WoW Journal - Day 15

Day 15 starts with me searching for iron. Somebody told me Thousand Needles would be a good place for that, so I search there, and pick up a lot of quests there as well. But I only find one single iron spot, and lots and lots of tin. Also useful.

Then the talk in guild chat turns to Razorfen Kraul. I have a suspicion that the place is a bit too hard for me, but I got a level 30 warrior quest there, so I join. The start is easy enough. The trench in the middle is for a fun quest from Ratchet, searching for hidden plants with the help of a gopher pet. The tunnel to the left is leading to the warrior quest boss, so I get that done. But the tunnel to the right is leading to the main boss. I ding 29 on the way, but the level 32 bats that silence us are hard, and the priest has to leave.

We head out again, train, sell loot, another group member leaves, another guildie joins, and we are still short one player. Nobody else from the guild is interested, so we end up inviting a level 29 priest from outside the guild. We are lucky, he is playing well. He is lucky too, because being the only cloth wearer in the group, we leave him lots of useful items, and he wins some rolls on blue stuff too. Besides loot, I find that the dungeon has several iron veins, so I end up with over 20 iron from the double expedition.

I get my first helmet in Razorfen Kraul, but it looks rather stupid on me. After the dungeon I start smithing will all that tin and iron I collected earlier, to increase my skill. I make a green iron helm, which has the same form, but in green looks slightly better. Still debating whether I should turn the helmet graphics off. I already turned the cloak off, because it was hiding my guild tabard. No use paying 1 gold for a guild tabard when nobody can see it.

At the end of the day I'm level 29, with 174 smithing skill. The highest level person on the server is level 59, so we will get our first level 60 this weekend, after a bit over 2 weeks. I can't help but think that by rushing so fast the guy missed a lot of the fun. Although "I was the first level 60 on this server" has a lot of bragging value, it wouldn't be worth it to me.
- posted by Tobold @ 11:59 AM Permanent Link