Children's Week

Children's Week is on us once again, May 1st through May 7th. This is the second year I have taken part in this. The objective of Children's Week is to take an Orphan out and show them a good time. I got the same Orphans as I had last year. I got Dornaa from the Orphanage in Shattrath City and an unnamed Human Orphan from the Orphanage in Stormwind.

I took Dornaa to see the Dark Portal, she wanted to see it from the Outlands side (not the Azeroth side it turns out), The Exodar, The Caverns of Time and a few other places. I think she had a pretty good time, I got her a Toy Dragon from The Caverns of Time. While we were at the Exodar she saw someone she had dreamed about. He encouraged her to do what she did in her dream, summon 4 Elementals, which she did. I wonder who/what she will grow up to be.

I took the unnamed Human Orphan to see the bank in Darnassus, the Lighthouse in Westfall, I took him to see, and got him, Jaina Proudmoore's Autograph in Theramore and a couple other places. I got him some ice cream and he seemed to have a pretty good time too.

As a reward for taking Dornaa, the Orphan from Shattrath, to all the places she wanted to go I got Egbert's Egg on Wranngar and Elekk Training Collar on Gomorra.

As a reward for taking the unnamed Human, from Stormwind, to all the places he wanted to go I got Whiskers the Rat on both Wranngar and Gomorra.

I grabbed both of them again as soon as I turned them in so I can complete some more achievements.

Sewer Stew

This is a pretty easy quest and is the only one that you need to leave Dalaran for to get mats. If you're Alliance you get Sewer Stew from Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome. If you're Horde you get it from Awilo Lon'gomba (70,38), inside The Filthy Animal next to Krasus' Landing.

The materials you need for this daily are 4 Crystalsong Carrots and 4 Chilled Meat.

You will find the Crystalsong Carrots in Crystal Song Forest right below Dalaran (around 29,42) near some ruins by the river. They look like giant carrots sticking out of the ground and, being a quest item, they sparkle. You need to run around and right click on them to loot them. Once you have 4 Crystalsong Carrots you cook them up with your 4 Chilled Meat to make Vegetable Stew.

When you have your Vegetable Stew cooked up you can deliver it to Ajay Green at the Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly. He will give you 9g93s, at least one Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag that can contain any, or all, of the following:

Northern Spices
Old Spices
Baby Spice
Dalaran Cooking Award
And if you don't have it, Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake. (This is a rare drop, 1.7%)

This is another easy quest, just remember to keep some Rhino Meat and Chilled Meat on hand, it makes these daily's go so much quicker.

Good Luck :)

-Chef Wranngar

Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth

I got the Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth for Wranngar the other day. It's a huge mount that can carry myself plus 2 passengers for a total of 3 riders. It doesn't have vendors on board like the Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth but it is also 8,000 gold cheaper. For 8,000 gold I can live without the vendors :).

You get the Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth from The Sons of Hodir. You can purchase it from Lillehoff, the Sons of Hodir Quartermaster, for 8,000 gold when you are exalted with them. He also has Reins of the Ice Mammoth for 850 gold at revered, 800 gold at exalted, some patterns and some nice inscriptions plus gear and weapons.

I thought it was pretty easy to get to exalted with The Sons of Hodir, I am exalted on both Gomorra and Wranngar. Everyone starts off hated with The Sons of Hodir, then you have to do a quest line to become friendly with them and unlock The Sons of Hodir daily's.

One of my earlier posts, Unlocking The Sons of Hodir Daily's, has all the information you need about that along with a complete list of the quests you will need to do to become friendly and unlock the daily's.

The Ghostfish

I finally got The Ghostfish for my daily fishing quest today. Another easy one but a little more time consuming for the traveling and all.

I flew out to the flight point at River's Heart in Sholozar Basin, then headed up to the top of the cliff to the north. I found a log to stand on at 49,55 and started fishing for the mysterious Phantom Ghostfish.

I got Gomorra's Phantom Ghostfish on his 8th cast there. You don't need to fish from a school to catch these as they come attached to other fish you catch. Once you catch one you need to eat it right away, they are on a timer and only last 60 seconds. They start clocking as soon as you loot them. Eating it will complete the quest. If you don't eat it within 60 seconds it will disappear, so pay attention, they look just like Pygmy Suckerfish with a slightly different color. Wranngar got his Phantom Ghostfish on his 11th cast there.

When you eat the Phantom Ghostfish you get a buff that puts you into a state called Invisibility. It lasts for 15 seconds or until you break it by doing anything. If you have ever seen The Lord of the Rings, this is like when Frodo puts on the ring, it looks just like that. I will have to get a screen shot of it the next time this one comes up in the lineup. (screen shot added 5/7/09)

All you have to do after that is hand it back in where you got it, Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran. She will reward you with a Bag of Fishing Treasures that can contain anything from pets to epic items to junk and anything in between. Today Wranngar's had a New Age Painting signed by Marcia Chase. As priceless as that seemed, a vendor managed to put a price on it, 25 gold.

Cheese for Glowergold

Cheese for Glowergold is my least favorite daily cooking quest in Dalaran. To say I hate it wouldn't be going too far at all. If you're Alliance you get this one from Katherine Lee (41,65), in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome. That is where all the Alliance daily cooking quests start. If you're Horde you get it from Awilo Lon'gomba (70,38), inside The Filthy Animal next to Krasus' Landing.

The objective of this daily is to run all over Dalaran collecting Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses. You need 6 of them. If you think Wild Mustard is hard to target, I know I do, then you're in for a real treat. You will also have to pick up a chunk of Aged Dalaran Limburger from One More Glass (53,33), the wine and cheese shop in central Dalaran. This item spawns and can spawn anywhere inside the store, upstairs or down.

The most common places to find the Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses are in the Legerdemain, A Hero's Welcome, One More Glass, (upstairs and down in those three) and a place everyone seems to overlook, Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly. Between both my characters I got 5 out of Cantrips and Crows Tavern tonight, it was the most I got at any single stop. You can get one or two in other places but these seem to have the highest concentration and spawn rate. Once you have the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses and the chunk of Aged Dalaran Limburger you will need to combine them on the platter you were supplied with. To do this simply right click on the platter. You do not need a cooking fire to combine them.

Deliver them to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange. He will give you 9g93s, at least one Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag that can contain any, or all, of the following:

Northern Spices
Old Spices
Baby Spice
Dalaran Cooking Award
And if you don't have it, Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake. (This is a rare drop, 1.7%)

Good Luck :)

-Chef Wranngar

Jewel of the Sewers

We finally had a new daily fishing quest in Dalaran today, it was Jewel Of The Sewers. I got this from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran. To complete the quest you have to fish up a piece of Corroded Jewelry in the sewers. I headed down into the sewers with no real idea where I was going to fish for this.

I tried the middle first, the Circle of Wills, but didn't have any luck after 10 casts so I headed over to the Black Market to see if I would have any better luck. This was on Wranngar and he ended up getting the piece of Corroded Jewelry he needed to complete the quest on his 8th cast in the Black Market.

The quest gives you a tip, "The trick is to let your hook drag the bottom and don't pull up too hard when get something". I fished this like I was fishing anything else, right clicked on my bobber as soon as it bobbed and got my loot.

I did it again on Gomorra after that and decided to try over by the Cantrips and Crows Tavern first, to see if I could get one there. I gave up there after 10 casts and headed over to the Black Market. I got my piece of Corroded Jewelry on my 2nd cast there.

This quest gets turned back in to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran. The reward is a Bag of Fishing Treasures which can contain anything from pets to epic gems to worthless pieces of glass, that sell for 5 copper each to a vendor, and anything in between. It always contains some gold too, anywhere from 6 to 10 gold along with some silver and copper.

I would definitely say the place to fish for Corroded Jewelry is in the Black Market. There was hardly anyone there (one other person) when I was fishing. There were a few people fishing in the middle and a lot of people fishing over by the Cantrips and Crows Tavern. This is the first time I have seen this quest in the lineup since I started the daily fishing in Dalaran a couple days after patch 3.1.

There are still 2 more I have not seen yet, Dangerously Delicious and The Ghostfish. Hopefully they will show up soon, I will let you know how I make out.

Good Luck :)

-Wranngar

New Look

I changed some of the colors and fonts on the blog today. I think it is easier to read the posts with the new text color and easier to identify the different sections with the new module header color.

There is a poll in the left hand column where you can vote your opinion, let me know what you think.

-Wranngar

Blood Is Thicker

Today the daily fishing quest from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, was Blood Is Thicker. This one is so easy it's funny.

Here's how I do this one. I fly to the flight path in Unu'pe then head inland until I am just past the snow belt, around 76,43. For those without coords, just fly straight inland from the flight path until you get past the snow and look for a Marsh Caribou to kill. Killing one will cover you in blood for 3 minutes. (Note: Killing one of these, or any other animal the Druids don't approve of killing, might not cover you in blood, it has taken me up to 4 kills to get covered since patach 3.1)

Fly straight back to the shore and jump in the water around 79,51. This will create a blood pool and also remove the blood from you. All you have to do after that is fish the blood pool until you have 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy. This usually takes 2 casts as you get 2 or 3 a cast, usually 3. Head back to Dalaran and turn them in to Marcia Chase for your Bag of Fishing Treasures.

I take the flight path from Krasus' Landing in Dalaran to Unu'pe and the flight is the longest part of the whole quest lol. You can easily complete this in a couple minutes after you land in Unu'pe. I have also had someone land and fish out of my blood pool while I was fishing it, so it looks like you really don't even need to kill anything or get covered in blood, just fish a blood pool if there is one there.

Good Luck :)

-Wranngar

Convention at the Legerdemain

The daily cooking quest in Dalaran today was Convention at the Legerdemain. This is one of the easier daily's. Like most of the daily cooking quests, if you have meat on hand, you don't have to leave Dalaran to complete it. If you're Alliance you get this one from Katherine Lee (41,65), in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome. That is where all the Alliance daily cooking quests start. If you're Horde you get it from Awilo Lon'gomba (70,38), inside The Filthy Animal next to Krasus' Landing.

You need to head over to One More Glass, the Wine and Cheese Shop in central Dalaran (53,33) for a jug of wine. For those without coord's it is to the right as you come out of Krasus' Landing, go past the Mount Vendor and the Stables and it is right there on the right. This item spawns and it can spawn behind the counter the man is standing at, on the table, or floor by the table, to the right or left when you come in, at the top of stairs, on, or next to, any of the crates upstairs and on the table upstairs. I have also gotten it outside behind the girl handing out the samples or whatever she is doing. Once you have your jug of wine you will need to cook up 4 Northern Stew, with your cooking skill, which requires 4 pieces of Chilled Meat. This is why it's always a good idea to have some meat on hand. I have stacks of different kinds of meat in the bank, a full guild tab, but I am a packrat so you can't really go by me. It is a good idea to have Chilled Meat and Rhino Meat on hand for the daily cooking.

Once you have your 4 Northern Stew and jug of wine you deliver it to Arille Azuregaze, (48,38) the bartender at The Legerdemain. He gives you 9g93s, at least one Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag that can contain any, or all, of the following:

Northern Spices
Old Spices
Baby Spice
Dalaran Cooking Award
And if you don't have it, Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake. (This is a rare drop, 1.7%)

This is another easy quest, remember to keep some Rhino Meat and Chilled Meat on hand, it makes these daily's go so much quicker.

Good Luck :)

-Chef Wranngar

Mustard Dogs!

Today's daily cooking quest in Dalaran was Mustard Dogs!. As usual I did this on both Wranngar and Gomorra as soon as I got on. If you're Alliance you get this one from Katherine Lee (41,65), in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome. That is where all the Alliance daily cooking quests start. If you're Horde you get it from Awilo Lon'gomba (70,38), inside The Filthy Animal next to Krasus' Landing.

This isn't a difficult quest but it can take awhile to get the 4 pieces of Wild Mustard you need if everyone is trying to do it at once, which usually seems to be the case. The Wild Mustard can be found growing in any of the grassy areas around Dalaran. They are small, yellow and, I think, hard to see. They are definitely hard to target. One area that seems to get overlooked is the grassy area around the flight point at Krasus' Landing. I usually have good luck there getting one or two. Another place is that little park place with the benches in the center of town. I also have good luck over in the corner by the Magus Commerce Exchange where you can go down into the Underbelly.

Once you have your 4 pieces of Wild Mustard you will need to combine them with 4 Rhino Dogs to make a Mustard Dog Basket!. You do this by right clicking on the supplied Empty Picnic Basket when you have the 4 Rhino Dogs and 4 Wild Mustard in your inventory. Once you have your Mustard Dog Basket in hand you can deliver it to Archmage Pentarus at Krasus' Landing for 9g93s, at least one Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag that can contain any, or all, of the following:

Northern Spices
Old Spices
Baby Spice
Dalaran Cooking Award
And if you don't have it, Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake. (This is a rare drop, 1.7%)

Remember to keep some Rhino Meat and Chilled Meat on hand, it makes these daily's go so much quicker.

Good Luck :)

-Chef Wranngar

Monsterbelly Appetite

We finally had a different daily for the daily fishing quest in Dalaran! Today Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, had Monsterbelly Appetite for me. For this one you have to go and recover a fisherman's arm that was eaten by a Deep Sea Monsterbelly. The way you go about doing this is to catch Deep Sea Monsterbelly's until you catch a Bloated Monsterbelly. When you cut that open (loot it) you find the 'fisherman's arm'.

The Deep Sea Monsterbelly's can be found right off shore in Borean Tundra. Fly into Unu'pe then fly out to sea heading southeast. You can see some icebergs offshore and that is where you want to fish around. For those of you with coordinates it is around 30,66. You need 480+ fishing skill to catch the Monsterbelly's. They will be found in schools. If you have the 'fine art of fish finding' it is a lot easier because you can identify the schools on your mini map before you fly over to them. They are mixed in with Moonglow Cuttlefish schools so you can waste a little time checking out the wrong schools if you don't have gift of fish finding.

I got my Bloated Monsterbelly, which gave up the 'fisherman's arm', on the first cast on Gomorra and the second cast on Wranngar.

This quest does not get handed back in to the quest giver Marcia Chase, it get's handed in to Olisarra the Kind, the Grand Master First Aid Trainer in the Magus Commerce Exchange (36,37) in Dalaran. She is going to attempt to reunite the arm with the fisherman.

I turned the 'arms' in for a couple Bags of Fishing Treasures. Gom's had 8g55s60c, 5 Pygmy Oil, 3 Deviate Fish and 2 Worthless Pieces of Red Glass. Just to let you know how worthless they really are, I sold both of them to a vendor for a total of 10 copper. You take the good with the bad :). Still some good rewards to be had from this daily, I am looking forward to seeing what else I get. Wrann's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 8g19s39c, 4 Pygmy Oil and 5 Solid Gold Coins which I sold to a vendor for 5 gold. Now that was worth walking over to the vendor for. It only makes sense that a Solid Gold Coin would be worth a gold.

Yesterday I saw someone with a Jeweled Fishing Pole. It is one of the rewards you can get from the daily fishing quest in Dalaran and it's just what it sounds like, a fishing pole with jewels on it. It looks cool, and gives +30 to fishing skill, but it's definitely a chick pole. I'm not giving up my Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole for it but I still want one just to add to my collection. Here is a screen shot of one I got off Thottbot.

Daily Quests 4/22/09

I did a bunch of daily's today, I finally got Gomorra doing all of the daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. It was really stupid to be honest, I went over to one side of the Shadow Vault I hadn't been over to lately and saw a ?. It was from a quest I had finished but didn't turn in. I turned it in and it opened up Shoot 'Em Up as well as sending me over to Death's Rise to do a couple quests to start all those daily's, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering, which I did in it's entirety tonight on Gomorra. I also did Shoot 'Em Up, Leave Our Mark and Vile Like Fire! at the Shadow Vault. I did all those on Wranngar too. Don't make the same mistake I did, pay attention :). I am starting to make some good gold now and send at least 500g a day to the bank.

I did all my daily's for The Sons of Hodir on both of them after that. It didn't take too long tonight, there didn't seem to be too many people doing it. I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. I get some pretty good gold for doing these too. I think Feeding Arngrim is the easiest out of all of them. I haven't had any trouble with anyone stealing my smoldering scraps lately either. I always make sure I have at least 6 Essence of Ice before I do it, I only need 5. Blowing Hodir's Horn is a pretty quick and easy one too if not too many people are there trying to do it at the same time. It's on the other side I get all my leather and meat, in the Valley of Ancient Winters. That is where the Mammoths and Roaming Worms are. I get Leather, Mammoth Meat and Worm Meat from those.

The daily fishing quest from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran was, no surprise, Blood Is Thicker. I headed over to Unu'pe, flew inland and killed a Marsh Caribou then flew back to the shore and jumped in, making a blood pool. I fished in the blood pool until I caught 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy then headed back to Dalaran to turn it in. Gomorra's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 7g80s84c, 3 Elixirs of Water Walking, 4 Deviate Fish and a Tower Key which I sold to a vendor for 16g66s66c. Not sure what point they are trying to get across there. Wranngar's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 10g55s83c, 2 Northsea Pearls, 2 Solid Gold Coins which I sold to a vendor for 1g each, and 2 Deviate Fish. A pretty decent haul for both today I guess.

The daily cooking was Cheese for Glowergold, my least favorite. I only did it on Gomorra. When I went to do it on Wranngar I couldn't find any Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses anywhere so I gave up. I hate doing that one anyway. Gomorra collected his glasses then went to the wine and cheese shop, One More Glass, and got a piece of Aged Dalaran Limburger. He combined those onto the platter and delivered it to Ranid Glowergold at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange. Glowergold gave him 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award, which might have given me 3, I forgot to check, and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices and 4 Old Spices in it. Not the best haul but I have had worse.

Blood Is Thicker 4/21/09

The daily fishing quest from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, was Blood Is Thicker again... This doesn't surprise me. It is not because nothing in The World of Warcraft surprises me anymore, it is because the daily cooking and fishing quests, where you can get different quests, get stuck on the same quest for days at a time. This is not unusual and anyone who does them regularly just deals with it and hopes it doesn't get stuck on the worst one lol.

Here is how I do this one. I fly to the flight path in Unu'pe then head inland until I am just past the snow belt, around 76,43. For those without coords, just fly straight inland from the flight path until you get past the snow and look for a Marsh Caribou to kill. Killing one will cover you in blood for 3 minutes. (Today not only was I covered in blood, my Magnificent Flying Carpet was too. I don't even want to think about the dry cleaning bill for that.) Fly straight back to the shore and jump in the water around 79,51. This will create a blood pool and also remove the blood from you. All you have to do after that is fish the blood pool until you have 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy. This usually takes 2 casts as you get 2 or 3 a cast, usually 3. Head back to Dalaran and turn it in to Marcia Chase for your Bag of Fishing Treasures.

Today Gomorra got 9g89s12c, 3 Pygmy Oil and a Diamond-tipped Cane in his Bag of Fishing Treasures. For some reason Diamond-tipped Cane goes for around 120 gold on the auction house so I will auction that off. Wranngar's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 6g8s77c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking, 4 Deviate Fish and a Worthless Piece of Orange Glass in it. Worthless is the key word in Worthless Piece of Orange Glass, I got 5c for it from a vendor. Not a great return but not a bad one, Gom got the Diamond-tipped Cane and that will bring in some gold.

I would really like to see what the other quests for this are but I guess I will have to wait until Blizzard gets their act together.