Kaelinda dinged 102 last weekend — again from Fishing dailies — so when she returned to the Hall of the Guardian, Meryl sent her off to get the Arcane and Frost Artifacts.
I got the Arcane Artifact right away.
Going into the Nexus to get it made me wish I’d done the Dragonwrath quest chain. Maybe I will do it with Kaelinda, at some point, so that after Legion is over, Aluneth and Tarecgosa can argue with each other in her closet at night.
Then I got busy working on the Quel’Delar story and didn’t go get the Frost Artifact until today.
I find it interesting the way the surroundings of the Frost and Arcane Artifacts are reversals of each other. To get the Arcane Artifact, one goes into the frozen halls of the Nexus; to get the Frost Artifact, one needs to deal with various arcane wardings.
I like both the base and upgraded appearances of Felo’melorn and Aluneth. Ebonchill, not so much — though I like the upgraded appearance (and the red tints) a little better. My top two choices to mog over it are the Ethereum Life-Staff, which I already had, and the Apostle of Argus, which I didn’t. Luckily, it only took me two attempts at Hyjal Summit to acquire it. It’s not that Hyjal is hard, of course, just that the trash in the Horde encampment is so spread out that it’s really annoying to solo.
Meanwhile, Kamalia finally completed “Nightfallen but Not Forgotten”. Oculeth is my favorite of the Shal’dorei whom I’ve met so far. Kamalia also reached Revered with the Nightfallen and the Dreamweavers. That puts her at 4/6 for Broken Isles Diplomat. She just has the Valarjar and the Wardens left. I had been choosing the Nightfallen whenever Kirin Tor was the faction-of-the-day; now I’ll be choosing the Wardens — at least until I’m Revered with them, then I’ll probably go back to choosing the Nightfallen.
At this point, though, I’m debating whether or not to continue doing the Nightfallen storyline with Kamalia. I’m a lot more interested in following that complete storyline with Kaelinda. Kaelinda is more personally interested in the Highborne and their magic, and she actually wants her Order Hall shoulders for their appearance — unlike Kamalia, for whom her Order Hall shoulders would certainly be a stats upgrade, but she doesn’t particularly care for their appearance.
Grats on the goodies and what must be an incredibly huge wardrobe!
What fishing dailies do you do at 100, it can’t be world quests, right?
The Old Dalaran fishing dailies from Wrath and the old world capital city fishing dailies that were added during Cataclysm offer quite respectable XP for a character of any level! I think it’s calculated as a percentage of the XP required to reach the next level, with a scaling factor that decreases it somewhat as your level increases. A low level charater will get about 10% of the XP to their next level from an old world capital city fishing daily. High level characters — high enough to do the Old Dalaran fishing dailies — get somewhere in the range of 3 – 5% of the XP to their next level from any of the fishing dailies. I haven’t actually tested the Shattrath fishing dailies, though, because their reward bag doesn’t contain the Jeweled Fishing Pole (which is the prize that I’m trying to get).
Gotcha. I loved (and still do) the Old Dalaran fishing dailies! That is where I got my Jeweled Fishing Pole.
It is a great way to get xp, I do the EK tamers too sometimes and, of course, the DMF tamers every day that I can. I pet battled for xp a LOT in WoD.