Daily's 4/8/08

I pretty much blew off my daily quests today, the only one I did, besides the daily battleground, was Gaining the Advantage. I did it on Wranngar. I spent most my time in AV trying to get my next trinket but, as I mentioned below, I fell short on honor. I will make sure to do all the daily quests tomorrow. To see what daily's I do check out Daily's 4/5/08 and Daily's Part II 4/5/08.

Wranngar AV 4/8/08

I found 4 quests at the entrance to the Alterac Valley instance that I never did on Wranngar. They were: Alterac Valley Graveyards, Capture a Mine, Towers and Bunkers and The Battle of Alterac. I'm not sure why I never did them but I got them done today. I got 11g99s each for the first 3 and 24g60s for the last one. Alliance had another really bad day in AV again. I was in 10 battles today and we only won 2. A few of the battles that we lost were close but for the most part it was a lack of teamwork and coordination on the part of the Alliance. Turtling is a problem as well as the number of people we have AFK every battle. I think we had 3 battles where we got zero honor. The first one we won we did a really good job in and won by a landslide. The second one we won we won by 16 reinforcements. Those were the second and tenth battles. In the last battle the Alliance turtled at SH for a long time then all of a sudden charged out and claimed IBGY. Once we had that we got TP & IBT then Galv. I went and captured Coldtooth Mine for reinforcements. Then it boiled down to reinforcements and we finally won with 16 reinforcements left. Hey, a win is a win :). I was trying to get my last trinket today, Battlemaster's Cruelty, but fell short by less than 700 honor :(. I will definitely get it tomorrow then I will start working on getting an Alliance Battle Standard. I have both the Stormpike Battle Standard and Alliance Battle Standard on Gomorra.

Daily Battleground 4/8/08

The Daily battleground today was Eye of the Storm. I did it on Wranngar with Axeelina. I was in Growless Cave at the entrance to the instance for Alterac Valley when I entered EoS, Axeelina entered us as a group from Shattrath City, then I realized I didn't have the quest. We won that one. When we got out I was in Shattrath so I got the quest and we did it again, another win. In the first battle we held 2 towers for the whole battle and a 3rd tower for about half the battle. Along with that we captured the flag a few times for the win. In the second battle we did pretty much the same thing but with only 2 towers throughout the battle. We captured the flag a lot in that battle for the win. I got 11g99s and 413 honor for the daily.

Wranngar AV 4/7/08

I played Wranngar in 5 AV's today, 5 losses.... I broke 25,000 lifetime kills on Wranngar today :). The Alliance were having a really bad day. The first one was a pretty good battle. The Horde rushed Dun Baldar right from the start. We got TP, IBT, FWGY,IBGY and Galv but when we got to Frostwolf Keep the Horde were defending it pretty heavily. We had a huge battle there that went on for awhile with neither side giving any ground. Unfortunately the Horde had the jump on us from their rush to DB and killed Vann. The third battle was the only other good one. We had 3 towers and were waiting for the fourth to cap, Horde had three towers. We had to go for Drek with only 3 towers down, which would put him at 125% health with a Warmaster with him, because the Horde went for Vann. The Horde got Vann down before we could get Drek down. The other three battles were all lost because of carelessness, lack of teamwork and turtling. All and all a pretty sad day for the Alliance.

Daily's 4/7/08

I logged in and went to the Shattered Sun Staging Area with Wranngar to do my daily's today. I was there for about 5 minutes and Axeelina logged in. We did all the daily quests except for the 2 bombing runs which she had already done earlier, so I dropped them. From there we went to Shattarath City and got the Nether Residue quest, then headed off to do that. The drop rate was pretty bad for me today but I got them all in about 15 minutes. Axeelina has it worse, she gets hers from mining while I get mine from skinning. It is easier to find things to kill and skin than it is to find mines. I just went and killed and skinned Ravagers, I got 12 pieces of meat in the process too. After that we went to The Throne of Kil'Jaeden and got those 2 out of the way. Then Axeelina said there was one in Nagrand we could do but I didn't have the starting quest so she did that one and we headed off to Blades Edge for another. I forgot to write down the names of these two new quests but I will make sure to get them for tomorrow. We did the one in Blades Edge pretty quick then headed off to Netherstorm and did one more before we had to log off. To see what daily's I do check out Daily's 4/5/08 and Daily's Part II 4/5/08. I made about 135g today on daily's. I didn't do the daily battleground today which was WSG. I don't really care for WSG. I didn't bother with the fishing quest on Gomorra today either, I don't think it is worth the time. Maybe some time when I'm bored :).

Wranngar AV 4/6/08

I had Wranngar in 12 AV's today. It was my daily too so that was a nice bonus:). Wranngar passed Gomorra in lifetime kills tonight. Gomorra has 24,783 lifetime kills and Wranngar had 24,974 when I logged off tonight. I am also a lot closer to my next trinket, Battlemaster's Cruelty, now. I have about 8,000 honor to go :). We had 6 wins and 6 losses. Most of our wins stemmed from rushing FWGY while having a few people cap the towers on the way by then get Galv. Then move on to FWRH and the towers as soon as FWGY is claimed and when everything caps get Drek'Thar. This seems to be working out well but it must be done quickly as the Horde are also moving very fast. A lot of the battles are won from killing the opposing factions General so time is of the essence. Most of the losses we had we were on Drek while the Horde were on Vann but there were a few that were just total confusion, lack of focus and no teamwork. When there is no teamwork it really shows and really hurts. The Alliance has really been working well as a team lately for the most part as is evident by the fact that we are winning a respectable number of AV's again. Of course there was one where everyone turtled at SH and we lost on reinforcements but those are becoming fewer and fewer. Capping IBGY if not too heavily defended works out well too as you get that graveyard just a little before FWGY caps. Getting the towers is a MUST. What most people don't seem to realize is each tower is linked to a Warmaster, when the tower burns the Warmaster goes away. But each tower is also PLUS 25% health to Drek so if the 4 towers are up you have 4 Warmasters PLUS Drek at 200% health to deal with. Yes burning as many towers as you can is a must.

Scholomance 4/6/08

I helped out a friend with Wranngar in Scholomance today. He needed to do Imp Delivery for his Epic Warlock Mount quest. His character is Jacedic. He had another Druid along, Alleneva, to help out. It went pretty smooth. One of the smoothest Scholomance runs I have been on. We had no deaths and really didn't have any problems. We made our way to Rattlegore, killed some of the mobs around him, then killed him and got the Viewing Room Key. That went really smooth. Then we cleared our way to the viewing room, went through there, killed a couple mobs in the alchemy lab, and released the imp. He did what he had to do and we worked our way back out. All and all a quick easy run. We got the usual blues for drops off the bosses, nothing spectacular. I will give him a hand summoning the Dredsteed when he is ready. I will try to get some good screenshots of that whole process. Gomorra has all the mats to summon and has summoned 6 or 7 of them so far. You would think it would get easier each time but it doesn't :).

Daily's 4/6/08

I did most of my daily's on Wranngar today and made about another 80g. I knocked off early to help a friend in Scholomance and just didn't have time to do the bombing runs and a couple of the others. I spent most of the rest of my day in Alterac Valley. To see what daily's I do check out Daily's 4/5/08 and Daily's Part II 4/5/08.

Gomorra Fishing 4/6/08

I took Gomorra and did the daily fishing quest from Terokkar Forest. It was The One That Got Away. I am not sure if I will do it again, it was time consuming for what I got out of it. I got the quest right outside Shattarath City at Slymr Lake then switched to flight form and flew to Sunspring Lake in Nagrand. I got the fish (Worlds largest Mudfish) on my second cast but then I had to fly back. The flying was the time consuming part. For my efforts I received Bag of Fishing Treasures which contained 6g91s52c, Sharpened Fish Hookx6 and Razor Sharp Fillet Knife. Not really sure if it was worth the time.

Daily's Part II 4/5/08

After the battlegrounds I took Wranngar to the Shattered Sun Staging Area to do those daily's. The first 2 I did were Arm the Wards! and Further Conversions. They mobs you have to kill/convert are together so it is easy to do these 2 together. It took me less tan 10 minutes to get these 2 out of the way. I made a total of 18g20s from these 2 quests. Then I ran over to the gateway and did The Battle Must Go On. That took me less than 5 minutes and made me 10g10s. From there I did Taking the Harbor which got me another 11g99s. It took me about 10 minutes to do that one. After that I did Making Ready and one of the three parts of Know Your Key Lines. When I was done there I had to go back to the gateway and do the second part of Know Your Key Lines because I forgot to do it when I was there earlier. I then went and did the third part to that quest and turned in. I made a total of 23g98s for those two quests. Around this time Axeelina logged in so we did the last 2 bombing quests, The Air Strikes Must Continue and Intercept the Reinforcements together. That made me a combined 16g69s. I helped Axeelina do the other quests and get them out of the way before I had to log off. All together today I made 131g43s on daily quests :). Not too bad for the little bit of time it took me. Making all this gold I finally broke down and got the Meta Gem for my helm, Swift Skyfire Diamond.

Wranngar AV 04/05/08

I played Wranngar in 10 AV's tonight. It was a really bad night for the Alliance. We had 2 wins and 8 losses :(. There was some pretty poor playing on the Alliances part. In the first battle we managed to get TP, IBT and IBGY and that was about it. There seemed to be no focus in that battle. The next battle was hardly any better. The Alliance used the "Rush FWGY" strategy but didn't bother to cap IBT or TP. When it came down to the line and the Horde were on Vann we had to try Drek with 2 Warmasters in there with him. We failed. The next battle wasn't much different except we had TP and IBT but when we were on Drek and the Horde were on Vann we lost the race. The next battle we won but I didn't have much to do with it. I joined near the end and the Alliance killed Drek while I was on my way to Frostwolf Keep. After that I got into the next one at the start. It was almost a repeat of the second battle except the towers we didn't have when we had to take a try at Drek were East and West Frostwolf. I was trying to tank Drek with 2 Warmasters in with him and either the healer died or there were no heals. We lost that one. In the 6th battle we made a run to FWGY & FWRH. I died while defending FWRH and got sent all the way back to the Stormpike Aid Station in Dun Baldar :(. That is one of the downfalls of rushing FWGY & FWRH, when you die you get sent back to the start. Luckily Wranngar is a Druid and I am able to stealth back to the front lines, it just takes time because you move at reduced speed in Prowl (stealth). I worked my way back up to IBT but defending that until cap then moving on to TP was about as far as I got. We lost that one when the Horde killed Vann. We didn't have TP or either of the towers in Frostwolf Keep. The next one was a loss also. We had all the towers burned, Drek was without his warmasters and we were on him when the Horde killed Vann. The Horde are moving a lot faster now than they had to previous to the 2.4 patch. It is almost like the old AV, previous to 2.3, where you could rush to the opposing factions General and kill him. Of course now you have to have the towers down of you will be taking on Drek/Vann and 4 Warmasters. It seemed to take us a long time to cap IBGY & FWGY and that probably cost us the battle. Then we had another win! Offense worked their way to Frostwolf Keep through heavy defense. I was killed at FW Keep and got sent back to Dun Baldar. From there I just went defense as we were a ways into the game and the Horde were putting a lot of pressure on SPGY. This battle took awhile but we had Galv down, TP, IBT, East and West Frostwolf Towers burned, IBGY and FWGY capped. We won on reinforcements. The next 2 were losses. In one the only forward GY we had was FWRH, so needless to say everyone was spread out. I was going by SFGY, which was in the process of capping for the Alliance, when I noticed there was no one there. This is a problem I see a lot in all the battlegrounds, people claiming something then riding away before it caps. I went up and defended until it capped. It was a pretty easy job, I only had to defend against one Warlock. At that point we had a mid graveyard but it was already too late. We lost that one on reinforcements. We also lost the last one on reinforcements, we weren't even past TP when that one ended.

Daily Battleground 4/5/08

I did the daily battleground on Wranngar. It was Eye of the Storm. It took 5 battles to win :(. Not sure what the Alliances problem is lately. In the 2nd battle the Horde held 3 towers, but in the other 4 we each held 2 towers through the whole battle for the most part. It boiled down to running the flag. The Horde had control of it more in 3 of the battles but in the last battle we controlled it and won 2000/754. Then I went back in for one more which we lost. The Horde 3 capped and for some reason the Alliance seemed more concerned with getting the flag than they did with getting another tower. I have been in groups like that where everyone goes for the flag, which half the time when they do that, we don't even have a tower to bring it to. I helped cap and defend DR and then later, after we lost that, I helped get MT and defend that. Anyway I got 11g99s for my daily battleground. I am going to do some AV a little bit later.

Daily's 4/5/08

I decided to do some of the daily's first today. I did these on Wranngar. The first one I did was Gaining the Advantage. This one turned out to be even easier today than it was yesterday if you can believe that. There were a bunch of people killing Ravagers for some reason, probably a quest, and they were not skinning them. I just followed along behind and skinned everything they killed. It took me less than 10 minutes to complete. The great thing about this quest is I can get the Nether Residue from anything I skin so I can go out and kill whatever I need meat for and kill 2 birds with one stone. I went back to Shatt and turned in for 16g39s. From there I headed over to Hellfire Peninsula and The Throne of Kil'Jaeden to do those 2 dailys. It took me about 10 minutes to do the two daily quests there. Blood for Blood was the first one I did and for that quest I made 11g99s and 5 Mark of Sargeras. The other item you can get, if you are Scryer is 5 Sunfury Signet. The other daily I did at The Throne of Kil'Jaeden was Blast the Gateway. For that one I made 10g10s and Shattered Sun Supplies. So in less than 20 minutes I made 38g48s on 3 daily's. Going to do the daily battleground and a couple battles before I head over to Shattered Sun Staging Area to do those daily's. I am going to log onto Gomorra later and check out the daily fishing quests, I have never done those. Gomorra's fishing is 375 while Wranngar's is only 207.