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14
Sep

Re-Gemming and Re-Enchanting Hunter for Heroics and Karazhan

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in Adventures Gearing Up, Adventures In Outland, Adventures While Raiding, Adventures in PUGs

With two toons all epic’d out (Mage and Priest), I turned my attention to my Hunter to see what kind of upgrades I could immediately work towards as I get into Karazhan PUGs equal to her level of gearing (mid-Karazhan/Heroics).

About My Hunter

Right now, my hunter is a Marksman/Survivalist mix, with “uber traps” as the goal of my points in Survival, and Marksman being all about damage where pets are often seen as a bane (Heroics and Raids).

She’s an Enchanter who only recently hit 375 (one of the enchants mentioned below required it, she had the rep just not the level) after sitting at 372 for many many moons. She’s also an Herbalist, at 375 for many moons already.

Her gear is a mix of blues and purples, with a couple of Heroics badge rewards and a couple of purple drops from Karazhan and Heriocs.

Deciding What To Improve

I went to WoW Heroes and looked myself up, and used the information it provided as a way to chart my course for improvement over the next few hours.

I started by going down the list of enchants it suggested for my gear.

My Enchanting Rules (70s)

When doing enchants I have one basic rule: If it’s purple, it gets the best enchant. If it’s blue, it gets whatever is the next cheapest down from the most expensive, but still suggested as a “decent” enchant for my class.

Enchanting Upgrades to Hunter

That lead me to get things like:

Savagery to 2h weapon
Vitality to boots
Cobrahide Leg Armor
+4 stats to both rings
+6 stats to chest

I already had a few other enchants all done - bracer, gloves, shoulder, and head, so this rounded out the enchants nicely.

Gem Upgrades For Hunter

Then I took a look at my gems, and had some 7-8 green gems in various pieces - lots to replace! I searched on Hunter hit cap, and found it to be 142 (correct me if I’m wrong), which lead me to stacking +hit Dawnstone gems (blue) into my gear, replacing the green gems I had originally. By the end, only one green gem was left, and my hit at 143.

Starting Stats, Ending Stats

I didn’t record my exact starting stats, but I know my hit rating was under 100 and attack power was under 1500 unbuffed, crit chance unknown.

Now, after all the enchants and re-gemmings, I’m at:

Hit Rating: 143
Attack Power: 1804
Crit Chance: 19.19%

My crit chance is low, but that will improve as I can swap out the +hit gems for other things because my gear will start to have more +hit on it in itself as I collect more badge rewards and get into a few Karazhan groups here and there.

Dungeon Goals

This character is a relatively low priority, but right now has a goal to get to Honored with Zandalar Tribe (Zul’Gurub from the old world) in order to get the enchanting recipes (healing and spellcasting oils). Other than that I will do a few heroics here and there, mostly with friends, and PUG one Karazhan every few weeks.

Last week I got into a full clear of Zul’Gurub - it went really smoothly and while no mounts dropped and the Turtle Polymorph book didn’t drop either, it was a lot of fun, and I’m told some of them run ZG regularly for the rep, too.

In terms of reputation with Zul’Gurub, I got to Friendly and got the first of two enchanting recipes I am seeking on this character: Brilliant Mana Oil

Next up, Brilliant Wizard Oil!

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14
Jul

Healing Priest hits 70, Puts On 7 Epics, Buys Epic Flyer

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in Adventures Getting Mounts, Adventures In Outland, Adventures While Healing, Adventures in PUGs

And puts on 4 PvP purples and the full 3-piece Primal Mooncloth set.

Ding! Level 70.

I hit 70 while running a Shadow Labs run, and I put on my 70 gear right then, because I had brought it along. After we got all the way through Slabs and downed all the bosses, I hearthed to Shattrath City and then flew to Shadowmoon Valley to train regular and epic flying and buy my mount.

A new friend I had been PUGging with on our way up to 70 over the past few weeks met me there and cheered as I took a picture of myself beside the epic mount training dude, and cheered again when I mounted the first time. Thanks E! That was a fun thing to share!

You can see some other pictures I took around this time - of my stats just before dinging and my stats just after I dinged and put on all my new gear - on Facebook. You shouldn’t have to log in to see these but let me know if there’s a problem:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=35439&l=b5fe2&id=686248734

Friends me if you’re on there ;)

September 2008 Edit:

I’ve gotten some notes that I haven’t bothered to post on this entry because they’re stupid and rude. No, I didn’t buy the gold for this stuff… I started gathering Primal Mooncloth (spec’d) at 61 and grinding for PvP honor at 65 to get this gear.

This is my 3rd toon to 70 and 3rd with Epic Flying, and as of September 2008, this Priest is now two blues shy of Epic’d out… mainly because I figured out how to earn a daily flow of cash from a low level and I’ve done well at maintaining riches throughout my years of playing the game.

In fact, I’ve done so well learning how to earn cash that I feel forced to level a FOURTH toon to 70 (to get epic flying) to spend the money, because I don’t want to go and spend thousands at a time in Sunwell runs in minimal gear upgrades that will be replaced when WoTLK comes out.

Want to know how my strategies for earning gold? Strategies that can be used by someone far under level 60 to start a serious flow of cash that’ll buy anything they need while leveling up?

I wrote and sell an eBook sharing my strategies:

http://www.WealthOnWarcraft.com

I have a family member playing his first toon to 70, and at 60 he bought epic riding right away, and at 62 is sitting on 1k of gold, which makes me believe he’ll have no problem amassing 5k for epic flying as soon as HE hits 70 too. On his first toon.

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3
Feb

70 Hunter Gets New Crossbow from Arcatraz

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in Adventures In Outland, Adventures in PUGs

Now that I’m actually PUGging with my Hunter and running some of the Outland instances, I’m getting some neat gear upgrades here and there and am probably pretty close to being able to properly hold my own in Heroics, and maybe even get into the early parts of a Karazhan raid.

One of the recent gear upgrades I got was that of a Crossbow that dropped in the Arcatraz, the Emberhawk Crossbow. I’ve gotten a lot of nice compliments on it from others in my party, she’s a pretty snazzy looking bow.

Hunter gets new Emberhawk Crossbow

I’m a bow-user, myself. Having started out with a bow, I didn’t realize that I was a bow-user until I played with a Tauren or two in my dungeon groups and realized just how insanely loud the guns were compared to the bows or the crossbows. I’ve tried to use guns myself when they’ve been higher DPS than my bow, but I inevitably find my way back to a bow as quickly as possible just to avoid the noise.

Heck, when I’m partying with friends who use Guns over Bows, I find myself strafing and relocating where I do my DPS or heals from just so I don’t have to stand there right beside all that noise.

Gearing Up Without Focus

This toon is doing pretty well for gearing up without really even worrying about what dungeons and bosses I’m “supposed” to be hitting - the upgrades have slowed significantly, but I still run into cool upgrades that I didn’t even know were there, enough that my random attempts at daily dungeon quests or keying stages are fun and progressing well.

I even got my Beast Lord Leggings the other day, replacing one of my last bits of Leather gear that I had around due to the better stats.

Too bad my PvP/Gladiator shoulders and gloves are so bulky and, like, sooooo don’t go with the rest of my outfit…

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