WoW Journal - 30-July-2005

I somehow don't get around to play my new shaman a lot, there is so much other things to do with the other characters. My female gnome warlock, Honey, was invited to a virtual marriage between two guild mates. So I tailored her a selection of dresses, bought a bunch of flowers to hold in hand, and went to Goldshire, from where a procession to the Stormwind cathedral was planned. Turned out that while I hadn't played her, the marriage had been postponed by a week, and I was standing there in my best dress with flowers in the hand all alone, looking foolish. Well, I didn't plan to play her this week, so she can wait for the marriage there. On the now defunct Grimwell Online we once discussed that a part of MMORPG is playing "Barbie Online", dressing up characters. That was very much a Barbie Online moment. Fun actually, although only for a short time.

Back to the Runetotem server, I played Kyroc, my priest, up to level 24. Nearly always teamed up with my wife's mage of the same level. We finished all quests in Silverpine Forest, and started doing quests in Hillsbrad. We also visited Stonetalon Mountains for a day, there are some nice quests around level 20 there too. The team is working well, even if I have to tank with my priest, which isn't really what he is made for.

Raslebol, my main, followed the advice of you guys and found better places to farm money. The graveyard in Scarlet Monastery gets my vote for best place. Especially since a guild mate told me how to reset an instance: Your character in the instance invites another character from another account, who is outside. Any friend or guildmate who isn't currently grouped will do, he can be anywhere, but it must be you who is the group leader. Then you log out, log back in, and voila! you will find yourself back at the start of the instance. And all mobs, including bosses, are back. And the chests are also back. There is one chest in the graveyard, one boss who is always there, and one who only sometimes turns up. If you do all three of those and all the non-elite ghosts, you earn yourself a pretty penny. I even found a blue Zealot Blade once in a chest, and sold it for 20 gold. Must have been a warlock who bought it, who else needs a sword with bonuses to intelligence and spirit?

Then Raslebol spent two evenings doing groups in Blackrock Depths. Not raid groups, just regular 5-man groups. More fun that way, and I got several quests done. But even after doing it twice we didn't get further than to Golem Lord Argelmach. We still need to do the tavern and continue to the end boss. I like BRD, it is a fun place, although maybe a bit too big for my tastes. But with keys allowing shortcuts to the latter part it isn't that bad to do it several times.
- posted by Tobold @ 1:05 PM Permanent Link