Progress on Draenor Pathfinder Part 8

Progress on Draenor Pathfinder Part 8

Jocy spent 2,000 garrison resources fixing Leo. He got his Chain Lightning ability back and settled for an Elvenkind racial trait that at least matches race with Jocy, who is also a blood elf. Leo is slowly gaining gear (gear she wishes hadn't been spent on Viv and Dawn, now).

Later in the evening Jocy dragged Leo out of the barracks and the two took a flight to Nagrand. Less than hour later Jocy ordered Leo back to the barracks. The mangy beast just wouldn't stay out of the way, and his chain lightning brought random roaming mobs from all over the place. Leo was a complete disaster.

I'm told that once a bodyguard becomes elite and completes all three levels they can be quite deadly and helpful. I doubt Jocy has the patience to suffer through the growing pains, though. She did get some work done, and is now 4 of 8 in completing the Nagrand quests.

Taking a break, she talked Wild into doing some fishing for her. She wants to see how many felblight Wild can fish up. She needs felblight to craft her Mighty and Savage truesteel essences. Fishing is one way to get this rare and expensive crafting element. Wild went to Tanaan (felblight can only be fished in Tanaan) and stealthed to one of the very few ponds found in Tanaan. He fished long enough to catch 218 felmouth frenzy fish, which Wild can use to restore health and mana, and the rest Happy can sell. Wild also had great fortune catching felmouth frenzy lunkers. He caught ten, more than Wild had ever gotten in one sittiing. Wild still needs to get 32 more to buy the mount he wants.

Oh,  I suppose Wild should give Jocy all the felblight he fished up. The total is, um, let me see . . .  ZERO. Crap. Does every little thing have to become such a big deal? Jocy could try mining ore for the felblight, but she'd be fighting mobs the whole time knowing how little she'd find, if any. Felblight can be bought at the Auction House. Right now its selling at 190g each. The various truesteel essences require either 30 (5700g) or 60 (11,400g) felblight. That's a pretty steep price, but it would cost a lot more on the Auction House (14k and 32k). Happy can't help thinking that an item on the AH that sells for 32k and can be crafted for 11,400 returns a profit of over 10k gold. . .  Just saying.

Jocy doesn't care about Happy's math. She wants to have the biggest, baddest shield she can get. Her shield is i675. With Mighty Steelforged Essence she can raise it to i690. Going all out, she could raise it again with Savage Steelforged Essence, to i705. The cost to make those two essences tallies out to a bit over 17k gold. She has a little over 10k, but Happy isn't budging. If the coming weekend take is good enough Happy will reconsider. Until then, Jocy can spend her 10k on one upgrade, but not the second one. Even Jocy, though, is going to wait a bit to see if felblight prices drop as the weekend goes on.

The bag market has reached a new low this week. Embersilk bags once sold for over 400g apiece. Prices are being relentlessly driven down by a mad cloth player who must spend every waking minute farming cloth. Happy balked when cloth prices fell below 50 silver, and then dumped down to 34 silver. The price of the bag is now at 185g, half its value, but the player seems determined to drive it even lower.

Jocy is closing in on Loremaster of Draenor. She has only Nagrand to finish, and she just hit 5 of 8 storylines completed. The three remaining are: The Ring of Trials, Remains of Telaar, and The Legacy of Garosh Hellscream.

Jocy is nearly out of quests, so she's traipsing around Nagrand hoping for inspiration. Jocy had been all over Telaar, but then remembered that she never got around to finishing the last piece - four crystals needed to be destroyed. Once she entered the area it all came back to her and she slew her way through Telaar, shut down the crystals, and left the remains. She got her achievement for the Remains of Telaar.

It was the evil Garrosh that reminded Jocy that it was time to dethrone the despot. Jocy showed up for the war party outside the gates but nobody told him where to go. It's a good thing Jocy is so heavily armored, as she wound up alone more than a few times (alone meaning only bad guys surrounding her). It all worked out in the end, and Jocy got to see Garrosh fall from grace. Pretty cool.

That left only The Ring of Trials. Jocy thought this was pvp and had little interest. However, she was enticed to try just one match by the fight promoter. One on one combat in the arena - that was fun. Jocy quickly learned the ropes and downed all five of the lined up combatants in quick succession. BOOM! Just like that, the dominoes fell, and Jocy completed Nagrand and Loremaster of Draenor at the same time. Not to mention getting a ring upgrade from i665 to i685.

Only two more achievements left to complete - Master Treasure Hunter and Tanaan Diplomat. That flying certificate is a lot closer, but much work is yet to be done.