I found CoP in WoW! And other three letter alternating capitalization words! (FFXI, WoW, RP)

[thistlechaser]

As usual, my friends list was right! Right about two things! One was very odd: I switched out one of my axes for a sword, so of course was doing that "skilling up from 0" thing again. Unlike gun to crossbow, it took hours and it didn't even finish! Very odd. I'm going to assume I had so much range haste that I was shooting lots faster than I swing.

And everyone was right! Zangarmarsh(sp?) was a few kazillion times better than the hellhole named Hellfire Peninsula! I hadn't expected the connecting zone to be basically the same level. c.c

I was highly, highly amused to see Zangarmarsh though. It's FFXI's CoP! Hmm, I should have taken a better screenshot, but I had just arrived in the zone. Big tall walking things like in the promies, and lots of fish swimming over water/land! Ha, even the colors matched Sea. :D Very funny.

I <3 x million the Zangarmarsh quests! Nice reasonable "go kill X mobs and bring me Y items" as opposed to Hellfire's "go take a torch to a forge and light it, then go burn down 5 buildings... but the torch only stays lit a couple minutes! ...and don't mind the 874357432097509275043275092 mobs aound while you're doing it!"

There's one thing I don't understand/don't like about the outlands though. What the heck happened to skinning? I made a crapton of money pre-60. Rugged leather sells for almost 20 gold per stack, and I was bringing in multiple stacks per XP day. I get to outlands and all I can skin are vendor trash scraps? And hey, higher level mobs give me a leather version of those scraps... which sell for a couple gold per stack. Sheesh.

Before I finally got the wonderful flight paths that let me fly out of Shatt instead of org -> fly -> boat -> fly -> long run through multiple zones -> fly, I found a dragon in the blasted lands. o.O One day I'll be big enough to kill you!

Started the day as 60, ended as 62.5. Yay progress!

FFXI: When RP started I had to log out of WoW, but I had busywork that needed doing on FFXI. Making shihei. Lots of shihei. Blech! My least favorite synth in the world. Took hours, but I ended up with 5 stacks of toolbags + 6 loose stacks, all made nearly for free. (I get the wood from chocobo digging, buy the fish to HQ the ink, crystals stored up.)

Two people checked me in a row. Is this a pattern? o.O


And lastly, I may be out of the loop. Can someone explain this to me? COR/DRK? They were gathered at the Sandy trailmarkings. He was wearing all AF/AF2 (gah).

RP: Yay RP! Thistle met up with one of his oldest friends on-game: Faruja. Hopefully he'll come in and have a meal/tour the airship, once Thistle can get an OK from Shera or Cid. :D

I'm so not ready for work tomorrow. :/

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Ummm, souleater and stun I guess? Maybe? Tractor? To hell if I know, maybe they are just stupid.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm leaning towards "stupid", but I didn't want to assume. Maybe there was some sort of trick or reason I just hadn't known...

Odd!

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

Skinning in Outlands is somewhat annoying. As you get into the higher levels of Outlands, you'll start getting whole leather from skinning again. The scraps can be combined by a leatherworker into whole leather though. In Northrend you also get scraps at first but the scraps can be combined into whole leather by anybody, not just leatherworkers.

At about 63 you can go to Terrokar Forest. 64/65 is good for Nagrand. Personally, Nagrand is my favourite zone of all of Outlands.

You can complete all the quests in every zone before going to the next, which means you'll probably ding 70 sometime in Nagrand or just thereafter. But it's no longer necessary due to the accelerated XP curve. You can just do the quests that you like and go to the next zone every 2 levels or so.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

In Northrend you also get scraps at first but the scraps can be combined into whole leather by anybody, not just leatherworkers.

Something to look forward to. It's just odd how it went from a majorly money-making profession to hardly worth the delay to skin. Even seemingly "special" skinning results (fel hide, crystal-infused (something) leather) sell for almost nothing...

I can't wait to see the rest of the zones! :D The beginning of the week is so annoying. Not only is it the start of the work week, Monday-Wednesday are FFXI nights (and not even fun ones at that... yay CoP... yay Dynamis...). Thursday I'll be able to go back to concentrating on WoW. :) (When I write paragraphs like this, I do wonder how long it will be before I totally quit FFXI...)

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

Better to go to Howling Fjord at 68; exp from both quests and kills literally doubles.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

... Wow! I can't wait. :D