So, this weekend was a lot of fun.

We have a finished, carpeted basement, and a large portion of it flooded over the weekend, so our basment is a colelction of large fans, ripped up carpet and ruined drywall in patches. Yay us!

In other news, my Hunter went from 375 Herbalism to 291 Enchanting. I’m not planning on actually doing anything useful with Enchanting, I’m kind of holding that slot for Inscriptions in the next expansion, but having 2x Herbalism was silly. So now I can D/E anything that comes my way, and if I get it high enough I can keep my priest supplied with Wizard and Mana Oils.

Oh, you casters out there… you do use Superior Wizard and Superior Mana Oils as consumables along with your food and potions when you raid, right? You knew they stack with existing weapon enchants, right? Yeah, I knew you did.

Just like I’m sure all you feral druids are using the Adamantite Weightstone on your Earthwardens every time you raid.

Sure you are.

Anyway, so as far as Enchanting goes, I’ve leveled it once before to max on Windshadow, so the process was familiar… although when powerleveling the new Enchanting level requirement to D/E stuff is painful. I ain’t complaining, since I figure it’s the only thing thaqt prevents some folks from having all their gear D/E’d after being ninja’ed, but still made it more challenging.

The one lesson I’d like to pass on; if your server is as evil as mine when it comes to enchanting mats on the Auctiuon House, don’t forget to use your Disenchanting as a cost saver. With Auctioneer installed, Enchantrix will show you what an item has a chance to D/E into, as well as the quantity of stuff it provides.

What the hell does that mean?

It means when I needed obscene amounts of Vision Dust, I could have crafted Black Mageweave Gloves, and I did that for a little, but what if you have no Mageweave cloth and the AH is out of it? Do I farm Deadwood Furbolgs for two hours to get Mageweave to make Bolts of Mageweave to craft Black Mageweave Gloves to D/E into Vision Dust?

Well, yeah, I did that, until I lost patience.

The other thing you can do is do a search on the AH for all armor items from level 31-39, mouseover the item icons to see what each one D/E’s into, and if it’s dirt cheap AND has a high chance to D/E into the mat you want, buy it.

I needed about 100 Vision Dust. They were selling for about 1.4 gold each on our AH there this weekend.

I spent about 45 gold on items, disenchanted them, and not only got the Vision Dust I needed, but also a slew of other mats to make other enchants to level.

Word to the wise… if you are short on enchanting mats, go cruising the Auction House for underpriced greens to D/E.

Last note… there was a nice Wand at Sporeggar Revered that my priestie wanted. So I needed Sanguine Hibiscus for ther rep turn ins, and it costs silly amounts. So I decided to stealth into Underbog to go harvest it.

Now, if you happen to be a bear, and bored, and a Herbalist, Underbogs may sound like fun. You stealth in, dodge around the packs of mobs and harevst some Ancient Lichen, some Sanguine Hibiscus, it’s all good.

I found that I could stealth all the way past the first boss and up to the first patrolled ramp of the naga area before encoutnering mobs that can see through stealth.

I did that three times, and then boredom and laziness encouraged me to accidentally aggro the 4 pack of Underbats that wobbles around just after the first boss.

Instead of panicking like a mage I knew in Legatum would have done and running for the instance entrance (sorry, inside joke there), I instead stayed calm, manuevered the group into a corner away from the patrolling Bog Giants, triggered bear form and Demoralyzing Roar, and my Pocket Watch, and settled down to some serious whacking to see how many I could take down.

Popping Feral Regeneration was necessary before the fight was done, but at the end I stood, a bear triumphant. And surprised.

I looted them suckers and got two more Sanguine Hibiscus.

Wait, what? These guys drop them THAT OFTEN as loot?

Hmmm… I knew they dropped as loot, but never noticed that high a return.

And that led to the next thought… I wonder if I can solo a Bog Giant?

Ummm…. yeah. Easily.

Okay, new mission. I ain’t stealthing the instance anymore, now I’m just clearing the instance, at least until the Nagas.

And I did. Pull the underbats, whack ‘em down. Pull a Bog Giant, whack it down.

Note; if you decide to pull one of the groups of Underbog Shamblers, Frenzies and Lurkers… kill the damn Shambler first. And pull out all the stops to do it, because the little bastard heals himself constantly.

But yeah, I know it’s only a level 63 elite instance, but it’s still funny when you make that transition from “I need to sneak around” to “Screw these punk ass bitches, they’re going down.”

Do you stealth througth instances for good loot? Do you solo bear romp through some fun places? Share your favorites, I could use a new place to go sneak around!

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