Here are the quests Mainchenn did to reach level 10:
The Woodland Protector p1
Dolanaar Delivery
(drowned self in Darnassus, resurrected in Dalaran) (2)
Package for Thurman
Harlan Needs a Resupply
Wine Shop Advert
A Threat Within
Eagan Peltskinner
Rest And Relaxation
(exploring) (3)
Tools for Steelgrill
Inoculation
Spare Parts
The Missing Scout
(exploring) (4)
Red Snapper - Very Tasty!
Find Acteon!
Word From Azure Watch
Denelan's Earth
Timberling Sprouts
A Troubling Breeze (5)
Gnarlpine Corruption
The Emerald Dreamcatcher
(took up herbalism and alchemy)
The Fargodeep Mine
Elixirs for the Bladeleafs (alchemy)
(dropped alchemy 21, took up mining)
A Refugee's Quandary
Scalding Mornbrew Delivery
Bring Back the Mug (6)
The Temple of the Moon
A Good Friend
A Friend In Need
A Small Start
I've Got a Plant
Tree's Company
Precious And Fragile Things Need Special Handling
Supplies to Tannok
Ammo for Rumbleshoot (7)
Tundra MacGrann's Stolen Stash
Distracting Jarven
Bitter Rivals
Return to Marleth
The Perfect Stout
Lost Necklace
A Fishy Peril
Further Concerns
Find the Lost Guards
Discover Rolf's Fate (8)
A Bundle of Trouble
Report to Thomas
Deliver Thomas' Report
Young Lovers
Speak With Gramma
Note to William
Cloth and Leather Armor (50 quests)
Learning the Language
Totem of Coo
Totem of Tikti
Totem of Yor
Totem of Vark
The Missing Fisherman
A Cry for Help
Pie for Billy
Back to Billy (9)
(75 mining, toughness rank 1 = +3 stamina)
(75 herbalism, lifeblood rank 1 = 300 healing)
The Jasperlode Mine
The Great Moongraze Hunt p1
(dropped mining 80, took up skinning)
Recipe of the Kaldorei
The Great Moongraze Hunt p2 (all done w/skinning found corpses)
(explored Elwynn Forest)
Westbrook Garrison Needs Help!
Westfall Stew p1
Report to Gyran Stoutmantle
Rejold's New Brew (if you do The Perfect Stout but you're too low to accept Shimmer Stout, this quest sends you back when you're higher...)
The Relics of Wakening
(explored Teldrassil) (10)
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Fairly new tapping rules
http://www.wow.com/2009/01/20/world-of-warcraft-3-0-8-patch-notes/
Patch 3.0.8:
Tapping: All player spells which cause a creature to become aggressive to you will now also immediately cause the creature to be tapped.
It appears that most (if not all) passive damage-dealing buffs like Thorns do NOT tap creatures, so I don't need to worry about taking Thorns off immediately if a passing druid tosses it on me (I still won't use it). I still might modify the NiceTry addon (which takes off a hunter's Misdirection on you) to only allow a few specific buffs from players on me. It should be easy to modify.
What might be harder is an addon that won't attack on a right click. I've been trying to open quest objectives with my back to them, so if I click on a mob my attack will fail, but an addon would really help. I nearly killed a chicken doing the CLUCK! quest, because you click on it to turn in the quest, but it can turn back to yellow without warning if you take too long, causing your click to kill it. Luckily, my back was turned...
Patch 3.0.8:
Tapping: All player spells which cause a creature to become aggressive to you will now also immediately cause the creature to be tapped.
It appears that most (if not all) passive damage-dealing buffs like Thorns do NOT tap creatures, so I don't need to worry about taking Thorns off immediately if a passing druid tosses it on me (I still won't use it). I still might modify the NiceTry addon (which takes off a hunter's Misdirection on you) to only allow a few specific buffs from players on me. It should be easy to modify.
What might be harder is an addon that won't attack on a right click. I've been trying to open quest objectives with my back to them, so if I click on a mob my attack will fail, but an addon would really help. I nearly killed a chicken doing the CLUCK! quest, because you click on it to turn in the quest, but it can turn back to yellow without warning if you take too long, causing your click to kill it. Luckily, my back was turned...
Reaching level 20 -- and rerolling Mainchenn
Just before hitting level 20, I looked at Mainchenn's stats and was shocked to see he had credit for killing 1 beast, even though his "largest hit dealt" under Combat was still "--"
It took me a while to figure out what it was... when I did the escort quest The Sleeper Has Awakened, I tried using Hibernate on a Ghost Wolf at one point to try and pass by without fighting (which wouldn't have worked anyway -- the mob attacks when it wakes up). Instead, Kerlonian Evershade (the escortee) immediately started attacking it! Even though we were attacked by the (scripted attack) of furbolgs and he also killed those, I didn't get kill credit because I only healed him. But it looks like doing anything to a mob can give you credit if your escort kills it. That means I can't use anything during an escort -- no Magic Dust, no Hibernate, no Goblin Rocket Helmet or even a Target Dummy (I think). I'll do some more tests with other toons before using anything during an escort if I can't do it any other way.
Since it's taken me less than a week to get to level 20, I'll just reroll Mainchenn and avoid making that mistake again...
It took me a while to figure out what it was... when I did the escort quest The Sleeper Has Awakened, I tried using Hibernate on a Ghost Wolf at one point to try and pass by without fighting (which wouldn't have worked anyway -- the mob attacks when it wakes up). Instead, Kerlonian Evershade (the escortee) immediately started attacking it! Even though we were attacked by the (scripted attack) of furbolgs and he also killed those, I didn't get kill credit because I only healed him. But it looks like doing anything to a mob can give you credit if your escort kills it. That means I can't use anything during an escort -- no Magic Dust, no Hibernate, no Goblin Rocket Helmet or even a Target Dummy (I think). I'll do some more tests with other toons before using anything during an escort if I can't do it any other way.
Since it's taken me less than a week to get to level 20, I'll just reroll Mainchenn and avoid making that mistake again...
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Mainchenn hits level 10
There weren't a lot of pacifist druids that I could find; "Mainchenn" is from British mythology:
Here are the quests Mainchenn did to get from level 1 to level 10:
The Woodland Protector p1
Dolanaar Delivery
Package for Thurman (2)
Harlan Needs a Resupply
Wine Shop Advert
A Threat Within
Eagan Peltskinner
Rest And Relaxation
Tools for Steelgrill (3)
A Refugee's Quandary
Inoculation
Spare Parts
The Missing Scout (4)
Red Snapper - Very Tasty!
Find Acteon!
Word From Azure Watch
Denelan's Earth
A Troubling Breeze
Gnarlpine Corruption
The Emerald Dreamcatcher (5)
Timberling Sprouts
(took up mining)
Supplies to Tannok
Scalding Mornbrew Delivery
Bring Back the Mug
The Temple of the Moon
(took up herbalism)
A Good Friend
A Friend In Need
A Small Start (6)
I've Got a Plant
Tree's Company
Precious And Fragile Things Need Special Handling
The Fargodeep Mine
The Jasperlode Mine
(exploring) (7)
Westbrook Garrison Needs Help
Mist
(dropped mining, took up alchemy)
Elixirs for the Bladeleafs (alchemy)
Recipe of the Kaldorei
(dropped alchemy, took up mining)
Ammo for Rumbleshoot
A Fishy Peril
Further Concerns
Find the Lost Guards
Discover Rolf's Fate (8)
Report to Thomas
A Bundle of Trouble
Deliver Thomas' Report
Lost Necklace
Young Lovers
Speak With Gramma
Note to William
(STILL missed "Rejold's New Brew" -- you can only get it after you do "The Perfect Stout" but you have to refuse his immediate followup "Shimmer Stout" and go back to Kharanos...)
The Perfect Stout (50 quests)
The Great Moongraze Hunt p1
(dropped herbalism, took up skinning)
Pie for Billy
Back to Billy
Beer Basted Boar Ribs (9)
Distracting Jarven
Bitter Rivals
Return to Marlethw
Learning the Language
Totem of Coo
Totem of Tikti
Totem of Yor
Totem of Vark
The Relics of Wakening
The Great Moongraze Hunt p2 (done by skinning found stag corpses)
The Missing Fisherman
A Cry for Help
Cloth and Leather Armor
Elmore's Task
Tundra MacGrann's Stolen Stash
Shimmer Stout (10)
Mainchenn is a visiting druid from Britain who disapproves of the constant petty battles being carried out between the people of Connaught and the people of Munster all on the head of two magical beings who are in constant rivalry with each other.
Here are the quests Mainchenn did to get from level 1 to level 10:
The Woodland Protector p1
Dolanaar Delivery
Package for Thurman (2)
Harlan Needs a Resupply
Wine Shop Advert
A Threat Within
Eagan Peltskinner
Rest And Relaxation
Tools for Steelgrill (3)
A Refugee's Quandary
Inoculation
Spare Parts
The Missing Scout (4)
Red Snapper - Very Tasty!
Find Acteon!
Word From Azure Watch
Denelan's Earth
A Troubling Breeze
Gnarlpine Corruption
The Emerald Dreamcatcher (5)
Timberling Sprouts
(took up mining)
Supplies to Tannok
Scalding Mornbrew Delivery
Bring Back the Mug
The Temple of the Moon
(took up herbalism)
A Good Friend
A Friend In Need
A Small Start (6)
I've Got a Plant
Tree's Company
Precious And Fragile Things Need Special Handling
The Fargodeep Mine
The Jasperlode Mine
(exploring) (7)
Westbrook Garrison Needs Help
Mist
(dropped mining, took up alchemy)
Elixirs for the Bladeleafs (alchemy)
Recipe of the Kaldorei
(dropped alchemy, took up mining)
Ammo for Rumbleshoot
A Fishy Peril
Further Concerns
Find the Lost Guards
Discover Rolf's Fate (8)
Report to Thomas
A Bundle of Trouble
Deliver Thomas' Report
Lost Necklace
Young Lovers
Speak With Gramma
Note to William
(STILL missed "Rejold's New Brew" -- you can only get it after you do "The Perfect Stout" but you have to refuse his immediate followup "Shimmer Stout" and go back to Kharanos...)
The Perfect Stout (50 quests)
The Great Moongraze Hunt p1
(dropped herbalism, took up skinning)
Pie for Billy
Back to Billy
Beer Basted Boar Ribs (9)
Distracting Jarven
Bitter Rivals
Return to Marlethw
Learning the Language
Totem of Coo
Totem of Tikti
Totem of Yor
Totem of Vark
The Relics of Wakening
The Great Moongraze Hunt p2 (done by skinning found stag corpses)
The Missing Fisherman
A Cry for Help
Cloth and Leather Armor
Elmore's Task
Tundra MacGrann's Stolen Stash
Shimmer Stout (10)
80 is doable - grinding XP without battlegrounds!
Again, I forgot that there already ARE low-level, repeatable quests that grant XP, and they aren't even daily quests, you can do them as often as you like.
The inscription decks (rogues, swords, mages, demons) all grant XP as often as you turn them in. Not a huge amount (about 30-40 turn-ins per level at the start of their 9 levels, and about 70-90 near the end), but not insignificant either. Once I do the two low-level blacksmith quests and the low-level leatherworking quest, I'll switch to inscription/herbalism and grind out decks to help leveling. The four deck types can be turned in starting at levels 10, 20, 30, and 40, but the auction house typically only has the level 10 (rogues) decks, because people use them to grind Darkmoon Faire reputation, and all the decks grant the same rep. Without battlegrounds, these decks and seasonal quests are the only XP grind I can do before level 55 and fishing up Strange Engine Parts, and level 62 with the Spirits of Auchindoun daily, until Cataclysm changes everything. (Addendum: from level 10 to level 40, there is always at least one Darkmoon Deck that isn't gray (i.e. can be turned in for full XP), and Demon Decks don't turn gray until -- level 55, when I can start turning in Strange Engine Parts)
As usual, I'll pop out of inscription/herbalism to do the leatherworking chain around level 30 and blacksmithing around 40. Since I don't do battlegrounds, I don't really need engineering except for occasional target dummies, so I can keep dropping professions as I need to.
The Night Elf Shadowmeld is nearly as good as vanish, at least against NPCs. It gets me out of combat, which is needed for some solo instance quests.
The inscription decks (rogues, swords, mages, demons) all grant XP as often as you turn them in. Not a huge amount (about 30-40 turn-ins per level at the start of their 9 levels, and about 70-90 near the end), but not insignificant either. Once I do the two low-level blacksmith quests and the low-level leatherworking quest, I'll switch to inscription/herbalism and grind out decks to help leveling. The four deck types can be turned in starting at levels 10, 20, 30, and 40, but the auction house typically only has the level 10 (rogues) decks, because people use them to grind Darkmoon Faire reputation, and all the decks grant the same rep. Without battlegrounds, these decks and seasonal quests are the only XP grind I can do before level 55 and fishing up Strange Engine Parts, and level 62 with the Spirits of Auchindoun daily, until Cataclysm changes everything. (Addendum: from level 10 to level 40, there is always at least one Darkmoon Deck that isn't gray (i.e. can be turned in for full XP), and Demon Decks don't turn gray until -- level 55, when I can start turning in Strange Engine Parts)
As usual, I'll pop out of inscription/herbalism to do the leatherworking chain around level 30 and blacksmithing around 40. Since I don't do battlegrounds, I don't really need engineering except for occasional target dummies, so I can keep dropping professions as I need to.
The Night Elf Shadowmeld is nearly as good as vanish, at least against NPCs. It gets me out of combat, which is needed for some solo instance quests.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Reinisch hits level 80
Reinisch hit level 80:
The special announcement is -- I'm doing it once more, this time without battlegrounds (if possible)...
Since Cataclysm will changes a lot of quests, there might be enough of a "boost" from new quests to gain more levels. Plus, if I really want to get every last XP point, I can change to Horde and back to get many of the Horde quests. With any luck, Blizzard will add low-level dailies...
The special announcement is -- I'm doing it once more, this time without battlegrounds (if possible)...
Since Cataclysm will changes a lot of quests, there might be enough of a "boost" from new quests to gain more levels. Plus, if I really want to get every last XP point, I can change to Horde and back to get many of the Horde quests. With any luck, Blizzard will add low-level dailies...
Party tonight
I'll be on as either Reinisch or Noorkhan (low level alt version of Noor) in Dalaran for the party.
I'll have a special announcement too!
I'll have a special announcement too!
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