Friday, February 27, 2015

My Thoughts on 6.1

Hi,

Special end of week Blog post. Now that I've had 4 days to sample 6.1, I'm prepared to give my thoughts on it.

First, the positives:

So many:

Heirloom Tab: Absolutely awesome. I can equip all my leveling alts, without having to move the Heirlooms around.

Followers: Treasure Hunting trait, new mission types, being able to buy upgrades, new level cap, better UI. This is all awesome, as I spend a lot of time doing follower missions.

Other Garrison stuff: Better drop rate of savage blood with follower. Now Bunker only offer seal if you haven't done it this week. New XXX/5 stacking for work orders. And best of all - 'Create All'!! Shift Clicking at the Trading Post. All this stuff is really good.

Mine: Stacking the Pickaxe and Coffee is good. I guess the Miner's coffee is OK, but 3 min duration is just a bit less than perfect.

Blood Elf models: Love them. Actually played my Blood Elf a bit and went from level 3 to 5 :)

Twitter and Selfies: Has really piqued my interest in twitter again. Tweeting from within the game is great for achievements and gear upgrades. I'm enjoying seeing others Selfies and Twitter too.

Crafting: The ability to craft another upgrade is great. The ability to craft with no CD using Primal spirits is great.

However, now we get the massive negative for 6.1:

The daily visitor to you garrison: Well, it not bad for the 4 types that are not the Crafting Trader. But for the Crafting Trader, it's absolutely horrible. The fact that they fixed it across all realms is so mind blowingly bad. We've had Fur, Leather, Fur, Ore. Yes, it's great to get Ore today. But that was blind luck. We may never see the Alchemy one. It's worse if you have lots of professions on your alts, because it's a kick in the teeth to get prof trader on someone who can't use it, and not get it on someone who can. They should give us a way to visit our alt's garrisons.

If I didn't have a friend (or she wasn't playing), I'd be reduced to resorting to chat to beg for this trader. It's horrible. In fact, I was seriously considering un-subbing, if I wouldn't have got the Tailoring recipes on the first day.

So, overall, I'm pretty positive about 6.1, but the way they handled the Prof traders are leaving a very sour taste indeed.

EDIT: Just saw the Blue post over on the WoW forums. They're changing the profession traders to rotate now, instead of being random. All our complaining worked.

YAY - Now I give 6.1 an A+.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Waiting for 6.1

Hi,

6.1 comes out tomorrow with tons of new stuff that I'm really looking forward to. What I've been doing is saving up tons of stuff for when 6.1 hits. I've saved up Herbs, Ore, Salvage Crates, and Primal Spirits. I hope to able to craft tons of mats with Ore, Herbs, and Primal Spirits, as long as I get the right visitors in the Garrisons. Also, Salvage Crates are changing slightly, giving no Follower upgrade sets, but guaranteeing a Green or Blue in every crate. As I don't care about the Follower sets, I'm saving them up to open tomorrow night.

Here's my guild Bank.

Tab for Draenor mats:

Tab 1
Another tab for Draenor mats:

Tab 2
Bleeding into my MoP mats tab:

Tab 3
Enough of that, what else have I been up to?

Well, Blackrock Foundry opened up in LFR last week. So I did it on Flaying. Fun fights, and I died on Grull, and we wiped once on Furnace, but a successful run, and Flaying got 3 pieces of 650 gear (one of which was an upgrade :)). Later in the week, I also did it on Gnomey. Having a better handle on what to expect, it was a nice clean run, but unfortunately, no gear.

Other gearing up was done by Unstable, who finally got to 2 645 followers to get a Highmaul Mission. She completed it at 48%, which was awesome, and got a nice 655 piece.

Gold has just been chugging along. I've sold lots of Savage Feasts and some other stuff, but just fleecing of the other 100s (leaving them with 2K each time) has been bringing in the gold, just from follower missions, and Salvage crates. I didn't run a single old Raid this week.

I tried to focus a bit on Achievements. Flaying started the Lunar Festival and got quite a few of those. I also decided to work on the Mounts goal, as the goals are going to take a hit for 6.1. I got the faction mounts for Human, Gnome, and Night Elf. Now up to 42 mounts.

Cheevos
Of yes, in addition to all this, I did level Blizzy and got her to 100. I now have 9 level 100s. The next will be Shaolin (for another JC), and I leveled her to 95 this week.

Of course, I continued doing follower missions twice a day, and all the Garrison chores once a day, too.

Master plan progress:

Leveling: Get each one to 100. Counting 90-100. Out of 120.

Quite a bit done, and not really much left to do. Now 100/120 = 83.33%

Gearing: Get each character to 650. Counting 600-650. Out of 600.

Adding Blizzy to the mix and a few increases. Now 258/600 = 43%

Crafted Gear: Get 3 pieces of fully upgraded gear on each character. Out of 144.

A few crafted upgrades. Now 60/144 = 41.7%

Professions: Get 2 professions on each character to 700. Counting 600-700. Out of 2400.

Several increases this week. Now 2219/2400 = 92.5%

Secondary Profs: Get all 4 secondary profs on Flaying to 700. Counting 600-700. Out of 400.

Not much this week. 304/400 = 76%

Achievements: Get to 10,000. Out of 10,000.

Got quite a few this week. Now up to 6590/10000 = 65.9%

Guild Achievements: Get to 100. Out of 100.

Still at 80/100 = 80%

Gold: Get to 1M Gold on Flaying. Out of 1M.

Limped up to 476,668/1M = 47.67%

Mounts: Get to 100 Mounts. Out of 100.

Made good progress on this. Now 42/100 = 42%

Followers: Get 10 followers on each character to 670. Out of 120.

With the new requirement, 0/120 = 0%

Overall Plan progress = 57.2%

Alliance (Brits United) on Draenor:

Flayingbrit (100) - Human/Priest (Herbalism 700/Alchemy 700) - iLvl 647
Draenybrit (100) - Draenei/Shaman (Mining 700/Blacksmithing 700) - iLvl 632
Gnomeybrit (100) - Gnome/Priest (Tailoring 700/Enchanting 700) - iLvl 639

Flictionbrit (100) - Gnome/Warlock (Mining 700/Engineering 715) - iLvl 632
Fengsuibrit (100) - Pandaren/Hunter (Skinning 700/Leatherworking 700) -
iLvl 628
Blizzybrit (100) - Draenei/Mage (Mining 700/Jewelcrafting 710)
- iLvl 619
Boomybrit (100) - Night Elf/Druid (Herbalism 700/Inscription 700) - iLvl 624
Unstablebrit (100) - Human/Warlock (Herbalim 700/Skinning 700)
- iLvl 624

Pallybrit (100) - Human/Paladin (Blacksmithing 643/Tailoring 700) - iLvl 613
Bamboodbrit (93) - Pandaren/Priest (Herbalism 647/Alchemy 700)
Priestybrit (61) - Draenei/Priest (None)
Raidbrit (10) - Doesn't matter (2nd account)  

Alliance (Brits United) on Echo Isles:
   
Shaolinbrit (95) - Pandaren/Monk (Mining 700/Jewelcrafting 700)
Slealthybrit (92) - Pandaren/Rogue (Skinning 668/Leatherworking 651)
Smashbrit (12) - Pandaren/Warrior (None) 
Frostybrit (70) - Draenei/Death Knight (None)
Trapbrit (29) - Draenei/Hunter (None) 
  
Horde (Britannia) on Ghostlands:
  
Priestybrit (43) - Undead/Priest (Tailoring 176/Enchanting 196)
Elfybrit (3) - Blood Elf/Priest (None) 
Shammybrit (14) - Orc/Shaman (Mining 21/Herbalism 25)



The goal for next week is to mess around with 6.1 as much as possible, and level Shaolin up a bit. Maybe to 100. It would be nice to have 10 100s. I'll try and focus a bit more on Achievements, and will definitely be looking to upgrade all my followers.


Cheers.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Master Plan Changes for 6.1

Hi,

With 6.1, there are several changes that will impact my Master Plan. Not that I have to do anything, but I want to, to make it more challenging. As a reminder, here are the goals for my 12 characters:

Leveling: Get each one to 100. Counting 90-100. Out of 120.

Gearing: Get each character to 640. Counting 600-640. Out of 480.

Crafted Gear: Get 3 pieces of fully upgraded gear on each character. Out of 108.

Professions: Get 2 professions on each character to 700. Counting 600-700. Out of 2400.

Secondary Profs: Get all 3 secondary profs on Flaying to 700. Counting 600-700. Out of 400.

Achievements: Get to 10,000. Out of 10,000.

Guild Achievements: Get to 100. Out of 100.

Gold: Get to 1M Gold on Flaying. Out of 1M.

Mounts: Get to 100 Mounts. Out of 100.

Followers: Get 10 followers on each character to 650. Out of 120.


Now, which ones get affected by 6.1

Gearing: With BRF LFR now in play, and crafted gear going higher, I'm going to up this to get each character to 650.

Crafted Gear: With one new upgrade possible, this will be now out of 144.

Followers: Now that each follower can get to 675, I'll be focused on getting 10 of them to 670 on each character.

These 3 changes will be reflected in next week's blog post, which will be up just before 6.1 goes live on the 24th.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Love is in the Air

Hi,

Well, looking at the Master Plan and realizing that gold was coming in thick and fast, I worked out that the long pole is really going to be achievements. With that in mind, I decided to do some Holiday stuff on Flaying to get the easier achievements.

Love is in the Air Achievements

As you see, got quite a few.

The other thing that I've been making sure to do is to keep all my Barn Work Orders filled. I'm doing that on 4 characters. Here's what I'm normally doing in the morning before work:

Trapping Elite River Beasts

Doing this also brings in tons of Savage Feasts that I sell on the AH. Fengsui is trapping Elite wolves instead and getting fur. With all the Savage Blood I've been getting, I've made quite a few upgrades this week.

So, I've said that gold is coming in thick and fast. How am I doing that? Well, I got a 655 trinket in a salvage crate, tried selling at 60K, 50K, 40k, and it eventually sold for 30K. Also, I've been selling Flasks, Potions, Ore, Herbs, Gear and all sorts of stuff to bring in tons of gold. Also, I've been doing some old Raids for gold. I've even written a wowhead guide about how to make gold with alts:

http://www.wowhead.com/guide=2915/making-money-with-alts-in-wod

I haven't really been doing much leveling. Blizzy got to 97 and is close to 98. I also did Shaolin a bit. I really want to have another JC getting the JC daily :)

My follower missions have been going great guns. A few characters got a couple of followers to 645 and successfully completed Highmaul missions for some nice 655 pieces. What I've also done is really sort out all the Buildings my characters have.

Large: Barracks for 5 extra followers. Bunker for a free seal each week, and follower upgrades.

Medium: Inn for a new follower each week. Barn (for the 4 I'm trapping Elites with, and Pally and Slealthy for low level trapping)/Trading Post (for those not with Barns) for getting more GRs, and spending the GRs on Dust.

Small: Prof Building (1 or 2). Salvage Yard for tons of gold and follower upgrades. Storehouse for those with only 1 prof building.

So, hows this all affected the Master Plan?

Leveling: Hardly any progress. We're now at 94/120 => 78.33%.

Gearing: A few 655 pieces and a few upgrades. So, we've gone up to 221/480 => 46.04%

Crafted Gear: A few more upgrades this week. So it's now moved to 57/108 => 52.78%

Professions: Some progress with sending all characters through the DMF. Now up to 2186/2400 => 91.08%

Secondary Profs: Just a bit of movement with DMF and doing a little bit of First Aid. So this moved to 304/400 => 76%.

Achievements: Concentrated on Love is in the Air. Now at 6510. 65.1%

Guild Achievements: Nothing this week. So still 80/100 => 80%.

Gold: Blew this out of the water this week as described further up the blog. Flaying made it to 447,479 => 44.75%.

Mounts: (New) I'm at 26/100 => 26%

Followers: (New) This is getting 10 follower to 650 on each character. Currently 10/120 => 8.33%

So, the overall master plan progress is now at: 56.84%

Alliance (Brits United) on Draenor:

Flayingbrit (100) - Human/Priest (Herbalism 700/Alchemy 700) - iLvl 645
Draenybrit (100) - Draenei/Shaman (Mining 700/Blacksmithing 700) - iLvl 626
Gnomeybrit (100) - Gnome/Priest (Tailoring 700/Enchanting 700) - iLvl 639

Flictionbrit (100) - Gnome/Warlock (Mining 700/Engineering 715) - iLvl 631
Fengsuibrit (100) - Pandaren/Hunter (Skinning 700/Leatherworking 700) -
iLvl 628
Blizzybrit (97) - Draenei/Mage (Mining 700/Jewelcrafting 710)
Boomybrit (100) - Night Elf/Druid (Herbalism 700/Inscription 700)
- iLvl 624
Unstablebrit (100) - Human/Warlock (Herbalim 700/Skinning 700)
- iLvl 620
Pallybrit (100) - Human/Paladin (Blacksmithing 639/Tailoring 700)
- iLvl 613
Bamboodbrit (93) - Pandaren/Priest (Herbalism 647/Alchemy 700)
Priestybrit (61) - Draenei/Priest (None)
Raidbrit (10) - Doesn't matter (2nd account)  

Alliance (Brits United) on Echo Isles:
   
Shaolinbrit (92) - Pandaren/Monk (Mining 700/Jewelcrafting 696)
Slealthybrit (92) - Pandaren/Rogue (Skinning 660/Leatherworking 646)
Smashbrit (12) - Pandaren/Warrior (None) 
Frostybrit (70) - Draenei/Death Knight (None)
Trapbrit (29) - Draenei/Hunter (None) 
  
Horde (Britannia) on Ghostlands:
  
Priestybrit (43) - Undead/Priest (Tailoring 176/Enchanting 196)
Elfybrit (3) - Blood Elf/Priest (None) 
Shammybrit (14) - Orc/Shaman (Mining 21/Herbalism 25)


The plan for next week is definitely to get Blizzy to 100 and also level Bambood a bit. Hopefully, now that I have the Garrison buildings all in place, I'll make progress on the Follower goal too.

Monday, February 9, 2015

And then there were 8!

Hi,

Yep, I got both Unstable and Pally to level 100 this week. The reason I decided I needed to get them to 100 was that all the level 100 follower pieces of gear were starting to fill up their bags. I knew that getting them all opened would give me tons of gold too. So, Unstable finished after only just getting to Nagrand. Pally did quite a bit of Nagrand, finishing up at the Ring of Trials.

Pallybrit

Unstablebrit


What I always do with my 100s now is get them back to the garrison, get it to level 3. Then I upgrade the Garden and Mine to level 3. Then get a Salvage Yard, Lunarfell Inn, and then a Dwarven Bunker. Then work on getting them all to level 3 asap. I don't bother usually upgrading Prof buildings to level 3, because I don't really need the extra work orders.

Well, I know I said I was going to be concentrating on gold, but I kind of got distracted by leveling. I realize now that I didn't do a single Apexis Daily, and didn't run a single LFR wing, all week! So much to do.

I did manage to fit in some Old Raid runs though, on Flaying, Gnomey, Draeny, and Boomy. It will be interesting to see how easy it is on Pally. I don't like doing the old Raids on Pet classes, because you don't get all the loot.

I was also making sure to keep my L3 Barns filled with Work Orders. I'm doing this on Flaying, Draeny, Gnomey, Fengsui, and Fliction. 5 is enough :)

Let's see how the Master Plan is doing:

Leveling: The only movement here was getting both Unstable and Pally to 100. So we're now at 93/120 => 77.5%.

Gearing: Getting Unstable and Pally into the mix, and also some slight improvements in terms of Crafting upgrades, Follower gear, and a couple of Apexis pieces. So, we've gone up to 209/480 => 43.54%

Crafted Gear: This was a another good week for Gearing. I got quite a lot of Savage Blood from the Barns. I made the final item a character was missing, and made a few upgrades. So it's now moved to 52/108 => 48.15%

Professions: Some small progress here on Pally, Unstable, Stealthy, and Shaolin. Now up to 2104/2400 => 87.67%%

Secondary Profs: Flaying got Archeology to 700 this week. So this moved to 291/400 => 72.75%.

Achievements: A few more achievements this week. A couple from old Raid stuff, and a few from the Love is in the Air Event. Now at 6420. 64.2%

Guild Achievements: Nothing this week. So still 80/100 => 80%.

Gold: Sold quite a bit of stuff on the AH, and found time to run some old Raids too. Flaying made it to 372,379 => 37.24%.

I said I was going to add a couple more to it, but I'm still thinking about it.

So, the overall master plan progress is now at: 63.88%


Alliance (Brits United) on Draenor:

Flayingbrit (100) - Human/Priest (Herbalism 700/Alchemy 700) - iLvl 644
Draenybrit (100) - Draenei/Shaman (Mining 700/Blacksmithing 700) - iLvl 625
Gnomeybrit (100) - Gnome/Priest (Tailoring 700/Enchanting 700) - iLvl 635

Flictionbrit (100) - Gnome/Warlock (Mining 700/Engineering 715) - iLvl 630
Fengsuibrit (100) - Pandaren/Hunter (Skinning 700/Leatherworking 700) -
iLvl 628
Blizzybrit (96) - Draenei/Mage (Mining 700/Jewelcrafting 710)
Boomybrit (100) - Night Elf/Druid (Herbalism 700/Inscription 700)
- iLvl 619
Unstablebrit (97) - Human/Warlock (Herbalim 700/Skinning 698)
- iLvl 620
Pallybrit (96) - Human/Paladin (Blacksmithing 612/Tailoring 700)
- iLvl 612
Bamboodbrit (93) - Pandaren/Priest (Herbalism 642/Alchemy 700)
Priestybrit (61) - Draenei/Priest (None)
Raidbrit (10) - Doesn't matter (2nd account)  

Alliance (Brits United) on Echo Isles:
   
Shaolinbrit (92) - Pandaren/Monk (Mining 700/Jewelcrafting 684)
Slealthybrit (92) - Pandaren/Rogue (Skinning 644/Leatherworking 624)
Smashbrit (12) - Pandaren/Warrior (None) 
Frostybrit (70) - Draenei/Death Knight (None)
Trapbrit (29) - Draenei/Hunter (None) 
  
Horde (Britannia) on Ghostlands:
  
Priestybrit (43) - Undead/Priest (Tailoring 176/Enchanting 196)
Elfybrit (3) - Blood Elf/Priest (None) 
Shammybrit (14) - Orc/Shaman (Mining 21/Herbalism 25)


The plan for next week is more of the same. But I do hope to do some LFR runs. I'll probably concentrate only getting Blizzy to 100 next, and the others to the 96/97 range.

Monday, February 2, 2015

My 6th Level 100

Hi,


So, yep, Boomy made it to 100 pretty early in the week. 6 out of 12 are now 100. Let's see how progress on the Master Plan is going.

Leveling: Other than Boomy getting to 100, I got Stealthy to 92 for the Mine. So we're now at 86/120 => 71.67%.

Gearing: Other than Boomy getting into the mix, there's not been much gearing up this week other than crafted gear, and the occasional 645 follower mission piece. So, we've gone up to 164/480 => 34.17%

Crafted Gear: This was a good week for Gearing. I made quite a few items that characters were missing, and made a couple of upgrades. So it's now moved to 45/108 => 41.67%

Professions: Gnomey got Enchanting to 700, and others made progress to. Now up to 2055/2400 => 85.83%

Secondary Profs: Nothing was done on this, this week. It stays as 238/400 => 59.5%.

Achievements: A couple of new Achievements this week. Flaying got Silver Proving Grounds after getting come good advice on the forums. Just for the achievement though, I'm really not planning to run any Heroics. Also, with Gnomey getting Enchanting to 700, I got Grand Master of All (raise all profs to 700).

6370

So, it's now at 6370/10000 => 63.7%.

Guild Achievements: I actually got a couple this week. With all the flasks that I was making and selling, the Guild got Mix Master, and Pandarian Mix Master (funny how Draenor flasks count as both Pandarian and Cataclysm ones :)). So, 80/100 => 80%.

Gold: With skimming more off the level 100s, running some old Raids, crafting and selling Flasks, Potions, Savage Feasts, and some gear, Flaying made it to 328,485 => 32.85%.

So, the overall master plan progress is now at: 58.67%

One thing about the master plan is that I'm thinking of adding another couple of Goals, to make it a round 10 different goals. If you have any ideas, let me know. Also, I'll be altering some of the goals with 6.1 The Gearing (now that BRF will be out, and crafted will go to 670) and Crafted Gear (now that you'll be able to do 3 upgrades) goals will be altered.

Other than this, Draeny started trapping Elites in Nagrand too. So now I've got Flaying, Draeny, Gnomey, and Fengsui that I'm doing trapping on for chances of Savage Blood. Fliction is getting an L3 Barn too. I don't know if I'll be able to keep 5 going though.

Also, with Patch 6.1 on the horizon, I've been saving up mats in the guild bank. It's absolutely brimming with Ore and Herbs now. 6.1 will be awesome, because we will be able to craft mats without a daily CD, and also transmute Savage Blood. I can't wait.

Draenor mats 1 of Guild Bank


Alliance (Brits United) on Draenor:

Flayingbrit (100) - Human/Priest (Herbalism 700/Alchemy 700) - iLvl 644
Draenybrit (100) - Draenei/Shaman (Mining 700/Blacksmithing 700) - iLvl 623
Gnomeybrit (100) - Gnome/Priest (Tailoring 700/Enchanting 700) - iLvl 634

Flictionbrit (100) - Gnome/Warlock (Mining 700/Engineering 715) - iLvl 622
Fengsuibrit (100) - Pandaren/Hunter (Skinning 700/Leatherworking 700) -
iLvl 627
Blizzybrit (96) - Draenei/Mage (Mining 700/Jewelcrafting 710)
Boomybrit (100) - Night Elf/Druid (Herbalism 700/Inscription 700)
- iLvl 618
Unstablebrit (97) - Human/Warlock (Herbalim 700/Skinning 692)
Pallybrit (96) - Human/Paladin (Blacksmithing 578/Tailoring 700)
Bamboodbrit (93) - Pandaren/Priest (Herbalism 642/Alchemy 700)
Priestybrit (61) - Draenei/Priest (None)
Raidbrit (10) - Doesn't matter (2nd account)  

Alliance (Brits United) on Echo Isles:
   
Shaolinbrit (92) - Pandaren/Monk (Mining 700/Jewelcrafting 672)
Slealthybrit (92) - Pandaren/Rogue (Skinning 642/Leatherworking 607)
Smashbrit (12) - Pandaren/Warrior (None) 
Frostybrit (70) - Draenei/Death Knight (None)
Trapbrit (29) - Draenei/Hunter (None) 
  
Horde (Britannia) on Ghostlands:
  
Priestybrit (43) - Undead/Priest (Tailoring 176/Enchanting 196)
Elfybrit (3) - Blood Elf/Priest (None) 
Shammybrit (14) - Orc/Shaman (Mining 21/Herbalism 25)


Next week, I plan to make a lot more progress on the Master Plan. It looks like Gold and Achievements will be the long poles. I probably won't concentrate on Achievements righ now, but I'll probably do more gold stuff than leveling or gearing next week.

Cheers.

EDIT: And I think I've decided on my other two goals. One will be getting 100 mounts (I have 23 currently). The other one will be Follower based. Get 10 645 followers on each character. So 120 possible there,