- Lets see how far I can stretch the subject of Thorium Farming in Winterspring. I had to go out for the evening so I missed a big chunk. I had a nocturnal session and at the end of that I was able to create six pairs of Imperial Plate Bracers and bring my blacksmith skill up to 289. I vendored the bracers for 1g05 each: since they were over the magic 1g mark and since the thorium was free I was happy pocketing the 6g36, it means I'm levelling up my blacksmithing and making a profit. The challenge to me with this project is to get my blacksmithing skill to 300 without it costing me anything but time.
- I did one quest that involved helping a nice lady light some torches in owlbeast caves and killing any nasty owlbeasts that were in the way. I have to go to Darnassus to get the quest reward so that can wait. This quest was made easier because a hunter was there grinding on the owlbeasts: I am still enjoying the thorium farming but I couldn't stand grinding owlbeasts in the early hours of the morning.
- By taking the trouble to read the repeatable quest blurb I found out the point of the chain I got from killing the elite giants. If I have this in my inventory I can collect thingies dropped by various beasts. If I collect three thingies I can trade them in for various powerups depending on the type of beast: 30 minute +intellect, 60 seconds +dodge etc. Since I never use these temporary buffs I'm not sure I'll bother and I certainly won't grind owlbeasts for them.
- Spent some time venturing into a yeti cave in the hope there would be something interesting in there, an elite or a treasure chest. All I got was about six thorium for which I had to kill many yeti. It wasn't a good use of my time.
- Despite the Yeti and Owlbeast slaughter my rest bonus marker is off the end of the experience bar so I am lagging far behind in player levelling but right now I care more about levelling my blacksmith skill. With rest bonus I get about 500 XP a kill in Winterspring and I would need 180 kills to get to level 61. At 30 seconds a kill that's six hours. I really need to be questing in Outlands to level up quickly.
- My bags are purpetually full. I have a total of over 200 lumps of dense stone I have collected as a sideproduct of the thorium farming, five stacks in my bags alone, bank full again. Dense stone doesn't auction for much but then again I don't want to vendor it. I could make a big batch of sharpening stones or weight stones and see if these sell. As soon as I get to blacksmithing 300 I plan on using Fel Weightstones and the dense stone will become as useless as rough and coarse stone did before it. AHA! Now I remember the Darkmoon Faire is in town and one of the quests there is for dense grinding stones!
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A 35 minute morning session, another 22 lumps of thorium, another two pairs of Imperial Plate Bracers and blacksmithing skill stands at 291. The Imperial Plate Bracer plans are now yellow meaning I need to make two pairs to go up one skill level. I think this works out as:
n.b. TBC reduced the amount of thorium to make the Imperial Plate set but many of the reference sites online (e.g. WoWWiki) have not been updated. I could make Imperial Plate Helms instead of boots as these need star rubies which I have in stock. Helms may auction better than boots because of the slightly higher material cost and because the helms look quite cool. If I farm 100 more bars then I can buy the thorium for the helms and sell them for about 10g each to cover the cost of making them. Farming 100 bars will take me about 2.5 hours so I may be there by tomorrow.
12*4*2 Thorium for eight pairs of Imperial Plate Bracers = 4 skill points 20 Thorium for the plans for Imperial Plate Boots 18 * 5 Thorium for five pairs of Imperial Plate Boots = 5 skill points Total = 206 Bars and 300 skill points.
- What's my alt been up to? Not much, I haven't levelled him at all (can't be bothered) he is simply working the auctions and selling greens for the main. He is purpetually on the lookout for the highly lucrative plans for steel weapon chains and he speculates in blue weapons (the usuals: Wirt's third leg, Mug'o'hurt, Hanzo sword, I think I understand the market and they sell reasonably easily). For example, he grabbed a Hanzo sword in the early hours for 39g and is selling it for 59g. I don't have the patience to run lots and lots of auctions for small profits, I'd rather have a few big auctions going. Sometimes he does a batch of disenchanting, he buys 5g worth of greens, disenchants them and sells them for about 15g. It's easy money but it's tedious buying the weapons/armour and disenchanting them which is why I don't do it more often, I'd rather be riding Snowy.
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Reader/commenter Urban sent me a link to a very comprehensive paladin guide here. I've also put it on the tips page. It makes an interesting point about all the free healing and mana to be gained by having two paladins judge Light and Wisdom on a boss. Paladins have lots of healing tricks that don't make it to the healing meters, leaving the priests to take all the glory
WoW Daily News Issue 72
Submitted by Peter on Thu Apr 12 2007 07:32
about 1 year ago
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