Monday, March 27, 2017

Tapping the Leylines

Tapping the Leylines

Someone in the alliance guild, probably Tiphaine, managed to complete at least part of this quest line. Tiphaine refuses to speak of it. Keya sees it as a special challenge. Should Keya succeed where Tiphaine failed, there could be a vote on a new guild leader.

Keya stands outside Anora Hollow, a dark entrance not far from the Meredil flight master in Suramar. Inside the underground fortress are tall pylons that pulse with visible energy. Keya's task is to get four sets of leylines lined up properly to complete the power grid.

Keya burrowed into the underground fortress, working to connect the leylines properly. The effort was made more challenging because I'm colorblind, and can't tell the important difference between the purple and blue leylines. After much experimentation, Keya succeeded in aligning three of the four sets, mostly by random luck.

The last alignment was frustratingly difficult. No combination of pylons and leylines would work. Keya twice stormed out and went off to do other things when the maddening lines refused to cooperate. She read up on how to do it. She watched videos of it being done, but nothing worked.

On her third return for yet another attempt, the gods of WoW must have taken pity on her - the first leyline she shifted completed the seal. At last, she was done with the now active power grid.

On the heels of that victory came another difficult truth. She was running out of challenges that produced artifact power and blocked by mandated dungeon runs.

Here is what is stopping her:

(1) In dalaran it's the Violet Hold dungeon
(2) In the Highlands it's Neltharian's Lair
(3) In Stormheilm it's the Halls of Valor
(4) In the Eye of Azshara it's Wrath of Azshara
(5) In Val'sharah it's Darkheart Thicket
(6) In leather working it's the Scales of the Sea
(7) And there is also the Soul Prism of the Illidari which requires the collecting 80 soul fragments from dungeons

Seemingly blocked from every direction, Keya went after more world quests and focused more on Suramar. After a slow start the quests started to pop up and her progress began to speed up. When she headed for the showers to rinse the muck and blood from her skin and gear, she had earned another AP rank. There are still 14 ranks to go, and the AP cost just keeps growing. 

News from Chaitee:

Chaitee groaned. She was curled into a ball at the base of the Auction House platform, holding a crumpled pile of tickets from her purchases and sales. Early morning business was slow, but that was normal for a Monday. She wanted a bath, but it would have to wait. The money changers wanted their take, and Chaitee needed to count the results of the weekend. She would never admit it, but her confidence had waived more once. Normally she would count the take up front and deal with the consequences, which most often went in her favor. She didn't know if that would be the case this time.

At it's nadir, Chaitee's stash had fallen to 517,593 gold, a loss of roughly 15,000 gold.

Now it was time to count the sales. Chaitee counts in groups: sales under 100g, sales under 200g, etc, which gives her a better understanding of what was selling and what wasn't. She looked for sweet spots, such as the fair return of all those leylights she bought and then sold. She counted enchants separately - there were only three sold, and those were very low bids barely above the 1000g mark. Mats were more successful, particularly for stormscale, which Chaitee captured the market for most of the weekend, thanks in part to Keya's activity.

Okay, it's time to stop counting and get to the bottom line. She's satisfied with the results, despite the tough crowds.

Over the weekend Chaitee earned 22,710 gold. Her tally for the days take is:

540,303 gold

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