It seems appropriate that the weekend we joined Rep Grind’s guild I spend …. Grinding rep.
That is right, we pulled the trigger, jumped over to Winterhoof and joined the Crits and Giggles guild. Thanks guys for answering our questions and generally being welcoming. It was a delicate balancing act of finding a guild that has enough competent AND ‘fun friendly peoples’…
That comes across a bit insulting I suppose. It implies that our last guild was either less fun or less friendly and that our new guild was less so in one of those areas and more so in the other. Well.. whatever.
Grinding Rep! that was it. So we jumped over a few days ago and got into a ICC 25 with them on Friday. The run was not anything to write home about but we thought it was well led, people had a good attitude and there was plenty of potential. It was fairly sloppy, some of which was my own sloppiness. But like I said, potential.
I guess I am raiding on my hunter now. Crits and Giggles seems to have plenty of tanks available. So many that there was some low grad angst over who was going to tank. Oh well, I guess Reversion will be a back up raider for a bit. Approximate’s gear needed some attention. Actually for myself the run went really well. As the only hunter I managed to snag a few things and bump my gear score 200 points. I still need to do some tweaking. I was not satisfied with my damage output. I will have to poke around some hunter blogs or EJ and tighten a few bolts on spec, rotation, and gear.
I am leaning toward leveling my hunter first in Cata. Between her engineering tricks and alchemy she is fun and easy to level. I will have to see how this new energy system works though.
Sometime a week or two back I decided to start working on the mount achievements on the hunter. I already had two engineering ones and all the capitol city reps from the argent tournament so I figured ‘how hard could it be’? heh. So this weekend I go serious about the mounts. I have been hitting the Direbrew boss every day (still no luck). I started grinding Netherdrake rep also.
Anyone that has not done that one should do it. It is a fun an interesting reputation grind. I always hated rep grinds. They are either trivial or stupid or simply way harder than the rewards. The vanilla ones, garbage. Most of the outlands ones, annoying. Most of the Wrath ones, trivial? Yeah they dumbed them down too much… the problem by the time you get the rep 99% of the rewards are pointless. What is up with that? Reputation grinding is one area I wee Blizzard flailing around and not getting ‘right’. I think the Netherdrakes are one they got ‘right’. The quest chain is interesting. You actually ‘progress’ at each stage of rep and open up new quests. The process does indeed feel like you are doing daring and dangerous things to get ‘in good’ with a group of people that originally had no reason to like you. I will not spoil it in case any of you have not done it.
For many of the other rep grinds out there the above things cannot be said. I am also. Trying to grind rep with the Skyguard and those dudes with the Talbuks in Nagrand. With the Skyguard you have a few quests that you have to do over and over. With the Nagrand city once you finish the quests there you are stuck grinding warbeads. Ug. On a related note, does anyone know of starting a Horde DK on a friend’s account and then killing it a lot near Hala will get me battle tokens? I mean really, 70 kills there? Seriously? Those outdoor PVP areas in the outlands were a huge flop. They seem to have tweaked up the Hala bombing missions work and now it is seriously broken. I tried some of that two and then got into some PVP with a few Hordies.
I have a long way to go on all those reps… then there is still the Oracles and the Cenarian expedition. I am almost to 50 mounts but I don’t know if I am going to stick with it all the way to 100. Hopefully Cata drops with plenty of easy to get mounts. In the mean time I only have two more tries at Brewfest L You can bet I am going to be beating on the headless horseman’s door a lot….
Oh hey, while I was writing this they announced Cata’s drop date. No time to proofread or edit, I have to check some news sites.
Again, welcome to the guild! Glad you’ve had fun so far. 😀
And I have a simple solution for Halaa. You see, I have a Tauren hunter on the server that is working on getting her Halaa talbuks as well. She has enough tokens for one but not both. So we can just kill each other. However, it goes a lot faster if we can get a couple groups of each faction going. I know at least two or three people Hordeside that would help, and I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to find more Alliance.
True! I could at least get my wife to log something in there. That would be great. I am 3 mounts short of 50. We will have to find a nice place near a graveyard to go at it. I wonder how close to Halaa you have to be.
I’d join in, I can always go for grinding for mounts!
My mage wouldn’t mind a talbuk. I’ll help if someone else brings the Horde.
Good luck with your new guild!
I spent part of the weekend farming Zul’Gurub for the rare mounts. No luck but hey, this is only the 200th time I tried it on various characters.
I can’t say the afternoon was wasted however as I ended up with 2 x Razzashi Hatchling (the first I have since last December) and one of my all-time favorite item, Skullflame Shield.
I insist on killing those raptors for that pet, I have yet to see it drop at all…the mounts…well never seen any, and yet everyone and their mother seems to have one now.
I have to grind ZG more and also I need to do Sethik halls more often. ug, grinding is annoying. I almost have enough seals for my squire pony though. I will have that tomorrow.
I’ve seen and lost the roll on 2x Swift White Hawkstrider so far.
Saw the blue proto drake in UP drop once. (two of my friends have at least two of them. jerks)
Hm .. lost the roll on the Headless Horseman’s mount last year by ONE.
I have bad luck with mounts.
You know what I want more than any other mount in the game?
The Phoenix. Ashes of Alar, from Tempest Keep, for my gnome mage. WANT. But I’ve never even been in there.
We have ZGs scheduled for the next couple weeks, and we used to do classic raids all the time though we’ve put them off until after Cataclysm, but if people wanted to do some more we’re always taking requests and putting them up as people need them. Kara is this weekend I think and there’s a ZG on Thursday.
Trout, that’s 3, count ’em, THREE, separate people that I have personally seen asking about doing TK in the last week. Schedule it! :p
We are going to have to hit all these old ones hard with at least 8 people as soon as the new guild leveling stuff drops. Looking forward to that big time.
As far as a raiding hunter goes – http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/ is a godsend. Frostheim writes both there, and at Wow.com, and is really good at striking a balance between hardcore theorycrafting and “this is what you really need to know.”
(The podcast is great, too, if you need more hunter goodness in your life.)