A sprint to InsanityFollow

I'm entering the final phase of my Insane plans. If you have reviewed the previous thread, you'd know that I've hit Exalted with Darkmoon Faire and Honored with Bloodsail, meaning that 1/4 of the requirements for Insane in the Membrane are completed. After forcing myself to sit and grind pirates for almost 4 hours yesterday outside of Ratchet, all of my Steamwheedle reputations are above Revered. My rogue is level 62 and officially living up to her name (Junkboxing). From here I enter the final stages. Here are my thoughts if anyone else is still going for this achievement.

1. Steamwheedle. I decided that, assuming Shen'dralar reputation is no issue and competition isn't fierce, the fastest way short of quests is grinding pirates outside of Ratchet. Doing this you make about 5k Ratchet reputation per hour, or 2.5k with all the others. It is mind-numbingly boring. But it exceeds the best gains you could hope to get in Dire Maul (even including ogre suits), and is loads better than Tanaris (where the enemies typically take two hits or a crit instead of one-shot... plus they are more spread out).

From here on in I've set my hearth to Feathermoon Stronghold and plan on grinding keys. I need 59 more to hit Exalted. It should be lowered to about 51-54 with the ogre suits, though.

2. Shen'dralar. I am exactly three librams away from hitting Exalted (19,500/21,000). And I have the three in my inventory. When I log on tonight I'll have this done. I also have the mats for one of each extra. Since I can turn in the Arcanums for Zandalar rep, I figure it might get some use.

3. Ravenholdt. I'm about 30% (6.5k/21k) done right now. My rogue can get 68 junkboxes, drop them off, and get back into LBRS in 50-55 minutes. So I still have a ways to go. Also, it sucks that Vanish totally fails if the enemies are on top of you. Getting eaten by 7 level 58 elites is a pain. I like LBRS better than Tyr's Hand because of the greater mob density and the guarantee of no competition. While I didn't ever see anyone else pickpocketing in Tyr's Hand, a few mobs seemed to have empty pockets and one time I saw a level 80 Orc rogue unstealth next to a lockbox and massacre a group of Crimson Crusaders.


Well, that's all for now. I hope to be Insane by the end of next month; I won't update until then. I did a lot of grinding last night, and while I still want to sprint, I think I might slow down a little bit; playing for 4 hours straight of doing the exact same thing is kind of tiring :-P

Anyone else getting close?

Oh, and I'll be getting The Exalted when I turn in the Arcanums for Zandalar rep at the end of this grind :D

I'm worried for you!

Nah, good luck!

When you get the achievement, Blizzard will send two goons to kick your *** out in the sun.

No, it's true.

What a great April fools joke that they pulled off on everyone...


Could you imagine?!

This. I can't spend more than about an hour at a time on it or I start falling asleep at the keys.

I listen to Coast to Coast AM(Streamlink member) or my friend's podcast. I still get bored and have to go work on something else.

This sentence in context of this thread is oh so lol.

See, I knew that I was normal and the rest of the world is crazy!


I have similar aspirations, but my timetable is far more ambitious. =P

Good luck on reaching your goal, there is talk of renaming a wing here in your honor.

I've started to see people in BGs with this title.. Makes my head spin.

Truth be told, while this title is cooler... I think Battlemaster is more impressive. It seems to be bugged right now, but anyone with that probably deserves more respect than Insane. I estimated that getting Exalted with WSG would take around 300 hours. And that's only ONE achievement needed for the meta for WSG needed for the meta for Battlemaster.

This is true, but really, people could have been working on Shen'dralar, Darkmoon, and Ravenholdt rep since vanilla as well. Actually, Shen'dralar was simpler back in the day since you could turn in class books multiple times. Even after completing this achievement, I doubt I put in 300 hours grinding Steamwheedle, Ravenholdt, bloodsail, and leveling a rogue. Maybe if you including farming items for gold for Darkmoon or buying librams for Shen'dralar... but again, that's for a single battleground.

Well, I guess I have my next goal set up!

How's the path to "Poldaran the Exalted" going? And why are we the only two up on a WoW forum at 2:30am EST on a Saturday morning?

Hai guize! Can i b a kewl kid 2?

So true... I'm waiting for one of my housemates to come back from picking up another one of our housemates from a party so we can finish Underworld 3. I might just go to sleep, though.