Patch 2.4 & Reputation Vendor Upgrades

I ran around last night grabbing my reputation upgrades for my 70s.

Lylefukinton got a complete Savage Plate set since he is Honored and above from Thrallmar, Cenarion Expedition, Lower City, Keepers of Time, and Sha'tar.

Healmon got Satin Chest, Satin Hood, Moon Chest and Moon Shoulders. He still needs Sha'tar, Lower City, and Keepers of Time factions.

Semihrage for a Scaled Legguards, Scaled Gauntlets, Ornamental Gauntlets, and Ornamental Shoulders. She still needs Sha'tar, Lower City, and Keepers of Time factions.

I'm going to be in the gold-hole after the gems and enchant upgrades as well. Time to focus on daily quest and hit Magister's Terrance.

Power Level @ Blackrock Depths

I did not have much time to play last night but I managed to do 3 or 4 resets of BRD. I think Azhat is 50% into level 44. Azzhat hit 53, Gemstar hit 52 and got a new rank of Blizzard.

I then chilled for a bit and helped a guildie 60 Shaman doing Hellfire Peninsula quests. I then played some DotA after the server disconnected for the 2.4 patch.

More Levelling 28 to 44

I rolled #4 Azhat Shaman just last Sunday, and in one week time, I managed to get him to 44.

I pretty much grinded SM: Cath with some SM: Armory until Azhat hit 40. I also managed to level a few more lowbies in my various accounts: #3 Azshat 30 Shaman, #2 Sanctitty 36 Paladin, #1 Beastress 31 Hunter.

After #3 Azshat hit level 39, I went full power grind using #3 Sanctume my well geared Prot Paladin. I got into the goove of clearing SM: Cath in 8 minutes; then SM: Armory in 4 minutes.

I then spent time getting #3 Azhat bind in Kargath; where he is joined by #1 Gemstar 51 Mage, and #2 Azzhat 52 Shaman. I proceeded to grind Blackrock Depths most of Sunday evening after my family and I had our Easter lunch. Sunday morning, I spent clearing the bank and mail. #3 Gemstar 51 Mage now have 245 Enchanting, and 230 Tailoring.

Power Level @ Lower Blackspires

My guildie is running his level 70 warrior (Arms Sword) in full of arena gear with his 50 Shaman. So I tag along for free power level with Gemstar 48 Mage, and Azzhat 49 Shaman. Being in the power level receiver, I was easily falling asleep on my keyboard. But I am just tired most of this week. I did manage to participate with strength and wrath of air totems. Mana totems for me and healing wave from my Resto Shaman. I was hoping to get level 50 so I can use Earth Shield, but I had to log at 2:30 am.

Power Level @ Scarlet Monastery

I've been getting some "free" power level in Scarlet Monastery for Azhat and Azshat with guildies in the power level train. I could not quite level these two noobs because they are in Sanctume's (my Prot Pally) account.

Azhat was level 28, and Azshat was level 32 by the time I log them off last night.

4-Box Plans

Well, I've been playing Alterac Valley with Sanctume (Prot Pally) along with Semihrage (Holy Paladin), Healmon (Shadow Priest), and Lylefukinton (Warrior). I'm not really enjoying it much because I can't do much other than kill Bal and Van. I occasionally sit at Storm Pike graveyard until capped before moving in.

Then I decided I might enjoy having 1 Pally with 3 Shamans. I rolled Azhat in account 4 on Sunday, and got him up 24 last night. I was using Semihrage re-spec to prot with weak gear. I can still clear SM in about 14 minutes; slow but ok.

Paid Character Transfer Complete

It was just bad timing on my part when I bought my 4th account because Paid Character Transfer service was having issues the past 2 days.

Anyway, I just kept checking my WoW login to see if my character transferred, but alas, I was a noob! I had to go into the Account Management of the first account, and do some more button clicks to "Complete" the transfer, again verifying the credit card AND $25 fee.

After I got the 4th account running, I spent mostly copying over add-ons into the right WTF folders on ALL 3 computers.

Then I added more batch files on my desktop. I have 2-box batch file combinations on each remote computers that display Portrait mode in a 20" wide LCD. I use maximizer in the batch files:
2-1 Port.bat = means display account 2 on top, and account 1 on bottom, portrait mode.
So I have batch files for 3-1, 3-2, and now 4-1, 4-2, 3-4. Account 3 is always on top if not being played on the laptop (main); and 1 is always on the bottom.

For the 3rd computer (on my left) 2 is always on the bottom, with 3 and 4 on top.

Woot! 4-Box

Well, I bought a WoW War Chest for $40 last night from Best Buy. I wanted to transfer Lylefukinton to this 4th account. However, the Paid Character Transfer ($25) is broken, reached maximum capacity.

I spent 15 minutes on hold to speak with a live rep from 1800-59-BLIZZARD, and they told me I can cancel the account until the Paid Transfer is working.

"Your request could not be processed at this time, as the Paid Character Transfer queue is currently at maximum capacity. This service uses a queue system -- allowing a limited number of transfers at any one time -- in order to ensure stability of the realms, accounts, and hardware utilized during character transfers. We apologize for the inconvenience; please check back periodically for queue availability."

Team Heroic @ Battlegrounds

I did a some Battlegrounds last night with Sanctume (70 Prot Paladin), Semihrage (70 Holy Paladin) and Healmon (70 Shadow Priest).

At first in Arathi Basin. I 3-box guarded the blacksmith successfully, but my team lost since I was not moving to cap other nodes. I was also spending time updating my hotkeys to a more "heal" mode since the focus of the attacks are on Healmon instead of Sanctume. I am considering a re-spec and go Holy-Discipline instead. I will need to decide on this when I first purchase my PvP gear from honor points.

I also 3-box in Eye of the Storm and won that, and also completing that daily quest on all 3 toons! I basically guarded Fel Reaver and was harassed by a lone rogue with Healmon dying twice. But other than that, I defended FR all throughout the game. When our horde team capped a 3rd tower, I moved Sanctume to Drenai to help 4-cap and left Semirhage and Healmon in FR.

I also managed a good set of focus buffs. Assist on Sanctume Target and press a buff hot key:
Z = Kings, Wisdomw & Fortitude
C = Shadow Protection

I also started passing the entire 1 to 0, - and = hot keys so that I can control with Healmon's attack bars also.

Leveling Progress & Statistics

Leveling Progress Statistics

Woot, Team Heroic are both 70 now. Starting with Healmon, Troll Priest obtaining 70 in Shadowmoon Valley last Thursday 03.06.2008.

Then Semihrage, Bloodelf Priest obtaining 70 last night Sunday 03.09.2008 doing early Netherstorm Area-52 quests.

Here's some stats of level progress, xp/hour and gold obtained during the gaming session:

Healmon -- 70 Troll Shadow Priest
Activity: Shadowmoon Valley with 67 Paladin, 69 Priest and 70 Paladin.
Session 1: Thu 03.06.2008 12:30 @ 9 hours 40 minutes
Level 69: 4.45% to Level 70 (79.5k xp/hour) +173 gold

Azzhat -- 43 Tauren Shaman
Activity: 5-box Blackrock Depth Power Level by 70 Paladin

Session 1 @ 46 minutes
Level 40.15% to Level 41.05% (102k xp/hour) + 3.38 gold

Session 2 @ 130 minutes
Level 41.05% to Level 42.02% (41.1k xp/hour) + 6.99 gold

Session 3 @ 136 minutes
Level 42.02% to Level 43.05% (45.5k xp/hour) + 9.55 gold

Session 4 @ 29 minutes
Level 43.05% to Level 43.31% (54.5k xp/hour) + 2.67 gold

Aszhat - 55 Tauren Shaman
Activity:5-box Blackrock Depth Power Level by 70 Paladin

Session 1 @ 3 hours and 5 minutes
Level 54.17% to Level 55.02% (35.8k xp/hour) + 9.66 gold

Session 2 @ 50 minutes
Level 55.02% to Level 55.13% (21.1k xp/hour) + 1.35 gold

Semihrage -- 69 Bloodelf Priest
Activity: Blades Mountain Quests + Shadowmoon Valley Quest & Grind with 66-69 Paladin, 68-70 Priest and 70 Paladin
Data Date/Time Spans: Thu 03.06.2007 to Sat 03.08.2008

Session 1 @ 6 hours 33 minutes
Level 66.28% to Level 67.00% (52.9k xp/hour) +112 gold

Session 2 @ 11 hours 2 minutes
Level Level 67.00% to Level 68.00% (68.8k xp/hour) +191 gold

Session 3 @ 10 hours 31 minutes
Level Level 68.00% to Level 69.02% (74.3k xp/hour) +162 gold

Session 4 @ 2 hours 11 minutes
Level 69.02% to Level 69.27% (88.3k xp/hour) +13 gold

Semihrage -- 70 Bloodelf Priest
Activity: Shadowmoon Valley Quest and some Netherstorm - Area 52 Quests with 70 Priest. + 70 ungrouped Paladin.
Sun 03.09.2008 @ 7 hours 19 minutes
Level 69.27% to Level 70 (76.8k xp/hour) +77 gold

Questing in Shadowmoon Valley

I managed to level Semihrage to 69.25 in Shadowmoon Valley last night. At first, I plan to just grind demons in Legion Hold. I was getting 1070 xp per "solo" kill on Semihrage 68 Paladin versus level 67 mobs. I was 1 killing mobs at the rate of 20 seconds. All 3 toons were ungrouped.

I would cast Exorcism to tag the mob, at the same time Healmon is casting Mind Blast. After the initial pull, I do another Exorcism from Sanctume. The key presses on this using a 3-box is 4-3-r.

Then I would follow with Seal of Righteousness/Judgement and SoR again on both paladins, with Healmon casting Mind Flay. The sequence is 1-2-1.

The mob is dead with auto attack from Sanctume's Deep Thunder. Loot, then go on to the next mob and repeat all within 15 to 20 seconds.

The key layout are:
Sanctume:
1: /castsequence SoR/Judgement
2: Judgement
3. none
4. none
5. Exorcism

Semihrage:
1: /castsequence SoR/Judgement
2: Judgement
3. Exorcism
4. /assist Sanctume
5. none

Healmon:
1: none
2: Mind Flay
3. Exorcism
4. /assist Sanctume
5. none

Questing in Shadowmoon Valley

I did a few BGs with Tianak last night with the guild and I got about 2k honor.

After that, I did Ogrila quests with Sanctume and Lylefukinton, worth 90g in about 30 minutes.

Then I decided that I should finish leveling Semihrage from 68 to 70. I began with continuing my quests in Shadowmoon Valley (SMV) but when I got to the Aldor area, Semihrage was not high enough in reputation that he can't get the quests. I end up grinding mobs outside the Black Temple area--doing AoE pulls with Sanctume, double consecration with Semihrage, and some dots from Healmon.

Healmon has some quests in SMV still, and he's 70, so that should bring in some more gold to pay for the flying mount for Semihrage.

Mass Updates

Vegas was fun, and I did bring my laptop and I played a few DotA. I did not really play much WoW except check the mail and do some auction house.

Tianak - 70 Undead Rogue
When I got home Saturday night, I played some Alterac Valley Battlegrounds on Tianak (Rogue). It's fun to roll with him along with other rogue guildies. I am planning to get a decent main hand weapon. I should have enough for Season 3 Main hand weapon, but I'm not sure if I should get sword, mace or dagger. Currently, I have tier 1 black smithing one-hand mace. In 2.4, the primal nethers will be tradeable and I can possibly upgrade all the way to tier 3. However, Season 3 is easier to get. And with Season 4 coming soon, getting blacksmithing weapons might be a moot point. If I get a Season 3 weapon, I will drop blacksmithing and pick up herbalism instead. Tianak's 2v2 team is at 1981 rating now, with a personal rating of about 1680.

Healmon - 70 Troll Priest
Monday, I spent time leveling Team Heroic, with Healmon (Priest) questing and grinding in Blades Edge Mountain and Shadowmoon Valley. I pretty much grinded on the mobs in Legion Hold from 50% into level 69 with a few starting quests in SMV. As soon as Healmon hit 70, I bought a flying mount for about 1k gold. I had about 1100 gold total between Sanctume, Semihrage and Healmon at the time. I then flew to Shattrath and did 10 arena games on a 3v3 with Sanctume, Lylefukinton, and Healmon.

Semirhage - 68 Bloodelf Paladin
I have Semihrage (Paladin) along in the Team Heroic level grind with Healmon (Priest) and managed to get him to level 68.