This is great -- it's probably more WoW playing than I could do in one day, but maybe I'll try it this weekend anyway. loztaylor has designed
a heck of an instance run that rolls through thirteen Heroics and will nab you 53 Emblems of Conquest (along with all of the other spoils of war) in one day. Basically, you'll be sweeping across the land of Northrend, hitting every Heroic you come across, and if by some chance you're able to keep the group together the whole time, and keep from passing out from all the
WoW playing you're doing, at the end you'll end up with 53 Emblems, more than enough to purchase most of the Emblem gear, and almost enough to pick up a Tier piece.
Of course, if you're wearing a rep tabard, you'll also rein in a ton of dungeon rep. And if you hit the new
Trial of the Champion, you'll pick up your Champion's Seals as well. And you'll have 13 Frozen Orbs to divvy among the group, a few extra Emblems and gold from doing the daily quests, and if you're good and/or lucky, you might even be able to clear up a few of the achievements or snag
that blue proto-drake. Of course, doing this much of anything in the game will probably nab you plenty of rewards. But here's a tuned route to follow all the way around the world of Heroics. If I can find a willing group of
suckers guildies, I think I'll give it a shot.
Tags: 5-man, achievements, ahn-kahet, cot-stratholme, draktheron, emblems-of-conquest, gold, gundrak, heroics, nexus, oculus, old-kingdom, reward, route, trial-of-the-champion, utgarde-keep, utgarde-pinnacle, violet-hold
Filed under: How-tos, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Instances, Bosses, Making money
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 4)
purgex Aug 7th 2009 6:30PM
Okay, I'm done them all now, ~6 hours. Now I'm going down to the gym, which I doubt you've ever done JS.
Rugus Aug 7th 2009 4:20PM
I was very anxious to see the new emblems on live realms, ready to farm and upgrade my gear... but I must admit I find a bit "dumb" that you can get so high-level gear items with just 5man heroics. Trade channel is over-spammed by messages like "LFG any heroic, LFG good group to farm heroics, ..." and so on. WoW *IS* a grinding game, I know that... but patch 3.2 made it even worst.
The new 5man drops amazing rewards even in normal mode. The heroic version dropped a gun for my hunter on par of Naxx10 guns. Overall the new system is greatly tweaked for casuals (and that's good) but just wipes away old players who actually put a little effort into gaining iLevel 219 items (and beyond).
Running heroic 5man is now MUCH easier because even a freshly dinged 80 will surely find uber-players who will need some emblems and will do anything to find a group. Yesterday I ran 3 heroics in a row with a 4man group (we could not find a dps, could you believe me?). Well, pushing 3000+ DPS means running the dungeon in "cheat mode".
Rugus Aug 7th 2009 4:24PM
I forgot to mention one thing: easy epic gems (+20). AH on my server is flooded with any kind of gem, and /trade chan is even worst. Gems go for 200-250G a piece. Nothing, considering we're speaking of high-end gems.
You can get them with honor (easy) or with old emblems (ultra-easy).
What's the point of that changes? I mean what is Blizz looking for?
L8onautry Aug 7th 2009 4:28PM
I think that no matter how easy Blizzard makes it for "casuals", people that put in more time and effort will still gear up faster so it really all still evens out. If you put in the effort to get 53 emblems a day, then you deserve whatever you can buy with them. If someone only can farm 20 emblems a day, then they won't be getting the same gear as quickly as the other person, but they also haven't put in the time to get them yet, so like I said it all really just evens out...
Jon Do Aug 7th 2009 4:32PM
One reason is so that PvP is more gear-balanced.
On the PvE side, people without access to raids can get nice gear. People with alts can gear them up. Heroics and Naxx groups are around again, which is nice for latecomers and alts.
Hardcore raiders already have this gear, or better, and are doing hard modes and will be trying out the new raid. They can run easier stuff to d/e for abyss crystals and emblems for epic gems.
Fun to be had by all.
theRaptor Aug 7th 2009 4:35PM
They are under the delusion that if they hand out easy gear than more than 1/4 of guilds that have done Nax-25 will be able to clear Ulduar. Only around half of Nax-25 guilds have even seen a Keeper.
I love this change because it a) Allows me to gear up my Shaman so that I can main switch (I rolled Spriest for utility, these days I just feel like subpar DPS) and b) prove once and for all that the scrubs are just scrubs. Handing them free tier 8 won't give them the ability to not suck at raiding.
I don't care that other people have purple pixels as good as mine. I only care that the scrubs have one less excuse as to why they are bad at a not very hard game and maybe, just maybe, they will admit they lack skill and attempt to get some.
Mark Aug 7th 2009 4:33PM
None of which is possible, at least on my server of Destromath because... wait for it...
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FFS! :(
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Naix Aug 7th 2009 5:37PM
You play on destromath too?
I have noticed this as well.
Naix Aug 7th 2009 5:40PM
Not to mention Blizzard makes over 100 million a month.
FFS Blizzard spend some money and buy some more instance servers.
Players should NEVER see this message.
Selway Aug 7th 2009 4:35PM
Don't forget you'll probably pick up a few Stone Keeper's Shards :)
Adam H. Aug 7th 2009 4:37PM
With the flood of everything out of this patch, Arygos economy has tanked to rock bottom prices. Frozen Orbs for 40G, Abyss Crystals for 50G, Epic Green/Orange gems as low as 80G, Reds aren't much more at like 120G.
Yet, I LOVE IT! I've calculated to be geared enough for the 10m ToC by this Tuesday, and that's on my 2 month old 80.
It's a love/hate, but the lively server and hectic economy is a nice shake up.
elvendude Aug 7th 2009 4:54PM
lol, I would *love* to see gems at those prices. On the hayday of the gem market on Hyjal, I was lucky if I sold a Runed Scarlet Ruby for 90g. Anything other than red, and you're lucky if you get 30g for it. You could routinely pick up frozen orbs for 50g. Though abyss crystals were around 100g.
You say rock bottom prices, I say you've only seen the light touch of the price drop. Wait another two weeks.
elvendude Aug 7th 2009 4:57PM
Doh, you said epics. My reading comprehension fails. Apologies.
Ophelos Aug 7th 2009 4:40PM
The topic is misleading.. Since it's possiable to get more then that in a day if you also run raids. :)
I just hit lvl 80 lastnight and today i got 12 emblems of conquest, 2 triumps. An that's from voa25man and 2 heroics.
Rugus Aug 7th 2009 4:47PM
A fresh 80 that goes to VoA 25 is just carried on by guild friends OR a careless raid leader, come on. If that's the spirit, then just ding 80 and go for Naxx25.
Ophelos Aug 7th 2009 5:00PM
@Rugus my lvl 80 already had a ton of epics waiting for him once he got there.. It's all about having the money and the professions to do so.
Rugus Aug 7th 2009 5:12PM
@ Ophelos
Sure, BOE stuff in wotlk is amazing. From your post I assumed you was a real "fresh" 80, green and blue.
Ophelos Aug 7th 2009 6:01PM
nope, there all epics from ulduar/OS25/naxx25 and crafted epics.
Avan Aug 7th 2009 4:54PM
53? That doesn't seem accurate. I'm pretty sure you don't get Emblems of Conquest from the 5man Coliseum.
SaintStryfe Aug 7th 2009 4:58PM
heroic you do.