Post soundtrack: “Uam Uam” by Povo
After much trials, tribulations, and many many runs of UBRS, I’ve not only completed Dingle’s D1 set, I’ve also completed the quest chains to upgrade it all to D2.
For the D2 set, WoW Insider helped out again with its mini-guide for the upgrade quest chains. But there’s several bits and pieces that they didn’t elaborate upon, which took a bit of doing on top of the ridiculous amount of travelling required for the D2 quests.
The first noticeable hurdle was Anthion’s Strange Request, the third quest in the chain to upgrade your leg, feet and shoulder pieces. This quest has you provide three Dark Iron Bars, 20 Enchanted Leather, three Mooncloth and four Cured Rugged Hides. The mooncloth was easy to find on the AH, but I had to make the Enchanted Leather and Cured Rugged Hides on my enchanter and leatherworker. The Dark Iron Bars are a little trickier, as you need to complete The Spectral Chalice in BRD before your miner is able to smelt them from ore. It was an easy solo for my level 80, and it took longer to procure the 10 truesilver bars than anything else.
Anthion’s Old Friend was the next hiccup, requiring the Crescent Key to get into the Dire Maul library. Fortunately this is just a minor speed bump, requiring a partial run through Dire Maul East to kill Pussilin for it.
The Three Kings of Flame is another speed bump, with Duke of Cynders being noticeably subject to the RNG. I stocked up with several sets of the Twilight Cultist gear (and a couple of Abyssal Signets) from the AH to use in the numerous attempts at summoning which you may (or may not) need to get him to appear – he’s a 1-in-4 chance from a Wind Stone, so good luck!
The last hold-up was getting a Flask of Supreme Power to turn-in for Final Preparations. As a vanilla flask, it wasn’t listed on the AH all that frequently, and I ended up taking one of my alchemists into Scholomance to farm Ras Frostwhisper for the recipe.
In the end, the longest hold-up to completing my D2 was actually getting the last item of my D1, the Breastplate of Valor, to drop. It was only on Dingle’s 19th run that Drakkisath finally relinquished it. And then it was back to Ironforge to turn in the final quest, and receive the last two pieces of her D2.
Accessorising is still a work in progress, but for now I’m using Dal’Rend’s Sacred Charge and the Draconian Deflector, along with the Knight’s Colors tabard. The weapon isn’t perfect, but it looks more substantial than the usual one-handed weapons, and the colours of the shield are close enough.
Next? Well, that’s a good question. Which is to say, I have no idea just yet. But with luck 4.0.1 is under a week away, and that’ll mean new toys (or at least, new abilities) to play with.
For now, I guess I’ll go on a road-tour of capitals or something suitably exhibitionist.
/wave
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