Keeping Busy in the New Year of 2016

Keeping Busy in the New Year of 2016

The new year is here. It's 2016. The latest expansion, Warlords of Draenor, was released on 13 November, 2014. Counting fingers, toes, and other digits, that's going on fourteen months ago.  Wild, Jocy, Tiphaine, and Fist are settled in. The every day routine of the garrisons continues. Happy maintains the Auction House. Draenor has reached Boring of legendary size.

The next expansion, Legion, is at least nine months away (September estimate). The family has some time on their hands.

Filling the void so far is Jezibel (JB), volunteering to help out with enchanting mats. Specifically, Happy needs hypnotic dust and embersilk cloth. Traditionally, Happy buys these items and sends them to Wild to be crafted into embersilk bags, which are pretty consistent sellers. The price of hypnotic dust, however, continues to climb. Wild offered an interesting solution. Wild can make gear from his Tailoring profession that can be dis-enchanted into hypnotic dust by his Enchanting profession. It's a tried and true method that serves both professions. What surprised both Happy and Wild is that Happy can makje a lot more gold selling the hypnotic dust directly instead of making bags out of them. The only downside is that bags sell faster than hypnotic dust does, and Happy has to wait longer to get his sales.

What does JB have to do with this? Well, since embersilk cloth is also needed to make the gear for dis-enchanting, she decided to try her hand at farming embersilk in the level 85 elite raid, Bastions of Twilight (BoT). BoT is in the Twilight Highlands, and getting to it took something like thirty minutes. Cleaning out the place solo took less time than the trip. It was a breeze and, as usual, brought back Wild's memories of raiding there. One circuit produced only 94 embersilk, however. She could have reset and gone in again until the system shut her down, but this was just a test run. Happy and JB have the option to farm when embersilk is expensive and buy when its cheap.

JB has her own agenda, of course. JB has already done the quests for Cataclysm, the level 85 expansion, and has no interest in doing any more. She wants to be lazy and just kill things that respawn quickly. She has her eyes on reaching level 90 so she can play in the Timeless Isles of Pandaria. JB loathes Pandaria, and has no interest in leveling there. She's heard a lot about the Timeless Isles, though, and it sounds like fun.

After some research, JB decided to go to Mount Hyjal, a low 80s level land. Her target is the Molten Front and its portal to a raging battlefield that never ends. JB had to work through the initial quest series in order to gain access to the Molten Front. She had it done in an hour, and sailed through the portal.

JB did the daily quests within the molten front and lavishly killed the endless stream of foes. Experience was pretty good while rested XP was in place, and she was wearing all her XP gear to further build experience. For a couple of hours work, JB went from level 87 +77% to Level 88 +12%. Not bad. Once she has her rested XP is full JB will be back in there. XP will continue to decline as she levels, so JB will keep looking for more areas where she can pile up the corpses.