- This should be a pretty short installment since all I've done is farm thorium in Winterspring. This has involved doing circuits of the area looking for rich thorium veins, in fact any kind of mineral veins it's all good stuff. I've spotted the pattern now: the Rich veins are all in monster camps so it's a matter of running into each camp and checking the minimap for ore. The veins can pop up in a few different places in each camp but there is only ever one vein there at a time so once a vein is grabbed from one camp I move on to the next. Small thorium veins are dotted around the countryside but they only give two lumps of ore so are only a minor success. The Rich veins are always good to find, especially when they yield gems: my gem stocks are glinting nicely.
- I did take the time to pick up the quest that involves killing elite giants down the south to get crystals. This went very easily, the giants may be tagged 'elite' but are maybe equivalent to a level 62 or 63. The quest reward was a necklace that is supposed to allow me to gather something from an unspecified type of monster and return these things for a repeat quest. However I was unable to equip the chain. Thinking about it now, I did pick up some odd quest item from an owlbeast so maybe I don't need to wear the chain? My guess is that if I get 1000 of these drops I can impress the timbermaws enough to sell me plans to make something that was once very impressive but is now the equivalent of Outlands vendor trash. Seems a shame to see all these old timesinks that nobody is going to bother with any more (especially not me, he says while farming 300 thorium bars).
- I was trying to take a shortcut around a very steep hill and eventually accepted that I wasn't going to make it and decided to drop. I hit a ledge half way down and it took half my health but then I bubbled and fell the rest of the way. I hit the ground very hard but the bubble did it's job. I still don't like falling, it feels very real to me, it induces the same kind of panic I would imagine I would get if I did fall off a cliff. Anyway, armed with the bubble I think I've found a new death sport minigame. How late dare I bubble?
- There was a pair of players fighting the giants, a level 55 mage and a 60+ paladin. Somehow the paladin managed to die and the mage was looking sad so I offered to res the paladin. The mage was very grateful, kept thanking me. That mage sure missed his buddy but I suppose he was a level 55 surrounded by lvl 60 elites.
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I got enough thorium to get the plans for Imperial Plate Bracers from the rude guy in Gadgetzan and then make six pairs, raising my skill to 283. The bracers use 12 thorium bars which would cost 6g at the cheapest auction house prices but the bracers are selling for 2g as other blacksmiths are also dumping them to level up. I couldn't bring myself to buy loads of thorium, even at a bargain price like 10g a stack. I need over 264 bars (not sure when bracers will turn yellow) so that's either 130g or about another seven hours of farming at 40 bars/hour. It's a good thing I am enjoying the farming, it feels good whenever I spot a rich thorium vein. Also seven hours is only two days play
- Morning and another farming run. In 45 minutes I found 29 lumps of thorium. While doing it I had a good chat with the guild master who happened to be online. I was able to kill three lvl 59-60 tigers I agroed while chatting. Those things are pussycats.
- Incidently, on top of the giant mushroom I found someone who sells books that teach level 375 first aid. I grabbed three for 4g each, read one and flogged the other two on the auction house for 7g each. I'm not sure of the player level requirements for this training but the new bandages need netherweave which only drops in Outlands.
WoW Daily News Issue 71
Submitted by Peter on Wed Apr 11 2007 07:59
about 1 year ago
Peter's Moblog
