Since the last Battle Pet Bonus Week, my Hunter has been methodically leveling all the remaining level 1 pets in my favorites list. It feels kind of creepy to be camping out on Ashlei’s hill, because of how she’s just a kid and all, but her two-pet team makes her the easiest to reliably beat — and I’m too lazy to travel around and battle more than one trainer per day. Anyhow, pet-battling having gotten Ketura to level 102, it was time to go get the Artifacts for her other specs.
Knowing that the Marksmanship weapon is Alleria Windrunner’s bow, I hoped that I wouldn’t be taking it from her dead body after having failed to rescue her. Fortunately, that was not what happened. But if she is still alive, why would she have left the bow behind?
It didn’t seem quite right to claim Thas’dorah as a Tauren; that bow rightfully belongs to the children of the Sunwell. So I used the Orb of the Sin’dorei before I picked it up.
I guess my camera angle was bad right at the moment when I clicked on Thas’dorah, because this is the best screenshot I got of the triumphal moment. I didn’t feel persnickety enough about getting a really good screenshot to abandon the quest and do everything over again, though. I had really struggled to get through the scenario. I’d died several times. Partly that was because I didn’t have a very good ranged weapon equipped — it was the reward from the Broken Shore scenario, and I’d forgotten that I’d bought a better one from the Trueshot Lodge quartermaster after I picked up my first Artifact. I also hadn’t played as Marksmanship enough to have figured out the synergy of the abilities very well yet. Furthermore, I’d gotten DC’d halfway through and had to start over from the beginning once already.
I hope that my future actions do not cause Vereesa to decide that her trust in me, and her decision to allow her sister’s bow to be taken by a member of the Horde, were foolish.
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I equipped my better ranged weapon from the Trueshot Lodge quartermaster and had a much easier time with the Beast Mastery questline. It took me to the same place as the Protection Paladin questline — just a different tomb in the same complex. I think I can guess which tomb in that complex the Warrior questline will visit…
I enjoyed the subsequent visit to Mimiron’s workshop in Ulduar — and getting to ride in Mimiron’s Head.
The master of beasts part seems a bit tacked-on, though — it makes sense in the same sort of sideways way that the Fist of Ra-den being the weapon for Elemental Shaman rather than Mistweaver Monks does.
I’d farmed the Rifle of the Platinum Guard to Mog over Titanstrike, but I like its appearance better than I thought I did from just seeing the previews on Wowhead during the beta. So I guess I won’t be Mogging over it right away. For the time being, I’ll also just leave Hati as Hati, rather than getting the item that lets you change Hati’s appearance to match your regular pet.
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My Demon Hunter was very very close to 102. She had some skinning & leatherworking quests, so I went out to Azsuna and farmed bears and hippogryphs. I thought that perhaps turning in those quests would tick her over; as it happened, just the farming did the trick.
Even though I don’t plan to try to tank for groups, or even to play solo as Vengeance very much, I’d decided to get the Artifact weapon for that spec to see the story and to honor the memory of a race that had so valiantly resisted the Legion.
After having gone to Niskara for the Marksmanship Hunter weapon, I wondered if perhaps the Vengeance Demon Hunter would go there, too — if maybe Niskara was a fragment of the Aldrachi world. But I was disappointed in this; the questline did not reveal anything more about who the Aldrachi were; the Vengeance Demon Hunter goes to the Broken Shore. Along the way to the final boss fight of the scenario, I saw some dead Argent Crusade types. Hmm, I guess that location must also be where the Retribution Paladin questline goes.
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Like Mardum, Dreadscar Rift, and Netherlight Temple — and the Remains of Xandros, where we battled Mongrethod at the end of the Talador storyline in Warlords — Niskara is a fragment of a world destroyed by the Burning Legion. These Legion zones are all so tiny — about the size of the Broken Shore. The more of these miniscule shreds of worlds I visit, the more chilling the power of the Legion becomes — and the more vital that Azeroth’s people save her.
Yes, it’s me and you on that hill with Ashlei but for me it gives my poor 100s who will probably never leave the garrison something to do.
Heh, yes. I’m beginning to contemplate handing the task of leveling the rest of my battle pets back over to either the Pet Battling Monk or my secondary Shaman so that my Hunter can stay in the Broken Isles instead of having to commute (though she’s an Engineer, so commuting between continents is about as easy for her as it is for a Mage).
Wow, what a week! That is getting some stuff done!
I, too, park on that hill in Shadowmoon Valley for the pet daily. I have picked up so many new pets and with Family Familiar I’m leveling some of the odd pets from the past as well — so much to do!
More like “wow, what an evening!” — I did all three of those Artifact questlines on Saturday night.
It was end of the semester crunch week — Monday is the last day of classes, and then there are Final Exams the rest of the week — so I was busy all week long with writing and giving and grading my last unit exams, as well as a Practice Final. I barely logged into WoW at all. It made me kind of glad that I’d gotten the fancy fishing poles I wanted last week.
I completed several of the scenarios with no weapon at all after trying to do them in a different spec – fire, survival and resto druid (just to name a few). The BM one was one of my favourites to complete but I’m trying Marks again this expansion. I just love that bow.
I know that you don’t *have* to do the scenarios in the “proper” spec — I did most of the Enhancement questline as Elemental — but I’ve been trying to do it that way, anyway.
Yeah, the MM bow is gorgeous, and I especially love that it includes a quiver! The quiver probably goes away if you Mog it, though — when I Mogged the Brewmaster Monk staff to a different staff, I lost the rest animation of holding it on my shoulder.
Busy busy busy! LOL I have been character hopping all week and didn’t make as much progress as you did – nice weapons you picked up there. 😀
It was some very focused character hopping right at the end of the week! I didn’t play much during the week last week. The Artifact weapons are really nice models 🙂
Oh yeah, they are, I’m sorely tempted to take one of my characters up there for the bow – that’s a direct hit for an elf hunter too. 😀
You know, I suspect they did the BM line the way they did to tie in with the addition of gnome hunters and the ability to tame mechanicals. In that respect, it makes sense … but it still felt pretty strange since my hunter is a Tauren.
Oh yeah, that does make sense.
Could I humbly ask you for a hunter’s mogging guide? I’d like to collect the one at character selection screen 🙂
As far as I know, the only way to collect the outfit shown on the character selection screen is through the Warlords Garrison… level 3 Garrison with level 3 Salvage Yard and level 3 Barracks, collect 25 followers with a good assortment of abilities, level them to purple and gear them up to 675, and then run a full slate of Missions every day for months, getting most of the pieces of the set multiple times before the last piece to actually complete the set finally drops.
Thank you! Garrison is fine, my hunter was playing throughout the expansion. So it drops there 🙂
You’re welcome!
I hope it doesn’t take too bloody forever to get 🙂