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On 9 Nov 2014 10:58:08 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 19:31:29 +0000, Catriona R wrote:
>>  On 8 Nov 2014 14:47:28 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> >On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:29:46 +0000, Catriona R wrote:
>> >>  On 7 Nov 2014 09:35:13 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >>  go to the Timeless Isle, you've probably been given a quest to speak with
>> >>  Chromie, if not, go up to the Lorewalkers building in the vale (above
>> >>  Mogu'shan palace) and have a word with her
>> >
>> >Haven't gotten that quest yet. I'll give that I go just to see the place and
>> >see what the quests are like.
>> 
>>  There's very few actual quests there but tons to explore, treasure all
>>  over the place is pretty fun :-)
>
>Tried that last night. Wow. I had only been there for 10 minutes before I
>found a huge steaming chest. Clicked on it. Had two epic 496 items. Ten
>minutes later two more dropped from random elites. Within the first half
>hour I ended up with two epic necklaces and three epic belts. :-)

Yep, very fast gear, a full set of 496 epics is pretty much the
standard now, I have a bank alt full of tokens for my alts to grab
when they hit 90 too :-)

>Lucky I loosely still lurk here, so I realised what all these frogs were for
>when I rode past them and once I saw that 20k coins would reward me with a
>nice and epic crossbow I spent the next two hours in a frog group of three
>which was nice and relaxed. By the end of it I had 19k coins, 50 stones of
>iforgetwhat, epic pants, epic bracers and half a dozen more epics to vendor
>off. Handed in the 50 stones, bought my crossbow and logged off.

Nice :-D  The frog farming is a fairly recent thing, it was turtle
farming when it first came out, over time people switched to frog and
it's just silly now, thank goodness that'll calm down after the aptch,
I still need to kill the rare frog!

>> >>  although be careful of the mobs, they *hurt* when you're lowgeared
>> >
>> >I'll keep that in mind, thanks. Some of the quest bosses on Thunder Isle
>> >hurt, too :-)
>
>Actually, I was positively surprised. I was very careful attacking those
>elites, but 2 out of 3 times I managed to solo them. Didn't expect that. At
>one point I switched my pet from ferocity to tenacity and that helped, too,
>as it gained a little survivability. I died a few more times to respawns
>(especially in the frog area before being grouped) but all in all it went
>far better than I could have expected to. I stayed well away from the 250+k
>giants and some other uber elites, but the "normal" 35k HP ones were ok.

I'm impressed, my lowgeared alts struggle badly, my warlock tried some
elites and while she could kill them, her voidwalker nearly died every
time. That said, a lot of the most damaging attacks are avoidable or
interruptable (if you *have* an interrupt, my main did not before
6.0!), so smart play helps a lot :-)

>Quite some difference, being able to solo same level elites. I remember well
>how Old Sooty or Hogger killed me again and again even when I was 2 or 3
>levels above them :-)

Hehe yeah, killing them at all was an achievement!

>Still, I must be a n00b damage wise. While I can take down those frogs, it
>takes me and my pet about 15-30 seconds to do so. My group mates (shaman and
>DK) managed to two shot whole bundles of them...

You'll be in 496 or lower gear, while many people now are 550 or
higher, some 580+, and that much higher ilvl makes a big difference.
Even my priest, which is a healer spec, outdpses my bf's 496ish alts,
the gear is a massive difference. I can see it best on my 2nd priest,
which has the exact same spec as my main, but about 70 ilvls lower...
it's huge, I can barely kill things which my main has no trouble with!

>>  You can have some fun trying old raids out if you have some
>>  free time by the end of your week
>
>Yes, I think I'll give that a go next, now that I've seen the two Isles that
>weren't there at the start of Pandaria. I should do better, now that I'm
>geared up a little. I'll see how I do. I guess I'll have 1 or 2 more nights
>time before my time runs out.

Cool, hope you get to see some cool places on your tourism trip! :-)