WoW Journal - 6-April-2005

I start the evening with five completed quests in my quest log, which I have still to turn in. Two from the swamp, and three from Maraudon. The bad news is that from all the quest rewards, I can only use the Mark of the Chosen, the other four rewards go straight to the NPC vendor. The good news is that the Mark is very good, giving a 2% chance every time I get hit to give me a one-minute buff which increases all of my stats by 25. And as tank I get hit a lot. The other good news is that all the xp rewards from the five quests make me ding 47.

After that, I make a tour through Feralas, gathering Sungrass for alchemy. That enables me to make Superior Healing Potions, and gets my alchemy skill up to 250. Which then enables me to learn the recipe for the Limited Invulnerability Potion, and after gathering some Blindweed in the Swamp of Sorrows I can make some of those, and send them to the guy who donated the recipe to me.

By then my real life friends from the D&D group log on. They are level 32 and 34 now. They have a bunch of quests for Blackfathom Deep, but as they don't group with strangers, they have problems doing these quests. So I group with them, and we waltz through BFD, completing all their quests there. My wife, who still needs the staff from Lord Kelris, isn't with us. So of course the staff drops, Murphy's Law. We kill the bonus boss mob, Akumai the hydra, and use the teleport behind her to leave. The teleport ends you up high in the air above the entrance of BFD, from which you fall a long way, but end up safely in the pool. But something goes wrong and one of my friends breaks his neck by the fall, which makes that sequence a lot less funny.

Meanwhile my guild is looking for somebody to help them kill Princess Myzrael. As I reported in a previous journal entry, there is a long series of 9 quests around level 40, and the 9th step is to kill this princess of the giants, who is level 50 elite. I previously complained that the gap between the 8th quest and the last quest is too wide. So this time we are prepared, having a full group of level 47 to 50 to kill the princess. Ha ha. Turns out that Blizzard also noticed this design flaw, and they reduced the level of the princess from 50 elite to 44 elite in the last patch. That makes much more sense in general, but our group is complete overkill for her.

After the princess, four out of five group members, including me, head over to the Scarlet Monastery, to do just the cathedral part and get me the shield from the scarlet commander. That goes quickly enough, we know all the shortcuts by now, and we are nearly too strong for there. But no luck, again the shield does not drop. I'll have to try again, there isn't any other blue shield around for my level.
- posted by Tobold @ 7:58 AM Permanent Link