Sorry I haven’t updated the site in the last week. I had to go to Canada for a family emergency. As such, I only played once all of last week.
I will be playing more this week and will have more updates for you.
Just so you guys see what I’m talking about. Basically any loot before AQ40 is meaningless. There are so many good greens that are way better than anything you can get before AQ/Naxx. Here is the mace I was talking about earlier… Take a look.
Went to the Blood Furnace today. I got my vid card issue fixed. Here is what dropped. We couldn’t down the final guy, because he’s retarded. I think he bugs out when you reset him, so any more than one attempt will take you out. Its a complex fight. Basically he has 5 adds, they debuff and shadowbolt you. You need to AoE them down. Then he comes out with a 2-3k Blast wave that goes at LEAST 25yards. You can tell he’s casting it because he kneels. All the time he’s taunting you. Its kind of intense for a PUG group. Blizzard added a lot of voice overs, which is really cool. Here’s the Drops:
I’ve seen some reports of crashes and poor performance from some ATI cards [x800, 9800, x1300]. Basically the 6.9 drivers are too new. If you have problems with an ATI card with Beta, install the 6.8 drivers. It might not work as well overall, but it won’t crash as much.
These are all from an instance called The Hellfire Ramparts. There are 3 bosses and its pretty easy. The other instance causes constant crashes for me. Its called The Blood Furnace. It has some good loot too, but I was too busy restarting the game to get any screens.
I also got my first piece of instance loot today. It was also socketed. I made it way better than my Salamander Scale Pants, so I am anxiously awaiting lvl 61. You get about 1/4 of a level per instance, so running them is sure the way to go. I’m about halfway through, and will easily hit 61 tomorrow. Hopefully I can hit 62. A friend got me a really nice mace (green) that I will share with you later.
I got my first piece of uber quest loot this afternoon. Take a look. Not too shabby if you’re a Moonkin. I’m going to keep it for a spell dmg set.
Here are some tips for those of you planning on taking Jewelcrafting:
Stockpile about 150 Copper and 150 Bronze (225 Copper and 75 Tin) in bars. You can prospect, but its really not worth the mats. It costs 5 ore to prospect for 1 gem, and often you need the metal and the gem. If you can get about 10 of each gem, you should be good to go. Silver is an absolute must. It makes things so much easier. Expect to use about 40 Silver Bars.
Last tip: If you have one character a miner, and your jewelcrafting character already has enchanting, keep enchanting. You can get a lot of low level enchanting mats to sell on the AH from Jewelcrafting.
I will publish more tips as I level my jewelcrafting (I’m at about 110 now).
Latest build of Beta came out yesterday morning. No patch notes are listed. Most of it that I have seen are just bug fixes. They implemented the new talent changes also, so thats nice.
I got to play a bit, and my character’s inventory got messed up pretty bad. I kept getting reset every time I logged in. I think the problems are over though. Crazy things that happen in Beta, eh? Heh.
A few of my friends got random beta invites. Hopefully I can hook up with some of them for some instance runs this weekend.
Latest build of Beta came out this morning. No patch notes are listed. Most of it that I have seen are just bug fixes. They implemented the new talent changes also, so thats nice.
