{"id":481,"date":"2010-01-11T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2010-01-11T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:42:32","slug":"i-am-victorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/i-am-victorious\/","title":{"rendered":"I am victorious!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:52am, I dropped my 450 mining.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kurn.martindaley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dropmining.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-482\" title=\"dropmining\" src=\"http:\/\/kurn.martindaley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dropmining-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I picked up skinning.<\/p>\n<p>At 9:11am, I hit 450 skinning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kurn.martindaley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/skinning450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-483\" title=\"skinning450\" src=\"http:\/\/kurn.martindaley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/skinning450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/skinning450.jpg 359w, https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/skinning450-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kurn.martindaley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/skinning4502.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-484\" title=\"skinning4502\" src=\"http:\/\/kurn.martindaley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/skinning4502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/skinning4502.jpg 335w, https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/skinning4502-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the gold ads on the site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow-professions.com\/wowguides\/wow-skinning-guide.html\" target=\"_blank\">this is the guide I used<\/a>. Comprehensive, good use of map images. I&#8217;m very happy with it. Of course, it helped to know three things:<\/p>\n<p>1) I had +10 skinning from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/?item=12709\" target=\"_blank\">Finkle&#8217;s Skinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2) I had +5 skinning from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/?spell=44506\" target=\"_blank\">Enchant Gloves &#8211; Gatherer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3) Once you hit 415 skinning, you can skin any mob in the game, since that&#8217;s what allows you to skin level 83s. Anything beyond that is just for the 40 crit strike rating you get for maxing it out.<\/p>\n<p>So when I hit 350, I headed to Northrend, knowing I could skin anything in Borean. By 390, I went, as the guide suggested, to Sholazar. And then I did the math. When I hit 400, I went to Storm Peaks and started killing dragons and rhinos. Good times!<\/p>\n<p>I even went on a run to Heroic Violet Hold (dragons! Skinning of dragons! Unfortunately, there was a lame druid who was skinning for all he was worth and I missed several opportunities.) in an effort to keep skilling up.<\/p>\n<p>Amusing conversation from that run:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/drums.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-485\" title=\"drums\" src=\"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/drums.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every time I get into a group with a paladin, which is often, I spam that macro. MOST of the time I get it off in time for the paladin to notice before he or she starts buffing. I try to save on people&#8217;s symbols of kings. :P<\/p>\n<p>Anyways. 450 skinning. So THERE, Fad. Toldja! ;D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:52am, I dropped my 450 mining. And I picked up skinning. At 9:11am, I hit 450 skinning. Despite the gold ads on the site, this is the guide I used. Comprehensive, good use of map images. I&#8217;m very happy with it. Of course, it helped to know three things: 1) I had +10 skinning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professions","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}