Friday (25 Sep) - All Jezzibael All day
There was again no Friday night raid, with an attendance of just 16. So let's move on.
JB had a very active day and is dying to tell us all about it.
JB began her day in the Borean Tundra, 56% of the way to level 76. She needed to complete thirty more quests in the Tundra to reach 150 and earn the Achievement.
The problem JB faced was - Where were all those quests? Everything seemed to point back to Taunka'le Village and Chieftain Wintergale. The Chieftain should have quests for JB, but he stubbornly refused to reveal them. JB was about to give up when she caught the name Feezix Geartwist. JB, who was standing just outside the abode of the Chieftain getting a breath of air, could just see Geartwist off to her left, surrounded by some quite smelly mules that were interfering with the fresh air JB was trying to get.
Wild had warned JB about the gnome, who pleaded with new arrivals to find and return lost mules. Half the time the mules would run off and the other half Geartwist would refuse to acknowledge that they'd been returned. Feezix Geartwist was a waste of time. JB kept staring at him, though. He did hold the only quest left undone in the Village, called "Load 'er Up!". Figuring she would come to regret it, JB took Geartwist's quest and went looking for the lost mule.
The mule was pretty easy to find, but getting the balky thing back to the Village was stroke inducing. The first one couldn't resist blundering into range of critters looking for a snack. The mule panicked, spilling it's stores all over the place, which guaranteed Geartwist would not take it back. JB finally got a mule back to the Village in more or less reasonable condition, and waited for the acknowledgement. Geartwist seemed to be looking in every direction but where the mule was, which was right in front of him. JB almost gave up a second time, but as she turned away so did the mule and suddenly Geartwist smiled triumphantly and welcomed the pack laden mule home.
When JB completed "Load'er Up!" Chieftain Wintergale suddenly had tasks for JB to do. The suddenly appearing quests had nothing to do with Geartwist or mules, so why they hinged on completing the mule quest I don't know. JB didn't care, she was back in business!
Not far from Taunka'le Village is the temple city of En'Kilah. The city is home to all manner of abominations controlled by an evil priesthood. Chieftain Wintergale sent JB into that city again and again, raising the stakes each time. The final quest, "Breaking Through," pitched JB against three elites, all level 72s.
The temple city has three towers that JB had delved into pretty thoroughly, burning down whatever got in her way. For this final quest, however, she used a teleport device sitting somewhat incongruously in an open courtyard just inside the city walls to the right. The teleport transported JB to the floating fortress overhead. After killing numerous non-elite mobs, JB located Vanthryn the Merciless. To account for the higher damage output of an elite, JB inserted quick heals (using Lesser Healing Wave) in her spell rotation when in between Lava Burst shots. Vanthryn wasn't too hard and he died.
The second elite, Luthian the Vile, put up the same plain vanilla attack as Vanthryn and suffered the same fate.
That left the third and final elite, Prince Valanar. JB carefully cleared the many mobs from around him so it was just him and her. JB was, of course, dropping sets of four totems for each of the elite fights, and a typical attack rotation started with Lightning Bolt, followed by Flame Shock and then Lava Burst. JB got in another LB and a heal while waiting for Lava Burst to come off cooldown, and then it was another FS and LvB. Somewhere during that very effective rotation JB forgot about a Prince Valanar ability called Soul Deflection. It's a channeled spell that is very easy to see - if you are looking for it. Soul deflection reflects incoming damage back on the caster - the caster being JB, of course. JB's LBs and FSs and LvBs aimed at Prince Valanar came winging right back at JB, and the Lava Burst crit big time. JB killed herself, hearing Prince Valanar laughing at her stupidity. It made her mad.
The second time around it was JB's turn to smile wickedly at Prince Valanar every time he cast Soul Deflection. JB just stood there and healed until he was done, and then hammered him with another Lava Burst. Prince Valanar died.
The last quest in that series also finished up Taunke'le Village. The escort quest led the members of the village to another area in Dragonblight.
JB had made it to 87% and had completed 136 quests, still 14 shy of the needed 150. But JB now knew where there were new quests, quests which she had bypassed so long ago she'd forgotten about them. The area is not labelled on the map, but the small encampment is just off the road from Amber Ledge and is clearly visible. It's the D.E.H.T.A. encampment, a very extreme animal activist group that will actually turn hostile on anyone, horde or alliance, that comes into their camp with the blood of animals on them. JB made nice with them, and spent a goodly amount of time rescuing baby elephants, killing poachers (they didn't mind you coming to the camp with people blood on you), setting traps that the trappers themselves would get caught in, and wiping out various compatriots of the great hunter, Nessingway, who they viewed as the devil incarnate. JB had to face yet another level 72 elite, which she pshawed as "been there done that" and then gunned him down. That DINGED! JB to level 76.
There was still that pesky Achievement to get. JB had 149 quests done. The D.E.H.T.A. folks did have one more quest left, involving another level 72 elite, but this time the elite would be riding a wooly mammoth. JB was supposed to ride her own mammoth to fight the elite, but she didn't like the controls, plus Come on! he's only a level 72 elite. So JB let the elite ride around on his mammoth looking grand - and then JB shot the mammoth out from under him. Then it was just him and JB - and half a dozen non-elites piling on. The elite went down, and JB sliced up the rest.
JB got her Achievement for doing 150 quests in Borean Tundra.
JB hasn't decided yet which zone she'll pitch her tent in next. Wherever she goes, though, she'll be having fun.
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Congrats on 76! DER got a turn in Utgarde Keep late Saturday night and dinged to 71 in the process. It was a fairly good group with 3 deathknights (72 frost tank, 71 blood dps and 70/71 blood DER), a 70 mage and a 72 holy priest. The priest was a great healer and we only wiped once and it was on a boss tanking mistake. Even with the inferior gear DER had to the other blood dk, he still finished first in DPS with 845. The mage came in second with 790. He also got three really nice pieces of gear from quest turn-ins. It was a fun run. He has now moved over to Dragonblight and is slowly inching to 72 and is around 35% there.
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