Second Time Shattered Halls

Logged on a bit early today and got another PUG invite, so gave it another go at Shattered Halls. The run was much faster and smoother than the first time though with a more experienced and better geared group than myself as the tank and just AoE everything with no problem. Only one died was one the priest 2 times and other than that was a smooth run and one shot all three bosses no problem. Everyone enjoyed the AoE tanking as no other CC required and had a blast.
Had to mana drink allot, helps to have at least 2 stacks full as I always do. A few people got exaulted on the run. Again no loot drop for Galo from the bosses, I guess they don't like me. Four more runs through here and should be revered with Thrallmar.

First Time In Shattered Hall - Kicked the Boss Ass!

So finally got to Shattered Halls. Found a PUG group needing a Tank for this run and seems everyone was doing it for the first time. Great should be fun. Was a bit nervous first time in this instance and well I needed the practice with a group. We wiped a few 2-3 times on a few big trash pulls up to first boss and half way through to second boss in the big corridors with all the trash to the sides and the patrols. We figured it out after that what to pull.

A few Ill heals to late from the Shaman on a big pull and after I went down we all wiped except the Hunter. No one loss their cool which was great. Knocked down First & Second Boss all in one shot for the first time and we were rolling after that to Kargath the last boss. Cleared the last two Centurions. Tossed Avengers Shield and tanked Kargath in middle of the Arena there and never loss aggro, paid no attention to the adds just let them have the consecration ticks. Downed him for my first run and the adds ran away. He didn't drop a single loot I needed nor did the whole run either. All I got was a Blood Garnet & Shard from a DE item for the whole run. At least I completed the two quests and had some fun and practice. The group had fun and all was well with the world. May run it again later.

Kiting a Fel Reaver for Key Quest

Other than helping out a few people from LFG on group quest they needed help with in Nagrand and Terokka Forest. Did lots of Solo questing and lots of grinding in Shadowmoon Valley and around the Black Temple area for some fun & grinding signets for Scryer Reps while trying to work down my quest log for most the solo quests. Grinding not so bad, you pick up all kind of loot to sell for gold along the way, it just takes Time. Always easier for me to work on Solo quests vs waiting around in a city.

Eventually picked up a quest there from a drop off a Blacksmith there by a forge hut next to Black Temple which sent me back to Hellfire Peninsular for the quest key for Shattered Halls. Required getting some quest items I already had in bank and downing a Fel Reaver. This is the guy I love to hate when I was in HellFire Peninsular for questing, he killed me many times.

Was late in the morning and spend a lot of time flying around looking for a Fel Reaver around Thrallmar. Fell asleep as it took awhile. Found one passing by Thrallmar tossed Avengers Shield at him and ran to the Blood Elf Mages and guards in front of Thrallmar to have them kill it, happened same time the demons mob usually show up. Was lots of chaos! So pulled him into the Thrallmar gate guards also to help. Job done. However in good fun I helped the guards kill Fel Reaver for the fun by tanking him, he shot me down once and quickly recovered for a short corpse run and back to tanking him again. He almost wiped all the guards. All took about 3 mins or so of chaotic fun. Doing Solo stunts for me always work better than doing group quests at least if I die its only my fault.

Completed the quest and now have my Shattered Halls key. I guess its the first of any key I've done a quest to get so far just doing normal quests. As for questing in Netherstorm haven't done much quests there as yet, mainly just in Shadowmoon Valley mostly. So far in Netherstorm I just herb farm Netherbloom Herb there mostly to make Super Healing Potions.

Weekend Roundup 06/2607

After messing around with bank inventory, helped some lowbies on a run through of SKF. Took a few minutes of fun and was over.

Headed back to Shattrath City and investigated the lower level of city seeing if any quests were available also. Couldn't find much. Picked up a quest from a BE up by the Scryer library stairs to head to the Terokkar Forest. So went investigating the forest a bit just stumbling around mostly exploring. Rezz a dead Tauren right outside the gates of lower Shattrath City and got flagged for PVP immediately, then immediately was killed by the Elite Peacekeepers at the gates just as quickly?? That new to me. So i'm no longer going to rezz anyone unknown that's already dead.

Answered a call in LFG for a Tank for the Ramparts. I figure I break from quests to go tank something. A group 2 lvl 62 Warlocks, a 65 Holy Paladin, a 70 Hunter and myself as Tank. Was also my first shot at Ramparts.

Most the pulls went well, some were messy more so with all the casters bunched up together and was really tricky in deciding how to pull. So make use of Avengers Shield and the Boomerang depending on pull. Dam mobs do hit hard, a few times I was completely air bound. Having a 70 hunter in group often easily puller aggro away from me, especially when every body start blasting away as soon as they saw me prep SOR and it dropped it was observable that everyone was DPSing right then. The Holy Paladin was good on healing. No one died on the run to the boss.

At the boss killed the guy then the Dragon came down from flying around I hit him and somehow it went right pass me to the rest of group. I can't say I had aggo on it them entirely. I hit it a few times to get its attention and wasn't long at all i was DEAD. Tank died from not been healed quick enough, I could see my health but I was trusting the healer to do what he was suppose to do, not sure what happened there. When i'm soloing I always heal myself so it was a change to rely on someone else to do it.

Released on death to do the run back. No one said I had been Soul Sharded, I barely noticed. I guess the Warlocks didn't tell me. Anyway had to do the full instance run back which took a while. By them it was all over. Paladin waited to roll on a Hellreaver that looked very nice and thought be nice to have and to use. We rolled the Holy Paladin won it.....happy for him but still sucked he won it. Only thing I picked up on run was a Warhammer. Checking my quest for the items I needed of the 3 or 4 items I needed I only obtained 1 item to complete the quest. /Sucks.

Dinged 63 and now Honored with Thrallmar. Picked up the Alchemist recipe for Transmuting Skyfire Diamond & Elixir of Major Agility. Both should be nice.

Group Night

Continue to complete my list of HellFire Quests pretty much Solo as well as all the Quests for Falcon Watch. Most of what I have left so far seem to be group quests mostly.

The evening was quite eventfull. A druid and I grouped to complete the Blacktalon the Savage Quest. Went fine. The Druid tanked, he wanted to. I kinda DPS Blacktalon and healed the druid. Completed the quest. However hard for a Tankadin to try to be hitting a mob and try to heal at same time. Just don't work well.

Later off to another group that needed help doing the Colossal Quest for the Cenarion Expedition post in west HellFire Peninsular. Was me, 2 Warlocks, a Shaman & Hunter. Completed killing the 5 Elite giants but it was chaotic since the warlock minion was tanking the giants and the giants was somehow running around all the time toward the warlocks. Me I barely could get hits on the Elites. Wasted much mana and on consecration since giants running around also.

Followup was the Natural Remedies Quest to heal land around a giant crystal by the Elite Giants. You have to find a green circle marking on west side of crystal on the ground and use the seed given to heal the land. In the end you end up summoning a Elite 64 Giant that kinda glows red and we he had about 2 other giants also with him. These suckers knock you real hard on Knockback and sent me flying of my feet in the air a few times. Barely could see where I landed, was chaotic for a while. But we got the Elite Giants down and completed the quest. On turning quest got a nice pair of Blue boots. My 2nd piece of Blue armor so far to go with a Blue Chest piece from quest reward. Think I had enough grouping for the night. I went off to do quests solo.

Was in Thrallmar checking my mail and noticed there was 2 Elite lvl 71 Demons running around fighting the NPC's in the camp and was total chaos. Seem was lots of action happening in Thrallmar. I kinda stared around a bit not sure what was happening. So after a while decided to join the fun. There was some other people around Mages, Hunters, Shaman and such and they all was in on the action. I kinda healed who ever I though needed healing from where I was and then started buffing the NPC's with BOK and healing them best i could. Not long was before i was Out of Mana. Fun I thought for all the theater all around. Took a while but finally the demons were down. I died once from 1 demon blow for participating but came back and rejoined in. Seem unexpected theater can happen anytime in Outland.

Later headed to Paladin Trainer in Silvermoon and picked up 3 new training. Got Crusader Aura which seem to give 20% more speed and to a group. Also got 2 new rank spell, rank 10 Holy Light and rank 3 Blessing of Sacrifice. Can't remember ever using Blessing of Sacrifice before but got it anyway.

Dinged 62

Galo continue rolling through the quests in HellFire Peninsular. As result dinged 62 barely can remember what I was doing when I did. I often take screenshots of lots of stuff to remind of of where Galo was or what was doing then. Often a lot to have to remember. Just looking at the shots I can remember what happened. Anyway Galo is now half way to 63. I haven't been to Paladin Trainer as yet so not sue what i will pick up next in spells.

Attacked several camps, blew up more cannons, killed more stuff in the area. Warlock minions are a joke to kill, they nice for a good few mana taps. Galo sometimes get out of mana so having a few mana taps on charge are nice to release in Arcane Torrent to get some mana back to maybe also recharge Blessing of Wisdom. So always good to mana tap mobs often when can. PVP for stadiums was kinda fun. However I totally suck at PVP. I'm not a player that studies PVP tactics to use and other classes what they do and know how to counter moves and spells. So I suck at it. Got ganked twice buy rogues once from stealth and other time from above a lvl 70 dropped out of sky from a flying mount and got ganked, easy to see that green tag. Just what's the dam deal with lvl 70 ganking people doing lvl 61-62 quests on flying mounts? On last run I did it with a 69 rogue and another player and found out to regain stadium all you have to do is stay close to the outside wall of stadium to regain control. Cool mission accomplished.

Fighting most the mobs in the area I fight one on one at first then after I prefer to AOE fight mobs if can and just faster to me if they more physical mobs. So often usually 2 at a time since Galo run to the other mob to draw them in. 1 vs 1 paladin is real slow.

Did a few quests as a group helping out a priest and they all went well, we also had a hunter along. Did the "Foot of the Citadel" I think thats the quest went well. Was a rush of mobs all after each other to kill a guy in charge of training Fel orc's and then to do a challenge to get to another commander guy in charge next to HellFire Citadel. I tanked the mobs the priest heal and the hunter DPS. Was lots of fun. After that we ran off did some more quests togather easily. Some I had aleady did my self solo, but the priest needed to do them, So was ok. Left after to go Solo my own quests. Some groups move so fast you barely get time to read the actual quest what its asking you to do and thus you barely know what you need to do when you get there not properly reading the quest in groups. Just another day in the Peninsular.

Outland Progression Summary So Far.

Really enjoying questing in HellFire Peninsular and been in Outland. Only thing I head back to Azeroth for is either Paladin Training, a quest leg to complete or to help out a guildie or a friend.

There is just more reason to stay in Outland really. I've also decided as a result to drop every non Outland quest I had in my Quest log to complete as much as I would have like to do those quests. Time is just better spent in Outland to me.

I may at somepoint may return to Winterspring to complete a few quest though. I'm not entirely sure if I ever will grind out those Timbermaw reps, I'm still only neutral. But as much as I like to hunt down and kill stuff for the heck of it I just might do it for the challenge to get Exaulted.

There are allot of nice quests in HellFire area and its a nice zone to me and all the quests seem to be centered in the area. Not like back in Azeroth you have to fly all over the place to just complete a quest. So nice it is. I can remember all the quests I've done, the name of things hard to remember or name of things I had to collect all Solo of course. So questing goes like this in HellFire so far:

• Head to camp over yonder and kill X number of mobs.
• Kill X number of X mobs and X number of these other other mobs for quest.
• Head over yonder and use touch and light fire to tanks. Fun!
• Head south and collect X number of pieces of material in area.
  
• Find particular person at camp and kill him or bring head.
• Collect X number of lost material for goblins.
• Kill X number of Buzzards for material.
  
• Take this item to area and attune it to HellFire Citadel. Kill mobs while attunement in progress.
• Attempt PVP control of stadium for faction control.
• Locate missing person. Report on missing person.
  
• Kill X number of mobs for blood sample.
• Take item to people in area and restore their health.
• Recover lost item from mobs in pool.
• Obtain X number of special items.
• Drop bombs on Patrols. Fun! Should be the first thing you do getting to Outland. Gear rewards are nice.
• Perform messenger duty and head to Orgrimmar to talk to Thrall. Nice reward for Quest.

Most quests go something like that. Most not very difficult to do. I find if you really read the quests and the message in it you can easily find or locate where you need to go. However the rewards are usually very nice on the Quests and the XP is outrageously nice. 10k XP seems average on quests. I also find its easy to pick up multiple quests all at same time and complete on the way to other quests. Some people are using leveling guides in Outland to level faster. Good for them. For me I like to smell the roses while I'm leveling so i do it the slower route and that's just completing the quests I have with no help from any guides. To me its fun since its my first time in Outland and it allows me to see all the world content and find hidden stuff around just poking around or wandering into a cave to investigate what mobs are in there.

So I'm all over HellFire Peninsula. The other reason is that as a Alchemist and Herbalism skilled but for Herbalism i like to collect herbs for my craft and so wondering around allows me to collect lots of herbs in the basins, on side of hill, on hilly area, in pools etc. Using Cartographer Addon it also marks the herbs for future reference on map with a nice icon. Great. However even without the Addon by my nature I like to wonder around to and from quest and find stuff and kill stuff. Also good for the XP often 1k or so or more.

Herbalism

My Herbalism skill is now 375, when I got to Outland it was already 369. So it was pretty leveled up getting here. So not long to the level cap gathering herbs. Anyway happy! My effort always picking herbs in Azeroth whenever i say them in zones pays off in leveling the skill. The way I collect herbs is simple when in zone collect everything I need. Collect it even if I not need it. Yes it takes time to stop and collect, but for me I LOVE MY CRAFTS, Alchemy & Herbalism.
I never usually sell any herbs I collect either, its all for stock and bank reserve. So other gathers are the ones driving up herb prices not real Alchs i think. Pots I make and sell or use. In HellFire area herbs you can find are"

• Dreamfoil
• Golden Sansum
• Mountain Silversage (Always on a hill side or mountain)
  
• Felweed. (Valuable)

I use Felweed to make many pots I use. I haven't sold much or made any pots to sell since been in Outland with all the herbs i have gathered. Its all stuffed in the my Herb bag, Bank, Alt#1 bank, Alt# 2 bank. I'm a herb banker. When I feel like brewing it all up I do so.

I find that even taking quests that just gives gold reward initially as only reward on followup leads to a quest that gives you a weapon or armor upgrade later. So when deciding if worth doing initially the back end of it could be a nice reward later. Also the XP is nice for the quest irregardless.

Alchemy
As said haven't made anything much to sell since in Outland. But since my DPS is seem poor and I haven't found a really nice 1H I really like I also supplement it with making and using Arcane Elixirs for +35 Spell damage when I'm grinding out kills. Adept Elixirs can be nice too but i use the other.

I've never chosen to do Alchemy because i though it was easy or cute or a money maker. Why choose Alchemy in WoW is simple. I went to school for Biochemistry. I work in Chemistry. I work in Biotech, I like Chemistry. Hence i choose Alchemy, its something i already understand well and how it work well having herbalism as a gathering skill.

Only pots I make as just continuous off income while for AH since I'm not really focus on selling anything right now is mainly 2 things.

• Underwater Breathing Elixirs (I've made these for 5 months straight and on my server I'm almost only one that makes these. Decent side income)
• StoneShield Potion - Gives 2000 Armor for 2 min. This stiff is damm nice, but most people not seen to see its value. However its a expensive pot, I know I make it and sell it. Takes allot of Stonescale Eel fish to make. Raiders love to buy these. Tanking a rough mob for a kill I'm more prone to use these for the armor value.

Armor & Weapons
I don't buy much armor on AH anymore usually. Its hard to find a good pieces and I think I get better ones just questing or I get much in quest rewards anyway or on loot drop. So I do fine with what I get from quests. A fast 1H sword still eludes me and well and a very nice shield. Those the 2 things I really invest in allot. 1H weapon, Shield, Chest & Leg piece. I may have to start my faction reputation grind to get some good ones. However I'm always replacing armor piece from quests. So i have lots in my bag so far.

Faction
I'm friendly with Thrallmar still. I just got Revered with Undercity. I have yet to pick up a quest from Shatt City. Did the library thing visiting a guy there in Shatt for the Scryers but no quest I can see. Hadn't checked lower city as yet either for any quests there.

Fel Reavers
I've got a personal grudge with Fel Reavers. They continue to stomp on me sneaking up on me when beating on other mobs. Get stomped with the flying foot. They reminds me of Devilsaurs in Un'Goro always walking around to make your life miserable. So when i get to 70, retribution will be to kill every last one of them I find anywhere and everywhere always. Been killed by Fel Reaver over 5 times now.

Bits & Bits
Caves are nice to explore in HellFire area. On one trip exploring I got like 6 greens but all 58 gear the joke was that it was all casters gear. Somehow i don't think loot is completely random. Seem i always get gear that belongs to other classes. I've never got a Plate drop period let alone one anything i could use. I did fish one up fishing one time a nice piece of plate though.


One other cave I went into as noticed a item I had to look for was there and I run into a elite 63 I think it was and for fun I said why not and attacked it. Always testing my limits of been a daring paladin. Mob had like 27K XP, well no change to win here, got him down to about 25% but lost. Well was a good effort. Its fun to at least try though dying is not. Later turns out the Elite mob I attacked is a wanted mob special quest to kill. Will get him later.


Stormed a demon camp with demons at a ruin like camp in the west of Hellfire area and all the demons. Always get good use of Exorcism spells here. Kill the blue demons first then their minion helper vanishes after. Rescued some 3 prisoners here and got lots of XP for the whole chain quest from a guy in the camp and then to kill the Elite 63 Demon roaming the area. I rocked him for the challenge.

Often I'm around mounted on my mount and watching other people kill stuff or TRY to. Its can be fun watching other classes try to kill stuff. Often its plain funny to watch. Sometimes I intervene to save their health. Often I'm helping a alliance finish a mob, I can see their health. Other times as I run and roam around, I go out of my way to bless everyone with a blessing they can use to their advantage. Too bad i can only cast then a 5 min blessing. Paladin blessings should be 15 min I think and greater blessings at 30 min. I notice I also can't cast greater blessing on other people randomly. Sucks!

So far that sums up Outland so far in HellFire Peninsular. I'm in no hurry to get to 70, its just cruising getting there but beyond been casual play. Another thing I can't say I have any friends at my level in Outland either at lest not as yet either.