Funktea ran Babbaganooosh’s alt priest (Babba) thru Gnomergan last night and pickup up a TON of silk cloth. We were going to leave it on the bodies when I remembered the war effort and decided we should turn it in for that. WooT!
However, no one is yet able to enter the AQ instance, as there’s a special world event needed to open the gates on each server. This became clear while roaming through Ironforge (on the Alliance side), as a new group of NPCs roam the Military Ward collecting various materials for the war. Bandages, herbs, cooking items and metal bars are all being collected, with serverwide quotas for each (the Alliance, for example, collectively needs to turn in 90,000 copper bars). Players recieve small rewards for turn-ins as well as a small commendation, and a Horde NPC resides in the Military Ward to keep players apprised of how close the opposite faction is to meeting their quotas. Assumedly, once all the war effort quotas are met, the world event to open the gates will be one step closer to happening.
Located in the military ward of IF are lots of new NPCs that you turn your items into for the alliance-side efforts to open the portal to AQ. I found the silk cloth nurse and started whipping them out. I made 166 bandages for the first round of donating - all from the Gnomer trip. And boy do people think smelting takes awhile. Each time you turn in a stack of 20 bandages you receive a box (that contains a green and a scroll spell) and tokens to up faction or get nifty things. These are both low level but the greens are great to DE and I sent all the spells to Babba to use.
Since I ended up with an odd number, I bought some silk on the AH for a 1g BO for 20 to round my numbers off and headed back for more donating. All told I donated around 275-300. Not bad at all!
You can also turn in runecloth bandages but I save the runecloth to make bags, etc.
On the Blackhand server the guys from Fight have made a nice little table that they’re updating daily:
http://www.s-seriesforum.com/surgie/ahnqiraj.gif
Compare Progress with other servers:
by Administrator, on January 6 2006 @ 10:08 am
Ten commendation signets net a 75 point reputation bonus so turn those items in and help open the AQ portal!
I continued in my war efforts last night and turned in 40 runecloth bandages and after a quick run through VC I turned in 60 linen bandages. I DE’d the items I won and got a ton of strange dust and several more useful shards and essences.
by Warcraft Experience » Blog Archive » Monitor AQ War Efforts, on January 7 2006 @ 4:58 pm
[…] A large number of sites are springing up monitoring individual servers’ progressions towards their total. There are also efforts to monitor every server thanks to a UI addon, so help your server become the first to open the gates! (Note, the list is probably slightly out of date because it only updates via people with the addon.) Not for you? Blizzard has an official server-wide tracker in place to allow people to see how they compare to other servers. Check it out. Learn more about how you can contribute to the war effort on your server. […]