Blog Review Slot - Diary of an (Ex?) WoW Addict

Well, it's not really going to be a review, as such, more of a link-back with a little bit of me rambling as usual!!

So, here's a blog that I read frequently, and thought was on my blogroll; turns out it either was and it got lost when I changed my blogroll over to the new* blogger blogroll widget or I've always gone there via entrecard**. We've exchanged comments in the past so nur***!!

Anyway, look at that, I've rambled already, best get to it.

DarkSaturn7 is her**** name and she resides at Diary of an (Ex?) WoW Addict. It is a very well laid out blog and easy to read. Not always about WoW, but then again nor is TJ!

Always a pleasure to visit, to see if that (Ex?) has become ex- again or keep up with her progress :)

You may have mysteriously disappeared from my blogroll, DS, but you are back there now!

Anyway, enough of the mutual back patting, time to look through my screenshots folder for some blog inspiration!

* It might not be that new, I only noticed it a few weeks ago!!
** If you're not a member join up, you can find some really good blogs through this site; just don't accept paid ads!
*** Said in childish voice; as in nur nur na nur nur!!
**** Assumption based on reference to bf in About Me page. Could be gay I suppose :P You got a problem with that? Deal with it or get off my blog :P

OK OK OK, I know I'm behind!

Yeah yeah, I'm a bit behind on my posts. HW hit argent crusade and Kirin Tor exaled recently, proper post to follow. He is now chasing Argent Crusade and will the work on Knights.

EB's tailoring goblin business is fucked, frostweave bags are now down to 69 gold, I mean come on, what fuckwad thinks a 28 gold loss per bag is good?

Even HotPants' gems are fecked :(

Goddam AH M&S on this server!

Anyway, proper post coming soon.

Faster regular Flying Mounts ... and at 60 Too!!

I saw this yesterday but Kim at World of Warcraft Wanderings reminded me of it today.

* Regular land mounts trainable at level 20 (was 30)
* Epic land mounts trainable at level 40 (was 60)
* Regular flying mounts trainable at level 60 (was 70)
* Regular flying mounts speed increased to a 150% gain (was 60%)

Yes, I am equally as bitter!

* Data shamelessly ripped from Kim.

HW's Progress

OK, so as reported on Sunday, HW finished doing the Argent Tournament as he had reached Champion of the Alliance, Exalted Champion even!!

Just not Argent Exalted Champion yet.

Anyway, rambling along, he hasn't really stopped. He missed a couple of days as he needed a rest, but he is still doing the champion quests for seals, gold and Argent Crusade rep.

Whilst he was doing all the Argent quests he was also doing the cooking, fishing and 3 Wrymrest Accord dailies.

Well, on Tuesday he finally hit exalted with the Accord, so that's 3 less dailies he needs to do. He may still pop down to the temple as he is soooooo close to getting the "Defending the Temple" in 2 minutes achievement. A couple of times the timer must have ticked to 0 as he clicked "Complete Quest". That really pisses me off, because you've handed it in then, so you can't abandon and try again :(

So, no more travelling all over for the Accord dailies. He is fast approaching Exalted with Kirin Tor as well. There are only 2 dailies that I know about (apart from dungeons) and that is cooking and fishing, so I have been doing them religiously and there is less than 2K to go now.

If I get bored waiting tomorrow then I'm gonna equip the Tabard and go do the daily heroic.

Byeee

Bags 0 - Gems 1

So EvilBastard's bag business is not looking so hot. Rather than waster time on that I took another look at HotPants' jewelcrafting.

She was sat at around 360, so I sent her 600 gold from the banker and sent her to the Auction House, then the trainer, back to the auction house, then the trainer etc etc etc.

She is now sat at around 437 and the latest orange recipe she has, apart from metas is the Icy Prism.

Now this is quite expensive on my server (I don't know if it's higher or lower than other servers) at 60-70 gold for the frozen orb and a gold or 2 for each of the other 9 mats. 3 Dark Jades, 3 Chalcedony and 3 Shadow Crystals I think. Making it about 90 gold per hit.

You can only make one a day, but you generally get 2-3 blue quality gems out of them and apparently a small chance of an epic gem.

Each time HotPants has done it she has got 3 blue gems, so I've crafted them and put them on the Auction House.

So for 90 gold spent she gets 1 guaranteed skill point, 3 green possibility skill points and the possibility of making most of that gold back.

Now she just has to get from level 63 to level 80 to be able to do the JC dailies and get some more recipes!!

Goblin Schmoblin

EvilBastard's bag business is on hold, some fuktards on the server are now listing bags as low as 75 gold while the lowest price you can get the mats for is:

21 gold - frostweave
59gold - infinte dust
6 gold - thread.

So, 86 gold to make a bag and 75 gold for selling it ????

IDIOTS!!

EvilBastard the Goblin.

No, he's a gnome, but an aspiring goblin (go go Gevlon!!).

Now Gevlon, I believe, has 2 areas: bags and glyphs. I haven't got a glyph character yet, it's very possible that HW will drop skinning and take up inscribing, but we'll see about that. EB, however, is a tailor and on Saturday I decided to do a bit of work on his trade skills.

EB is an enchanter tailor, and both of his skills were floating around 405, so I started levelling tailoring and got the frostweave bag recipe.

On my server the 60 frostweave required for bolts and the imbued bolts costs between 7 and 10 gold a stack plus the 12 Infinite dust at around 5 gold each. Which comes to 90 gold. Add in the eternium thread at 5 gold-ish for 2 gives you 95 gold per bag.

I sent 3 to HW and equipped 4 on EB and then the first 2 sold at 95 gold each. At least skill ups turned out free.

I then made a magnificent flying carpet!! Woot!!

And then made some more bags, which have now gone yellow, therefore not even guaranteeing a skill up :(

I then put three up on the AH undercutting the competition by 1 copper at 108 gold. Got undercut. Put three more up at 107 gold undercuttting that competition by 1 copper. Got undercut down to 90 gold by a succession of fuktards.

So now the market is running at a loss unless the FW cloth is less than 8g, which is if you get the lucky low priced cloth.

I will be watching this closely over the next few days, but with all the materials bought to equip HW and EB with 20 slot bags, a magnificent flying carpet for EB and a dabbling in the Azure Spellthread market, EB is down from 4+K gold to 2.5K

He will really have to start that Sons of Hodir grind for the Glacial/Glacier bag recipe if it looks like it is profitable on this server. In the mean time he's going to have to be patient and only buy the cheap materials that crop up on the auction house.

Now the spellthread, he can get the 2 fires for 6 gold and the 2 silk for 4 gold and sell the threads for 20gold. A 100% profit which is only 10 gold, but heyho!!

He has now learnt the ebon, moon and spellweave and done his first transmutation, in 3 days and counting he should be able to make some epic item from the ebonweave (specilisation ftw!)

Argent Tournament Complete (nearly)

Seems I finished the Argent Tournament at the same time as Galoheart!

Well, kinda. HolyWarrior finished his last champion daily

Like Galoheart, he would have finished it a little earlier if I'd knuckled down and did all the dailies every day, but I missed a few. He's got one starry thing left which you hand in 25 of to get the champion quest for each faction, dunno what he's gonna do with that.

Also, like Galo, he has 100 odd tournament currency, but the only thing of interest apart from the pets and the mounts, is the sword. For Holy? Gah! it's got hit on it, and it's not a mace; but it's a spellpower boost. I'm pretty sure it's only level 200 though, so not going to give me my epic achievement anyway, so probably not going to bother.

I really must get myself into some N-25 pugs!

EvilBastard still has 1.5 factions to go, as I left him even more behind to make sure at least HolyWarrior completed his dailies with limited playtime available.

The last thing HolyWarrior needs to do is make Exalted with Argent Crusade so he can get Exalted Argent Champion of the Alliance and the Crusader title. But him and EB will be starting on Zul'Darak when I can be bothered and I think there will be AC rep up for grabs there.

So, no more rushing to get the Argent dailies done everyday and risking the wrath of "the wife" for being late to bed!

Screenshots to follow...

Best Profession For Holy Paladin

Update: See end of post for the conclusion...

I have decided that I want to get back into raiding, having been to Naxx-25 enough times and only a couple of bits of i-level 213 stuff left to pick up I feel it is pointless going back in there.

So, my sights are set on getting into an Ulduar 25 guild. To do that I really think I ought to be looking at min-maxing.

The trouble is HolyWarrior is currently sitting on maxed out mining and skinning. Which is OK for stamina and crit rating - lol, but perhaps I should have proper crafting professions.

Now I was thinking Inscribing and Blacksmithing. Inscription for a shoulder enchant that is better than sons of Hodir and blacksmithing for the extra sockets.

Does that sound right people? Or should I go for enchanting my rings or gemming with super-gems?

So the question: What are the best professions to min-max a holy paladin?

Conclusion:
Apparently Inscription is Meh! So I will probably make my DK a scribe to make money.

Enchanting is also good, and the ring enchants are getting boosted in 3.2

Alchemy is also good for the extended duration and effect flasks and elixirs.

But firstly, it looks like hands down Blacksmithing for the 2 extra sockets (gloves and bracers) and of course the eternal belt buckle thing.

With patch 3.2 they will be adjusting professions so that epic gems in these sockets are not overpowered, but they won't be changing blacksmithing. It will simply be as good as the other professions :P

Although it pains me (as HotPants is 1 point off max Jewelcrafting) it looks like the second new profession for HolyWarrior will be Jewelcrafting. JC only gems in them thar extra sockets? Yum!!

HolyWarrior better get a final few rounds of mining in before dumping those professions. HotPants is a miner (as well as the warrior) and she is going to be next to 80 so I will be able to farm Titanium on her soon. And there is definitely no point having 3 miners!!

So the answer to my question, The Best Professions For a Holy Paladin ... Jewelcraftingand Blacksmithing.

More Breaking News: Paladin Ferarro Schmaladin HooHaa!

Seems there is some big controversy kicking off about Ferarro being a fake. Jagoex over at Warlock Therapy got suspicious and did some digging.

Oh, by the way, WELCOME BACK JAGO!!!

Ferarro has come back with an explanation, which some claim is even more bullshit.

Oh well; me? I don't give a shit, I always enjoyed reading PS, and hope it continues.

Hat's off to Jago though for the detective work and the explosive come back!!

Edit: Gevlon the Greedy Goblin says it all for me.