Winterfall Shaman Everywhere

OMFG! When doing the Wintersaber rep quests one of them has you going to Winterfall Village and killing 5 Ursas and 5 Shaman.

The thing is the Ursas spawn more often than the Shaman so there is usually a dearth of Shaman.

I just turned up and all 5 spawns in the bottom were Shaman, then up the slope the 2 on the left and the 2 on the right were all Shaman and then on the hill up to the Chief it was a Shaman as well. The only 2 that weren't were the ones at the end of the little alley.

What are the odds on that?

Exalted Reputation #33 & #34 - Timbermaw and Wintersaber

UPDATE: And we're done!

So the latest masochistic rep grind is Wintersaber Trainers. The only way to get rep with them is from 1 repeatable quest until half way through neutral. 2 repeatable quests until honoured and then 3 repeatable quests all the way to exalted. Although the 3rd is often ignored.

Double Whammy
One of these quests involves killing Winterfall mobs so a happy byproduct of this grind is that these mobs give 20 (22 for humans) timbermaw rep, and they also drop Winterfall Spirit Beads which can be handed in to Salfa for 300 (330) reputation.

My Progress
I have just hit honoured with Wintersaber (350/12000), and am human so each quest hand in will give me 275, 275 and 385 rep and each trip will have all 3 quests for a total of 935 rep per trip. This means in 13 trips I will be 505 into revered. Then I will need to do 22 trips to get to exalted. 35 Trips in total. 5 a day for a week :P

Timbermaw
But along with that I am 11,243 into honoured with Timbermaw. Mobs stop giving rep at revered so I will be collecting the beads that the winterfall drop. They drop at roughly 40% drop rate so each trip for Wintersaber rep will give me 4 beads. I already have 100 beads and 35 feathers(equivalent from deadwood furbolgs) which is 27 hand ins or 8910 rep.

How Many Beads?
In 35 trips I will have to kill 350 winterfall mobs for another 140 beads which is another 9240. Leaving me about 2000 or 9 turn ins or 43 beads short. Another 108 mobs to kill.

Current Progress
Timbermaw beads/feathers 288/319 (18810 rep)
Timbermaw rep -1/21000

Wintersaber rep 21000/21000
Trips to Revered 13/13
Trips to Exalted 35/35

Wednesday 5/5
Thursday 5/5
Friday 5/5
Saturday 5/5
Sunday 5/5
Monday 5/5
Tuesday 5/5

First came the frostsaber...

followed by grinding another 20 feathers before ...

Exalted Reputation #32 - Knights of the Ebon Blade

The latest victim on my quest to get 40 Exalted reputations was Knights of the Ebon Blade.

Before that it was Sons of Hodir; which saw me complete Storm Peaks. So onto Icecrown. The idea is to complete the zone and then buy the rest of the rep with Justice Points.

By completeing Icecrown yesterday I got 3 achievements in 1 - YAY!



and my Ebon Blade rep was nealry maxxed out anyway with 16478 into Revered. Which a quick couple of daily heroics with their tabard on soon sorted out. Double YAY!

AH Macros are Back!

Shamelessly ripping some text out of Moravec's post on Follow the Gold Road - Useful Auction House Macros After Patch 4.0.1 as I have been trying to work out how to macro the craft button on ATSW and golbinworks (or wtf the new KTQ crafting dependency is). Purely theoretically of course. I wouldn't actually do this in game :P

Re-posting it here so that I don't lose the info, especially the macro at the end about mouseover a button to get it's /script name in your chat window ... INCREDIBLY USEFUL :)

ZeroAuctions

Posting and Cancelling:

/click StaticPopup1Button1

AuctionProfitMaster

Posting:

/click AuctionProfitMasterPostButton

Cancelling:

/click AuctionProfitMasterCancelButton

ScrollMaster

Create next enchant:

/click SMButton

AuctionLite

Purchasing:

/click BuyApproveButton

AdvancedTradeskillWindow

Process queue:

/click ATSWQueueStartStopButton

Enchantrix:

Confirm Mill/Prospect/Disenchant:

/click AutoDEPromptYes

You can always find out the name of a button for creating similar macros if you bind the following to a key.  All you then have to do is mouseover the button, press the macro and the name will appear magically in your chat frame:

/run DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(GetMouseFocus():GetName())

Has the Gold Cap Gone Up?

My scribe opened up the latest batch of mails with cash from the campers and I had miscalculated how much to transfer to the guild bank first.

Before if you went over 214K it would tell you that you have reached the gold cap.

My scribe now has 217014g 24s 32c...

Holy Paladin Stat Priority

According to Ferraro the stat priority for holy paladins will now be Spirit > SP > Int. > Haste > Crit.

How Much Gold Have My Glyphs Made Me?

27K as reported after a couple of days.
21K a week later.
40K just received.

I made 88K of my glyphs so far. but now I have run out of inks :(

Patch 4.0.1 Changes I've Noticed so Far

No Mains?
I have not even logged onto HolyWarrior to check how many Justice Points he has or if he can still buy Hodir and Ebon rep with them.

I've been on my glyphers.

More Than Just Charred Glyphs
I've noticed that one of the 'Techniques' you used to be able to buy to learn a glyph (patch 3.2 was it?) has had it's associated Glyph charred and technique itself has become 'Moldy Parchment' which vendors for 2gold.

I also found another batch of Zandalar coins I had accidently put up for sale for 11s - DOH!!

Book: Gift of the wild is now 87s50c vendor trash and Tome of Arcane Brilliance is 10 gold vendor trash, Codex: Prayer of Shadow Protection - 1g47s50c

I Was Not Prepared
Before patch shutdown I had restocked only about 3 classes of glyphs up to 20 stacks and I had managed to remove the to be charred glyphs from the creation list.

When I finally managed to get back online I learnt all the trainable new glyphs, bought a Book of Glyph Mastery for 170g - ouch!! (should have stocked up on them there buggers) and got my Northrend Inscription Research done, glyphs crafted and sent to the sellers.

Gold...
The sellers then raked in 1000s of gold in the first hour online!!

24 hours later:

Ranged glyphs 13K
Hybrid 6.8K
Melee 7.5K
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Total 27.3K

Justice Points and 2 More Exalted Rep Grinds
My 0 frost badges and 870 odd triumph badges have been converted to 11.3K Justice points. I need to spend 7000 justice points before Cata or they'll get converted to gold. I need no more gear.

The day before 4.0.1 hit I an my last ever heroic on HolyWarrior to get the last 2 frost badges I needed to get my last upgrade (outside of raids) the T10 shoulders. I will be spending as many as I can to raise my Ebon Hold and Hodir rep from nothing to exalted.

The commendation badges ae purchasable with Justice Points. I think they used to be 1 Triumph emblem which means they should be 12 JPs but they are in fact 16 JPs - oh well. I think I have enough...

Ebon - 6K friendly + 12K Honoured + 21K Revered = 39K = 75 badges = 1200JPs
Hodir - Not even got rep on character sheet yet. WIll do quests them wil hopefully be honourd and only need 63 badges from 1015 JPs

Leaving nearly 5000JPs to spend or be converted to gold!!

Addons
Skillet / Lil Sparkys clone is fucked - manual gyph making - ouch!!!
Postal is working - YAY
Zero Auctions replaces QA3 nicely, with Gevlons /click trick making things quite easy.
Grid is fucked - no raiding!!

Draft in the Retards For Patch Day

Think Blizztards must have drafted in the more mobile of the local fuckwits asylum on patch day just to cover demand. I mean .. what exactly does this mean?

Goodbye Rash of the Itch King...

... and hello pre-Clit-a-chasm discombobulation!

I didn't finish crafting all my glyphs before I got kicked off and I didn't buy my Sons of Hoidr or Ebon Blahblah commendation badges before emblems of triumph went. I hope I can buy them with Justice points. I doubly hope that emblems don't get converted tonight.

Other preparations? I hit exalted with Zandalar. I didn't get the mount, pet(was there one) or polymorph tome :( My spare bijous were still on the AH - I wonder what will happen to them!

I am prepared for a massive addon crash tommorow - I have 10 cans of Carlsberg!!