Friday (22 Jul) - Taking the Week Off

Friday (22 Jul) - Taking the Week Off

With our friends staying with us all week, the Wild family has pretty much taken the whole week off. Wild is still finding ways to get his Dailies done, grinding away for those goodies. His next 125 marks might get him to the vendor, but that is a bit fuzzy. All Wild knows is that he'll have to pay someone 125 Marks, and then he'll see what comes next (he has 65 at present). If Wild calculated it correctly, he's already gathered and spent over 400 Marks so far. Players that started early (or started right after they increased the Marks that the beginning quests gave) have already reached their vendors and started buying things.

Those same vendors sell more than gear. They also sell patterns, and one of those patterns is an i365 main hand caster mace. There are also crafted weapons for melee players, but as always the caster stuff is the most expensive. In general, it seems the melee stuff (+agi, +str stuff) is always 5-10k gold less than the equivalent caster gear. Prices have been better on the Alliance side, too, but not so good that Wild can afford the 15% surcharge for moving gold over there (18k gold on the Alliance AH, 25g on the Horde AH). The mats are expensive but easily obtained - except for the Chaos Orbs, which are bind on pickup and collectible only by those with the right professions. Wild's guild is working on how to prioritize the gear that is crafted by the guild. Wild will likely buy his own, though, either off the AH or by commissioning one of the many sellers advertising on the trade channel. Wild was really helped with this when his Tsunami trinket finally sold on Thursday. Wild spent about 9k making it, and it took two weeks to sell it for about 12.5k. That price is after the AH took a whopping 600g as it's take.

Back to the i365 main hand mace. Wild did some math, and changing out his i359 2-hand staff for the mace and an i359 off-hand is definitely an upgrade, but a relatively modest one. Wild needs to find himself an i365 off-hand (or get lucky with an i378) to really make this change worthwhile. The real upgrade might be the enchant. Wild currently has Heartsong enchanted on his staff. With the i365 weapon, Wild may pay the 2k gold or so it takes to enchant it with Power Torrent, the top of the line healer weapon enchant.

Meanwhile, Wild's BoT raid did run on Thursday night. They downed Halfus and the Twins, but couldn't put away the Ascendant Council. I doubt Wild will make the Friday run, either.