Battlegrounds 6/25/08

Today's daily battleground was Eye of the Storm. I did it on Wranngar and we won the first one I was in. We started off capping DR, MT & FRR then we lost MT and got BET. We went and got MT back and that gave us a 4 cap, we ran the flag a few times and won 2000/57. I got 11g99s and 419 honor from this daily along with 3 Eye of the Storm Mark of Honor. After that I went and fought in 8 Alterac Valley battles on Wranngar. The Alliance was doing really good tonight for a change, we had 6 wins and 2 losses. For the most part we rushed FWGY while a few stayed back and took IBT and TP, then moved on to FWRH and the FW Towers. After we had those, or at least one of the FW Towers capped, we went in and took out Drek. In a couple we did get IBGY which only helps as that gives us a mid-point graveyard. The Horde tried to turtle in a few of them but we either ran right over them or won on reinforcements. In both our losses we lost because of a turtle and ran out of reinforcements, the Horde did not kill Vann in any of the battles I was in. In a couple of our wins we even got Galv first and still won, that is how on the Alliance was today. Of course due to Season 4 coming out and Season 2 becoming available in Champions Hall there were a lot of AFK in the battles, they are going to AFK their way to an upgrade I guess. Attached is a screen shot of the AFK in one battle, pretty much all the battles we like this. Blizzard says they are doing something about the AFK problem but you just know it is going to be really bad for the next couple months. At least we had groups good enough today to still win without them.

Daily's 6/25/08

I did some of my daily's on Wranngar and Gomorra today. I did the daily fishing quest which was Crocolisks in the City, the daily cooking which was Super Hot Stew on both and Gaining the Advantage on Wranngar. For the fishing I went to Stormwind and fished in the canal right outside the Mage Quarter where you portal in. I got my Baby Crocolisk in just a few casts on each then headed back to Shattrath. I turned that in to Old Man Barlo (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest for my Bag of Fishing Treasures and got, on Wranngar 7g13s68c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Rusted Lock. Gomorra got 6g95s71c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Mithril Shaving Razor that I sold to a vendor for 11 gold. Then I headed over to Forge Camp Terror in Baldes Edge to cook up my Demon Broiled Surprise. I took the mats out of the guild bank as I have a lot in there from the daily cooking so all I had to do was kill an elemental and cook it over his remains. I headed back to The Rokk (61,15) in Shattrath and turned that in. I picked Barrel of Fish on both and Wranngar got 6 Golden Darter, 5 Furious Crawdad and a Silver Hook. Gomorra got 4 Spotted Feltail, 6 Zangarian Sporefish, 2 Huge Spotted Feltail and a Fisherman Knife. I got some good fish out of those that I cooked up and put in the guild bank. They also both got the 7g59s that this quest pays. I headed over to Hellfire Peninsula to kill some Razorfang for Gaining the Advantage and also got some meat while I was doing that. I turned that in for 16g39s and a Major Rejuvenation Potion. I have 30 Major Rejuvenation Potion in the guild bank so I sold that one. I will go later and do the daily battleground which is Eye of the Storm and I will also try to get my Shattered Sun daily's done.

Update: I did all my Shattered Sun daily's on Wranngar later on tonight. I did them with Yonezoe and we were able to knock them all out in about 40 minutes. The Shattered Sun daily's are quick, easy, and give you some good gold for the little effort it takes you. I like to do them in a different order every day to break up the boredom. I can usually do the bombing quest in one run but with 2 of us doing it there is no doubt we will have it done in one run. I made 117 gold for these, after repairs, including coin drops.

Battlegrounds 6/24/08

Arena Season 4 came out today so the season 2 stuff became available to buy with honor in Champions' Hall in Stormwind. I picked up Merciless Gladiator's Maul for Wranngar and had Major Agility (+35) put on it. Then I headed into the battleground to get more honor. Today's daily battleground was Warsong Gulch but I hate Warsong Gulch so I headed into Alterac Valley. I fought in 6 battles on Wranngar, we won 3 and lost 3. The groups were of varying quality, 2 of the 3 we lost we lost badly while one of the losses was really close, we were on Drek when the Horde killed Vann. In the 3 we won only one of them was close, the other 2 were massacres :). For the most part were rushed FWGY and the Relief Hut then capped towers and took down Drek for the win. In none of the battles, wins or losses did we get Galv first. I got some honor and a lot of kills out of it so I was happy. I will probably go back in a little later for more :).

Update: I went in for one more AV tonight which we won using the rush IBGY strat. That strat still seems to be working well along with the rush FWGY strat, but the key is everyone working together that really makes it happen. As long as everyone is working together towards a common goal we seem to be able to win without any problem.

Daily's 6/24/08

I did some of my daily's on both Wranngar and Gomorra. I did the fishing which was Bait Bandits, cooking which was Manalicious again and Sunfury Attack Plans on both plus Gaining the Advantage and The Multiphase Survey on Wranngar. I flew over to the bridge by Tuurem (52,37) in Terokkar Forest and caught my Blackfin Darter's in a couple casts then headed over to Eco-Dome Midrealm in Netherstorm to pick Mana Berries, that didn't take me long and I did Sunfury Attack Plans on the way back. When I got back to Shattrath I turned the cooking in to The Rokk (61,15) and picked Barrel of Fish for my reward. Wranngar got 11 Spotted Feltail, 2 Huge Spotted Feltail and 3 Clean Fishbones. Gomorra got 4 Spotted Feltail, 4 Zangarian Sporefish and 2 Clean Fishbones. Not anything to write home about there but now that I have all the recipes I am in it for the meat and fish. Of course they both got the 7g59s this quest pays too. When I turned in the fishing quest to Old Man Barlo (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, for my Bag of Fishing Treasures, Wranngar got 6g66s40c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks, and a Broken Spyglass which I sold to a vendor for 2 gold. Gomorra got 7g41s66c, 5 Sharpened Fish Hooks and 2 pieces of Salvaged Scrap Metal. Nothing too exciting there either but there are still some nice rewards to be had for both Wranngar and Gomorra so I will stick with it. You can see the rewards for the other quests by going to the List of Daily Quests.

Update: I went and did all the Shattered Sun daily's on Wranngar tonight after the battleground. I did them with Yonezoe and we got them done pretty quick. She had some of them partially done from the day before so that made things go a little quicker.

Daily's 6/23/08

I did all my Shattered Sun daily's on Wranngar today along with Gaining the Advantage and The Multiphase Survey in Nagrand, Blast the Gateway and Blood for Blood at the Throne of Kil'Jaeden, Sunfury Attack Plans in Netherstorm and Ata'mal Armaments in Shadowmoon Valley. I did the daily fishing, which was Felblood Fillet again, and cooking, which was Manalicious, on both Wranngar and Gomorra. With those I was able to send about 260 gold to the bank today. I got the daily fishing from Old Man Barlo (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest and the daily cooking from The Rokk (61,15) in Shattrath then headed to the Pools of Aggonar (39,37) in Hellfire Peninsula to catch my Monstrous Felblood Snapper. I got him in 7 casts on Gomorra and 14 casts on Wranngar. From there I headed over to the Sunfury Post to do Sunfury Attack Plans which I got on both in only a few kills. From there it was off to Eco-Dome Midrealm to pick Mana Berries for the daily cooking. I went to Nagrand on Wranngar from there to do my skinning and The Multiphase Survey then headed back to Shattrath to turn in. For the cooking I am picking Barrel of Fish this week and Wranngar got 4 Furious Crawdad, 4 Golden Darter and a Fisherman Knife in his while Gomorra got 6 Zangarian Sporefish, 4 Figluster's Mudfish and a pair of Moldy Leather Boots in his. They both got the 7g59s that this daily pays too. I also picked up a few recipes at the auction house today on Wranngar that he didn't have. For the fishing Wranngar got 7g9s77c, 2 Elixir of Water Walking and a Rusted Lock. Gomorra got 6g57s27c, 2 Elixir of Water Walking and a Rusted Lock. Nothing good there at all. There are still a lot of good rewards to be had from the daily fishing so I will keep at it.

Daily Battleground 6/23/08

I'm not sure what today's daily battleground was but I had the AV daily in my quest log from a few days ago so I did that on Wranngar today. We won the first one I was in. I got in the battleground about 10 seconds after it started so I don't know what the plan, if any, was but everyone went for Galv first. Usually doing Galv first results in a loss but today we got lucky. By the time they got Galv down we had SFGY and IBGY capping, I think that is what saved us. I helped cap IBT then moved to IBGY and helped guard that until it capped while others from IBT went to TP and helped cap that. Others bypassed FWGY and went right for FWRH and the towers there. We had quite a few on defense at the start, about half of which were AFK, but then most of them moved up to offense. We lost FWRH and the towers when people decided it would be a good idea to take SHGY while we had IBGY and SFGY, causing the horde to rez at FWGY and basically putting them right on top of us. It turned into a Horde turtle and we ended up getting FWGY then started FWRH capping again. We then took out the towers winning on reinforcements. The Horde weren't doing good at all today, not the usual teamwork you usually see and that was a major factor in us winning after the "Galv first" mistake. The daily battleground pays 11g99s, 418 honor and 3 marks of honor which in this case were Alterac Valley Mark of Honor. I have 100 in the bank so mine were mailed to me and they will disappear after 24 hours.

The Steamvault 6/22/08

After Shattered Halls we decided to try another instance, I said any one would be good except Shattered Halls, I had enough of that one for one day. We got another group together and headed into the Steamvaults, an instance in Zangarmarsh. This group was a lot more organized and we had a Paladin to tank which was better as I am really geared for DPS at the moment and feel more comfortable doing DPS. I can tank normal instances with the gear I have, all epic PvP not PvE gear, but I wouldn't last long as a tank in a Heroic instance. This group consisted of Wranngar as DPS, Yonezoe as healer, Dracesslewis a 70 Paladin as main tank, Strycker a 70 hunter as DPS and crowd control and Ilth of the Shattered Sun as off tank and DPS. We had a lot smoother run in this one with this group. Everything was marked and everyone waited until the main tank had good threat before jumping in. We worked our way through all the bosses to the end without much problem. We got a bunch of greens and some blues. Most of us were there to build rep but one person was there for a key fragment to another instance. All in all a great run and a good time.

Shattered Halls 6/22/08

Yonezoe wanted to build up her reputation with Honor Hold in Hellfire Peninsula and it wouldn't kill Wranngar to build up his either so we decided to run an instance. We decided on Shattered Halls which I had never been in before. There was Wranngar tanking, Yonezoe Healing, Drene a 70 Mage doing DPS and crowd control, Megavolt a 70 Shaman doing DPS and off tanking and Seriesh of the Shattered Sun another 70 Shaman doing DPS and off tanking. We did this instance way too fast and had some problems but we did manage to get through it and killed the last boss. This was Yonezoe's first real healing stint in an instance and she did pretty good. I need to work on my tanking skills although I didn't really have much opportunity to tank as people were hitting mobs before I had a chance to which defeats the whole purpose of having a tank. The tank needs to build up threat to be able to hold the mobs on them and I wasn't getting a chance to do that. Towards the end I got sick of trying to pull mobs, that other people were hitting first, onto me and just DPS'd in Bear form. We got some blue items that Yonezoe disenchanted into shards that we rolled for.

Daily's 6/22/08

I did some daily's today, I did the cooking and fishing on both Wranngar and Gomorra and I also did Gaining the Advantage on Wranngar and Sunfury Attack Plans, Ata'mal Armaments, Blast the Gateway and Blood for Blood on Gomorra. Yonezoe did those 4 with me and then logged onto Axeelina and did the daily cooking with Gomorra. The daily cooking today was Soup for the Soul again, I got the mats I needed from the guild vault for Wranngar, Gomorra and Axeelina and we headed over to the Ancestral Grounds (25,59) in Nagrand and cooked up our soup. When I turned that in to The Rokk (61,15) in Shattrath I picked Crate of Meat as my reward on both, starting tomorrow I will be picking Barrel of Fish for the whole week. Wranngar got 8 pieces of Serpent Flesh, 8 pieces of Warped Flesh and a Large Hoof while Gomorra got 8 pieces of Warped Flesh, 8 pieces of Buzzard Meat and a Hunting Knife. Not much good in either of those rewards but I believe I have gotten all the recipes on both now so the meat and fish is really all I have to look forward to unless they have some seasonal recipes or add more. Then I headed over to Old Man Barlo (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest and got the daily fishing quest which was Felblood Fillet. I flew over to the Pools of Aggonar (39,37) in Hellfire Peninsula on Wranngar to catch my Monstrous Felblood Snapper and took Gomorra to Shadowmoon Valley (40,59) to catch his. I turned them in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures and Wranngar got 6g82s60c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks and 2 pieces of Salvaged Scrap Metal. Gomorra got 7g17s94c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Razor Sharp Fillet Knife which I sold to a vendor for 4 gold and some silver. Not a great day for rewards today, better luck tomorrow.

Wranngar Epic Flight Form 6/21/08

I finally got my epic flight form on Wranngar last night. I was talking to a friend of mine, Beerchick, Champion of the Naaru, and I told him I was up to the part where I needed to do Heroic Sethekk Halls for the last part. He said lets go do it. I couldn't pass that up so we went in and got it :). They do a lot of raiding and know what they are doing so it was a pretty easy run compared to most instance runs I have been on. This was my first heroic instance and it went a lot smoother than a lot of normal instances I have done. It didn't take us long to get it done and I got a couple nice items I can use for raiding plus a few Badge of Justice. There were five us us running it, me on Wranngar, Beerchick on his Priest Beerboy, Champion of the Naaru who was healing, a Hunter Spoke who was crowd control, another Priest Thunderlily who was DPS, and another Druid, Ezrah, that was tanking. I was DPS too for this run. Beerchick was able to get 3 more people to help us from her guild no problem so there was no waiting to get a group together. Beerchick invited me and Yonezoe to join her guild and come raiding. I will talk to Yonezoe and see if she wants to come but I would really like to and I am pretty sure she will too. I am getting sick of doing only battlegrounds and would like to get some of the rewards that can be had from raiding. Plus it was a lot of fun with a good group who knows what they are doing.

Yonezoe 6/21/08

Yonezoe hit 70 today :), congratulations to her. We started in Netherstorm but were questing in Shadowmoon Valley when she hit it so she was able to get her 300 riding skill and epic flying mount right there. I was along on Wranngar. I am glad that is finally over. I am definitely going to take a long break before I start another character. Now that she is 70 we can go back to doing daily quests and making some gold along with raiding and battlegrounds so she can get some good gear.

Daily's 6/21/08

I did some of my daily's on both Wranngar and Gomorra today. I did the daily fishing which was Bait Bandits and the daily cooking which was Soup for the Soul on both as well as Gaining the Advantage and Sunfury Attack Plans on Wranngar. I got Sunfury Attack Plans done while I was helping Yonezoe in Netherstorm and did Gaining the Advantage while I was getting the meat I needed for the daily cooking. When I was done with Gaining the Advantage I flew over to the Ancestral Grounds (25,59) in Nagrand and cooked my Clefthoof Meat then made my soup on both toons. When I turned to The Rokk (61,15) in Shattrath I picked Crate of Meat as my reward and Wranngar got 8 pieces of Clefthoof Meat, 7 pieces of Warped Flesh and a Skinning Knife. Nothing exciting there. Gomorra got 15 pieces of Serpent Flesh, an Unidentified Eye and Recipe: Stormchops, a nice blue recipe. The recipes are the main reason to do the daily cooking quest although the meat isn't bad either. I will have to check, I think I might have all the recipes on both now. For Bait Bandits I flew over to my spot at the bridge (52,37) outside Tuurem in Terokkar Forest and fished for the elusive Blackfin Darter. It was proving to be pretty elusive today, it took me 56 casts on Wranngar to catch one and 14 on Gomorra. After I caught one I flew back to Old Man Barlo (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest and turned it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. Wranngar got 7g48s99c, 5 Sharpened Fish Hooks and 3 pieces of Salvaged Scrap Metal, whoohoo. Gomorra got 6g71s5c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Broken Spyglass which I sold to a vendor for 2 gold. Nothing too good there but I can't complain as I have gotten some pretty good stuff from the fishing quest. When I got back to Shattrath I turned in Gaining the Advantage and Sunfury Attack Plans for my rewards.

Netherstorm 6/20/08

We, Wranngar and Yonezoe, did some more questing in Netherstorm tonight. Yonezoe leveled up to 69 and she has about 18 more bars until 70. I gave her a Riding Crop I made to celebrate hitting 69. Some of the quests I was able to do and some I had already done when I was leveling Wranngar there. We really didn't have any problems until we got to Quest: Shutting Down Manaforge Ara then the sheer volume of mobs that come out overwhelmed us and we had to get some help. Yonezoe got a friend of hers, Yangkwen, Champion of the Naaru, to give us a hand. We didn't have too much problem after that although the shutdown did reset twice before we got it shut down. After that it was getting late so we called it a day. Hopefully she will be 70 by the end of the weekend.