WoW Journal - 8-August-2005

Plans are made to be changed in the event. My idea to play less with my level 60 warrior Raslebol and more with my alts is one of these plans that didn't survive contact with reality. It is astonishing how much there is still to do with a level 60 character. All those high-level dungeons, or helping guild mates through low and mid-level dungeons. Farming gold, resources, and magic items for all your characters, because it is faster than farming with low-level characters. And then the high-level quests and exploring places where the lower level characters can't go.

So again this weekend I played my warlock, shaman, and priest very little, and Raslebol a lot. I already mentioned the Dire Maul north runs, but I also farmed Scarlet Monastery and the Deadmines solo, helped guild mates to kill the courier in Eastern Plaguelands, went on a 5-man group to Scholomance, and finished the weekend with a big raid on Upper Black Rock Spire.

Scholomance with just a single group of 5 wasn't exactly easy, but we managed quite well. We finished two quests, the one to kill the butcher (first quest in the Eva Sarkhoff series), and the one to kill the dragon hatchlings. We killed Ras Frostwhisper, who dropped a really good shield, on which I lost the roll. Need to go back there and get one for me, but Thottbot says the drop chance is only 7.2%. He also dropped another Flask of Supreme Power recipe, who said these were rare? We killed Rattlegore, and the butcher. And then we got wiped out by Alexi Barov, and one group member had to go, and we didn't finish the Barov family fortune quest. We tried to distract him and quickly grab the last deed, but his Unholy Aura interrupts grabbing the deed. So I deleted the other three deeds, no use blocking valuable inventory space with them, they are easy to get again on the next run. I don't know whether we would have been able to kill all the bosses of the last part of Scholomance, Alexi seemed already rather tough, and we didn't have time to try the others.

The UBRS raid started slow due to organizational problems, but then went rather smoothly. I was main tank, and managed the pulls not too bad, I got some nice comments on it. We did the rookery without problems, also smoothly dispatched Rend in spite of me accidentally falling from the stone seat into the arena and starting the event before everybody was ready. We killed the beast without a single death, although the combat was a bit chaotic, the dog refused to stay in one place. On General Drakkisath we used a strategy which consists of one hunter pulling him far away, while the others kill his bodyguards. Never have seen it done so well as this time, by the time the General came back the guards were long dead and we already were worrying whether he got lost somewhere. :)

The raid netted me the Shoulders of Valor, so I got the third part of the tier 1 warrior armor set. My very first set bonus in this game, I never got three parts of the same set on anything before. For the valor set this is +50 armor for three parts, I'll work on finding the other parts. One day I want the complete set, even if I already have some other parts which are better than valor. I know Thottbot has a page with all the set bonuses, but I'm not looking them up, I'll keep that as a surprise for me. I also got the Bloodmoon Cloak, which has 5 more stamina and better armor than my previous cloak, so I was happy with my share of the raid loot.
- posted by Tobold @ 11:43 AM Permanent Link