Skyguard Journal
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:39 pm
Having way too many alts, and being primarily a solo'er, it's always a challenge to find new motivations to level my toons - these are some random experiences I had recently with my deathknight Evildolly, who is a lvl 79 gnome using unholy spec. Evildolly was originally Pamela Redpath's doll, but her time in the haunted house had left her rather, well, evil, and thus when Pamela ascended, her poor doll was left behind to fend for itself...
Frenzyheart Frenzybrew and the Hodir (single seat!) mammoth got me through wotlk, but I had about a 1/4 bar of XP left till 80... and I've always thought gnomes looked best on nether rays, so I figured what the heck - back to Outlands! And just a word in advance - this is not a /flex post, none of this is SRS BZNS, it's just me stumbling through and having fun.
Day 1: re-familiarized myself with Skettis - back in the day I spent absurd amounts of time here on my female NE Velocity (took me a while to get around to grouping for the Ogri'la chain), funny how much... smaller everything seems now (allowing for the fact that this toon is herself, much smaller...)
Day 2: ran the Ogri'la opening chain. Maggoc I managed okay, but it was downhill from there; Grulloc flattened me and while I almost beat Slaag, I didn't quite make it. Rather than retry, obsess about tricks and CDs etc, I switched to Velocity (now 85) and taught them both not to pick on her little sister (since the quest objective is a clickable object rather than a looted item). Switched back to Evildolly and blew through the next 2 ogre fights without any trouble and am now down wit' da ogres...
Day 3: more dailies, including some of the shard bosses in Blade's Edge Mtns - happily none are anywhere near as tough as Grulloc or even Slaag. Amazing how things open up out here when you no longer need to worry about finding a group to run the content! Also started camping the aether-tech event for the first time on Velocity - no 1:1 threats but intercepting the mobs before they can reach the NPC becomes quite the game of whack-a-mole.
Day 4: Evildolly still working on dailies, finished her Terokk chain but think I'll hold off fighting him till she's upgraded to cata greens... also worked on the consortium prison key progression with Velocity - kept the aether-tech alive through the swarm event and finally got a look at the rewards - pretty neat! I was able to buy enough proton accelerator things to do the accelerator boss a dozen times or so before the vendor despawned, but sadly just got a bunch of harbingers - Bash'ir himself didn't feel like visiting apparently.
Day 5: Evildolly is now up to honored, and can use the skyguard helipad to scoot back and forth, and the NPCs are starting to bow and scrape (yay cheap ego padding)... Velocity has given up grinding for prison keys and instead is running heroic mana-tombs to get up to exalted with Consortium - she was already about 12k/21k at start of wotlk so not too far to go, and once she makes exalted she'll have better benefits anyway...
Frenzyheart Frenzybrew and the Hodir (single seat!) mammoth got me through wotlk, but I had about a 1/4 bar of XP left till 80... and I've always thought gnomes looked best on nether rays, so I figured what the heck - back to Outlands! And just a word in advance - this is not a /flex post, none of this is SRS BZNS, it's just me stumbling through and having fun.
Day 1: re-familiarized myself with Skettis - back in the day I spent absurd amounts of time here on my female NE Velocity (took me a while to get around to grouping for the Ogri'la chain), funny how much... smaller everything seems now (allowing for the fact that this toon is herself, much smaller...)
Day 2: ran the Ogri'la opening chain. Maggoc I managed okay, but it was downhill from there; Grulloc flattened me and while I almost beat Slaag, I didn't quite make it. Rather than retry, obsess about tricks and CDs etc, I switched to Velocity (now 85) and taught them both not to pick on her little sister (since the quest objective is a clickable object rather than a looted item). Switched back to Evildolly and blew through the next 2 ogre fights without any trouble and am now down wit' da ogres...
Day 3: more dailies, including some of the shard bosses in Blade's Edge Mtns - happily none are anywhere near as tough as Grulloc or even Slaag. Amazing how things open up out here when you no longer need to worry about finding a group to run the content! Also started camping the aether-tech event for the first time on Velocity - no 1:1 threats but intercepting the mobs before they can reach the NPC becomes quite the game of whack-a-mole.
Day 4: Evildolly still working on dailies, finished her Terokk chain but think I'll hold off fighting him till she's upgraded to cata greens... also worked on the consortium prison key progression with Velocity - kept the aether-tech alive through the swarm event and finally got a look at the rewards - pretty neat! I was able to buy enough proton accelerator things to do the accelerator boss a dozen times or so before the vendor despawned, but sadly just got a bunch of harbingers - Bash'ir himself didn't feel like visiting apparently.
Day 5: Evildolly is now up to honored, and can use the skyguard helipad to scoot back and forth, and the NPCs are starting to bow and scrape (yay cheap ego padding)... Velocity has given up grinding for prison keys and instead is running heroic mana-tombs to get up to exalted with Consortium - she was already about 12k/21k at start of wotlk so not too far to go, and once she makes exalted she'll have better benefits anyway...