ferret's weekly progression thread

Instance levelling isn't about speed Divinity. Of course you'll hit 70 faster doing quests. The point of instance levelling is so that once you hit 70 those quests that used to give 2g rewards now give 10g rewards and it's easy to get to 5200g for your epic flyer. Though I suppose you could waste all the quests in 4 days and then spend a couple weeks grinding out 5200g.

don't remind me :(

Would any of you do a bit of math to prove this constant dungeon-grinding would actually save you that much more gold at 70 versus actually questing? I'm suspecting even if you did that you'd have to completely quest out every single zone in Outlands in order to get the 5200g.

Would any of you do a bit of math to prove this constant dungeon-grinding would actually save you that much more gold at 70 versus actually questing? I'm suspecting even if you did that you'd have to completely quest out every single zone in Outlands in order to get the 5200g.

Then don't say anything if you don't know what you are talking about. You only need to do nagrand, hellfire, terrok and some of netherstorm to pick up enough gold to buy your epic.

epic flyer is nice, but totally not worth it if you can sell that 5.2k gold for 200$ USD

Then don't say anything if you don't know what you are talking about. You only need to do nagrand, hellfire, terrok and some of netherstorm to pick up enough gold to buy your epic.

I don't know why some people seem to think grinding on Hellfire and Furnace from 60 - 70 and saving every Outlands quest for gold would save so much more for your mount versus normal questing. I guess the theory is that you save so much more gold doing all those quests at 70 versus doing them for experience.

I was asking to see if any of those people would want to do the math to prove their point, because I honestly don't believe saving every single Outlands quest for 70 specifically to get gold won't get you the 5200g needed. A few thousand yeah, but not all of it.

it took me less than 2 weeks to grind out over 4000k gold mining/prospecting/cutting/auctioning

and thats like literally less than 10 hours a week of doing it

I don't know why some people seem to think grinding on Hellfire and Furnace from 60 - 70 and saving every Outlands quest for gold would save so much more for your mount versus normal questing. I guess the theory is that you save so much more gold doing all those quests at 70 versus doing them for experience.

I was asking to see if any of those people would want to do the math to prove their point, because I honestly don't believe saving every single Outlands quest for 70 specifically to get gold won't get you the 5200g needed. A few thousand yeah, but not all of it.


Got to 70 with my druid a few weeks ago. At level 70 I had completed most/all of the HP/ZM/TF quests. I started Nagrand with 300g.

After about 10 hours worth of questing, completing Nagrand and half of Blade's Edge, getting the highest selling quest loot, etc. my druid now has 1600g. Ballparking the math, it looks like you'll earn roughly 800g-1000g per zone of quests at 70. This doesn't count cloth/mining/skinning/loot/etc drops you get along the way.

Sure you could grind out the cash faster if you're a miner (not everyone is) but that's incredibly boring. A mix of instance runs and quests with full rest bonus followed by flying through the remaining zone quests in a short period of time at 70 is by far the more interesting and efficient way of getting an epic mount.

Got to 70 with my druid a few weeks ago. At level 70 I had completed most/all of the HP/ZM/TF quests. I started Nagrand with 300g.

After about 10 hours worth of questing, completing Nagrand and half of Blade's Edge, getting the highest selling quest loot, etc. my druid now has 1600g. Ballparking the math, it looks like you'll earn roughly 800g-1000g per zone of quests at 70. This doesn't count cloth/mining/skinning/loot/etc drops you get along the way.

Sure you could grind out the cash faster if you're a miner (not everyone is) but that's incredibly boring. A mix of instance runs and quests with full rest bonus followed by flying through the remaining zone quests in a short period of time at 70 is by far the more interesting and efficient way of getting an epic mount.

i just threw on one of KA's trance mixes and fucked around for an hour at a time, killing any hordies i saw who happened to flag

lol pve

i just threw on one of KA's trance mixes and fucked around for an hour at a time, killing any hordies i saw who happened to flag

Those mixes make grinding (and hell, all of WoW) 100x better; I throw one on every time I'm doing something that isn't a raid.

lol pve

Yeah carebears go about a different way of PvP'ing, gathering from my raiding co-worker with his hunter. He says you have to use a series of /emote command to someone on the other side you want to duel unflagged outside of a town. I get a chuckle every time I hear him describe it.

Well, you can say that instance leveling is a great way to save quests for gold at 70, but it's just a waste of time.

When my mage hit 70 i'd done HFP, Zangar, Terrokar, and Nagrand with a few quests in Netherstorm. That still leaves full quests for SMV and Blade's Edge, with the majority of Netherstorm. More than enough to bullshit quests to grind gold for an epic flyer.

Long story short, instance grinding sucks.

I tend to leave Blades Edge, SMV, half of Terrokar and half of Netherstorm at 70. Nagrand is just too good exp to ignore and there are a bunch of easy quests for phat items to make the grind easier.

I tend to leave Blades Edge, SMV, half of Terrokar and half of Netherstorm at 70. Nagrand is just too good exp to ignore and there are a bunch of easy quests for phat items to make the grind easier.

I dunno if you want to call Ring of Blood easy, the couple of times I had to pug it some deaths occured and we had one wipe even with 2 70s. I think one issue was people leaving the pit, or ranged/casters would stand outside the pit. Then if they managed to steal aggro whatever we were fighting would tromp up to them, they'd panic and end up aggro'ing 1 - 3 ogres in the immediate area. It's a lot of gold, XP and potions though as well as a nice blue at the end. If you can manage it.

He's referring to the kill quests, particularly Nesingwary's "go kill 30 mobs 3 times twice" quests. At full rested those are easily 1000 per kill which would be about 250,000 xp when you factor in the quest reward bonus.

yeah those quest rewards are nice

Pretty much all of nagrand is "Grind these for bonus shit". If you're going to be killing mobs anyways, kill the roughly 11 million required to finish all of Nagrand's quests.

Well I've been running TONS of instances. This weekend I ran underbog 3x in a row. As a Hunter UB is a cool instance as I get to kite Claw across the instance while the others take out the Hunter. I get alot of skill props for that and it feels pretty good.

I'm getting about 15%-20% of a level per run. I dont think it is as efficient as questing since every once in a while it takes forever to get the group going and the rare wipe. I dont think it is that much slower though. The drops are pissing me off as it seems we get a ton of plate and no mail items.

I haven't been in a guild since level 23 and I actually applied to several guilds. No takers. Most hunter spots are closed and the few open want a well geared 70 hunter, not a level 66. I can't even get into my friends guild. Since I'm on a launch day server this is very frustrating and I'm pissed. The only way I see myself getting into 5 mans at 70 is run with the current crew I do instances with (2 pallys, a priest, and a shammy) where I'm by far the main dps.

Told you to roll with us. :) You could at least be a Friend of STK and slowly earn a raid spot.