Gomorra 3/15/09

I did some questing on Gomorra today. I thought I would get to level 71 today but I didn't quite make it. When I went to fly out of Dalaran I only had 60 silver on me and couldn't even get a flight. I sold some of the items I made and got around 19 gold. From there I flew over to the Harbor then headed out into Borean Tundra to quest. I did a bunch of quests there including some for The Kalu'ak. I am already half way through friendly with them and have a daily but I am not high enough level to get the other daily's yet. The daily I am doing is Preparing for the Worst. Maybe I can pick up another one tomorrow when I hit 71. I am also thinking about switching Gomorra from Enchanting to Skinning as one of his professions. I already have Skinning on Wranngar and Wrangar but it is a money maker and I can always use the leather on Wranngar for leatherworking. I already got a couple items that are as nice if not a little nicer than what I currently have. I will work on Gomorra some more tomorrow. Instead of just hanging around on Wranngar, and when I don't feel like doing battlegrounds, I will work on Gomorra. I have been bored and not spending as much time playing lately, maybe this is what I need. I had a pretty good time getting used to Gomorra again tonight.

Wranngar 3/15/09

I got on Wranngar today and did all my daily's. The first one I did was the daily cooking in Dalaran. Today it was Sewer Stew. I headed down to Crystalsong Forest and picked 4 Crystalsong Carrots. That only took me a couple minutes and I was on my way back to Dalaran. Once I was back there I headed to the bank and got 4 Chilled Meat to cook them up with. Once I had my Vegetable Stew I headed down into the sewers and delivered it to Ajay Green at the inn. He gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag had 4 Northern Spices and 5 Old Spices. Not too bad but another Dalaran Cooking Award would have got me 10 more Northern Spices. As it was I got 10 more with my award and put them in the bank. I did a lot of cooking today and used up a bunch of Northern Spices but I will recover them quickly.

I did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir. There are 4 of them I do and they don't take me too long. I do: Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm and Spy Hunter. I didn't try Thrusting Hodir's Spear again, I just might drop that one and take a little longer to become exalted. These daily's pay 13g23s each and don't take me too long. I also farmed some Mammoths for meat and leather while I was there. As usual I stopped by Storm Peaks on my way there and did Overstock. This is a fast easy quest that gets you around 13 gold. I do this one every day.

After that did my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's. I did all of them except Intelligence Gathering. I got a bunch of keys and a couple documents and will probably finish it off and turn it in tomorrow. The ones I did do were: From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. These also don't take me very long and pay 13g23s each. I am already exalted with Knights of the Ebon Blade so I am just doing these for the gold. All in all I make some pretty good gold between quest rewards and the drops I sell to the vendor.

I did the daily fishing today too. I went to see Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest and he gave me Felblood Fillet. I headed over to the Pools of Aggonar (39,37) in Hellfire Peninsula to catch me a Monstrous Felblood Snapper. It took me about a dozen casts to get one and I headed back to Old Man Barlo. On my way back I noticed someone taking the towers so I stopped and gave them a hand. It was a level 61 Hunter and he was pretty happy to see me :). I finally made my way back to Old Man Barlo and turned in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. Today it contained 6g74s76c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking and a Piece of Polished Driftwood. Not the best day of fishing.

Honored 3/14/09

I am now honored with The Sons of Hodir on Wranngar. I reached that tonight after the first quest. The first thing I did when I logged on though was the daily cooking. Today it was Mustard Dogs! which was a nice change although I think the Wild Mustard is kind of hard to see. I usually just look for the sparkles then try to find it. I got the 4 I needed in 5 or 6 minutes then headed over to the bank for some Rhino Dogs, cooked them up, and delivered them to Archmage Pentarus at Krasus' Landing. He was so happy he gave me 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices in it. Another good day. I spent my 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards on 20 more Northern Spices so now I have 280. I did some cooking the other day and used a bunch of them but I have enough of a buffer now so I don't have to worry.

I did my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade tonight. I did all 6 of them, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up, Vile Like Fire! and Intelligence Gathering. I even spent the extra time to do Intelligence Gathering. The last few days when I get done with my daily's I haven't felt like going into the battlegrounds so I farm a little bit, fish, meat and leather, then usually end up getting bored so I figure I can spend the time on that one for the 13g23s it pays. It didn't take me long today, I had 14 keys for Intelligence Gathering and picked up more as I did the other 2 quests so I didn't have to hunt around for keys and that made it a little quicker. I will probably just gather keys for a day or two then just hit all the boxes I can find for documents.

I hit honored with The Son's of Hodir tonight and got two of the other daily's. One of the new ones I picked up is Spy Hunter. This one is pretty easy. I also got another one, Thrusting Hodir's Spear but I had a really hard time doing it and gave up to go do my other daily's. I was going to get back to it but never did. I will try it again tomorrow and see what happens. I was reading about it on Thottbot and I guess it is pretty tough but that is what I read about Shoot 'Em up for the Knights of the Ebon Blade but after a few days it got easy, maybe that will happen with this one. Feeding Arngrim I won't get to do until I am revered. I thought it was honored but after reading up on it some more I see it is revered. I did the other 3 daily's I have for them though, they are: Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm. Pretty easy stuff and they pay well. I will see if I can get that one daily done tomorrow before daily's roll over that way I can do it again tomorrow. As usual I did Overstock in the Storm Peaks on my way to do my daily's for The Son's of Hodir. This is one daily that I would be stupid to miss. It takes no time or effort and pays around 13 gold.

Sons of Hodir 3/13/09

As usual I did the daily cooking first thing when I logged onto Wranngar. No surprise it was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf again. I headed down into the sewers and got my 4 Infused Mushrooms in a couple minutes, it went pretty fast tonight. I cooked them up with a couple Chilled Meat and delivered it to Orton Bennet at Curiosities and Moore. He gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag for my trouble. My Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Another good haul today.

I did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir and am only 275 rep away from being honored. I will get that tomorrow, I will probably hand in the first quest as soon as I finish it to get to honored then I can grab the other daily quests that you can't get until you are honored. The ones I did today were: Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold and Polishing the Helm. After I get to honored I will be able to do: Feeding Arngrim, Thrusting Hodir's Spear and Spy Hunter as well. They have a few nice items I want to get when I hit honored, revered and exalted. I also did Overstock in the Storm Peaks on my way to do The Sons of Hodir daily's. This is a fast easy quest that only takes a couple minutes and gets you around 13 gold.

I did 5 of the 6 daily's I do for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. I did: From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. I got a couple documents for Intelligence Gathering but I don't have enough to turn it in yet. I think I have 14 keys now though.

Dungeons 3/12/09

I did my daily cooking as soon as I got on Wranngar. Today the daily cooking quest was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf so I headed down into the sewers in search of some Infused Mushrooms. It took me about 5 minutes to get the 4 I needed then I headed over to the bank to grab a couple pieces of Chilled Meat to cook them up with. Once I had my Infused Mushroom Meatloaf cooked up I delivered it in exchange for a Dalaran Cooking Award, 9g93s and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices, 3 Baby Spice and another Dalaran Cooking Award. A pretty good haul today.

The rest of the night I spent in various dungeons. Salintu invited me to run Upper Blackrock Spire and Stratholme with her and Stalleris. She is going for the Classic Dungeonmaster achievement. We ended up doing Lower Blackrock Spire, Upper Blackrock Spire and Blackrock Depths. Took us a few hours but I got the achievements for all 3 plus the Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy! achievement. The Leeeeeeeeeeeeroy! achievement was a lot of fun. I went into bear form and ran through all these eggs breaking them open and letting dragon whelplings out. They were also breaking eggs near them so when I ran back to where Salintu and Stalleris were I must have had 80-100 or more of them on me. They hit them with AoE's and took them all down. You need to kill 50 in 15 seconds to get the achievement so we had it no problem. I got 4 achievements and had a lot of fun doing it. I am not sure if they did Stratholme or not after I logged off, but if they didn't, maybe they will want to do it tonight.

Daily's & Wyrmrest Accord 3/11/09

I did the daily cooking on Wranngar as soon as I logged on tonight. It was Convention at the Legerdemain and the jug of wine dropped pretty fast for me today. You have to keep going upstairs and downstairs looking for a blue sparkling jug, that is the jug of wine. I ran over to the bank and got 4 Chilled Meat so I could make 4 Northern Stew to go with the wine. When I had everything I needed I delivered it in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today all my Small Spice Bag had in it was 2 Northern Spices :(. I took the award I got and got 10 more Northern Spices bringing my total to 247. I did a bunch of cooking today to stock up the guild bank a little. I want to have 2 stacks of each Northrend food in there with the exception of the BoP food of course.

I did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir. These don't take long and in 2 days I will be honored with them and will pick up 3 more daily's. They have some nice stuff you can buy when you are honored and exalted. A few of the items I want to get are: Greater Inscription of the Axe, Pattern: Mammoth Mining Bag, Reins of the Ice Mammoth and Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth to name a few. I will be honored in 2 days as I said and I will be able to get some things form them then. I do my daily at K3 on my way over to do these. That one is Overstock. This is a pretty easy quest that takes no time at all and gets you around 13 gold.

I did my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's next. I didn't complete Intelligence Gathering but I still have it. I now have about 10 keys and when there is a chest next to a mob I kill I will open it. If there are documents in it good, if not oh well. I figure this way I can complete this quest every 3 days or so without wasting any extra time. I am doing 5 quests every day and Intelligence Gathering whenever it completes.

I helped Salintu with one of her Elite quests in Sholazar Basin tonight. I don't remember the name of it but she had to fight a Dragon while mounted on a Mammoth. I remembered doing it when I was in there and it completes the Nesingwary quests in North Rend. We didn't have any problem completing it.

The Alliance were sucking worse than usual in Arathi Basin tonight, which was the daily battleground today unfortunately. I fought in 2 battles in between daily's and we lost both of them. It was pretty sad. I got in one at the start and we had a good chance but no one wanted to defend so we lost our nodes and the Horde ended up winning that one. In the next one I got in towards the end. The Horde had a 5 cap going and all the Alliance, and Horde, we at the Stables. They should have been out attacking everything else, but they were all at the Stables. They deserved to lose. I was going to try again later but never got around to it.

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.