Well, After many attempts, I was finally able to log in last night and got the first part of the tier .5 upgrade quest. Managed to update my bracers from Bracers of Valor to Bracers of Heroism<tried linking the other way and was getting errors>

The quest involved getting 15 drops of blood from frostsabers and I believe bears (never actually got one from a bear) in Winterspring. Seem like just about every alliance class was up there looking for this blood. Another nice bottleneck for players. Wasn't a critter left standing for more than 15 seconds. It has a decent drop rate, but still took me a couple hours.

Crafted Parts for Quests and Who Makes Them

Delicate Arcanite Converter - Ranulf (1 Arcanite Bar and 1 Ironweb Spidersilk)
Stonescale Oil - Berro, Sherica , Zanphart (1 Stonescale Eel and 1 leaded vial) - had best luck catching eels in Feathermoon Scalebeard's Cave in Azshara. You'll need 300 skill plus lures.
Arcanite Bar - Berro, Sherica , Zanphart (1 Arcane Crystal and 1 Thorium bar) - 2 day cooldown
Greater Eternal Essences - Lunaire (lvl 55+ green items to disenchant)

Grats Rin, I just got my Feralheart Bracers this morning as well.

I had the best drop rate on the Frostsaber Huntress that spawn around Frostsaber Rock.

Part 2 so far requires the following:

1 Delicate Arcanite Converter - 75-100 gold on AH
4 Greater Eternal Essence - 8-10 gold each on the AH
10 Stonescale Oil - 80-100 gold for 10 on the AH this morning
25 Volcanic Ash. - easy to get, took me about 15 minutes. Best locations are around the big lava flows near the BRD ramp.
40 Gold

Ranulf can make the Arcanite Converter if you can acquire 1 Arcanite Bar and 1 Ironweb Spidersilk. Bars were selling for about 35 gold each before the patch, didn't check them this morning.

fuck all that shit, silent bob. I may just keep my plain ol' beaststalker bindings.

This is getting expensive. Looks like I'll be going eel fishing tonight.

Okay, since Rin decided to "volunteer" me for the oil...Yes, I will be happy to make the oil for people, just supply the eels. I would rather spend an hour fishing to get enough eels than pay that kind of money at the AH. I can also do the arcanite transmute for those with the mats, but that is on a 2 day cooldown.

I THINK Sher can do the arcanite transmute as well, if not, I think I can pick up the recipe in Gadget. Also, she can make the oil, but as Zan said... no eels.

As Rin said, Feathermoon is a good place to fish for the Eels. I was catching one about every 5 mins last weekend. Not a great catch rate, but that's probably why they sell for so high at AH.

Remember too, the eels bite at a better rate after the sun goes down, server time.

Remember too, the eels bite at a better rate after the sun goes down, server time.

if you are near/300 fishing bring a bunch of the +100 fishing Aquadyn Lures and hitup Scalebeard's Cave, Azshara and fish off his shore. 6pm-6am ST you get about an 8-10% drop.

Killian,

The bracers are the easiest to upgrade so definitely go for it. All you need to do is grab the 15 blood and have 20 gold.

The part I'm on is for the belt and gloves.

You can add me to the list with Zanph and Sher, Berro can do the transmute, and whip up some stonescale oil.

I've had pretty good luck with eels in tanaris off the docks by steamwheedle port. It's been a bit, since it's hard to get off my butt and farm up all the stuff I need to nowadays for things, but eel and winter squid (which is gone now *sniff*) were nice there.

The belt/gloves quest is lengthy mostly due to the all the travel between the different areas, and several backtracking ventures. I ran across several alliance along the way working on it. SE of cenarion hold in silithus, the frozen lake in winterspring, and the northdale village ruins in eastern plaguelands have the heaviest ghost concentrations with little or no interference from uneeded mobs types.

The 4th item upgrade quest is strat dead to rescue a ghost from the Baron. Not sure if the timed run or whatnot on this. I'll post more on that as I get around to doing it.

So far though I'm down 70g from the start of the upgrade quests after adding in the quest portion payouts for each objective. 20g for bracers, 40g to start the gloves/belt series, and 50g for a fel rod from winterspring along the way before finishing it off.

Crap, I'm beginning to think like Killian...it may be simpler to just keep the damm tier 0 pieces :p

My problem is that I can't even begin to upgrade anything...I don't have the Dreadmist bracers yet :mad:
They seem to only drop in BRS, which I've never been in yet. They are BoE, so I could probably buy them, but I noticed last night that people were trying to buy the BoE tier 0 pieces all night - which means the prices are probably outrageous right now. *sigh*

Zan, find out which instances your stuff drops in and I'll start to schedule runs there.

Need to get our platoon of rogues to do the same as well.

If I recall, the Dreadmist pieces (and I belive all tier 0 stuff) drop only in Strat, Scholo and BRS. According to Thottbott, the bracers (at least Dreadmist) only drop in BRS. But I'm a patient person - I will get them eventually!!!

if you are near/300 fishing bring a bunch of the +100 fishing Aquadyn Lures and hitup Scalebeard's Cave, Azshara and fish off his shore. 6pm-6am ST you get about an 8-10% drop.


Nice piece of info there, thanks!

how many oils do you still need? I found 9 in my bank the other day. I'll gladly donate to the cause.

Yeah, every 3 fish seems to be a eel at Scalebeards cave.

Just to let everyone know, when using the +75 lures, my fishing is at 395 and I still have trouble with my fish getting away.

Where is that cave, Rin? I couldn't find it and tried Feralas the other day, and the eel rate was so ridiculously low I got super frustrated.

The cave isn't labeled. It's off the coast of the Shattered Strand. Looks like a cave on a small island on the map. I can get and post the corrdinates tonight if you like.

not sure if anyone is even doing these upgrades, I still have the 10 extra from earlier.

I'm not doing it until I have more peices.

I would rather have the extra armor then resist.

Coordinates for Scalebeards is 54,50

Thanks, Rin!

I'm not sure that this fits neatly within the list of crafted parts, but I thought I'd toss it out there in the interest of saving a few glddzzzz. Lunaire has been buying inexpensive ( <3g limit ) level 55+ greens because most of that stuff has a good chance of d/e into 2 eternal essences. Due to my inattention, I thought that they were only used for the new enchanter's bags. Now that I know better, I'd be happy to take requests instead of popping them back up on the AH. I'm almost ashamed now that I realize we have such a big need for them in-guild. So, if you'd like to add this, Rin, I'd like to help.

Greater Eternal Essences Lunaire

~ L