Transcript for part 3!

001 – Intro

Hey Everyone and welcome back to let’s play world of warcraft, presented to you by my world of WoW. I’m your host Kaga, and I’m glad to say it’s time once again to resume leveling our Dwarf Mage!

When we last left off we’d cleaned up a cave of troll’s and a named fire elemental, and apparently that fire elementals appearance, along with this earthquake is a pretty big deal. So big in fact that we need to go to the Capital Dwarven city of Ironforge in order to to report the incident.

We’ve been told to rendevouz with a Gnome in the East so let’s go and do that. As always don’t be afraid to kill a few mobs for fun along the way!

Hm as luck would have have it as soon as we go to enter the passage through to the rest of Dun Morogh we suffer another quake. This means we can’t get through! Whatever shall we do? Well fear not, because our gnome friend happens to have some contacts up his sleeve. So let’s go meet his friend and see what he can offer us.

Oooh! A gyrocopter – sweet. But before we leave we need to grab supplies. These can be found inside the bunker. Oh, it seems like this Dwarf wants us to make sure we don’t forget about the people that are more or less trapped here. Telling someone to go rescue them would probably be the decent thing to do.

Rummage through the bunker and you’ll find the supplies you need for take off. Now is also a good time to visit your trainer and pick up any new skills. It took me quite a while to find the supplies needed, despite the fact that they shimmer and are pretty obvious – I guess I just wasn’t concentrating – yep, that sounds like something I’d do!

Okay so I’ve finally found all three items and now it’s time to take off into the unknown – awesome! Let’s return to that Gyrocopter, something tells me I should be saying get to zie chopper or similar.

The flight itself was quite different to what I expected – I expected the copter to crash, afterall, Gnomish technology has a bit of a reputation for bugging out. Fortunately however we do make it to Kharanos, and when we get there we have some quests to hand in, and more to pick up.

We also got a bag of goodies when going on that joyride so lets see whats inside. Hmm, mostly useless crap but oh! – Alcohol! Yeah! Jackpot! At least now we can quest with a bit of a buzz! There’s quite a few quests to grab in this area, but you can find them pretty easily using your minimap.

If you wish you could now pick up cooking, but I’m going to save my precious pennies.

Finally you get asked to go to Ironforge, and you get a free ride there! (You used to have to walk). So jump on a gryphon and take off towards the grand city. I had a little comp lag here so my apologies for any choppy footage.

Upon touchdown we deliver our note to its intended recipient, who just so happens to be near the mining trainer. On this toon I’m getting the professions Mining and Skinning with the sole intent of making profit off of them.

And oh look, ding again – another level closer. If you do get mining don’t forget to turn on track minerals, and buy a mining pick! I forgot to get the pick as you will soon see. It’s now time to learn skinning so we’ll find and visit that trainer. We’ll also need a skinning knife – which reminds me I still need a mining pick, so I better grab one of those as well. Hmph!

Now that we have both professions taken care of we can leave Ironforge and get back to questing. If you are new to the game however it wouldn’t hurt to have a look around the town. It’s a fairly safe place just don’t fall in the lava…and yes, I have done it, and yes I did die, and no I did not learn from it and yes I did it again.

Anyways we have levelling to get to so it’s time to fly out of the city and back to Kharanos. We even get a quest to go back there which means hooray for us – we get some more experience!

Upon touchdown we handin our goto quest which is located at the cooking trainer. We can grab our reward and then set off about questing. It never hurts to interact with the locals! The first time I came through here I was quite bewildered because it’s changed signifcantly with the Cataclysm. The gnome here looks like she knows whats what though so let’s give her a visit. So, now more questing up in the shimmer ridge.

And now you may smile with amusement. As you can see, it took me some time to find the path up to the top of this ridge. My only defense is that I swear the path used to be on the other side, which is now a dead end! So go the opposite way to what I did to avoid getting lost. On the plus side, I got to kill some wolves, which for some reason weren’t skinnable. Perhaps thats a newish thing that mobs under level 5 can’t be skinned. Hm.

Oh well, eventually I figure out how to get up the mountain – and now it’s troll clobbering time! We need to kill the trolls as well as collect their weed. They are fairly easy to defeat just be aware of where you are standing so that you dont aggro too many at once. You may also find mining veins around here as I did.

So here we are, owning trolls and generally having a good time blowing things up as only mages know how. Then when we are done we can head back to town, killing the boars and wolves as we go.

We have a few handins and new quests to grab, this is great! Making really good progress and generally not having any issues with levelling at all. Don’t forget the handin inside the inn, and also remember to vendor unwanted items for bag space.

Before we leave the inn it’s time to visit our trainer – and what do we get? The complete awesomeness that is Frostbolt. Frostbolt attacks enemies at range, with less damage than fireball but it can also snare them – this means they are slowed down drastically. This can give us massive advantages if used correctly, particularly when used with other spells like Frost nova which we will get later on.

With our frostbolt at the ready it’s time to tackle another set of quests. Here we need to kill Wendigo’s, investigate a cave and collect some supplies, all of that will take place…next episode! I look forward to seeing you there, and if you haven’t already, don’t forget to subscribe!

006 – (filler) flow
By now you’re probably starting to get the hang of things. You complete quests to open up more quests and gain stronger attributes via levelling up. It’s important to note that the time it takes between each level is generally more and more each time, for example levels 84-85 taking hours and hours longer than level 1-2.

007 – (filler) materials

The ore we are mining and the skins we are skinning, as well as any cloth we get we are going to hang on to for the moment. Later we will return to Ironforge and try to sell these items on the Auction House or AH as it’s commonly called. The AH is where you will do most of your currency turnover and we’ll introduce it in detail when the time comes to use it. For now though just hang on to the materials you find.

008 – (filler) skillups

With mining your current skill level determines the types of veins you can mine from. Azeroth and beyond is a host
to a whole range of minerals including copper, tin, iron, silver, gold and more. You’ll usually find the higher valued items in higher levelled areas. If you’re worried about keeping your professions up to date with your level, no matter which profession, you can use the rule of 5. This simply means take your character level and multiply it by 5 and if your skill level is at that or higher you should be fine. For example at level 10 I should ensure I have 50 mining and 50 skinning before leaving the area. The last thing we want is a mob we can’t skin or a vein we can’t tap into because we didn’t train our skill to a high enough level.

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