Thursday, November 20, 2014

The march to 90

I'm halfway to level 89 already, and it feels like the levels have been going by pretty quickly. It's been taking just 1-2 hours per level (probably closer to 2 now that my rested experience is gone) which is much quicker than I had expected. For some reason I remember the leveling process taking a lot longer; perhaps that's something they changed in the more recent expansions?

With 90 approaching rapidly, I realized that my tradeskills were lagging behind. Laktose is skinning / leatherworking and while I have been skinning every mob I can, I didn't get enough leather from 80-85 to get my LWing high enough so that I can use the leather I'm currently skinning in Pandaria. I have a similar issue with First Aid - I didn't get enough cloth from Cataclysm to level First Aid up high enough to use the cloth from Pandaria. This leaves me with two options:

1) Buy the necessary leather / cloth from the AH
2) Go back to an earlier zone and farm for the leather / cloth

My initial thought was to just go back and farm for the mats. I need (I'm guessing) about 200-300 leather. This would cost roughly 450-675 gold from the AH. I have about 5,500 gold on Lak and ~4,500 combined on my other characters so I could certainly afford it, but it's not an insignificant amount. If I go farm it though, how long would it take to kill 300 mobs (and that's being optimistic that you get a piece of leather, rather than scraps, from each one)? And, more importantly, how much gold could I make questing in that time?

I think that the answer is that it's probably not worth the time investment to farm the leather myself. I'm making 10-13 gold per quest, and while I don't know that I will complete 50 quests in that time period, we shouldn't ignore the vendor-able drops that I'll be getting or the fact that I'll be getting closer to 90 (farming level 83-85 mobs will be much slower experience wise). If we assume it'd take 4 hours to farm that much leather and 4 hours to get to level 90 ... I'd much rather be level 90.


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