Though I intended to continue on in Gothic tonight, I wound up spending most of my time in WoW, of course. I did make a good amount of progress though, getting my mage to level 27 and, more importantly, raising his enchanting skill to 230. I’ve run out of essences and dusts though, so from here on it’s going to be more expensive and/or slower…
Lately, most of my time in WoW has actually been spent on my mage alt. Over the weekend I managed to get him from level 19 to 26, and raised jewelcrafting to 217 and enchanting to 136 (enchanting’s a bit of a pain to raise). It’s strange because he’s simultaneously more boring than my warrior (just cast Frostbolt over and over and over…), but more interesting because I can’t approach situations the same way by just barging in like I would with the warrior.
I didn’t neglect my warrior entirely though, managing to complete the zone quest achievement in Zangarmarsh, collect a few more aspirant tokens at the Argent Tournament, and finally got around to socketing some of my equipment. With the boost of a few gems, I finally have a defense rating of 536 on him, which is good enough to avoid crits in non-heroic dungeons (I need 540 for heroics).
I spent most of my time in WoW tonight working through some of the Auchindon dungeons, to try and clear out some old quests. I forgot that Exarch Maladaar was the boss of the western area though, and he’s pretty much impossible for me to solo right now due to his ability to clone me and summon help.
I did manage to work my way through the eastern dungeon for the first time, completing a couple of quests there and getting the key for the southern one. I couldn’t make it all the way through the south dungeon since one of the mid-bosses was too tough, but I did make it deep enough to get a book for a Nagrand quest and resume that quest chain.
Unfortunately I don’t think any of them counted towards zone quests that I still need for achievements…
I took a bit of a break from the usual daily routine today and went around collecting some pets, picking up a couple cats, a couple of wyrmlings from the Blood Elf newbie areas, a worg from a quest in LBRS, and a giant frog from the Darkmoon Faire (though the egg for that one won’t hatch for a week). I’m still about three pets short of having 50 total though, which would get me a skunk pet as a reward.
And since I was fooling around in LBRS anyway, I picked up the pieces of the attunement quest for UBRS and finished it off as well. There were other quests I could have done in there along the way, but I didn’t really have room in my quest log. Oh well, it’s an easy enough area at this point, so I’m sure I’ll be back later.
Still not much exciting happening lately, but I did at least eventually get a full set of Brewfest clothing and the second-last achievement for the event. I’m still missing the last one since I never got around to doing the fight with Coren Darkbrew, but there’s always next year. The Darkmoon Faire is starting up and I got the two frog pets from it, but I’m not sure if there’s really anything worthwhile that I can buy with tickets anymore.
Other than that, I picked up a nifty little game called Windosill on Steam. It’s really just a Flash game that’s a series of 10 puzzles, but they’re really well-done and it only cost $3.
Things remain calm in WoW, with the recent highlights being more work on collecting Brewfest tokens (I’ve picked up the pink elephant pet as well), and working on some old zones and quests.
I’ve picked up the achievements for completing quests in Netherstorm, Terokkar, and Dragonblight now, but a few quests still elude me in other zones. In Zul’Drak I think I’ll need to do the Amphitheatre of Anguish fights, which will need a full group; I have a long quest chain I still need to finish off in Nagrand, which should get me close to completion there; in Blade’s Edge it looks like I’ll need to do some tough miniboss fights; and Ironcrown still has a bunch of tougher group ones I need to do.
And I’ve also been working on miscellaneous other achievements, like picking up mounts and pets, cooking recipes, etc. I’m getting close to finishing off the cooking and fishing achievements as well.
Just yet more Brewfest and daily runs in WoW last night, but I did finally hit 450 cooking skill, and found a new item in my email:
Not much to report lately, as all I’ve been doing in WoW is the daily Brewfest quests for some more tokens, and a few other simple dailies. I’ve subscribed to the Brew Of The Month club, but still need a lot more tokens for the pink elephant pet and the Brewfest outfit.
Today in WoW was all about beer, as Brewfest began. Most of the achievements were acquired pretty quickly, but a few others will have to wait until I gain enough tokens for completing the dailies, and one was a bit too tough to solo (I wandered down to Blackrock Depths to face an opponent only to discover he had over 300k health…).
In WoW today, I popped back into some of the older zones, looking for quests around the Terrokar and Nagrand areas. I found a few of them, including a couple treks into Auchindon, but I’m still one short of the achievement in Terrokar, as most of them just didn’t count towards that. Tracking down these last few quests is getting to be a pain…
I also killed some time with a bit of fishing, getting another achievement there and working on cooking along with it.