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Pandaren Pet Tamer Dailies
They say that there’s more than one way to skin a cat. I can only assume that “they” are budding serial killers who are still at the “animal torture” stage, and you’d probably do well by putting Mister Cuddles down and not taking the advice of crazy people who want to graduate from skinning cats to wearing your skin as a coat.
Speaking of cats (smooth segue btw — Editor)…
My OG Hunter had a busy, non-Valentine related weekend. First, for the low low price of 30,000gp he picked up a new title which, I guess, could be Valentine related:
He really hearts Cats. For reelz.
To celebrate his new title, he decided to pick fights with some Pandaren tamers. Then, for good measure, he hunted down the last few pets that had eluded him in Pandaria and added them to his collection.
With all that goodness behind him, he’s almost at level 91. You’d think he’d be more than ready for Draenor. He is, of course, but there’s still a few more achievements to get in Azeroth. Might as well clean up those loose ends before heading to another planet to start trouble (with their battle pets and tamers). Mind you, if he’s sticking around, he should get as much xp as he can. Like, by running the Pandaren Tamer dailies in his spare time.
More leveling on old content? Why live in the past? First, shut up. Second, there’s a few reasons to use the Pandaren Tamer Dailies.
– He can use this to level up more battle pets to use or sell (did I mention the 30k gold hit I took?)
– It’s the only way to get xp buff food for battle pets.
– Eleven tamers (including the pandaren spirits) x approx. 13000xp per = 143000 xp in under an hour is not too shabby.
– It may be old, but it’s new content for me. AKA avoiding leveling burnout.
There are plenty of ways to defeat the tamers. World of Warpets created this speed run of the Pandaren Tamers, with tips on how to beat them and what pets to use. It’s an old video, and there’s probably better pets to use. But it gives you a good starting point for developing your own strategies.
Now Andrej Petrovskiy, his video is a bit newer but does the same job.
Notice how both videos approach the battles as a two-pet fight, with the third pet kicking around for leveling? Pet boosting is standard operating procedure, and the last thing I want to do is to violate a good SOP.
I’m not sure if I have the level 25 battle pets to pull this off. I may have to powerlevel a few, but it’ll be worth it.
Leorajh the Bodyguard
I thought he’d be… bigger.
I never really thought I needed a Bodyguard. Especially a spiritual one.
The whole Bodyguard issue wasn’t one I’d considered. None of my characters needed protection – they were either melee dps (and therefore used to getting hit in the grill) or they were ranged dps with a pet (ie Hunters). They either did not need to have an extra body to keep them alive, or they had their own.
Also, to have a Bodyguard follower you needed to have a Level 2 Barracks in your garrison. So the character had to be about level 96 to even qualify to have a Bodyguard to start with. Not to mention having a follower with the Bodyguard trait, and there are only a few that do.
So why was I now suddenly determined to get a bodyguard for a level 100 character? And a bodyguard who was a Resto Shammy to boot?
One word: Windspeaker.
The character in question is my Belf Hunter, who is also going to be my bank alt/mule. To optimize her gold-making potential, I wanted to make sure she had both profession buildings and a salvage building. This would ensure that for the remainder of the expansion, she could make Darkmoon cards and enchants – both excellent gold-makers. Same with the Salvage Yard. She could sell the greens, DE them, or post them up on the AH for transmog cash. She’d also get gear for herself, as well as for her followers.
This also meant that she would have to hearth to Ashran to use the AH and bank. Not a big deal, right? One hearthstone for Ashran, and one for the Garrison. But wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do everything in one spot? Bank, AH, and run garrison missions? I could do it by spending thousands of gold, hundreds of garrison resources, and endless hours farming the components for the AH robot in the Trading post.
Or I could level up rep with Leorajh until he was rank three with my Belf. At rank three, Leorajh unlocks the ability called Windspeaker, allowing him to grant my Belf access to garrison missions in the field.
Handy. Very handy.
Okay, since this dude isn’t about to just waltz into the garrison looking for work, you have to find him. HeelvsBabyface produced this great video which explains where to find this elusive shaman, and what you need to do (kill) to get him as a follower.
Now that he’s a follower, it’s time to start the rep grind. Youtuber Tommy J produced a video that pointed out four locations to farm bodyguard rep fairly quickly. At ten rep per kill, ten thousand rep per rank, you’re looking at two thousand kills. It’d be nice to be able to do that fairly quickly.
Here’s Tommy’s picks –
A little bit of work to make garrison life easier. Maybe this Bodyguard thing isn’t so bad after all.
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