tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42382576657385261252024-02-18T18:43:48.538-08:00Azeroth on 20 Silver a DaySamrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.comBlogger297125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-76341197021095629862012-10-17T07:20:00.001-07:002012-10-17T07:21:16.894-07:00Money Making in MOP, Update #2<div style="text-align: justify;">
Currently at just shy of 110K gold. Bags continue to sell briskly, and I've cleared out a good portion of the BC and Wrath era crafting materials I collected in the weeks prior to the expansion. Laenshield has learned the Living Steel transmutation as well, which provides another source of profit (about 1K per day).</div>
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Between the transmutation, bags, and selling MoP ore/herbs on the AH, I'm making about 3500 gold per day just as side effect of questing on Aeven. At this rate, I think I'll be beating 150k gold by the end of October.</div>
Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-68250436125240964562012-10-09T06:57:00.001-07:002012-10-09T06:57:10.715-07:00Money Making in MOP, Update #1<div style="text-align: justify;">
So. As of October 8th, I have about 82k total from selling <a href="http://twentysilver.blogspot.com/2012/09/money-making-in-mop.html">gathered items, herbs/ore, and bags</a>. That's a 17k increase over 11 days, or about 1500 gold per day. At this rate, I'm looking at having about 120k in the bank by the end of October - well short of my 200k goal.</div>
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Part of the problem is that we've got a major release coming at work, and some things going on at church that have been taking up a lot of time, leaving relatively little for WoW. So I've really not been playing much, compared to the WotLK and Cataclysm releases.</div>
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In game, the reason I've been leveling Aeven so slowly is that the stories are interesting, exploring Pandaria is fun, and I don't feel the need to rush through content to get to max level ASAP. All of that's a <i>good</i> thing. Last night's few hours of play saw me get distracted and start poking around and exploring rather than questing, and I had a blast.</div>
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Still, it cuts into my money-making. As I progress, though, I'm sure that I'll encounter new and exciting opportunities for parting people from their cash on the AH.</div>
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To that end, I've cleared out most of my stockpile of Outland ores, with Fel Iron selling fairly reliably for 100g/stack. I need to start doing the same with my Outland herbs and enchanting materials.</div>
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Keep in mind that my "stockpiles" in this case are a few dozen stacks - I don't have a guild bank for my sole personal use, and I'm not looking to corner the market or anything. My goal was, and is, just to take advantage of the fact that players will be leveling new characters in the expansion, and provide them some of the materials they'll need to level their professions.</div>
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MoP ore and herb prices have been surprisingly stable on Kirin Tor. Ghost iron ore - the only ore I've been mining to date - has held pretty steady, at about 100-120 g/stack. Green tea leaves started at about 40g per stack, but as people have leveled out of the starting zones, it's starting to push upwards to 60g per stack or so.</div>
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I've also started investing in leveling alchemy (Laenshield), inscription (Aretae), and jewlcrafting (Aetherna) on my alts. No enchanting yet - I'll do that as part of leveling Aeth, since she's my enchanter now, and I can take advantage of the gear upgrades available through leveling to provide the materials I need for that.</div>
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Pandaria is gorgeous - even my wife thinks so. The style reminds me quite a bit of Northrend, in a good way... the land seems to be much more real, and less cartoony, than some of the old world zones.</div>
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Well.... to be honest, the Jade Forest is beautiful. I'm pushing level 87 on Aeven, and I still haven't gotten out of the first starting zone! I'm actually looking forward to the other zones, even the ones I visited briefly in the beta. I can't wait to meet the Grummles, the Klaxxi, the Tillers, and figure out what beasts Hemet Nesingwary wants me to slaughter this time.</div>
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I credit Aeven's rapid advance, in part, on the incredible abundance of herb and ore nodes in the zone. At level 86, she's still getting 15k XP per node. Last night, just questing for a couple of hours - not even farming - she managed to hit about 50 nodes in an hour. That's about 750K XP over and above what she got from questing, and roughly the equivalent of completing an additional six quests on top of the ones she'd already done. Whoa.</div>
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The XP gains from the nodes helps make up for the leveling pace that Aeven's at, though. Leveling on a protection paladin is much, <i>much</i> slower than I'm used to... but <i>man</i>, she is un-<i>freaking</i>-killable. I've gotten into the habit of trying to collect at least 3-4 mobs at a time, just because fighting a single mob is so slow that it feels painful. At one point last night, I managed to collect and burn down a group of about 8 mobs at once. Shield of the Righteous and Word of Glory keep her up, and in the few instances where things start to look a little hairy, there's always Lay On Hands.</div>
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So far, I'm having a lot of fun. The laid back nature and practicality of the Pandaren is absolutely delightful. When I completed <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/quest=29756/a-humble-offering">A Humble Offering</a> and Pei-Zhisays commented on the mushroom offering I collected, "Also, they make a pretty fine stir-fry"... that made me chuckle. Those Pandaren certainly keep their feet on the ground, as the Dwarves would say!</div>
Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-41492216129088122452012-09-27T07:32:00.000-07:002012-09-27T07:32:08.276-07:00Money Making in MoP<div style="text-align: justify;">
I'm starting out with a total of about 65k gold across my various characters (Kirin Tor, Alliance).</div>
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<b>Gathering. </b>I've already made about 3k gold just off of the herbs and ores I've gathered with Aeven in the first half of the Jade Forest. The price per unit isn't sky high, but it's high enough that I expect farming ore and herbs for a while to be a decent money maker. I've also got a good stockpile of Outland and Northrend ores and herbs that I'll be selling to folks leveling their Pandaren characters.</div>
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<b>Materials. </b>Stuff that comes from killing mobs - primarily, cooking materials, enchanting mats and windwool cloth. For now, if it's a cooking reagent, cloth, or something else usable by a profession, it's going on the auction house for the best price I can get.</div>
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<b>Bags. </b>I've got enough materials for about 400 netherweave bags and 40 embersilk bags socked away on Laenshield. While this won't make nearly as much money as gathering or selling materials, I expect it will generate a few thousand gold.</div>
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Once the prices for ores, herbs and other materials starts to trail off, I'll start stockpiling materials to level my own professions. I'm not a raider, except very casually, so having the absolute best gear really isn't an immediate priority for me. I'm hoping to get to 200k gold by the end of October - enough to fuel whatever initial pursuits might be interesting in MoP.</div>
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Scenarios are interesting. Hopefully a little more challenging than the Theramore scenario was, though.</div>
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Pet battles are amazing. I thought, "Oh, I'll just learn the skill on Aeven before I hit Pandaria and start gathering," and half an hour later, I had a couple of new pets and a fistful of new achievements. I can definitely see moar pet battles in my future.</div>
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The intro to Pandaria is a bit linear, but I understand that was to help introduce the idea of the Sha and the reasons for the Horde/Alliance interest in Pandaria. I'm OK with that, especially since it looks like from the second half of the Jade Forest on through the rest of the expansion there's a lot more freedom to accept or ignore quests. I'll be plowing through with Aeven until I can hit max gathering skills, but I plan on slowing down and seeing everything with Aetherna.</div>
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The Sha look like interesting foes. I'll need to be careful when I play through on Aeth and my other characters, though. Ive got Aeven specced as protection, which means she can gather up and wear down a large number of enemies at once. Some of the intro quests will be a bit trickier on a more squishy class.</div>
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Pandaria is obviously a land abundant in natural resources. I've not really even left the starting area (Pado'shan village?) yet, and I've already hit 550 mining/herbalism on Aeven, with 3+ stacks of ghost iron ore and 2+ stacks of green tea leaves. Note to self: next time, learn the new level of profession training <i>before</i> starting to gather.</div>
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The Pandas are coming... and with the 5.0.4 patch today, Cynwise has decided that the best thing you can do is to <a href="http://cynwise.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/warlocks-trash-your-keybinds/">start over from scratch</a>.</div>
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Well, not entirely - not until you have the chance to level yourself some Panda. But for your existing characters? There have been enough changes that is makes sense to clear off those menu bars and rebuild 'em.</div>
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From my time in the beta, I'd have to say this is a pretty sound bit of advice. Things have changed drastically; instead of adapting, it's probably best to start over and build a new UI that you're comfortable with.</div>
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Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-6608992635998840592012-05-12T19:41:00.001-07:002012-05-12T19:42:00.947-07:00The Ultimate Gold SinkComing soon with Mists of Pandaria: <a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2774-Mists-of-Pandaria-Beta-Build-15689">The Black Market</a> auction house.<br />
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From the UI, it looks like there's no "buy it now" option. So when those <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=32458/ashes-of-alar">Ashes of Al'ar</a> show up, you don't just have to see it listed - you apparently have to be prepared for the ensuing bidding war.<br />
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In Pandaria, when you get to the Valley of the Four Winds, one of the quests you can pick up is "Li Li's Day Off". Li Li is a snarky little Pandaren, the niece of Chen Stormstout, and when Chen runs off to investigate an abandoned brewery, she asks you to help her see the sights in the valley. As part of the quest, you get Li Li's Wishing Stone, which lets you summon her whenever you get to a sight she wants to see. You will be tempted to hit a point, summon her, then dismiss her so you can be about your business.</div>
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<i>Don't do it.</i></div>
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I liked Li Li when I first encountered her on entering the Valley; as time goes by, I'm just growing more and more fond of her.</div>Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-27935968570143830622012-04-27T07:07:00.000-07:002012-04-27T07:07:08.327-07:00For The Children<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/event=201">Children's Week</a> is upon us, which means that it's time for <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=1786">The School of Hard Knocks</a> to rear it's ugly head again.</div>
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Hey... it's <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=1793">For The Children</a>.</div>
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As usual when it's something PvP related, I recommend that you turn to <a href="http://cynwise.wordpress.com/">Cynwise</a>. If you're going to be in the BGs trying for your achievement, take a look at his <a href="http://cynwise.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-school-of-hard-knocks/">guide</a> for the event. If you're a regular BG participant, you might want to consider his <a href="http://cynwise.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/a-modest-proposal/">Modest Proposal</a>.</div>
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Me? I'm thinking that I'll drop in on a BG or two, just to lend a hand. Not on Aeth, though, tempting as that might be. Perhaps I'll get some starter PvP gear on Laenshield or Aretae or even Aeven and see what PvP as a different class feels like.</div>
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Yes, yes, I know. It's not like I wasn't going to do that <i>anyways</i>; but now I have a <i>justification</i> for it.Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-70747210819965995072012-04-13T07:03:00.002-07:002012-04-13T07:03:53.573-07:00Apparently, I've Been Good<div style="text-align: justify;">
Blizzard has decided that <b>I CAN HAZ PANDAS</b>.</div>
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This isn't my first time beta-testing a game (take a gander at <a href="http://rampantgames.com/frayedknights/">Frayed Knights</a>, which I suspect you'll enjoy if you have anything more than a rudimentary sense of humor). I may be weird, but as a software developer, I actually take the whole "beta tester" thing kind of seriously.</div>
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Yeah, I'll get to see da Pandas. I'm also looking forward to filing some reports on truly heinous bugs.</div>
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Don't laugh. I just <i>told</i> you - I'm weird.</div>
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In fact, as kind of a good omen of the bounty of bugs to come, I managed to file one even <i>before</i> I had the Mists beta installed. The Mac installer crashed in a weird and unusual way, so boom - off goes the problem report to Blizzard.</div>
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An auspicious beginning, I think :-)</div>
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Moar Panda news to follow...</div>Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-20174822097411078572012-04-10T08:33:00.000-07:002012-04-10T08:33:19.859-07:00With The Fury of a Thousand Suns<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ah, Noblegarden! The seasons are turning. Spring is in the air, and it is a time to put aside the struggles of the world for a time, and celebrate not victory, but life itself.</div>
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Ah, Noblegarden! One of the few in-game holidays without a PvP component.</div>
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The truth of the matter - the sick, twisted truth - is that while there is no <i>direct</i> PvP activity during Noblegarden, the entirety of this oh-so-innocent looking holiday is designed to fill you with the seething, white-hot fury of a thousand suns, directed at your fellow WoW player.</div>
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Consider, please. What is the primary activity of Noblegarden, eh?</div>
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So pastoral, yes? So... so <i>peaceful</i>.</div>
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Until you show up in Dolanaar and realize that there are about a thousand other people doing <i>the exact same thing</i>.</div>
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Have you ever, on that character, spotted a node, swooped in on it, and stood <i>on the node</i> while you fought off the inevitable slavering horror who lurked nearby?</div>
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Have you ever done so, only to hear, as you finished off your foe, a sound that simultaneously chilled your blood and filled you with a blinding, burning hatred?</div>
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"Tink... tink... tink..."</div>
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Yes... the sound that lets you know that, when you turn around, you'll be greeted by the sight of some inconsiderate jerk of indeterminate parentage <i>stealing your freaking node</i>.</div>
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Recall the times this has happened to you. Take this thought. Roll it around in your head for a bit. Allow it to seep into your psyche, until you remember the feeling of incandescent rage that bubbled through your entire being, bringing all your thoughts to a roiling boil of distilled hatred that suddenly crystalized into a single, focused desire.</div>
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Nay, not a desire, but a <i>need</i>.</div>
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A need to <i>kill</i>.</div>
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Now imagine that feeling washing over you <i>every thirty seconds</i>.</div>
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<i>That</i>, my friend, is what it's like collecting eggs for Noblegarden.</div>
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Two days, and I'm about halfway towards the 500 chocolates I need for Aeth's <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=72145">Swift Springstrider</a>. Two more days, and I suspect that I will be filled with a loathing of my fellow WoW player so blindingly intense that Deathwing himself would be taken aback.</div>
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If I could, I would cheerfully murder each and every person in Dolanaar.</div>
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Fortunately for them, my murderous rage is blunted by the sad, sad fact that one cannot simply gank members of one's own faction.</div>
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Believe me, I've <i>tried</i>.</div>
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That druid in flight form, camping two prime egg spawns? If looks could kill, man, you'd be <i>dead</i>. And not <i>just</i> dead - I'd camp your dismembered corpse, and sit and munch on <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=4457">Barbecued Buzzard Wings</a> while I waited for the chance to kill you <i>again</i>.</div>
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Fortunately for you, Blizzard - in their wisdom - keeps me from this immensely logical course of action. Which leaves me with a surfeit of vitriol, a desire to find another player and ruin their entire week, that I need to unload <i>somewhere</i>.</div>
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Now, <i>where</i> could I find that kind of catharsis?</div>
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If only there were <i>some</i> location - some <i>battleground</i> - where I could let slip the dogs of war and vent my pent-up feelings, even if it were upon some poor proxy for my despite!</div>
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I recently read an article at The Consortium that <a href="http://stormspire.net/content/342-article-case-dual-gathering.html">advocated having a dual-gathering</a> (mining/herbalist) character, especially at the start of an expansion. Since I was already shuffling professions around on my characters, I figured that I'd shift Aeven from being a miner/skinner to a miner/herbalist. How long could it take, really? Besides - I'd actually be making some money in the process, which is different from leveling a crafting profession. So, why not?</div>
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In any case, I'm pretty sure that for MoP, I'll end up rolling and leveling a <a href="http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/19/mists-of-pandaria-female-pandaren/">female Pandaren monk</a>. Take a look at that link, there. She's so <i>FLUFFY</i>! Ahem. That's another two primary profession slots to look at - perhaps I'll level skinning/leatherworking on Aelin, and blacksmithing on Aretae? Hmm. Decisions, decisions.</div>Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-74927359431510450572012-03-15T20:33:00.000-07:002012-03-15T20:33:28.877-07:00Laenshield the Alchemist<div style="text-align: justify;">
Since Aeth is <a href="http://twentysilver.blogspot.com/2012/03/aetherna-enchanter.html">now an enchanter</a>, I dropped that profession on Laenshield and picked up alchemy. The total time to level was about the same - a couple of hours a day over 2-3 days for collecting mats, picking up recipes, etc. - but the overall cost was vastly different. It cost Laenshield less than 3k, total, to level alchemy, and even that's probably on the high side, since I'm still making money off of selling the potions, elixirs, and other items he produced while leveling.</div>
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After the first pull, the tank took a look at our healer - a Worgen druid - and said words to the effect of "Holy cow, heals - your <i>gear</i>!"</div>
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Pretty much from that point on, we were joking back and forth about <i>everything</i>. Standing in the green is good? What about fire? "Fire heals you. You just have to stand in it long enough." Riffing on fragments of movies and songs. "Sheep this one..." After Aeth did a turtle polymorph, "That's not a sheep! That's not even the same <i>species</i>!" "It's a... uh... SEA SHEEP!"</div>
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But it was relaxed, we were having a good time, and even when people 'asploded from various things, we managed to soldier on and beat the living loot out of the bosses. The tank (who was an amazingly excellent and a wonderful person to boot) stuck with us through two dungeons, rolled with the strange comments and weird humor, and was generally was just the right person at the right time for our pack of only moderately lucid lightning-throwing, arcane blasting, stabbity heroes.</div>
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Good times... good times!</div>Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-26046820371885026392012-03-06T05:53:00.003-08:002012-03-06T05:54:23.463-08:00Aetherna the Enchanter<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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Last night, as I waited for the queue to pop for a run through a random HoT, I gave some thought to some changes.</div>
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Right now, I've got a couple of stable alts with a nice selection of professions:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Laenshield - level 85, Tailoring and Enchanting</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Aretae - level 85, Inscription and Herbalism</li>
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Overall, a nice spread of capabilities. I've got all three gathering professions (Mining, Herbalism, Skinning) represented, plus the major gear enhancement professions (Inscription, Tailoring, Jewlcrafting and Enchanting). There's a couple of gaps, though...</div>
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Aeth is my main. She's the one that gets all the love, all the randoms, all the effort at advancement. I honestly don't think this is going to change any time soon. There's just something about playing a mage that really appeals to me. On top of that, she's my achievement hound... if I'm doing something in the world, it's almost certainly on Aeth.</div>
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In particular, it's annoyed me the number of times I've gotten a bit of random loot in the LFD that's soulbound. On Aeth, that means I can sell it to a vendor for about 10% of it's real value (should it happen to be disenchanted). Sometimes there's an enchanter along for a run, so she can get a shard or a crystal instead of a purple that sells for 15g, but that's not certain by a long shot.</div>
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So, I'm thinking of dropping Mining on Aeth and picking up Enchanting. Being able to add some ring enchants would definitely be nice. Where will she get ores to prospect for gems, though? Aeven, of course. So that's one change.</div>
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If Aeth has Enchanting, then there's not much point in keeping that profession on Laenshield. It would be nice to have an alchemist around, though. I leveled Alchemy on Talesin (my Horde shaman) to max level, and having access to a transmutation alchemist would be nice. Where will he get the herbs to turn into potions, though? Aretae, of course! So that's change number two.</div>
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Now, Aeven's skinning skill was a nice little money maker as she was leveling. I suspect that it will continue to be so for a while. Still, it would be nice to have something else available. Blacksmithing? Leatherworking? Engineering? Frankly, each of those has a minor appeal. However... Aretae's my only leather wearer, and I'm not really interested in gearing him up for PvE (though PvP might be interesting). Engineering is really tied specifically to the character who has the skill, so unless I'm planning on Aeven being more active than she is now, that leaves blacksmithing as an eventuall profession for her. Change number three.</div>
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So my tentative plans:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Laenshield drops Enchanting, picks up Alchemy, and levels it to max.</li>
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It'll probably be a bit expensive, but I've got plenty and to spare at this point, so why not?</div>
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Glad you asked!<br />
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I've been running random dungeons on Aeth. Random HoT's and random regular Cata dungeons, mostly.<br />
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Seven last night, in fact. One after another. Boom, boom, booooooooom.<br />
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Why?<br />
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You see, the first seven random heroic end time dungeons give you valor points - 150 each for completion, plus something like 77 justice points per boss. You knew that already, though, right?<br />
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Gotta get those VP for gear, after all! It's about a 10 minute queue for DPS on my server, so I spend some time in Uldum flying around and mining while I wait for the next queue to pop.<br />
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Now, the random regular Cata dungeons don't give VP. Instead, the first seven give you 140 JP each for completion, plus something like 33 JP per boss.<br />
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If you add it up, that can be around 250 - 350 JP per random regular Cata dungeon. Plus, the queue is generally <i>really</i> short - on the order of a minute or two. From what I've seen, you end up with a lot of well-geared players in a mix of PvE/PvP gear, so I don't think I've had any of the random Cata dungeons take appreciably longer than 20 minutes or so.<br />
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So, basically, I've been stockpiling JP.<br />
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And spending JP.<br />
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The week before last, I was depleting my stash of VP when I realized that I was approaching the cap on JP. So I wandered over the the JP vendors to see what I might convert my JP into. In the past, I've converted them into BoP boots and bracers for a bit of a profit, but for whatever reason, I checked out the JP goods vendor this time.<br />
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Looked over his goods, said "Meh," went to go buy some boots... and hesitated.<br />
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Huh. You can turn 375 JP into 250 honor points? Why is that catching my attention?<br />
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Well, I guess I can eventually use it to buy some better PvP gear, but... hmmm.<br />
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Wait.<br />
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Aren't the PvP mounts purchasable for honor points now?<br />
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A quick check, the PvP mount vendor located, and <b>HOLY COW THEY'RE ONLY 2000 HONOR APIECE</b>?<br />
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Let's see - I already have one of the PvP mounts, so that's <i>four more</i> mounts!<br />
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How many do I have now, anyways? Let's see... huh, 95.<br />
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Plus four.<br />
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Makes... ninety nine?<br />
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And... wait, I'm about 10 tickets short of getting another Darkmoon Fair mount.<br />
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Makes... a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=2536">Mountain o' Mounts</a>!</div>
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Yeeeeeee-frickin'-<i>ha</i>.<br />
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So, yeah. I've been farming JP. Blowing it all on PvP mounts.<br />
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And, really, having a fun time doing it.<br />
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Another 7 dungeons or so and maybe I can start stockpiling JP to covert to honor and buy some decent PvP gear...<br />
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<br />Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-46857371311097899452012-02-16T18:39:00.000-08:002012-02-16T18:39:24.036-08:00Is It Just Me?Does anyone else amuse themselves by grabbing the "Love Is In The Air" daily quest, running over to Stormwind's Old Town, and tossing bonbons and perfume at the thugs loitering around outside of "The Five Deadly Venoms"?<br />
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Makes me chuckle every time.Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-11958263272873342042012-02-16T13:29:00.000-08:002012-02-16T13:30:03.528-08:00Making Gold<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hand over fist, man, hand over fist.</div>
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Well - maybe not quite that much, but on the order of 8k gold over the past few days, with very little work involved.</div>
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I'm selling gems on the AH.</div>
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No, not cut gems - though, as a JC, I could do that. The profit margins are probably better, but really, that takes a whole lot more time and effort - identifying which cuts are selling, which are more profitable, and so on - than I'm willing to put into things. For me, making cash is a way to fund other aspects of the game, not an end in and of itself; and spending 20 minutes a day to pull in 3k seems like a pretty good rate of return for me.</div>
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No, I'm selling <i>raw</i> gems on the AH.</div>
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You see, I noticed that - on my server, at least - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=52177/carnelian">Carnelian</a> is going for between 100g and 130g <i>apiece</i>. Probably because three of them go into the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=80245">Inferno Ruby</a> transmute, and those are going for about 330g each, minimum.</div>
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Obsidium Ore and Elementium Ore each go for about 6g each, which means there's generally a decent supply in the sub-6g range.</div>
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So, I'll buy about 20 stacks of ore - cost of 2400g. Then I'll just crank through and prospect it - that's 80 prospects total. That will (conservatively) net me about 16 each of the green gems, and 4 each of the blue gems. More green gems and less blue gems if I'm prospecting Obsidium, more less green gems and more blue gems if I'm prospecting Elementium, obviously.</div>
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16 x Carnelian @100g = 1600g</div>
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16 x Nightstone @ 10g = 160g</div>
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16 x Hessonite @ 10g = 160g</div>
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16 x Jasper @ 7g = 112g</div>
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16 x Zephyrite @ 6g = 96g</div>
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16 x Alicite @ 2g = 32g</div>
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4 x Amberjewel @ 8g = 32g</div>
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4 x Demonseye @ 21g = 84g</div>
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4 x Dream Emerald @ 30g = 120g</div>
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4 x Ember Topaz @ 32g = 128g</div>
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4 x Inferno Rubies @ 300g = 1200g</div>
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4 x Ocean Saphire @ 15g = 60g</div>
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Income - 3784g. Outlay - 2400g. Profit - 1384g.</div>
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Again, this is a conservative calculation. I've actually been getting closer to 2000g profit on prospecting 20 stacks of ore, so either I've been lucky with my drop rates, or I'm missing something in my figuring.</div>
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In any case, it's made me about 8k gold over the last four days. I put the blue gems up on the AH as single units, unless their price drops below 5g for some reason... then, I just stuff them back in the bank. Green gems get listed as stacks of 3 gems or singles, with the exception of Zephyrite and Alicite, which get sold in bulk (stacks of 20) or just get vendored if the price drops below 2g.</div>
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I'm going to continue this for a few days, and see how it works out. I suspect it will continue to be a decent money maker for some time to come.</div>
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Just cranking through the Love is In The Air dailies, Aeth finally managed to pick up enough tokens to get her <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=72146">Swift Lovebird</a>. Along the way, she even managed to pick up a Vile Fumigator's Mask, which will definitely be going into void storage for future transmog potential.</div>
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Oh, and in case you missed it, Blizzard posted an <a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/mists-of-pandaria/feature/talent-calculator">updated talent calculator</a> for MoP.</div>
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Let's see... anything... in... ter... es... </div>
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Holy <i>cow</i>.</div>
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Some magey bits to consider:</div>
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<b>Temporal Shield</b> - level 30 Arcane Mage talent. "Envelops you in a temporal field for 4 sec. Damage taken while shielded will be undone over 6 sec."</div>
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<b>Invocation</b> - level 90 Arcane Mage talent. "Your evocation spell no longer has a cooldown, but you no longer have any base mana regeneration. Completing an Evocate causes you to 20% increased spell damage for 30 sec."</div>
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<b>Incanter's Shield</b> - level 90 Frost Mage talent. "Absorb's damage, converting the damage into mana, up to a maximum of 30% of your maximum mana. Lasts 8 sec. When your Incanter's Shield is destroyed, you gain 30% increased spell power for 30 sec."</div>
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Just... wow. Invocation with Mana Adept? Burn to 40% mana, cast Evocate. 6 seconds later, burn again. Couple with Arcane Power to get an additional 20% damage for 15 seconds. That's 15 seconds - 10 GCDs - of 40% bonus damage, another 10 GCDs of 20% bonus damage, and if you haven't managed to burn through 60% of your mana by then you're really not trying. Evocate, lather, rinse, repeat, with the Arcane Power tossed in on every third rotation.</div>
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Incanter's shield? "Hey, hold on. I need to run and stand in the fire for a few seconds." Given the amount of Bad Stuff (TM) that generally gets thrown around, this is a potentially always-up 30% spellpower increase coupled with a 30% mana return.</div>
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Oh, yeah. MoP looks like it's going to be <i>fun</i>.</div>
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Two major milestone recently.</div>
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First... I've managed to crack the 50k gold mark. Well, actually, I hit that goal a while back, but it was total gold across multiple servers. I've since reached 50k gold on one server, which is more of a milestone.</div>
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I've got to emphasize that while I've occasionally engaged in some minor gold-making activities - crafting and selling a batch of <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=60838">Mysterious Fortune Cards</a>, or some glyphs, or starting PvP cloth gear, etc. - most of my "gold making" has simply been accomplished as a by-product of playing the game. Waiting for a queue to pop? I'll mine a bit in Uldum... and in a couple of weeks, that ore will hit the AH, or become a stack of <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=52190">Inferno Rubies</a>. Accumulated a couple of stacks of cloth from soloing Northrend dungeons? Ship it off to my tailor and make some <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=41599">Frostweave</a> Bags.</div>
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Playing more or less casually, without any focus on gold making, has still allowed me to accumulate over 50k in savings. That's after shelling out tons of cash for pets, mounts, glyphs, rep items, DMF quest items, BoE gear, potions, flasks and... you get the idea.</div>
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In other words, there's a <i>reason</i> why I'm telling you "no" when you whisper me begging for gold.</div>
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Second milestone? Reached exalted with the DMF, which got Aeth the achievement for <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=5723">50 Exalted Reputations</a>. It was kind of cool in that I got to exalted by turning in A Treatise on Strategy, which meant that I was able to get three achievements simultaneously: 50 Exalted Reputations, <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6027">Darkmoon Dungeoneer </a>and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6029">Darkmoon Despoiler</a>.</div>
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The next week or so will be spent on holiday activities - primarily farming <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=49927">Love Tokens</a> for a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=72146">Swift Lovebird</a>, though if I have enough tokens left over, I may buy a couple of <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=22235">Truesilver Shafted Arrows</a> to put up on the AH at some point.</div>
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<br /></div>Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4238257665738526125.post-32640919260044908862012-02-02T06:51:00.000-08:002012-02-02T06:51:38.942-08:00Two to the Sixth<div style="text-align: justify;">
Yesterday, I had the chance to download and try out the new <a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3988300405">64-bit client</a> for WoW.</div>
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For a piece of "unsupported" software, it's rather nice.</div>
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Loading screens, particularly the initial loading screen, seems to complete much more quickly for me. Frame rates are generally better, to the point where I was able to do crank up my graphics settings to "Ultra" for the the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=54938/archbishop-benedictus">Benedictus</a> fight in Hour of Twilight.</div>
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Overall, very nice. I think I'll be using the 64-bit client for a while longer, maybe see how the frame rate performs in some more chaotic and crowded situations.</div>
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One note: the Mac link for "How to tell if you have a 64-bit operating system" are not quite correct. The link takes you to the Mac support page that tells you how to answer the question, "<a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4287">How do I tell if I'm using the 64-bit kernel?</a>" Which isn't what you really want to know. You can run 64-bit applications on a 64-bit processor even if you're currently running the 32-bit kernel.</div>
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Instead, what you <i>really</i> want are the instructions that describe "How to tell if your Intel-based Mac has a 32-bit or 64-bit processor." My MacBook Pro is running the 32-bit kernel, but because it has a 64-bit processor, I had no problem running the WoW 64-bit client. I <i>may</i> follow the instructions on the 64-bit kernel page and reboot to use the 64-bit kernel, just to see if there's any additional improvements there; but the WoW 64-bit client runs just fine on my Intel Core 2 Duo system.</div>
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Status so far as Aeth heads for Glory of the Hero:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><strike>Chaos Theory</strike> - Done!</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strike>Respect Your Elders</strike> - Done!</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strike>Volunteer Work</strike> - Done!</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Better Off Dred - Possible, but tricky.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Less-Rabi - Possible, but tricky.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strike>Abuse the Ooze</strike> - Done!</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Zombiefest! - Untried.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Experienced Drake Rider - Definitely going to need a group for this.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ruby Void - Arcane mage Needs Group Badly!</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Amber Void - GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!</li>
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Oh, and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=4975">From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee</a>.</div>
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The last was more or less a fluke. There was a small (9? 10?) person group that a guild mate put together to try for this, so I jumped in. We did 3-4 attempts, and at one point, managed to get the whale shark down to something like 94% before we all died in a horribly gory frenzy of blood and entrails.</div>
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Figuring out we knew what was going on, we jumped back in for another attempt, sure that we knew what was going on, and that we'd nail it this time. I switched to fire spec on Aeth so I could scorch and move and "tank" the shark in a pinch, and we were off!</div>
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Two minutes into it, we were making some good progress - it really did look like we knew what we were doing - when my wife comes in, plops down on the bed next to me, and says, "I just got off the phone..."</div>
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Now, I'm not the most sensitive, empathic guy in the world. I can be rather dense some times. OK, a <i>lot</i> of the time. In this case, however... everything in her tone, her posture, her words were clear even to me.</div>
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"Hey," they all said, "Yeah, <b>you</b>, knucklehead. Put <i>down</i> the laptop. Forget the stupid game. Remember that whole 'love, cherish, honor' thing you promised a couple of decades back? Yeah, <i>this</i> is what you were babbling about. Now get hoppin', bozo!"</div>
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Which, in a rare fit of sanity, I did.</div>
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I think I saw Aeth become shark chow about 4.2 nano-seconds after I took my hands of the keyboard. Didn't even take the time to say anything in chat. I felt bad, but... a dozen strangers vs. my wife? Sorry, guys. House isn't on fire, but it's a RL emergency just the same.</div>
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Turns out that we have a close friend is going through a really, really, <i>really</i> rough spot, in multiple areas. We kind of had an inkling of it, but this evening was the first time said friend had an opportunity to talk to my wife and lean on her shoulder about it... and afterwards, my wife needed to debrief and lean on me in turn.</div>
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So, a while later, I hop back on and find myself floating in the briny deep. I scroll back through the chat log to see who it is that I need to apologize to for bailing on them without notice, and... holy cow! They <i>did</i> it! There's the guild announce for the achievement! Wait, what's <i>my</i> name doing there?</div>
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Quick check of the achievements tab... and yes, there it is.</div>
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They not only downed the whale shark, they managed to do so on the attempt that I had to bail on. </div>
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Apparently, they <i>did</i> have it nailed down.</div>
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Way to go, guys! Thanks for carrying me :-)</div>
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<br />Samrobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048545798995544976noreply@blogger.com0