11-17-2005, 09:24 PM
I have, for the moment, stopped actively seeking gear for Astraea. I could probably bear to take her on several runs to farm Incendius for +FR bracers but there's not much else out there that I really want. The Primalist rings from ZG are shiny and I wouldn't turn them down. :)
To be honest, Astraea really has better gear than I ever really expected her to. (Two pieces of Prophecy and the Fang of Venoxis.) In regards to her, I am relatively content.
I've primarily been playing Phaedra, my mage, who is still looking for gear upgrades and, quite frankly, is a lot more fun to play when soloing. She has her own item wish list.
My main long-term goals right now for Phaedra are:
Reputation:
* Get to Revered with Argent Dawn
* Get to Revered with Timbermaw Furbolgs
Gear:
* Belt of the Archmage
* Cap of the Scarlet Savant
* Chromatic Cloak
* Orb of the Darkmoon
* Robe of the Archmage
My main short-term goal for Phaedra is:
* Get to Revered with Thorium Brotherhood
Basic status thus far:
Reputation with Argent Dawn
I'm friendly with AD right now and that probably won't change for a while. Farming for the Wizardweave patterns netted me somewhere in the neighborhood of 110 minion scourgestones (took several days of farming to get one pattern and then the other two dropped about three days after the first -- and within ten kills of reaching Corin's Crossing) so that'll help in the long run.
Astraea is somewhere in the middle of honored primarily from Scholo and Stratholme runs. I expect AD rep will be a nice side effect of those runs for Phaedra as well.
Reputation with Thorium Brotherhood
This is fun. Really, it is. I need 2,190 Dark Iron Ore. I've thus far purchased 439 off the AH, putting me about 20% there once I turn it in. (I really need to make at least one trip to the Grim Guzzler to offload some of this.) I've been spending most of my free time farming trying to get more coin to buy more DIO. (At 75s per ore, that's just over 1300g left. Luckily, a lot of what I've gotten thus far has been for less than that.)
Until I manage to pull this off, I'm told that Katina of CM can make Flarecore Leggings and do the +22 Int enchant.
Reputation with Timbermaw Furbolgs
I've been doing most of my coin grinding in Felwood and Winterspring off the furbolgs there. (Two birds, one stone.) What I've found in the process is:
1. If you want to get more return than just rep, farm the Deadwood Furbolgs in northern Felwood.
2. You grind faction a lot faster with two people. Unless you're a healer, three can be a problem since you may not be able to get a hit on every mob, especially if one person is a rogue.
3. If you're grinding primarily for coin, go ahead and group up with a rep hunter anyway. Even though you lose half the coin per kill, you're easily going through mobs at least twice as fast as you were alone.
Teaming up with a warrior from CoA and, later, that warrior and a rogue from Ignite, I got at least 1500 rep, not only getting me to friendly but almost 25% to Honored.
Belt of the Archmage
I'd really like this pattern -- but my luck with Knot has been horrible. He drops LW patterns whenever I'm around -- and Tailoring patterns when I'm not. Unfortunately, there's no magic way to get him to drop what I need so I just hope that shackle keys keep dropping. If I don't get it anytime soon, I know Kateley can make it.
The fun part is going to be getting the mats for this, in particular 12 Essence of Water and 12 Essence of Fire. I currently have 8 and 1 respectively. Somehow I think this is going to wait until I'm done with TB rep.
Cap of the Scarlet Savant
Seriously, I'd like one. I'll even start collecting abomination stitchings and scarlet thread... But, seriously, I've never seen PHotB drop. (I've actually seen Chromatic Carapace drop.) So, this is on my horrendously long-term list.
Chromatic Cloak
Of the gear I want, this might be the second-most viable item -- or the second-least viable item. Mats are 30 Rugged Leather, 12 Brilliant Chromatic Scale, 30 Black Dragonscale, 30 Red Dragonscale, 5 Cured Rugged Hide, and 8 Rune Thread. My understanding is that 0-3 Brilliant Chromatic Scales can drop in a UBRS run. This suggests a minimum of 12 UBRS runs and a potential maximum of, um, an infinite number of UBRS runs. (Which is fine because then maybe Rend will drop the Band of Rumination or Dragonrider Boots by then.)
And then I have to find a crafter but I imagine that's the easy part.
Orb of the Darkmoon
So... Phaedra is Tailor/Enchanter. This means that the only way I have to gain tickets is... mob body parts. I believe I calculated this would take 600 Evil Bat Eyes, which, given a 40% drop rate according to Allakhazam, suggests this will take about 1400 plaguebats. This means I should probably start farming soon, even if it does mean taking a break from farming gold for TB rep. (Although other bat parts can sell for coin too. If I can get a skinner to help -- or at least make leather from the bat corpses, that'd be even better. :) )
Robe of the Archmage
The LBRS run Phaedra went on was incredibly kind to her, dropping unusually caster-friendly loot. One of the things she picked up was the Robe of the Archmage pattern. RotA requires 10 each of Essence of Air, Essence of Earth, Essence of Fire, and Essence of Water. At present, I have 1, 0, 1, and 8 respectively. Again, I suppose I could take a week-long break from farming for coin for DIO but TB rep is really my primary goal right now.
To be honest, Astraea really has better gear than I ever really expected her to. (Two pieces of Prophecy and the Fang of Venoxis.) In regards to her, I am relatively content.
I've primarily been playing Phaedra, my mage, who is still looking for gear upgrades and, quite frankly, is a lot more fun to play when soloing. She has her own item wish list.
My main long-term goals right now for Phaedra are:
Reputation:
* Get to Revered with Argent Dawn
* Get to Revered with Timbermaw Furbolgs
Gear:
* Belt of the Archmage
* Cap of the Scarlet Savant
* Chromatic Cloak
* Orb of the Darkmoon
* Robe of the Archmage
My main short-term goal for Phaedra is:
* Get to Revered with Thorium Brotherhood
Basic status thus far:
Reputation with Argent Dawn
I'm friendly with AD right now and that probably won't change for a while. Farming for the Wizardweave patterns netted me somewhere in the neighborhood of 110 minion scourgestones (took several days of farming to get one pattern and then the other two dropped about three days after the first -- and within ten kills of reaching Corin's Crossing) so that'll help in the long run.
Astraea is somewhere in the middle of honored primarily from Scholo and Stratholme runs. I expect AD rep will be a nice side effect of those runs for Phaedra as well.
Reputation with Thorium Brotherhood
This is fun. Really, it is. I need 2,190 Dark Iron Ore. I've thus far purchased 439 off the AH, putting me about 20% there once I turn it in. (I really need to make at least one trip to the Grim Guzzler to offload some of this.) I've been spending most of my free time farming trying to get more coin to buy more DIO. (At 75s per ore, that's just over 1300g left. Luckily, a lot of what I've gotten thus far has been for less than that.)
Until I manage to pull this off, I'm told that Katina of CM can make Flarecore Leggings and do the +22 Int enchant.
Reputation with Timbermaw Furbolgs
I've been doing most of my coin grinding in Felwood and Winterspring off the furbolgs there. (Two birds, one stone.) What I've found in the process is:
1. If you want to get more return than just rep, farm the Deadwood Furbolgs in northern Felwood.
2. You grind faction a lot faster with two people. Unless you're a healer, three can be a problem since you may not be able to get a hit on every mob, especially if one person is a rogue.
3. If you're grinding primarily for coin, go ahead and group up with a rep hunter anyway. Even though you lose half the coin per kill, you're easily going through mobs at least twice as fast as you were alone.
Teaming up with a warrior from CoA and, later, that warrior and a rogue from Ignite, I got at least 1500 rep, not only getting me to friendly but almost 25% to Honored.
Belt of the Archmage
I'd really like this pattern -- but my luck with Knot has been horrible. He drops LW patterns whenever I'm around -- and Tailoring patterns when I'm not. Unfortunately, there's no magic way to get him to drop what I need so I just hope that shackle keys keep dropping. If I don't get it anytime soon, I know Kateley can make it.
The fun part is going to be getting the mats for this, in particular 12 Essence of Water and 12 Essence of Fire. I currently have 8 and 1 respectively. Somehow I think this is going to wait until I'm done with TB rep.
Cap of the Scarlet Savant
Seriously, I'd like one. I'll even start collecting abomination stitchings and scarlet thread... But, seriously, I've never seen PHotB drop. (I've actually seen Chromatic Carapace drop.) So, this is on my horrendously long-term list.
Chromatic Cloak
Of the gear I want, this might be the second-most viable item -- or the second-least viable item. Mats are 30 Rugged Leather, 12 Brilliant Chromatic Scale, 30 Black Dragonscale, 30 Red Dragonscale, 5 Cured Rugged Hide, and 8 Rune Thread. My understanding is that 0-3 Brilliant Chromatic Scales can drop in a UBRS run. This suggests a minimum of 12 UBRS runs and a potential maximum of, um, an infinite number of UBRS runs. (Which is fine because then maybe Rend will drop the Band of Rumination or Dragonrider Boots by then.)
And then I have to find a crafter but I imagine that's the easy part.
Orb of the Darkmoon
So... Phaedra is Tailor/Enchanter. This means that the only way I have to gain tickets is... mob body parts. I believe I calculated this would take 600 Evil Bat Eyes, which, given a 40% drop rate according to Allakhazam, suggests this will take about 1400 plaguebats. This means I should probably start farming soon, even if it does mean taking a break from farming gold for TB rep. (Although other bat parts can sell for coin too. If I can get a skinner to help -- or at least make leather from the bat corpses, that'd be even better. :) )
Robe of the Archmage
The LBRS run Phaedra went on was incredibly kind to her, dropping unusually caster-friendly loot. One of the things she picked up was the Robe of the Archmage pattern. RotA requires 10 each of Essence of Air, Essence of Earth, Essence of Fire, and Essence of Water. At present, I have 1, 0, 1, and 8 respectively. Again, I suppose I could take a week-long break from farming for coin for DIO but TB rep is really my primary goal right now.