WoW Journal - 15-August-2005

Last night we tried to organize a raid to Molten Core, with two guilds. But during the summer holidays even game activity is lower, and only 29 people showed up. As we knew that you shouldn't even try MC with less than 40 people, we split up into two groups of 15 and 14 instead, each doing Upper Black Rock Spire.

The UBRS raid with 14 people went like a breeze, we did it in less than 3 hours, without any wipe. I only died once, in the final fight, to the General's Conflageration ability. I wonder if that one can be stopped by decursing. I won some minor green treasures, but the other warrior in the group won both the blue mace and the blue shield I had wanted too.

So the only blue item I got was one Brilliant Chromatic Scale, of which 10 are needed for the epic breastplate. The previous 2 of these I had let have another warrior in the guild, because it's useless to let everybody try that quest on the same time. You never get more than one per raid, and that not always, so you need over 10 raids for just one breastplate. So I sent a tell to the other warrior, who was in the other raid group. But he was angry that some hunter had rolled for and won the scale on that group, and didn't want mine. I wonder what to do with it, I don't really like quests like that which need 15 people to do over 10 raids to get one item for one guy. I think I'll try to sell it on the guild forums, that way I get at least some reward, and it isn't lost to the guild.

In other news, my shaman Waldin is now level 16. And as he reached engineering 150 by making lots of Whirring Bronze Gizmos, I did a second trip to the Darkmoon Faire after all. The faire had stopped accepting Copper Modulator after 5 hand-ins, so for 25 modulators I got 5 tickets. Now the gizmos were accepted 6 times a bundle of 7, each time giving 4 tickets. So I ended up with a grand total of 29 tickets. I didn't plan to save them for some bigger prize, but wanted to know how good the Minor Darkmoon Prize was, which one can get from level 15 on. What I got was one Lesser Moonstone, one Shadowgem, two white shoulder items level 17 and 19, a level 17 green sword, and a level 19 green cloak. Not bad as rewards for a level 15, but nothing I couldn't have gotten easier with my level 60.
- posted by Tobold @ 8:26 AM Permanent Link