Achievement and almost all goals met
A while back I posted about my pre-expansion goals. Now, with mere days until the expansion, I am perfectly satisfied with having completed most of those goals.
- finish leveling my shaman to 70. Done!
- power-level alchemy on my shaman as my warlock won’t be leveled for a while. Fizzled out at alchemy 355, but the last 20 points aren’t far away. As second profession I power-leveled Inscription on her, sitting at 336.
- grind out the last 17 points of engineering on my rogue. Almost. She’s at 373, two repairbots away from the final destination, but it’ll be easier to just do new WotLK schematics to continue.
- build the roflcopter, because I wantssss it. Done!
- grab my bestest girls and tank H OHB and H M-T to complete my heroic experience. Done and done and did Crypts as well, completing my Outland Heroic Dungeonmaster achievement. Crypts was annoying, but scored me the possibly most disgusting weapon ever, Claw of the Watcher. It twitches, blinks and drools!
- lead another Gruul/Mags raid and this time won’t pass the T4 shoulder token to another warrior. Done! Though technically I didn’t pass the shoulders, I actually lost the roll, mwah.
- clear ZA. Done! 1.5 hour clears, all chests, the nerfed ZA is a pushover.
On Friday, we had our monthly PvP day in the guild, but BGs were so unfun and wackily out of balance for us casual girls in non-PvP gear that a bunch of us decided to go back to what we’re decent at, PvE. In a strange turn of events, we decided we wanted to feel like we did when we first hit 70, were undergeared and struggled through 3.5 hours Shadow Labs runs. We ran it almost naked! The rule was to just keep your pants/skirt on and wear your normal weapons/shield. So there I went, down to under 10k health, 10k armor, just like back in the day.
The run itself was tons of fun, but even almost naked we were so OP. Even with pulling carefully we blazed through. Blackheart didn’t have much time for fun, Vorpil didn’t port at all and Murmur did one Sonic Boom before he disintegrated. Still, it was really cool to do this with really low health and casters drinking every pull, just like back in the day. 
I’ve been running tons of heroics. Possibly the greatest fun in post-patch world until Thursday. Very fast-paced, full of prot warrior awesomeness. Our holy paladin went retribution because I asked her, she wanted the chest off Kael’thas in H MgT, so we got that for her. From running all those heroics, I went from having 10 badges to 103 badges in like no time. As my final shopping tour for badges I got me the Sunguard Legplates after all. They have a lot more def than my previous pants, so I was finally able to ditch the Adamantine Figurine as defense trinket. Or so I thought.
On Saturday we did a ZA clear, and the shield of my dreams again never showed up, but Zul’jin decided to drop Cleaver of the Unforgiving. I wouldn’t be an orc if that axe didn’t make me drool. Recipe for success: enchant the weapon you’ve had forever with an expensive enchant like Executioner, and for sure an upgrade will drop within days. Good for me that all those heroics already saw me with more shards in the bank to have the axe enchanted as well. Also, the price for shards in general has gone rock-bottom on Bronzebeard, which is very nice.
Bye bye King’s Defender, you served me well! The axe should carry me to whatever upgrade I will get for it in WotLK. I had to gem for defense so that I was able to be capped for our Sunday ZA clear without going back to using a def trinket, but it worked out. The Sunday ZA was strange because most of the bosses dropped exactly the same items they had dropped on Saturday, including the axe. Again, no shield, but that’s alright. I am a blacksmith, so at blacksmithing 390, I am going to make myself a Saronite Defender. Not too shabby!
My worries that I would get a late start to WotLK seem unfounded. I had to order my US version at Okaysoft who specialize on imports and they informed that the shipping date for US WotLK is Nov 11. I should have my copy early, go figure! I can sit in front of my computer, hugging the box, waiting for the servers to become ready. I will be there, live, for any Northrend world server crash, huzzah.
I am sort of anal-retentive when it comes to WoW, so I’ve contemplated all last week which starting zone I will level in. I think I’ll be going with Howling Fjord, just so I can hop into Utgarde Keep as quickly as possible. I am so ready for WotLK.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
I’m definitely going to Howling Fjord first as well. On the beta , I enjoyed most of the quests there whereas at Borean Tundra, I was finding myself a bit bored and frustrated too easily (bugged boom quest make Yas go bye). Warsong Hold is a treat lore-wise though. I can’t wait to see it all with DotH. *hops around impatiently*
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November 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Gratz on your achievement success. I got the last item I wanted from 5 mans with the commendation from H MgT. After 15 runs at it finally dropped when I was tanking(I had only seen it drop once on another toon). I am trying to figure out what to do with the 115 badges that I am sitting on. I would love the hard khorium plate chest plans to show up at the AH at a reasonable price but I might just use them for the Sunwell DPS chest if nothing better comes to mind. By Thursday I should have close to 200 badges.
The only thing left on my list is Hyjal Past. My guild is not doing anything (has not for months) so I pugged some BT and want to down atleast 2 MH bosses as well. Sunwell doesn’t matter since it was not an original BC raid.
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November 10th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Thanks for the update. Hehe its funny thinking back to my goals, I also achieved most of them
- mage to 70 & 375 on both profs
- warrior to 62 & 300+ on both profs
- BT finished
- do some sunwell: just got brutallus last night for the first time, and it went very well. I shudder to think of that fight for tanks pre-nerf.
Thanks too for your awesome podcast. I enjoyed it a lot, and tonights the night I repsec prot to finish levelling the warrior. As soon as I went to outland, I got a couple of random whispers for 5 mans so I cant wait to take it for a spin. I made notes from your comments
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November 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Ooooh, let me know how that goes, Ara. I bet you’ll fall in love with prot warriors. Clearly you must. Kick some ass.
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November 11th, 2008 at 3:56 am
Good job! I’ve been tanking as many instances as I could and realized that I only had 1 left to do (crypts, ugh) worst instance ever. I hate it the beginning turns me off right away. But we got it done with little or no problems. I am also the outland dungeon hero. I also got all the classic dungeons done and only have 1 more raid to do classic (AQ-40) my guild leader thinks we wont get it done before expac but meh, there will be lots of time to do it. I just sucessfully tanked all of SSC on the weekend and vashj in her weakened state was a cakewalk. I hope we do TK soon
All in all most of my goals are done. Minus cooking and fishing being up to max. But that shouldnt take long.
Keep up the good work =D
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November 11th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Been thinking myself about what I got done that I had wanted to…
-I also got my shammie to 70!
I left my guild within the last few weeks and haven’t found a new one to replace it yet. I still don’t have my epic flying mount… expansion quest gold ftw??
-365 Alchemy on the shammie, herb maxxed
-Flying mount on my shammie.
-Saw Illidan down and got to tank him
Alas, I didn’t step foot in Sunwell
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November 11th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Yeah I still can’t decide where to start leveling. I’m Alliance and since Aerie Peak is like 4:1 in favor of Alliance, I’m thinking Howling Fjord is the best place to start leveling. This is based on thinking that at least 75 percent of the Alliance on my server are idiots and will take the boat from SW to Borean Tundra without even realizing there is a 2nd boat let alone a 2nd starting zone. On the other hand Howling Fjord has Utgarde Keep, therefore more people my start in that zone. /sigh I guess I’ll have to wait and see.
My only other concern is that I won’t get a chance to do 5 mans until i hit 80 =(. We are all trying to push to 80 ASAP so we can continue to stay realm 1st in progression.
Anyways, keep up the good work with the blog. I really enjoy reading your articles =D. Good luck to everyone in Wrath!
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November 13th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Ha! And just when you gave up hope to get the axe there it is. Congrats!
Durnic´s last blog post..The Updated Pre-Expansion To-Do List
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