Monday, September 28, 2009

The benefits of farming




So, it's been tough lately to get some quality mining time in so I can get accurate numbers for my mining experiment. Between leveling my hunter alt (the most fun I've ever had leveling a character), raiding and helping the guild with brewfest stuff, I haven't had an uninterrupted hour of farming time. A side note, I was part of the first successful AUO 10 man Onyxia raid on Saturday and it felt gooood. We got her on the 7th attempt. She truely is a loot pinata, dropping about 5 or 6 items (I can't remember exactly) which is awesome for a 10 man raid. I won the spellpower sword because I was the only one that could use it. I love winning loot by default! I don't need no stinking /roll.

On to the heart of the subject here. Mining does have it's benefits. I was doing a few laps around Icecrown and decided to head into Sholozar Basin. I had hit 3 titanium nodes in less than 10 minutes and was feeling lucky. I normally head into the Basin and turn left, flying clockwise mining as I go. I decided this time to turn right and go counter clockwise. Good thing I did. As I land to mine a saronite node, I notice the star on my mini map marking one of the spawn points of Loque'nahak, the spirit beast. My wife's hunter has all 3 spirit beasts, so I normally don't pay much attention to these spots any more, but this time I decided to take a look behind me after I mined the ore. Sure enough Loque was there! I quickly did a /gchat shout out for all hunters interested to head to my location asap. Darallun (of afkautoshot) quickly replied and hauled ass out to Sholozar. Luckily, no one else showed up and he had an easy time taming the beast. So now, Darallun has his second spirit beast! It was like the stars had all aligned that night. Darallun usually raids as Survival, but I think he needs to start going Beast Master and bringing out his new kitteh.

So, as we can see, sometimes farming has benefits that transcend the accumulation of gold.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks again Rorik! I do believe I will be busting out the Lazer Kitteh in the near future. I've been looking at specs and trying to come up with a viable BM raiding build. The 3.2.2 changes buffed BM to where I should be close to the same DPS, or at least not embarassing myself.

    Isn't He purdy!?

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  2. Indeed...
    I couldn't help but smile when I stumbled upon this post since I was going to write something similar titled, "Side benefts of having gathering professions'. Earlier this week, I picked up Loq on my S. Hunter. I was out Herbing/Mining. I saw him for the first time several months ago when I was on my Warlock however no one wanted him when I put out the call in Guild Chat. He's certainly a purty kitteh!

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