Revered with the Netherwing!

Hooray!

A few zillion deaths later…I finally got through “Subdue the Subduer“ - there happened to be someone else on the quest and we breezed through it quickly enough.  There are in fact, a few ways you can get around him pretty easily, which is 1) don’t be a moron like me, or, 2) using the dark portal pillars to break his LOS to you.  I tried method 2 a couple of times but I would break my own LOS to him, and he would reset, and then I would fly towards him, and he would disappear and show up right on top of me where he’d whack me some…rinse and repeat.

At Revered, you get a new quest and a new badge, called “Hail, Commander!” and the badge is called Commander’s Badge.  Not unlike the Captain’s Badge, but there’s an added bonus of +45 stamina to it.  Still can’t use it inside.  Also a new quest called “Kill Them All!” – (I’m a little fuzzy on the following details, since I didn’t write anything down…bad gnome, I know.) – you go and speak to your affiliated faction (Scryer or Aldor) and hand them the Dragonmaw Flare Gun quest item, and thus begins a new repeatable quest called “The Deadliest Trap Ever Laid” – in total you should have 9 repeatable quests by the time you are revered.  (8, if you have no gathering professions, I think.)

Because of the stupid bug on most of the racers, including my Wing Commander Mulverick guy, I haven’t attempted to race him since Sunday or Monday.  Last night he finally unbugged, except it was nearly 1 am after finishing a heroic Sethekk Halls run (ouch.), and there was a group of us who attempted Mulverick together.  It’s actually kind of fun to do it as a group, except the first time I tried, I lagged out.  Boo.  It’s also a little tricky to try to keep after a guy flying at full speed throwing rings of lightning at you while being surrounded by 4 other people – your screen gets a little cluttered.  The second try I actually got further than I’d ever been, so I think there’s hope yet.  And then the server crashed, and I figured that was a really good cue for me to hit the sack.

Day 9: 4475/21000 Revered

Weekend Fun

Okay.  As I mentioned earlier, I made it to honored with the Netherwing, and a whole brand new pile of quests opened up.  First, there’s “Stand Tall, Captain!“, where you get a new trinket called a Captain’s Badge – which is just like the earlier Overseer’s Badge, but you can call the Netherwing Ally anywhere, instead of just in Shadowmoon Valley.  They only work outside though, so you can’t call them in instances or even underground in the mine (stinky pants).  What’s cool is you don’t have to turn in the first trinket you got, so theoretically, you could call out two Netherwing Allies to your aid in SMV.  I should try that.

There’s a new daily repeatable quest called “Disrupting the Twilight Portal” where you go waaaaaaaay far west to the western edge of Nagrand to a tucked away place called the Twilight Portal.  There you kill 20 of the deathsworn mobs.  There’s a bunch of elites roaming through, so be careful.  I found hanging out on the edge of the world is a safe area, the elites don’t come all the way to that edge.

Two new chains open up, the first being “The Soul Cannon of Reth’hedron” – you must collect 2 Felsteel Bars, 1 Adamantite Frame, 1 Khorium Power Core, and 1 Flawless Arcane Essence.  The Felsteel Bars you can just buy on the AH for like 4g each.  The Adamantite Frame and Khorium Power Core, like I mentioned earlier, you can buy from Qiff in Area 52 as a limited supply, or just beg an engineer to make it for you.  As for the Flawless Arcane Essence, you must go to Lake Jorune in Terokkar Forest – which is just north of Stonebreaker Hold – Horde Territory.  Speak with Sar’this, who has you kill a few elementals (one each of water, fire, air, earth).  He sacrifices himself (awwwww) and then you get the Essence.  After this turn in, you get another quest called “Subdue the Subduer” – which totally sucks and I have not yet completed because I’m a moron.  You get something called a Soul Cannon, and you go back to the Twilight Portal and you have to use the cannon on the big huge 73ish elite named Reth’hedron.  It takes forever to kill (the cannon only does 500ish damage and he has about 170,000 hit points).  You have to avoid the big fat rocks that come hurling at you, along with avoiding his physical hits, and then he shoots shadow bolts at you.  I’ve figured out the avoiding the rocks thing, but I seem to dip too low when I’m flying around and usually get hit for 3k or so (I’m afraid if I fly too far up, I break the soul chain and he’ll reset), and the shadow bolts do about 800 damage…tonightish, I’m going to borrow Lexx and see if she can keep tossing renews on me from the top of the portal.  Bleh. 

The next new chain starts with “Earning Your Wings” – this started as a whole lot of fun in the beginning but now I’m really cranky about it.  Basically there’s 6 races you do.  For each one, you chase after an NPC on your flying mount, try to avoid all the crap they launch at you and stay on your mount.  You can’t fall too far behind either or you’ll fail the quest.  They get significantly harder with each new race…by the way, if you don’t enjoy spending tons of money on repair bills, I would get nekkid for each of these races…
The Ballad of Oldie McOld – it’s not very long, and he launches fiery rocks at you.  Or was it just big boulders?
Trope the Filth-Belcher – he launches icky green blobs (does he belch them out?) at you…
Corlok the Vet - he launches several groups of little green exploding rocks at you.
Wing Commander Ichman – ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it took me a bajillion tries – he shoots fireballs at you – and this is where the tricks start – he will shoot straight up in the air or back up and turn around and stuff – I’ve lost sight of this guy SO many times.
Wing Commander Mulverick – after defeating Ichman I didn’t feel like attempting Mulverick too many times – but he shoots these really pretty (and deadly) swirly bolts of lightning.  Those seem pretty easy to avoid so far – but then he does some crazy manuevers – he zips around, back, forth, left, over, upside down, left and right - I lose him somewhere around where Barash the Den Mother is, and I’ve still yet to figure out where he goes…

Quests repeatable at Honored:
Disrupting the Twilight Portal (20 Deathsworn mobs in Nagrand)
The Booterang: A Cure for the Common Worthless Peon (hooray for the Booterang!)
Nethermine Flayer Hides (35 hides)
Netherwing Crystals (40 crystals)
A Slow Death (poison 12 camps)
The Not-So-Friendly Skies (10 Netherwing Relics)
Picking Up the Pieces (15 Nethermine cargo)
Dragons Are the Least of Our Problems (15 Flayers and 5 Ravagers)

Day 7: 9125/12000 Honored

Lame!

So I’ve discovered there’s a few people already exalted and flying around with their netherdrakes.  How?  Because there’s that stupid egg hunting quest that is fully, completely repeatable with no daily limit.  250 rep per egg turn in.   I WAS enjoying this rep grind (not that I usually don’t, since I’m insane) because of the fact that I could only do so much per day – I spend a couple of hours and move on – but the fact that you could keep farming for eggs all day long just irritates me.  Why bother putting in a limit to the rest of the quests if you allow people to farm all day long for the eggs and work around the daily limits?  I had assumed the eggs were part of the daily 10 quest limit, but noooooo.  You can have 100 eggs and turn it all in in one day.  Blizzard wanted people to NOT get the drake so fast?  Then they should have limited the egg turn ins too.  Instead, there’s people farming 24/7 for the eggs anyway.  Fan-frickin’-tastic.  Freaking lame I say. 

Honored with the Netherwing!

Bah, just a quick update for the morning before I run off to Mohegan Sun and gamble a bunch.

Finally found the Chief someone guy who gives “The Oversee and You” quest.  You have to collect 10 Knothide Leather, and then go kill this enormous (non-elite) level 71 dinosaur way the hell up in Netherstorm – as far away north as you can go from Netherwing Ledge.  His name is Tyrantus, up in Eco-Dome Farfield in Netherstorm.  Very easy to kill.  By the way – while you are up in Netherstorm, you should go check with Qiff, the engineering supplier at Area 52, for a couple of limited supply items that you’ll need for another quest.  One is Adamantite Frame (which I saw on AH for 70g!) and another is Khorium Power Core – engineers can make them, but if you can get them off the vendor, they’ll cost you no more than 5g.  When you finish killing Tyrantus, go back to the Chief in the Dragonmaw Camp, and you’ll get the coolest daily quest ever – called “The Booterang: A Cure for the Common Worthless Peon” and a Booterang in your inventory.  It’s hysterical and SO much fun.  Basically you fly around looking for peons that are slacking off (“Disobedient Peons”) and you chuck this boot at their heads, and they go back to work.  (The boot comes back to you…hence…booterang…get it?) After these two quests I made it to Honored – hooray! And a whole host of more quests began.  More details whenever I get back. 

Day 6:  5575/12000 Honored

Moving right along…

In case you’re wondering, the timer on the daily quests reset at 5am, so you can get your allotted 10 quests for the day in when you’re a late night owl (or when a heroic Shattered Halls or Shadow Labs run takes you well over 4 hours…). 

After I got to Friendly, a whole host of new quests opened up, which is just great.  Both “Picking Up the Pieces” (gathering 15 Nethermine Cargo) and “Dragons Are the Least of Our Problems” (killing 15 Flayers and 5 Ravagers) are both daily repeatable quests – and are SO easy to knock out.  There’s also a drop from the black blood blobby thingies inside the mine – inside a Sludge-Covered Object you can get the Murkblood Escape Plans.  That is a turn in quest called “Great Murkblood Revolt” – and you can turn it in to either of the Mistresses outside the entrance of the mines.  She’ll then give you a quest called “Seeker of Truth“, where you have to go have a chat with one of the Murkblood Overseers that hide inside the mine.  You talk to him for a bit, and then he hacks off his hand and gives it to you (ick?!) to return to the Mistress.  There’s also another quest I discovered, somewhere in the middle of the mine near one of the elite NPC dragons, called “Crazed and Confused” – you have to venture deep into the mine (I got SO lost looking for it the first time) and kill 5 Crazed Murkblood Miners and 1 Crazed Murkblood Foreman.  Sadly, it is not repeatable.  *sniff*

I wasn’t sure at first, because the NPC said you could only turn in one gathering quest a day, but you CAN in fact turn in 40 Netherwing Crystals AND 35 Nethermine Flayer Hides in the same day.  I think the Hide/Pollen/Ore turn in is the one gathering quest you can turn in.  By the way, as much as I hate killing the Black Blood blobs (which – if you again take too long to kill, they run away and morph into a big ickier blob with full health….), but the Sludge-Covered Objects can also drop the hide/pollen/ore stuff.  They’ve come in groups of 4 and 5 which is a really big help!  So I always try to bash a couple of those in the mine.

So right now, at Friendly, I’ve got these daily quests:

Picking Up the Pieces
Dragons are the Least of Our Problems
Netherwing Crystals
Nethermine Flayer Hide
A Slow Death
The Not-So-Friendly Skies
and the ever-elusive The Great Netherwing Egg Hunt

Sometime today I’ll do the poison and relic quests, and pray that somewhere along the way I get an egg so I can make it to Honored tonight!!

8:30 am Day 5: 5475/6000 Friendly

Friendly With the Netherwing!

Hooray! Only 35575 more rep to go!  *groan* 

You know what stinks about blogging about your gaming adventures?  You actually have to remember what you did so you can write about it later.  Sigh.  I’ve resorted to writing things down now so this blog can actually be useful to my readers. 

So after a heroic Shadow Labs run that turned horrifically disastrous in the blink of an eye, I ran off to go poison some peons.  Easily done.  One thing to remember – don’t use the mutton on peons that are standing still – my theory is that those are the ones that have just respawned from being dead/poisoned whatever, and aren’t ready yet.  You’ll waste a precious fel gland on the bug.  Make sure the peons are actually “working” – that is, they are moving around and hacking away at the crystals.

Did the Not-So-Friendly Skies quest today.  I’ve discovered that if you take too long to kill them, they omgwtfbbqpwn you.  Instead of hitting you for around 200-400, they whack you for 2000-3000.  Took a couple of deaths to figure it out.  So kill extra fast.  Pallies, good luck . 

When you turn in quests, your chat log tells you how many more quests you’re allowed to do for the day.  That’s kind of nifty.  By the way, there’s a poisons and reagent vendor near the quest givers in the camp, and also an armorsmith next to the big heated forge behind them so you can repair there!

Hit Friendly this early morning – that was way cool.  Soon as you hit Friendly, a new quest appears, called “Rise, Overseer!” Complete the quest by talking to a guy nearby, and get a trinket called “Overseer’s Badge”, which on use, “Calls forth a Netherwing Ally to fight at your side in Shadowmoon Valley.”  Can’t wait to try that out! 

After that quest is complete, you get another quest called “The Netherwing Mines” – he sends you to go talk to the big Maiden who stands outside the mine.  Have a chat with her, and she gives you a quest called “Picking Up the Pieces”.  All you have to do for that is find a bunch of cargo inside the mine.  Basic quest, and I’m hoping that’s repeatable.  Will find out tonight.  When you go inside the mine, there’s a mine worker in there that will give you ANOTHER quest – this one is called “Dragons Are the Least of Our Problems” – which is to kill 15 Flayers and 5 Ravagers inside the mine – sounds like a repeatable quest too, so we’ll see!

 8:30 a.m. Day 3 – 425/6000 Friendly

Hello world!

Hello world indeed!  I’ve decided I ought to try my hand at blogging sometime – what better way to start than with recounting my adventures (and misadventures) in my quest to obtain a beautiful purple Netherdrake in World of Warcraft!  Stay tuned for more details!

Day 1 of Patch 2.1

So today was Patch day, whee!  The two things I was looking most forward to was Children’s Week and getting the Netherdrake.  The servers come up at 2pm, and the first thing I do is run around with my little blue orphan and obtain my little Peanut – a very adorable baby Elekk!

 

Second thing on my to-do list, get ready for the grind for the Netherdrake. 

5pm – I must sadly go to work, but I’ve got the starter quests finished so I’m ready for the grind.

9pm – Home and ready to go!  The servers come up just in time for me to log in.  I’m dying to get started on my Netherdrake quests but instead head out for a run in Shadow Labs in hopes that my Spellstrike pant pattern will drop, and also to get revered with Lower City Faction.  Well I got to revered anyway.  Druids get their epic flight form in 2.1, and I offer to help three druids run heroic Sethekk Halls to get their quest completed.  What a mess!  Birds swarming down from everywhere!  We manage to defeat the new boss, Anzu, on the fourth try.  By this time it’s nearly 2:30 am, and I’m so terrified I’ll be late for work in the morning that I actually decide to stay up the entire night instead.  (The fact that I could work on the Netherdrake stuff helped…) So off to Shadowmoon Valley I go. 

Oh. my. god.  This grind is going to take pure dedication.

Quest 1:  A Slow Death.  I have to go get fel glands off creatures (pretty much any creature) on the mainland, then fly back to Netherwing Ledge and poison a bunch of dragonmaw. Completed!

Quest 2: The Not-So-Friendly Skies.  Oh lord, I have to stand on one of the floating rocks, shoot down the dragonmaw travelers and kill them for relics.  A little difficult to get used to, but the relic drop rate isn’t bad either. Completed!

Quest 3: Netherwing Crystals.  I need 40 crystals.  Slow going at first, because I trying to kill stuff up on the surface of Netherwing Ledge, and got constantly ganked by the stupid level 72 elites all over the place.  Boo.  But then I discovered there’s a mine! (Southwest section of Netherwing Ledge) And all kinds of crystal drops began.  I must warn you, you better have lots of empty bag space for all the crap you loot, especially if you need to skin.  The best part is that all this vendor trash makes you lots of money – not to mention all of the hides of skinned, the netherweave cloth I’ve picked up, and everything else.  By the end of the night (morning, really) I made 100g, and that’s not counting the hides and the greens.

Quest 4:  Netherwing Flayer Hides.  I need 35 hides.  I think there’s one quest that is specific to whatever profession you may be.  I happen to be a skinner so I get to skin hides.  Once I discovered the mine, the hide drop rate picked up - but still pretty bad.  By 5am, I had only 23 hides, and 60+ crystals.  I wanted to complete this quest too but it was probably going to take another hour to get the other 12!

Quest 5: The Great Netherwing Egg Hunt.  This is a doozy – you just have to get lucky.  The Netherwing Eggs can be found anywhere – in the nodes you mine, the herbs you harvest, the creatures you kill, or just lying in any old place on Netherwing Ledge.  I managed to find TWO tonight!  Whee!  The first turn in yields 350 rep, the second turn in (and from here on) yields 250 rep.

It’s 5am, the sun is rising, I take a quick nap and off I go.

Day 1 Total: 1600/3000 to Friendly.