gomorra to 80 is a little more important.

Cold Weather Flying 4/3/09

I got Gomorra to level 77 tonight and got my Cold Weather Flying Training. As soon as I turned 77 I headed over to see Pilot Vic at River's Heart. He taught me cold weather flying just like he taught Wranngar before me when he leveled to 77 in Sholazar Basin. It cost me 1,000 gold. Gomorra only had around 900 gold on him so I logged over to Wranngar and sent another 200. That left Gomorra with a little spending gold after paying for Cold Weather Flying Training. Being able to fly will make questing so much easier and allow me to do the quests that require flying.

I did some quests in Sholazar Basin for the Frenzyheart Tribe. It was kind of weird because I was building up reputation with them, got to honored, then they gave me a quest to go get an injured Oracle and bring him back for questioning. I found him down by the river, where they said he would be, and when I clicked on him a giant gator attacked us. I killed the gator and the Shaman from the Frenzyheart Tribe, the guy who gave me the quest to begin with, jumps out of the bushes and calls me a traitor, says he saw me helping the Oracle and "they will get me for this!". My reputation went from honored to hated in a second.

Meanwhile the Oracle I saved from the giant gator tells me this is great, I can be their friend and do quests for them, so I headed over to their tribe and did some quests for them. I was mostly interested in getting the XP so I could level to 77 and get my Cold Weather Flying Training.

I did the daily cooking today on both Gomorra and Wranngar after I leveled Gomorra to 77. It was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf again so I headed down into the sewers to pick some Infused Mushrooms. Once I had the 4 I needed on each I cooked them up with some Chilled Meat and delivered it to Orton Bennet at Curiosities and Moore. He gave Gomorra 9g93s, a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices and 5 Baby Spice in it, and a Dalaran Cooking Award. Not a bad haul but another Dalaran Cooking Award would have been nice :). I can't complain though, I have had quite a few 2 award days on Gomorra. When Wranngar got paid, he got a Dalaran Cooking Award , 9g93s and a Small Spice Bag with 2 Northern Spices in it. Wranngar kind of got screwed on this one today. You take the good with the bad though, lol. I took Wranngar's award and bought 10 more Northern Spices for the guild bank. Gomorra cooked up some of the meat in the bank, he has been contributing a lot of meat lately, and got his cooking skill up to 417. I only have 3 recipes I can level my skill off of and they are all green. The guild bank is starting to get pretty well stocked up :).

Sholazar Basin 4/2/09

I did the daily cooking in Dalaran on both Wranngar and Gomorra tonight. It was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf so I was off to the sewers in search of Infused Mushrooms. I got the 4 I needed on Wranngar then cooked them up with a couple pieces of Chilled Meat I got from the guild bank. I delivered that to Orton Bennet at Curiosities and Moore in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices in it. I got 10 more Northern Spices with my award and put them all in the guild bank. Then I turned around and did it on Gomorra. When Gomorra delivered his Meatloaf to Orton Bennet at Curiosities and Moore he got 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices in it. With the Dalaran Cooking Award he had left over from yesterday Gomorra was able to buy Recipe: Spiced Wyrm Burger. I cooked that up and got it added to my list for The Northrend Gourmet achievement.

After that I went to Sholozar Basin to do some questing. I had literally no XP in level 76 when I got there. It was a little weird, at one point, on the flight in, I disappeared from the plane I was flying in. I grabbed all the quests I could get and set off. I quested there for a couple hours and got a lot of Chilled Meat, Rhino Meat and Borean Leather. I ended up sending Wranngar 192 pieces of Borean Leather and 1 piece of Arctic Fur I got there. When I logged off tonight I had 10 1/2 bars XP and all the rest is rested XP. I will run out of rested in level 77 I think, but might go to 78, if I keep going at the pace I have been. You only use the rested XP when you kill something, when you turn in a quest it moves the rested marker forward so you don't use the rested XP. So if I can keep the quests yellow it is possible I could stretch out that rested XP to 78.

Gomorra 4/1/09

Gomorra leveled to 76 tonight. I am pretty happy about that because now I can quest in Sholazar Basin. I will level to 77 pretty quick there and I can get my cold weather flying training. I should be flying in North Rend by Friday night, Saturday the latest. I took the portal from Dalaran to Stormwind and got my training done. That ran me about 50 gold, not too bad. I went back to Dalaran before I logged off so I will be there for the daily cooking when I log on tomorrow.

I did the daily cooking quest on both Wranngar and Gomorra tonight. It was Mustard Dogs! so I went off in search of Wild Mustard. Wild Mustard grows in all the grassy areas of Dalaran. I think they are kind of small and you really have to look for them. Usually I see the sparkles long before I see the Wild Mustard. I got the 4 I needed on each and then made up some Rhino Dogs from some of the Rhino Meat I had in the bank. I cooked the Rhino Dogs up with the Wild Mustard and delivered it to Archmage Pentarus at Krasus' Landing. He gave Gomorra 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices in it. He gave Wranngar 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag with 2 Northern Spices in it. That gave Gomorra 4 Dalaran Cooking Awards so I used 3 of them to buy Recipe: Mega Mammoth Meal. That's 2 down, 43 to go. I used Wranngar's awards to buy 20 more Northern Spices which I put in the guild bank. I now have 438 Northern Spices on hand. Gomorra will use a lot of them to get his cooking up and to eventually get his Hail to the Chef achievement but I am pretty confident now that I will not run out.

I didn't do any of my daily's on Wranngar besides the daily cooking, I wanted to get Gomorra to 76 tonight so I concentrated on that. I did a bunch of questing in Dragonblight and didn't have to go to Zul'Drak at all, I liked that. I just don't like Zul'Drak and the most the quests you get there. Wranngar did a lot of questing there and I will be happy if I can get Gomorra to 80 without having to do anymore questing there. Tomorrow I will go to Sholazar Basin and start doing the quests there. I liked questing there on Wranngar and there are plenty of animals to kill for meat and leather not to mention the fishing. Hopefully I will be able to get to 78 there.

One Year on Blogger 3/31/09

Today is the one year anniversary of my first post on Blogger. I originally started this blog on Wordpress (Adam’s Warcraft Weblog) but moved it to Blogger because they had more versatility and Wordpress does not allow Adsense. Been a full year of playing and blogging, I hope the next year goes as well :).

I did the daily cooking in Dalaran on both Wranngar and Gomorra. Today it was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf. I headed into the sewers and got my Infused Mushrooms on both then grabbed some Chilled Meat from the guild bank and cooked up some meatloafs. Once I had them done I delivered them to Orton Bennet at Curiosities and Moore. He gave Gomorra 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award, and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices and 4 Baby Spice in it. Not a bad haul for Gomorra today. Tomorrow he will be able to get another recipe with his awards. Wranngar got 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices in it. Wranngar didn't make out as well. I spent Wranngar's award on 10 more Northern Spices, Gomorra is saving his for recipes.

I did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir after that but first I stopped off at K3 in the Storm Peaks to do Overstock. I got that out of the way, collected my 13 gold and continued on to The Son's of Hodir. I did my 5 daily's for them, Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These don't take me too long and I get around 66 gold, 1700 honor and a lot of meat and leather. I always make sure I farm a couple herds of Mammoth while I am there to get some meat and leather. The Worms are a lot easier because they are constantly attacking you so you end up with a lot of meat, leather and scales from them too.

I didn't do my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade tonight, I decided to work on leveling Gomorra some instead.

I did the daily fishing on Gomorra today. I headed over to see what Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, had for me. Today he had Felblood Fillet so I headed over to the Pools of Aggonar (39,37) in Hellfire Peninsula to catch a Monstrous Felblood Snapper. I got one on the 5th cast and headed back to Old Man Barlo to turn it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. Today my Bag of Fishing Treasures had 6g72s45c, 6 Sharpened Fish Hooks and some Noble's Monocle in it. I kept the gold and hooks and sold the Noble's Monacle to a vendor for 11g28s3c. All in all not a bad return for Gomorra on this one.

I didn't want to go back to Zul'Drak, it is probably my least favorite place to quest in North Rend. Instead I did some quests on Gomorra in Dragonblight, I hadn't done any questing there yet. I also ran into some level 74 elite worms running around that I was killing for meat and leather while getting 5660 (rested) XP per kill :). They only had 30k health so they weren't hard elites, I was taking them down no problem. I found some quests there that I didn't do on Wranngar so that was really nice, not doing the same quests over again. I had one quest where I had to kill a level 75 elite. She had about 56k health and she took a lot longer than the worms but wasn't really a problem. I was loading her up with DoT's ('Damage over Time' spells) and then healing my Felguard, refresh the DoT's, heal the Felguard and repeat. I am actually able to kill things with their level in red without much problem using that technique, elites excluded. I am about 13 1/2 bars into level 75 and should hit 76 tomorrow. Then I will be able to head over to Sholazar Basin and quest there. That should get me to 77, and my cold weather flying training, pretty quick.

Gomorra 3/30/09

I did a little more questing on Gomorra today. I did the daily cooking which was Sewer Stew. Because I don't have cold weather flying yet and can not fly in North Rend I had to take the portal down into Crystalsong Forest to pick my carrots. Once I had the 4 I needed I took the portal back up to Dalaran and headed for the bank to get 4 pieces of Chilled Meat to cook it up with. Once I had it cooked I delivered it to Ajay Green at the Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly. He gave me 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards, and 3 Northern Spices for my trouble. Not a bad haul for this daily. The 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards I got today gave me 4 so I could buy my first recipe. The recipes are 3 Dalaran Cooking Awards each. I got Recipe: Tender Shoveltusk Steak. I figured that was the best one to start out with as that is what Gomorra is currently eating for buff food. I cooked a bunch up and got my cooking skill to 411.

I did some questing around Zul'Drak as well as farming a lot of Shoveltusk Meat in Howling Fjord. I have about 5 bars of XP now which is 1/4 of the way through level 75.

Update: I got back on Gomorra for a little while and got a few more bars questing in Zul'Drak. I grouped up with a couple people to do one elite quest but otherwise I was on my own which is how I prefer to quest. I am 8 1/2 bars into 75 now, so almost half way.

I did my daily cooking on Wranngar today which was, of course, Sewer Stew. I flew down to Crystalsong Forest and got the 4 Crystalsong Carrots I needed pretty quick and I was on my way back to Dalaran to get some Chilled Meat out of the bank to cook it up with. Once I had it all cooked up I delivered it to Ajay Green at the Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly. He gave me 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards, 6 Northern Spices and 5 Baby Spice. A great haul for this daily :). That was all I did on Wranngar tonight, I skipped the rest of my daily's in favor of questing on Gomorra.