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My Blood Elf Paladin, Wesha

Renei — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:08:57 +0000

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Hey everyone! I know its been a long time since I wrote, and I want to talk about what I’ve been doing. In real life, my ongoing battle to quit smoking is still raging, with no easy victory achieved there, and I’ve started learning Kung Fu.

But enough of this real-life stuff! My adventures in World of Warcraft have been ongoing, despite the fact that I’ve not played any of my high-level toons for a while now. Mordauk, Mandorall, Renei, even Grunman have been mothballed for the foreseeable future (an oxymoron, I know, since the future is by definition not foreseeable). Couple of reasons for this: our guild leader, Chianna, seems to have retired (maybe she’s playing Everquest?) and with her gone, the spirit of the guild seems to have leaked out like a punctured tire. This means no other way to do instances than with PUGS and I dislike that quite a bit. Too many doosches.

Plus, as I’m sure you know, running instances take TIME, which I’m trying to spend on some other endeavours.

BUT. I could not – would not – kill the WoW monster entirely, and for that purpose, I have created a new character: it is WESHA, an outrageously conceited, albeit very good looking, Blood Elf Paladin. After what seems like very little time actually played, Wesha is now level48 and well on his way to the Outlands, and Northrend beyond it. I’m not sure whether I’ll have the gumption to play him all the way to 80, but right now it seems like a distinct possibility.

‘You know what I love most about your eyes? When I look deep into them, … I can see my own reflection.”

Love that. Can’t wait to try it out! Of course Wesha has got a dead squirrel on his tabard, so it may make it difficult for him to pick up chicks.

But anyways. The number of zones to clear to gain levels seems to have dropped again, the whole of vanilla WoW seems nerfed and easy. Not that I’m complaining, since I’m playing alone, mostly. But it seems too easy. When I played Mandorall, way back when, it seemed that reaching level 30 – for example – was a real feat, and getting the slow mount at LEVEL FORTY something worthy of respect. Not so much now.

Neither here nor there. My conviction that what I love most about World of Warcraft is to gain levels, rediscover abilities, and enjoy the increased power and destructive potential of my toons is intact.

Of course, I can’t wait for the new expansion, but I’m wondering which of my characters will have the honour of playing it first.

We’ll see when we get there! And remember to check out my food website for cool new recipes and tales of my culinary adventures!

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Ragefire Chasm For Ultra Fast Linen Farming

Renei — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:22:23 +0000

I did very few instances on the Horde side, especially the low-level ones, because when I started playing my Tauren Shaman I knew pretty much no one and I wanted to concentrate on my leveling.

My shaman, Grunman, is now level 66 and well able to clear l0w-level instances alone, so I sent him to Ragefire Chasm, a very low level instance smack in the middle of Orgrimmar.

Now I won’t be as precise as my other instance articles, because quite frankly, there is not much to talk about. The mobs are all level 13-16 Elites and are mostly Humanoids, but there are some Beasts and a few Elementals as well.

The uncommon (‘green’) item drop rate is very good, if you are looking for things to disenchant. I did two runs and averaged about 15 bind-on-equip green items, as well as 2 or 3 bind-on-pickup Blues.

What is really exceptional about Ragefire Chasm is the Linen Cloth drop rate. In my two runs I managed to pick up 112 and 105 linen cloths, respectively.

Now you’re saying, Alex come on, that’s not very much… And you’re right, except for the little fact that the instance take me about 20 minutes to clear, killing every single mob. It would be even easier if you were doing with a Paladin or a Mage, since my Shaman basically has to kill all the mobs one by one.

In conclusion, if you are looking to run an instance for cash, Ragefire Chasm is not the place for you. However, if you are looking for Linen cloth to level Tailoring in a new toon, or for cheap and fast low-level Uncommon Green items for disenchanting or equipping said low-level toon, then you will not be disappointed.

A note of caution: Ragefire Chasm is Horde only. It is situated in the Cleft of Shadows right in the middle of Orgrimmar, and any Alliance character — except maybe a very high level rogue — would be hard pressed to make it there. I don’t think it would be worth it. Alliance people, stick with Deadmines!

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One Hordish Weekend

Renei — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:33:52 +0000

I had several family obligations this weekend, but managed to put in quite a few hours of play. My girlfriend has papers due at school and final exams are coming up quickly, so that left me with some quality playing time.

I’ve been playing my horde Tauren Shaman recently, mostly because I’ve never seriously played a Horde character. It is incredibly fun to start over and discover all the low level quests on the other side that I’ve never done, to once again be excited to sell something for 1g, and to really enjoy and use that level 12 mace that dropped!

Let me tell you, the Barrens are LARGE! I really liked that area, even though I’ve now moved on, for several reasons:

Many flight points, i.e. Ratchet, Crossroads, Camp Taurajo, cuts down on the running-around time
Proximity to Ogrimnar. I homed there for the convenience of the Auction House and Bank.
Good variety of missions and mobs, lots of beasts to skin, some dwarves and alliance-type mobs to kill, not too many escort missions (which I detest)

I must say I am still disappointed that I only managed to get one Blue in 25 levels, but that’s the luck of the draw and there’s nothing I can do about it.

Grunman is now level 28, still poorly equipped, and has now moved on to Stonetalon Mountains and Ashenvale. He is a little to high level for Stonetalon, and a lot of the missions there are grey, however if you stick with it and do them they do have interesting follow-ups with decent (not great) rewards.

One thing that I noticed is that grey missions, when completed, will award from 250 to 575 xps, which I think I more than it used to. Maybe that also has to do with the latest patch intended to speed up leveling from 1-60. Maybe someone can let me know whether that’s the case.

On a purely technical note, I’ve added an auto-responder sign up form at the top right of each page. I encourage you to sign up so I can keep you up-to-date on new posts, articles and maybe offers, although I’ve not come up with any as of this moment. I shouldn’t be emailing you more than once a week, and of course I will never share your email address with anyone.

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