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Wintergrasp elemental daily drop rate changed to 100% February 25, 2009

Posted by faradhim in Faradhim's rant, PvP.
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In addition to the daily PvP quests in wintergrasp there also four elemental gathering daily quests.  Alliance and horde each have their own version.  The name of the quest maybe slightly different but the goal of the quests remain the same. These quests are:

  1. A rare Herb, where you gather herb pouches from Steppe of life
  2. Bones and Arrows, where you gather Dragonbone arrows in the Forest of Shadows
  3. Fueling the Demolishers, where you gather Eternal Ember from Cauldron of Flames.
  4. Jinxing the walls, where you gather enchanted alliance breast plates in Glacial falls.

Although in all of these elemental quests you are suppose to kill opposing fraction’s player in order to get the item to drop, you can indeed get all the quest items from elemental Mobs in the area.  The drop rate has left a lot to be desired (about 10-13%) which made these quests a pain to do. 

Since the recent patch I have been pleasantly surprised by the fact now all quest items seem drop at 100% from mobs.  First I thought it was a glitch. Now I have completed both Jinxing the walls and Bones and arrows twice in the past couple days I can confirm that the drop rate has indeed been changed.

Farmable honor February 17, 2009

Posted by faradhim in Faradhim's rant, Hunter, PvP.
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My hunter hit level 80 about 10 days ago. In between healing guilds on heroic and raiding I spent some time on her doing heroics and raiding… In the past month my guild has put Sartharion on farm and has been making steady progress into 10 men Naxx. We have cleared spider quarter and are pushing into the plague quarter. Although I enjoy my ventures into these raiding instances I am frequently reminded why raiding isn’t for me.

In addition to having difficulty of finding a few uninterrupted hours to raid, my dexterity of a brown bear makes some raiding bosses supremely annoying. Coming to mind is Heigan the unclean where the entire raid has to run from corner to corner in between his poison walls. I don’t do well in arcade games and fare poorly in instance where coordination is the determining factor of living and dying. I would hate even more if I am the reason the raid wiped. Thank goodness I haven’t been the sole reason the raid wiped.

I still enjoy spending time with my friends but scheduling has been a pain. Very often I would be in instance when they come online and vice versa. Instead of continue to find people to run heroic dungeons I decided to find something a bit different to do.

I spent most of the long weekend playing in Wintergrasp. Much to my surprise I enjoyed the zone immensely. One thing I really like about it is that the battle is intense and brief. Each battle in theory can last up to 30 minutes but rarely in practice take more than 10 mins. Also it matters less about your gear level or spec as you can utilize siege machines as the primary means of achieving your objectives. Also as long as you participate in the fighting you will be rewarded with something. There are a number of daily quests you can pickup from wintergrasp that gives out stone keeper’s shard, wintergrasp mark of honor, gold and honor points.

What is really exciting is that mark of honor and honor points appear to be easily farmable. Over a weekend of play I was able to net about 15 of Wintergrasp Mark of Honor, 19K honor points and 35 stone shards. Just 20-30 minutes a day for a few days have gotten me enough to get Titan-forged Sabatons of Triumph and I almost have enough to pick up a Hateful Gladiator’s Wristguards of Trimph.