Terenas - Friday 08/19

[Kevin]

If you want to get all the quests, there is a lot of quest prep necessary.  You'll want to do Badlands Reagent Run which will lead to Uldaman Reagent Run.  If you want to have access to the repeatable Indurium Ore quest, you'll need to do several quests in the Shimmering Flats.  It's quite pointless -- no exp and just 6 silver for 4 Indurium, but if you like to do them all, you can only get the indurium ore in Uldaman.
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I know alliance prep for Uldaman is nuts. Quest lines that have you kill trogs then find ammies in the pre-instance area. Quest lines that lead you into the fortress next to Uldaman then go into Uldaman for stuff. Collecting stuff off the pre-instance elites, the 2 reagent runs, and more. But you can do things so that you only need to go through the instance portal one time to finish everything in Uldaman. :) I don't know if that is the case for horde. Not that it matters too much.

As for Indurium Ore, that is for a not yet implemented feature where you are supposed to be able to influence if the goblins or the gnomes win the race. Possibly with betting involved on the races and such. So it is relatively pointless but at least since alliance has to kill the troggs that drop the flakes for another line anyway you get overlap on that side.

I actually think if you can control the spawns at the end that a pet could tank the final Uldaman boss. His damage output is pretty steady. Since I acted as the only healer with a paladin in that fight with a group of 44-46's I know that you can do it without super healing as well. I've also healed it with a druid and tanked it with a warrior in the 44-48 range as well. Did both of those a couple of times actually. Only wipes we had were when we didn't deal with the spawns or we didn't pile on the boss at the appropriate time.

This is not to say that I'm pushing for a "Lets do Uldaman now!" but don't assume we can't just because we don't have a warrior. :)