This and That's

This and That's

JB has a problem. Her level 2 Lumber Yard looks very nice. Unfortunately, she can't cut any wood. She is still short on garrison resources and her Lumber Yard should have been churning out lumber by now. Checking Wowhead, I learned that the starter quest, "Easing in Lumberjacking" is bugged for boosted toons. I have two boosted toons, Jocy and Tiphaine, so that's good to know should they ever want a LumberYard. JB, however, is not boosted. I've put in a ticket.

How do boosted toons get their Lumber Yard going? They have to do the Tanaan entry quests up through "The Assault Base" in order to get the starter quest for the Lumber Yard. Sigh. JB has barely started the Tanaan questing. My guess is that the answer to my ticket will be to do the Tanaan quests. That way Blizz doesn't have to fix the actual problem.

Philly is struggling a bit. She has been out of action so long it's like learning a new character, or discovering the character has amnesia. I thought Philly could skip Pandaria like JB did, but that isn't working out with Philly. I'm still trying to figure out how JB still had quests and achievements available in Mount Hyjal where with Philly, there are no quests at all. I think it may be an issue with the starter quest that opens up Cata. Going to try to do it and see if that clears it up.

On the practical side, Philly is working on her gear, which at her level was pretty cheap. She raised her gear level from i418 to i426, getting rid of all her spirit gear in favor of crit (that tip was courtesy of UB).

Combat with Philly has been frustating and funny. The up close kick ass attack pattern of Jocy, Tiphaine, and JB is so ingrained that Philly feels compelled to rush in and attack vice standing at range. I'm sure she'll get herself re-wired after a few fatal encounters.

Tiphaine is getting more comfortable with her Inscription profession and the process to get to level 700 is slowly accelerating. Most of the leveling comes from making Card of Omens. The best way to describe them is that they're like lottery tickets. You buy them and then "flip" them to see what you won. Apparently, some players buy and flip tens of thousands of them on the chance of getting something good. Tiphaine has flipped several hundred so far, getting nothing more interesting than a card worth two gold. But they aren't useful for anything else, so Tiphaine will keep flipping them until she finishes leveling Inscription.

Umm, here's a PS - Tiphaine flipped her latest group of cards and came out with 3,235 gold! Oh dear, these cards could be addictive.