Joana's Horde Guide

I came home yesterday and played for 30 minutes before taking a nap… until dinner time. I was tired from the stinking Devil Rays game the night before. We got home around 11:30 and two of my co-workers called in sick. I was tired and unmotivated without any company. So…

I dinged 48 with 3d 17h 41m /played time. This morning I went to Grom’gol to train my next level of Aspect of the Hawk to get an additional 20 AP. I think that was worth the 5 minute flight back to Searing Gorge.

My current problem is finding enough Taskmasters and Slavers to kill. I’ll also need to kill a ton of Steamsmiths to get the Smithing Tuyere, although I already have the Lookout’s Spylass that dropped after 2 kills.

I finished level 41 in just over 3 hours because of pitiful drop rates on croc items and dragon drops. I trained up and found level 42 skills quite disappointing. I will be dropping Tiggr’s skills and adopting more of BRK’s tips on pet attributes. I was going about his stuff pretty blindly, not thinking it made much difference. BRK has since educated me otherwise.

Anyway, back to leveling, Huntr got to level 42 in 2d 22h 39m /played time and dinged at the precise moment stated by Joana’s Horde Guide. It was quite nice, so maybe my time wasn’t all that bad, seeing as how I pretty near had to kill all of that stuff anyway to get that much XP.

The guide has me in STV for quite a while, but I enjoy wrapping that stuff up because I know Tanaris is coming soon. I love all the stuff Tanaris has to offer.

I logged in this morning to over 30 sold auctions on Bankr. It was quite a glut. I’d emptied my mailbox and posted everything I had at a deep discount from HSP, but well above what I paid for things. Here is how that turned my money situation around.

What did you do today?

I didn’t even have to grind one second for level 41 and got there in under 2 1/2 hours with a total /played time of 2d 19h 29m. I reached it before I was supposed to, most likely because of drop rates with the buzzard wings. Badlands is so good for leveling when there are quests associated with all of the killing. There are tons of mobs, but they aren’t really aggro nets like other places.

I think I’m done with Badlands, or at least for a while. I already killed the patrolling orge boss, a 45. I put Hunter’s Mark on him and sent in Tiggr to Intimidate him right off the bat. I struck him with Serpent Sting and kept nailing him with Arcane Shots as often as it cooled down. As soon as he went down, I started running because Tiggr was down to 15% health after taking a beating from 6 mobs at one time. I got away and came back 20 seconds later to loot the body.

I’ve got all the pages for the Green Hills of Stranglethorn, so I’m off to turn those in and run all the way to Swamp of Sorrows.

I see Ravenkiller hit level 30 last night. Gratz, man. What else did you all do last night?