03-01-2006, 11:08 PM
I have the Darkmoon Amy on my warrior.
There is a horde quest that makes plume-farming VERY easy, I got the required plumes for 300 tickets in about three hours including travel time to the faire by doing the level 30 quest "Test of Endurance" repeatedly (break 1 box, 10 harpies come, break another 10 more come, I was averaging about 1 plume per minute when zoned into pure grind mode). This is not a common quest and many horde 60s will never have completed it.
The farming of that cave is much more drudgery without that quest. And you are largely out of the way of people who are leveling, since you're way in the back of the cave. If someone comes by needing the quest, they are generally happy to have someone finish the quest for them in exchange for the plumes they have.
non-humans can get 317 tickets from plumes alone, humans have their rep bonus, that cute them off early.
The rest I got just using the thorium and dense stone I got while mining up arcane crystals. Mav can attest that I was doing a lot of mining at the time. I needed to get BS to 300 anyway, and the widgets got my Warlock's engineering up to 300. I did the whole thing in less than a month wihtout having to specifically grind for Darkmoon, I was grinding for BS and engineering, by the time it was for darkmoon, I was so close to 1200 I didn't mind the drudgery of mining. Plus I'm still 12 arcane crystals short of arcanite needed for my warlock mount and the remaining crafted warrior items (ET helm and Stronghold gaunts)
In grinding silithus rep you will get scorpid blood with reasonable regularity, but you run out of quests for scorpids pretty quick, and they are no use for pure rep grinding. I ended up with about 10 (only 1 turn in) in doing the quests there.
It is reasonably easily obtainable, but it takes TIME.
I do feel it's the best easily obtainable DPS ammy for warriors, the Fordring necklace beats it out (marginally) for offensive stats, but the Darkmoon ammy adds quite a bit of defensive stats for a very small loss in offense. You've already seen what some defensive bonuses can do for grinding in terms of how often you have to eat/bandage.
There is a horde quest that makes plume-farming VERY easy, I got the required plumes for 300 tickets in about three hours including travel time to the faire by doing the level 30 quest "Test of Endurance" repeatedly (break 1 box, 10 harpies come, break another 10 more come, I was averaging about 1 plume per minute when zoned into pure grind mode). This is not a common quest and many horde 60s will never have completed it.
The farming of that cave is much more drudgery without that quest. And you are largely out of the way of people who are leveling, since you're way in the back of the cave. If someone comes by needing the quest, they are generally happy to have someone finish the quest for them in exchange for the plumes they have.
non-humans can get 317 tickets from plumes alone, humans have their rep bonus, that cute them off early.
The rest I got just using the thorium and dense stone I got while mining up arcane crystals. Mav can attest that I was doing a lot of mining at the time. I needed to get BS to 300 anyway, and the widgets got my Warlock's engineering up to 300. I did the whole thing in less than a month wihtout having to specifically grind for Darkmoon, I was grinding for BS and engineering, by the time it was for darkmoon, I was so close to 1200 I didn't mind the drudgery of mining. Plus I'm still 12 arcane crystals short of arcanite needed for my warlock mount and the remaining crafted warrior items (ET helm and Stronghold gaunts)
In grinding silithus rep you will get scorpid blood with reasonable regularity, but you run out of quests for scorpids pretty quick, and they are no use for pure rep grinding. I ended up with about 10 (only 1 turn in) in doing the quests there.
It is reasonably easily obtainable, but it takes TIME.
I do feel it's the best easily obtainable DPS ammy for warriors, the Fordring necklace beats it out (marginally) for offensive stats, but the Darkmoon ammy adds quite a bit of defensive stats for a very small loss in offense. You've already seen what some defensive bonuses can do for grinding in terms of how often you have to eat/bandage.
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And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.