Aldor and Scryer: Switching Sides

Okay, so I’ve done this twice now. Yes, I know, which is why this post is in the n00bstake category as well. But I figured for anyone else out there who might be considering switching for different benefits or not know how, this is a little summary about it.

Fikkle started off as an Aldor.  I’m not sure why, but it was probably because I didn’t know any better.  Eventually I decided that I wanted him to be a Scryer for the Spellthread pattern so it was off to do a quest followed by a repeatable turn in quest.  Which quests you ask?  Well these ones: Voren’thal’s Visions is the first one you do and you can pick it up from Arcanist Adyria in Lower City.  You have to turn in 8 Dampscale Basilisk Eyes.  These can be found on the Basilisks in Terokkar Forest.  I found that a good place to find them was along the river west of Tuurem.  Once you’ve turned in the quest, you can do the repeatable turn in More Basilisk Eyes.  The turn in can be repeated until you reach Neutral with the Scryers.  In case you want to calculate the math of how many you’ll need to turn in, each turn in is worth 250 Rep with the Scryers and -275 Rep with the Aldor.  Hostile has 3000 points, Unfriendly has 3000 points.  Once you hit neutral return to  the center of Shattrath and pick up the quest to go turn in it on the Scryer rise.

Grimshott started off as Scryer, way back when.  At the time it was because Fikkle was Aldor and I didn’t want to have to grind two toons with the same faction.  Since I started playing him again and Fikkle has since gone Scryer, I decided to take him Aldor. /facepalm.  The quest to switch to Aldor is similar to its Scryer counterpart.  It is called Strained Supplies and requires you to turn in 8 Dreadfang Venom Sacs.  You can pick it up from Sha’nir in the Lower City at level 62.  These drop of the Dreadfang spiders in Terrokar.  Since Fikkle is a tailor, I often farm the Netherweb Spider Silk for tailoring and so I had a lot of these to start.  The best place I’ve found to get them is the Netherweb Ridge on the southeastern tip of the Bone Wastes.  After you’ve turned in 8 venom sacs, you can do the repeatable turn in quest, More Venom Sacs.  As with the Scryer quest each turn in is worth 250 Rep with the Aldor and -275 Rep with the Scryer and is repeatable until Neutral.  Once you hit neutral return to the center of Shattrath and pick up the quest to go the Aldor rise.

Voila, you’re now an official turncoat!

Helping a Newbie Revisited

Yesterday I talked about the value of helping others in game, of being a Good Azerothan.  Well I got the chance to put my gold where my mouth is last night by helping out someone who is completely new to the game.  I’m not sure if he’d be okay with me posting his name, so I’ll just refer to him as ‘the Newbie’ for the duration of the post.

Now the Newbie is one of Sy’s IRL friends.  Sy convinced him to get the game and got him pretty much set up.  A few days back they played a little and the Newbie made level 6.  So last night Sy was able to get all the ventrillo information to the Newbie who was then able to join us on vent, which made the process of helping much simpler. 

Now, the Newbie did something that was really funny, something I’m sure we’ve all done at one time, you know, that time back when we were the Newbie.  But that is his story to tell, so you’re not getting any of that from me.  What you will get is another addition to the n00bstake series.  This was probably not my first n00bstake, although it is one of the earliest that continues to stand out in my mind.

Setting the Scene: Fikkle had just finished questing in the Ghostlands.  Dath’remar had been sundered and Tranquillien welcomed me as an Exalted Champion of their fairly abandoned and people-less settlement.

Sidebar: Okay, seriously, there are what 20 people in that little town.  So you get exalted with Tranq and 20 people love you.  That is supposed to be awesome I know.

Back on track: Well, I knew a few things at this time:

FACT: There were level 20-30 zones that I could go to to continue leveling. 

FACT: Ashenvale was one of those zones. 

FACT: There was a Zepelin between Orgrimmar and the Undercity. 

FACT: Once in Orgrimmar I could easily go to Ashenvale and continue leveling.

FACT: When I opened my map, cartographer allowed me to see that running from the Ghostlands to the Undercity didn’t seem like it was that far of a run.

FACT: The Orb of Translocation did not exist to me.

The good part: So, since it appeared that it wasn’t all that far to get from Ghostlands to Undercity, I could easily make the corpse run and then not have to go back to Silvermoon again, at least until I was a high enough level to be able to survive the Plaguelands.  /startrunning.

/dead

/res

/dead

/etc

You get the idea.  I know I died enough times that every piece of armor in my bags and on my character were 100% broken.  I also know that that happened long before I gave up.  I obviously spirit res’d in the centre of EPL once I died for the first time close enough to it.  After that, I tried corps running toward the border of WPL. 

 If only I can make it just a little bit further, these monsters should stop killing me.  Its only a little bit further, only a little bit further.

Eventually I got so frustrated about not being able to take 2 steps before I was again dead that I decided that this couldn’t possibly be the way from Silvermoon to UC.  Of course it wasn’t.

/brainon

/g “Hey does anyone know how you get from Silvermoon to UC?

“Ya its easy, theres a teleport orb thingy in the same building as the MAGE TRAINER.  Its really easy to find, just keep running toward the back til you see it.  That will take you right to UC.”

/g “Oh would you look at that” /killmenow

n00bstake

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Back to the topic of the post, the Newbie had to take off before we all really got a chance to get started, however I was able to help him learn a few things.  Since the Newbie is playing a Rogue for now, we’ll use Rogue examples for the following.

10 Fikkle Lesson’s to Teaching The Newbie How To Play:

1.  Get him/her bags for god’s sake.  Without em, they will just remain ignorant.  With them, they will actually become aware of how important bag space is when first starting out. Do it! so say we all…

2.  Show him how to put abilities on the action bar.  Make sure that you include alternate action bars as well, like stealth for a rogue.

3.  Show him/her how to actually use the abilities they’re given.

4.  Make them practice. 

5.  Repeat #4 until they hate you or they’ve got it down.

6.  Provide a Turkey sandwhich in case someone gets hungry.  Most likely that Turkey sandwich will be required by Fikkle.  Send Fikkle your Turkey sandwhich.  If said sandwich includes mayo, send it to Sylus.

7.  Let the Newbie do what they want.  Obviously if they’re not having fun, they won’t be logging back in very much.

8.  In addition to #7, if said fun includes such things as running through EPL at level 20, it is best to let them have their fun.

9.  In addition to #7 and #8, said fun is allowed to be disrupted by the occastional practical joke.  Said fun is also allowed to be encouraged by the occasional practical joke.

10.  Let them solo a little bit.  It will force them to learn things for themselves and not be afraid to solo later on in the game.  It is during #10 when #9 can be most effective. 

 

n00bstake of the Week

While goofing off on vent with Sylus over the weekend, I made a joke that I should start a segment called n00bstake of the week.  I’ve got two for today, so I’ll need some extra pwnsauce thirteen-thirty-seven sauce, but I think I can handle it.

1. Hitting prowl when you have a bleed DoT on you. Not so much.  Hitting Prowl after the next fight when you have a bleed DoT on you again and you’ve just complained about it in vent.  n00bstake.

2. Running off the Aldor rise and dying because auto run was on.  Maybe.  Running off the Aldor rise and dying because auto run was on and you let go of the push-to-talk button expecting it to stop you because you weren’t paying attention.  n00bstake.

Have a great Monday.