on 56

Zhered hit 56 last night.  not a huge milestone in and of itself, but we used the need to hit a capital city for training as an excuse to buy a port to shatt and then sprint over to hellfire (no deaths; yay us!) to pick up master tailoring and herbalism.  we mostly did it for herbalism because we're running around in zones that have yellow and orange difficulty herbs now and we hit 300 herbalism a few levels back.  no point in letting all those potential skill-ups go to waste!

we still need a fat pile of runecloth to continue working on tailoring (we're just now starting to kill mobs that actually drop it and AH prices are about double what they should be, so meh); stuck at 282, right now.  our goal is to hit 375 tailoring and have our frozen shadoweave set waiting for us by the time we hit 70.  we have our shadoweave tailor working on churning out [Shadowcloth] as often as her CD is up (one of the up-sides to having a chronic case of altoholism). Z will take up shadoweave tailoring as well once he gets high enough in skill & level and then we'll be churning out the equivalent of 1 shadowcloth per day.  we're also making all of the other specialty cloths as cooldowns permit; we can trade/sell them for yet more shadowcloth as needed or use them to offset the cost of some spellstrike goodies later on.

we're burning through primals like they're goin' outta style. each round of speciality cloth production takes a total of 1 [Primal Mana], 1 [Primal Water], 1 [Primal Life], 1 [Primal Shadow] and 2 [Primal Fire]s and we do that every four days (we'll be doing it every 2 days once Z learns how to make them all as well). we also have to horde 38 [Primal Water]s for crafting our frozen shadoweave set. some mote farming and mining on Harl have been providing enough primals to keep up with the cloth production so far, but the 38 primal waters is going to require some dedicated farming in the not-so-distant future. ugh.