Raiding: This weekend was my first foray into 10-man Ulduar, and I am absolutely thrilled we were able to clear the zone — our guild’s first Yogg Saron kill. Friday night, we did Flame Leviathan (one tower up), Ignis, Razorscale, Deconstructor, Kologarn, Iron Council (medium mode), and Auriya. Saturday afternoon, we did the rest of the zone up to Yogg Saron (including what I believe was the server-first hard-mode kill on Thorim), and regrouped Sunday morning for the clear. Achievements aside, I was really thankful for the opportunity to experience all the encounters on 10-man, if only to give me more practice for the 25-man raids (We still haven’t killed Yogg on 25-man). I had some new and different roles on 10-man — launched onto Flame Leviathan, healing those folks inside Yogg’s vision — and I feel like I have better insight now into the zone’s various encounters. I don’t think any paladin / priest / warlock tokens dropped the entire weekend, and so I’m still just sitting with one piece of tier-gear, purchased with badges. I did win a ring for Khaeli, and I accumulated enough badges of valor to buy my druid her epic wrists.
To Do: Clear Ulduar 25 on Khaeli. Run Naxx 25 on the druid so she’s in better stead if ever needed for Ulduar. Run 10-man Malygos on the druid so she can complete the quest for the neckpiece.
Leveling: The hours spent inside Ulduar meant no time for other endeavors. The shaman did hit 60 a couple of nights ago, and thanks to my little brother via the Recruit-a-Friend program, no longer suffers from what K- calls “elephant butt.” Go go zhevra mount. The DK is still 78, as most of the time when I play her it’s to power-level K-‘s alt. K- and I did manage to run Halls of Lightning with me on the DK and him on the hunter. But it involved much dying, sadly. And each time I released to the graveyard, I went on autopilot back towards Ulduar, rather than into HoL.
To Do: Powerlevel K-‘s priest. Make him spec holy.
Argent Tournament: I haven’t had any time for the Argent Tournament either. Khaeli and Kaleyen became Champions of Darnassus last weekend, but we haven’t done the dailies since then. My druid and my DK should really do these quests too: Khrii for the “of Darnassus title” and the Tendrassil Seedling pet, the DK for the epic weapon (the titansteel weapon is so damn ugly; I must avoid it at all costs). I really suck at jousting, however, and if I have half an hour to quickly do dailies on alts, the last thing I’m going to opt to do is struggle to defeat those punkass valiants.
To Do: Dailies.
Professions/Farming: The time spent raiding has limited my time for farming. Herbs are harvested from the auction house, for example, making those folks who are engaged in frost lotus extortion quite happy, I’m sure. Thankfully, the druid is an alchemist and a cook and a fisherman, and so she’s able to keep Khaeli and Kaleyen fed and flasked.
To Do: Profit… or at least break even.
Raiding: Yeah that was awesome that you cleared 10 man Ulduar, can’t wait til I can go to a 10 man cause I want to learn all the encounters.
Leveling: Pssh, I dropped the 1k for dual specs! Missed my surge of light procs!
Everything else – lets farm the AH =P
Argent Tournament dailies are good money, especially once you hit champion.
You can complete most of the Valiant dailies while doing the Champion ones
(Valiant = Kill 10 Scourge, Champion = Kill 15 Scourge, etc).
Each champion daily you turn in gives you a choice of 10g in a bag, or rep with a home faction.
13g Champion turn in + 10g Purse + 13g Valiant Turn in = 36g for essentially one daily.
I have to do mine to cover repairs each night it’s the only reason I bothered going there on my Mage and now starting my Warlock.
That and L2Velage. Anytime you see Velage or Vanbank online, send him a tell about buying flasks. He sells them to guildies at 15g a pop, which will beat most nights on the AH, not to mention the time spent. I haven’t farmed a Stoneblood, Rage or Frostwyrm since back in Malygos.
Jousting is really easy once you know how.
1) Pre-stack your shield before you talk to the Valiant.
2) Stand there and melee until they get bored and try to get range.
3) Charge as soon as it lights up, and mouse turn back to them once you run them through.
4) Throw a shield breaker on the return trip.
5) Repeat and keep shield maxed if you get hit.
@ Jato: Actually, how I joust is this, “Babe, will you please log into Khaeli and defeat this little fucker from Gnomer for me, kkthx. I love you.”
there’s 2 ways to do jousting.
1. skill:
get 3 shields, talk to them and strafe immediatly away and do a charge when you can and upon getting near the challenger, immediatly melee, then using strafe to turn faster, use the speed from the charge to get distance on the mob and toss a shield breaker, then close the distance and melee while everything’s on CD. do it fast enough and all they do is melee. often, your charge CD will be up when they start to run from you, at this point, strafe away and charge them, and repeat the first step. I often take less than 4k damage doing this.
2. help:
noone else on a mount can help you, but people can use normal spells on the mobs. if you can wittle down the shield a bit, people can use spells on them and take them down quickly. they start off with 500k threat on the challenger, so pulling threat isn’t an issue (but I’ve never tried taunting, I wouldn’t if I were you.)
Her idea of help is me logging on her toon and completing them for her. It’s just quicker that way =P