Winterspring Frostsaber

[mikekim]

Ever since the rep nerf that now gives 250 -350 per quest (opposed to the original 72) this is now a nice grind to get the Winterspring Frostsaber Mount.

only the starting collection quest 10x meats on each character is a pain and takes about an hour to complete (but you only have to do this 6 times)
from then on its massacre central, as each turn in takes between 6-10 minutes depending on how busy the village is. 8)

total time from 0-Exalted (42,000) took me about 30 hours of playtime.

from this...



to this...

[Lorune]

I started working on this last night

I started around 23:00 so i only had time for 1 meat quest, but they are all parked on frostsaber rock

Nice job !

I was Server first with my warrior on it when it still took 800 quests, god that was a pain, but its good to hear its only 30h work these days.

Did you only do the Village quest or did ya also do the Giant killing ?

[mikekim]

i initially did the quest on my paladin (the first on my server) took me 6 months to complete ( a couple of runs per day), went from level 58 to 64 by the time i was finished ;(

i did a mixture of both giants and the village, focusing primarily on the village, but hit the giants when the village was busy.

i thought the giants would be hard, as i remember them being a pain the first time round, but each one only took 9 seconds to kill (2-3 lb's and/or an earth shock) the extended travel time can be a pain, but it only adds another 10-12 minutes onto the lap turn in for an additional 350 xp.

remember to use your hearthstone (if not on cool-down) once you have killed the giants to port you to everlook (saves 3.5 minutes travel time once per hour).


seriously considering running it again when i get my next group to 58ish

also got a fair few blues - torch of austen, orb of deception, crossbow of heartseeking and 4 various Darkmoon cards

[Naysayer]

alliance only :thumbdown:

[Lorune]

i initially did the quest on my paladin (the first on my server) took me 6 months to complete ( a couple of runs per day), went from level 58 to 64 by the time i was finished ;(

Hehe this means u did it post TBC right ?

That still gave u alot more rep then in the old days.

on my earliest screenshot i just zoning into BWL for the first time where i had the mount

[mikekim]

i initially did the quest on my paladin (the first on my server) took me 6 months to complete ( a couple of runs per day), went from level 58 to 64 by the time i was finished ;(

Hehe this means u did it post TBC right ?

That still gave u alot more rep then in the old days.

on my earliest screenshot i just zoning into BWL for the first time where i had the mount

I started this just after tbc came out - i think they upped the rep from 50 to 65 per turn in ( i got 72 because of the Human racal). I used to get strange whispers from people commenting on why I wasn't in Outlands.

[Lorune]

hehe, well mad props on the 5 sabers definatly

i hope to show off the same soon, although i am aiming for 4 sabers and 1 deathcharger

[Moorea]

wow kudos, I started this quest on a few toon and so far have given up because of the abyssymal drop rate for the meat... I can only imagine trying to loot that many x5...

[Mercurio]

Those Wintersabres look fabulous. Congrats!

I completed this quest about 2.5 months ago on one of my sets of toons. I love having them when running all over Shat and the BGs.

I started doing it on another set of 5, got through the meat quests, then had an idea. Since I have a number of locks that are above level 20, I can just place a few at the giants and at Frostsabre rock. A bit of group /kicking and /inviting and I can cut down the travel time hugely since when 5-boxing, mob killing time = 5%, travel time = 95% of this grind.

But with RAF out, I won't be doing this until the 3x exp goes away.

[Fleecy]

Congratulations! I've been contimplating this recently. 30 hours of /played time is reasonable.