- Happy Easter
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I followed through on the Linken's Boomerang quest saga. It went roughly like this (as I remember, thottbot for details):
- Find wrecked boat in un'gogo
- Find package near boat
- Take to Linken
- Visit JD wotsit in crystal cave
- Fly to see donna wotsit in Winterspring
- Find some guy in Feralas
- Get guy some weed to make potion
- Take potion to donna in Winterspring
- Go to Gadgetzan
- Drink potion
- Talk to ghost guy
- Go to Felwood to talk to some woman
- Kill for 12 claws and a tree heart (?)
- Take back to woman
- Head for Tanaris
- Summon water elemental thing and get him to make a magic widget
- Take widget to JD in un'goro
- Take widget to Linken
- Take widget to Fire Plume Ridge and use it to kill level 56 elite fire elemental
- Take thingy from fire elementals cave to linken
- Receive a sword to vendor and Linken's Boomeerang
- This lot took me about three hours, most of it in transit. It wasn't very hard although I did get the coords of the guy in Feralas from thott and I installed the Cartographer add-in to use the coords. I already knew Donna in Winterspring from my questing there.
- By far the hardest part was killing the fire elemental on fire plume ridge. When I got there a level 70 was already fighting with it so I helped him kill it. We were both in the elementals cave being thrown around, the elemental had its attention on the 70 so I was able to use my widget to take away it's protection aura. We killed it, I got the thingy from a little box in the cave and took it to Linken. This wasn't enough I was supposed to have killed the thing myself, the level 70 had tagged the kill. Bugger.
- Went back and attempted to solo it. The fire elemental wouldn't let me in the cave, he threw me off the mountain. I think I found my way back to him and managed to get myself in a position outside the cave with my back to the wall so he couldn't throw me down the mountain but I couldn't out-tank it (damn fire resistance) and I died.
- On the corpse run back I got a resurrect invite. The level 70 (shaman if I recall) was still around and we grouped to try it again. The shaman wanted me to tank, I told him my fire resistance was no good so he said 'heal yourself' or something illuminative of that nature. We tried it, the fire thing threw me off the mountain and I plunged to my death (bubble on cooldown).
- Messed around finding my corpse and we tried again. I found my place with my back to the wall and tried tanking. Ultimately I had to bubble and the monster turned it's attention to the level 70. The monster kicked the 70 all down the hill, I couldn't heal him because I couldn't get line of sight. He died but he did get the things health down to about 40%. When the monster headed back for his cave he saw me and attacked. While I had picked up agro from a couple of other fire elementals I was determined to kill this thing. I didn't worry about tanking I just grabbed the two hander and went kamikazi and the thing died just before me. I used the spirit healer, thanked the level 70 and grabbed my boomerang. The level 70 said he had soloed it at level 60 so I'm not sure why he was struggling at level 70.
- I took my new boomerang and tried it out on a nearby Fen thingy. The fen thing attacked me and then I remembered my armour was greatly reduced from using the spirit healer. Argh, run like hell. Dick.
- On my way back to outlands a guildie was looking for a group for Zul'Farak and I fancied having a go. The group consisted of me, a rogue guildie, a druid, another paladin guildie and someone else, I can't remember what. They were all in their forties. We started off well, the rogue would creep up on two or three mobs, sap one, stun another and attack the third (something like that). Once I understood the pattern I would attack the remaining enemy (since nobody was saying what was going on in chat). We hadn't got far when the druid (not a guildie, probably never will be) started begging for money and asking to roll need. We got as far as a boss who spawns elite basilisks and there we wiped a few times. I could not handle three or more basilisks at a time. Admittedly, on the first wipe my inventory was full and I couldn't equip my shield (tip: if you ever invite me on a raid, ALWAYS remind me to check my inventory). The druid then had to leave for an unexplained reason and the group dissolved.
- Back to Outlands. Mopped up a quest involving crust-bursters and got a nice ring for my troubles.
- Morning and decided to tackle a quest to take out three fel canons. This was a challenge, the canon are in a big camp and heavily guarded. I died three times I think, the thing I learned here was that Blessing of protection is no use against fire damage. Still I completed this quest and was happy, it was a challenging quest.
- The follow-on quest was to tackle the next camp, kill a boss, get his key, use it on a portal. I died a few more times on this as the camp was heavily guarded but I did it in the end, the final fight at the portal was epic, add after add, four in total and I only prevailed because my mana pot cooldown expired just in time. I actually managed to get out of the camp alive, I didn't let my guard down for once. It was only here that I realised that I had actually done it, a camp quest, which back in STV I wouldn't even have tried. I did it entirely protection spec, surviving fights with three or four monsters. I cannot understand how a paladin could do it any other way. Incidentally, if there was one cheat I did here it was to scout out the camp in ghost form to find out where the key was supposed to go (or is this a legitimate tactic?).
- I followed a quest to Zangermarch, found a little town and that is where I am berthed now.
- My alt found a nice one-handed mace in the auctions, a green but 47dps, 2.5 second swing. He made a bid and won the auction for 10g. This is my quest for a compromise between slow/safe and quick/risky kills. I've tried it but only on the laptop and that wasn't a good fight, the laptop is no good for fighting in outland. I didn't die, I had to run away from an add but I was lucky because it was a fishy thing so I could run ashore and thumb my nose at it. The mace did kill the level 60 thing and it was reasonably quick with Judgement of Crusader and Seal of Righteousness.
- I was going through my action bar looking for somewhere to put this mace and found the lay-on-hands icon: argh, forgotten all about this, haven't used it for ages. So many things to remember...
- I found out why my fellow guildies haven't progressed from level 60 in nearly a week: to get to level 61 requires 490,000 XP, nearly double what it did to get to 60. I don't doubt that they will do it anytime now.
WoW Daily News Issue 68
Submitted by Peter on Sun Apr 08 2007 13:06
about 1 year ago
Peter's Moblog
