10-14-2008, 12:27 PM
Quote:Obviously you need to work on your Darkmoon rep.I've considered it, but there are limits to my insanity. Maybe someday if there were literally nothing left to work on at all, I might bother...
Quote:For repairing rep, killing Southsea pirates sounds faster than doing Knot runs. But then the pirates are not as profitable.I've done the pirates too...running around casting rank 3 or 4 SW:P on them nonstop. I found it to be less enjoyable. I think a lot of it depends on your class in terms of speed. One Free Knot score equals 700 mob kills for the non-Ratchet factions, and when you throw in Ogre Tannin turnins at 75 rep each, I'd say Free Knot is faster - IF you're the right class, and you don't have terrible drop luck with the keys. I've had times where I run DM for 2 hours and get no keys, but then I've had times where I score 1750 rep per hour because the keys drop like candy. That's 3,500 pirate kills worth in less than an hour...
A Rogue or Druid can stealth around the instance. As a Priest, I can Mind Soothe every mob in there but the dogs, and as a result I only ever have to kill four things - the four "bosses." Even the Ogres guarding the Tannin basket can be Mind Soothed while I grab the Tannin, and the only time I fight any non-boss mobs in Dire Maul is when Mind Soothe gets resisted (1% chance, which becomes 0% chance today with the patch, yay!). It's also less mindless than killing pirates and more engaging overall.
A Mage, for instance, would find pirate-killing to be much faster. Ice Lance the day away, because they cannot sneak around all the mobs in Dire Maul like I can.
Factor in the incredible profit margins of the Dire Maul runs (only because I'm an enchanter) and I haven't been fighting Southsea pirates in quite a while now. If I were a non-enchanter Warlock, for instance, I'd agree that the pirates are the better route.
Who's buying the class books? I don't know, really. I just know that I keep throwing them up on the AH for 45g and they keep selling. People also put theirs up, underbidding me, but I don't really care because it doesn't cost anything to list them. They'll sell eventually. Interestingly, the Hunter books sell the most consistently. I also scored a Furor's Guide (the epic book) and I'm seeing what that will sell for.
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.