Shadow’s Embrace

Shelbi — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:57:45 +0000

As Jon mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been grinding my butt off to finish my Frozen Shadoweave set, and it’s finally paid off. Granted, I’ve done all of this hard work only to want an entirely new set, but it’ll be good for farming for money to get a flying mount. I’ve probably spent a small fortune leveling my tailoring from 340 to 375 and purchasing mats for my robe, shoulders and boots. There’s no way I was going to wait every four days for 2 pieces of shadowcloth, so I bought it outright from the auction house. The cost for the cloth is around 30-35g on my server. In order to make the set, I needed 26 pieces of shadow cloth. In order to make the gold to get these I farmed for Motes of Fire by killing Enraged Fire Spirits in Shadowmoon Valley to make Primal Fire which I sold for about 20g each. Now, there might be better ways of farming for gold, but I was able to create a primal every 7-11 minutes. Yes, I literally timed it. There are times of day that are better for farming, like early morning when everyone else is asleep, but even mid-day I was able to collect a decent amount to sell. As far as getting Primal Water, I initially started grinding Lake Spirits in Nagrand, but being so close to Garadar, I ended up getting ganked a lot. So, in the end, I went back to farm for more motes of fire. Then again, it’s also helpful if you have a husband who will loan (give) you 200g.

I felt a great sense of accomplishment after finally seeing the pieces on. Although, I desperately need to do something about those bracers and gloves!

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Jon — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:59:01 +0000

I am eager to get my Petrified Lichen Guard for some pally AOE-grinding goodness and am only a couple thousand rep short of meeting the reputation requirement (honored with Sporeggar). My rep is apparently to high for them to accept my stacks of Bog lord Tendrils or Mature Spore Sacs so I’ve got to resort to extreme measures.

WowReputationCalculator.com has proven to be an invaluable resource in determining which direction to take when grinding rep with a desired faction.

It works beautifully; you just enter your character and server name and hit submit, then the app then queries the official WoW Armory site and generates a listing of all your current (BC only as of right now) reputation standings. You then click on one of the factions and it provides you with the recommended zone quests, repeatable quests, and mob-kills needed to earn their love. The site also calculates the rep required and tells you exactly how many times you have to complete a repeatable quest or mobs you have to kill to reach the next rank (friendly, honored, revered or exalted). It even takes into account the wonderful human racial Diplomacy (+10% reputation bonus).

In my case, I only need to slay about 100 Bog Lords before I’m honored with the spore peoples.

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