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Unfortunately, that means he’s now up to Thorium, an annoying Ore to farm if there ever was one. But if I ever want to get my Blacksmithing up to 450 or thereabouts, it’s something that needs to be done.

So last night I went to Silithus looking for Thorium. As it turns out, most good ore nodes – the Rich Thorium Nodes that is – are underground in the Instect-thingy lairs. I hate farming on foot.

This morning, I made my merry way to Eastern Plaguelands, looking for Thorium. As you can see from the map below, the ore nodes in Eastern Plaguelands are pretty sparse, but all in all, have a decent respawn rate.

In terms of an Eastern Plaguelands Mining Route, I start from Light’s Hope Chapel, going north then west and make a full revolution, ignoring the area around Startholme, since there is basically no ore around there.

In 40 minutes for farming Thorium is Eastern Plaguelands, I gathered:

• 59 Thorium
• 6 Mithril
• 4 Truesilver
• 1 Arcane Crystal
• 1 Huge Emerald
• 1 Large Opal

This is not exactly spectacular, in terms of quantity, but hopefully I have recipes that don’t require insane amounts of Thorium to level. Perhaps the Belt or Bracers…

The value of all items gathered must run at about 200g, which is not bad for 40 minute’s work. Sadly, I won’t be selling them. In fact, I’m buying, if anyone has some Thorium to spare!

Anyways, tomorrow I will go back top Silithus and brave my fear of caves (and on-foot farming) to give you an idea of what can be gathered there.

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• Kithany, Level 61 Paladin
• Hamstav, Level 70 Rogue
• Mandorall, Level 70 Paladin

Now, the “Plan” was simple. I would Tank, Kithany would heal, and Hamstav would kill everything with his crazy Rogue DPS. It was a good plan. A simple plan. A straightforward plan. And we wiped twice in 10 minutes.

Mandorall, as the Official Tank of this particular endeavour, was singularly ill-equipped to deal even with the trash mobs, being a Retribution Paladin.

Needless to say, he was quite embarrassed. He IS level 70, after all! So he spent maybe 25g re-speccing to Protection, following the Talent build provided by WoWWiki. 49 Points in Protection, 12 Points in Retribution, mostly to get the Improved Judgement, which is totally worth it. (like, totally, dude)

Then came the challenge of finding decent gear. For that purpose, I called on Morevan, my Epic-wearing Warrior-Tank Extraordinaire friend, for his recommendations. Mandorall doesn’t really raid, so Epic drops are out of the question. He recommended:

• Felsteel Helm
• Felsteel Gloves
• Felsteel Leggings

I managed to acquire the set for about 210g, total. Mandorall is a lazy Blacksmith and he can’t make it himself. I spend another 10g for some gems for the sockets, and voila! I was ready to try out my new tanking abilities.

It was a dark, stormy and undead-filled night when Kithany, Hamstav & Mandorall returned to Stratholme. Despite one early wipe – we went in the back door, bad idea – it was one of the easiest instance runs I’d ever done. Keeping aggro was not a problem, and taking out groups of 10 or more mobs, including Elites, was child’s play.

Even after Kithany had gathered all her Stratholme Holy Water, we stayed around killing more mobs because it was just so easy.

Mandorall has finally discovered how gear really DOES make a difference, and through it, has been introduced to the Joys of Tanking. Incidently, he also discovered how everyone snickers behind the backs of Retribution Paladins, as they are so useless.

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