Peter's Blog

I succumbed to my temptations and some of these relate to World of Warcraft.

As contemplated in previous postings I have:

• learnt two-handed swords (as well as one-handed and polearms, should these ever be useful) from trainer in Stormwind (whoop me or something in an arms dealer shop in the trade district). Not expensive to learn.
• bought a 'combatant claymore' a big two-handed sword capable of 27 dps. It is VERY nice: peak damages of 250 can kill level 13 creatures in one strike. It is so nice going back to places where I struggled and wiping whole camps of creatures out (very Arnie in Terminator). It cost me 14 gold in the Auction House (AH) but was worth it. With it I am strong enough to raid mogrosh camp (level 20 elite monsters) and gather green items to sell in the AH. It should pay back the investment while providing some fun. The camp has a boss at level 22 with two level 20 minions that I cannot split. These are too tough for me (me level 29) to kill unaided. I still doubt I am in deadmines solo territory but I might try it someday.
• I unlearnt engineering and am power-levelling blacksmithing. I need to get to around level 150 to be able to make things that are useful to myself. So far I am about level 37. Each increase in level involves making something so I have to make 113 more items. Each of these needs materials, say 8 copper bars, so I am going to need a lot of materials. 20 x Copper is 60 silver in the AH so I'll probably do a lot of farming around lock modan. I made lots of copper bracers as they take only two coppoer bars and then destroyed them because they weren't worth selling. Now making bracers is too easy and won't make my level increase. The whole power levelling thing is about efficient use of resources.
• I can already make grinding stones that will sharpen my sword for more damage and also makes it glint. Blacksmithing already more routinely useful to me than engineering was.