Glacial Bag

I finally decided to get off my butt and level Gomorra's Tailoring to 445 so I could buy Pattern: Glacial Bag from The Sons of Hodir. This is a pattern for a 22 slot bag. You have to be exalted to buy the pattern from them and 445 Tailoring skill to learn it. It was only 4 gold to buy it but I hadn't yet because my Tailoring was only 442. I had to make 2 pairs of Ebonweave Gloves and a 20 slot bag to get the 3 points I needed. Once I had my Tailoring to 445 I flew over to The Sons of Hodir and picked it up. Unfortunately I had to use 8 pieces of my Ebonweave to make the gloves, which I am not too happy about, but I can make 2 more pieces in a couple days. If I hadn't used the Ebonweave I could have made Gomorra's first (22 slot) Glacial Bag tonight.

I also picked up Pattern: Abyssal Bag from the Knights of the Ebon Blade tonight. This is a 32 slot soul bag for Warlocks. I was looking at Tailoring on Thottbot the other day and saw a few patterns I could get but didn't have yet for some reason. This was one of them, it requires revered with the Knights of the Ebon Blade to purchase. It cost me 4 gold to buy this one. You need to have 435 Tailoring to learn this pattern.

I got Pattern: Emerald Bag from The Kalu'ak tonight too lol. Yeah I was really slacking on Gomorra. You must be revered with The Kalu'ak to purchase this and the cost is 4 gold. I got all the Leatherworking patterns on Wranngar as soon as they were available but didn't bother on Gomorra for some reason, probably sick of it all by the second time around. Anyway this is a 32 slot Herb bag, you need to have 435 Tailoring to learn this pattern.

Brieanna 5/11/09

I worked a little on my 36 hunter, Brieanna, tonight. I bet a lot of you didn't even know I had a hunter. I wouldn't be surprised, I haven't played her in quite a while. The first thing I did was get her upgraded to 20 slot bags and a 28 slot Leatherworking bag. Now that she has a little room I can quest and breath easy. I got bank slots for the 16 slot bags she used to have. You can never have too many bank slots.

I noticed she was thrown out of the guild she was in, I don't even remember the name of it lol. I will get her into BlackMoor Coven the next time Salintu is on.

I did a little bit of questing in Stranglethorn Vale. Well, not so much questing as getting used to playing her again. My Wolf was in a good mood until he realized I had thrown out all his food when I was re-arranging my bags, changed his whole outlook. He got to eat buff food after that so he got over it. I will try to play this one a little more often and see if I can get her leveled up.

I still have my Deathknight, Wrangar, to level too but he is in a part of Blades Edge Mountains that I am not really too fond of questing in. I will need to level him there before I can move on to Netherstorm.

Daily's 5/11/09

Today I was able to do the daily cooking and fishing at the same time. Kind of. The daily cooking today, from Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome, was Sewer Stew.

I took the portal or crystal or whatever you call it that you take down to Crystalsong Forest, then headed over and picked my Crystalsong Carrots. I made sure I grabbed 4 Chilled Meat from the guild bank before I left so I was able to make a fire and cook up my Vegetable Stew when I had my 4 carrots on Wranngar and Gomorra.

From there I headed over to Unu'pe to do the daily fishing quest I picked up from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran. Today it was Monsterbelly Appetite. I flew out to the icebergs and found a school of Monsterbelly to fish. I got my Bloated Monsterbelly on the first cast on Wranngar and the second cast on Gomorra.

I headed back to Dalaran to deliver my Vegetable Stew to Ajay Green at the Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly and the Severed Arm to Olisarra the Kind, (36,37) the Grand Master First Aid Trainer in the Magus Commerce Exchange in Dalaran where she is going to attempt to reunite it with it's owner. The rewards for these were the usual, nothing special or out of the ordinary.

I did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir after that. I did them on both Wranngar and Gomorra. These go pretty quick, about a half hour on each, and pay pretty good. I get some good leather and meat from them too so I am not complaining at all. If you are interested in how to start doing the daily's for The Sons of Hodir check out this earlier post, Unlocking The Sons of Hodir Daily's.

I did all my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade tonight. I picked up Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire! and Shoot 'Em Up from the Shadow Vault and From Their Corpses, Rise! and No Fly Zone from Death's Rise. I already had Intelligence Gathering that I was working on. I completed them all on both today for around 80 gold each. I am starting to build up my gold reserves after spending 8,000 gold on the Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth.

Dangerously Delicious

I finally got Dangerously Delicious from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, for the daily fishing today. This one is by far the most dangerous of the daily fishing quests. For this quest you need to catch 10 Terrorfish and it seems the only place they can be found is in Wintergrasp, the Northrend PvP area.

I found a great spot that is set apart from the battleground area even though you get flagged as soon as you enter. You're in Wintergrasp, there's not much you can do about that, but I didn't see one single person while I was there. Wranngar can hold his own but it has been a looong time since I did any PvP on Gomorra.

I took the flight path to Fordragon Hold in Dragonblight. From there I flew southwest to the southeast corner of Wintergrasp. I flew over the Burning Cauldron and got dismounted for being in a no-fly zone but you get a parachute so it's not too bad. You want to try to land on the big piece of ice floating in the middle of the lake you are heading to. I missed on both Wranngar and Gomorra and ended up in the water but you should be able to do it :).

Once I got there I picked a spot right at the southeast end of the lake (77,70) and started fishing. From what I read you want to use a +100 lure even at maximum fishing. I didn't have any problem on Gom with his 422 fishing skill, +30 pole, +3 fishing line and +100 lure. That gave him a total of 555 fishing skill. It took me about 5 minutes on each to catch my 10 Terrorfish. Once I had my 10 Terrorfish I hearthed back to Dalaran and turned them in to Marcia Chase. The reward for this quest is a Bag of Fishing Treasures which can contain anything from pets to epic items to junk and anything in between.

So I had good luck in the southeast corner of Wintergrasp and got in and out on both without any PvP resistance. I did this during a time when we were in control of Wintergrasp, but where I was fishing I don't think it would have mattered if the Horde controlled it or even if we were in battle.

Update: I have had just as good luck flying into the Alliance flight point in Wintergrasp and fishing in the Sunken Ring right there. If you have the flight point it will be quicker and easier to just fly in, fish there, and fly out.

This was the last of the 5 daily fishing quests Marcia Chase had for me to do so when I turned these in on Gom and Wrann they both got the achievement Chasing Marcia.

Good Luck :)

-Wranngar

Daily Cooking 5/9/09

I did ALL my daily's today. I started with the daily cooking from Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome. It was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf which had me heading down into the sewers to pick some Infused Mushrooms.

That went pretty quick on Gomorra, it didn't seem like anyone was doing it but it took a bit longer on Wranngar. When I finally had the 4 Infused Mushrooms I needed on each I cooked them up with some Chilled Meat to get my Meatloaf's. You do that by right clicking on the provided meatloaf pan while you are near a fire with all the mats in your inventory.

I delivered those to Orton Bennet upstairs at Curiosities and Moore. He gave Gomorra 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices in it. Not the best haul for Gom. Wranngar got 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and 4 Northern Spices. Not a great haul for him either. I still haven't spent Gom's awards he's been stockpiling.

I did all my daily's for the The Sons of Hodir. Wrann stopped off on at K3 his way there and did Overstock, a quick easy quest that gets you no rep with anyone but only takes a couple minutes and pays around 13 gold. For The Sons of Hodir I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter, Feeding Arngrim and Thrusting Hodir's Spear. These go pretty quick and pay around 66 gold plus leather and meat if you are a skinner and cook. I am exalted with The Sons of Hodir on both Wrann and Gom so I am just doing these for the gold.

I did all my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade on both after that except for Intelligence Gathering, I didn't hand that one in again today. I did complete and hand in Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise! and No Fly Zone. Those 5 pay around 66 gold and around 80 gold when I turn in Intelligence Gathering. These don't take too long to do and I usually make between 10 and 15 gold on the garbage and greens that drop. Wrann is exalted with the Knights of the Ebon Blade but Gom is only revered so he is doing them for both the gold and rep.

I did some fishing on Gom after that. I was fishing schools for Musselback Sculpin in Borean Tundra. I ended up getting 37 before I called it quits. I also got 28 Glacial Salmon in Grizzly Hills. I got Gom's fishing skill to 422, only 28 more to go :). I was fishing for mats to cook up some Recipe: Poached Northern Sculpin and Recipe: Firecracker Salmon which I put in the guild bank to restock.

Daily's 5/8/09

I did a bunch of my daily's tonight. I skipped the cooking again as it was Cheese for Glowergold and I just didn't feel like dealing with trying to collect the wine glasses.

The daily fishing quest from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran was Jewel Of The Sewers. I headed down to the Black Market in the sewers under Dalaran to catch my piece of Corroded Jewelry. Wranngar got his piece of Corroded Jewelry on his 12th cast while Gomorra got his on his 10th cast. I turned these back in to Marcia and she gave each of them a Bag of Fishing Treasures. Gomorra's had 9g3s64c, 5 Pygmy Oil, a Tower Key (which I sold to a vendor for 16g66s66c) and 3 Deviate Fish. Not a great haul by any means but still some great stuff to get from this daily, wait until you see what Wrann got. Wranngar got 6g46s10c, a Glow Worm, 3 Solid Gold Coins, 2 Runic Mana Potions and a Bold Stormjewel. A Bold Stormjewel is an epic gem that goes for around 750 gold on the auction house. A great haul for Wrann today.

I did all my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade on both Gomorra and Wranngar. I did, and turned, in Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise! and No Fly Zone. I got a couple more documents towards Intelligence Gathering too. These go pretty quick and pay around 80 gold.

I only did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir on Gomorra. When I went to do them on Wranngar there were just way too many people there so I decided to skip it. On Gomorra I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These are some more quests that go pretty quick and I get some meat and leather out of the deal too.

Northrend Daily's 5/7/09

I did some, but not all, of my daily's tonight. I skipped the daily cooking on both, it was Cheese for Glowergold and I just didn't feel like dealing with that.

I did all my daily's for The Sons of Hodir on Gomorra tonight. I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter, Feeding Arngrim and Thrusting Hodir's Spear. These take me about a half hour and pay some pretty good gold. I am exalted with The Sons of Hodir so I don't get rep anymore. I skipped these daily's on Wranngar tonight because I just ran out of time.

I did my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade on both tonight. I did, and turned in, Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise! and No Fly Zone. I did get a few documents towards Intelligence Gathering while I was at it, I will turn that in eventually when I get the 5 I need.

The daily fishing quest in Dalaran was The Ghostfish so I headed over to the flight point at Rivers Heart in Sholazar Basin then flew up to the top of the cliff to the north and stood on my log at 49,55. I guess it is more of a root than a log, a big root sticking out into the water. I got my Phantom Ghostfish on the 4th cast on Gomorra and the 18th cast on Wranngar, Wranngar was having a hard time of it. I ate my Phantom Ghostfish as soon as I got it because it starts clocking as soon as you loot it and you only have 60 seconds before it disappears.

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.

Northrend Daily's 5/6/09

I did all my daily's on both Wranngar and Gomorra tonight. I have done them on at least one every day and try to do them on both. I spent all my gold on the Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth so I need to make some gold but, in the last 5 days, I have managed to make almost 2,000 gold doing daily's and selling drops so I am not doing too bad.

I did the daily cooking today which was Convention at the Legerdemain. I got the jug of wine on both Wranngar and Gomorra as soon as I got to One More Glass, the wine and cheese shop in Dalaran. I got Wranngar's right behind the counter where the guy is standing when you come in and Gomorra's right outside behind that girl at the table. I cooked up 4 Northern Stew and delivered everything to Arille Azuregaze, the bartender at The Legerdemain. He was pretty happy and gave Wranngar 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices, 3 Old Spices and 4 Baby Spice in it. Not a bad haul. Gomorra got 9g93a, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices in it. Gomorra has 9 cooking awards to spend now so I will get 3 more recipes for him tomorrow. He has 450 cooking now so I kind of slacked off on getting his recipes lately even though I get the awards every day.

The daily fishing quest from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, was Blood Is Thicker today. I took the flight point from Dalaran to Unu'pe then flew straight inland and found a Marsh Caribou to kill. Killing that covered me in blood so I flew back to Unu'pe and jumped in the water to create a blood pool. I fished the blood pool until I caught my 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy then headed back to Dalaran to turn in. Gomorra's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 9g99s91c, 3 Elixir of Water Walking and a Worthless Piece of Green Glass. Not the best haul but there is some really good stuff to get from this daily. Wranngar's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 9g59s36c, 4 Pygmy Oil, a Velociraptor Skull and 3 Deviate Fish. He didn't do much better than Gom.

I did all my daily's for The Sons of Hodir after that. I did my usual quests, Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These go quick and easy and I am usually out of there in a half hour including skinning everything everyone else kills, loots and leaves. For more information on the Sons of Hodir daily's check out Unlocking The Sons of Hodir Daily's.

I did all my daily for the Knights of the Ebon Blade tonight too. I have 6 daily's I do for them, Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire! and Shoot 'Em Up that I pick up at the Shadow Vault and From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering that I get from Death's Rise. I turned in Intelligence Gathering on Wranngar tonight and Gomorra last night so it will be a few days before I turn that in again on either.

Infused Mushroom Meatloaf

Infused Mushroom Meatloaf is another easy one. If you're Alliance you get Infused Mushroom Meatloaf 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 mats for this daily are 2 Chilled Meat and 4 Infused Mushrooms.

You get the Infused Mushrooms down in the sewers in the Underbelly below Dalaran. There is an entrance to get down there right outside Krasus' Landing and another one diagonally across town from it next to the Magus Commerce Exchange. Infused Mushrooms are blue, and being a quest item they sparkle. You will find them growing all over the place down in the Underbelly. Don't forget to look in the Black Market. You right click on them to loot them.

Once you have 4 of them you need to cook them up with the Chilled Meat in the meatloaf pan you were supplied with when you got the quest. All you need to do is right click on the meatloaf pan while you are standing near a fire with the mats in your inventory. This will give you your Infused Mushroom Meatloaf which you deliver to Orton Bennet upstairs at Curiosities and Moore.

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

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.