Slow crawl to level 35.

Well I have ground my way to level 33 on Mindkiller. I am now a goblin engineer. I have over 20 gold and I’m ready to hit Stranglethorn. Well maybe in a little while.

I made it to 30 as fast as I said I would. I made the journey to Gadgetzan but I could not get the trainer to talk to me. Turns out you need to talk to the trainer in IF to get a quest to go get the training……how fun for me. I hearth back to Redridge and fly to IF for the beginning of my long journey back to Gadgetzan. I get there and do the turn in and get me the good stuff. More explosives yeah baby! I get the recipes for all the ones I know I will use including the goblin mortar. I had to buy some of the mats but it’s worth it. A long range attack that stuns what it hits for 5 seconds. Add to that it’s on a different timer then dynamite and I have a one- two punch for those hard mobs. That is if I don’t wanna ambush them.

I picked up a few new blades for him. A jade serpent blade was custom made by a friend of my wife and I picked up a tigerbane dagger for 1g in the AH. I had to wait till 33 to use the dagger.

I am getting good at timing my attacks with this rogue. The combinations of finishing moves mean I can tailor the moves I use to the difficulty of the mob. Higher level go with expose armor and rupture. Same level rupture and eviscerate. Lower level…..um I usually don’t have time for a combo before they die. I am also getting to like cheap shot and kidney shot. Being 2 combo pts up out of stealth plus time to get a few more on before the target wakes rocks big time. I drudged my way up to 33 doing a few quest here and there. I started the first few quests on the three mastery quest lines in STV. I had to stop because I was dieing every five minutes. I died so many times I had absolutely nothing on when I finally made a run for Darkshire. No weapons too. I headed over to Redridge to knock out a few quests I had neglected there. The champions kill quest and the escort quest for the corporal. Both were easy at 31 and they got me close to 32 before I quit that night.

I logged back on deciding to quest in the Wetlands. One long flight there and I pick up the quest for killing undead sailors. I died here a few times from chain aggro. I managed to get that quest done with no trouble including flying back to SW for the cleansing part of it. I stuck around in Wetlands long enough to level my lock picking up to 160 before I decided to do the orc quest in the area. This went like butter. I killed maybe 60 orcs here just for the banners and cuz they were easy. I went deeper into their valley to go after the main dude even though I didn’t have that quest. (I may go back tonight to take care of the 2 other quests in the orc chain just for fun). I met a rogue on that very quest and was asked to help. We tried once and nearly wiped, the rogue failed to tell me she was suffering rez sickness. So we had to wait for it to run its course. While we waited the camp respawns…all of them. I had cleared the whole camp before the rogue showed up. Now we had to clear it again. We did with only a few hairy spots. So we try for the leader I was going to ambush and he was going to sap. I should have gone with garrote. Next time I will. We killed him after a fierce battle and the rogue went away happy. I didn’t get too much from the run except a mess of silk. It was getting late by this time so I walked back to the harbor to take flight to SW. (For the cleansing of the orb quest). I let the flight happen and the game log me out.

I came back to it the next day after work to turn in the quest not knowing that I was so close to 33. Then DING! Level 33 woohoo baby I’m there time for Tigerbane dagger.
I traveled back to SW for some AH time and got in to a PUG for Stockades. This was a pretty good group in spite of the leader/warrior thinking that because he was a warrior, he deserved all the aggro. Prolly wouldn’t have been too much of an issue except we were facing level 24-26 elites in tight quarters with multiple mobs close together. Every time I tried to pull or sap he would jump the gun and aggro before everyone was set. Our main job became keeping his ass alive for no reason. This isn’t a high level instance where tanking is the key. Just pulling correctly here will do the job just fine and well if handled properly. I guess he didn’t take into account that I was a level 33 rogue who was at the very least familiar with how to play it.

We managed to clear up to drexen's corner and the druid with us aggros a room before we clear the first. Two go down, our mage and the hero. Hero calls for a rez like an ass and gets it leaving the mage to walk back alone. Dickhead. Luckly the mage was level 31 or something so was able to kill the few respawns back to us. (I offered an escort and he declined). We kilt drexen and go after Bazzil. We waste hammy and clear the side rooms with no problems. I was going to pull some defies out of bazzil’s room when the “Hero” decides to pull Bazzil from the middle of the room surrounded by mobs. I had planned on saping him or at least one of the closer mobs to help lessen the asswhooping. So hero aggrod 5 mobs plus Bazzil. We are screwed. With in a few seconds the other rogue goes down followed by the hero. The mage and I blast out as many as we can with the druid healing me as fast as he can. The mage goes down I pop a potion and some dynamite, down to 3 mobs and Bazzil against me. I kill one mob then the other and put a dot on the last add before running for my life. Bazzil was so close to dying. I was pissed. He was down to less then 3% when I ran. The other mob died from the dot. I got away from Bazzil only to die from a respawned patrol. ARRRGG. We all make our way back to the Stockades and hero doesn’t want to finish it and he wouldn’t have except one of the group needed Bazzils head for the quest. So we fight a few respawns and take down Bazzil pretty fast. Done. We leave and hero cuts out. Good riddance. The others in the group had some quests in Redridge so I joined them in clearing them. I talk more on that with the next post and my first Scarlet monastery run with this character.

Goblin Engineering here I come.

Tonight I will reach 30. Prolly within like five minutes of playing. I had to stop last night as it was late I had to work today. I try to get at least six hours of sleep a night. I try not to infringe on that time most nights. I managed to get my mining over the magic 165 with some gold I found and now am able to smelt steel. Steel seems to be in high demand but not very many people are selling it. I only needed steel for one thing and I have yet to require it for anything since. I may take a look at the higher engineering items and see if it’s a req for something…….Looked and I don’t see me using steel again. Cool I have no problem selling it for 25s a pop.
I looked into the reqs for the goblin engineering specialty and it looks like it will be within my budget. I have more then half the materials already in my bank deposit. As soon as I hit 30 I will be ready for the long journey back o Gadetzan. I will also shortly be leaving Ashenvale for the more prosperous area of Stanglethorn Vale and the questing goodness that resides therein. I had a lot of fun in the Vale with my hunter. Killing things mindlessly works for me and with the drops of hairs that sell for almost 1 gold a stack are real nice too.


I stumbled upon a cave in Ashanvale I had no idea was there. Near the south eastern section where there are roads to the Barrens and Azhara there is a cave full of forsaken. There are also zombified night elf dreamers. I got 12 green items of them in like 10 minutes. Not super groovy stuff but enough value that it will prolly pay for the mats I need to complete the engineer quest. I also discovered the demons inhabiting the area south of the Warsong Lumber Camp. I like the idea that I can take down the Infernals all by myself with just a little damage. I wonder if killing them gave me faction with any one.

I have a little start on my Argent Dawn rep with all the assists I have been doing in Stormwind. Any time two or more npcs are beating on a flaming skeleton I jump in and get in a few licks. If I can get five combo points on the skeleton I will try for the Expose Armor to help speed it along. If it hits the battle is over quickly. I would never be able to take one on alone at this point but its fun knowing that I helped take down a creature almost twice my level. I might be getting a new weapon for my rogue. Now if I will use it at all is another question. I will have a whole level to decide. I might be creating a new character just so I can learn blacksmithing. It seems to be an easy skill to level up since I will have numerous characters to provide mats and money. I might go with a paladin/ blacksmith. I have never played a paladin so it will be a new experience. It will wait till I get some more levels on both my “main” characters. I still am neglecting my mage but I’m sure I will get back to her eventually.

Mindkiller: Rogue in search of glory.

I have had some time off from my hunter, on account that my wife wanted to get back in touch with her rogue. I made the best of it by hitting my rogue hard and getting him up to 29. I’m shooting now for 32 so I can learn deadly poison. At least I think it’s at 32, might be 30. I’ll have to check when I get online tonight. I kinda did some mixing and matching with my quests for him. I chose only the quests with the biggest rewards and ones that were fun. I’m not even going to touch the 2 long chain quests in Darkshire till I can solo it, if ever. They just don’t have any draw for me. I really want to start in on the Stranglethorn quests as they shot my hunter form 30 to 40 in no time and I didn’t have to grind for exp at all. I just had to do the quests and they did the job fine.

Also at 30 I will be heading back to Gadgetzan for to choose my engineering specialty. I’m going with goblin. I like having explosives to use in battle. They have saved my bacon a number of times. Though it sucks that I will have to wait a few levels till I can get artesian. I’m maxed out in engineering at 240 so nothing I make, that can, will give me levels. I have been really getting the hang of playing a rogue. I went with 2 daggers shortly after going back to him. I saw another rogue do an ambush and crit that killed his target in one hit. I wanted that so I shopped the AH for some level appropriate daggers before I settled on the flesh piercer for both hands. They have a piddly dot on them but I was going for max damage at the lowest price. Maybe I can get lucky in the Stocks by myself and find the rare and he drops his dagger. I might try it a few times and see. I have been trying for Rohh in Redridge but no luck I haven’t spotted him yet. I may need to farm with my hunter for some decent blades. Though that will have to wait for my wife to get away from her rogue.

I have been making some steady money on my rogue with crafted shot and mechanical squirrels. I had a little price war with another engineer in IF. I had fun making up ads for the trade channel. He would say something about his low price and I would tout the “quality materials” used to make my squirrels. He then offered alcohol with every purchase and I would make it known that I didn’t need to get people drunk before they would buy my wares. I ended up selling a few below what I would have normally but at least I got the sale and made a nice profit.

The one thing I’m making the most money off of right now is silver ore. People are paying 1g for 2 ores and that’s just the ones I sell. I actually sell for 50-60s less then the other people. I have a stack of silver bars I can use later if I need so I don’t need the ore any more and since I don’t get and points for smelting I might as well make some money off of it.

I have yet to take him into another instance since the last wipe at VC. I just haven’t had the time. Maybe this weekend I can get that damn quest over with so I can start Stockades and then who knows. I think I will have an easier time of getting money enough for a mount on this char. I will be a high enough level in engineering that I can make custom orders as well as doing some low level stuff for whole sale on the AH. I will do the quest item making for other rogues and a few of the other things needed in the other professions. Ammo will always be easy and I can sell the mid to high level stuff for amazing profit. I wonder if there is a market for ez throw dynamite. Hmmm I will have to check that out. It won’t be long before I can so the artesian quest in first aid and also get artesian in cooking too. That will be a fun quest.