New Pet

Done! Zephyr is now a two-headed white bird!

It was a cake. I don't know why I thought it was an elite (it wasn't). It still hurt though, got me to about 50% life, and I'm four levels above it!

There weren't even that many mobs around. In the end I killed a few extra to learn Screech 5 off the Windroc...

Pet Abilities

One other matter with regards to the taming of the new Zephyr, I'll need to grab Screech 5.

It's a bit fortunate that Greater Windrocs in Nagrand has this. I guess I'll tame a lvl 66 version to bring along as the 'throw-away' pet.

Also, have re-looked at Pet Skills since this was slightly changed. Have settled on the following.

Common Skills (Active)
Growl - Rank 8 (0 pts)
Bite - Rank 9 (2 9pts)

Common Skills (Passive)
Great Stamina - Rank 5 (50 pts)
Natural Armor - Rank 11 (175 pts)
Avoidance - Rank 2 (25 pts)
Cobra Reflexes - Rank 1 (15 pts)

Cat Skills (Active)
Claw - Rank 9 (29 pts)
Dash - rank 3 (25 pts)

Carrion Bird Skills (Active)
Screech - Rank 5 (29 pts)
Dive - rank 3 (25 pts)

This will be retuned based on their expected usage (PvE for bird, PvP for cat), but for now, this is it.

Second Pet

While I do like the blue skin on Zephyr, it's gotten not so special since appearing in Outlands as a normal mob. To be honest, I have yet to see anyone else with one, but still, it's sort of lost that little bit of uniqueness. So, I have yet to even look at leveling Zep, concentrating on Frostbite instead.

Anyway, I think I've settled on the replacement. This little beauty... Trachela, mate of Torgos.

The complication is that she is immune to any form of CC like the usual Frost Trap, or Frost Nova, sheep, etc. So, guess I'll have no choice but to tank her while taming.

I recall the area is crowded with adds though, so might need to bring a trash pet to clear the area first. She also hits a bit like a truck (well, she did when I was that level...), so might even have to bring some healzbotz help...

This'll be a little project to break the monotony of grinding skins and metal...

Engineering Mats

From 350 -> 375, it's going to be a lot of luck involved... However, to craft the three items that I intend to make from 350 skill (the Goggles, the teleporter and the rocket launcher), these are the mats to gather:
9 Khorium Bars
120 Adamantite Bars
40 Fel Iron Bars
24 Eternium Bars
3 Primal Fire

This translates to:
3 Khorium Power Cores
4 Hardened Adamantite Tube
6 Felsteel Stabilizer
4 Fel Iron Bolts

I'll need to see with how much skill-ups these items will give. In all likelihood, I'll make everything except the goggles and spam Adamantite Rifles (2 Thorium Tubes, 2 Adamantite Frames, and 4 Fel Iron Bolts) till 370, then make the goggles. Then farm for the Khorium Scope recipe and make four of them to get to 375.

No matter how u look at it, that's a lot of metal...

Professions Leveling

Just to maintain a record of items to level with. Some of the items in the list will have higher material cost than what is the minimum but it's gear that someone can use.

Blacksmithing 316 -> 375
316-330 Fel Iron Plate Boots (6 x Fel Iron Bar) x 13
Fel Iron Plate Pants (8 x Fel Iron Bar) x 2

331-332 Fel Iron Breastplate (10 x Fel Iron Bar) x 2

333 Skyforged Great Axe (10 x Adamantite Bar, 6 x Primal Air) x 1

334 Adamantite Cleaver (8 x Adamantite Bar) x 1

335-340 Adamantite Dagger (7 x Adamantite Bar, 2 x Knothide Leather) x 6

341-344 Lesser Ward of Shielding (1 x Adamantite Bar) x 4

345-346 Adamantite Plate Bracers (6 x Adamantite Bar, 2 x Primal Earth, 2 x Primal Fire) x 2

347-348 Adamantite Plate Gloves (8 x Adamantite Bar, 2 x Knothide Leather, 3 x Primal Earth, 2 x Primal Fire) x 2

349-350 Adamantite Breastplate (12 x Adamantite Bar, 4 x Primal Earth, 2 x Primal Fire) x 2

351 Adamantite Rod (10 x Adamantite Bar)

352-360 Adamantite Sharpening Stone (1 x Adamantite Bar, 2 x Mote of Earth) x 9
(If there is a market for it, can replace with Adamantite Rod)

361 The Planar Edge (5 x Primal Might, 20 x Primal Shadow, 2 x Hardened Adamantite Bar, 12 x Felsteel Bar)

362-375 Flamebane Gloves (8 x Fel Iron Bar, 4 x Primal Water, 4 x Primal Fire) x 14
(Requires Aldor - Friendly)

Leatherworking 351 -> 375
351 Felstalker Belt (6 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 4 x Fel Hide, 8 x Crystal Infused Leather, 6 x Primal Air, 2 x Rune Thread)

352 Fel Leather Gloves (6 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 6 x Fel Hide, 6 x Primal Shadow, 3 x Rune Thread)
(Requires Consortium - Friendly)

353 - 357 Heavy Knothide Armor Kit (3 x Heavy Knothide Leather) x 5

358-360 Riding Crop (4 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 1 x Primal Might, 6 x Arcane Dust, 1 x Small Prismatic Shard) x 3

361 Fel Leather Boots (10 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 8 x Fel Hide, 8 x Primal Shadow, 3 x Rune Thread)
(Requires Consortium - Honoured)

362 Fel Leather Leggings (10 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 10 x Fel Hide, 10 x Primal Shadow, 3 x Rune Thread)
(Requires Consortium - Revered)

363 Quiver of a Thousand Feathers (8 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 99 x Light Feather, 2 x Primal Air, 1 x Primal Nether)
(Requires Lower City - Revered)

364 Netherscale Ammo Pouch (12 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 12 x Nether Dragonscale, 4 x Primal Earth, 1 x Primal Nether)
(Requires Thrallmar - Revered)

365 Heavy Clefthoof Boots (4 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 20 x Thick Clefthoof Leather, 4 x Primal Earth, 2 x Rune Thread)
(Requires Cenarion Expedition - Friendly)

366 Heavy Clefthoof Leggings (6 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 34 x Thick Clefthoof Leather, 4 x Primal Earth, 2 x Rune Thread)
(Requires Cenarion Expedition - Honoured)

367 Felstalker Bracer (6 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 6 x Fel Hide, 6 x Crystal Infused Leather, 4 x Primal Air, 2 x Rune Thread)
(Requires Thrallmar - Honoured)

368 Felstalker Breastplate (10 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 4 x Fel Hide, 8 x Crystal Infused Leather, 8 x Primal Air, 2 x Rune Thread)
(Requires Thrallmar - Honoured)

369 Heavy Clefthoof Vest (6 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 40 x Thick Clefthoof Leather, 4 x Primal Earth, 2 x Rune Thread)
(Requires Cenarion Expedition - Honoured)

370 Bag of Many Hides (15 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 5 x Wind Scales, 5 x Fel Hide, 5 x Nether Dragonscales, 5 x Thick Clefthoof Leather, 3 x Rune Thread)

371 - 375 Drums of Panic (6 x Heavy Knothide Leather, 4 x Fel Hide) x 5
(Requires Keeper of Time - Friendly)

Jewelcrafting 226 -> 300
225-250 Thorium Setting (1 x Thorium Bar) x 40
(Along the way, make a Figurine - Truesilver Crab)

250-255 Red Ring of Destruction (1 x Star Ruby, 1 x Thorium Setting) x 5

255-265 Truesilver Healing Ring (2 x Truesilver Bar, 2 x Heart of the Wild) x 10 (Or Ruby Pendant of Fire or a mix of both)

265-290 Simple Opal Ring (1 x Large Opal, 1 x Thorium Setting)
Sapphire Signet (4 x Blue Sapphire, 2 x Truesliver Bar, 1 x Thorium Setting)
Diamond Focus Ring (1 x Azerothian Diamond, 1 x Thorium Setting)
(Any of the above, making Simple Opal Rings first, then Diamond Focus Rings, finally Sapphire Signets

290-300 Onslaught Ring (1 x Powerful Mojo, 1 x Essence of Earth, 1 x Thorium Setting)
Emerald Lion Ring (2 x Huge Emerald, 1 x Thorium Setting)
(Either of the above, making Onslaught Ring first)

Pally (& Tank) End-Game Gear

VERY premature, but since I'm researching...

Head: Myrmidon's Headdress (Quest Reward: The Warlord's Hideout)
Neck: Thalodien's Charm (Quest Reward: Shutting Down Manaforge Ara [Scryer])
Shoulders: Spaulders of the Righteous (Botanica, Laj)
Back: Devilshark Cape (Steamvault, Warlord Kalithresh)
Chest: Breastplate of the Righteous (Steamvault, Warlord Kalithresh)
Wrist: Sha'tari Wrought Armguards (Quest Reward: The Soul Devices)
Hand: Felsteel Gloves (Crafted)
Waist: Sha'tari Vindicator's Waistguard (Quest Reward: How to Break into Arcatraz)
Legs: Timewarden's Leggings (Rep Reward: Keepers of Time - Revered)
Feet: Ascendant's Boots (Quest Reward: A Job Unfinished...)
Ring: Elementium Band of the Sentry (Arcatraz, Harbinger Skyriss)
Ring: Delicate Eternium Ring (Crafted)
Trinket: Darkmoon Card: Vengence (Quest Reward: Darkmoon Furies Deck)
Trinket: Figurine - Dawnstone Crab (Crafted)

Main Hand: Crystalforged Sword (Made from Depleted Sword, BOE)
Off Hand: Gladiator's Shield Wall (PvP)
Libram: Libram of Zeal (PvP Reward: Hellfire)

Obviously, this will be close to the gear to get for Eld to tank in as well... The exceptions are
Neck: Strength of the Untamed (Rep Reward: Cenarion Expedition - Revered)
Shoulder: Shoulderguards of the Bold (Shadow Labyrinth, Murmur)
Chest: Vindicator's Hauberk (Rep Reward: Aldor - Revered)
Trinket: Adamantine Figurine (Shadow Labyrinth, Blackheart the Inciter)

Main Hand: Grom'tor's Charge (Quest Reward: The Cipher of Damnation)
Ranged: Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer (Crafted)

For the feet, those boots are only available if grinding the Netherwing rep questline. If not, these will suffice.
Feet: Flesh Beast's Metal Greaves (Quest Reward: Someone Else's Hard Work Pays Off)

Upgrades Prior to Heroics for Mart

Have pretty much gotten the best I can get for now. Just missing these pieces.

Waist: Dragonmaw Augur's Cinch (Quest Reward: A Job Unfinished...) [with Runed Living Ruby and Glowing Nightseye]
Ring: Ashyen's Gift (Cenarion Expedition Exalted)
Trinket: Oculus of the Hidden Eye (Auchenai Crypts, Shirrak the Dead Watcher)

Ashyen's Gift loses out a bit of +dmg, but the +hit will more than make up the difference as compared to my current ring.

The trinket can be skipped if I start Heroics & gathering Badges of Honour for Icon of the Silver Crescent.

Speaking of Heroics, would also need Primal Nether for these crafted pieces (& the receipe for the Girdle as well...).

Helm: Destruction Holo-gogs (Engineering Crafted)
Belt: Girdle of Ruination (Tailoring Crafted, BOE)

Badge of Justice

Well, not near Heroics at the moment, but just to note that I'll need to collect 66 Badges. That's a lot of runs...

Orb of the Soul-Eater (25 Badges)
Icon of the Silver Crescent (41 Badges)

Factions after Patch

Not much changes, but added in the new factions to this. Left out the pure raiding one since it looks like tat will be out of the question.

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