We Shouldn’t
Tell innocent druids that hunters crave Expertise.
Carry the joke to an extreme and roll into heroic Gundrak to get the epic expertise-ring, but it drops and it’s better than what we had, so we’re totally using it.
Expect a proto drake in our first Oracle egg.
Get mad when we didn’t get a proto drake in our first Oracle egg.
Assume that any fist weapon can go on either main or off-hand.
Have rolled need on a “blue” fist weapon when we’ve got a “purple” fist weapon, and they’re both for main-hand.
Let our pride get hurt when someone questions why we have a green gem in our gun.
Spend a couple of hundred gold on a blue gem for our gun when the upgrade from our green gem is +1 agi and +1 hit.
Put on a frown-face when people want to raid Naxx but haven’t used WoW-head to find out the easily attainable pieces of gear they can get from guildies who manufacture.
Tell you where our Skinner’s Paradise is, ’cause it’ll lose it’s “Paradise” motif once everybody goes there.
Not tell you that Sholazar Basin isn’t it.
Wonder why we can farm leather for two hours straight and not get a single Arctic Fur.
Wonder why we give up farming leather and go do Oracles dailies, and see the first cobra we kill, just to get it out of the way, drop an Arctic Fur.
Give in to our Arctic Fur Muse and tell her about the Big News. (Our Arctic Fur Muse is a resto druid who, when she’s online, causes Arctic Furs to drop for us. But she’s bogarting her AF-Mojo until we tell her our secret.)
Tell you that it’s January 3rd, and we’ve got the door open to the pool, letting the nice warm breeze tickle our toes.
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“Tell you that it’s January 3rd, and we’ve got the door open to the pool, letting the nice warm breeze tickle our toes.”
You’re right, you shouldn’t. Hello from freezing cold England
It’s got to be sholazar
If its not Sholozar its gotta be Storm Peaks, either Mammoths or Rhinos. I’ve thought of using the Mammoths by the Sons of Hodir quest hub but I play on a PVP server and ganking is high in that area.
Storm Peaks, the dragon clearing at the Engine of the Makers
Supposedly, this is a great place to farm leather. http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=30164#skinning from Cave Dweller Worgs. Fast respawn time and low HP
The one where Rhinos are getting killed, Dante?
I’d be tempted to say the cave Of All The Snakes in Dragonblight because I’ve done quite well there, never a shortage of handy pre-killed mobs, although I’d immediately retract the suggestion due to the high-chance of (the horror) scraps!
…And for shame! Every time you’ve written about shunning the hunters with +strength items I have thought, “Well, what if the other stats beat whatever item it replaced because, you know, they might,” and now you go all expertise-hungry! SHAAAAME!
Since the ring from gundrak is one of the best pre-naxx rings for hunters, it’s all good. I’m kinds disapointed in the ring selection in Wrath.
Sholazar Basin, groups of 4-8 gorillas + 2 piece T5 + Gorilladin = win for skinners. Storm Peaks were people are killing worms and mammouths for the meat and level piles of corpses to skin is also full of win.
“Tell you that it’s January 3rd, and we’ve got the door open to the pool, letting the nice warm breeze tickle our toes.”
Good catch there BRK. You really shouldn’t. Cheers from Stockholm.
That’s a SHOULD. I’m not saying you have to be elite to enter Naxx, but walking in there underprepared is just plain rude to your raid group. Like showing up for a baseball game without bringing your glove.
“Wonder why we give up farming leather and go do Oracles dailies, and see the first cobra we kill, just to get it out of the way, drop an Arctic Fur.”
“Wonder why we can farm leather for two hours straight and not get a single Arctic Fur.”
THESE. Except for me it’s doing the puppy-men dailies. (only to stab them in the back once I hit exalted)
A hunter with that ring is one step above a hunter with the Crusader’s Locket.
Oh god all the hunters with the Crusader’s Locket make me cry.
THERE’S A BETTER TRINKET FROM THE NEXT QUEST IN THE CHAIN.
“Not tell you that Sholazar Basin isn’t it.”
What? Wait.. shouldnt not.. but you.. what.
*Headsplode*
Serious note: Aged yolk every week makes Grim a sad hunter.
But …but …. but … we WANT that proto from the Oracles!
Nice blog, I love reading your postings.
I will undoubtedly expect the proto-drake 1st time, and when I don’t get it, I will undoubtedly scream on guild chat in a rage then unleash my wrath on Deadmines.
I don’t think spending 200g for 2 stat point improvement says you’re financially insensible. I think it’s a sign of your commitment & dedication to the raid’s success.
“Sholazar Basin, groups of 4-8 gorillas + 2 piece T5 + Gorilladin = win for skinners.”
That’s what i do, gives lots of borean leather, chilled meat and arctic furs.
i don’t even know what set bonus T5 gives, but it aint needed anyway. My gorilla can take on 8 other gorillas without healing, only spirit bond. and you regen enough in viper while skinning.
Only downside i’ve found is that there’s a slight shortage of gorilla’s. Even if you’re alone, you take out groups with one volley, and there are only 4 groups or so.
@BRK
[quote]Tell you that it’s January 3rd, and we’ve got the door open to the pool, letting the nice warm breeze tickle our toes.[/quote]
-30 C here ….. and still take the garbage out in shorts and T-Shirt …. /sigh
Cavedweller Worgs in the Storm Peaks. Been there for about three hours today only with the occasional non-hardcore hordie questing.
I’m hoping for the same thing from my first Oracle Egg, BRK. Unfortunately I don’t have a Proto-drake already, like you. I refuse to get one of the Wyrmrest dragons because those dragons are intelligent, sentient creatures. While, from what I’ve read, the proto-drakes are a sort of precursor to the later, more intelligent dragons.
Shush, I’m not a nerd.
Well I guess “someone” could follow BRK around it wouldnt be that hard to do.
Yeh 2ndworst Im all over t-shirts and shorts. I wear short sleeve shorts to work so funny all the people talking about me. “Omg did you see that guy, hes not even wearing a jacket” I work nights so in the morning I scrape ice of my car in a short sleeve shirt. I cant stand working with people that need the heat on, weaklings!
BRK can I borrow your Arctic Fur Muse? =P
My hunter is at that point in his leatherworking, where the only reliable skill points are from leg kits, which take furs. Then I’ll need more furs to buy the 440 patterns. Argh.
@ Cascius.
Agreed, the Cavedwellers are the best I’ve seen so far in terms of farming leather. I got 4 furs in an hour there once as well =) I’d be skinning them now if I wasn’t so addicted to leveling my cockroach. It feels like leveling with Gorilladin again =D
“…Tell you that it’s January 3rd, and we’ve got the door open to the pool, letting the nice warm breeze tickle our toes….”
>_>
…I hate you…
-48 with the windchill here…….hate you…
<_<
I know where the skinner’s paradise is located! I will tell any of you but there’s a small requirement. You must supply a gnome, lots of butter and goblin jumper cables…XL is prefered. Send “supplies” to Akussa of Ravencrest and be prepared to watch.
Funny the top few things on the list. I happened to pass on the ring from Gal’darah and let 2 guildies roll on it instead, and then got the Green Proto drake the next day from my egg. WoW Karma? =D
Expertise is a great stat for those who like to give expert pro tips!
“Tell you that it’s January 3rd, and we’ve got the door open to the pool, letting the nice warm breeze tickle our toes.”
Hello from Saskatchewan… where it’s -40 without the windchill, and even colder with.
Well, it might have changed – or they might just drop scraps and I’ve forgotten – but, the last time I checked, the many groups of 5 Rhinos in Borean was good for me.
As I said, though, it might have just been scraps.
I am said Arctic Fur muse, and I am definitely entertaining offers to defect to be someone else’s…since he is not giving in to ordinary blackmail.
In fact, I have used my powers for myself, and the furs have been dropping for me instead. I have his furs, and I am not giving up any more till he tells me…
Hehe, yesterday first Oracle’s egg hatched.
Drake in first one FTW!
i was the same with the egg from the oracles… nifty pet dropped though actually gave me my 50 pet achievement =D
I got the brown Tickbird Hatchling in my first egg… few days left for #2, still hoping for proto-drake mount! But I won’t be too disappointed if it’s the proto-drake minipet instead. If it’s yolk, I’ll feel sad like I do after turning in the Storm Peaks dailies and getting more cheese instead of a polar bear. Luckily my murloc-burdened Blizzcon bear still brings out a smile like a Tasty Cupcake. Still, having not found Loque’nahak or Krush or the Time-Lost Proto Drake yet, it would be nice to get one of the fun mount drops.
Everyone’s made some great suggestions for the MANY locations for a Skinner’s Paradise. I haven’t unlocked Frostborn dailies, but when someone’s doing them, the Engine of the Makers area is fantastic. Piles of skinnable proto-drakes lying around, and usually groups of rhino corpses from non-skinner cooks, I imagine. The cave north of it as well… and the worm cave in the Valley of the Ancients, as well as the valley itself, and Sholazar. Borean’s got tons of mobs, but they drop scraps as often as not. And T5 set bonus isn’t mandatory at all for BM hunters farmin leather… one Mend Pet during a round-up of 8 gorillas, and Monchichi’s just fine.
Everyone seems to have their own skinning paradise. Mine is a cave where the mobs die in seconds and respawn faster than I could possibly kill.
I’m sure a place where you can simply skin what others have killed would be a bit faster, but I don’t know of a reliable place for that yet. With easy kills, the leather is always there. I’m guessing 2-3 people could farm the spot at once and have the spawns keep up too. It’s silly, but I haven’t even gone all the way in the cave yet. I always stay fairly close to the entrance. If the whole cave is that good, a lot more than 2-3 could farm well.
Last night I was helping a guildie farm up Chitin for the tanking cape us LW can make. I got 3 Arctic Furs to drop during the 30 mins or so it took us to get the Chitin. Nice as I need the fur to buy the Giantwhatever patterns.
It’s more difficult to remember that you are not running with your gorilla, when you are leveling your cat. ooops, too many mobs = dead pet/maybe dead hunter.