High on Highmountain
Sista has taken quite a liking to the Highmountain zone. In particular, the base at Nesingway. So consider Sista's surprise when she learned that the flight path showed that it hadn't been opened yet! Sista has been to that spot multiple times.
Sista took the flight path to Thunder Totem, mounted up and rode to Nesingway's Retreat. Yes, it's still there, but she had to activate the flight path. Very strange. Patch issues, likely. I hope it doesn't screw things up worse than a flight path.
Okay, my bad. Sista has not been here before, so it must have been Keya. Mystery solved.
Back to the point, Nesingway is a great spot for skinning stonehide leather and raw meat for food. There are also numerous pools of highmountain fish to catch, and Thunder Totem is a short flight to a good place for killing and skinning basilisks for very profitable stormscale.
Chaitee has been the benefactor of much of this for her contest. Stormscale is in high demand on the AH. Stonehide leather sales are modest, but what Sista lacked in quality she gained in quantity. The fish dinners were an extra benefit.
Keya Update: Keya is back on the prowl on the Broken Shores. She picked up a small ring upgrade (i825 to i830). She then went after a world quest that got her killed. It was worth it, though. Her second attempt succeeded. The victory gave her enough nethershards (remember those?) to buy a piece of gear (just like in Dreanor). Keya turned in an i825 trinket for an i850. That bumped her overall gear score from i823 to i826. Nice. It will probably be a long time before she can buy another.
Keya now has - wait for it - 229 war supplies. There is still no guidance about establishing buildings. It's my guess that starting one will whisk the player into a the Broken Isles version of a garrison. Supposedly that's where all the action is. Keya is not going to waste her time until there is good intel about the best method and whether it in fact is working as intended (many complaints that it isn't working yet).
PS - I was reading through the patch notes and came across this: "Join a region-wide, CROSS-FACTION effort to construct buildings that open new content . . ." Hmm, what would that look like? Are we looking at the new Ashran?
Anyway, Chaitee has counted her coins: 567,362 gold
Friday, March 31, 2017
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Completely Baffled
Completely Baffled
Keya has flown three flight paths in the Broken Shores. If there are more Keya hasn't found them, yet.
They are similar in that they're perched on a shelf of rocks, surrounded by difficult terrain and the ocean. Enemy mobs patrol, some in small groups, others stalking large areas. Keya tries to avoid mobs that have no value - Keya wants to be on a specific quest or part of a world quest in order for her to gain anything. Actual quests are in very short supply.
World quests pop up here and there, and there is supposed to be a map showing the locations of active world quests, but I haven't found one, yet. Part of the reason may be there just isn't that much going on that Keya can contribute to.
She did get a small world quest to kill crocodiles and take away bird eggs from the poor little dears. That got her some more supplies - she now has 50. Her bag can hold 10,000. That gives you an idea of what she has to acquire. There is also an area where Keya digs up mounds of dirt and kills crabs.
Keya wanders around, looking for mischief, hoping she'll stumble into something fun.
Shouldn't there be more to it than this? Shouldn't combat zones be shown so we know where to go? The few other players Keya talked to are as uninformed as the rest of us.
Sometimes things get waaaay too interesting. Keya wandered into a number of dangerous areas but none of them showed that there was anything to gain - ie, no world quest there. However, there was a group trying to kill elites. Killing special elites are supposed to earn supplies. Keya weighed in with one group. Ten minutes later they were still trying to kill it while holding off endless streams of attacking mobs. I think the thing finally died, but Keya wasn't sure if she got credit.
Kinda fun, for awhile. She rummaged around in her bags to see if anything interesting turned up. Aha! She found a Contorted Eredar Bangle - good for 955 AP. Keya will take it. She also gained 25 supplies. Oooh, now she has 75 supplies. Smurk. Frankly, it's not much when she needs 18k AP for her next weapon trait. Keya feels just a little jipped.
On her last run of the night she was able to pull together enough supplies to start a building. There isn't much explanation of how to go about that, and as of yeterday the feature wan't even working. Keya is approaching that carefully. Tiphaine remembers jumping into the garrison business without thinking it through, which created complications later.
Chaitee checked in with daily count: 558,610 gold
Keya has flown three flight paths in the Broken Shores. If there are more Keya hasn't found them, yet.
They are similar in that they're perched on a shelf of rocks, surrounded by difficult terrain and the ocean. Enemy mobs patrol, some in small groups, others stalking large areas. Keya tries to avoid mobs that have no value - Keya wants to be on a specific quest or part of a world quest in order for her to gain anything. Actual quests are in very short supply.
World quests pop up here and there, and there is supposed to be a map showing the locations of active world quests, but I haven't found one, yet. Part of the reason may be there just isn't that much going on that Keya can contribute to.
She did get a small world quest to kill crocodiles and take away bird eggs from the poor little dears. That got her some more supplies - she now has 50. Her bag can hold 10,000. That gives you an idea of what she has to acquire. There is also an area where Keya digs up mounds of dirt and kills crabs.
Keya wanders around, looking for mischief, hoping she'll stumble into something fun.
Shouldn't there be more to it than this? Shouldn't combat zones be shown so we know where to go? The few other players Keya talked to are as uninformed as the rest of us.
Sometimes things get waaaay too interesting. Keya wandered into a number of dangerous areas but none of them showed that there was anything to gain - ie, no world quest there. However, there was a group trying to kill elites. Killing special elites are supposed to earn supplies. Keya weighed in with one group. Ten minutes later they were still trying to kill it while holding off endless streams of attacking mobs. I think the thing finally died, but Keya wasn't sure if she got credit.
Kinda fun, for awhile. She rummaged around in her bags to see if anything interesting turned up. Aha! She found a Contorted Eredar Bangle - good for 955 AP. Keya will take it. She also gained 25 supplies. Oooh, now she has 75 supplies. Smurk. Frankly, it's not much when she needs 18k AP for her next weapon trait. Keya feels just a little jipped.
On her last run of the night she was able to pull together enough supplies to start a building. There isn't much explanation of how to go about that, and as of yeterday the feature wan't even working. Keya is approaching that carefully. Tiphaine remembers jumping into the garrison business without thinking it through, which created complications later.
Chaitee checked in with daily count: 558,610 gold
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Patch 7.2 WAR!
Patch 7.2 WAR!
The Broken Isles become a war zone against the Legion assault. The patch is a monster one. All kinds of changes.
One thing that caught my attention and caused my eyes to roll back into my head is that we will be building things. What, do we have to do garrisons all over again? Couldn't we be a little more creative?
Sista was the first to complete the initial scenario. There are seven stages, some parts of which were pretty hairy since she was all on her own for most of it. Sista was given a sidekick, but she was otherwise solo. One tip - that last boss in stage 7 had Sista worried - she fought that monster for ten minutes without hardly drawing a skinned knee - turns out it was planned that way. A cut scene swept her away to the starting zone of this new assault.
The main ingredient of this new war is collecting legionfall war supplies by killing rare elites and completing world quests. As I understand it, those supplies then go into erecting buildings.
Beyond that it's been an endless kill fest. Keya, who also has now completed the scenario, agreed. Both made it as far as the two flight paths on the Broken Shores, first at Veagence Point, and then at Deliverance Point. One can wade through the kill zone to get between them, but it's easier to just swim it (assuming you'd rather swim than fight), avoiding the worst of the mess.
I am proud of both gals for the way they've handled the masses of mobs that flood the battle areas. Given that they don't have the gear that dungeon and raid players have, they've managed to survive despite a few setbacks (ahem, deaths). The lack of anything worth keeping in those zones is disappointing, though. In a nutshell, all that killing results in nothing tangible - no drops, no gold - except for supplies for building and a little reputation, despite getting credit for three world quest completions. So not only is the endless killing boring, you don't get anything . . . anyway, I'm sure I'm doing it all wrong. Keya is investigating. More to follow.
Chaitee has her numbers: 546,668 gold
The Broken Isles become a war zone against the Legion assault. The patch is a monster one. All kinds of changes.
One thing that caught my attention and caused my eyes to roll back into my head is that we will be building things. What, do we have to do garrisons all over again? Couldn't we be a little more creative?
Sista was the first to complete the initial scenario. There are seven stages, some parts of which were pretty hairy since she was all on her own for most of it. Sista was given a sidekick, but she was otherwise solo. One tip - that last boss in stage 7 had Sista worried - she fought that monster for ten minutes without hardly drawing a skinned knee - turns out it was planned that way. A cut scene swept her away to the starting zone of this new assault.
The main ingredient of this new war is collecting legionfall war supplies by killing rare elites and completing world quests. As I understand it, those supplies then go into erecting buildings.
Beyond that it's been an endless kill fest. Keya, who also has now completed the scenario, agreed. Both made it as far as the two flight paths on the Broken Shores, first at Veagence Point, and then at Deliverance Point. One can wade through the kill zone to get between them, but it's easier to just swim it (assuming you'd rather swim than fight), avoiding the worst of the mess.
I am proud of both gals for the way they've handled the masses of mobs that flood the battle areas. Given that they don't have the gear that dungeon and raid players have, they've managed to survive despite a few setbacks (ahem, deaths). The lack of anything worth keeping in those zones is disappointing, though. In a nutshell, all that killing results in nothing tangible - no drops, no gold - except for supplies for building and a little reputation, despite getting credit for three world quest completions. So not only is the endless killing boring, you don't get anything . . . anyway, I'm sure I'm doing it all wrong. Keya is investigating. More to follow.
Chaitee has her numbers: 546,668 gold
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Naxxramas Run
Naxxramas Run
Sista went on a Naxxramas run in Northrend yesterday. She figures it's Monday, a fresh week, and time to help Chaitee restock some mats that the AH has been stingy at supplying. Doing repeats of Naxx was trickier than the Twilight Highlands. She has that down pat, running through the raid the max ten times allowed per week.
Sista hasn't quite mastered the repeatable clears in Naxx. She followed the steps, starting with the Plague District and clearing up to the second boss. Something went wrong, though, and she wasn't able to get a reset. Might as well clear the raid, then, and that's what she did. The entire run took about 45 minutes. The catch wasn't all that great, but it certainly helps.
Infinite Dust: 54
Frostweave cloth: 170
A second run just flying around Northrend gathered up 32 more infinite dust and 180 frostweave cloth. There are two places where there are endless battles. Only certain kills drop goodies. Sista located a good position and zapped them with moonfire. Easy peasy. But boring.
Sista expected to craft some more bags this morning, but the morning patch is now going to extend to 2pm, so no WoW until later in the afternoon.
There will not be a gold count today.
Sista went on a Naxxramas run in Northrend yesterday. She figures it's Monday, a fresh week, and time to help Chaitee restock some mats that the AH has been stingy at supplying. Doing repeats of Naxx was trickier than the Twilight Highlands. She has that down pat, running through the raid the max ten times allowed per week.
Sista hasn't quite mastered the repeatable clears in Naxx. She followed the steps, starting with the Plague District and clearing up to the second boss. Something went wrong, though, and she wasn't able to get a reset. Might as well clear the raid, then, and that's what she did. The entire run took about 45 minutes. The catch wasn't all that great, but it certainly helps.
Infinite Dust: 54
Frostweave cloth: 170
A second run just flying around Northrend gathered up 32 more infinite dust and 180 frostweave cloth. There are two places where there are endless battles. Only certain kills drop goodies. Sista located a good position and zapped them with moonfire. Easy peasy. But boring.
Sista expected to craft some more bags this morning, but the morning patch is now going to extend to 2pm, so no WoW until later in the afternoon.
There will not be a gold count today.
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
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
Sunday, March 26, 2017
The Qwertymage Monster
The Qwertymage Monster
Chaitee encountered a nightmare when she opened the bidding on the Auction House Friday morning. If the rest of the weekend goes the way the start is going, it could get very rough.
Qwertymage is a well known buyer and seller on the AH. Chaitee competes with him on many levels although Chaitee doesn't have the amount of resources the guy has. It's Chaitee's opinion that "Q" has more than half his toons doing nothing but churning out mats and goods to sell. Chaitee has been slowly collecting hexweave bags, of which Sista is the sole crafter. On average it takes four days to craft the 36 slot bag, which Chaitee can sell at 1200-1400 gold on a good weekend. She was quite happy to have six hexweave bags available for sale, estimated at 7,200 to 8,400 gold. That would be a very nice haul.
"Q" destroyed all hope of getting a good price on those bags. I've never seen this before - the guy was able to craft 200 - yes, 200! - hexweave bags. Priced at 1000 gold each, it adds up to 200,000 gold worth of bags. Chaitee can't underbid him, she would lose money for one, and he can always outbid her with his 200 bags versus Chaitee's 6.
Chaitee will soldier on, despite the setback.
Sunday Update - The weekend is going to show high losses that may take several weeks to recoup. Chaitee was more buyer than seller, stashing her goods and holding on to them for better deals later. The market is the market.
Chaitee is keeping her books closed until the Monday returns are in. For an inkling of what that might look like on this dreary Sunday is her current cash situation: 519,103 gold.
Most of that comes from holding 8,000 gold in leylights, which will take time to sell.
Chaitee encountered a nightmare when she opened the bidding on the Auction House Friday morning. If the rest of the weekend goes the way the start is going, it could get very rough.
Qwertymage is a well known buyer and seller on the AH. Chaitee competes with him on many levels although Chaitee doesn't have the amount of resources the guy has. It's Chaitee's opinion that "Q" has more than half his toons doing nothing but churning out mats and goods to sell. Chaitee has been slowly collecting hexweave bags, of which Sista is the sole crafter. On average it takes four days to craft the 36 slot bag, which Chaitee can sell at 1200-1400 gold on a good weekend. She was quite happy to have six hexweave bags available for sale, estimated at 7,200 to 8,400 gold. That would be a very nice haul.
"Q" destroyed all hope of getting a good price on those bags. I've never seen this before - the guy was able to craft 200 - yes, 200! - hexweave bags. Priced at 1000 gold each, it adds up to 200,000 gold worth of bags. Chaitee can't underbid him, she would lose money for one, and he can always outbid her with his 200 bags versus Chaitee's 6.
Chaitee will soldier on, despite the setback.
Sunday Update - The weekend is going to show high losses that may take several weeks to recoup. Chaitee was more buyer than seller, stashing her goods and holding on to them for better deals later. The market is the market.
Chaitee is keeping her books closed until the Monday returns are in. For an inkling of what that might look like on this dreary Sunday is her current cash situation: 519,103 gold.
Most of that comes from holding 8,000 gold in leylights, which will take time to sell.
Friday, March 24, 2017
Stymied Again
Stymied Again
Keya's leather working plans took a side trip when the mail armor guy in Dalaran popped the news that she had to complete three mail armor quests in order to get to her leather work. Keya killed her way through the quests, leaving only one left to put her on her leather working track.
Alas, the final quest is "Eye of Ashara:Scales of the Sea." It's a dungeon run. Say La Vie, which, interpreted, means This Sucks. But not unexpected. Keya can go back to killing things, collecting AP, and working on her weapon rank. The cost of a single new rank costs 11,280 AP now. With each new rank Keya attains, the cost gets higher. Only fifteen more ranks to go.
In the mean time Keya went hunting in Highmountain where things are usually interesting when Nessingway is around.
After scraping up what's left of the quests in Highmountain, Keya headed back to Suramar. Chief Telemance Oculeth has a complicated job for her to do. The job requires multiple teleport jumps. Keya knew she'd get lost without help, so she went home to pick up an addon to keep track of location - that would be TomTom. With that in hand. Keya felt she was ready.
Keya continued her trek, using a disguise to wander around Suramar City. She was guided (tricked?) into going deep underground in Felshroud, a place she had hoped to bypass this time around. Not to be. The killing was good, though. She not only gained enough artifact points to earn a rank and a trait, she earned a gear upgrade, too, from i821 to i823.
Chaitee butted in only long enough to call out the morning take: 531,822 gold
Keya's leather working plans took a side trip when the mail armor guy in Dalaran popped the news that she had to complete three mail armor quests in order to get to her leather work. Keya killed her way through the quests, leaving only one left to put her on her leather working track.
Alas, the final quest is "Eye of Ashara:Scales of the Sea." It's a dungeon run. Say La Vie, which, interpreted, means This Sucks. But not unexpected. Keya can go back to killing things, collecting AP, and working on her weapon rank. The cost of a single new rank costs 11,280 AP now. With each new rank Keya attains, the cost gets higher. Only fifteen more ranks to go.
In the mean time Keya went hunting in Highmountain where things are usually interesting when Nessingway is around.
After scraping up what's left of the quests in Highmountain, Keya headed back to Suramar. Chief Telemance Oculeth has a complicated job for her to do. The job requires multiple teleport jumps. Keya knew she'd get lost without help, so she went home to pick up an addon to keep track of location - that would be TomTom. With that in hand. Keya felt she was ready.
Keya continued her trek, using a disguise to wander around Suramar City. She was guided (tricked?) into going deep underground in Felshroud, a place she had hoped to bypass this time around. Not to be. The killing was good, though. She not only gained enough artifact points to earn a rank and a trait, she earned a gear upgrade, too, from i821 to i823.
Chaitee butted in only long enough to call out the morning take: 531,822 gold
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