Taking the plunge - The Quest for Shadowmourne.

[Shodokan]

Introduction
I am the type of player that NEEDS a goal to make playing this game any fun. As you all know I have done a tremendous amount in the less than six months i've been boxing again. The thing that pushed me over the edge is all the knicknacks i get for each shadowmourne as well...i'm a sucker for cool rare things. Also the "material" cost will be recouped as I already have buyers for some things.

How it will be done
I will take three nights per week to raid (monday, wednesday, friday)

Step 1: Shadows edge and 1000 souls will be done next week. When i am not raiding or doing school work i will be farming for money as i will need money for infusions.

Step 2: Following week will encompass doing five alt runs with Blood Legion a top 10 in the world guild and getting the three infusions. Each toon will cost me 25,000 gold.

Step 3: The following four to eight weeks will then be spent pugging with a few groups whom have agreed to let me have shadowfrost shards. This includes three GDKP runs that are 11/12 with 5/12 hardmodes.

Step 4: Getting shadowmourne, The idea is to get them all in the same week but i doubt that will work out.

Each toon gets as follows.

Mauradin's favor
Reigns of the crimson deathcharger
Jaina's locket
Tabard of the light bringer
Sylvanas' Music Box


When i'm done i have a buyer for most items per toon. I will be keeping one of each type with the exception of deathcharger and tabard of the lightbringer.

Total costs
Well as most of you know I bought a shitton of game time, i'm regretting that as i'm down to about 35k gold. But there are some measures i'm taking to get the gold necessary to do this. A good friend of mine on Dalaran Horde is x-fering 125 primordials for me for the cost of the character x-fer + some rides to NYC in september.

125 Primordials: 75k gold
Bloods: 30k gold (i might not need to pay this)
Infusions: 125k gold
Shadowfrost shard buyouts: i will allot 20k to this

Total: 250k

Total worth of items that comes from it:
Each item sells for 25k on my server, other than the deathchargers which are 100k and the tabards which are 60k

I can recoup costs with selling 10 items, which is easily accomplished as i have buyers for six of them already.


Whats the point
According to a few friends who work for blizzard... the expansion will come out in october earliest, theres atleast two months left of the ICC buffs/halion encounter before 3.9 is released.

I really think it would be cool, and the buff you get from it is absolutely rediculous and it should last to level 85, though there will be higher DPS items i think the item is too cool not to get and use.

I also think an accomplishment of this magnitude will get me respect on my server as there are a lot of haters out there. We'll see though.

I will update this when there is more information on my progress

[Morx]

Good luck. I've recently come back to the game, and after playing since near release, I've never once actually had a legendary item despite being in many top server guilds.

I'd love to finally be able to get a legendary, but I may wait until Cata. I've switched out of my norm and am leveling a paladin, which I intend to level as Prot, and raid as Ret.

I love casters, but as we all know, melee are the ones that get the Legendary items.

Anyway, good luck. For me, Shadowmourne is out of reach considering how fearful I am of a green Cata item replacing it.

[Shodokan]

Good luck. I've recently come back to the game, and after playing since near release, I've never once actually had a legendary item despite being in many top server guilds.

I'd love to finally be able to get a legendary, but I may wait until Cata. I've switched out of my norm and am leveling a paladin, which I intend to level as Prot, and raid as Ret.

I love casters, but as we all know, melee are the ones that get the Legendary items.

Anyway, good luck. For me, Shadowmourne is out of reach considering how fearful I am of a green Cata item replacing it.

blue does @ 82 dungeon.

But the proc is rediculous and won't be replaced for a while, much like valynar has yet to be replaced even though it is 3 raid contents behind.

[Multibocks]

Damn looking forward to the updates!

[Velassra]

Waaaaaayyyyy too much time on your hands, but I'm waiting to hear how this goes too. Lol, good luck man.

[Shodokan]

Waaaaaayyyyy too much time on your hands, but I'm waiting to hear how this goes too. Lol, good luck man.

I did my first raid tonight, took me 3 hours to do 8 bosses, would have been 9

first 4
rotface, festergut (got bloods for 5k total)
dreamwalker
blood princes

I let the GDKP run leaders have my gold because i caused two wipes on blood queen which forced the group to stop. It was only enough to recoup 4/5 of the gold spent anywho and i feel they deserved it for letting me come with no acheive at all on ANY toon.
At this sort of ratio that is 15 hours raiding per week, which is far less than i had imagined it would take, and i enjoyed it minus them giving me shit for 5 boxing and saying i have no life etc.

It was priceless though...

me: i have no life? what's your /played on that toon to those of you whom are giving me shit?
person 1: 23 days
person 2: 50 days
person 3: 9 days
me: i have under 6 days played on each one of my toons, and you're giving me shit? YOU get a life.

[Tonuss]

I have never understood the rationale behind the "no life" argument. If I play a lot on a bunch of characters one at a time and show my overall played time, people are usually like "cool." But if I level up five characters in 1/3 the time of any of those other characters, I have no life. It's as bad as the people that assume that if I multibox, I should "get a job."

[zenga]

Wait ... did you box boodqueen with multiple ret pallies?

[Sajuuk]

Nice work on getting all those contacts. It's a shit-ton of work ahead of you, but good luck.

[Velassra]

I did my first raid tonight, took me 3 hours to do 8 bosses, would have been 9

first 4
rotface, festergut (got bloods for 5k total)
dreamwalker
blood princes

I let the GDKP run leaders have my gold because i caused two wipes on blood queen which forced the group to stop. It was only enough to recoup 4/5 of the gold spent anywho and i feel they deserved it for letting me come with no acheive at all on ANY toon.
At this sort of ratio that is 15 hours raiding per week, which is far less than i had imagined it would take, and i enjoyed it minus them giving me shit for 5 boxing and saying i have no life etc.

It was priceless though...

me: i have no life? what's your /played on that toon to those of you whom are giving me shit?
person 1: 23 days
person 2: 50 days
person 3: 9 days
me: i have under 6 days played on each one of my toons, and you're giving me shit? YOU get a life.

Nice job. I find some of these a hassle enough to single box. I wouldn't even try to multibox through them. Although I'd run my tank through a GDKP run if Horde on my server ever ran one.

Anyway, hope you didn't take my earlier post the wrong way; I was just busting balls