WoW Journal - 2-August-2005

This is getting embarrassing, Raslebol did another raid, Scholomance this time, and again won far more than his fair share of loot. I was the only warrior, thus the only one interested in plate (as Horde doesn't have paladins). And then I got lucky and won a bunch of rolls for stuff others could have used as well, two high-level alchemy recipes, the shards from disenchanting garbage nobody wanted, and a lockbox. Okay, I then gave the content of the lockbox to somebody needing it, and it's not my fault if I'm the only plate user, but I guess I didn't make myself very popular on this raid.

A difficult issue was the potion recipes. A recipe for flask of supreme power (adds 150 to spell damage), and a recipe for major mana potion. I got some comments about me rolling for these, as the potions are obviously not useful for warriors. But I think that this doesn't mean that I shouldn't roll for the recipes, just because some caster alchemists are also interested. I can always make the potions and send them to the people needing them, neither of the potions is bind-on-pickup (but one of the recipes is). I spend a lot of time gathering herbs, and had 53 dreamfoil to burn on these potions. I just need to gather more icecap in Winterspring for the major mana potion, only had 10 of those. My goal as alchemist is to know *all* the recipes in the game, and not just those where the potions are useful for warriors. Making flask-type potions is a guild effort anyway, you can only create them in the alchemy lab in Scholomance, so you first need to raid your way there. And they need 40 high level herbs, plus one "bind on pickup" rare Black Lotus, so there won't be any mass production possible, regardless who has the recipe. You can have only one flask buff on you, but there are rumors that the buff lasts the full duration, even if you die, which I need to confirm. No use of taking huge effort to make such a potion, and the mage drinking it dying 5 minutes later and losing the buff.

Scholomance is a great place, I should go there more often. This was only my second time there, and the first time was with a horrible pickup raid group, where everybody wanted to pull, even the priest. Raid groups for Scholomance are limited to 10 players, and then it is easy enough. But there are several important quests there, which require to do it in a 5-man group, and that will be challenging: The warlock epic mount (Dreadsteed) summon quest, and a quest that makes you able to see the ghosts in front of Scholomance, enabling you to buy from the ghost vendors there.

Whether raid or 5-man group, Scholomance is an excellent instance for getting loot. The last part of the dungeon has a boss mob in every room, making Scholomance the instance with the most bosses per square meter. These drop an impressive range of phat loot. Recommended.
- posted by Tobold @ 9:32 AM Permanent Link