T2 Lookalike

With help from some wonderful people (Thi, Bact, Panda & Horse), Gren finished the Teron Gorefiend questline last night. After help from a nice Rogue who cut the Nightseye for me and stopping by Blade's Edge Mountain for a few quests to push the Cenarion rep up to Revered for the Head enchant, I've managed to upgrade the rather ho hum



to the much more exciting



She still looks odd with the helm, but what the heck...

I LOVE Transporter Malfunctions

In another display of my hidden wish to look good (aka be Ally), the Transporter Malfunction which afflicted Mart made me look like a male Night Elf,



Then, it was a female Draenei (aka goat lady)



I think I should teleport more often...

To Crit or To Hit?

First, some basic info about crit and hit.

The StatMod for all Combat Ratings are the same, ie the 'cost' of 1 CSR is the same as 1 Hit Rating. At lvl 70, 15.8 HR = 1% hit and 22.1 CSR = 1% crit

The base chance to miss is 5% (against lvl 70 mobs), 5.5% (lvl 71), 6% (lvl 72) and 9% (lvl 73).

Ranged attack will not cause Glancing Blows and cannot be dodged or parried. Players cannot cause Crushing Blows.

So, for hunter, the attack table consists of the following

• Miss (max 9%)
• Block (max 5%)
• Crit
• Hit

On paper, this seems that given the choice, running about 6% HR (or 94.8 Hit Rating) would be optimum. You'll reduce to zero the miss chance against lvl 72 and below mobs which means more white hits.

However, the crit cap in this case is 86%, which is far beyond what you can reasonably achieve even with the best gear in this game. In addition, for BM hunters, crits proc abilities like Kill Command, and Go for the Throat, and benefits from Mortal Shots (if you have the appropriate talents). So, I would think that for BM hunters, crit is superior to hit in any scenario, even if CSR is 1.3 times more expensive than HR.

Hunter Gear

I was going to just leave her gear as is, but I've decided to at least upgrade with quest reward and crafted gears. However, I think I'll leave out quests from instances, as I'll rather run those with Mart for rep. (The exception is the Grandmother questline as it only requires a quick run of Crypts)

Head: Stalker's Helmet of Second Sight (Teron Gorefiend, I am..., Shadowmoon Valley)
Neck: Natasha's Choker (The Hound-Master, Blade's Edge Mountain)
Shoulder: Earthmender's Crimson Spaulders (Escape from Coilskar Cistern, Shadowmoon Valley)
Back: Dawnstrike's Cloak (Down with Daellis, Netherstorm)
Chest: Felstalker Breastplate (Crafted)
Wrists: Felstalker Bracers (Crafted)
Hands: Ar'tor's Mainstay (The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered, Shadowmoon Valley)
Waist: Felstalker Belt (Crafted)
Legs: Mag'hari Huntsman's Leggings (Hero of the Mag'har, Nagrand)
Feet: Boots of the Outlander (already using)

Ring: Kaylaan's Signet (Deathblow to the Legion, Netherstorm)
Ring: Slayer's Mark of the Redemption (Dissension Amongst the Ranks..., Shadowmoon Valley)
Trinket: Mark of Conquest (Hellfire PVP)
Trinket: Bladefist's Breadth (already using)

Main Hand: Ceremonial Warmaul Blood-Blade (already using)
Off Hand: Shani's Crysknife (already using)
Ranged: Consortium Blaster (Rep Reward: Consortium - Revered)

That's based on the use of Mail items only. However, if we include Leather (& based on the rather crappy Mail pieces available in some slots, might have no choice...), the following will come into play.

Shoulders: Talbuk Hide Spaulders (Rep Reward: Mag'har - Revered)
Chest: Mag'hari Scout's Tunic (Hero of the Mag'har, Nagrand)
Legs: Fel Leather Leggings (Crafted)

Screenshots

Some screenshots of the end-sequence...

Here we go...



Illidan Stormrage...



Oops... Found out...



Escape back to Shat...



Onyx Drake... :)

Done!

Just hit exalted and finished off the Netherwing grind... Being flown back to Shat City as I write this... Cool...

End in Sight

12,025/21,000

Which means 4 more days... I can shorten this to three days if I either finish the races (very unlikely) or find 3 more eggs. While it's tough to depend on the RNG, so far, the odds are that I find at least an egg each night (think the record is three). So, might happen! 3 days and 3 eggs...

Daily Quests - Money Maker?

I've been thinking of this...

Each day, I spend about two hours on Netherwing Daily Quests for the rep. Purely from quest rewards, I get 97G and change. Including gray vendor drops, this goes up almost 110G, with the greens to go. The thing is this... If I streamline the process, ie, drop the Nagrand flight (which takes about 30 minutes, including travel time), it's still about 100G for 1.5 hours. (actually, the Nagrand flight is ok. Good for pee breaks)

I've looked at the other daily quests. There aren't many other dailies, which means each area has only a small number of dailies, making it even more inefficient.

It may get really boring afterawhile... But, so are all other money generating grinds...

Stupid Race

OK. The Dragonmaw race is going to drive me mad...

I've been stuck at the Mulverick's race for awhile, and have been tantalisingly close quite a few times... I'm seriously tempted to skip this (& the last race). In the time I spent on this race, I could have farmed the mats or the money for a Riding Crop... :p

Anyway, I'm about 1000 away from Revered... After that, would need to see how soloable the attack on Scryer town is...

Otherwise, Gren got her flying mount. It'll help in the rounds at Nagrand for mining, which is something I should get back to once I'm done with the Netherwing grind.

Netherwing Update

So far, hasn't been too bad... After four days of grinding, I'm at 5475/6000 Friendly. Should hit Honoured tonight, which will mean a lot of time on the races quest.

I've done some calculations. Assuming I do all the quests and all the daily quests every day, I should hit Exalted on the 16th Sep. However, I should lose one day to server maintenance, so make that 17th Sep.

However, if I can gather 8 more eggs, that will cut it short by a day.

The second question is the Daily quest for the defence of Scryer town. I've assumed that it's feasible to do every day (which means soloable, or can find a group for it every day). If not, it will add two days to the grind, which isn't too bad either. However, if I can gather 3 more eggs, then it'll only add one day... Confused? Hah!

However, money-wise, this grind has been rewarding. I'm estimating at least 70g a day, from quests and drops. Should be able to afford the flying mount for Gren by the time I get the drake for Mart.

Also, I've decided to get the Onyx Netherdrake. Looks the nicest among the bunch of them.

Aesthetics

I've always maintained that Tier 2 are still the nicest looking armor set... Well, maybe not for mage, but certainly for lock and pally. If I get bored, here's the recoloured TBC equivalent...

Warlock
Head: Demonfang Ritual Helm (The Underbog (H), The Black Stalker)
Shoulder: Mantle of Three Terrors (The Black Morass, Chrono Lord Deja)
Chest: Vermillion Robes of the Dominant (The Steamvault, Warlord Kalithresh)
Waist: Sash of Serpentra (The Steamvault, Warlord Kalithresh)
Legs: Devil-Stitched Leggings (The Botanica, Laj)
Feet: Extravagant Boots of Malice (Mana-Tombs (H), Tavarok)
Wrist: Crimson Bracers of Gloom (Hellfire Ramparts (H), Omor the Unscarred)
Hands: Gloves of the Deadwatcher (Auchenai Crypts (H), Shirrak the Dead Watcher)

Paladin
Helm: Mask of Pennance (The Steamvault, Mekgineer Steamrigger)
Shoulder: Justice Bearer's Pauldrons (Hellfire Ramparts (H), Omor the Unscarred)
Chest: Breastplate of Many Graces (Shadow Labyrinth, Grandmaster Vorpil)
Belt: Girdle of Many Blessings (The Slave Pens (H), Rokmar the Crackler)
Legs: Cassock of the Loyal (The Underbog (H), Hungarfen)
Boots: Boots of the Watchful Heart (Old Hillsbrad (H), Captain Skarloc)
Bracers: Virtue Bearer's Vambraces (Blood Furnace (H), Broggok)
Gloves: Life Bearer's Gauntlets (Hellfire Ramparts (H), Nazan)

In honour of my first 60 (the retired shaman), and also because Ten Storms do look really cool, I'll try to collect the look-alike set for my Blood Elf to look pretty in (she's going to need a few Primal Mooncloth bags, at this rate...)

Shaman
Head: Headdress of the Tides (The Underbog (H), Ghaz'an)
Shoulder: Mantle of the Sea Wolf (Mana-Tombs (H), Tavarok)
Chest: Harness of the Deep Currents (Shadow Labyrinth, Murmur)
Belt: Stillwater Girdle (Mana-Tombs (H), Nexus-Prince Shaffar)
Legs: Oceansong Kilt (Hellfire Ramparts (H), Nazan)
Boots: Wavefury Boots (The Slave Pens (H), Rokmar the Crackler)
Bracers: Primal Surge Bracers (The Black Morass, Aeonus)
Gloves: Fathomheart Gauntlets (The Steamvault, Warlord Kalithresh)

Netherwing

Broke a few piggybanks, but got the 5K & started the rep grind. The drop rates on these quests are a pain... The 40 crystals daily are going to be a problem... Oh well... It's something to keep occupied. At least the grey drops aren't bad money-wise...

BOP Recipes

Something to grind when I'm bored... These are the BOP recipes that drop from non-instance mobs. Will only see them if you are of the right tradeskill. Will check for Alchemy and Enchanting when they get to the right level.

Engineering
Khorium Scope - Sunfury Bowman (Netherstorm)
Hyper-Vision Goggles - Mo'arg Weaponsmith (Shadowmoon Valley)
Felsteel Boomstick - Doomforge Engineer (Blade's Edge Mountain)

Blacksmithing
Greater Ward of Shielding - Sunfury Bloodwarder (Netherstorm)
Ragesteel Breastplate - Ashtongue Warrior, Crazed Murkblood Miner (Shadowmoon Valley)
Ragesteel Gloves - Boulderfist Warrior (Nagrand)
Ragesteel Helm - Anger Guard (Blade's Edge Mountain)
Khorium Boots - Disembodied Protector (Netherstorm)
Khorium Pants - Deathforge Guardian (Shadowmoon Valley)
Khorium Belt - Murkblood Raider (Nagrand)

70 no. 2

Gren dinged 70 grinding the Ethereals at the Heap... So, it's back to grinding quests for money for Mart's epic flying mount.

I'm short about 300g or so. Shouldn't be too tough to make up...