Spider Bites
Kate was having trouble maxing out her First Aid skill. I've seen this kind of thing with all skills before - the closer you get to the max, the more you have to do to gain points until eventually it doesn't matter how much you do, you just can't seem get that last point.
When you get into that position it's past time to see about updating the skill with some training. As I think I mentioned before, we got Kate's cooking skill up to Expert level by buying a book out in Ashenvale. I did a little checking and found that expert-level First Aid training works the same way, with a book you buy from a character in Stromgarde Keep in the Arathi Highlands.
Kate thought that she might have already got a copy of the book in the bank, but when she checked it turned out that she didn't so I flew out to Refuge Pointe and cut across to the Keep (on my new Warhorse, which saved a lot of time), found the guy, bought the book and headed back to Ironforge to hand it over to Kate. Her First Aid max went from 150 (Journeyman) to 225 (Expert) and now she shouldn't have problems until she gets close to the next level, which I think is Master.
On the cooking front, both of us have the recipe for Spider Sausage (yum!) which sounds disgusting but replenishes a lot of health and gives a bigger 'well fed' bonus than the Turtle Bisque. The recipe calls for White Spider Meat, which comes from spiders from level 35 to 60 in various regions all over the world. Down at the lower end of the level scale at around 35-37, there are four or five kinds of spiders in the Dustwallow Marsh that are supposed to drop the stuff, and Dustwallow Marsh has another attraction: it's close to The Barrens and Thousand Needles, each of which has a quest we need to complete.
Kate was busy dealing with auction house stuff so I took the boat from Menethil to Theramore then headed out into the marsh to try to find some of the spiders; it also gave me a chance to get a few more points - I'm more than a level behind Kate on XP and the bigger the gap gets the harder it is for both of us in the higher-level areas, so I need to close that gap a bit.
It wasn't too successful - there are spiders in the part of the marsh that I explored (basically the eastern side from Theramore up to the northern border), but there aren't as many as there are in other areas like Arathi and they don't drop White Spider Meat very often - I probably whacked about a dozen and only got one piece before Kate followed me out, and I only got two pieces altogether. I suspect there are more spiders to the west and we'll have better luck there.
While we were in the area we took on a quest from Sentry Point, to find some Defias guys with an unusual interest in a shipwreck off the coast; we were to take the orders from the head Defias. We found the island the Defias were using as a base, found the boss guy and got the orders without any trouble, and went back to Sentry Point. The next quest in the chain was to find a diver near the Defias camp; in turn he sent us off to find some damaged diving equipment and tools on the island. That led to another quest, to use the repaired diving equipment to find and collect six boxes of salvage from the waters near the island.
This was a long and difficult process, complicated by several things: there were a lot of Defias divers in the water and they'd often attack in pairs; the salvage would often spawn a murloc instead of giving up the stuff we were looking for, so we'd find ourselves fighting a murloc and a diver at the same time; the water is murky and the sea-floor featureless, so it's easy to get separated and lost; and you can't eat or drink while swimming so we often had to get out of the water to heal and recover mana.
The diving equipment gave us sixty minutes of underwater time and by the time we'd finished I had thirteen remaining, which gives an idea of how long this took. But we got there in the end and went back to the diver who gave us the next quest, to find a character in Theramore. By then it was getting late so we hearthstoned back to Ironforge; we can pick up where we left off on the next trip.
When you get into that position it's past time to see about updating the skill with some training. As I think I mentioned before, we got Kate's cooking skill up to Expert level by buying a book out in Ashenvale. I did a little checking and found that expert-level First Aid training works the same way, with a book you buy from a character in Stromgarde Keep in the Arathi Highlands.
Kate thought that she might have already got a copy of the book in the bank, but when she checked it turned out that she didn't so I flew out to Refuge Pointe and cut across to the Keep (on my new Warhorse, which saved a lot of time), found the guy, bought the book and headed back to Ironforge to hand it over to Kate. Her First Aid max went from 150 (Journeyman) to 225 (Expert) and now she shouldn't have problems until she gets close to the next level, which I think is Master.
On the cooking front, both of us have the recipe for Spider Sausage (yum!) which sounds disgusting but replenishes a lot of health and gives a bigger 'well fed' bonus than the Turtle Bisque. The recipe calls for White Spider Meat, which comes from spiders from level 35 to 60 in various regions all over the world. Down at the lower end of the level scale at around 35-37, there are four or five kinds of spiders in the Dustwallow Marsh that are supposed to drop the stuff, and Dustwallow Marsh has another attraction: it's close to The Barrens and Thousand Needles, each of which has a quest we need to complete.
Kate was busy dealing with auction house stuff so I took the boat from Menethil to Theramore then headed out into the marsh to try to find some of the spiders; it also gave me a chance to get a few more points - I'm more than a level behind Kate on XP and the bigger the gap gets the harder it is for both of us in the higher-level areas, so I need to close that gap a bit.
It wasn't too successful - there are spiders in the part of the marsh that I explored (basically the eastern side from Theramore up to the northern border), but there aren't as many as there are in other areas like Arathi and they don't drop White Spider Meat very often - I probably whacked about a dozen and only got one piece before Kate followed me out, and I only got two pieces altogether. I suspect there are more spiders to the west and we'll have better luck there.
While we were in the area we took on a quest from Sentry Point, to find some Defias guys with an unusual interest in a shipwreck off the coast; we were to take the orders from the head Defias. We found the island the Defias were using as a base, found the boss guy and got the orders without any trouble, and went back to Sentry Point. The next quest in the chain was to find a diver near the Defias camp; in turn he sent us off to find some damaged diving equipment and tools on the island. That led to another quest, to use the repaired diving equipment to find and collect six boxes of salvage from the waters near the island.
This was a long and difficult process, complicated by several things: there were a lot of Defias divers in the water and they'd often attack in pairs; the salvage would often spawn a murloc instead of giving up the stuff we were looking for, so we'd find ourselves fighting a murloc and a diver at the same time; the water is murky and the sea-floor featureless, so it's easy to get separated and lost; and you can't eat or drink while swimming so we often had to get out of the water to heal and recover mana.
The diving equipment gave us sixty minutes of underwater time and by the time we'd finished I had thirteen remaining, which gives an idea of how long this took. But we got there in the end and went back to the diver who gave us the next quest, to find a character in Theramore. By then it was getting late so we hearthstoned back to Ironforge; we can pick up where we left off on the next trip.
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