62, Temple of Telhamut and Hellfire Ramparts

Last night was quite uneventful. I did the quests in and around the Temple of Telhamut, including slaughtering the Orcs in the mountains above in retaliation for killing Sedai. I then made my way down into the Pools of Aggonar to kill slimes and demons for another quest.

During this time I was in the queue for a Hellfire Ramparts run since I have the quest to collect the Hand, Hoof and Head of the three bosses which has a quest reward of a decent pair of gloves. A group queued up and after a few disconnects and replacing lost people we did a full clear and I completed the quest. I didn’t get any other loot but now need to do a run through Blood Furnace since I have all the required quests. I think I’ll bug the Wilbury’s tonight.

After Ramparts I did a few more quests around the broken city and the Arrakoa area and dinged 62. The broken city has a good quest line and another example of well thought out and interesting storylines. One of the broken apparently has made a pact with a demon and enslaved his whole city in return. Instead of escaping he has you recover a key and release the city elders and then slay the demon. The demon is an elite but the broken gives you a staff that temporarily removes the elite status so you can burn him down easily. I dinged 62 after turning in this quest.

My cat also gained a number of levels of loyalty and dinged 61. He is now at an equal stage as Caspurr was with Dash, Gore, Claw and Bite plus level 2 in every resistance. He can maintain some serious threat now, in fact, he off-tanked the majority of Ramparts successfully.

I ended the night heading to train new skills and got Steady Shot. This is the bread and butter of end-game shot rotations as it does decent damage and doesn’t reset the swing timer of auto shot. I had to move my buttons around to fit it in but it should make leveling a little bit quicker now. I also jumped into a quick Arathi Basin since it was the daily but we got rolled by the Horde so I just called it a night.

My next decision is whether I keep pushing in Hellfire or move on to Zangarmarsh. My guide still has about a days worth of grinding through Hellfire and I can probably bang out 63 here, but we’ll see.