Luck Be a Lady...(A Really NICE Lady!)

Well, things have calmed down a little IRL, so I've been able to play a bit more. Our guild is pretty much inactive lately. Stay tuned for an upcoming guild change...Sad, but true. I want to be raiding...but we're not and it makes me sad...but I digress. That's not why I'm here today.

No. I'm here today to explain why my most cherished Horde kitty friend hates me. Recently, I've had an incredibly lucky streak.

I'm one of those players that will go on random mount farming binges. Sunday afternoon I logged in for a little while. The first thing I did was tell my beloved Paper Towel (go read the archives for the explanation on his nickname) that Baron Rivendare was GOING to drop the reins to his Deathcharger today. Period. End of discussion. It was going to happen. I wasn't taking NO for an answer.

I ran through the instance twice. No mount drops. I was a little frustrated, but decided I'd take a quick break and log into an alt to take a break from staring at the scourgies. While I was on my alt, my husband asked if I wanted to run Vault of Archavon with him. I love that raid, so I switched over. I got the raid invite and figured I'd run Stratholme again to see if the mount would drop while I waited for the group to fill.

I got the 3 ziggurats down and made my way for the Slaughterhouse, totally expecting no mount to drop. Fought my way through to Baron Rivendare, pwnd him...and looted.

O.O I couldn't believe my eyes. My husband was sitting next to me, but I couldn't even say anything. I just looted it, hearthed and got my achievement... and onward ho!

Let me just say that I was incredibly lucky with this drop. INCREDIBLY lucky. I know a handful of people who religiously farm this instance and have run nearly 200 times and still have not seen this thing drop. I would guess that they improved the drop rate, except that my friends are still farming for this guy. Good luck to all of you who are trying for it. It's definitely a cool mount to have.

A funny story comes to mind, and this might help redirect some of the hatred I'm feeling from some friends who are currently trying to get this thing to drop. When I started farming this at 70, I had run the instance nearly 20 times and my Paper Towel asked what I was doing. When I explained that there was a mount in there that I was trying to get, he thought it might be fun to try for it himself. He got it on his 6th run. It took me 42 runs. So...=P

Monday, I was incredibly sick. I don't know where it came from but I had the nastiest cold I've had in a long, long time. I ended up staying home as I couldn't seem to get the symptoms under control before work time. It was still early and knowing the lockout on heroics reset at 11am, I figured I'd take a quick run through Heroic Sethekk Halls and summon good old Anzu to see what he had in store for me. Since it was before the reset for the day, I knew I'd get another chance to go back in and try again.

I didn't need to. I was sitting next to my husband who was on his
warlock doing some PvP and I honestly just stared at the screen for a few seconds before I tugged at his sleeve to make sure I was really seeing what I thought I was seeing.

Two rare mounts within 24 hours?

Really?

Well, my husband was pretty jealous and happy for me at the same time. I was super, super excited! I couldn't WAIT to get out of the instance and summon my Raven Lord to ride around. One of the strange things though...whenever I get a new mount, I tend to ride that one everywhere I go, at least until the novelty wears off and then I go back to my Winterspring Frostsaber, which is probably my favorite mount of all. But now I've got the Deathcharger AND Raven Lord...both within a day of each other...I really should pester a friend to make me a random mount macro for my land mounts. I have quite a few now. I think the Raven Lord is one of my absolute favorites now though. I mean, with all of the mount achievements, quite a few people farm mounts now. But I think I would have farmed this one anyway. I have always sort of admired this mount. It's unique. That's what I love about it.

At any rate, I'm working on trying to figure out how to solo Heroic Magister's Terrace right now. I can FINALLY down Vexallus solo now, but I struggle with Kael'Thas. I think my error might be opening up in bear when I should maybe be starting off in cat form. The key, I'm told, is to get him down to 50% within the first 60 seconds of the encounter. I'm not entirely sure I have the dps to do so, but I think I'll figure something out. I gave up on it Monday before I tried in Kitty. I'll keep you posted there.

Also, I took out Attumen the Huntsman again. No luck on his mount this week. I'll be back next week though. hehe! I'm going to try and figure out a way to get into Zul'Gurub and take out the Raptor and Tiger bosses. It should be pretty fun. I've watched some videos on it. They reset every 3 days, so I'll be farming ZG in between my Kara and MgT mount farm runs.

Since the guild is so inactive, I might take this opportunity to grind some rep, either with Netherwing or with Sha'tari Skyguard for those mounts. It's rare to see someone riding around on a Nether Ray. So that might be on my list of things to do. Plus, you get a non-combat pet from them. I think a baby Nether Ray would go along really well with my little Sporebat. hehe (If you're wondering, yes, I got exalted with Sporeggar to get the pet and tabard...lol). I'm really not a good "dailies" person, which is why I don't have any of the Argent Tournament mounts. I really have no desire to do dailies. It's sad, but it's so true. I hate dailies. I suppose it wouldn't kill me to just do the dailies...eh we'll see.

I was asked today if I'd be willing to make video guides for mount farming...um, I suppose I could, however I'm not sure they'd even be worth watching. That...and there are SO many guides out there for mount farming. I can post videos of really good guides for mount runs if you want, but by request only. Alright, I should get back to real life now.

Until next time...Ishnu-alah!