5 Days Left – Team Awesome is nearly ready

So 5 days left till WOTLK.

I’m encouraged by Jame’s response to our plan of 3 DK’s, 3 Specs. He believes the Auras that all 3 talent trees bring will help us a lot. He’s also released a new guide for Outland levelling which he reckons we should follow and skip the instances, though I’m sure we’ll burn through them quickly if we can find people and we’ve got all the quests.

All we need now is Game to deliver our WOTLK on time and we’ll be ready to rock at midnight of launch!

In the mean while, final preparations continue…I still need more mithril but Tanaris has been very good to me so far. I think I’ll take another run around there later to get the final bits.

The annoying thing is when I stare at my bank I realise how much cash I could make if I just sold all this ore!

Now the only thing left is to decide on a 2nd profession since most Blacksmithing stuff is now BOE…I’m still tempted to do it however.

DK Mining to 290 fast mode

I’m sure I’m not the only one who has considered going back to the old world straight after the Death Knight starting area.

The reason, to get mining to 300 before setting foot in Outland/Northrend and because if I rush all the way to 80 I would regret it each time I passed a node in Outland/Northrend. I would think that I could be levelling mining and also making a ton of money or saving materials for Blacksmithing without having to come back at lvl 80 to start all over.

There is a solution! Although it might cost some money and time before wotlk, but what else is there to do?

In my searches around the net, I came across some good mining guides. What I found out is that it is perfectly possible to smelt your way up to 290 and not have to touch a single node until that point. Combined with the fact I’m going to be doing 58-60 in WP/EP anyways I can quite easily get my last 10 skillups for Outland there.

Check this guide out

I’ve so far gathered:

165 copper, 115 Tin, 15 Silver, 67 Iron, 13 Gold, 120 Mithril, 44 Truesilver and 60 Thorium Ore.

A lot I’ve ground out on my alt and I’ve also bought some off the AH. I figure the money I lose on the AH now with the hiked prices should still easily be made up by the extra mining I’ll get done in Outland/Northrend as people start buying out materials for their new professions. Also I plan on selling all the bars that I smelt from the ore.

By the way if anyone is a miner on Shadowsong you can make a killing on Thorium ore atm. I didn’t buy any because it was 50g a stack but those stacks were only on the AH for about 10minutes and as of right now there is no Thorium ore on the AH.

Maybe lots of people have the same idea?