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Dire Maul Fun – Any Challengers?
So I’ve been playing with Sony Vegas a little bit more, and I’m getting the hang of putting together videos and stuff to share with you guys. I plan to upload a few more in future to share the methods I used for various parts of ‘Insane in the Membrane’ farming. Stuff like the best places to pickpocket heavy junkboxes for Ravenholdt rep, and more ratchet/dm steamwheedle rep farming.
I don’t normally pull like this doing my runs, I just happened to be close to reaching the five instances/hour cap and had a few minutes to kill so I thought I’d see what I could do. I’m very curious to find out if any other classes can beat this, I suspect possibly a Paladin would be the only real competition out there but I’m not sure they could put out enough DPS to take them down fast enough. Ah well, prove me wrong!
Not bad for few hours in the ‘Maul
So after taking a break from killing pirates in The Barrens for steamwheedle rep, I decided to spend a few more hours in Dire Maul doing some [Free Knot!] key runs. Now, some people that have commenced the [Insane in the Membrane] grind have a pretty negative few of Dire Maul runs since they take longer for rep than simply killing barrens/tanaris pirates.
Based on my recent experiences re-doing the steamwheedle exalted grind all the way from 0/36000 Hated I have to agree that for sheer speed the pirates are definitely a lot faster. This is especially the case when you’ve got a team of people to work with so you can each take turns killing while the rest /follow. Less effort, faster rep, pretty hard to argue with eh?
If you’re not already exalted with Shen’dralar, though, then mixing it up with some Dire Maul runs can save you a lot of cash. Even if you ARE already exalted the libram drops you get in the zone are selling for 50g/each on my server which isnt bad. I’m currently in a position where I need to make sure I have steady gold coming in so I can afford enough Darkmoon Faire decks to get exalted sooner rather than later – which brings me back to today’s fantastic grinding session!
In about three hours worth of running Dire Maul I came out with:
1 x Forors Compendium of Dragonslaying
1 x Orb of Deception
1 x Eaglehorn Longbow
1 x Earthborn Kilt
1 x Plans: Dawnbringer Shoulders
1 x Seven of Beasts
3 x Libram of Protection
2 x Libram of Focus
2 x Libram of Rapidity
18 x Greater Eternal Essence
23 x Stacks Runecloth
78 x Illusion Dust
I didnt keep track of how much gold I made from looting the mobs and selling the junk items and BOP blues that dropped, but that would have been a fair amount too. I got lucky and bagged the arena rare twice while I was there, which accounts for all the blues. So as you can see, while its not as fast as pirates its a hell of a lot more profitable!
I’ve recorded some of the pull techniques I use and with any luck should have them put together in a video to share with you in the next few days.