Well, it has been a long hard road but I'm finally exalted with all the goblin factions! It has certainly seemed like the longest grind since you have to start out at 0/36000 hated. That means that in the space of 2-3 months I've managed to rack up 84,000 reputation points total. I amaze even myself sometimes with the ability to mindlessly grind for hours.
I gave myself that extra push over the weekend, partly due to the nice 10% rep gain boost buff you can get from doing the seasonal event (pilgrim's bounty). I kept grinding dire maul and turning in ogre suits, and wrapped it all up with about an hour's worth of griding pirates to push all the reps into exalted. Phew. I wish you had a title for just doing that, but alas you do not. Although I did get the achievement 25 exalted reputations!
I'm also about halfway there with ravenholdt. The 10% boost is really nice, and it should save me a lot of time with the junkbox turn-ins. The beauty is that the majority of the work (pickpocketing mobs) doesn't require you to be wearing the 10% rep buff, so I can just sit in blackrock spire and grind away, and only need to get the buff when I actually TURN IN the junkboxes. Whereas when I was grinding dire maul I had to make sure I had the buff on me. By my calculations I should need only about 600 or so more junkboxes, I have about 100 sitting in my mailbox, and given that I can crank out about 150 per hour, I should be good to go. I just need no distractions whatsoever this week. Oh wait, I think it's Thanksgiving this week...rats!
What to do after I get exalted with ravenholdt in a couple of days? Well, there's darkmoon faire of course. I'm just about to hit revered, after which I will need about 60 decks. I have about 15 sitting in my bank, so I think it's safe to say I probably will not get able to get this one before cata. Not to mention the fact that the next time the fair is in town will be at Elwynn forest, and there is just no way I'm running 10 min to get to the fair, turning in my decks, running 10 min back to the nearest mailbox to mail the trinkets (which you receive as rewards for deck turn-ins and can be worth quite a bit of money), and repeating this process all the while risking getting ganked by alliance. So I will just have to wait another month to turn them in at Thunder bluff or Shattrath. This will give me some more time to get more decks made anyhow. I'm hoping once cata hits northrend will clear out and I should have an easier time gathering herbs without any competition or fear of getting ganked.
What next after I finally get my insane title? Well, I imagine cataclysm will keep me busy for a while. Grinding to 85, doing all the new raids and dungeons, unlocking achievements, etc. If there is still some time left before the cata launch I'd like to get some other factions to exalted. I'm pretty far into revered with the Kalu'ak, I'd like to get that up to exalted. Then I'd like to get those nether-ray mounts by hitting exalted with the shatari skyguard. Apparently you can grind rep pretty fast with those guys so I'd like to add their 6 mounts to my growing collection. After that? Well, there are always more alts to level up.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Deathwing is coming...
You better watch out
You better not wipe
Better not hack
I'm telling you why
Deathwing is coming to town
He's making a list
And checking it lots;
Gonna find out
Who's throwing moar dots
Deathwing is coming to town
He sees you when you're raiding
He knows when you're AFK
He knows if you've been a total noob
So stay out of the Death and Decay!
O! You better watch out!
You better not wipe
Better not hack
I'm telling you why
Deathwing is coming to town
Cataclysm launching December 7th!!!
You better not wipe
Better not hack
I'm telling you why
Deathwing is coming to town
He's making a list
And checking it lots;
Gonna find out
Who's throwing moar dots
Deathwing is coming to town
He sees you when you're raiding
He knows when you're AFK
He knows if you've been a total noob
So stay out of the Death and Decay!
O! You better watch out!
You better not wipe
Better not hack
I'm telling you why
Deathwing is coming to town
Cataclysm launching December 7th!!!
Almost Insane
It looks as though I'm beginning to see the light at the end of that long, long tunnel after all. I am proud to say that I'm THIS close to being Insane in the Membrane.
After a grueling series of Dire Maul runs, daily Auction House perusing, Scholo & Strat farming, herbing, milling, inscribing, skinning, and of course, killing, I am now the following:
Revered with Bloodsail Buccaneers
Exalted with Shendra'lar
Revered with Ravenholdt (5700/21000)
Revered with Steamwheedle Cartel (6100/21000)
Honored with Darkmoon Faire (1100/12000)
I know, I've only met 2 out of the 5 rep requirements so far, but it really feels like I'm getting close. I only have a short grind (I hope to the gods of Azeroth it will be short) away from exalted with the goblins and ravenholdt, and darkmoon faire...well, I've decided that can wait until cata if it has to.
What was really crapp (and still is sort of crappy) is that Blizz first announced that the Insane title will not be removed from the game in cata, so players can take their time. Which was fine. Then about a month before launch (so a couple weeks ago) that in fact, they WERE removing it since DM is getting reworked and shendra'lar is no longer going to be available. So all of a sudden the price of pristine black diamonds (which you need about 80 for exalted with Shen) skyrocketed to where they were being sold for about ~1000g a pop, compared to ~300g before. Ugh. Luckily I had turned in about 60 of them prior to this, and while farming I picked up a couple more, so I only had to buy about 15 at the inflated price (I found some discounts at ~700g!).
What really sucks now is that because so many people complained about Blizz's shitty management, they decided to keep the insane in the memebrane, but remove the requirements for getting exalted with Shen. I mean, What...The...Fuck. For those of you who have worked so hard to get exalted, you get to have a nice shiny feat of strength! Yay, BIG FUCKING WHOOP. I mean, who gives a shit about a feat of strength? Shen is undoubtedly one of the hardest (if not THE hardest) part of that achievement, due to the near-zero drop rate of diamonds. And now those people who spent hours of their lives on working on this rep...now everyone and their moms will be running around with the insane title, and there will be practically no way to distinguish between those who spent an extra month farming the Shen rep, and those who took the pussy way out in cata. Thanks Blizz, thanks with a big capital FUCK YOU.
Sigh. Well, now that rant is over with, I must say that the other rep grinds aren't so bad. Ravenholdt is not giving me too much trouble, I simply go into blackrock spire and pickpocket for a couple hours and I get ~150-180 junxboxes. I just need to rinse and repeat a few more times and I'll get exalted in no time. The goblins are annoying, because I was hoping not to have to run DM anymore after getting my shendralar rep and just farm pirates. But there's just too much competition from level 40's trying to quest...the pirates don't respawn very quickly and they aren't that clustered together either, making that a slow grind. So I might just have to hit up DM some more.
Darkmoon Faire is going rather slowly, due to the sheer amount of decks needed (100+) and the sheer amount of herbalism materials needed to make either a TBC deck (24 primals + about 15 stacks of outland herbs on average) or a WotLK deck (24 eternals + at least 30-40 stacks of northrend herbs). It's really insane. I've been using a combination approach of scanning the auction house daily for cheap cards, cheap low-level decks, cheap herbs & mats, and just farming herbs myself. Outland decks require less materials, but the drop rate for primals and herbs are much lower, so I've just been farming herbs for hours in northrend. I average about 20 stacks of herbs per hour even with heavy competition. That supplemented with whatever cheap mats I can find on the AH means that on average I can produce ~1 deck per day. The bonus is that I'm also levelling up my shaman through the herb-gathering. Each node gives me 5000xp, and already I've levelled up twice just from herbing nonstop.
All in all, the achievement is, in fact, pretty insane. I'm hoping to have everything except DMF wrapped up before the cata launch (which is only a couple weeks away!). Although the title will have less meaning due to every schmuck having one, it will still be nice. At least I will know that mine was more deserved than the other lazy people who skipped Shen.
After a grueling series of Dire Maul runs, daily Auction House perusing, Scholo & Strat farming, herbing, milling, inscribing, skinning, and of course, killing, I am now the following:
Revered with Bloodsail Buccaneers
Exalted with Shendra'lar
Revered with Ravenholdt (5700/21000)
Revered with Steamwheedle Cartel (6100/21000)
Honored with Darkmoon Faire (1100/12000)
I know, I've only met 2 out of the 5 rep requirements so far, but it really feels like I'm getting close. I only have a short grind (I hope to the gods of Azeroth it will be short) away from exalted with the goblins and ravenholdt, and darkmoon faire...well, I've decided that can wait until cata if it has to.
What was really crapp (and still is sort of crappy) is that Blizz first announced that the Insane title will not be removed from the game in cata, so players can take their time. Which was fine. Then about a month before launch (so a couple weeks ago) that in fact, they WERE removing it since DM is getting reworked and shendra'lar is no longer going to be available. So all of a sudden the price of pristine black diamonds (which you need about 80 for exalted with Shen) skyrocketed to where they were being sold for about ~1000g a pop, compared to ~300g before. Ugh. Luckily I had turned in about 60 of them prior to this, and while farming I picked up a couple more, so I only had to buy about 15 at the inflated price (I found some discounts at ~700g!).
What really sucks now is that because so many people complained about Blizz's shitty management, they decided to keep the insane in the memebrane, but remove the requirements for getting exalted with Shen. I mean, What...The...Fuck. For those of you who have worked so hard to get exalted, you get to have a nice shiny feat of strength! Yay, BIG FUCKING WHOOP. I mean, who gives a shit about a feat of strength? Shen is undoubtedly one of the hardest (if not THE hardest) part of that achievement, due to the near-zero drop rate of diamonds. And now those people who spent hours of their lives on working on this rep...now everyone and their moms will be running around with the insane title, and there will be practically no way to distinguish between those who spent an extra month farming the Shen rep, and those who took the pussy way out in cata. Thanks Blizz, thanks with a big capital FUCK YOU.
Sigh. Well, now that rant is over with, I must say that the other rep grinds aren't so bad. Ravenholdt is not giving me too much trouble, I simply go into blackrock spire and pickpocket for a couple hours and I get ~150-180 junxboxes. I just need to rinse and repeat a few more times and I'll get exalted in no time. The goblins are annoying, because I was hoping not to have to run DM anymore after getting my shendralar rep and just farm pirates. But there's just too much competition from level 40's trying to quest...the pirates don't respawn very quickly and they aren't that clustered together either, making that a slow grind. So I might just have to hit up DM some more.
Darkmoon Faire is going rather slowly, due to the sheer amount of decks needed (100+) and the sheer amount of herbalism materials needed to make either a TBC deck (24 primals + about 15 stacks of outland herbs on average) or a WotLK deck (24 eternals + at least 30-40 stacks of northrend herbs). It's really insane. I've been using a combination approach of scanning the auction house daily for cheap cards, cheap low-level decks, cheap herbs & mats, and just farming herbs myself. Outland decks require less materials, but the drop rate for primals and herbs are much lower, so I've just been farming herbs for hours in northrend. I average about 20 stacks of herbs per hour even with heavy competition. That supplemented with whatever cheap mats I can find on the AH means that on average I can produce ~1 deck per day. The bonus is that I'm also levelling up my shaman through the herb-gathering. Each node gives me 5000xp, and already I've levelled up twice just from herbing nonstop.
All in all, the achievement is, in fact, pretty insane. I'm hoping to have everything except DMF wrapped up before the cata launch (which is only a couple weeks away!). Although the title will have less meaning due to every schmuck having one, it will still be nice. At least I will know that mine was more deserved than the other lazy people who skipped Shen.
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