🚀 go-pugleaf

Surprisingly many peeps dont know this old trick... :)

I placed my warlock on timeless isle last night before the server 
shutdown.  This morning I still had the VP buff on my lock so I started 
out with doing the daily and weekly quest on timeless.  Later on I did 
most dailies on the main island.  But I *never* did any of the dailies 
where I could risk losing the VP buff due to any kind of zone change. 
Thats quests like [Rampage against the machine] (klaxxi) and [Along the 
serpent's spine] (golden lotus) etc.  I never tabbed to desktop while I 
was flying etc.  Actually you will lose your vp buff if youre taxiing 
and tabs to desktop as the game reloads the zone youre in when you tab 
back to the game!  660 nice VPs with buff.

So...  I started on timeless isle -> arboretum (jade forest) -> garrison 
(krasarang) -> halfhill -> picked up the daily temple quest at shrine 
(today it was chi-ji in krasarang) -> chi-ji in krasarang -> klaxxi -> 
shadopan in steppes -> golden lotus in vale.  Here I went back to 
krasarang for handing in a daily fishing quest I got while fishing at 
the arboretum.  Did the other 3 fishing dailies at the wharf I had 
forgot all about.
Next week I will go to the shrine right after I've done the dailies at 
the arboretum so I can get the daily temple quest location.

Picking up the 50 epoch stones on timeless took me almost 1 hour despite 
I pulled 2-4 elites at a time (void walkers ftw!).  The other dailies 
including flying on the main island took me 45-50 mins.  Its sounds 
nearly impossible, but actually its doable if you plan ahead a little bit.

I lost the buff as planned when I queued for a hc due to the zone change 
when you enter a dungeon.  85 vps.  A quick hc scen: 150 vps.  895 vps. 
  A quick raid in lfr (I checked the queue time on all raids and picked 
the one with shortest queue time - MSV first wing - I entered almost 
instantly).  3 bosses down in 25 mins.  985 vps.  A normal scenario 50 
vps.  1035 vps == vp capped.

3 hours of intensive playtime including 4 cups of coffee and 5 cigs. 
Funfun.  Now I can relax on my other chars. :)



Some other nice-to-know info:

If you log your first char before 12am after weekly reset you will have 
the vp buff.  If you log the first time _After_ 12am you will not have 
it.  It happens that you will not have any vp buff despite you log 
before 12am.  I dont have a clue why.
Also.  If you HS to a major city like the shrine this is considered as a 
zone change and you will lose your vp buff.  So dont HS, use a mage's 
portal or other teleport situations.

-- 
Peter T.

<https://elite.frontier.co.uk/>