Flying in style, part II

Tonight I hit exalted with the Netherwing faction. After standing face to face with Illidan himself and riding back to Shattrath on a Netherwing dragon, I could finally pick up my new mount. Behold the Onyx Netherwing Drake in all its awe-inspiring, uhm, awesomeness:

Working on the Netherwing faction has taken up most of my gaming time lately. So, after hitting exalted, what’s next? I’ll probably work on getting my cooking skill up (more on that in a later post). Also, I’ll start doing more heroics for the Primal Nethers. I’ll hopefully be back in Karazhan soon as well.

Revered with Cenarion Expedition

Getting revered with the Cenarion Expedition is something I’ve had on my WoW to-do list for quite a while. After doing one last Steamvault run and buying a few Coilfang Armaments in the Auction House, I’m finally there.

Getting the heroic Coilfang Reservoir key is nice, for sure, but the real prize is the Glyph of Ferocity (+34 attack power and +16 hit rating on a head slot item). I’m really starved for hit rating at the moment, so getting +16 is really nice. I now have a total of 53 hit on my Stealther’s Helmet of Second Sight (16 base, 3 Rigid Dawnstone gems plus the Glyph of Ferocity). Not bad at all.

By the way, the WoW Reputation Calculator is a great tool. You feed it your character name and realm and it fetches your reputation with the various factions. Select a faction and the tool will show you which quests, instances, dailies etc. you need to do in order to reach the next reputation level. Very nicely done.

Hanging out on Netherwing Ledge

For the last couple of days, the Netherwing daily quests have been taking up most of my WoW time. I’ve made it to honored reputation, at which no less than 8 (!) daily quests are available. Blizzard has a nice overview page about the Netherwing rep grind, if you’re interested.

Running around the Netherwing Mines as a skinner is great, by the way. One of the dailies has me bringing back 35 Nethermine Flayer Hides. Other quests require killing these as well, though, which means that they’re often lying about, ripe for the skinning.