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either of those beliefs vanilla classic is simply designed to keep a person poor so they will keep going out in the world there i said it i mean it s not a big surprise the monetary rewards from quests are smaller the costs associated with class training and everything affiliated with mounts are higher and the failure rates at professions are also higher so all of that adds up to a player having to pick and choose what abilities to train and level along the way and if you select a profession such as oh enchanting or blacksmithing be prepared to shell out gold for enough mats to finish the grind to max profession level now there are some ways to generate gold that don t involve begging for gold in stormwind or orgrimmar yes that is very much a thing and they involve leveling a gathering profession herbalism and mining do come in handy but fishing does give a player a good bang for the buck in the long run i m sure i m not giving out any secrets when i say that there s a trick to gaining access to moonglade at a relatively low level if you re not a druid why moonglade you may ask because the mythical home of the druids and the cenarion circle is also the lowest level area where you can go fish up the raw nightfin snapper a cook can turn the snapper into the nightfin soup which is sought after by casters as a raiding buff which is in demand on the classic era auction house at the present the raw nightfin snapper is selling for about 6 gold per stack of 10 on the ah and the soup commands a higher amount for a stack of 5 you can put two and two together of course that s a pretty good gig for steady work the thing is there s only a few places around azeroth where you can fish for nightfin and there s the issue of having to fish for it between the hours of midnight and 6 am server time i mean it is in the name night fin by far the lowest level area is in moonglade which if you re not a druid is gated by having to run the gauntlet of tunnels commanded by the hostile timbermaw firbolg tribe while you can eventually build your reputation with them the firbolg are all roughly level 50 enemies and the entrance to the tunnels is deep in felwood a l48 l54 zone so if you don t want to roll up a druid you d either work on leveling a toon or get creative besides you re not old enough for the shenanigans at goldshire simba and wait why are they talking about goldshire already shouldn t simba have the talk first from imgflip that get creative means taking advantage of a glitch in the game where you enter into the low level zone of darkshore ride run walk all the way to the top of the zone which abuts moonglade s zone and swim north once you get far enough north you enter into moonglade s zone and there you die seriously once you die the graveyard you respawn at is moonglade s graveyard so if you ask the spirit healer to rez you and accept the resurrection sickness debuff you re smack in moonglade go get the flight point and you can fly to moonglade whenever you want to easy peasy so easy in fact it won t surprise you that i never used it ever yes i drove my questing buddy batty by never taking advantage of this cheat to start fishing nightfin at a much lower level but instead fished up oily blackmouth to sell at a much cheaper price biding my time until i got to a high enough level to fish up nightfin at another location this combined with me disenchanting every magic item in sight severely hampered my ability to accumulate gold for a long time why not take advantage of the glitch because it s a cheat sure it s technically in the game and no people haven t been banned or anything for it but to me it s against the spirit of the game in the same way that it s against the spirit of the game to farm mobs in maraudon or lower blackrock spire or zul gurub for boosting purposes if a friend asks me to run them through say deadmines i m more than happy to but i would never ask to have it done to any of my toons and if offered i m likely to refuse it s the same way why i won t go on heroic plus plus dungeon runs given the current meta is to simply run past the initial bosses allowing them to reset i was chatting with my questing buddy the other day and i saw via a dbm alert that she was fighting a boss a few seconds later there was a zarlie has wiped on xxx boss announcement ouch i responded sorry about that wipe it lies my questing buddy whispered what dbm it lies we ran right through the boss and it reset oh why do this strat because the badges people want and the loot people want only drop off the last boss there is literally no reason meta wise to do any of the other bosses and most of the trash so the bosses and as much of the trash as possible are skipped i mean at this point why even have the dungeon in place at all if people are simply going to skip to the end impressive clergyman have you the wing from imgflip com and why do i get the feeling i d despise mythic plus in retail if it involved a metric buttload of skips and bypasses ahem i digress where was i oh yes about gold in classic era when you re that starved for gold you have to be choosy about what abilities to train with when you level up you start with your primary attack abilities which for a frost mage those are frostbolt frost nova blizzard and cone of cold and then select a few other critical abilities to keep current and then let everything else slide so while the next rank of conjure food and conjure water may make the cut fire ward and frost ward will not on the original cardwyn i reached max level so far behind in a lot of my non critical spells that i spent my first 120 gold after reaching max level just catching up on a lot of these missing spell ranks this time around however i took the gains from my first few nightfin sales on the auction house and blew them all on catching up on my spell ranks all of them no it wasn t ideal by any stretch but it meant i had a full set of spells to work with such as oh mana shield which might save my bacon in the plaguelands it was only after my training was complete and that i was caught up did i save up enough gold for a riding mount but i haven t stopped there i realize that i m going to need enough gold to buy enough mats to finish tailoring and enchanting so my nightfin activities haven t stopped if i want an epic mount it s going to take a lot more fishing than what i ve accomplished so far so i m not in any hurry to get there maybe there s a purple kitty grind in my future but i ve already done that once not exactly the most fun thing in the world if you ask me but it is something that can t be skipped so there is that at least the starter zone tortage is still probably one of the best starter zones i ve ever encountered in an mmo i suppose that the reversion to a traditional mmo once you leave that starter zone not to mention the bugs was a huge part of the bait and switch impression i and a lot of other people felt the game gave to players this is a us specific issue because most of my relatives died with barely a penny to their name as their health declined the federal government would only step in and support their stay at a nursing home or a hospice for their final months after they had depleted all of their savings and the us healthcare system is perfectly happy to oblige in racking up fees and charges many of my relatives had a decent nest egg upon retirement so watching all of their savings being sucked dry by a medical community that is at times part savior and part leech was disheartening to say the least if nothing else the lesson i learned from it is that if you die make it quick so that the healthcare companies can t gain access to all of your money trying to level fast meant bypassing extra quests and other activities such as fishing or picking herbs that i could use to supplement brig s income when brig crossed the dark portal i had a total of 80 gold spread across all of my toons thank goodness for the ghost wolf form that a shaman has which allowed me to delay paying for a mount for quite a while that s in addition to never selling any magic items ever again you re always either keeping them to use holding onto them to use later or disenchanting them for mats to use for enchanting it s a grind that any enchanter has to pay eventually and in the case of the original cardwyn i paid it later after i reached l60 going back and running low level instances just to get magic items to disenchant wasn t exactly a lot of fun but at least i got to level weapon skills along the way there s a location in feralas that worked so card needed to only reach the mid l40s to safely fish there eta i corrected the grammar before posting but forgot to remove the in oopsie posted by redbeard at 8 05 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gold farming memes wow classic monday july 17 2023 meme monday relaxation memes one of the things about summer is that you have to spend some time and relax a bit while i may not go on vacation i do try to take it a bit easy on things of course mmos have their own unique spin on that i think this kind of fits my experience in world of warcraft to a t from reddit and yes i am a filthy casual a lot of the time from thunderdungeon ain t that the truth this is a redbubble poster found here then again maybe i should take up another hobby that i could find relaxing like gardening from reddit posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday july 14 2023 the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window when you were a kid and you wanted to be outside but couldn t you d press your face against the glass window pane smudging the window to the point where you left a soggy mess when you pulled your mug away rainy days frozen days days where you had to go to some important family event just pick one and they re all the same that longing of wanting to be where you couldn t made your entire day miserable even later in life when i wanted to be reading about different worlds found in sf f novels if i had to be somewhere else i d not be in the best of spirits i mean who wants to go take a chemistry test if they had the option to go play risk or read dune instead this is my copy circa 1985 i mean look at the price on this paperback 3 95 tonight is my questing buddy s regular wrath raid night and while for the most part i m quite happy to be no longer in the grind given all the heroic plus plus runs she s been doing lately i will confess to missing out on all of the trappings surrounding those raids more than anything else i miss the camaraderie in the raids chatting and enjoying the company of each other than the raid itself ever since the transition from 40 20 person raids in vanilla classic to tbc and now wrath classic the raids have felt less than compared to those early raids i know that it could be argued that 10 person raids in wrath classic truly are less than particularly given the differences between 10 person wrath naxx and 40 person vanilla naxx but i ve felt that way ever since i set foot in every 25 person tbc raid i participated in blizzard may have made it easier to field a raid team in terms of numbers but they also left some magic behind it s an acceptable trade off i guess but for me raiding hasn t been the same but it s a bug i can t completely leave behind despite my obvious refusal to play the game and catch up to the current raid tier in the most expedient way possible the raids themselves don t exactly hold much in the way of charm for me and trial of the crusader holds bittersweet memories for me back in 2010 i almost became a wrath raider oh you never heard about that well there s a reason why i never blogged about it why blog about an event that ended up not happening i didn t expect that i d ever be back in this situation in a wrath of the lich king classic edition of wow either but here we are remember this guy here s quintalan complete in his t9 liadrin s battlegear earned the hard way by running plenty of dungeons back in satyana s very brief period of joining parallel context i d been logged in one evening when she whispered me hey you want to join a raid this was back when i severely restricted my wow time because the mini reds were truly mini and they took priority over my game time but this particular evening i had a few hours to just kick around still my brain kind of froze at the prospect i still had a hard enough time dealing with the 5 person pugs in the lfd tool not that i didn t now what to do in those instances but the very nature of dealing with random strangers on the internet and here i was being asked to make a huge leap into raiding uh was my oh so brilliant reply i ve never been raiding before oh you ll love it it s fun she kind of had me over a barrel there okay what are we doing and do i have enough time to read up on it it s trial of the crusader and don t worry i ll tell you what to do that didn t exactly make me feel any better but since i didn t want to let my co blogger down i joined the raid team that satyana was putting together and she cast about for 3 or so more people to finish filling out the raid raiding was such an unknown to me that i didn t even realize there was a raid channel so imagine my surprise when i started seeing chat messages with an unfamiliar color popping up in my dialogue box i uh kept my mouth shut throughout this but i had a feeling that i was going to need to go on ventrillo if we were going to run this raid oh yay i thought mister introvert is going to have to be in a voice program with 8 strangers and look like a complete idiot along the way i hung around dalaran for a few minutes and after consulting with a wow website maybe thottbot i flew up to the crusader area in icecrown it was then while i felt like i was waiting for my own funeral that it began to dawn on me that satyana was having trouble filling out those last few spots over the next 15 or so minutes we got to 9 raiders twice then someone would drop anybody know anybody who can join satyana asked in raid chat nobody said anything and my hopes rose some more a couple more people dropped and we went down to six raiders okay i m going to call it satyana finally said we ll try another time i breathed a big sigh of relief that another time raiding with satyana didn t materialize as she moved on from both the server and from parallel context shortly after that aborted raid attempt thirteen years later wrath classic has returned to trial of the crusader and i can t help but think of what might have happened then would i have liked it i don t know would i have screwed up royally all signs point to yes would my fellow raiders have tolerated my mistakes come on this is world of warcraft we re talking about what do you think would have happened in a pug like this in the era of gearscore i do believe the trajectory 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