Not Enough Loot On My Hands

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:47 PM

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If your like me,  you are knee deep in killing mobs,  looting mobs and running around the Timeless isle looking for more items to loot.

Also if you are like me,  you have a plethora of extra Timeless Silk Robes,  Plate bracers and  items that will never see the light of use.  I"m up to 4 toons that are geared mainly through these drops with another two that have yet to hit 90 that are sitting with full gear in their bank.  One thing I ended up with a large extra quantity of are the silk versions of the 'packages'.

Luckily my one and only cloth wearer is also my Enchanter.   So basically each time I get one of these Silk packages I send it to my Warlock,  open it and see if by the off chance it is an upgrade.  If it is then bonus I DE the other item for that lovely lovely Sha Crystal.  Vice Versa if it isn't an upgrade.

There is a limit on who can DE what.   A plate wearer can only open up the plate packages,  leather wearers limited to leather etc.   This also means they are the only ones that can DE the leftovers from these armor types.  Still gotta love free Sha Crystals.

The other item that seems to drop a lot is the Technique glyphs that are used by Scribes for the new recipes.  The strange thing is that they can be looted by everyone (not just scribes like normal profession recipes have been.)  I have not run into the problem of a non scribe needing on the recipe yet (you want to hear someone screaming,  wait til that happens in an instance). 

A friend of mine was wanting to know how to obtain the Sky Golem pattern.  Explaining to them that they needed to just kill mobs in Pandaria they spent an hour killing them.   My assumption was that they had already maxxed out their Engineering.  Low and behold I found out they had not maxxed out the profession.   After being the nice gold goblin and sending them some materials to finish up the profession it took them 10 kills for the pattern to drop.  

But there is a dark side to all of these 'new' drops and items.  With 476 gear basically being given away with a smirk and a smile on the island.  Crafted gear is in the tank.  Weapons still sell decently but the majority of major armor pieces are not selling as well as they should.    They do sell but not at the speed they should.  The same thing with some servers and PVP gear.  The easier that gear is to obtain,  the less demand there ends up being for high level crafted gear.  LFR and Flex has changed the game when it comes to Keybashing your way through an encounter to scoop up the loot.

Still my faithful gold friends panic not.  There are plenty of opportunities to get some well earned cash.  You just need to be smarter (and handsomer) than the rest.  Knowing your lines of sales and keeping a good close firm grip on the amount of investment you have with materials.  Do this and you have a good chance of buying that little plot of land you want on the Timeless Isle.

Sorry,   the sea area is already claimed by me.  I'm building my boat dock there.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

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Timeless Isle: Tagging Is For Rich Chumps

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:10 PM

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Mommar here.

If you're like me you're always on the hunt for a quick run on the Timeless isle to grab the loot from one of the rare mobs that are around.  You hear the call over trade chat that Jakur of Ordon is getting a little uppity and needs a beat down.   Also if you are like me you have many times rushed over to where the mob is supposed to be at only to arrive just a little late and miss out on the loot pinata (what can i say,  I like referring to the area as such).

Everyone and their mother's uncle are wanting certain rare elites to put down for their goody bags.  It's the nature of the game where elites give cash prizes and the size of your bank account drive all the troll women mad.

The most frustrating part of this is the extra large repair bill that players have talked about getting as they continue to kill the new golden goose at that time.  Nothing wrong with that,  someone has to kill him and you only have 20-25 of your pseudo buddies sitting there whacking away as he throws fire and wind and all sorts of other annoying mechanics to kill you.

But it's all in good fun and good prizes and what is a little gold among repair friends.  I do wonder how many guilds still have the repair funds turned on with their guild banks and that repair cost is getting taken out of the bank (Shhhh don't tell my guild leader this).  Tagging and running can also be a viable, yet cowardly technique to gain the wealth without the cost of the repair bill.   Some of my alts that are just getting to the island just don't have the survival with some of the rare mobs.  Melee especially gets crushed with all the fire running around and adds getting dropped on top of your head.

Ultimately the game tone and how you play is entirely up to you.  As always no one should tell you how to play as long as your not annoying other players.  Success is how you measure it for yourself.  The enjoyment of the game and running around just to get a smack into a rare can be just as exciting as standing there going toe to toe for 5 minutes to get that 496 boots you need.

It's all in the eye of the beholder,  and I am beholding a lesser repair bill.

Good luck and Good Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

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Loot Pinata

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:28 PM

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Mommar here.

As I was working on my Isle of Thunder dailies I heard the call from the local channel

Looking for more Oondasta

Now up til now I had joined in on the kills on the server for Galleon and Sha of Anger a couple of times.  To the point that these have basically become loot pinatas (or gold pinatas if you're ever so unlucky).  I figured I would give it a try and see how it went.

As I flew there I looked up the gang at Icy-Veins for the strat for Oondasta (Pretty basic strategy with a couple of nuke bombs).   As the raid was building (when I joined there were 1 full time and 1 half team) the chatter on the group and local was interesting.  Most were betting on Captain Nasty to obliterate your golden hero.

I should have bet money on Oondasta too.   After two face pulls and two quick corpse runs,  getting reset and then making a full attack,  I could hear the laughter from the big dinosaur with the big frickin laser on his back.   Another run back and another reset.   Take three ended up having more players (in this case more is not better) giving Shandris 3 full teams and 1 partial team to take on the world boss.

5 minutes later I'm corpse running back and realizing that more people was not going to be the answer.  One of the biggest problems with Oondasta is his Spirit Beam.   If someone gets hit by it it will bounce to another player that is within 10 yards of your position.  You can imagine the difficulty in finding 10 yards of space when you have 90 players plus surrounding a boss,  even if he is the relative size of a skyscraper.

So after 4 attempts I had a meeting I needed to go too and ended up leaving the raid,  saying thank you for the invite and going my merry way.   But I did not leave discouraged or upset.   Always remembering this is a game of learning.  And not every world boss is a loot pinata ready to give up it's tasty tasty gold treats.

It may not seem like much,  but if your leveling a toon and hit the 88-89 mark.  Make sure to joint a world raid for either Sha of Anger of Galleon.   Especially with Sha you get a nice quick quest that can be completed at 90 to give you an epic pair of boots depending on class.   Both are decent amount of gold making especially if you spend an extra token for an extra roll.   But the best thing you can get is to feel accomplished from a world raid.  

Good Luck and Good Hunting


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