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| Not really related, but I did try out the (a?) glider in Nagrand with my Talbuk |
Followers:
I have my 20 Followers on Kanter and can't decide if I want to level my Barracks or replace it with another building so it stays at level 1 for now. My Salvage Yard finally coughed up some armor for my followers so now I have 3 iLevel 630 followers and they give me better quests including some for more follower gear. The iLevel 630 quests also give iLevel 640 (?) gear for my character so that's been a nice boost for him.
Alts:
My first two characters, my hunter and priest were pretty well set. I knew I was going to use my Druid, Kantree, to instant level to 90 since he had two professions none of my other 90 toons had (leatherwork and skinning). Once I used the instant level, I had to try out the intro quest and once he had the Garrison, he needed to be able to use the Barn and by that point, it made sense to get him to 92 for the Mine.
By the time Kanter hit 100, I was starting to accumulate a lot of things to be Disenchanted by my enchanter, Kantrina, so I thought I should get him a Garrison, too so I could use the materials and since she is also an Engineer, it only made sense to get the level 2 Garrison so she could start producing the Engineering dailies as well. Once you have the level 2 garrison, you might as well get to level 92 so you can get the Mine again, right?
At this point my enchanter had used up most of her supplies on the dailies and work orders and I had a surplus of ore to use. Someone suggested that I could use the ore with a Blacksmith to get more enchanting supplies, so I started leveling my Blacksmith Warrior, Kantro. Once he had the Forge I could have stopped, but it didn't seem right that my only miner didn't have a mine, so today he reached level 92. This is what leads to having five toons with Mines. I have gone back to leveling my priest who was stuck at level 94 and I'm looking forward to having a level 3 Barn and to try out the Inn with her (assuming I ever learn how to heal). Right now I'm happy with where my other toons are, but I suspect there will be something that encourages me to do more than the work orders, crafting dailies, mining, and follower missions. It does take some time just to do that.
Stables:
I spoke about the stables in my last post and at this point have 7 of the 8 mounts you can get from them (and the Mountain o' Mounts achievement). I am glad I had vacation because it did take a little while to bring all 6 mounts each day to their next battle. The battles were not difficult for my hunter though it was odd not having a pet. Each mount takes between 7 and 12 battles but the way I did them (maybe it's how it always works out), there were always two on the same battle each day so I would have three places to visit each day and the respawns were pretty quick. If you have a specific item in your pack when you defeat the last of these battles, you also get one more mount, a pretty cool armored pig, so I got that as well. There is an 8th mount available for completing these battles with another more difficult item in your pack, but I'm in no rush to get it.
Trials:
I knew if I wanted to go on Heroic Dungeons or raids I would need to complete the Silver Proving grounds achievement, so I started working on it a couple weeks ago. Leveling a hunter is very easy (after leveling the priest, druid, mage and warrior, I know this well), so I wasn't very well prepared for it. I first had to figure out the best way to get AOE damage (I needed to put Barrage on my bar and I learned that using multishot causes my pet to do AOE damage, too). Then it was more a matter of practice. Learning to move and shoot again. Learning to interrupt when needed. Learning to more quickly switch targets. I play on a laptop and for questing it's fine, but for this I had to move to where I had larger monitor and a mouse rather than just a track pad. I did eventually get the Silver achievement and went on my first (and only so far) heroic random dungeon. I thought the trials were pretty effective and I'm sure I'll do better DPS (particularly for AOE) and I'll be more likely to hit interrupts because of it.
Molten Core:
I thought that I would work on the Legendary ring quests this weekend, but one night a few people in my guild said they'd be going to Molten Core so I went along. I've heard nightmare stories about some of these runs, but this went pretty well. We did have one point where someone added a second hound pack in the middle of when we were fighting the first and they kept regenerating until someone manufactured a wipe. Otherwise I think there may have been one other wipe, but after my experiences in Vanilla, this was trivally easy and it was fun to see it again on level. Yes, I am now a proud owner of a Core Hound Mount more than a week before it'll be done!
It's been a busy week (and yes, I played more than one night this last week ;)). I still don't have a definite direction. I would like to work on the Ring quest with Kanter but would rather go with someone in my guild if I can. I would like to try a Normal raid with the guild as well thought I'm not interested in being good enough to do Heroic or Mythic and I don't want to get in the way. I'll be interested in leveling my Priest to 100 and then trying the Healing proving grounds. I mentioned before I had finished Bronze during Pandaria. Once I get that done, I would like to try to do the daily Inn quests on her, but that means dealing with random groups and I'm not sure how that will go. I'm still doing the fishing dailies and I'm about half way to getting my level 3 Fishing Shack which will lead to another series of tasks for Nat Pagle. There is also the Pet Menagerie just sitting there with an available quest and Syl kindly provided a guide for a newbie like me (I think my highest level pet is level 4 and I only did that because my daughter wanted to try it).
I have plenty to keep me busy.
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