This story is kind of old (from March 2009), but all of my "Pilgrim Attire" and playing dress-up like I'm a real pilgrim in game reminded me of it:
After having tried Heroic Azjol Nerub a few times and failing epically on the first trash pull in the beginning (The poisons were INSANE), we decided we'd wait until our guild as a whole was a little better geared so we could just burn through it.
I sometimes like to dress up ...as previously mentioned...
So there I am, prancing around Darnassus in my "Lovely Black Dress" and I get whispered: "Des, will you tank H:AN? We've got an amazing group for it!"
My reply?: "Totally!"
They summon me, I plop into bear form, we buff up and blammo, we're ready to go! I pull the first group and it was like..."Destinae has died." almost instantly!
...hmm....something seems...wrong.....
The ret pally took over and the tree battle rezzed me, so I jump back into bear form and go at it again. Instantly dead again. So, everyone runs to the instance door, I release spirit and run back.
When we regrouped just inside the instance door, our shaman looks at me and says, "Des, what the hell are you wearing?"
I look at my character screen and reply: "Polar v...a...lovely...black...dress!!!....OMG I'm SO sorry!!!"
The group didn't even end up trying again. I got laughed at and 3 of 5 members left the group.
The one that left last says to me: "Well Des...at least I giggled. lol" and then left the group.
I was known for quite awhile as the "Black Dress Bear" =( It was like my own, personal scarlet letter...
I installed Outfitter the very next day. =) No more black dress oopsies for me!
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BTW- the Black Dress Tanking Incident still haunts me.
We PuG'd for H:UK per a friend's request (May 2009, literally almost 2 months after the Black Dress Tanking fiasco...). Everyone gets summoned and we're just inside the instance portal getting buffed and ready to go, I get a whisper that says...
Puggle: "Oh, hey! I thought your name looked familiar!"
Me: "Have we grouped before?"
Puggle: "Totally! I'm surprised you're not wearing your black dress today though..."
Me: "What??" (very long pause) "OH!!! omg!"
Puggle: "lol"
/sigh
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And if that's not bad enough...I recently met up with the shaman that had been a part of our group on that original fateful night. By recently I mean, this past weekend in a Trial of the Crusader (25) group. He giggled when he saw me and asked if I still kept the dress on hand. I advised that I had replaced it with the Pilgrim's Robe for now...but it has a very special spot in my bank...the nightmare continues...Sadly, the shaman is now a former guild mate as we both moved on from our original guild. He's gone onto a raid guild and I've taken on a guild of my own. =)
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"Yeah I ran with her, she's really fun...she tried to tank H:AN in a lovely black dress...LOLZ" ~Puggle
Monday, November 30, 2009
Mini-Vacation: Curses and Goodies!
Well, Friday night was fun. I got into Trial of the Crusader (25 man) with A.P. and Dae's guild. They made most of it look easy.
And then...
Faction Champions happened.
Every...single...group...I have EVER....been invited to stops at Faction Champions for one reason or another. I'm starting to believe there's a curse involved. (Kel'Thuzad, if you've got anything to do with this...just remember I know where you live!)
I've been through a handful of 10 man versions. All have stopped at Faction Champions. Either we hit it like a brick wall of wiping tragedy, or the group has predetermined that this is as far as we're going and they're not even going to attempt it.
Grrr...And Friday night was no exception. Stupid faction champions. It was the priest. The undead priest. EVIL! There were two undead priests, actually. One was of the "healing" sort. The other of the "psychic scream" sort.
So, the shadow priest would send us all running and while we were fleeing for our lives, the holy priest would top everyone off. *sigh* And the group I was with was really good. I think if we would have taken a bit more time to lay out a more solid strategy, it would have been ok, but people got really frustrated and just called it there.
So, I get ported back to Dalaran. I do my cooking daily then wander aimlessly around the city for a few minutes. And then I remember...
Oh Hey! My "mysterious egg" cracked today!
Mind you, I kept it in the bank because I'm working on Loremaster and keeping the bag slots open is really REALLY helpful. So I make my way to the bank.
I open the bag and I see a little proto-drake head icon in my bag. I was like "WOO COOL!!! I got the proto-drake whelp!!!" /cheer!
Wrong.
I got something so much cooler out of that egg...
Well HELL YEAH! I was pretty excited. Totally unexpected too. I was reasonably sure I was going to get another batch of stinky yolks or maybe some other random thing...Oh yes...very yes...
I was so excited.
I needed to take it for a test drive. You know what happened after that?
hehe The best part is that I had gotten the letter from Brann Bronzebeard before I had even completed the achievement and gotten the "achievement flash". If I had been thinking, I would have taken a quick screenshot with the explorer's tabard and title on the new proto-drake. But I wasn't thinking much about that.
I've been thinking more about this...
Almost there for Old World. I have 137 quest left to do. I'm getting a little anxious because from what I can tell, I only have the Plaguelands to finish (Eastern and Western), and I can't imagine there are 137 quests between the two of them. I could be wrong though. I didn't think there was going to be nearly 40 quests left for me at the end if Kalimdor, but there was. I'm also only 408 quests away from "The Seeker" title. I have 2592/3000 built up toward that. I think I'll probably have that knocked out long before I ever get back out to Northrend to finish my Loremaster tasks out there, but we shall see.
It was a busy little "long weekend" for me.
Well, I'm off to the "real world" now. If I think of any other fun updates, I'll stop by and post a quick note about them.
And then...
Faction Champions happened.
Every...single...group...I have EVER....been invited to stops at Faction Champions for one reason or another. I'm starting to believe there's a curse involved. (Kel'Thuzad, if you've got anything to do with this...just remember I know where you live!)
I've been through a handful of 10 man versions. All have stopped at Faction Champions. Either we hit it like a brick wall of wiping tragedy, or the group has predetermined that this is as far as we're going and they're not even going to attempt it.
Grrr...And Friday night was no exception. Stupid faction champions. It was the priest. The undead priest. EVIL! There were two undead priests, actually. One was of the "healing" sort. The other of the "psychic scream" sort.
So, the shadow priest would send us all running and while we were fleeing for our lives, the holy priest would top everyone off. *sigh* And the group I was with was really good. I think if we would have taken a bit more time to lay out a more solid strategy, it would have been ok, but people got really frustrated and just called it there.
So, I get ported back to Dalaran. I do my cooking daily then wander aimlessly around the city for a few minutes. And then I remember...
Oh Hey! My "mysterious egg" cracked today!
Mind you, I kept it in the bank because I'm working on Loremaster and keeping the bag slots open is really REALLY helpful. So I make my way to the bank.
I open the bag and I see a little proto-drake head icon in my bag. I was like "WOO COOL!!! I got the proto-drake whelp!!!" /cheer!
Wrong.
I got something so much cooler out of that egg...
I was so excited.
I needed to take it for a test drive. You know what happened after that?
hehe The best part is that I had gotten the letter from Brann Bronzebeard before I had even completed the achievement and gotten the "achievement flash". If I had been thinking, I would have taken a quick screenshot with the explorer's tabard and title on the new proto-drake. But I wasn't thinking much about that.
I've been thinking more about this...
Almost there for Old World. I have 137 quest left to do. I'm getting a little anxious because from what I can tell, I only have the Plaguelands to finish (Eastern and Western), and I can't imagine there are 137 quests between the two of them. I could be wrong though. I didn't think there was going to be nearly 40 quests left for me at the end if Kalimdor, but there was. I'm also only 408 quests away from "The Seeker" title. I have 2592/3000 built up toward that. I think I'll probably have that knocked out long before I ever get back out to Northrend to finish my Loremaster tasks out there, but we shall see.
It was a busy little "long weekend" for me.
Well, I'm off to the "real world" now. If I think of any other fun updates, I'll stop by and post a quick note about them.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Hello there, Pilgrim!
Well, I managed to sneak around and tag a bunch of rogues with my Turkey Shooter and get my Pilgrim's Bounty Meta last night (Including Plump Turkey Pet and "Destinae the Pilgrim" title). I feel really bad for the poor rogues. What a misery fest this must have been for you!
Just a quick nod of thanks to the rogues who were "good sports" about this. I know it must have been annoying. Thank you for putting up with us achievement hunters for the week. You guys rock!
So, thank you, from all of us Pilgrims.
At any rate, here's a picture of the new title and the plump turkey:
The suicidal turkey pet...Now, let me just say...When you receive this pet in your mailbox, he comes with a letter from Breanni asking you to watch over him and warning you to keep him away from fires because "he gets a strange look in his eyes."
Strange look in his eyes, you say?
Well, yeah. I guess if you could see his little face he might have a strange look in his eyes right before....
Ah HA! No spoilers here, thank you very much! I'll leave that to WoWhead and all these other sites to ruin the fun. I purposely avoided reading anything about the animations of this pet before getting it. I like the surprise.
Also, getting the Plump Turkey and the Tranquil Mechanical Yeti last night got me to 75 Companion Pets. I know...I'm so lame...But you know, I worked hard to get most of them. I mean, obviously some are from vendors only, but almost all of the world drop ones, I've farmed myself- with the exception of only a few that I have.
At any rate: Here's a screenie of the Fawn with Des in her Pilgrim's Dress.
Speaking of the Pilgrim's Dress...this is the first holiday where I've been able to get all of the available pieces of clothing from it. Hey, it's fun to put on something other than your armor once in awhile to roam around and pick flowers. I mean, I posted a screen shot of Des with her Guardian of Cenarius title- where she's wearing her Vestaments of Summer (or whatever they're called). Really cool looking dress. I happen to enjoy wandering around in that.
And thanks to Outfitter, I no longer accidentally attempt to tank or heal in my black dress...what...have I not told that story yet? Hmm, duly noted. I'll have to remember to tell you that story. It's definitely a part of the "Des Is Such a Noob" Chronicles. hehe
Just a quick nod of thanks to the rogues who were "good sports" about this. I know it must have been annoying. Thank you for putting up with us achievement hunters for the week. You guys rock!
So, thank you, from all of us Pilgrims.
At any rate, here's a picture of the new title and the plump turkey:
The suicidal turkey pet...Now, let me just say...When you receive this pet in your mailbox, he comes with a letter from Breanni asking you to watch over him and warning you to keep him away from fires because "he gets a strange look in his eyes."
Strange look in his eyes, you say?
Well, yeah. I guess if you could see his little face he might have a strange look in his eyes right before....
Ah HA! No spoilers here, thank you very much! I'll leave that to WoWhead and all these other sites to ruin the fun. I purposely avoided reading anything about the animations of this pet before getting it. I like the surprise.
Also, getting the Plump Turkey and the Tranquil Mechanical Yeti last night got me to 75 Companion Pets. I know...I'm so lame...But you know, I worked hard to get most of them. I mean, obviously some are from vendors only, but almost all of the world drop ones, I've farmed myself- with the exception of only a few that I have.
At any rate: Here's a screenie of the Fawn with Des in her Pilgrim's Dress.
Speaking of the Pilgrim's Dress...this is the first holiday where I've been able to get all of the available pieces of clothing from it. Hey, it's fun to put on something other than your armor once in awhile to roam around and pick flowers. I mean, I posted a screen shot of Des with her Guardian of Cenarius title- where she's wearing her Vestaments of Summer (or whatever they're called). Really cool looking dress. I happen to enjoy wandering around in that.
And thanks to Outfitter, I no longer accidentally attempt to tank or heal in my black dress...what...have I not told that story yet? Hmm, duly noted. I'll have to remember to tell you that story. It's definitely a part of the "Des Is Such a Noob" Chronicles. hehe
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Hasta la vista, Turkey!
Hasta la vista, Turkey?
Oh yes, another part of the Pilgrim's Bounty meta-achievement...fun, yes. Frustrating...also yes.
The Turkinator...
Here's the goal:
At increments of 10 kills you get a new "buff":
10 Turkeys = Turkey Hunter
20 Turkeys = Turkey Domination
30 Turkeys = Turkey Slaughter
40 Turkeys = Turkey Triumph
(Ok that might not be the correct order but...you get the point). I used this as kind of a benchmark to see where I was at without having to stare continuously at the buff.
Your best bet is to create a spammable macro. Something like...
Now, you run around spamming that macro and killing your turkeys. Don't be afraid to mount in between kills. With the macro above, you'll be targeting turkeys whether they're in range or not. You'll need to turn until you see the raid icon and get to the turkey before your buff wears off. For me, travel form was usually fast enough, but if the turkey was pretty far away, I mounted and ran to it just to make sure I got there before the buff wore off.
I did get the achievement last night...but until after nearly 2 hours of frustration. This particular achievement is really, really easy. Turkeys have 2 hit points. They're not level 83 mobs that you can miss. If you are in range, you're pretty much guaranteed to kill it if you hit it. So, where's the frustration coming from?
Ganking.
I had gotten to 32 kills, and a paladin wandered over, saw me running toward a turkey and killed it. I wouldn't have even missed a stride if it weren't for the fact that he targeted my character then /point and /laugh. Oh really now? I dashed off toward another turkey but arrived there a split second too late and lost my buff.
The inter-faction ganking is really sad. The jokes on the paladin that tried to mess with me though. I made his "achievement-getting" a little more...oh...let's say...exciting...last night. He had taken my kill 3 times and pointed and laughed. That's three times I got above 30 Turkeys and was soooo close and he messed with me. An eye for an eye, sir...an eye for an eye. In the "spirit" of the holiday, I made sure that he hadn't gotten his achievement yet, and then when he started working on it, I repaid the "favor". I got my 40 kills and followed him for a few moments..."helping" him get his kills. Gotta love ranged spells, eh?
Evil? Yes. Justified? Totally.
Actually, this achievement is frustrating enough without any griefing from any person of any faction...I had gotten to about 28 kills and was racing to get in range of the next turkey and lost my buff JUST as Moonfire hit, so I had to start over. Grrrrr!
The moral of the story though, is that if you're patient enough and can make your macro work for you, this isn't out of reach. It's totally doable, and actually it's a little fun.
Best tips? Try to do it outside of peak hours for your server (read: late at night or at the crack of dawn). Be patient and be prepared to work on this one for a little while. There are a bunch of useful macros and ROUTE MAPS (Alliance and Horde) on Wowhead.com - so definitely check those out if you're getting ready to give this a go. It also helps to drink a half a bottle of wine before you get started on this ... hehe
Oh yes, another part of the Pilgrim's Bounty meta-achievement...fun, yes. Frustrating...also yes.
The Turkinator...
Here's the goal:
Hunt enough Wild Turkeys quickly enough to gain Turkey Triumph.Seems easy enough. Right? Well, here's how this works...as soon as you kill your first Wild Turkey, you get a buff called Turkey Tracker. This buff lasts for 30 seconds. When you kill your next turkey, the buff refreshes. You have to kill 1 turkey every 29 seconds or less in order to keep the buff going and until you've racked up 40 kills.
At increments of 10 kills you get a new "buff":
10 Turkeys = Turkey Hunter
20 Turkeys = Turkey Domination
30 Turkeys = Turkey Slaughter
40 Turkeys = Turkey Triumph
(Ok that might not be the correct order but...you get the point). I used this as kind of a benchmark to see where I was at without having to stare continuously at the buff.
Your best bet is to create a spammable macro. Something like...
The bad news is that you must be in a group and be party leader (or be Assist in a raid group) in order to create the Raid Icons. Also, I found Skull to be rather difficult to see. I'd recommend that you use Diamond or Square, something that stands out a little better from the terrain./target Wild Turkey
/cleartarget [dead]
/script if GetRaidTargetIndex("target")==nil then
SetRaidTargetIcon("target",8) end
/cast Moonfire
Now, you run around spamming that macro and killing your turkeys. Don't be afraid to mount in between kills. With the macro above, you'll be targeting turkeys whether they're in range or not. You'll need to turn until you see the raid icon and get to the turkey before your buff wears off. For me, travel form was usually fast enough, but if the turkey was pretty far away, I mounted and ran to it just to make sure I got there before the buff wore off.
I did get the achievement last night...but until after nearly 2 hours of frustration. This particular achievement is really, really easy. Turkeys have 2 hit points. They're not level 83 mobs that you can miss. If you are in range, you're pretty much guaranteed to kill it if you hit it. So, where's the frustration coming from?
Ganking.
I had gotten to 32 kills, and a paladin wandered over, saw me running toward a turkey and killed it. I wouldn't have even missed a stride if it weren't for the fact that he targeted my character then /point and /laugh. Oh really now? I dashed off toward another turkey but arrived there a split second too late and lost my buff.
The inter-faction ganking is really sad. The jokes on the paladin that tried to mess with me though. I made his "achievement-getting" a little more...oh...let's say...exciting...last night. He had taken my kill 3 times and pointed and laughed. That's three times I got above 30 Turkeys and was soooo close and he messed with me. An eye for an eye, sir...an eye for an eye. In the "spirit" of the holiday, I made sure that he hadn't gotten his achievement yet, and then when he started working on it, I repaid the "favor". I got my 40 kills and followed him for a few moments..."helping" him get his kills. Gotta love ranged spells, eh?
Evil? Yes. Justified? Totally.
Actually, this achievement is frustrating enough without any griefing from any person of any faction...I had gotten to about 28 kills and was racing to get in range of the next turkey and lost my buff JUST as Moonfire hit, so I had to start over. Grrrrr!
The moral of the story though, is that if you're patient enough and can make your macro work for you, this isn't out of reach. It's totally doable, and actually it's a little fun.
Best tips? Try to do it outside of peak hours for your server (read: late at night or at the crack of dawn). Be patient and be prepared to work on this one for a little while. There are a bunch of useful macros and ROUTE MAPS (Alliance and Horde) on Wowhead.com - so definitely check those out if you're getting ready to give this a go. It also helps to drink a half a bottle of wine before you get started on this ... hehe
Monday, November 23, 2009
Pilgrimage
Pilgrim's Bounty has begun! What's cool about this holiday event is that you can get all but one of the achievements out of the way on the very first day.
Yesterday, I started working on it. It's pretty travel-intensive, requiring you to travel back and forth to each of your faction capitals a few times. Of course, I didn't plot the course in advance to be most efficient about this...so it took me a bit. I was also too stubborn to bring a mage friend along for the ride. A mage could be your best tool while doing these quests and the dailies. (If you manage to convince a mage to do this, be nice enough to buy him a stack of Runes of Teleportation, or at least tip him generously for his troubles.)
Within maybe an hour to an hour and a half, I had completed:
Food Fight!
Now We're Cookin'
Pilgrim's Paunch
Pilgrim's Progress
Sharing is Caring
Terokkar Turkey Time
Pilgrim's Peril
For Pilgrim's Peril, I have to say Undercity was the only one that required me to actually enter a horde city. They weren't making it easy, either. They had hunter's stationed near the tables with pets on aggressive, mages doing Arcane Explosion...No, they weren't killing you right off...but you can't take your seat if you're in combat. So maybe their pet raptor wasn't killing you, but it had you locked in combat so that you couldn't take a seat.
Fun. Luckily, I ended up finding a few Allies outside of the gates of Undercity that needed the achievement. We grouped up and kept running back until everyone had gotten it. Those of us that got it on the first run, we tried to distract the horde so our fellow allies could get their achieves. Once we all got to take our seat, we rezzed and got the hell outta there!
For you Hordies who haven't done it yet: Darnassus will, by far, be the tough one. I watched hordies come sit with us, unflagged, outside of Ironforge, Stormwind and The Exodar. But Darnassus, as I'm sure some of you already know, is a nightmare to get to. You have to get onto one of the boats in Auberdine (prompting the sentinels there to attack you).
Once you've done that, you'll need to survive the boat ride, make it past more Sentinels and then find your way to the far side of Darnassus, just outside of the gates leading to Dolanaar...Seems like hordies were running around the very outter edge of the city to avoid the huntress that patrols. I don't know. I did enjoy a little world PvP doing this.
But I digress...
Let's talk about the two that I didn't finish...
First, "The Turkinator"
It's totally and absolutely possible to do this on the first day if you're willing to tolerate a LOT of competition and frustration. All you have to do is find wild turkeys and slay them. You need to kill 40 within a "certain time frame".
Here's the nitty gritty: After you kill a few turkeys, you get a "turkey tracker" buff. No, it doesn't help you find them better...but it DOES allow you to see how many kills you have. As long as that buff stays up, your kills count toward the achievement. If you lose the buff, I think it makes you start over. I'm not sure. This is a brand new holiday achievement and I haven't had much time to do research. So far, I've found Elwynn Forest to have the most turkeys for the amount of area you'll have to cover to kill them all. They roam ALL over Elwynn. You can start on one of the far corners, with very little competition and work your way around. Unfortunately, on the first day of the holiday, this just wasn't going to happen for me. There were far too many people wandering about. So...I skipped this one.
And now..."Turkey Lurkey".
This one is not possible on the first day. In order to do this achievement, you need to obtain "Turkey Shooters". These are rewarded from the Pilgrim's Bounty Dailies available at the capital Cities. You need at least 8 turkey shooters. There are 5 dailies.
It's not possible the first day. I, personally, chose to get my Pilgrim's Robe and hat (and I got the shoes because I wasn't paying attention on my first turn-in...grrr), so that I could do the other achievements and get them out of the way. Now, all I have to do is my dailies for today and tomorrow, kill a bunch of turkeys, and shoot a bunch of rogues and I'll be done.
I am SO looking forward to using the Turkey Shooter on rogues. Rogues are the bane of my existence and the sole reason I rarely, if ever, pvp. Karma, dear rogues...Remember all of those times you left me stun-locked and unable to defend myself? Maybe you don't, but I sure do. I'm going to enjoy every single moment of this. Suffer well, rogues!
Yesterday, I started working on it. It's pretty travel-intensive, requiring you to travel back and forth to each of your faction capitals a few times. Of course, I didn't plot the course in advance to be most efficient about this...so it took me a bit. I was also too stubborn to bring a mage friend along for the ride. A mage could be your best tool while doing these quests and the dailies. (If you manage to convince a mage to do this, be nice enough to buy him a stack of Runes of Teleportation, or at least tip him generously for his troubles.)
Within maybe an hour to an hour and a half, I had completed:
Food Fight!
Now We're Cookin'
Pilgrim's Paunch
Pilgrim's Progress
Sharing is Caring
Terokkar Turkey Time
Pilgrim's Peril
For Pilgrim's Peril, I have to say Undercity was the only one that required me to actually enter a horde city. They weren't making it easy, either. They had hunter's stationed near the tables with pets on aggressive, mages doing Arcane Explosion...No, they weren't killing you right off...but you can't take your seat if you're in combat. So maybe their pet raptor wasn't killing you, but it had you locked in combat so that you couldn't take a seat.
Fun. Luckily, I ended up finding a few Allies outside of the gates of Undercity that needed the achievement. We grouped up and kept running back until everyone had gotten it. Those of us that got it on the first run, we tried to distract the horde so our fellow allies could get their achieves. Once we all got to take our seat, we rezzed and got the hell outta there!
For you Hordies who haven't done it yet: Darnassus will, by far, be the tough one. I watched hordies come sit with us, unflagged, outside of Ironforge, Stormwind and The Exodar. But Darnassus, as I'm sure some of you already know, is a nightmare to get to. You have to get onto one of the boats in Auberdine (prompting the sentinels there to attack you).
Once you've done that, you'll need to survive the boat ride, make it past more Sentinels and then find your way to the far side of Darnassus, just outside of the gates leading to Dolanaar...Seems like hordies were running around the very outter edge of the city to avoid the huntress that patrols. I don't know. I did enjoy a little world PvP doing this.
But I digress...
Let's talk about the two that I didn't finish...
First, "The Turkinator"
It's totally and absolutely possible to do this on the first day if you're willing to tolerate a LOT of competition and frustration. All you have to do is find wild turkeys and slay them. You need to kill 40 within a "certain time frame".
Here's the nitty gritty: After you kill a few turkeys, you get a "turkey tracker" buff. No, it doesn't help you find them better...but it DOES allow you to see how many kills you have. As long as that buff stays up, your kills count toward the achievement. If you lose the buff, I think it makes you start over. I'm not sure. This is a brand new holiday achievement and I haven't had much time to do research. So far, I've found Elwynn Forest to have the most turkeys for the amount of area you'll have to cover to kill them all. They roam ALL over Elwynn. You can start on one of the far corners, with very little competition and work your way around. Unfortunately, on the first day of the holiday, this just wasn't going to happen for me. There were far too many people wandering about. So...I skipped this one.
And now..."Turkey Lurkey".
This one is not possible on the first day. In order to do this achievement, you need to obtain "Turkey Shooters". These are rewarded from the Pilgrim's Bounty Dailies available at the capital Cities. You need at least 8 turkey shooters. There are 5 dailies.
It's not possible the first day. I, personally, chose to get my Pilgrim's Robe and hat (and I got the shoes because I wasn't paying attention on my first turn-in...grrr), so that I could do the other achievements and get them out of the way. Now, all I have to do is my dailies for today and tomorrow, kill a bunch of turkeys, and shoot a bunch of rogues and I'll be done.
I am SO looking forward to using the Turkey Shooter on rogues. Rogues are the bane of my existence and the sole reason I rarely, if ever, pvp. Karma, dear rogues...Remember all of those times you left me stun-locked and unable to defend myself? Maybe you don't, but I sure do. I'm going to enjoy every single moment of this. Suffer well, rogues!
Friday, November 20, 2009
Mission: Kalimdor
Mission: Kalimdor
Status: COMPLETED!
I'll just let the screenshot speak for itself...
Status: COMPLETED!
I'll just let the screenshot speak for itself...
Thursday, November 19, 2009
A Quick Thank You
Dear Amazing Friend,
Thank you!!!
With Great Love,
Des
No, I haven't gotten my Loremaster Title yet. But thanks to a really good friend, I'm now at 675/700 in Kalimdor. That's without even starting Eastern Kingdoms. So, why am I singing praise of The Mighty Mage? Well, for any of you who have experienced the zone, Silithus is a nightmare. For those of you who have not yet experienced the never-ending hell of Silithus...I wish you a lot of luck and hope you, too, have a good friend willing to come help you maintain some semblance of sanity as you grind through it.
Yes.
Grind.
You see, Silithus isn't like most other zones. Sure, Silithus has a few run-of-the-mill quests.
Like this:
1. Pick up quest.
2. Kill bugs until you get the brain.
3. Collect 3 Silithid Brains.
4. Return to Questgiver.
5. Watch your tracker bar move up one more toward your Loremaster yumminess!
That would be a normal quest.
However, Silithus also likes to throw in quests that require either a lot of amazing luck, require you to cram lucky charms and rabbits feet up your butt, or a WHOLE lot of grinding.
Take THIS group of quests for example...
1. Secret Communications: Bring 10 Encrypted Twilight Texts to Bor Wildmane in Cenarion Hold.
- This quest requires you to go out and kill Twilight Cultists until 10 of these Encrypted Twilight texts drop for you (or you can purchase them off the AH, but why leave the zone?) So you kill and kill and kill...after you've wiped out an ENTIRE COLONY of Twilight Cultists...you might have finally gotten your texts and can turn it in. Yes, the FIRST turn-in for this quest counts. Subsequent Turn-ins with the repeatable quest "Encrypted Twilight Texts" do NOT count.
2. Abyssal Contacts, Abyssal Scepter, Abyssal Signet, A Humble Offering, Dukes of the Council...
- I'm grouping these together because, well they all require you to grind the same thing: Twilight Cultists. You'll be looking for Twilight Trappings. This "Trappings" set consists of a Twilight Cultist Mantle, Twilight Cultist Robe, and Twilight Cultist Cowl. These items share a 6% drop rate. Yeah, and you are going to cry when you do some math to figure out how many you actually NEED...
You're looking at needing to grind out nearly 60 Trappings sets in order to complete all of the quests that involve the Cultists. At 6% drop rate...it's eternal. My math could also be very wrong. Bear with me - I did spend the evening in Silithus again last night, after all. My mind is a little fried.
It's completely doable, but like I said when grinding out the Guardian of Cenarius title...it is SO much nicer if you can bring a friend. Luckily, I have one friend that must love me more than anything else on the planet.
He was questing on his druid when I cried on his shoulder about not being able to get the Mantles to drop, and thus, would never be able to finish this stupid Loremaster thing...and I told him I was going to give up on it. It just wasn't worth it.
But, being the great friend he is (and one that I think ENJOYS watching me suffer and struggle a little, despite what he says), he switched over to his mage and arrived at my side in Silithus to help me get the accursed mantles to drop so I could FINALLY leave that zone.
Either he really adores me...
...or he really hates listening to me whine...
Maybe both...
At any rate, it took us a few hours worth of grinding, but by the gods we managed to get the drops needed together and turn everything in. I quite literally almost cried. I had been stuck in Silithus for 3 nights prior to this, praying for drops and grinding out these Twilight Trappings...and with his help it went so much quicker. Not only that, but he sang the FUN song to me...(for those of you not familiar with it, I'll post a video below for you hehe)
Things are so much easier to do with a friend by your side. So, Thank you again, Mighty, for saving my day again and refusing to allow me to give up! You're my hero!
Also...I might add, that after doing these quests I received a quest from Silithus that allowed me to leave that bug-hole and go to Moonglade for a much needed change of scenery. Lo and behold, friends, the quest I picked up from Rabine Saturna sends me back to Silithus.
I almost didn't pick the quest up for that reason alone. But, soon enough I'll be able to escape that zone and never have to face it again if I don't want to. And I owe it all to The Mighty Mage.
Current Progress:
Oh, and here's that video...Enjoy! (And thanks again MD *hugs!*)
Thank you!!!
With Great Love,
Des
No, I haven't gotten my Loremaster Title yet. But thanks to a really good friend, I'm now at 675/700 in Kalimdor. That's without even starting Eastern Kingdoms. So, why am I singing praise of The Mighty Mage? Well, for any of you who have experienced the zone, Silithus is a nightmare. For those of you who have not yet experienced the never-ending hell of Silithus...I wish you a lot of luck and hope you, too, have a good friend willing to come help you maintain some semblance of sanity as you grind through it.
Yes.
Grind.
You see, Silithus isn't like most other zones. Sure, Silithus has a few run-of-the-mill quests.
Like this:
1. Pick up quest.
2. Kill bugs until you get the brain.
3. Collect 3 Silithid Brains.
4. Return to Questgiver.
5. Watch your tracker bar move up one more toward your Loremaster yumminess!
That would be a normal quest.
However, Silithus also likes to throw in quests that require either a lot of amazing luck, require you to cram lucky charms and rabbits feet up your butt, or a WHOLE lot of grinding.
Take THIS group of quests for example...
1. Secret Communications: Bring 10 Encrypted Twilight Texts to Bor Wildmane in Cenarion Hold.
- This quest requires you to go out and kill Twilight Cultists until 10 of these Encrypted Twilight texts drop for you (or you can purchase them off the AH, but why leave the zone?) So you kill and kill and kill...after you've wiped out an ENTIRE COLONY of Twilight Cultists...you might have finally gotten your texts and can turn it in. Yes, the FIRST turn-in for this quest counts. Subsequent Turn-ins with the repeatable quest "Encrypted Twilight Texts" do NOT count.
2. Abyssal Contacts, Abyssal Scepter, Abyssal Signet, A Humble Offering, Dukes of the Council...
- I'm grouping these together because, well they all require you to grind the same thing: Twilight Cultists. You'll be looking for Twilight Trappings. This "Trappings" set consists of a Twilight Cultist Mantle, Twilight Cultist Robe, and Twilight Cultist Cowl. These items share a 6% drop rate. Yeah, and you are going to cry when you do some math to figure out how many you actually NEED...
You're looking at needing to grind out nearly 60 Trappings sets in order to complete all of the quests that involve the Cultists. At 6% drop rate...it's eternal. My math could also be very wrong. Bear with me - I did spend the evening in Silithus again last night, after all. My mind is a little fried.
It's completely doable, but like I said when grinding out the Guardian of Cenarius title...it is SO much nicer if you can bring a friend. Luckily, I have one friend that must love me more than anything else on the planet.
He was questing on his druid when I cried on his shoulder about not being able to get the Mantles to drop, and thus, would never be able to finish this stupid Loremaster thing...and I told him I was going to give up on it. It just wasn't worth it.
But, being the great friend he is (and one that I think ENJOYS watching me suffer and struggle a little, despite what he says), he switched over to his mage and arrived at my side in Silithus to help me get the accursed mantles to drop so I could FINALLY leave that zone.
Either he really adores me...
...or he really hates listening to me whine...
Maybe both...
At any rate, it took us a few hours worth of grinding, but by the gods we managed to get the drops needed together and turn everything in. I quite literally almost cried. I had been stuck in Silithus for 3 nights prior to this, praying for drops and grinding out these Twilight Trappings...and with his help it went so much quicker. Not only that, but he sang the FUN song to me...(for those of you not familiar with it, I'll post a video below for you hehe)
Things are so much easier to do with a friend by your side. So, Thank you again, Mighty, for saving my day again and refusing to allow me to give up! You're my hero!
Also...I might add, that after doing these quests I received a quest from Silithus that allowed me to leave that bug-hole and go to Moonglade for a much needed change of scenery. Lo and behold, friends, the quest I picked up from Rabine Saturna sends me back to Silithus.
I almost didn't pick the quest up for that reason alone. But, soon enough I'll be able to escape that zone and never have to face it again if I don't want to. And I owe it all to The Mighty Mage.
Current Progress:
Loremaster of Kalimdor: 675/700
Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms: 367/700
Terror of Terokkar: Complete
To Hellfire and Back: Complete
Mysteries of the Marsh: Complete
Nagrand Slam: 72/75
On the Blade's Edge: 11/86
Into the Nether: 113/120
Shadow of the Betrayer: 20/90
Nothing Boring About Borean: Complete
I've Toured the Fjord: Complete
Might of Dragonblight: Complete
Into the Basin: Complete
The Empire of Zul'Drak: 63/100
The Summit of Storm Peaks: 64/100
Fo' Grizzle My Shizzle: 1/85
Icecrown: The Final Goal: 11/140
The Seeker: 2348/3000Well, it's easy to see I've got my work cut out for me. Eastern Kingdoms, from what I hear is going to be quite a bit easier than Kalimdor. I'd like to think I've conquered the hardest part of the journey so far, and that the rest will go a bit quicker. But even if it doesn't...I've now endured the hell that is grinding in Silithus twice now...I can't imagine there's anything worse out there.
Oh, and here's that video...Enjoy! (And thanks again MD *hugs!*)
Monday, November 16, 2009
Masochism at its Finest
The title most assuredly describes what it's like to work on the Loremaster achievement. I started working on it for awhile Friday and have been working on it since. What a grind! I've heard through a great many people that, at least for the Alliance, Kalimdor is definitely the harder of the two Old World continents to knock out. Well, I started at 444/700 for Kalimdor on Friday and ended last night at 595/700. 105 more quests to go.
So, that's not that many, right? I mean 105 out of 700? Should be easy, right?
Well, yes, except that all I really have left is one zone I didn't quest in much at all, and the rest are zones I know I've quested through.
I've learned a few things, both through researching the achievement and through actually working on it.
1. It doesn't matter where the quest starts, it will count toward the total number of quests for the zone you COMPLETE it in. So, if you have a quest-giver in Darkshore that asks you to collect 2,000 Thresher Eyes and deliver them to some chubby dwarf in Ironforge- then that particular quest will count toward your Eastern Kingdoms total.
2. Repeatable, class, and profession quests don't count. Right. It would be pretty nice if they did, but alas...dear friends...they don't appear to count so far.
3. "Track Low Level Quests", Cartographer, and Questhelper are your friends! If you don't have the two add-ons...GO. GET. THEM. Best advice I can give. Also, many of these "loremaster achievement addons" don't really seem to do much other than to track the quests you complete, and tell you whether or not the quest you're on will count toward your achievement. That seems like a waste of memory space to me. I've bypassed them so far.
4. Learn to love (and live on) WoWhead. Wowhead has this nifty feature, where, if you look up a zone, you can have it show your faction's quest givers on the map. Totally beneficial! I found two quests in Feralas that I didn't do on my previous run through the zone with this feature. Two quests might not be much NOW, but suppose I find 2-3 quests in each zone that I had missed? Yeah, it'll add up.
I won't deny that I'm pretty excited. I've done 151 quests in the matter of a few days and nearly finished off one entire continent. I might take a break from Kalimdor and start on Eastern Kingdoms though.
Since some of the quests that start in Eastern Kingdoms will ultimately lead me back to Kalimdor to count for that zone anyway, it might be nice to change gears for a little while. One could hope, right?
I'll keep updating as I make the journey through this Loremaster thing. And you know, read the quest texts. That's what Loremaster is all about. The stories are actually really cool, and it gives you something to think about while you're battling the ridiculously low drop rates of the old world quests =)
So, that's not that many, right? I mean 105 out of 700? Should be easy, right?
Well, yes, except that all I really have left is one zone I didn't quest in much at all, and the rest are zones I know I've quested through.
I've learned a few things, both through researching the achievement and through actually working on it.
1. It doesn't matter where the quest starts, it will count toward the total number of quests for the zone you COMPLETE it in. So, if you have a quest-giver in Darkshore that asks you to collect 2,000 Thresher Eyes and deliver them to some chubby dwarf in Ironforge- then that particular quest will count toward your Eastern Kingdoms total.
2. Repeatable, class, and profession quests don't count. Right. It would be pretty nice if they did, but alas...dear friends...they don't appear to count so far.
3. "Track Low Level Quests", Cartographer, and Questhelper are your friends! If you don't have the two add-ons...GO. GET. THEM. Best advice I can give. Also, many of these "loremaster achievement addons" don't really seem to do much other than to track the quests you complete, and tell you whether or not the quest you're on will count toward your achievement. That seems like a waste of memory space to me. I've bypassed them so far.
4. Learn to love (and live on) WoWhead. Wowhead has this nifty feature, where, if you look up a zone, you can have it show your faction's quest givers on the map. Totally beneficial! I found two quests in Feralas that I didn't do on my previous run through the zone with this feature. Two quests might not be much NOW, but suppose I find 2-3 quests in each zone that I had missed? Yeah, it'll add up.
I won't deny that I'm pretty excited. I've done 151 quests in the matter of a few days and nearly finished off one entire continent. I might take a break from Kalimdor and start on Eastern Kingdoms though.
Since some of the quests that start in Eastern Kingdoms will ultimately lead me back to Kalimdor to count for that zone anyway, it might be nice to change gears for a little while. One could hope, right?
I'll keep updating as I make the journey through this Loremaster thing. And you know, read the quest texts. That's what Loremaster is all about. The stories are actually really cool, and it gives you something to think about while you're battling the ridiculously low drop rates of the old world quests =)
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