It feels as if I've made loads of progress since my last post, but actually only a few of my characters have gone up a level. That's because I've been spending all my time on my three 85s - all the others have only done cooking dailies, and not even every day.
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are still grinding archaeology as previously described, but Mabel's been storming through the Cataclysm zones. She's finished Mount Hyjal and Vashj'ir and is now at the start of Deepholm. However, we're all taking a break from all that, because it's the Fire Festival, and it turns out that very few of my characters had done any of it. Iolanthe and MadMargaret just needed to do the Northrend and Cataclysm bits (not sure why they hadn't done them before). They both also needed the torch juggling and the boss kill. Since there's no way of getting the boss kill on my own (and I can't group with strangers) we'll never get the title, but I decided I would at least try the torch quests with Iolanthe. Never again! The first one wasn't too bad, but I spent ages trying to do the catching. I went to Exodar, as the forums suggested, but it was still nearly impossible. I did it in the end, but since the forum posts also said it was much harder for non-druids (who don't have travel form) I decided not to try with anyone else. (I can certainly see why it would be harder without travel form - I could barely catch the shadow as it was!) The final quest (the one for the achievement) was also nearly impossible, but I got it after a few goes.
Mabel, it turned out, hadn't done any of the fire festival stuff, so she's done it all tonight - took about five hours. Well, I say she hadn't done any of it, but she must have done some, because she had a mantle from it in the bank - I assume she must have done a few fires but not enough for an achievement. And when I say she's done it all now, of course I mean she's done it all apart from the torches and the boss kill… and the one where you steal the flames from the opposition's capitals. Iolanthe and MadMargaret both did that, but they can both stealth and they still died a lot. There's no way I'm trying it with a non-stealther… I would if it was the only one I needed for a title, but even if I did it there'd still be the boss kill, so it's not going to happen.
Current aim: to try and get all eight of my other characters to do as much as they can of the fire festival by 4th July. It won't take as long as it did for Mabel - none of the others will be doing Cataclysm or Northrend, and only three of them will be doing Outland, and in any case I know where all the fires are now, without having to search or look them up.
Monday, 25 June 2012
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Uldum spawns... or not
I sometimes wonder why I bother writing this blog when I know no-one's reading it, but it's actually quite satisfying to see that I am making progress in the game, however small. It's two months since I last got round to updating, but all my characters have gone up several levels since then. Mabel became my third L85 the other day! Very exciting. She's the only one who's currently doing any proper questing - she's currently halfway through Mount Hyjal. She does need to go back to Icecrown at some point, though, because there are several group quests she couldn't quite manage and she needs them for Loremaster. (Although since account-wide achievements are on the way, that's largely a waste of time… but she's so close!) I haven't actually tried the Icecrown hard stuff since she was L84, but I think I'll wait till she's finished Hyjal and then see if she can cope any better (one level won't make much difference, of course, but the quest rewards in Hyjal are vastly superior to what she had before, so I'm hoping she'll be in shiny new gear from head to foot by the time she's finished the zone, and that will be enough to attack Icecrown.
Mabel finally got all the cooking recipes and was able to leave Darnassus, but most of my other characters are still parked there. They've all finished all the cooking and fishing dailies now and are just repeating them to get all the cooking recipes - it'll be a while yet though. A couple of them were doing fishing dailies much longer than the others, trying to get the Captain Rumsey recipe, but they all have it now. They've all been to the Darkmoon Faire in both May and June, which definitely helps the levelling process. The only part of that that's a pain is the archaeology - it does involve a bit of running around to get 15 fossil fragments. I'm all prepared now, though, because after the faffing I had to do before the Faire's current visit I've decided that the way forward is to keep them all with 15 fragments on them, and after the Faire go immediately to top up if necessary before I forget about it.
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are doing nothing but archaeology. Iolanthe has got all the achievements, but she's keeping going because she's an alchemist and wants to try and get the Vial of the Sands recipe from a Canopic Jar… but there are so few digsites that spawn in Uldum, and even when they do they never seem to be the Canopic Jar (although she obviously must have got it once at least, because it's needed for one of the achievements), and even if it does spawn the recipe drop rate is very low, I believe. But that's her only aim, so she's flying round Kalimdor digging till Uldum sites spawn, and then being disappointed! She can at least feel useful, though, because she grabs any herbs she passes and sends them to Elsie, who's levelling Inscription.
MadMargaret has quite a few archaeology achievements to complete, but she's doing well on all of them. By chance, currently four of her projects are rare ones, which means she'll be much closer to the 20 rare achievement when they're all done, but also means she hasn't actually solved anything for ages! And she has loads still to do in Uldum. But there's no hurry.
Soon it will be the Fire Festival, which I think is my favourite. I do plan to do much more of it with my alts this time. (Annoyingly I totally missed Children's Week because it coincided with a week of cat-related trauma. I've done it lots of times before, but now I've missed a year in getting all the pets! Oh well.)
Mabel finally got all the cooking recipes and was able to leave Darnassus, but most of my other characters are still parked there. They've all finished all the cooking and fishing dailies now and are just repeating them to get all the cooking recipes - it'll be a while yet though. A couple of them were doing fishing dailies much longer than the others, trying to get the Captain Rumsey recipe, but they all have it now. They've all been to the Darkmoon Faire in both May and June, which definitely helps the levelling process. The only part of that that's a pain is the archaeology - it does involve a bit of running around to get 15 fossil fragments. I'm all prepared now, though, because after the faffing I had to do before the Faire's current visit I've decided that the way forward is to keep them all with 15 fragments on them, and after the Faire go immediately to top up if necessary before I forget about it.
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are doing nothing but archaeology. Iolanthe has got all the achievements, but she's keeping going because she's an alchemist and wants to try and get the Vial of the Sands recipe from a Canopic Jar… but there are so few digsites that spawn in Uldum, and even when they do they never seem to be the Canopic Jar (although she obviously must have got it once at least, because it's needed for one of the achievements), and even if it does spawn the recipe drop rate is very low, I believe. But that's her only aim, so she's flying round Kalimdor digging till Uldum sites spawn, and then being disappointed! She can at least feel useful, though, because she grabs any herbs she passes and sends them to Elsie, who's levelling Inscription.
MadMargaret has quite a few archaeology achievements to complete, but she's doing well on all of them. By chance, currently four of her projects are rare ones, which means she'll be much closer to the 20 rare achievement when they're all done, but also means she hasn't actually solved anything for ages! And she has loads still to do in Uldum. But there's no hurry.
Soon it will be the Fire Festival, which I think is my favourite. I do plan to do much more of it with my alts this time. (Annoyingly I totally missed Children's Week because it coincided with a week of cat-related trauma. I've done it lots of times before, but now I've missed a year in getting all the pets! Oh well.)
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