Thursday (19 Nov) - Farming and Professions

Thursday (19 Nov) - Farming and Professions

Philly's efforts to improve on her Jewelcrafting profession took up much of Thursday night, broken only by JB whenever a Wintergrasp battle was starting.

Much of the materials that Philly needs are gotten from mining ore. Death Knight Melasahnd is the family miner, and she has also been skilling up her mining profession while helping out Philly. Mel scoured the Arathi Highlands for iron, gold, silver, and mithril ore, making circuit after circuit of the large area. She would later move on to Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes to collect even more mithril and adding truesilver and thorium to her list of ores that Philly needed. Occasionally gems would also come from the nodes of ore, but not nearly enough to meet the insatiable needs of the Jewelcrafting profession. Philly needed jade, moss agate, aquamarine, citrine, and many other gems to improve her craft. Tons of stone also went into making small statues, emptying stores of stone Mel had on hand and sending her back out to mine more.

Philly pushed her skill up to 210, but still has a long way to go. The shortage of gems is going to slow her down. Pure ore can be "prospected" for gems, but it takes 5 ore to prospect one gem, and it is time consuming. Philly asked Happy to check on AH gem prices, but as could be expected the key gems that jewelcrafters need to level are very costly due to the difficulty of farming them and the high demand by JCs skilling up.

Melasahnd has improved her own skills as a miner to 248, so she is also getting value by helping out Philly. She also took a moment to travel to Thrallmar in Outland and getting her flying skill and mount.

All this profession skilling has curbed Philly's levelling (since Mel has needed all the game time for mining), but she may get some levelling in over the weekend.