Daily Blog - July 7, 2009

Played a few hours last night and got a lot accomplished. Finally raised my Jewelcrafting to 155 for my Hunter and also raised my cooking to 150. I received about 50 gold from my Sunday auctions so was able to buy some stones to easily attain skill level 155. I had a bunch of raw fish already so it took no time to level cooking to 150. Now going through the tedious process of raising my fishing skill to 150. Right now it is at 25 so I have a ways to go.

So it looks like I'll be doing a lot of fishing tonight.

Daily Blog - July 6, 2009

Well I played probably around 12 hours over the three day weekend and still have not got my Hunter's Jewelcrafting profession to 150 (actually can get it to 155). I'm currently at 143, which is only 43 points higher than before the weekend. It takes a lot of money to level this profession, so I end up putting things on the auction house (copper, stone, dusts, everything possible) to make money. I'll make about 10 gold and then spend it to raise it by a couple of points. I'm now having to buy jades which seem to be in short supply and too difficult to obtain myself. I cannot currently get iron ore myself to prospect the jades, which has about a 1 out of 3 chance of happening anyways. So I'll wait on the auction house and buy one for about 3-4 gold apiece.

To speed up the process I went ahead and got rid of my skinning profession for my lvl 34 Rogue which was at around 250 and picked up mining. I leveled that up to 99 last night. I'm hoping that I'll be able to locate iron nodes and collect it myself and possibly also come across some of my own jade stones. I hope the iron nodes aren't in areas that are too high for my Rogue.

Painful process, this leveling of Jewelcrafting. Not sure why it's so much worse than all the other professions. The items that you are creating could not even be used by the player making them most of the time. Once you reach level 20 and can become and expert (or whatever it's called) there isn't anything you could actually use until your in your upper 20's or 30's. And you would never be able to collect the items. You would have to be at a much higher level to collect the items you need to make the jewels.

Oh well, I'll continue leveling my Rogue's mining tonight and hopefully I'll eventually find some iron nodes or find some cheap jades at the auction house.

Daily Blog - July 2, 2009

Played a few hours again last night. Quickly leveled my Warlock to 18 in Redridge and got my new skills. I am now working on my Hunter and trying to level his Jewelcrafting. It looks like it's going to be expensive. I was able to get to 100 before it got too late and plus I ran out of money again. I had my Mage sell off all his dusts and shards at the auction house. Hopefully I'll have a lot of money in my mail box tonight. I have to buy a lot of bronze or silver bars to level up quickly. Looks like pretty soon I'll be needing iron and gold bars as well. I'm sure those costs an arm and a leg. This looks like it's going to be a long process. Oh well, the things I can create look pretty helful although they are for levels that look much higher than most of my characters.

Daily Blog - July 1, 2009

Played a few hours last night and got a lot accomplished. Got about 27 gold from selling my copper and rocks the previous day so was easily able to finish gearing up my Warlock for his quest to level 18. Once I was geared up I went to Westfall and finished up the rest of the quests in the area which was the Defias quests up until escorting the traitor and then the lighthouse quests. I really hate Murlocs. I only died once when I was trying to get back to the lighthouse and turn in my final quest. I was tired of skirting around all the murlocs and got too close to a bunch of them. They froze me and took me and my minion. The beach is packed with mobs and it is difficult to get just one at a time and if you're not careful you'll net 3 or 4 on you and that's certain death if you're only level 16.

Anyway, I was about halfway between level 17 and 18 and it was about 12:30 am so I had to shut it down for the night. I should be able to play tonight and go over to Redridge and start questing to get to level 18. Then I'll start up my Hunter, Dotsmadanin, again and go through leveling everything up for him. I'm not too excited about leveling cooking, first aid and fishing, but I am excited about leveling jewelcrafting. Right now I'm only at level 69 so I'm interested to see what new items I'll learn on the way to 150 and be able to outfit all my alts with their new rings and whatnot.