Patch 5.2 info, and the Guild reaches BlackJack, level 21

by Cormanthyr_, 81 days ago

March is coming in like a lion (an Alliance Lion) that is.

So far, the guild has reached 21, and is halfway to 22 as we speak, with the latest patch 5.2 coming up, it's an exciting time to be on Pandaria, 5.0 was the exploration of Pandaria by the mains, while 5.1 was the landfall of the Horde and Alliance forces as they fought on the Krasarang wilds, and i still wonder what was the purpose of fighting on Zan'vess Island. This is like the Throne of the Tides Raid that wasn't released, it serves no purpose at this moment, or we'll have to wait and see whether 5.3 will feature an even bigger battle between horde and alliance prior to the siege of Ogrimmar.
5.2 is very exciting, just north of Kun-lai and Townlong Steppes is suppose to be a mysterious Island that has various giant creatures, also the Zandalari are invading Pandaria, looking for a new home, it seems that during Cataclysm, Deathwing's arrive caused massive destruction, and the Zandalari plan to make a new homeland by force if necessary, i guess they couldn't politely tell the horde and alliance that they wanted to resettle Guru'bashi, and are looking toward their ancient Mogu Allies to help them find a new homeland, while helping them resurrect the Thunder King, the most terrifying mogu emperor in the history of Pandaria, those who did do some adventure in Kun Lai Summit witnessed his Resurrection.

I'm going to give you the short version of the Patch's new content. Blacksmiths are in luck right now, the Pandaren smiths have created Blacksmith projects to help them get from 1-600 fast, all they need is ghost iron, and they'll be able to get there quickly instead of traveling through the old regions to grind their skills to 600 so they can make Lightning forged items, as well as reforged and restrenghtened old Burning crusade weapons updated to iLevel 463, with new recipes to make them even stronger, fishing will have a fish of the day, and archaeology will be adding Mantid artifacts. LW will get magnificent hide and Magnificent scale. You can now Literally farm for reputation, you will get a daily request to plant, pull and sell certain vegetable for 300 rep. on the following Pandaren factions....Shado-pan, August Celestials, Golden Lotus, The Klaxxi, and Operation: Shieldwall, each farming work order is worth 400 rep, but there is a catch, in order to get this, you have to get Exalted with the Tillers, 16 plots, and complete a quest where Yoon gives you the farm to takeover the Tiller's union upon retirement from Nana Mudclaw.

Level 18, and the year is ending.

by Cormanthyr_, 169 days ago

Normally, I would give an update on the First of the month, but i held off waiting for the guild to reach level 18, which is today, congratulations crew, you've done a stellar job. New perk will give you more Justice Points per dungeon now, the next perk will give out more honor in the Battlefield. On the Pandaria front, the Guild's reputation is now set at 5 of the 9 factions, the month of november has added the Anglers to the exalted listed, and just yesterday, it was those wonderful mantids of Good known as the Klaxxi. One of the Klaxxi has a secret he'll wish to share with you once you reach exalted, so you'll have to wait and see.
The four remaining factions left are inching closer to the exalted level, the next one will be the Golden Lotus, while the August Celestials are about to reach Revered which will open up quests to do with the Shado-pan, i have to say that these are the hardest to do, you'll f, ight elite 90s with the help of one of ten pandarens who join you after you beat them in a battle of honor, this isn't easy, have a healing potion ready when fighting these guys to add them to your list of people to rely on. LFR is a godsend for the Casual, social guilds, if players want to raid they can join a LFR, and be on their way, now that it's open to 2 parts of the Mogu'shan Vault, 2 parts of the Heart of Fear and the Terrace of Spring, be ready, because it's about to be get crazy in here, Guild progression is slowing down, not because of the players but because of the gaps between the guild levels have gotten longer and longer, to get from 17 to 18, the guild had to complete 709 quests, this one might be 729 or 740 who knows.
A note on the Tillers, your farm will get better and better once you get to best friend with certain farmers, for example Chee Chee will add sheep to your farm, and Farmer Fong will give you a yak, it depends on how you do, and there is lots of dark soil that carry an item that will raise your rep with an individual by 1080 reputation points, also i've been fortunate to find weapons on the ground in the Dread Waste, these items are BOA, and you can pass them to your alts, no joke, but you need to know where to find them, for the Sword of the Prime, you'll need to look in the back of the cave wear you find Korven the Prime, it's rare, it's blue and worth giving to your alts once they reach level 86. the way you know it's really a lost treasure of Pandaria, if you see a shimmer, and it's not a node on your map, it's a lost treasure

upgrading your equipment now makes it possible to keep your gear and improve on it, if you can't find anything better, how often you can upgrade it depends on the gears color, a blue gear over Item Level 450 will do one upgrade for 1500 justice points, but purple gear will upgrade twice for 750 Valor Points each, which should can be a very good thing. At this time for my alts, the BS is at 285, while leatherworking is approaching 250, and the Jewelcrafting hit 205, alts less than level 40 will be able to get geared up, stay tuned.

2 month guild rank blitz

by Cormanthyr_, 209 days ago

Pandaria has arrived, and the guild is moving up faster than before, in the past 2 months, the guild has moved up 4 guild levels, and has reached level 15 on the 28th of October, 9 days after reaching level 14, right after the GM turned in his Dungeon quests for the MoP heroic dungeon Gates of the Setting Sun, and this means an all new cloak that can port guildmembers to Stormwind city is available for purchase. So a big thank to all of those who made it possible, Thank you, and hopefully, we'll reach level 20 just as quickly.

As for your guildmaster, he's doing quests for the tillers, the anglers, the Klaxxi, and the Golden Lotus, so far no exalted yet, currently revered by the order of the cloud serpent and will be racing his serpent during the revered phase, after raising it as a hatchling duirng the honored phased with the order of the cloud serpent. Word of advice, when doing pooped, take on a small group of small siftworms, the big ones chuck hot poisonous balls of silk at you, the dailys with the Order involve your profession, they'll ask you to make bandages and use them on sick cloud serpents, fish ten sugar minnows, collect serpent rider artifacts while doing arch digs, and cook 5 fish cakes, (requires 10 golden carp to make them)
Dailies in the honored phase for the Cloud Serpents will involve doing things some killing of Sauroks or Tigers in the Windward island, or collecting your pet's poop or honey, and killing a big Wasp. In revered, it's fighting hozen pirates, collecting beer, and killing a pirate boss.
I'll try to summarize what the dailies are in the revered phase next update, as for the Anglers, each daily boost your fishing skills by one, and involve things like collect clam meat from a deep gorge, spearfishing carp or pufferfish, collecting an egg and tossing the yolk in the water to collect a certain kind of fish, fishing up wrecking on a raft, to riding a shark and beating it to death with your own bare hands. The Tillers involve planting a certain plant, killing hozen in a mountain, or the Vermin in the cliffs to the north of Half Hill. These are not story related so i'm not spoiling anything, as for the Klaxxi it's doing missions based on the location they send, one days it's an island, the other day it's near the raid zone known as the Heart of Fear. You will get to pick a boost to help you on your dailys, My personal favorite is master of Puppets where you can control a mantid to assist you throughout the fight, best thing about this, it lasts 10 minutes, and you can still use your hunter pet, or Death knight zombie. they are a grind but they are tough as well, but it gives you but it gives you rep with the black prince.. The Golden Lotus involve fighting a Mogu invasion of the Vale of Eternal Spring, as well as helping out at a shrine or a small town. As for the loremasters, they want you to give them arch pieces or finish an arch project for daily credit, i will say that Pat Nagle is a nasty grind, you don't move up in him liking you unless you get rare fish while fishing in pandaria to give to him. I know you're going to say, but you didn't mention the August celestials and the Shado-Pan. The August Celestials require you make revered or honored with the Golden Lotus to unlock them, and the Shado-pan require that you make honored or revered with the August celestials to unlock them. by the way, the Pandaria dailies give out 5 valor points each. If you don't want to grind heroic dungeons , 200 dailies will net you 1000 valor points. food for thought, well it's time to go back to pandaria and finish grinding for 3 factions, 5.1 is coming, and the Brawlers guild will be at the tram site of Stormwind in a secret entrance, and it's pretty interesting, because you'll be fighting updated versions of old bosses and npc from classic from what i heard. Also, the gm's JC alt is fast approaching 200, the LW Alt is grinding to get to the 250 mark and start making rugged leather gear soon, and the BS alt will be reaching 300 soon, they will still make free gear for any of your alts that happen to still be in the Classic zones(1-60) a little more time, and they'll be whizzing through to making TBC, Northrend, cata, and panda gear soon.

some advice for those looking for a certain pets to complete the achievement of getting one from each family, if you're looking for a low-level elemental pet, there's a Topaz shale spider in the Desolace, and for mechanical, they have a mechanic Squirrel in the Stone Talon Mountains, where the Goblins are fighting the Gnomes, you'll find it in the battlefield.