The Unbleached End of Year Report for 2015

The Unbleached End of Year Report for 2015

Note: The Unbleached family (Alliance faction) and the Wild family (Horde Faction) is exchanging year end reports, continuing a long agreement to this exchange in lieu of trying to kill each other. Wild has already presented his in a prior post. This is Unbleached's (UB) report.

In late October I saw my opportunity to dust off my old friends. I was done with traveling, there was a lull at work,  perfect time to stretch some legs. Legs that had not been stretched since July. A lot of things have happened since their sabbatical started. A new raid opened up when they left and now was close to farm mode. Mounts started flying. New gear started dropping, with up to a 695 ilevel, and existing craft gear had their ilevel also increasing (705 for weapons,715 for armor). And most of my toons had an interest in something the new land had to offer.

First things first, get flying. Most of the stuff Unbleached had gotten down. Treasures, check. Exploration, check. Quests, check. Reputation... hum, not a check. Unbleached did not have time to explore the new jungle, and there seemed to be where she needed the reputation, which meant questing. Hum... raid yes, quest no, that is typically UBs motto but that would have to change. She was the best geared toon I had, and would be the quickest to grind with.

She set out with a friend, a bodyguard. Yes, it took UB, or any of my toons, this long to try out a bodyguard but she loved it, mostly. The guard would keep the villians at bay and UB would pew pew from afar. The guard also did enough damage to help speed things up, a nice bonus. Downside is she was a hassle to deal with when you tried to loot or pick herbs, the girl just did not know how to stand to the side of things... ah well.

But UB was not able to grind out ALL the quests each day, so it was a slow grind, about a month and a half to two months of questing before she got her wing license, but when it happened, it was a beautiful thing.

"LOOK! LOOK!" She shouted to Happyface, as he was the only one on to share her joy as she broke out her gyrocopter. Crickets on his side.

"Grrr", she growled, she than made the sound of gold pouring out of a bag.

"Hum..what was that?" said Happy, his attention finally gotten. "Oh! Congratulations."  Apparently he saw this as enough of his duty and went back to counting gold.

Ah well...

The next step was farming. There was a new member to the clan, Jadedwine, a shammy that wants to get out in the world but wants to do it in style. She was wearing three crafted pieces (chest, axe, shield), that needed an upgrade. This required felblight, a green power infused substance that can only be gotten from the jungle by doing gathering (herbs, ore, fish, skinning). Thing is, the whole time that UB had been running around for the last month or two questing, she had gotten only 11.  This would call for a lot of focus farming.

Neekia was volunteered. There really was not much of a choice. She was the only other level 100 that could get there and she was a miner. Three pluses about being a miner, biggest one was there are only two types of ore, where as herbs there are five or six. This means less bag space would be used up. Second plus, the ore is usually on the outer edges, rather than the midst of orc land, easier to get without being attacked.

Lastly, the AH value of ore is 1.50 g to 2.50 g per ore, herbs can regularly dip to under 1g. Since this would be a lot of farming, I wanted a bigger bang for the buck.

Neekia prefers fishing and drinking to fighting or farming but she is a low key gal. If she were to have an Indian name it would be She-who-is-zen.. Yes, I know it is 'Native American', and yes, I know they would not have used the word Zen.. but it gets the point across.
Neekia is a low key gal that is open to helping others with it not ruffling her feathers.

So she set out to farm and farm and farm. There were two trials with this, one was the basic thing of farming, it takes a while. I would hazard to say, on a good day you get one felblight every 10 minutes, or every 75 ore. To upgrade Jadedwine's gear I would need 270 felblight.
Assuming a steady rate, that could mean 45 hours of farming. If I was not using the money I made from the ore to buy free game time, I would have funneled it into buying felblight.

The other trail was Neekia herself. She never cared about her gear. Good enough to get to 100 so she can fish is all she ever worried about. So while UB could take down elites and mobs of adds, Neekia just gets killed.  But like I said, she-who-is-zen never let this bother her. She first tried fishing to get the blight, since this would not likely lead to her death and she could drink at the same time, but after 40 minutes of trying and no blight she was forced to get into mining. She was happy to hit rocks, excited when she got a felblight, and got used to her circuit around the jungle.

While I don't know how long she farmed for the felblight over the last three weeks, she finally got the count she needed yesterday.

So Jadedwine is upgraded, Neekia can go back to just fishing, and UB can finally start sorting out her gear and clean out her closet for raiding.

This week I am 'coming out' and letting the husband know that I am going to start raiding and we should have our own accounts. I think the conversation will go well.