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Therazane is Hawt
The lovechild of Jessica Simpson and a pile of gravel. Sexy, no?
Talk about a productive week.
Extremis the Knight of Death got himself to 85 and immediately flexed his impressive blacksmithing muscle by putting hammer to anvil. The end result was a suit of Vicious Pyrium armor and an Elementium Bonecrusher. He then bought an Elementium-Edged Scalper (best in slot pre-heroics, according to askmrrobot.com) and will get another if it appears on the market or he grinds his way to the recipe in Molten Core. He’s already started knocking off regular dungeons and soon may be ready for Heroics.
There’s also talk of raiding. Me. Raiding in World of Warcraft.
God help us all.
It’s Not Who You Know. It’s Who Knows You.
While Extremis slogged through Deepholm during his mid-80’s, I started chatting up a guildie and commented how I really wasn’t a fan of questing in the zone. Deepholm, I said, was an unfortunate circumstance that could not be skipped. Once the questline was started, I felt it was important to remain there until it was finished. You could leave sooner and move on to Uldum for quicker leveling, better xp and quest rewards, but the Deepholm questline was the only way to unlock and earn the Therazane rep needed to get the necessary Exalted for the shoulder enchants. Also, the longer you ran the questline the more Therazane rep you could earn (one round of daily quests under Revered, as it turned out), and the fewer Therazane dailies needed to reach Exalted.
My guildmate, who had patiently been listening to me rant on the zone, sent me a single sentence in response to my plight. “I didn’t understand a single word you just said.”
That’s when it occurred to me that there are a number of people who simply level up as fast as possible and start looking for gear upgrades. They’re not really aware how important some of the reputations can be while you’re leveling. All they know is to quest and run dungeons, blaze through levels, without giving any thought to what reputation benefits they’re passing up.
Reputation can be important you guys.
Sometimes it’s good to be kind of a big deal.
So I decided to be a helpful kind of guy and point out some of the benefits of working on the rep grind of various factions in Cataclysm. Might as well start with the one Extremis is currently working on – Therazane. (Fun Fact – Flowers and candy will not help your rep with her.)
Friendly
Good to wear when you’re running 85 dungeons. Not so great when you’re leveling, unless it matches your outfit.
Honored
- Lesser Inscription of Charged Lodestone
- Lesser Inscription of Jagged Stone
- Lesser Inscription of Shattered Crystal
- Lesser Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz
These are the lesser shoulder enchants for each class. Unless you’re an Scribe/Inscriptionator/Whatever, this is where you get your shoulder buffs.
Revered
- Diamant’s Ring of Temperance
- Felsen’s Ring of Resolve
- Gorsik’s Band of Shattering
- Terrath’s Signet of Balance
Some decent bling for your character.
Exalted
- Greater Inscription of Charged Lodestone
- Greater Inscription of Jagged Stone
- Greater Inscription of Shattered Crystal
- Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz
These are the enchants that players are using at the end game. Like I said, pound for pound the best enchants for the shoulder slot that you’ll find. So slap on your Tabard and get your grind on!
The Spectral Wolf
Perhaps you are one of the lucky one million players who have tried out the beta for the upcoming WoW expansion, Mists of Pandaria. Or perhaps you have mastered the art of looking at words and comprehending their meaning well enough to know what the Hell is being said. In any case, you might have clued in that Blizzard wants you to see all the new content at ground level, and flying on the new continent will not be allowed until level 90.
Calm down. Take a deep breath. We’re all in this together. I know you’ve been farming flying mounts because they’re a) roughly three times faster than the fastest land mount, and b) you can fly everywhere else in the damn game. That means that, for five long levels, you will be cruising around Pandaville on a land mount. So you’d better make damn sure you can stand looking at the mount for five levels.
Enter the Spectral Wolf.
I have actually heard people try to compare the Spectral Wolf to the Celestial Steed for some reason, and the words stomped part of my brain to death. Sure the sparkle pony was the hotness for all of ten minutes, and it could also double as a land mount in a pinch when it wasn’t busy flying around looking pretentious. But I’m talking about a Spectral Wolf, not the bastard child of a Twilight vampire and a My Little Pony reject. Spectral Wolves drag sparkle ponies out to the alley behind Pizza Hut and pimp them out for five bucks and pocket lint.
So much wrong with this picture.
To get your hands on these ghostfaced killers, you need two things. First, you need to be Exalted with Hellscream’s Reach. If you run the twelve Tol Barad and Baradin Hold dailies every day, it should take you roughly three weeks to hit Exalted reputation. That’s twenty-one days of straight-up killing things – people, gators, demons, ghosts, and giants.
Spectral Wolf calls that “a nice start.”
By the time you hit Exalted, you’ll have easily met the second requirement to getting your Wolf – 165 Tol Barad Commendations. You can use those extra tokens to buy yourself a Tabard (which has a clickable teleport to Tol Barad) or as a headstart in case you want to get the Tol Barad flying mount – Drake of the West Wind.
For now, don’t worry about other purchases. If you have the rep and the tokens, get one of the best looking land mounts in the game and show that bad boy off.
Beats the Hell out of riding the Swift Springstrider.
Rokk Talk 