Alas, my friends have come back to WoW which means it’s time for me to get out my level 80 Draenei Death Knight and start working on those things that I still need to get up to level. This unfortunately means that my cool Rogue Y hasn’t been getting quite as much love. And as a part of my friends coming back to Wow I am working on an Alliance Warrior, C. I’m going to learn to tank.
So this weekend having been a holiday weekend in the states should be a good time to do all sorts of time consuming things.
I had planned on running dungeons on both Y and C because I figured they were low enough level they would be stuck with the really long dungeons. I need to get a dungeon in for C as I don’t want to level any higher before I start trying to tank. I tried to run a dungeon with Y and decided that I didn’t want to wait the, at least, 30 minutes that was estimated by the dungeon finder. That tells me there aren’t really a lot of people at about that level running on Horde right now. Sigh. I did run a dungeon on the Death Knight, M.
Running the dungeon on M was really a good thing. It let me see how out of practice I am. I sucked at first. Seriously. Ugh. I was almost worthless. It’s actually the second one I’ve made it all the way through this week. I was in Nexus and the tank and healer left and then after about 10 minutes it was just me. Ugh. Anyway, by the end of the second dungeon I was starting to get warmed back up and things were going better.
Dungeons are not, however, how I spent the holiday time in WoW. I have finally been leveling my professions for M. Yep. I’ve finally got the Mining to 398 and I think I’m ready to take that to Northrend. And I’ve finally got the Jewel Crafting up to 350. I’m not so sure that it ready for Northrend but I’m thinking it might be time to try it. I’m otherwise not sure where I’m supposed to get some of the gems that I’m going to need for the new JC patterns that I’ve got. I’ve spent several hours now just flying back and forth over the different areas of Outland to mine up Fel Iron or Adamantite (or whatever it is). A bonus side effect of this is that I now have the Explore Outland achievement. I was also able to get the Skills to Pay the Bills achievement when I got my JC up to 350.
The really annoying thing about the Gems that you can make with Jewel Crafting at Outland level is that no one wants them. The value is fairly low and no one wants them. I was hoping they would be salable much like the low level rings and such are. They sell, not because people want them for what they do. They sell, because they are fairly cheap Enchanter fodder. Meaning, I sell them at low enough prices that Enchanters can afford to purchase them and then disenchant them for the materials. That seems to not be the case with the Gems. Bummer.
At least, as I started getting into the new ores and the new patterns the work this weekend was quite as mindnumbing as say mining for Mithril or Thorium. It’s actually been a bit fun. I know, it’s a game and it should be however, with many of these types of games, much like with life, there are aspects that can be less than fun and so you find yourself putting them off.
I also managed to level my Fishing all the way to 450 finally. That’s got that one done. So with actively working on Mining and Jewel Crafting the only other thing that needs some attention, badly, is my Cooking. Yep, I haven’t been really working on my cooking. It’s sad I know. But I haven’t. Right now my Cooking skill sits at a whopping 137. I’ve got up to making Croclisk Stew. I’ll need to spend quite a while farming Crocolisks for that to not be orange. I suppose I should get to work on that, however, at the moment it seems so much less pertinent to my progression in the game. Ok. I should do it just to say I’ve done it. And that’s really why I want to do it. I want to max out all my skills just to have done it on at least one character. Which means I guess I should be getting back to mining and making gems.
Laterz.
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