Well, I suppose this update is a little overdue. I haven't had the time to post recently which has been bugging me quite a bit, so I decided I'd post today come hell or high water.
If you're wondering, both hell and high water are currently trying to prevent me from posting today. *digs herself out of a mountain of paperwork* Just thought I'd share...
Anyway...
I have a riddle for you.
"I'm Swift. I'm Zulian. I'm a tiger. What else am I?"
DES'S NEW MOUNT! WAAHOOOOOOO!
Sunday was the strangest day I've had in a long time. I woke up with this nagging feeling that I wanted to run Zul'Gurub. I wanted to run it ALL day long. I wandered around the house, did a little laundry, worked on some music stuff with my husband and still wanted to run it really, really bad! Finally, around 8pm I convinced him to join a group with me so we could at least try to get one of the mounts.
Out of habit, we took on Bloodlord Mandokir first. No raptor. I was a little bummed because I know my husband would like to get the two mounts from ZG also and I had seriously hoped it would drop for him. No such luck though...
After that we made our way over to High Priest Thekal. With my husband's kitty dps, the fight was pretty quick...and then...
I think I might have actually shed a tear of joy when this popped up...I kid you not. Obviously I rolled need on it, and really expected my husband to do the same. Unfortunately...or well...fortunately I guess for me...he passed on it. He said that it was the least he could do considering how obsessively I've been farming mounts for the past few months. He's so sweet. If you're wondering, yes, I would have passed for him too. I asked him about 300 times if he wanted to change his mind before I learned the mount - to the point where he got really annoyed at me asking and told me to shush up and learn the damn thing already. So I did.
It will forever be one of my favorite mounts - not only because of the fact that it's a rare drop and a much coveted mount...but because my husband was so sweet and gave it to me. I'm sure it killed him a little inside. It made me a little sad that we didn't just roll for it like we're supposed to. I don't have a problem farming for mounts and it's nice to be able to go tank stuff and have him get nifty things too. I'll have to start badgering him about going on mount runs with me.
At any rate, the only "old world" mount I have left to snag from a raid or instance is the one from Karazhan. That's going to go much more slowly on account of only being able to go in there once a week. I'm hoping that it drops before the expansion hits.
As far as my Mountain O' Mounts achievement, I'm currently at 90/100. I need to farm up some gold to start making more mount purchases. There are few I could get soon, but I need to first get my tier 10 upgrades and gem and enchant those - and that's not gonna be cheap, unfortunately. Speaking of which, I need to go update my mount tracker list.
* Here's the link to the mount tracker I posted earlier: ALLIANCE MOUNT LIST (that doesn't require ridiculously amazing raid groups/raid achieves)
* Here's the link to the mount tracker I posted earlier: ALLIANCE MOUNT LIST (that doesn't require ridiculously amazing raid groups/raid achieves)
I will post some screen shots when I get home hopefully of the tiger and that sexy little achievement flash :)
With love,
Des
Grtz Des !!!
ReplyDeletebtw Kara is not old world :p
Well, BC but it's located on the "old world" continent.
ReplyDeleteI could have been clearer and said that it's the only soloable raid/instance mount drop that I've got left go get. WotLK stuff probably won't be soloable even in Cataclysm...unless 5 levels makes THAT much of a difference in gear.