Cenarion Circles

Alright, so I started a new project Wednesday night. I decided I wanted to get my Guardian of Cenarius title. It's pretty fitting, considering I'm a druid. That, and I like nifty titles that not many people are masochistic enough to grind out for themselves. Wednesday night, I started the grind at around 5100/6000 Friendly and ended at 1030/12000 Honored.

That's a few hundred Twilight Cultist kills, if you're wondering.

I had planned ahead for the grind. I knew the kills would grant reputation with Cenarion Circle until at least Revered. So, I purchased about 220 Encrypted Twilight texts, knowing that if I just killed cultists for rep until I hit revered, I would need 420 texts total to just turn in to get from 0/21000-Revered to Exalted.

I assumed I'd be able to get the remaining 200 or so from kills.

Anyway...I was happily kill grinding when another Ally came over to do the same. A human DK. I asked him to please group with me, as I was only here for the rep and would give him whatever drops he wanted except for the texts. Surprisingly, he agreed. The kill grind goes a LOT faster with more than one person. That's for sure. We were there for nearly an hour together before he decided he'd had enough and was going to log.

I couldn't blame him.

It's a really, really, agonizingly long grind. Agonizingly....long....grind....

Anyway, I kept on with my grinding. I felt bad for missing our guild's 10 man Naxx run, but...I had a good reason for just toughing out the rep grind. I know for a fact, if I would have left the zone, I probably wouldn't have come back to finish it. Ever. And I really want this title...so...I passed on the raid and stuck with my monotonous grind. (To my guild: I'm sorry. I promise I'll make it up to you.)

I was there all night. Toward the end of the evening, close to 10pm Server time...one of my guildies decided to join me with his mage. Again, the kill grind started to move along a lot faster. As it turns out, he was just over 8500/21000 Revered with Cenarion Circle as well.

Oh, you bet. We were both running this marathon to the bitter end. After another hour or so of kill grinding- I told him we should go turn in the texts, since I was reasonably sure I'd be able to hit exalted and have some texts to spare for him to do the same.

I hit exalted with 70 texts to spare and traded them to him. He was about 60 texts short of exalted, so I switched to my DK, ran to the Auction House and bought a stack of 57 of the texts. Expensive, but the least I could do to repay him for coming out and helping me get through it.

We both hit Exalted. It...was...awesome!

Now to grind out Cenarion Expedition rep. I'm currently at 2154/21000, which is a metric furkton closer than I was with Cenarion Circle. I mean, I started at Friendly with the Circle. I'm starting off on Revered with the Expedition.

I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to grind the rep just yet. I've heard a few different ideas. One would be farming Lackey Ears in Northrend. The other is to farm Steamvault for armaments and kill rep. Considering I haven't soloed Steamvault yet, I'm probably going to give that a try, just to see how it goes. It should be kinda fun :)

Lord knows I'll try and solo just about anything. If Mar is interested in running together, it'll make the instance so much quicker and easy to get through. Makes the time investment for rep more valuable than struggling with it alone for hours at a time, right?

Anyway, after making a million Cenarion Circles worth of kills, I'm a very happy druid today. I'm an exalted Cenarion Circler. Now...to make it up to the guild...

Halfway! I'm halfway to my new title: Destinae: Guardian of Cenarius! WEWT!

After I posted this image, I realized that I'm going to be getting two achievements at the same time! 20 Exalted Reputations AND my new title! That's SO AWESOME!!!!