Lots happened over the weekend so more of a summary:
- Maevyn and Tiddles are now level 40. Levelling was mostly following the levelling guide with some exceptions in Badlands where it was difficult to find rock elementals of the correct type that had not already been slaughtered by other Hunters. There seemed to be lots of people around levelling. To finally ding 40 had to wait for off peak time on Sunday morning.
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Maevyn bought a white ram and his name is Clement. Compared to Aspect of the Cheetah he seems quite slow, something to do with his lengthy gait. When Mae is running with Aspect of the Cheetah her legs move faster and give more of an impression of speed: Aspect of the Cheetah is 30% faster than normal speed, Clement is 60% faster. Didn't bother with getting a crazy cat lady sabre for two reasons:
- couldn't be bothered to grind for darnassus rep
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in patch 2.1 the pet is dismissed while the Hunter is mounted so the whole 'riding one cat while another runs along beside' image has gone. Still, look on the bright side:
- level 70's don't have to spend their precious primal farming time dismissing their pets
- Blizzard don't have to spend their precious nerfing time writing code that distinguishes between land based mounts and flying mounts.
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Things a Hunter can do while the pet is in combat:
- Loot corpses
- Pick flowers
- Bandage herself
- Run away
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Things a Hunter cannot do while pet is in combat:
- Mount and run away
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Things I haven't tried while pet is in combat:
- Bandage pet (i.e. to save mana or Mend Pet faster)
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Other level 40 Hunter goodies:
- 31 point Hunter talent 'Bestial Wrath' makes pet give 50% more dps for 18 seconds during which time it cannot be stunned, feared, etc, can only be killed. Only a two minute cooldown too. This is nice, Tiddles turns red and grows in size. Looks good and being a 31 point talent is the trade mark of a Beast Master Hunter.
- Freezing trap (or is it frost?) now freezes for 15 seconds. Have managed to bandage tiddles during this time in a protracted fight against rock elementals (a chain of level 43-44's).
- Volley: er, not sure what this does, haven't tried it yet. It was mentioned on a forum post about rarely used skills that I read so I haven't investigated it. It's in the mediocre damage for high mana cost category. UPDATE: appears to be an aoe, something like a bomb/DoT. Only useful if you really want to draw lots of agro to yourself, have a really good tank or are into PvP.
- Mail armour. More armour points are not a big priority but bought a few pieces of gear with +agility. UPDATE: how wrong can you be? Pet armour stats are depedent on Hunters armour stats so mail will help the pet. I'd better get some more.
- Maevyn has the running away trinket. She had to kill a level 45 to get it but armed with Bestial Wrath, Rapid fire etc this wasn't too much of a stretch. She didn't need a pot. The trinket is 40% speed boost so 10% faster than Aspect of the Cheetah (with less risk of being dazed) but 10% slower than a swiftness potion. It'll do.
- Also killed level 45 rare spawn rock elemental 'Rumbler' and a level 38 rare spawn coyote 'Barnabus' for two greens. Was tempted to train Barnabus as he is a distinctive looking beast (the only brown coyote) but Tiddles is my dps pet. UPDATE: damn, Barnabus has bite 6 and may be a compromise dps/tank option. Must keep a look out for him but in all my farming in Badlands, I've only seen him twice (including this time).
- Fishing: spent another hour under water farming for the Big Iron Rod but eventually gave up. In total I spent two and a half hours on it (five underwater breathing pots) and towards the end I was into the cynical end of probability theory, the part that says that there is a good chance that I will have to farm for two and a half hours more.
- Took Urban's advice and spent some time running around Arathi picking flowers. Arathi was good but found better selection of profitable flowers in Badlands: Goldthorn (which all my orange recipes seem to need), Purple Lotus, Firebloom, Kadgars Whisker, Fadeleaf etc.
- Got alchemy up to 225 and flew to Gadgetzan to learn to Transmute. Made a philosophers stone and transmuted some Mithril into Truesilver. This increased its value from about 40s to maybe 60s. Tried transmuting another and discovered I couldn't do it for another 1 day and 22 hours. Checked on Thottbot and this applies to ALL transmuting, not just mithril->truesilver so for now transmuting will be earning me a cool 70s a week. Got alchemy up to 240 by making various pots, including Lesser Stoneshield Potion (1000 extra armour for two minutes) which she picked up in a quest in Badlands. This goblin wanted a Lesser Healing pot and some Invisibility potion and by a fluke Maevyn had both on her.
Peter's Moblog
Powerleveling the Alt seems to be going well. On the Flip side you can miss soo much things needed for your trade skills in zones.
Glad you found the herbalism tips helpfull. *New tip: Wherever you see "Kadgar Whisker" pick it and keep! You'll learn why in time.
Yes in the Badlands you find a equal amount of stuff there and if you know where to look too.
Sorry to hear you wasted so much time trying to get the Iron Fishing Rod. Some things are just worth spending the money to just get to save the time. I had that rod when i was in low 20's but then again i was a regular fisherman then.
Every Transmutation done as a Alch is 23hrs cooldown time. Glad you pickep up your first transmute, its fun been able to do so. *Tip: With that said, Transmuting Mithril to "Truesilver" is a waste of time. Not profitable by much. Truesilver drops all over the place also. However if you don't have a better transmute, keep doing so at least its better than Transmuting Iron to Gold which is also worthless almost. I highly recommend you aquire Transmute Arcanite recipe on AH if you see it up there. I advise you not to waffle on deciding to buy it also, hopefully a reasonable pricce though. Just get it! Your Pally the miner can mine the ingredients and Transmute. Far more valuable per/23hr Transmute & cooldown.
Lesser Stoneshield can be Valuable to Sell "IF" you know how to sell it. However its not a big seller its a 911 pot. Just think why & when would you yourself use it.
At your level you may be able to pic up a nice potion by visiting the Alch supplier in STV. If not Rinse revisit and get.
Only "1" Invisibility pot is worth making! The rest is a waste of valuable herbs.
From 40-50 you will hit a dry spell in Alch Recipies from trainers. Your going to have to decide what recipies are worth spending good money to aquire an at a premium maybe. No more available till Outland. You can't train again till 50 also be Honor Hold for you i think.
Anyway seem like your moving along pretty fast.