With the release of Tomb of Sargeras, the new legendaries have been released with an ilevel of 970, compared to 940 of previous legendaries. Also released was a method to raise the ilevel of existing legendaries to the new level, 940 to 970.
I spent time after my LFR runs yesterday trying to get enough writhing essences, you need 50, to upgrade one of my legendaries. You get the essences from raid bosses and the caches you get for completing the sets of world quests.
I had gotten a number of essences from my LFR runs and I had a couple sets of world quests to complete, three actually. The second set I completed was in Stormheim, and imagine my surprise when I got this from my cache.
Even after getting that, I still had to finish my last set of world quests in Suramar to finally get the last essences. Once I had my 50, I turned that quest in and used the reward item to upgrade my other legendary chest piece for my tank spec.
Yesterday was the first day when the first wing of the Tomb of Sargeras raid was open, the Gates of Hell. I have raided in the past, the way back past of Burning Crusade, and I got to where I enjoyed 10-man raiding (Karazhan and Zul’Aman). I had done larger raids a couple of times but found it too confusing to be enjoyable.
Despite this, I decided to queue up for an LFR run in the Gates of Hell. I believe it ended up being a 25-man raid (if I was counting correctly) and it really was a lot of fun. There wasn’t a ton of trash to fight through, which was nice, and the bosses were interesting. (It does make me wonder how “nerfed” the bosses are for LFR compared to even normal mode.)
I did get a piece of tier gear from the final boss. Sadly it is about 15 ilevels below my current gear, though Pawn shows it as a slight upgrade from my Holy off-spec. I will definitely need to do some research about how set bonuses figure in gear rankings, i.e. how much do set bonuses offset a lower gear level.
Even though there weren’t a lot of Artifact Power rewarding world quests on my map today, I did manage to get enough, with the help of some caches found along the way, to get Heaman’s restoration weapon it’s first point in Concordance of Legionfall.
This makes 4 artifact weapons in which I have at least one point of Concordance. These all belong to my three main characters: Heaman, Fionore, and Carach, who is my main-main I guess. Carach actually has two of his three weapons with concordance, Protection and Retribution. My current goal is to get Concordance in his Holy weapon as well. I only need another 900 million AP for that, give or take.
The other day I posted about my preferred place to farm for dreamleaf, Shala’nir. Below is a video I made to illustrate what a typical loop looks like and where exactly I go.
I didn’t have a lot of time to play between getting home from work and dinner so I decided to spend it farming up some gold. Well, farming up some dreamleaf which should convert to gold on the auction house.
The best place to farm dreamleaf is Shala’nir in Val’Sharah, where you can find some of the plants but more importantly, there are plenty of vilepetal rooters, desecrated ancients, and defiled grovewalkers which you can herb after killing. The vilepetal rooters will always have dreamleaf and can have yseraline seeds and blood of Sargeras. The other two have a chance for these things as well but you will often just get vendor trash. Since these are mobs that you kill, they also have a chance of dropping items from your shoulder enchants, Bloodhunter’s Quarry in my case.
I’ve included a map of my favorite route below. It takes me about 8.5 minutes to complete the route. Sections of the route marked in red are those that I fly over. If you don’t have flying you will have to kill more mobs to complete the route, which would slow things down. For each complete route, with dreamleaf rank 3, I gathered an average of 168 dreamleaf and 78 yseraline seeds. In the 26 minutes I spent farming, I gathered:
515 dreamleaf
239 yseraline seeds
6 blood of Sargeras
26 leystone ore
4 dreamleaf seeds
341g worth of vendor trash
I sent off 200 dreamleaf to my inscriptionist and 200 yseraline seeds to my alchemist. I used the bloods to buy more dreamleaf. I put everything else on the auction house. My auctions have a total value of 12,702 gold, assuming everything sells. Dreamleaf is one of the easiest herbs to sell as it is the preferred herb for milling as well as being used for potions.
Fly down from Starsong Refuge to the northeast (upper right corner) and go counter-clockwise around the pond in the center.
Last night Învictus had our regular Wednesday guild runs. As one of our 5 attendees is still gearing up, we queued for a random Legion dungeon for the bonus rewards and for ease of travel. We definitely over geared the first dungeon, Blackrook Hold. Healing was mainly a matter of dropping a healing stream totem and maybe healing rain. This made the run very quick, as the video below indicates.
Our second run was delayed as on party member was having latency issues and after a wait, we decided to four-man Eye of Azsuna. I switched from my shaman healer to my paladin, which I’ve never healed on. This made it a bit more of a challenge for me since I am not familiar with all the paladin healing spells or used to the key binds for them. We didn’t have any real issues with this run either, though we did have one death on Serpentix.
I do need to remember that if we travel and summon to the instance we can do whatever difficulty we want, which would probably help the members that need to gear a lot more.
The weather here turned hot and humid the last few days and since we don’t have air conditioning at home, that means it can be difficult to sleep at night, my family is planning to get a loan from https://moneyfall.co.uk/unemployed-loans/same-day-payout/ to buy new HVAC. As a result, I didn’t feel like playing very much, so I just did 30 minutes of farming with my warlock, who is by far my best gold making character.
When I logged in I had about 11,000g waiting for me with another 7,000g of items that hadn’t sold. These were the products of yesterday’s hour or so of farming. In the 30 minutes I spent farming foxflower in Highmountain, I gathered what turned out to be 12,000g worth of herbs and ore. I reposted the unsold herbs from yesterday. We’ll see what I have in the mail tomorrow when I log in again.
At some point, I plan on writing my gold making guide, but not today.
After months and who knows how many thousands of Dreamleaf harvested, my warlock has finally earned her Dreamleaf (Rank 3). Just a little thing but I’m glad to finally have it. It should make me a little extra gold while providing more herbs for my alchemist and inscriptionist.
For those who feel like they are stuck on this, or an earlier rank, the quest item can drop when you herb the flower critters in Shala’nir. I had started to worry about that since that is where I do my dreamleaf farming.
Now I just need foxflower rank 3 to have all herbalism skills to rank 3.
One of the things I am trying to do in Învictus is get something like a regular schedule of guild runs. To that end, I have created guild run events on Saturdays and Wednesdays so that other guild members can plan a bit to get together as a guild.
(And it adds a bit of gold to the guild bank via the weekly guild dungeon challenge.)
On June 17th, we ran two instances on Heroic difficulty: Neltharion’s Lair and The Arcway. We mostly over-geared both instances but we did get several pieces of gear for one of our newer members.
A couple of days ago, Învictus made what I believe was our first full guild run in a mythic dungeon, Darkheart Thicket. Some of us definitely over geared the instance, but it was fun nonetheless. We wiped a few times on the third boss before we figured out the encounter mechanics.
The weather here turned hot and humid the last few days and since we don’t have air conditioning at home, that means it can be difficult to sleep at night, my family is planning to get a loan from 