Sons of Hodir Daily's 3/10/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and got the daily cooking out of the way. It was Sewer Stew again.... I flew down to Crystalsong Forest to pick some Crystalsong Carrots. There was someone else there picking them too but it still didn't take me long. Once I had 4 I flew back up to Dalaran and got 4 pieces of Chilled Meat to throw in with them and cooked up my stew. I delivered that and got 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag which had 3 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Not too bad of a haul today. I got 20 more Northern Spices with the awards I got and now I have 235. I am a stockpiler, I will just keep stockpiling them until I decide I have enough, however much that turns out to be.

I did my daily at K3 in the Storm Peaks which is Overstock. That one only takes me a couple minutes from the time I pick up up until I turn it back in again and it gets me around 13 gold. From there I went over and did my 3 daily's for The Sons of Hodir. The 3 I am doing are pretty quick and easy and they pay 13g23s each. The 3 I am doing are: Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold and Polishing the Helm. These are the only 3 I can get right now, but there are 3 more I can get once I am honored. They are: Feeding Arngrim, Thrusting Hodir's Spear and Spy Hunter. It will take me about 3 more days to get to honored then I can add them to my list of daily's. 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 my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade as usual with the exception that I dropped Intelligence Gathering. I am not going to waste any more time on that one. I was done with the other 2 quests today, had checked a few quests, had 0 documents and 4 keys. You have to open at least 15 chests to get 5 documents and that meant 11 more keys which is at least 11 more kills but more like 15-20, then find the chests and hope for the best. I finally just decided enough was enough. I did do the other 5 though, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. These go pretty quick and after dropping Intelligence Gathering I got all the above mentioned quests done in about an hour which was good because I didn't have much time tonight.

Wranngar - Daily's 3/9/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and did the daily cooking quest which was Sewer Stew. I headed down to Crystalsong Forest and picked 4 Crystalsong Carrots. The picking went really fast today, there was no one there and I got my 4 in a couple minutes, it was just a matter of running around and picking them. I flew back up to Dalaran and grabbed 4 Chilled Meat to cook them up with. For those who don't know what Dalaran is, it used to be next to the Alterac Mountains in the Eastern Kingdom. I am not sure of all the lore but there was something to do with Wizards and Mages and, long story short, they uprooted and moved their city to Northrend where it hangs suspended over Crystalsong Forest. Back to the cooking, once I had my Sewer Stew cooked up I delivered it in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag that had 3 Northern Spices but not a second Dalaran Cooking Award in it. I took the award I had and got 10 more Northern Spices which I put in the guild bank. I now have 212 and it is time to start cooking. I was looking through my recipes today, there are so many that do the same thing but use different mats. I am trying to find the ones that are easiest to do (mats farming) but will cover all the different types of buff food I can make. I didn't do any fishing today, just wasn't in the mood, that is one of those things you need to be in the mood for or forget it.

Today's daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients. We won the first one I was in so I was able to complete my daily. We won pretty fast and easy, it took us 2 minutes 45 seconds to capture the Titan Portal and then the Horde ran the clock out on their attempt and only got through 2 gates. We seem to do pretty well in SoA, we usually win in the battles I have been in. It is one of those battlegrounds where you can attack more than one objective at a time to get your goal and either one will work (The gates in this instance). The Horde only really seems to operate well when they can get 3 or 4 on one action going, if they get spread out too thin they can't do that and I think that is what is happening in SoA. When I got out I turned in the daily and got 13g23s and 1241 bonus honor.

I did my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade today, they are: From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Intelligence Gathering, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. The only one that really takes me any time is Intelligence Gathering. Once again today I was there well after the other 2 quests were done, getting keys and opening chests. There is a very poor drop rate on the documents in the chests. These 6 quests get you around 80 gold. After that I did Overstock in the Storm Peaks. This is a fast easy quest that pays around 13 gold. I highly recommend it. I did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir. The daily's I do for them are: Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold and Polishing the Helm. As I was looking these up to get links I found 3 more that I am not doing, I will start doing those tomorrow. They are: Feeding Arngrim, Thrusting Hodir's Spear and Spy Hunter. Not sure how I missed these, must pick them up somewhere else, anyway I will look into it tomorrow. These quests pay 13g23s each like the Ebon Blade so I can make some good gold doing these every day.

I took the portal from Dalaran to Shattrath so I could go see if Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest had anything for me today. He did, he had Felblood Fillet which had me heading over to Pools of Aggonar (39,37) in Hellfire Peninsula to try and catch a Monstrous Felblood Snapper. This is the only daily fishing quest where I will click on the bobber when it bobs and get a empty loot window. None of the other daily fishing quests do that when I am fishing. I haven't tried the only other place you can do this one yet, Shadowmoon Valley (40,59), to see if it happens there too. It never happens when I am just fishing either, if I don't get anything it either tells me no fish were hooked or it got away. Anyway I had 4 of those today trying to get this one done. It took me 15 casts altogether to get my Monstrous Felblood Snapper, including the empty loot windows, but I finally got it done. I turned it back in to Old Man Barlo for a Bag of Fishing Treasures which today contained, 7g4s76c, 5 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Razor Sharp Fillet Knife that I sold to a vendor for 4g28s. I haven't gotten anything good from this daily lately so I am due, there are still a few good rewards to be had from this daily.

Sons of Hodir 3/8/09

I did some quests for the Sons of Hodir on Wranngar today and got my reputation from unfriendly to neutral to 1/3 of the way through friendly. I started doing daily's for them. I did a bunch of other quests along with my usual daily's and altogether made a little over 600 gold. That is good because I need it to restock my gold supplies. I have been spending but not taking anything in so I was getting low. I did all my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's, they are: From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Intelligence Gathering, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. These don't take too long with the exception of Intelligence Gathering which had me there again long after I had finished the other two quests in Onslaught Harbor. I did Overstock in the Storm Peaks for around 13 gold. I will post the names of the daily's I am doing for the Sons of Hodir tomorrow, I forgot to write them down today. 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.

The daily cooking today was Sewer Stew so I headed down to Crystalsong Forest to pick some Crystalsong Carrots. I got the 4 I needed and as I had already gone to the guild bank and got 4 Chilled Meat I cooked up my Sewer Stew on the spot using a fire someone else made. I turned that in and got a Dalaran Cooking Award, 9g93s and a Small Spice Bag which only had 2 Northern Spices in it :(. I am a little bummed out that I am down to one Dalaran Cooking Award a day now. I spent that one on 10 Northern Spices and put them in the guild bank along with the 2 I got today giving me a total of 199.

I did a lot of fishing today. I was fishing in the Underbelly, Ironforge and then Nagrand when I did the daily fishing. I was fishing in the Underbelly trying to catch a Giant Sewer Rat for the achievement I Smell A Giant Rat but mostly I want the pet. I was fishing in Ironforge trying to complete the achievement Old Ironjaw. There was a level 80 undead priest fishing there too. He was flagged because you automatically get flagged when you are in one of the opposite factions cities. I left him alone because he was only trying to get the achievement Old Ironjaw just like I was and I am going to have to go into Orgrimarr soon to complete one of the fishing quests myself. The daily fishing quest from Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest was The One That Got Away. That had me heading over to Lake Sunspring (34,43) in Nagrand to catch the World's Largest Mudfish. It took me 21 casts but I finally got it. I turned that back in to Old Man Barlo for a Bag of Fishing Treasures. Today my Bag of Fishing Treasures had 7g49s33c, 6 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Beautiful Glass Eye, which I sold to a vendor for 18 gold. I also did some fishing in Northrend for supplies.

Today's daily battleground was Alterac Valley. I decided not to do it because of the problem in AV lately. I did some EoS instead. I fought in 7 battles, 4 wins and 3 losses. We were doing much better in the morning. The first battle I was in I thought was going to be a loss. We were over 600 points behind when we finally started working together. We went on to win that one by less than 100 points. We won the next 3 in pretty much the same fashion, a long hard battle. Then the groups changed and we ended up with groups full of flagtards, people who go for the flag and don't worry about getting or defending towers. They will be going for the flag when we don't even have a tower to bring it to. We lost the alast 3 I was in then I decided to give up.

Fishing & Stuff 03/07/09

I did some fishing tonight on Wranngar. I did the daily fishing quest I picked up from Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, which was Crocolisks in the City. I went back to Shattrath and took the portal to Stormwind then ran over to the canals to fish. I got my Baby Crocolisk on the 12th cast, didn't take too long today. I flew over to Nethergarde Keep then rode over to the portal and flew back to Terokkar Forest and handed it in. Today my Bag of Fishing Treasures had 7g23s1c, 6 Sharpened Fish Hooks, which was kind of nice as I was running low, and a Broken Spyglass which I sold to a vendor for 2 gold. I did a bunch of fishing in the Underbelly in Dalaran tonight too. I got a lot of fish and some vials and old gnawed fish bones but not a Giant Sewer Rat in the bunch. I did drink a Underbelly Elixir, which was a half full bottle I found down there in the sewers, and it turned me into a wasp. I will keep plugging away at this achievement until I finally get my Giant Sewer Rat. I usually fish down there when I take a break from the battlegrounds.

Today's daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients. We won the second one I was in. In the first one we didn't have a very good group or weren't coordinating or something because it didn't go well at all. In the second battle we did a lot better, we got the Titan Portal within a couple minutes and then held the Horde off from even getting to the gates of the keep when it was there turn on offense. That battle went a lot better to say the least. I fought in one Eye of the Storm after that which we lost. We started off 6 to 15 and when it ended in our loss it was 10 to 15 so we never even stood a chance. Well, I guess the Horde have to win once in awhile and take what they can get.

I did my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade, They are: From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Intelligence Gathering, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. These are pretty easy and even Shoot 'Em Up and Intelligence Gathering went quick today. I don't use the Skeletal Gryphon they give you to do No Fly Zone, it is quicker and easier to just fly over there in Swift Flight Form and lure then down to a surface where I can switch to cat form and kill them. I did my daily in the Storm Peaks which is Overstock. This one only takes me a couple minutes and pays around 13 gold, I would recommend this as a daily for anyone who wants a little fast easy gold.

The daily cooking quest today was Convention at the Legerdemain. This one is pretty easy, I headed over to the guild bank and got 4 pieces of Chilled Meat which I cooked into 4 Northern Stew. Once I had my stew I headed over to the wine and cheese shop for a Jug of Wine. It took me a couple minutes of running upstairs and downstairs and even outside because I saw it spawn outside by the sample giver. I finally found one behind the counter where you come in. I delivered that to the Legerdemain in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag only had 4 Northern Spices in it. Normally I would call that a good day but I was expecting another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Today is the first day since I got my Chef title that I have not received 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards :(. I took my Dalaran cooking award and got 10 Northern Spices which I put in the guild bank giving me a total of 187. Hopefully tomorrow I will get 2 again and that will put me over 200.

Battlegrounds 3/6/09

The daily battleground today was Arathi Basin. I did it on Wranngar and we won the first one I was in. It didn't look like we were going to win at the start, we had the Stables, almost had the Lumber Mill and almost had the Gold Mine. Then we lost the Lumber Mill. We went along with only 2 nodes until we were almost 300 behind then we picked up the Farm. Meanwhile I was guarding the Gold Mine and had a few attacks I fought off with help from people who responded to my call of incoming. We put a lot of pressure on the Blacksmith and got most the Horde there then took the Lumber Mill. After that we lost the Farm which put us at 3 nodes to 2 for a little while but then we picked up the Blacksmith and lost the Gold Mine. That still left us at 3 to 2 until we picked up the Farm again. It went like that throughout the entire battle but we ended up winning by over 500 points. I fought in one Eye of the Storm after that, we didn't do so well in there. As a matter of fact I decided to call it a night on the battlegrounds after that one. We lost that one when the Horde 4 capped us pretty much from the start. Everyone was coming off the rock, everyone that didn't just go AFK, and trying to take the Mage Tower and the Dareni Ruins. ALL the Horde were on that side of the field, what they should have been going after was BET and FRR but me and another person were the only ones that did. I got FRR to clock over so at least the Horde weren't holding it when they won, so they didn't get a 4 cap :).

The daily cooking today was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf so I headed down into the Sewers to get some Infused Mushrooms. I got 4 of them pretty quick then ran over to the bank and got a couple Chilled Meat to cook it up with. I lit a fire outside the bank and cooked my Infused Mushroom Meatloaf then delivered it in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices, 3 Old Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award. I got another 20 Northern Spices with my 2 cooking awards and put them in the guild bank. Now I have 173.

I didn't do my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's today because I really didn't have the time but I did head over to the Storm Peaks to do Overstock. This quest is so fast and easy there is always time to do it. It only takes a couple minutes and pays around 13 gold. I will get back on all my daily's tomorrow night when I have a little more time and I have Sunday off so I should have a little more time to play. I am slowly restocking my gold supply.

Daily's 3/4/09

I only did daily's tonight, I didn't have too much time. I got on Wranngar and grabbed the daily cooking which was Convention at the Legerdemain. This is a pretty easy one, getting the jug of wine can be a pain sometimes but overall a pretty easy quest. I got the jug of wine pretty fast today then went to the guild bank and grabbed 4 Chilled Meat so I could make 4 Northern Stew to complete the quest. Once I had that cooked up I headed over the the Legerdemain and delivered it. For payment I received 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices, 5 Baby Spice and another Dalaran Cooking Award. I have gotten 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards every day since I received my Chef's title. I now have 150 Northern Spices in the guild bank.

I did my daily quest, Overstock, in The Storm Peaks today. As usual this quest only took me a few minutes from the time I picked it up until I handed it back in for 12g96s. This is one I always try to do because it is so easy, goes so fast and pays so well. I did my 6 Knights of the Ebon Blade daily quests, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Intelligence Gathering, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. You take a little bit of a beating doing these but altogether they pay around 80 gold, so well worth the time to do them.

Wranngar - Daily's 3/3/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and did the daily cooking in Dalaran which was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf. I went down into the Underbelly and picked my 4 Infused Mushrooms then ran over to the bank and got a couple Chilled Meat to cook it up with. Once I had all the ingredients I made a fire outside the bank and cooked up some Infused Mushroom Meatloaf. I delivered that and the guy gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. When I opened the Small Spice Bag I found 4 Northern Spices, 3 Baby Spice and another Dalaran Cooking Award. Not a bad haul at all. Every day since I got my Chef title I have gotten 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards, either 2 for the quest or one for the quest and one in the Small Spice Bag. I hope it keeps going that way. I have been getting 20 Northern Spices a day with my cooking awards so they are adding up quick. I have been cooking too, now that I am not afraid to use them lol.

The daily battleground today was Eye of the Storm. We won the first one I was in pretty easily. We had a 3 cap going for most of the battle and a 4 cap for about 7 seconds. I guess the Horde group was pretty bad but not that bad. I turned that in for 13g23s and 1241 honor. I fought in another battle but it wasn't the same group, not even close. We were behind when I got in then we got ahead and had 3 towers but everyone went flagtard and we lost our 3rd tower, lost our lead and eventually lost the battle.

I did my daily's for Knight's of the Ebon Blade. They are still paying 13g23s each so I keep plugging away at them for some spending money. I did From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Intelligence Gathering, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. These go pretty fast with the exception of Intelligence Gathering which I swear I am going to stop doing every day. I usually end up running around after I have the other 2 in Onslaught Harbor done trying to get keys and open chests looking for documents. Not a really good drop rate on them. These 6 daily's get me around 80 gold a day. I also did Overstock in The Stormpeaks. This is a really easy quest that causes no equipment damage, only takes a couple minutes, and gets you around 13 gold, 12g96s to be exact.

Warsong Gulch 03/02/09

Today's daily battleground was Warsong Gulch. I did it on Wranngar and we won the second one I was in. We lost the first one 1/3 but won the second one 3/0. The first one was not for lack of trying. It was a battle the whole time but part of the problem was the people fighting in the middle. They weren't defending our flag, they weren't trying to get our flag back and they weren't trying to get the Horde flag. They were just fighting in the middle. While that was keeping the Horde occupied it was not enough because there were 2 rogues in their flagroom and every time someone tried to get the flag they got ghanked. We finally lost that one and I joined another. We did a lot better in that one, it took a little while but we owned them. That got my daily done which I turned in for 13g23s and 1241 extra honor which is a lot more than we got for winning the battle. I also fought in 5 Eye of the Storm battles, 3 wins and 2 losses. The major problem in most the battles was flagtards. They were more worried about getting the flag than they were about getting and holding some bases so we could win. I forgot to check but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it is EoS holiday weekend this weekend. The 3 we won were a struggle and usually we dominate in there so something is going on.

I did all my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade today, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Intelligence Gathering, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. I got about 80 gold for those which is good, I need to build up my reserves again. I only did one daily for The Kalu'ak and decided it is just not worth it. I did Preparing for the Worst and then wrote them off. I got what I was after from them and I am not going to continue to do their quests for 5 gold a piece.

The daily cooking quest today was Mustard Dogs!. This requires running around Dalaran looking for Wild Mustard. You need to pick 4 of them and that took me about 5 minutes. Then I needed to cook them up with 4 Rhino Dogs and put them in the basket provided. That presented the problem as I only had 3 pieces of rhino meat and no Rhino Dogs in the guild bank. I headed over to Sholazar Basin to hunt some rhino's for meat. I hunted for about 20 minutes and got 21 pieces which would allow me to complete the quest and also have a full stack of meat in the bank. I completed the quest and turned it in for 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards, a Small Spice Bag and 9g93s. My Small Spice Bag had 5 Northern Spices in it. I am not sure why I got 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards today as part of the payoff. I didn't yesterday, I got one plus one in the Small Spice Bag. Seems kind of odd. Maybe some quests pay more than others. Anyway I used my 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards to buy 20 more Northern Spices, now I have 117. They stack in 100's, I was curious about that.

I went and saw Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, to see what he had for me. Today he wanted me to head to Stormwind and take care of Crocolisks in the City for him. I portal'd to Stormwind and got to fishing in the canal outside the Mage District. I got a Baby Crocolisk on my 15th cast. I flew to Blasted Lands and then rode over to the Dark Portal and went through that. On the other side, in the Outlands, I flew to Shattrath then flew over and turned this in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. That had 7g21s1c, 3 Elixirs of Water Walking and a Mariner's Log. Not a great haul today but I can really use the Elixirs of Water Walking so it was worth it.