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18
May

Priest Hits 35, Advances Tailoring, Jewelcrafting

   Posted by: WoWGrrl

My Undead Priest toon hit 35 this past weekend, after trading favors with another alt-o-holic in our guild and finishing off all the RFK quests I still had in my book.

Note: About 10 BOE greens dropped during that run, whereas whenever I farmed that instance without a level-appropriate toon in the party with me, I came out with only one or two BOE drops to sell/use with alts, and a lot of BOPs from the bosses that I could only sell or disenchant. Moral of the story? When farming lowbie instances, bring a lowbie friend with you and you’ll probably still get more loot than if you ran the instance on your own.

So, now that she’s 35, life is about “running around” for a while, as I level my Jewelcrafting and Tailoring skills as a focus, with levelling Cooking and First Aid coming along afterwards.

I’ve got my Tailoring and Jewelcrafting both up to 280 already, but things are slowing way down, now, because materials aren’t so easy to buy up and process in bulk like they were prior to 280.

My Costs Associated With Powerlevelling Tailoring, Jewelcrafting

I’m one of those types of players who didn’t blast through my professions the first time around, but now that I’ve got a family of alts that cover almost all of the professions, plus a couple of bank toons to store professions materials that will be needed in the future, I tend to park my new-to-20 or new-to-35 toon in a city near a mailbox for a week or two after they hit that mark, specifically to power through profession levels to max it out quickly.

One of my bank toons is for storage, while the other is the “central selling funnel” for goods I pick up or create on my play toons, and by continuously using my selling bank toon to keep things like recipes and uncommon+ drops cycling through the Auction House listings every day, every time I log in to play for a few hours.

The result of this always-selling-things bank toon is that when I need cash, the cash is already available and all I have to do is mail it to the correct character.

Also, another result is that when I hit 20 or 35 and can level my professions again, I can visit the Auction House every day and buy up materials that are being sold cheaply compared to the “average sell price”, instead of having to farm for all of my materials on my own.

So, over the last three or four days, I’ve been hitting the Auction House and buying stacks of Runecloth when they’re under 2g50s a stack, Thorium Ore and Thorium Bar that are under 15g a stack. I’ve also purchased a bunch of Aquamarine when I can find them for under 1g each as well.

I’ve spent about 300g so far, I’d estimate.

Processing The Materials, Processing The Results

Then, I mail the mats to my Priest, and some time later process through them. Now that I’m making equipment for level 45 and beyond, I send all of the Tailored items to my 63 Hunter who is an Enchanter, to disenchant. I send some of my Jewelcrafted items over to the Enchanter as well, but only things that look like they’d have to be listed under 2g or so in order to sell.

I’ve been able to create some blue rings in Jewelcrafting that certainly helped defer some of the material-purchasing costs I’ve been incurring… some sell for 10-15g despite the novelty of Jewelcrafting and the fact that many people are still advancing it and the sheer number of Jewelcrafted items available is high right now.

Supporting My Own Toons

I do, of course, review each of the things that I make, and send one over to an alt when it looks like something in particular would be useful over there. Adding the MP5 (mana restored every 5 seconds) crown, rings and necklaces will certainly help my Mage when he gets high enough level to use them all, and any trinket or ring or necklace that helps a lowbie toon get into the “more interesting” levels that are beyond 25 is pretty great, too.

But, for the most part, I disenchant what I create so I can get my other toons all ‘chanted up in the near future, again trading favors with another alt-o-holic in my guild. Perhaps this weekend I will begin preparations for the ‘chantfest!

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7
May

Priest drops Herbalism, becomes Jewelcrafter

   Posted by: WoWGrrl

Perhaps I’ll regret it, but over the past week, I dropped Herbalism on the toon that had it the highest, and picked up Jewelcrafting on her instead.

I deleted my lvl 16 Paladin who had been a Miner/Jewelcrafter, mainly because I wasn’t having much fun with the Pally and didn’t want to play her, and she was taking up a player slot that I could use for something else I’d have more fun with. So, I transferred all of her goods and cash over to other toons and deleted the newcomer-to-the-Horde Pally.

Now, my level 32 Priest is a Tailor/Jewelcrafter, and very obviously supported by the rest of the toons in the family. My 63 Hunter is very much the same, with her professions being Leatherworking and Enchanting.

I’ve been using my Warrior miner as a gatherer for most of the Jewelcrafter’s initial needs that weren’t already met by the initial draining of my storage toonbank of mining materials… logging in early in the morning and making a round or two of Durotar at first (Sen’jin through to Orgrimmar has a bunch of copper) and then progressing to the Badlands later on, to pick up iron and mithril.

Because my Warrior toon has mining over 300 now and is in her mid-50s, it’s easy for her to ride around and drain nodes in order to get the majority of materials needed to advance Jewelcrafting. The only things I needed to buy were Flask of Mojos, Vision Dust and Soul Dust when they were called for. I purchased a few Aquamarine as well, in order to create the Aquamarine Signet which has +20 to attack power plus a random enchant added to it, as well. One of those rings I crafted sold for over 10g!

My Priest stayed parked in Silvermoon for a few days, running back and forth from the mailbox to the trainer, to the auctioneer and to the bank. I actually got familiar with that part of the city finally, and didn’t feel so horribly lost while I was going between those places. I hate learning new cities, I’m seriously directionally challenged. But, I’ve now moved my Priest over to Grom’Gol for questing purposes now that she’s up to 218/225 or so in Jewelcrafting and I need time to collect more materials for her next burst of skill-ups.

Down To One High Level Gatherer

So, this switch leaves me with only one toon over level 25 that has a gathering profession, and that is my Warrior with her Mining skill.

Thankfully, if I really wanted to work at it, Herbalism is something that isn’t restricted by level for advancement, it’s just restricted by gather level. Since my Rogue is a Herbalism/Skinner, she has an inherent advantage of being able to sneak into places and get close to nodes without having to fight her whole way in. But she still has a long way to go before she can pick those high level herbs that make the really cool potions or make really good cash in the Auction House.

I’m pondering dropping Leatherworking on my 63 Hunter, so I can pick up Herbalism there and powerlevel it up and have a high level Herbie under my belt. I rarely use Leatherworking these days (only to equip myself and make Dark Leather Tunics for sale on the weekends) and might use it more if I were actually levelling it up again. But I don’t have a high-level skinner to make the levelling up process easy, either…

I guess I have to ponder more. And in the mean time, I’ll put my efforts into levelling my Priest to 35 so I can continue working on Jewelcrafting. There’s some neat things coming out of there, and any little bit that helps my toons be more powerful/advance more quickly (without being zoomed through by another player) is great to me!

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