Comments on: Oh, What a Knight

By: dorgol

dorgol — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:04:21 +0000

I abused the BoA honor tokens on my (at the time 44, I think) Shaman – instead of gear, though, I bought all 5 PvP mounts:

50,000 honor per mount * 5 mounts = 250,000 honor
250,000 honor / 2,000 honor per token = 125 Honor Tokens
125 Honor Tokens * 30 Stonekeeper Shards each = 3,750 Stonekeeper Shards

All that Honor could have been turned into Epic Gems at 10,000 honor per @ 100g gem or around 2,500 gold.

But it was totally worth it to be able to ride around on a Kodo, Hawkstrider, Skeletal Horse, and Raptor.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:27:22 +0000

Dabien, not only do I thank you for your advice, but I am now going to go scurry off and do just that. Thanks!

Shane… there was no tales from the trip 3, because there was only one thing that really happened after TotT2 that would have been amusing and relevant, and that was our trip to Bear Country,USA. And all that would have consisted of was lots of pics of big bear butts au naturale. And even then, I didn’t have a laptop powerful enough to crop/modify all the bear photos at the time. By the time we were back at home and I had the computer power to do the photos… well, we were home.

By: Dabien

Dabien — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:53:49 +0000

Just wanted to recommend something for your rogues shiny new headpiece.

At 62, thats the lowest you can possibly get a headpiece with a meta socket, that specific headpiece. If you place Thundering Skyflare Diamond (http://www.wowhead.com/item=41400) in it, along with a Nightmare Tear (http://www.wowhead.com/item=49110) to activate it, it should give you around 40% haste when it procs. Might cost you a couple of hundred gold, but you should be able to breeze through elites with it.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:32:23 +0000

I will say this as a hordie on Shu’halo: Im positively livid when the alliance has control of WG. Thats not their place its ours. I actively participate in WG as often as i can on a rotation of my alts. Then every so often the alliance storms the fortress and defeats us… lol, but then us hordies are usually still in the fortress fighting until we are overwhelmed even after the loss.

PS. What happened to tales of the trip iii? I was expecting you to put another post up. As a non-american its always interesting to find out what you guys have int he backwaters of your country… :D

By: Qwicksylver

Qwicksylver — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:44:19 +0000

I totally know the feeling. When my druid hit 80 I quickly got a hold of some Stone Keeper Shards and then after a few weeks of not getting the drops I needed to upgrade my gear I decided man I will just cash these in get some honor and buy the PvP stuff. Surely the pvp epics have to be better than my level 74-76 blues and what not. So First I looked i was at like 180 SKS and I was like “Woot”! I hearth to Dal only to find out we don’t have WG. Okay no biggie I keep playing 240 SKS. Ok hearth to Dal same thing. Finally I checked and we had WG and I had over 650 sks. But by that time I had gotten those epics and now I had nothing to buy with honor so I bought the darn Mammoth, “which cant get through SW” WTF???!!!!!????? and idek what I spent the rest on. Long story to say yeah Alliance = fail at WG on my server, yet some how I still kept getting more. Weird I guess I just looked at all the wrong times. BTW never a problem on my horde server go figure.

By: UTDewd

UTDewd — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:30:24 +0000

@Drew – Actually, no, you don’t want to go back to the pre-BC 1-60 grind. Quest rewards were, at best, puzzling. Shields with strength and spirit? A complete lack of proper itemization for all but the most standardized specs? Spirit on everyone’s dungeon set 1, including Rogues and Warriors? Much better to re-experience it when Cataclysm comes out with its promise of proper itemization and the ability to level, say, as Balance.

I wish you the best of luck, BBB. As a Resto Druid at 60, I leveled a cute little stabby female Gnome Rogue as the counterpart to my Druid. Once BC came out, I went Feral and haven’t looked back. I just can’t get my head around playing a Rogue. It seems needlessly foreign and complicated. As you mentioned, not being able to heal myself or tank frustrated me. As annoying as it is, the feral cat rotation is, at least, familiar to me. I leveled my Rogue to 70 just before BC ended. I leveled her to 80 and have done a bit of stuff in Wrath but not much. My Shaman is now my Leatherworker and my Rogue will probably retire come Cataclysm, perhaps to be rerolled as a Gnome Priest when I reroll my abandoned Balance Druid (now a bank alt/AH mule) as a Worgen Druid and see the caster side of life.

By: Elegantdeath

Elegantdeath — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:56:21 +0000

Nice timing on the article. I’m leveling an alt and completely forgot about the “BOA” Wintergrasp Commendations.

Thanks again.

P.S. How was the remainder of your trip?

By: Fangtastic

Fangtastic — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:33:35 +0000

Awesome post BBB!

My rogue too is making her way through Outland at the moment and is getting progressively more fun to play and new tools become available.

My inspiration for leveling a rogue was how awesome they look in tier gear too. In particular this video -> http://vimeo.com/5241163

I wish rogues handled like that, but then they’d be way too OP. :D

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:05:50 +0000

A wonderful post, to be sure. :) LFD and heirlooms have cut out much of the planning, but there are still pieces along the leveling path from quest rewards that are enticing enough to make an effort for, though sadly, they’re mostly confined to Outlands and Northrend.

Sometimes I wish that I could have experienced Vanilla to know what it was like. On the other hand, I probably wouldn’t have succeeded in getting the JD if that were the case. :)

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:14:21 +0000

I know it’s not Chawa’s fault, Regis, because she would never deny me pretty pretty purples.

YOU, on the other hand….