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The Boost to 100
I snapped. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the most logical explanation I can come up with. I mean, why else would I throw everything away and just start over?
It all started, well, yesterday. My intent was to log in to WoW and get my chores done (don’t fool yourself, just because garrison gold missions got lobotomized doesn’t mean there aren’t still chores to do). But when I got to the character select screen, I saw it.
That damn 100. My boost. It twisted a dagger in my brain.
I’d posted numerous polls on Twitter, trying to come up with a class to use the boost on. I wanted to go Death Knight because, well, can you really have too many? In Legion that answer is yes (grinding artifacts on multiple characters will be a full time job) but in WoD? Hells no.
The more significant question was the one I always toss around. Why? Why boost another character? What was I going to do with this toon? Add him to the pile? Things had changed with the nerf to garrison treasure missions. No longer was it a benefit to have multiple characters racking up gold because, well, now there was no longer that option. Now, if you wanted those six or seven characters to make gold you had to do more than just click a few buttons. You had to USE them to DO something. That took time out of my day. Time I wasn’t willing to spend.
I was already questioning why I was going through the motions. On my Alliance server, I had a few hundred thousand gold socked away. On my Horde server, I had just over one million gold. I wasn’t raiding. I wasn’t doing anything but logging in, making gold, and logging off.
I think that’s when things went south on me.
Legion was coming out at the end of the month. Demon Hunters were going to be playable in about a week, but Legion was the goal. Was it too late in WoD to use the boost? What could I get done in a month?
I decided to find out.
I got a Tauren DK to 60 on a brand new server with no support classes. No sugar mama. Just the Big Bull, and a quickly rolled up AH toon. In hindsight, maybe I shouldn’t have picked a PVP server if I wanted to make the most of my ability to farm things for gold. Oh well.
Like I said, I got him to 60, gave him professions, and boosted him. My seventeenth Level 100 character.
And now, he will be my sole focus until Legion. No dailies on my other characters. One toon. One server. One focus. My one Horde army.
Let’s see what happens.
Legion Pre-Patch Tomorrow
I like to think that, despite there being 24 hours in a day, most folk only use the last minute to get things done.
Take me for example. I started switching out some of my garrison buildings and realized that, for the past year, I could have been doing things much better. Things are falling into place, just as the game board is about to get slapped off the table. The Legion pre-expansion patch goes live tomorrow, July 19th, and plenty of things will be a-changing. Check out Blizzard’s video where they briefly discuss what to look for tomorrow.
The garrison changes will be going live as well. This means:
- Gold sources will be disappearing (Jewelcrafting Daily) or changing (gold follower missions will reward garrison resources).
- Salvage Yard will no longer produce the transmog gear.
- Follower weapon and armor tokens will sell for copper, rather than gold.
- Trading Post items will increase in value 4x.
If you’ve got garrison business, I suggest you do it now and get the last bit of coin out of the garrison that you can before it all goes away. Oh, and yadda yadda class changes transmog etc etc.
Gold Farming in Everbloom
With Legion just around the corner (OMG less than a month), people have started looking to the future. Old raids are getting nerfed, treasure potions and getting gutted, so what’s left? Turns out quite a bit.
Oldbess dropped some knowledge, and hopefully this spot doesn’t get hit with the nerf bat too. These kinds of spots are my favorites in that they’re instanced, so you don’t have to compete with anyone else and can take your time farming. It’s one that you can do now, but it’ll be even better once you cap out in Legion.
After watching this video, I decided to give it a try (as I like to do). Problem being, I’m not a Heroic raider so my gear iLevel is nowhere near what Oldbess was running at. He was about iLevel 720, where my Blood DK offspec was sitting around 695. Trying this would be suicide, no?
I said Blood DK. #DeathGripCity, bitches!
I tried a couple of packs, nothing crazy. I survived the pulls, but I could see how a higher iLevel (or actual tanking gear, rather than my DPS gear in a tank spec) might make more of a difference. The gold potential is definitely here, and it will only get better with Legion.
Legion Beta Prot Warrior Macro
We always hurt the ones we love.
Swifty (@SwiftyIRL) put together an awesome 1-shot macro for Prot Warriors and took it for a spin on the Legion beta. The result? Well, the man ended up having to put in a ticket to nerf his own class.
Sounds a little extreme? It is. But so is doing TWO MILLION DAMAGE with a single push of a button!
MUAHAHAHA!
Check out the carnage in the video below, and if you’re a Warrior on the beta give this macro a try. Enjoy the guilty pleasure of an “I WIN” button while you can.
Old Raid Gold Nerf in Legion
End of June already! This year is flying by, outside of WoW. Inside the Warcraft, there is neither much warring nor crafting. Things are slow, is what I’m saying.
Making gold is always a thing, and having recently hitting gold cap myself I’ve found a few ways to earn some scratch. One way was the old favorite, running raid content from previous expansions.
Blizzard, being aware of all things at all times, did two things in Legion that bothered me a little. The first was that they raised the gold cap to just under ten million gold (really?! I, like, just got here!) The second thing they did was nerf raid farming . See what Bellular has to say about it below.
Rokk Talk 