More profiles and fishing tournament updates!

Well, like i said in the previous post i needed to finish up a few of my profiles for my druid, so here they are

• Restoration
• Head - Rifle Commander's Eyepatch - Quest in The Stockades
• Neck - Brilliant Necklace - Jewelcrafting
• Shoulders - Preened Ironfeather Shoulders - Honor Points
• Back - Tumultuous Cloak of the Elder - Minor Resistance - Random Dungeon Finder
• Chest - Preened Ironfeather Breastplate - Lesser Health - Honor Points
• Wrist - Mindthrust Bracers - Minor Stamina - World Drop
• Weapon - Dignified Headmaster's Charge - Lesser Intellect - Honor Points
• Hands - Magefist Gloves - Medium Armor Kit - World Drop
• Waist - Girdle of Nobility - Lord Overheat in the Stockades
• Legs - Blackfathom Leggings - Medium Armor Kit - Quest in Blackfathom Deeps
• Feet - Corpse Rompers - Medium Armor Kit - Hogger in The Stockades
• First Ring - Seal of Argas - Quest in Ashenvale
• Second Ring - Lorekeeper's Ring - Honor Points
• First Trinket - Arena Grand Master - Gurubashi Arena
• Second Trinket - Rune of Perfection - Honor Points
• Balance
• Head - Rifle Commander's Eyepatch - Quest in The Stockades
• Neck - Brilliant Necklace - Jewelcrafting
• Shoulders - Preened Ironfeather Shoulders - Honor Points
• Back - Tumultuous Cloak of the Elder - Minor Resistance - Random Dungeon Finder
• Chest - Preened Ironfeather Breastplate - Lesser Health - Honor Points
• Wrist - Owl Bracers - Minor Stamina - Vendor
• Weapon - Dignified Headmaster's Charge - Lesser Intellect - Honor Points
• Hands - Gold Flecked Gloves - Medium Armor Kit - Glubtok in The Deadmines
• Waist - Girdle of Nobility - Lord Overheat in the Stockades
• Legs - Blackfathom Leggings - Medium Armor Kit - Quest in Blackfathom Deeps
• Feet - Walking Boots - Medium Armor Kit - Rare Spawn in The Deadmines
  
• First Ring - Seal of Argas - Quest in Ashenvale
  
• Second Ring - Gloaming Band - Quest in Blackfathom Deeps
  
• First Trinket - Arena Grand Master - Gurubashi Arena
• Second Trinket - Rune of Perfection - Honor Points

As you can see there are alot of World Drops that i am needing to farm, below i will show you where the best place to farm each item is based on respawns and drop percentages:

Magicians Mantle,  This is a world drop that can drop from nearly all level 24-26 mobs, some of these mobs being a named target which have a long respawn timer, after researching drop rates and respawn timers i have concluded that the best place to farm Magician's Mantle is in Ashenvale in the top right hand side killing mobs called "Emeraldon Tree Warders" these have a 0.07% Drop Rate, not high i know but it's extremely good compared to the other possible farming points.

Emeraldon Tree Warders in the North East of Ashenvale

Tarantula Silk Sash, this is a drop that can only be found on one creature, the creature itself is a rare spawn with about an hour and a half respawn timer, i havn't killed it that many times so i'm not sure of the exact timer. The creature is called "Chatter" and spawns in Redridge Mountains, it's very easy to spot as it's the only spider around the area in which it spawns, the way i farm Chatter is i log out where he spawns, and every so often just log on, check if he has spawned, kill him if he's there or log off if he's not, when you log on try to take a note of the time every time you log on so you can notice a pattern in his spawning times, when i was first looking for him the Wowhead map showing me where he was wasn't that helpful, it took me a while to find the location and even when i found it, it wasn't close to where wowhead pointed out, one thing that helped me was a macro that just helped me target Chatter, the macro can be replaced with any name of a rare spawn you are trying to find, it's just a simple target macro that can be spammed and will only change your current target if it can find the said rare spawn, "/target Chatter"

Chatter can be found just North of the graveyard and north of the road leading towards Alther's Mill from Lakeshire

Ring of Precision, This is a Dungeon Drop from Blackfathom Deeps, every creature in the instance has a 0.01% to 0.05% drop rate for this ring apart from the Deep Pool Threshfin which has a 0.14% to drop this making it by far the best to kill, however these creatures can only be found near the end of the instance, if you're hoping for it to drop while you're in a Random Dungeon Finder a good way for you to get the group to kill the Deep Pool Threshfin is to take them to the optional boss under the water called Old Sera'kis as there are quite a few of these creatures under the water very near the optional boss, i'd still suggest the best way of farming this would be to either solo the dungeon to avoid any possibility of someone else taking the ring or to run BFD as a group while pulling all additional mobs you can see, the only downside is that others will be able to roll on this, so if you can solo BFD i'd advise you to do that otherwise just queue up for BFD in the Dungeon Finder and hope no one else takes it from you, be warned that this will take endless amounts of instances to find.

 The red area shows where the Deep Pool Threshin can be found, The black area is where the entrance to Old Sera'kis is found under the water.

 

Mindthrust Bracers, Similar to the Band of Precision these are found in a dungeon, the dungeon being Shadowfang Keep, the drop rates are much lower than those of the Ring of Precision, once again all the mobs in the instance apart from the bosses, but there could be no records of the item dropping due to there only being one of them in the entire instance and due to them only being brought out in 4.0.3. The drop %'s for each mob is between 0.00 to 0.03 apart from one mob, the Fetid Ghouls have a drop % of around 0.13%, it is not possible to solo these mobs unless you can solo the first as the door will not open unless the first boss has died.

The mobs can be found within the highlighted areas, for anyone who is not sure where this part of the instance is it's right before Lord Walden's room, and right after the Gargoyles which overlook the courtyard

Magefist Gloves, similiar to the Magician Mantle, these can be found on any mob in a certain level range, unlike the magician mantle there is not one single mob that has a much higher drop rate over than the others due to the shattering, the best place to farm these are in Hilsbrad Foothills, in the Sludge Pools, The mobs that have a good chance of dropping the Magefist Gloves are Risen Hilsbrad Farmers and Magistrate Burnside, these are easy to farm as they don't have a "leash", you can pull them for a long long way before they pull back so you can just run and gather them all up before you decide to kill them. The drop rate for this certain item is 0.04% from the Farmers and 0.05% from the Magistrate.

The black area indicates where the farmers spawn and the yellow circle is where Magistrate Burnside resides

Well, that's about enough for this blog, it's getting a bit long, i was going to only make one involving the gear sets but i got carried away with the world drops so i just added them in as i was searching them myself, i'll update my blog with some fishing news from the wonderful fishing tournament..., and i've nearly finished with my Medium Leather farming guide, stay tuned.

Well, it's all going so fast

Well, I hit level 20 a while ago, much faster than i thought i would and i'm starting to get some gear, so i just wanted to put some of my gear lists up not only for me but for you to see how i am progressing with my gear and such, i think that these "wishlists" will not be completed for quite a while due to the amount of world drop items that i have chosen to use but i am determined to farm all of them.

• Flag Carrying
• Head - Lucky Fishing Hat - Stranglethorn Vale Fishing Competition from Keefer's Angelfish
• Neck - Thick Bronze Necklace - Jewelcrafting
• Shoulders - Magician's Mantle - World Drop
• Back - Tumultuous Cloak of Stamina - Minor Resistance - Random Dungeon Finder
• Chest - Preened Ironfeather Breastplate - Lesser Health - Honor Points
• Wrist - Bands of Serra'kis - Minor Stamina - Old Serra'kis in Blackfathom Deeps
• Weapon - Grand Staff of Jordan - Lesser Intellect - Honor Points
• Hands - Naga Battle Gloves - Medium Armor Kit - Lady Sarevess in Blackfathom Deeps
• Waist - Tarantula Silk Sash - Rare Spawn in Redridge Mountains
• Legs - Blackfathom Leggings - Medium Armor Kit - Quest in Blackfathom Deeps
• Feet - Cobrahn's Boots - Medium Armor Kit - Quest in Wailing Caverns
• First Ring - Hogger's Shiny - Quest in The Stockades
• Second Ring - Ello's Band - Quest in Duskwood
• First Trinket - Arena Grand Master - Gurubashi Arena
• Second Trinket - Inherited Insignia of the Alliance - Honor Points

• Feral DPS
• Head - Rifle Commander's Eyepatch - Quest in The Stockades
• Neck - Sentinel's Medallion - Honor Points
• Shoulders - Shadowfang Spaulders - Quest in Shadowfang Keep
• Back - Tumultuous Cloak of the Bandit - Minor Resistance - Random Dungeon Finder
• Chest - Stained Shadowcraft Tunic - Lesser Health - Honor Points
• Wrist - Bands of Serra'kis - Minor Stamina - Old Serra'kis in Blackfathom Deeps
• Weapon - Riot Stick - 2 Weapon Damage - Quest in The Stockades
• Hands - Naga Battle Gloves - Medium Armor Kit - Lady Sarevess in Blackfathom Deeps
• Waist - Vigorous Belt of the Bandit- Random Dungeon Finder
• Legs - Hogger's Trousers - Medium Armor Kit - Hogger in The Stockades
• Feet - Standard Issue Prisoner Shoes - Medium Armor Kit - Randolph Moloch in The Stockades
• First Ring - Signet of Argas - Quest in Ashenvale
• Second Ring - Ring of Precision - World drop from Blackfathom Deeps
• First Trinket - Arena Grand Master - Gurubashi Arena
• Second Trinket - Inherited Insignia of the Alliance - Honor Points

Thanks for dropping by, the next post will be much more interesting!

Level 20!

Things i need to get done!

I'm just basically going to write down some things that i need to do so that i know what to do, and more importantly, you also know, i'm going to save all of my proffesions and gear for when i get to level 20 unless i happen to stumble across an item in a dungeon that i need while getting to level 20 in the 15-20 Dungeon Grind.

•  Get to level 20
• Get skinning and mining to 100
• Gather enough skins to get my leatherworking to level 100 and then enough skins to make around 60-80 Medium Armor kits for the future and then drop skinning
•  pick up herbalism and farm enough materials to get alchemy to 100 and collect 6-7 stacks of some potions/elixirs, and farm enough materials to get 5-6 stacks of each beneficial scroll, Stamina, Agility and Intellect then drop herbalism
• pick up leatherworking and create all of the medium armor kits i need and then proceed to drop leatherworking
• pick up inscriptioning and create the desired scrolls and then drop Inscriptioning
• pick up alchemy and create the nessecary potions and elixirs and drop Alchemy
• pick up enchanting and go farm dungeons and disenchant all of the green items that i've created with other professions until i have enough materials to create a stack of vellums with each available enchant on just incase i decide to change my gear set, this way i won't need to pick up enchanting all over again and level it again just for the sake of one or two enchants, when i've created all of the enchants i plan to drop enchanting
• i will then finally use the mining that i picked up earlier and use all of the ores i've already gathered along with alot alot more in order to level up three proffessions
• in turn i will pick up blacksmithing, level it up and create a hundred to two hundred weightstones for that little extra damage, when i've created my weightstones i will drop Blacksmithing and pick up engineering
• i will level Engineering up enough so that i can create the non combat pet and while i'm an engineer i will make around 300-400 Ez-Thro Dynamite which are still usable after you've dropped Engineering, and i will drop Engineering after i have obtained what i wanted and pick up my final profession!
• Jewelcrafting, this is by far the hardest profession for a F2P to level due to the amounts of gems required, although i am hoping that with all of the ore that i gathered on the way i have enough spare ore to prospect to get the final gems i need.

I will be keeping Mining and JC as my main professions in order to utilise the stone statues that will heal me over time which will go nicely with my rejuvination and regrowth hots and mining for the stamina increase, the reason i chose Mining over Herbalism was due to my race and due to the amount of each stat each profession would provide, Mining will provide me with 3 stamina whereas Herbalism will provide 15 haste every 2 minutes lasting for 20 seconds essentially providing me with 2.5 haste, the only time i would be tempted to take herbalism over mining is if i change my druid to a Troll so that i can stack Berserking and Lifeblood ontop of each other for an insane amount of haste / casting speed.

There is only one thing that i am not certain about with the professions, i will be spending alot of time on my druid for sure and i want to try obtain all the hard feats such as some reputations, this being said i was wondering whether to stay inscriptioning/herbalism for longer so that i can grind enough herbs to make 1680 Mysterious Tarot decks in order to become exalted with the Darkmoon Faire, indeed i know that this will certainly take up alot of time but i beleive that this will is something that will be totally unique, i don't know any other people that are stupid enough to do this but we'll see if it happens or not.

I would also like to mention that i will be creating some sort of profession leveling guide for each of the professions that i aquire as getting these to 100 on a F2P account is much harder than on a normal account as some of the items that will be required will either be hard to obtain which will change the optimal crafting list, i will of course be leveling First Aid, Cooking and Fishing to the maximum because it would seem silly to do all of that without getting the best possible food buffs available to chefs and the insane amount of healing available from high level bandages.

As you can see i will be very busy over the next couple of weeks and i also have chosen a few BiS lists that will require me to farm a world drop item which will require alot of planning and figuring out where i would be best suited farming them.

Me working hard!

I will add some of my gear lists later on today

Welcome to the Blog

Hey, i'd just like to write a bit about the blog and what it's going to contain:

Well, i'm lunsh, i'm an active member of Twinkinfo, i've recently been toying with the idea of gearing up my level 20 Rogue on the EU servers, but after reading alot of posts and topics about the amount of level 20 F2P Twinks on Aerie Peak i decided that it was time for me to make an account on the US realms and start leveling a character.

Whenever i make a new twink, i spend a long time figuring out if it really is something i would be interested in and i try to figure out everything at the start, straight away i knew i wanted to play a druid, i like having a class that is versatile, for example, in the past i have played alot of 19 twinking, when i got my first paladin to 19 i was happy with what the paladin provided, but after a while i was making more and more twinks to fill in my needs of a certain class, i rolled a rogue for when i wanted to play a melee damage dealer, i rolled a hunter for when i wanted to deal damage at ranged, i rolled a priest for when i felt like healing people and finally i rolled my warrior so i could do damage and flag carry with ease on the same character, little did i know that i could of just rolled a Druid and all of my problems would of been solved, Flag carry, no problem just put on stamina gear and go bear. Heal? no problems just put on my int and spellpower set and throw up some HoTs on people. This is why as soon as i said i wanted to F2P twink i decided that i was going to play a druid, although there was one thing that i wasn't certain about, which faction to choose?


The issue of being Horde or Alliance is a choice every person faces, the things that determine my choice are

• The community of each faction, does one side out number the other? after reading alot of posts and threads and asking people on Aerie Peak about balances alot of them say that the brackets are equal with numbers, after having look at the thread containing every active F2P twink it looks like yes, the factions are equal.

• What races can i be if i want to play a certain class, do i like this race or do they have any part of them that puts me off them straight away such as casting animations, alot of people will think is stupid but i'm going to be watching my class cast something all the time in Battlegrounds i want to like how it looks, do the racials benefit me in any kind of way? The only classes i have access to are Night Elves, Trolls and Taurens
• let us start with Night Elves, Quickness, 2% less chance for them to hit me is great, especially for my flag carrying gear as i'm sure to grab some attention picking up the flag. Nature resistance, meh, quite alot of F2P Twinks are using Rune of Perfection which increases their spell penetration by 10 which with my +1 resistance to cape will still only give me 11 real nature resistance which i suppose is nice, but nature isn't a school that would be ideal choice of school, don't get me wrong being able to resist a roots, take less damage from serpent sting and many other druid spells could be very nice but having +20 Fire Resistance to reduce the damage of Explosive Shots due to the mass amount of hunters or +20 Frost Resistance to reduce the damage of mage shatters would both be more beneficial. Shadowmeld, This is probably my favourite racial out of any race ingame as this can be used in alot of situations to keep you alive, to keep you from being CC'd, Allows you a free prowl allowing another opener or if you want to run away, another reason to use this racial is if you're in a really long fight you can use this to get out of combat so that the potion cooldown will start to reset again, overall i think that the racials that the night elf provide are all very useful in the PvP situations that i will find myself in.
•  Taurens, War Stomp, a stun with a small cast time that stuns everyone within 8 yards for 2 seconds, normally i would say that is a bad spell for druids but as of recently they have made it possible for you to cast this in shapeshift form which makes this a very useful talent to have especially since cats do not have a stun at level 20, the only downside to this is that using a spell will reset the swing timer, being a druid this isn't that drastic as the swing timer for a cat is very small due to them attacking fast but nevertheless reduces damage done. Endurance, a 5% base health increase would be great for all my specs, a 5% base health is about a 23hp bonus, the more you look at it the more you realise it isn't that much compared to other racials you could be using instead of it, last but not least Nature resistance, this is exactly the same as the Night elf racial
• Trolls - Increased damage with bows and throwing weapons, both useless for a druid so i'll ignore this, Damage Vs Beasts will only be useful against Feral druids so this is another racial trait that isn't that useful for me either. Reduced duration of movement effects, this is another racial trait that won't benefit me much because i'm a druid, for example if i get hamstringed by a warrior any shapeshift will remove all snares from me, if i'm in my resto spec which i will use for flag carrying and healing it will remove all movement effects so the only use this trait will have for me is when i'm rooted while not in my restoration spec. Berserking, this is probably one of the greatest racials in the game, this would not only allow me faster energy regeneration in cat form, faster rage regeneration in bear form, it would also increase the amount of ticks i would recieve from my Rejuvinaton and Regrowth.

So overall, what's my verdict? Berserking is my most wanted racial but with the other racials trolls recieve it falls behind the other two available races, so it's a choice between tauren and night elves, this time i chose night elves, the main reason being shadowmeld, it's such a good talent if used correctly, it will take some practise but i'm sure i will grow to love it.

I'm in the goal of leveling my Druid to level 20 as i write this blog, 5 minutes blogging and about 1 minute relogging as i always find myself disconnected and killing a couple of mobs before i want to continue writing the blog.

Half twelve at night on friday, well technically sunday!

If you stay tuned to the blog you'll expect to see:

• Proffesion Guides for F2P Twinks
• complaining about having to farm world drop items for my BiS gear
• opinions about things that are happening with the F2P community
• Gear progress with all 4 of my gear sets
• A list of my gear sets and explanations as to why i'm going to be choosing these
• also expect a much nicer looking blog, i basically just chose a default template so i could get to work writing this.

I hope to write another blog tomorrow or in the next couple of days just to cover up what i didn't write in this blog as i thought it was already starting to draw out a bit and to say it took me over 2 hours to write this means that not everyone will want to read all of it, goodbye until next time!