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On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 08:12:48 -0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <e86i26...@mid.individual.net> 
>  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hehe yep, I did a few weeks of doing every (except the crazy elite
>> part of town) WQ in Suramar, which sorted that rep grind out fairly
>> easily, especially with the withered army training, which I wanted to
>> do anyway for chances of toys and mount (I'm still doing it now even
>> after exalted). Other factions I mostly left to look after themselves,
>> and I'm exalted with all but one now.
>
>I haven't been playing nearly that much, and am revered with everyone
>but the Surmar rep is still lagging on the low side of revered (maybe
>around 7K?). I haven't been doing the training missions much because I
>am no grinding mana.  Also, I am capped and 1700 mana and cant figure
>out which items I am missing. But it hardly matters, I don't get enough
>to do the army training very often.

Before 7.1 mana was fairly easy; there was tons of it in the vineyard,
just spend a few minutes running around looting it. Now it doesn't
spawn so much there but it's in the rest of the city more so I try and
pick some up when I'm passing on other quests; now I've collected all
the chests in the scenario I don't need many withered to make
progress, so the 400 mana option is fine (and I'm a healer, the worst
possible spec for it).

For the missing items, there's some scripts on the wowhead pages for
the achievement for all the mana items which if you run them will tell
you which you're missing:

Treasures:
/script for q,i in pairs({["Kel'danath's Manaflask"]=42842,["Volatile
Leyline Crystal"]=43988,["Infinite Stone"]=43989,["Enchanted Burial
Urn"]=43986,["Kyrtos's Research Notes"]=43987})do
print(q,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(i))end

Quests:
/script for q,i in pairs({["Feeding Shal'Aran"]=41138,["The
Valewalker's Burden"]=42230,["Thalyssra's Abode"]=42488,["How It's
Made: Arcwine"]=42833,["Make Your Mark"]=42792})do
print(q,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(i))end

(Haven't tried those but hopefully they work)

>Oh, wait, Warders. I've not hit revered with them, not enough days of
>Warders quests.

I got exalted with them the other day, ahead of Valarjar; their quests
always have the biggest pots of artifact power, so I tend to pick them
out as worth doing, especially if they double up on another rep I
still need (you get rep with both Wardens and the "local" faction).
They don't seem to come up very often as emissary, but more often than
Valarjar, at least (and I want Valarjar because my hidden artifact
appearance is tied to exalted with them).

>> Ok, I like repgrinds better than you do, but given there's plenty
>> reasons to do the world quests anyway, they'll all get there over
>> time, even if you just do the gear and highest artifact power rewards
>> while ignoring everything else. Nice to have them rewarding enough
>> that everyone has reason to do them eventually.
>
>Yep. The WQ mechanic is pretty nice, but one frustration is too many of
>them are frequently bugged. I had one today to kill The Unnamed King (or
>somesuch) and killed him 5 times and never got credit.

Ow, that sucks :-/ Guess I'm lucky as I've rarely come across problems
like that, one or two that don't recognise I'm in the right area, but
usually it's fine - overall I'm really happy with the mechanic, it's
added a lot of interest to the game and made the daily system less
grindy.

>I at least do the quests I need for the meta reward. Today was unusual
>as I completed all 12 WQ for three zones, so I could stay off for three
>days.

I usually do them as they come up but now I have 2 characters to keep
up with I'll probably start falling behind, doing them twice each day
will turn into a chore so yeah, it'll be a case of catch up on one
character one day and the other another. Think I won't rush to level
too many more alts lol.

>Artifact multiplier is up to 1750%. 4.5 more days until the next level.
>
>I just blew all my resources upgrading my guild hall set to all 840,
>(except the one piece that is 850) even though I am only wearing two
>pieces of it. iLvl is now 846. Woot.

I love that order hall set; even though I now have higher ilvl items
in most slots I still keep the 4-piece setbonus for soloing, because
it's saved my life a good few times... mess up and lose the illusion
in the elite bit of Suramar? Still ok, I can hold my health around
40-50% thanks to the setbonus :-) I'll have to get on with getting
bits of it on my druid soon so he can have it too; he feels very
squishy after playing a disc priest.