So throughout the life of my shaman, I have always quested with Boxter or Rhone (a good friend in Teen Girl Squad). While doing this gets quests done quickly, it usually leaves me without quests at times when by myself. So last night, I decided to grind my way to 49. I flew over to Feralas, and grinded on the Ogres in the southwestern area. Let me tell you, this is quite possibly one of the BEST grinding spots for a specific class I have ever found. Most of the mobs are casters, so Rank 1 Earth Shock interrupts most of their spells for a measly 30 mana. I dinged 49 around 7:30pm.

Then, I decided I would head over to the Blasted Lands to do the collection quests, for the many buff items you can get (forget the name of all of them). These mobs should be 3 or 4 levels above what they are listed. Not only do they mana burn the fuck out of you, they hit like a truck. I could barely make it through 2 or 3 fights without being completely out of mana, and almost dead. And I was at least 2 or 3 levels higher than the mobs I was fighting. Luckily, Boxter logged on, and came over to help me get the rest of the materials to complete the quests. I am about 50% through 49, so should hit 50 (and maybe if I am lucky, 51) tonight. I also plan on helping Deadr out by running him through a couple instances. Probably will hit up Wailing Caverns and Shadowfang Keep a couple times.

On the gear/items front, I just finished up transmuting all of Boxter’s Essence of Undeath to Essence of Water for his Hide of the Wild, and now its time for me to make mine. I still need to buy all of my Larval Acid and Living Essence though, so it might be a little while till I get it.

Logged on a little later last night. Ended up watching Ocean’s 12 with the wife (good movie btw). So anyways, I logged on around 8:15pm, and Boxter and I ran over to Searing Gorge and completed all of the Thorium Brotherhood quests. Let me say this. Whoever designed the Slag Pit, great job. However, whoever thought up the amount of mobs in there, bad job. Ugh. Those quests got me to about 95% through 46, so I just grinded the rest of the way to 47.

Boxter and I have been saving up Kingsblood for a long time now, for Thorium Brotherhood rep. All together, we have 331 Kingsblood, so we only need a little more to get Friendly with them for the Transmute: Elemental Fire recipe. I should hit 48 sometime tonight. I’m kinda running out of quests to do, but i’m sure i’ll find something to do. I’ll try to get some screenshots up tomorrow. Ya’ll know how bad I am about that.

I have decided to take a break from raiding with Aeigelus for about a week or so. I am starting to get annoyed by the same things over and over again, and didn’t want it to become an issue. I have no doubt that after the break, I will be back to raiding hardcore. But until then, its time for Korgg…

Last night was the first night of the break. I am going to be leveling Korgg, my shaman, to at least level 50 before I return to raiding. He is currently level 46 (dinged last night). I will probably be running around with some friends from the Dallas area (and one from the Tampa Bay area, ie - Gitr/Deadr). Last night, we ran through every quest in the Hinterlands area except the Jintha’alor area. I can’t count the amount of wolves, slimes, trolls, moonkins, etc that we killed last night. All in all, it got me from the beginning of 45, to ding 46. After that, we headed over to Feralas, to complete the last of my couple quests I had there. I made it all the way to the Muisek (sp?) quest where you have to capture the elite giants. I am already halfway through 46, so I hope to maybe ding 47 and 48 on Thursday night.

What I love so much about my Shaman, is how hard he actually hits. When I use Windfury 2 on my Mograine's Might, i can crit for about 300-400, and sometimes, that will triple when Windfury procs. My strategy for now, is to melee as much as possible, and don’t use any shocks, as they are extremely mana inefficient. I can usually go a good 20-30 minutes without having to drink. When I am with a group, I will usually heal myself, but if I am soloing quests, I will bandage to conserve mana.

Korgg is already 300 in Herbalism and Alchemy, and has the Transmute: Undeath to Water recipe. Needless to say, gold isn’t an issue. Now that I am 46, I am going to try to get the Transmute: Elemental Fire recipe from Thorium Brotherhood rep, to make some money that way. 3 Elemental Fires from 1 Heart of Fire is a pretty good deal. I would REALLY love to get the Greater Fire Protection Potion recipe as well. Serious $$$.

A couple nights ago, we took a trip through AQ40. The amazing thing is… we didn’t disenchant a SINGLE piece of loot. I think this is the first time this has happened ever. Even the first time we kill Skeram, we disenchanted something. I dunno about you, but that just screams failed instance design to me. We took down the Twin Emporers again. Took a couple tries, but we actually did it without reaching the Enrage timer this time (had about 45 seconds left). I also picked up my Badge of the Swarmguard off of Sartura. Only had a couple tries testing it, but it seems to work great. Instead of a 950 crit autoshot, i was getting a 1100 crit autoshot with 6 full debuffs.

Grasp of the Fallen Emperor - Twin Emps
Qiraji Execution Bracers - Twin Emps
Vek'lor's Diadem - Twin Emps
Vek'nilash's Circlet - Twin Emps
Qiraji Bindings of Command - Huhuran
Qiraji Bindings of Dominance - Huhuran
Wasphide Gauntlets - Huhuran
Fetish of the Sand Reaver - Fankriss
Barbed Choker - Fankriss
Recomposed Boots - Sartura
Badge of the Swarmguard - Sartura
Ternary Mantle - Bug Trio
Angelista's Charm - Bug Trio
Breastplate of Annihilation - Skeram
Amulet of Foul Warding - Skeram

Last night, we walked into AQ40 after a horrible weekend for attendance. Both Friday and Saturday raids got cancelled because not enough people showed up. Luckily, enough people showed up last night for a solid night of attempts on the Twin Emps. It’s too bad we didn’t need but 3 attempts at them, then they were dead. The third attempt was almost flawless. The Emps enraged because 2 of our best DPS were dead, but they were at approx. 1% when they enraged, so it was an easy kill. I have no doubt we will down them well before the enrage next time.

Loot below:

Vek'lor's Diadem - Twin Emps
Vek'lor's Gloves of Devastation - Twin Emps
Bracelets of Royal Redemption - Twin Emps
Vek'nilash's Circlet - Twin Emps
Qiraji Bindings of Dominance - Huhuran
Qiraji Bindings of Command - Huhuran
Huhuran's Stinger - Huhuran
Ancient Qiraji Ripper - Fankriss
Hive Tunneler's Boots - Fankriss
Gloves of Enforcement - Sartura
Thick Qirajihide Belt - Sartura

In other news, we also downed Instructor Razuvious about a week ago, I just wanted to make sure our Twin Emps downing came before I posted that Loot below:

Dreadnaught Sabatons - Razuvious
Veil of Eclipse - Razuvious

While waiting on attempts for Razuvious, I caught a great screenshot of 3 of our best hunters in Method (Guglar, Ogreshoot, Aeigelus)…