Math is hard, guys

Dec24

Ok, tailoring rant.  Why is it people cannot do math? I had someone ask for a tailor in SW today, I responded and linked my tailoring.  They want frostweave bags made.  Well, one bag requires..

6 imbued frostweave bolts and 2 Eternium Thread

1 imbued bolt takes 2 regular bolts and 2 infinite dust

1 regular bolt takes 5 cloth

so one bag takes 60 cloth (12 bolts) plus 12 Infinite dust (2 bolts + 2 infinite dust = 1 imbued bolt) plus 2 eternium thread.  They say they have 160 cloths.  That’s not enough to make a bag by itself but you can make 2 bags that way if they also have the other mats.  They say they want 12 bags.  We’re looking at 720 cloth, 144 infinite dusts and 24 thread.  They express their amazement and stop messaging me after that.  Yes thanks for wasting my time not knowing how to craft things.

Does Cloth Exist?

Dec23

I switch my off spec to holy and try to get use to it in some battlegrounds.  Not having shields is difficult to get use to though, it’s just part of my play style so much I’m going to have to really get use to another way.

Pauldie invites me to a guild run of Heroic Lost City of the Tol’vir, and we wipe once on a boss, due to me getting bounced around (I didn’t know the fight) and another time I lost the druid, but we got it down.  Not a single cloth piece drops, which seems to be the theme for this expansion.  I get that achievement though.

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We also get guild level 6 during this run.

Onehitdan

Dec23

Oh gosh, I’ve been behind in updates.  I will get the pictures up after I write this all down.

First I have me in showing off my winter gear to Stout!

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Then in Tol Barad I am unfortunately surrounded by flagged Horde who are childishly spitting on me and making rude remarks and such.

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To stop the abuse I use one of those neat Lifegiving Seeds and turn into a bush, which they cannot target so the spitting stops.  XD

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When the battle starts I run around and find Janusz, and I have to account for him running around in stealth a lot by making it not as obvious I’m traveling with someone.

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We win that one, but I don’t think it’s quite as fun as WG.  I spent a lot of time in the swamp hogging up all the Whiptail, which I sell on the AH for 400g A STACK.  Of course the next day, the stack prices are greatly reduced, which is the way of the market.  Still I made at like 2k off of that, which is good because I spent a lot of money getting the last 10 points for my mages tailoring.

That night I form up with Stout and Lladin and we attempt to do Heroic Deadmines.   The first tank is a bear that I can barely keep alive spamming the balls out of Greater Heal, Penance and shields.  He drops after the first boss.

The second bear tank gets in, pulls a whole room and there is no outhealing that and we all die.  He says he thought it was regular Deadmines and I “seriously?”‘d that and Lladin made similar unbelieving comments and the tank left.

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Then we got a warrior named Onehitdan and I am able to use the stupid efficient Heal quite a bit.  And people need to shut up and stop telling me to use that heal, when I clearly know it won’t work.  I am well versed in estimating incoming damage and speed vs strength/ power, and speed of my own heals from Lineage 2.   If a tank goes from 90% to 70 to 50 in the matter of seconds, I have to use my 2.3 second Greater Heal to heal for 20-30k if Penance is down or if more heals are needed.  A 2.3 seconds 5-10k heal is not going to cut it.  In both cases with the bear tanks I needed spam Gheals just to keep them from dying.  A lower powered heal of the same speed, wouldn’t have worked.  So dps? Be QUIET.

On the third boss we wiped about 3 times, and I wasn’t in the mood so I said I had to go.  I ended up running 2-3 bgs with Jan where we get this compliment.

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the thanks in the picture was to me for healing that person when they were almost dead, from atop the ledge in this room.

I remember people

Dec21

I can’t recall if it’s come up in this log before, but today I notice that Tierael, who is a paladin I made friends with months ago in WG, is back online playing. We discuss the new content, how gear works, etc and I give him some tips and a port.

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I also run into Leonz who gives me a green winter outfit, which I forget to take a photo of, but I will later.  I am trying to convince both paladins to join my newer guild as well.  I haven’t really played with either, so I can’t vouch for them all that much though.

Then at the bank, for some reason, three fat boomkins are blocking an entire side of the bank.  Why I don’t know.

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I don’t even know how they got back there.

Hamburger?! Where?!

Dec21

The other day Dontpuntme helped me level up my tailoring from around 488 to 515.  This may not found like a lot but it was a significant amount of cloth and Volatiles that would have taken me forever to farm, along with everyone else who was helping me, or probably 2k gold. I also traded 100 Elementium with Cinor for around 90 cloth.  I can create my own pvp gear, which is awesome, and a 36 slot herb bag.  Dontpuntme let me keep the bag and 2 of the pvp pieces, which was nice. Of course I did promise like my first 2 weeks of full Dreamcloth making to him as well.

And, I love trade chat, I really do.  I laughed, I couldn’t help it.

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I  tried going out to Vashj’ir to farm cloth, and back to Hyjal, but the drop rate is really miserable and I made about 3 bolts (15 cloth) before I gave up in frustration.

I also head back out to Silithus to turn in this quest I’ve been hauling around since I did AQ, the original one,  with Arashikage.

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I spent some money on cloth in the AH and nearly have tailoring at max, woo!