A Crowded Field of Struggles

A Crowded Field of Struggles

The Wild family gals are getting on Wild's nerves. He is threatening to ask for a male demon hunter come Legion. That "threat" brought cheers from the girl gallery. Fist immediately offered to handle all of the demon hunter's leatherworking, and any other needs he might gave. And this was only one of many situations plaguing the family of late. Nobody is getting enough time, not with six players trying to level and/or work on their garrisons.

Wild is still trying to resolve the mess between Tiphaine and Fist regarding a Scribe's Quarters. His outrageous plan to move professions around again had the whole family in an uproar. It was a bad plan, Wild had to admit, and in the end it turned out it wouldn't even have worked. The gist of it is that Fist his holding a lot war paints that Tiphaine thought she would get. Never mind the details, there was no way to get those war paints from Fist to Tiphaine without help. So on Sunday the following Ticket was sent to the gods of WoW to try and fix the issue:

"I screwed up my inscription and Scribes Quarters by not locating them on the same character. I "fixed" it by destroying the Scribes Quarters I didn't want (Plumrosefist character) and built a new one on the Tiphaine garrison, who has the inscription profession. That fixed the Tiphaine garrison, but the problem is that the Plumrosefist character still has a bag full of war paints that I hadn't realized were soulbound and can't be used. If possible, could you transfer the 732 war paints that Plumrosefist has to the Tiphaine character so that those war paints can be used?"

Meanwhile, Philly's struggles continue. She is currently stuck on the Gardians of Hyjal quest thread. JB must have done this when she got a wild hair and leveled from 85 to 87. Why Philly is having such a hard time isn't clear, but she's going to try to follow it instead of jumping around. She has been able to quest a bit in the Grove of Aessina, another hard line quest thread that must be followed step by step to get anywhere. Hyjal is a level 80 zone so the killing is easy pickings, it's the unforgiving questlines that has her banging her wand on her head. The whole point of this exercise is to get to the Sanctuary of Malorne daily quests which offer big gobs of experience and avoids having to muck about in Pandaria.

Speaking of Pandaria, I have to admit that Philly did pop through the portal to Pandaria just to look around. I learned that she must have already done the starter quests at some point because the quest line was already past the battle at the flying ship. Philly needs to stick to one or the other venue, or risk getting bogged down in both. She has only gotten as far as 34% toward level 87. This is poor results.

There is one bright bit of success. Blizzard fixed the Lumber Mill problem (the starter quest was missing) and JB has been out tagging trees all afternoon. Having tree cutters dropping down out of helicopters to do the cutting was funny the first few times I saw it. Now I just want them to speed things up a bit.

Back to Philly, she waded once more into Hyjal and through grim determination forced herself through broken quests and incomprehensible directions that ultimately got her to the doorstep of the Sanctuary of Malorne, which is where she wanted to be. She also picked up a Daily quest there, the first of many more. With the opening of that portal, Philly pushed her way in, collecting another half-dozen daily quests. For the first time Philly set eyes on the fire and magma field within that will occupy her perhaps all the way to level 90.

For tonight, though, Philly was satisfied with reaching level 87.

PS - Philly took the offer to take up the mining profession, but she did not take skinning away from Fist to get it. Philly no longer has any need for inscription, so she unlearned it and took Skinning. Philly actually likes gathering, and in and around the battles she got her first 31 steps toward getting mining to level 700.