WoW Journal - 27-April-2005

Yesterday I did another expedition to the Scarlet Monastery. Not for myself, but for two of my D&D group friends, and we also took one of my guild mates. We got their quests done, and collected some goodies. Of course at level 52 I didn't get any experience points, but that was not the point, it was fun anyway. And of course Irony with a capital "I" struck, and the Aegis of the Scarlet Commander which I had five times unsuccessfully tried to get dropped. Irony, because I have a better shield now from a random drop. So I left the Aegis to my warrior buddy, who with the Aegis and the Sword of Omen quest reward will now be nicely equipped.

Then I switched to Kyroc, my undead priest, and leveled him up to level 10. At level 10 you can move from apprentice to journeyman in your tradeskills, and thus the cap moves from 75 to 150. As I still had hamstered away lots of wool, I quickly increased my tailoring skill. And I made lots of green, magic vestments. Which I then disenchanted into strange dust, which I subsequently used to enchant my bracers over and over. That way I got both my tailoring and my enchanting skills up.

All this is made possible basically by twinking. About 3 gold for learning all those recipes, and the huge stacks of wool cloth I gathered with Raslebol. The only stupid thing is that for enchanting soulbound items you need to open a trade window between the owner of the item and the enchanter. Which means I can't use Kyroc to enchant Raslebols items, or the items of any other of my characters I have on that account. I can enchant the items of my wife, she has a second account, and of course Kyroc's own items, and those of friends and guildmates. So it isn't a total waste of time.

Over the next 10 days this blog/journal will probably be relatively quiet. From tomorrow evening on I'll be on holiday to visit my parents. I'll take the laptop, on which WoW is installed, but my parents have no ADSL, and no WiFi, so the best I can hope for is to get it to run on a 56k modem connection. I'll test if WoW is playable like that, but I severely doubt that I will be able to do much more than check my mail and the auction house during that time. You don't want to perform major heroics on a 56k connection.
- posted by Tobold @ 4:37 PM Permanent Link