Back to Argus (Over the Weekend)

Back to Argus (Over the Weekend)

It took some sleuthing, but Tiphaine managed to find a quest in Argus. Now she has three quests to work with and hopes the chain will continue. Tiphaine admits that she has gotten careless with the ease at which she is plundering the Broken Shore. She must work harder in Argus. The two quests before her now are Duskcloak Problem and An Argus Report (since completed).

Shortly afterward, she had the occassion to slaughter the nasty Lady Sharazad. She was not an elite, but had a small army at her side and - very irritating - Tiphaine kept getting Feared. After a rather ignominious death, Tiphaine was more careful, manuevering the Lady into a small rocky corner where her Fear was useless. Dead Lady.

Another annoyance was Blizzard's insistence on running a patch DURING the battle! Sigh. Luckily it did not cause a crash or lockup.

Back to the task at hand, Tiphaine is still learning her way around and getting into trouble. For most mobs it would take a dozen mobs to actually kill her, and she could eat her lunch while waiting for all of them to die. She's not taking things for granted, though. Argus is dangerous and Tiphaine remains aware. She can point to small successes with her gear, which is now at iLevel 868. Argus is not the source of those upgrades, though. The Broken Shore drops a new piece of gear each day (sometimes twice) with a gear upgrade (5 item levels, usually - ie, 870 to 875) as the prize. Of course, she still has to complete the quest, but so far every victory has gotten her a small gear upgrade. No such luck in Argus.

Later . . . Tiphaine has fallen prey to one of the most dangerous of foes - a lack of fresh quests. Keya had the same problem when she was starting in on Argus. Much too often there was literally nothing to do that actually accomplished something. Argus's Krokuum and Mac'ree needs more than silly names (that I keep mispelling). Literally, there is nothing to do. Keya agreed there were long stretches of snooze-ville.

So it was back to sweeping through whatever was available on the Broken Shores - mostly invasions and world quests. That got her gear to i877.

While Tiphaine worked on her gear, Atkar made a surprise visit to - drum roll please - Naxramas. What made this run special is that Atkar earned Cloth Scavenging, which will allow her to be a lot more useful to Sista. Combining Sista's Tailoring/Enchanting with Atkar's Tailoring and her Garrison Enchanting makes a pretty solid pairing. The announcement drew rare praise from Tiphaine.

[Her other side, Naithipe, is much less happy with that situation, but keeps the plans from herself. ]

Java keeps coming up with better ideas to help the with the gold gathering. Among her talents are herb gathering and mining skills, neither of which pay much. What makes them valuable has mostly to do with the work being done at Deepholm. Java is making time to farm ore, and more importantly the herbs of Deepholm that Atkar can turn into potions of treasure finding, which in turn are used to increase the loot from both Naxramas and the Twilight Highlands. A lot can get done when working together.