Cheating at Motes

Cheating at Motes

Philly has the Inscription profession, and one of the things she can make is an i476 staff. The staff is Bind on Account (BoA), so it can be passed to any other character that wants to use it. The ticklish part of the process is that Motes of Harmony are required. These motes are soulbound when received so Philly would have to earn them herself. Overall, she'd need 70 motes to make the high end staff.

I thought I could trick the system. Philly hasn't even started the quests at the beginning of the Pandaria expansion. Philly's plan was to get to Pandaria with the entry quests and then simply farm bad guys until enough motes dropped. Well, Philly got to Pandaria just fine. She actually did better than Wild's first trip to panda land. Wild fell off the ship and had no idea where he was! Unfortunately, Philly wasn't that smart, either. Apparently, the mobs Philly can kill in the first zone of Pandaria, the Jade Forest, don't drop any motes. Philly killed quite a few, doing a couple of starter quests. None dropped. Ah, well.

 Wild kept himself busy. On 13 September (Don't say it! You know, Friday's not over yet!), Wild went to Outland just to go somewhere different. Over the course of several hours Wild picked up a few more pet achievements:
Zen Pet Hunter (capturing 200 pets in pet battles)
World Pet Mauler (winning battles in 60 different zones)
Grand Master Pet battles (1000+ pet battles)
Win Streak (25 consecutive wins without a loss)

Wild now has 217 unique pets. I've collected a total of 301 pets, so I am almost halfway there  (367 to go). My main focus, though, is collecting the 135 still at large pets that I can acquire through pet battles. Oh, and I now have 31 max level 25 pets.

On 12 September Wild reached 59% of the way to level 88. On 13 September, Wild DINGED! to level 88. I really, really, like leveling by doing pet battles. The last two levels take the longest, but I still think Wild can reach level 90 within a week.