Awesome People Deserve Props!

Three Mounts - One Night

He'll probably never read this, but Worgenlock, you're awesome.  He's been letting me tag along while he collects his dinosaur bones to get pets and I got an egg a few days back.  It hatched into a red primal raptor,  which is way cool!  Then, after the hatching was over, he persuaded me to try Sartharion (25) 3D, and we did it, and I got the Twilight Drake!  Before that, we did the timed Zul'Aman run and I got the war bear he is riding in this picture.  Three mounts!  He was up for trying for a blue drake, or even smacking Onyxia around, but I am really tired.  So, goodnight Azeroth and Earth.  Catch you tomorrow.

Shadow Priest Kills Viscidus!

Got an ice pick?

I have this thing where I don't like asking for help, especially if it is remotely possible that I can do it myself.  I had to ask for help with the Twin Emperors, because I still haven't figured out how to manage the both of them.  I have, however, found a way past Mr. "1 HP and Not Dying".  That's right, I have killed Viscidus not once, but now twice, on two different shadow priests with different gear but slightly similar tactics.

The strategy seems simple enough.  Freeze him with frost attacks, take his health down with regular attacks until he is at 1 HP, then freeze him one last time and shatter him with fast attacks.  The getting him down to 1 health point was easy, as well as freezing him thanks to Mind Spike.  My problem was being able to attack him fast enough to shatter him.  I tried to use my spell dagger and my shadow fiend.  That didn't work.  I knew I would need faster and more attackers.  So, I headed back to my farm, after freezing him down so I could hearth, to think about what I could do do take this problem out.  Delgada had a dagger stashed away she found hidden in bushes and a guardian she put together with the help of Brann Bronzebeard.  Surely these would be enough!  She headed back to An Qiraj (40) and tried her luck.  It worked!  Apparently, her camera was not working, so Halinka, having heard of her success, decided to venture forth with her auction house special(of the Marksman), her Timberling and her Mechanical Yeti.  It was a little tougher to take him down, since her gear level is so much lower, but the strategy Delgada employed worked for her up until the last.  Would it work with what she had?  She froze him one last time and unleashed her small army on him, stabbing him with vigor (and venom).  Would she shatter the gooey blob?  Would she be victorious?

...and then...

Dance Party!

Halinka and her rag tag party of misfits took that snotty monster down!  He even left behind a baby snot monster for her to sell (since Delgada already had one).  Success!  I now return you to your regular news cast already in progress...

Random Screenshots with Dialogue.

Storm brewing over Stormstout Brewery.

I guess the popular description for what I have been doing in WoW is faffing.  From reading it in other posts and looking it up on the internet, I get the meaning of faffing to be basically doing a lot but not really getting anywhere doing it.  I have a relative or friend somewhere I heard call it fiddle farting around, which is pretty much exactly what I have been doing in game.  There is just so much to do in game right now, and I am still working until Wednesday this coming week, so my time in game, though not severely limited, is really broken up by kids needing taxi service, maid service, cook service, and psychotherapy. They are already out of school for the summer, and my seven year old is already bored out of her mind.  My teenagers are like that storm above, ready to break but waiting for just the right time.  My guess is that Thursday will be the day I throw them all out to the curb and lock the door to save my sanity.  Let it rain outside.  I'm on vacation!

Don't let the peaceful look fool you.

Cross realm Darkmoon Faire is very festive and busy.  I love it!  Say what you will about kill stealing and resource hogs, cross realm zones are alive and take me back to when I first started playing.  I'm not so much into leveling new characters anymore *cough* saved Pandalones on a server yesterday, don't judge me *cough*, so when I do I like having other players around in the world, moving in unpredictable ways and doing things that aren't governed by a program.  It makes me feel less alone when I am off on my own, faffing.

Because owls are cool.

While flying to Silithus to go finish farming for my Vestments of the Oracle, I stopped to dig up artifacts in the Ruins of Eldre'thar.  Such a neat area full of lore, if you just hang out and read the conversations happening all around you.  The ruins are full of ghostly high elves (in night elf form) talking about and enacting events that happened in the time when Azshara was courting demons from the Burning Legion.  It is a pretty regular dig site for me, and I always eavesdrop when I dig there.

Carlatta of Cenarius in her new gear.

I have the shoulders and belt for this transmog set, but I decided I liked the dragons from the crafted PvP set better, so they stay.  She finally hit 90 (I guess that means not all my time was frittered away doing nothing), and she is working on gear.  I love that the increased reputation gain crossed over servers, as I thought that was only for the server you originally purchased it on.  Hoorah for not having to work so hard at leveling a reputation on more time!  She got to revered with the Klaxxi in one day of questing.  If I hadn't cut her off, she would still be down there with the bugs, dancing and wearing the crown of shame for hitting Exalted with a race that, frankly, really only tolerates her for her very limited skill set.

That is not all I have been doing, but I have another post coming really quickly on the heels of this one.  I just couldn't bear to let those screenshots sit and grow stale in their folder on my computer.  Hope your time in Azeroth has been more productive, or at least as fun, as mine.  Here's hoping I run into some of you in the world!

Crawling Through Celestia

My favorite spell.

Rowan and I have been slowly, painfully working our way through Celestia.  I don't level at the pace most do, and any friends I have on my friends list, excluding real life friends, have forgotten who I am by the time I log in next.  So, this means a lot of solo work.  The mobs in Celestia are pretty tough, and until I started stacking my deck with damage and weeding out a bunch of superfluous healing spells (Rebirth, I'm talking about you, and Unicorn, you too), my time was spent running back from the base camp gathering health and mana blobs.

So, I threw out my fire spells.  What?!  Rowan is a life wizard with fire as a secondary, and doesn't have that fantastic neck piece that allows her to use her power pips for fire spells.  So, when I have 4 power pips, I really don't enjoy using a fire spell and wasting the potential for a second spell.  Instead, I stacked her with blades and traps, the max amount of each of her heavier hitting damage spells (yay for Centaur and Seraph), and cut my heal spells down to two of each that were most efficient (Satyr, Sprite and Regenerate), and pretty much said goodbye to the rest.  I still know them, they're just not in my rotation. Those finny baddies started falling really fast!  Well, the first quest went by quickly due to a mass port to my location by a group of people who were probably just trying to figure out who I was, and it was painful for one in that I had no healing spells when he expired during the first few hits of a fight.  They ported away shortly after I had closed in on the last few teeth needed for a quest, but by then my strategy was set and the rest of the quests were much easier.

Bad Dog...s?

You can almost make out the boss I am working on under Orthrus chin.  Here is a better picture of him.

Unimatus

He was a fun fight full of large, colorful spells.  I made it through pretty easily, and moved through the quests to kill Selwyn Skywatcher, a weird alien looking creature, after that. After a few more quests, none harder than a puzzle or a fetch and carry, Rowan was sent to the surface.  Ahh, fresh air!

What next?

There is where I left Rowan, standing perplexed in front of totems that looked like platypus people.  She is supposed to gather something from some water elementals.  We'll get back to that soon.  Right now, I think she has earned a little rest from the rigors of underwater fighting.  Nothing better than the tropical clime to warm up cold, brine soaked bones!

Have you been travelling the Spiral?  Leave me a note below and tell me about it!  I'd love to hear of some other far away worlds!

Fun With A Draenei.

Halinka fighting against bad snow trolls with her new besties.

This week I have been working on getting Halinka geared up so she can hang out cross realm with some of my meetup friends.  I knew there was a quest chain that gave item level 502 boots, since I had just completed it with Delgada, so Halinka headed for Lorewalker Cho's favorite hangout, the top of Mogushan Palace. She started the quest chain by running the Blood in the Snow scenario, then it was off to do a heroic dungeon with Justsuckit and Spaminacan.

Doesn't matter the faction, I will never get the hang of this fight.

Directly after this instance, Halinka ran the next scenario, as a goblin.

I swear this dress looks good on any female character.

Another easy victory, Halinka then checked back in with Cho, who told her to meet up with someone in the Shrine of Seven Stars to gain passage to Ratchet.  Because she is naive and does anything anyone tells her to do, she met the gnome and took a transporter to Ratchet. From there she had to meet up with some SI:7 agents near Orgrimmar.  This is the closest she has ever been to Horde territory.  Thankfully, I remembered I was controlling an Alliance toon and did not take her for the scenic and rather bloody tour.  She met up with Sully "the Pickle" and some random human female, scouted around with a mechano-stealth kitty, and reported her findings.  They sent her to the outskirts of Razor Hill to speak with a troll (!!) who decided to trust her long enough to chat with Zul'jin.

She made enough of an impression on Zul'jin that he let her gather some supplies for his army, and then Chen Stormstout sent her back to Pandaria to talk to an old wise man.  She hauled his old, half crippled butt up to a shrine on Neverest where he revealed his true form, then gave her her new boots.  Hurrah!

She is still under the item level needed for the raid finder, but she has three purple quality items, which makes me feel a little better.  Hanging out in the Barrens seems like a good idea in case she gets a drop she can use, all the while using the heroic dungeons to their fullest.  I'm hoping when summer finally happens for me that she will be ready to play with my friends!