WoW Journal - 28-July-2005

Finally got around to play Waldin, my orc shaman, a bit more. Leveled him up to level 12 in Mulgore, probably the only orc at that level around there. I often was out of mana, something I remember happening a lot to my beta shaman as well. Asking some mage of the same level revealed that a mage has about 50% more mana than the shaman has, and that's without his intelligence buff. Well, now I know what kind of stats I'm looking for in my equipment with this character. My spells also deal less damage per mana than a mages, but I'm a lot sturdier in melee combat. I'll have to play accordingly and use damage spells more or less just for pulling, not as the main damage source.

This week I played Raslebol a lot more than I wanted. There was a raid to UBRS on Tuesday, and another raid to MC on Wednesday. UBRS went like a breeze, with a full raid team of 10. Only loot for me was a plate chestplate which was slightly better than my previous one, but only green. MC we teamed up with a bigger guild, so we got a full 40 level 60 players together. That helps! We managed to get to the first boss, Luciferon, and kill him. He drops two purple items, but they were for Mage and Warlock, so no luck for me. But by an odd 1-in-40 chance it was my turn to loot the less-than-green junk loot from Luciferon, and so I got 3 Hearts of Fire, and 6 Elemental Fires. That covers at least the repair bill. Well, the repair bill actually wasn't that bad this time, we only got wiped twice, and I was neither main tank nor main assist, so I didn't get hit that often.

But with funds being low and repair bills sometimes high, I tried different strategies of money farming. Somebody recommended farming Essence of Air in Silithus, but the air elementals that drop it are hard to kill for a warrior, having lightning shields. And farming high value items is a lottery, I tried for over one hour and got nothing. So I switched strategy and tried killing undead in Western Plaguelands instead. They carry cash, runecloth, and the occasional grey to blue loot item. Well, I got one green item, but at least the basic cash flow was okay, earning about 2 gold per hour. Then I remembered the rock elementals in the Badlands I had recently farmed with Honey for the Nifty Stopwatch. Raslebol can kill these without losing noticeable amounts of hitpoints, and they drop lots of grey stones that sell quite well. I did a test, with Telo's InfoBar on to check progress, and managed to earn about 5 gold per hour.

If anyone has any better gold farming tactics, I'd be grateful. I'm considering soloing mid-level instances and selling all the green loot, but I'm not really sure the yield is better. On the other hand I could then use the interesting green items from there for my priest and shaman low level alts.
- posted by Tobold @ 2:32 PM Permanent Link