draNgNon progress 10/29

So, here is my progress based on my post a couple weeks ago. I didn't bother last week since I'd spent 4 days offline on vacation.

It sure felt like a lot of progress on Hordeside. Perhaps I should switch to updating every other week...! Kuanchichi got his epic flyer, thanks to Rahlenti... The Alliance toons, they continue to languish. :-/ I will clear at least one of those bullets this week, really!

Kuanchichi
• [Mazthoril Honor Shield] • clear one "Trial of the Naaru" quest • Netherblooms, Dreaming Glory, Felweed • battlegrounds • clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it	• got it • no progress • no longer an issue • no time really... • no progress but: T4 gloves! and: started on Gruul's finally: exalted with Sha'tar and CE
Eeyan
• Onyxia key. • BRD • Blood Furnace run • finish Spinebreaker quests • 335 blacksmithing	• still no. /cry • downed Theldren • got it • cleared all of Hellfire for level • got it. need Adamantite now more: level 65! on that note: reguilded with Darkfall
Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus • Honor Hold for profession training • herbing for dollars, er, gold	meh, no progress on any of this stuff
Vhaas
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline • clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests • 300 cooking • neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG! • friendly with Thorium Brotherhood • run BRD again... • and maybe some other instance.	meh, no progress on any of this stuff

So. I will stick with weekly for now. Here is next week's list. Kuan's list might change. I am thinking I will respec some of his talent points into enhance when PTR closes, to skill up 2h Mace and Axe in prep for the expertise changes in 2.3. I haven't seen how they intend to convert weapon skill to expertise yet with the change.

Kuanchichi repay Rahlenti, Alchemy, grey quests, and offspec gear
• clear one "Trial of the Naaru" quest
• acquire an epic healy mace and enchant it
• friendly with Netherwing
• battlegrounds
• clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it
• Cauldron of Nature Prot
• farm for Major Prot recipes
• clear grey DM quests


Eeyan Ony key, 0.5 quests, blacksmithing, questing with Teltanara
• Onyxia key.
• Honored with Scryer
• start on Terrokar
• help Teltanara Honored with Aldor
• Strat run (he needs Tier 0 shoulders and Pants)

Trismestigus epic ground mount
• quests in Silithus
• Honor Hold for profession training
• herbing for dollars, er, gold

Vhaas mount money, and Dranei rep for Elekk:
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline
• clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests
• 300 cooking
• neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG!
• friendly with Thorium Brotherhood
• run BRD again...
• and maybe some other instance.

Darkfall encore

This afternoon Viljo and Kuanchichi logged in to Hyjal. There was a little bit of chatter and it turned out that about 2/3 of the people online were alts of raiders or members. There was a bit of banter about who was who and how it was "alt day".

Now I've been considering the wisdom of pulling Eeyan and Teltanara into Darkfall for a bit now. One the one hand, what if something catastrophically bad happens and we need to flee Darkfall? But on the other hand, don't we eventually want to get them into Kara and such?

So I decided that it was time for me to bite the bullet. I whispered the GL's alt asking if we could bring our alts in. Despite my worries, he said sure. So in guild chat I said I'd be back in a bit, and hopped to Telt. There I gquit Ancestor Cult, bye bye pretty tabard :'(, and then got invited to Darkfall on Teltanara. Eeyan followed suit shortly after.

I am sorry to be out of Ancestor Cult, but I'm excited at the thought of leveling Telt and getting her into bigger and better instances.

Personal Quest: Major Protection

So... the Cauldron for Arcane Protection comes in somewhat handy when fighting Curator in Karazhan.

Kuan doesn't have this recipe, so earlier this week I finally decided to look up what can be done about it. Whoa, I learned about the Major * Protection Potions, which are not world drops but farmed off of specific mobs.

Then I lost the page in Wowwiki again. Last night I decided to find it again. That list is not well categorized! Or rather, not well linked-to within the wiki. Anyhow, to ease that pain, I reproduce it here as a Kuanchichi wish-list.

• [Recipe: Major Arcane Protection Potion]: dropped by Vir'aani Arcanists in Nagrand
• [Recipe: Major Fire Protection Potion]: dropped by Sunseeker Astromages in Normal-mode Mechanar
• [Recipe: Major Frost Protection Potion]: dropped by Nexus-Prince Shaffar (either Normal or Heroic), the last boss in Mana-Tombs
• [Recipe: Major Holy Protection Potion]: dropped by Abyssal Flamebringers in Blade's Edge Mountains
• [Recipe: Major Shadow Protection Potion]: dropped by Shadow Council Warlocks in Shadowmoon Valley

Since we almost always play together, the practical side of me insists if Kuan and Viljo farm it, and Viljo gets the recipe, then we should move on to farm another one. The completionist side of me is freaking out at the notion however.

Last night, Kuan hit the Vir'aani Arcanists, the Sunseeker Astromages, and the Abyssal Flamebringers. No alchemy recipe, although a nice blue BOE JC recipe dropped. But a good thing resulted: possibly becuase there was now something else to farm, or possibly becuase Jataka brought her pally alt, [Totem of the Void] finally dropped and I hit Need O So Fast.

"Raiders", and Eeyan's good deed

Darkfall has cleared Kara again already this week. When I went in, I was emphatic, Kuan will get his T4 gloves damnit!

And, Curator dropped them! I am grabbing the caster gear, so now Wrath of Air is +121 damage and healing, woo! Not that it matters as the Raid Leaders think Kuan should be in melee group. Kuan put spellhit on the gloves instead of spell powar, and is now +68 spellhit. I think that will make a significant difference, and can make up the spell power either on bracers, the badged shield, or the totem from Mech, as soon as Kuan gets one of these things.

We downed Prince with no hunters, and only one mage in the group: Viljo. And Prince dropped the Mage/Lock/Hunter hat, and our lone lock (the GL, Soulshade) already had it. So now both Kuan and Viljo have T4 hat and gloves. Moreover, guild leadership likes us, so we have been promoted to the Raider rank in the guild.

So, there it was, 11pm on Wednesday, and all the Kara runs were done. Darkfall is now starting up a 3rd run with alts and whoever's mains got left out (boo, Eeyan remains 64...)

...which left Kuan and Viljo at loose ends, a little late to start pugging heroics, Kuan with an hour+ on his flask that I didn't want to use up while Viljo ran around like a goofball trying to get the perfect meta gem for the new hat. I ended up talking to an alt of Jataka's, a 55 mage, and then it dawned on me, she probably wanted BRD.

I was right, and in rather short order, Eeyan, Teltanara, Cerantra, Xiaofang (Jataka's alt), and Kuepid were running BRD. Good grief, even when we have that much damage and healing BRD still takes forever! We were in there until 3am, but Eeyan cleared his next 0.5 quest, and helped everyone clear a bunch of theirs! Even with the quest turnin that was only 2.5% of level for him though, so that was his good deed of the week.

Meanwhile, Kuan and Viljo are officially Raiders. That's new for Kuan! ...we raid Gruul, Sunday evening.

Gruul attempts

DraNgNon and I got back from vacation yesterday. We unpacked etc. Then it was time for the logging in to the WoW. (Yay!)

First up was Teltanara and Eeyan. Telt is now 62 and has finished more quests in EPL and the Pools of Aggonar area of Hellfire Peninsula. Eeyan mined more. :) She still isn't caught up to where his quests are. :(

Then we swapped to Kuanchichi and Viljo. We were just gonna log in and do some dailies and maybe get a group for heroic something or other. Mostly make sure we had all our mats for the Kara raid tomorrow. But as soon as I logged in the raid leader whispered me:

RL: "Can you and Kuan come to Gruul's?"
Viljo: "uh, we just got back from vacation..."
RL: "Cool I'll give you a min or two before summons"

Now that isn't exactly what was said, it's my interpretive text of it. (Imagine the text version of interpretive dance.) And as such conveys my feeling of what happened rather than the actual words.

Anyway apparently Darkfall had cleared High King Maulgar over the weekend, for the second week in a row. We aren't quite large enough to do it by ourself and we've been missing people (like Kuan and Viljo :-) ). So we're working with High Lords of the Horde. They are a bit... less organized... than us. Anyway the group was trying Gruul yesterday. Sadly we only managed to get him down to 23% on our best shot, but one of the other mages said they could only get him to 60% the week before that. So I'm thinking that the next time the group tries it we should do it. Especially if there are enough gear upgrades between now and then.

Anyway by the time we had finished being slaughtered by gruul Viljo was down 12g for repairs and Kuan was down 28g. Mail is that much more expensive and popping gives you 2 deaths for every wipe. :(

Gruul is an interesting fight. I think once we get it, it'll be all due to good placement for shatters. My group was doing pretty good by the end of our attempts. Most of the time I only died after both tanks were dead. However I think the healers were getting a lot of shatter damage, and that was probably what was killing us.

Awesomeness!

After an initial delay of an hour, while we tried to find healers for our Kara run, we finally got off the ground. We proceeded to rip Kara a new one and kill every boss on the first time. The only exceptions to this were Prince, which we didn't try because we had a pugged healer and wanted to keep any T4 tokens in the guild, and Aran, which we wiped on the first time.

Our main tank and raid leader was over-joyed because the King's Defender finally dropped for him. Kuan got the Shadow-Cloak of Dalaran from Moroes and Ring of Unrelenting Storms from Random trash. Viljo got the Jewel of Infinite Possibilites from Netherspite. And since we one-shotted Nightbane and we'd both bothered to get the quest leading up to that done and had a Blackened Urn we got that quest done and dinged exalted. So they both got the Violet Signet of the Archmage too!

All of this is just awesome, but it gets even better when we get out of the raid and check out mail. Rahlenti is the awesome, is the wonderful, is the generous, is the excellent! Because he sent each of us enough gold to get our epic flying mounts!! Viljo and Kuan were each short about 1000g and Rahlenti sent us 990G each. So now Viljo is sitting pretty on a Swift Purple Windrider and Kuanchichi has a Swift Red Windrider. And oh my god is flying at epic speed the bestest thing ever!

draNgNon progress 10/15

So, here is my progress based on last week's post. Perhaps I got a lot done! Kuan has his T4 hat, and Eeyan is questing in Outland.

The Alliance toons, they languish. :-/

Kuanchichi
• [Mazthoril Honor Shield] • clear one "Trial of the Naaru" quest • Heroic SH • Netherblooms, Dreaming Glory, Felweed • battlegrounds • clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it	• up to 19 badges • no progress • got it • it is a constant need • enough AB to get Inscribed Ornate Topaz • no progress more: T4 hat!
Eeyan
• Onyxia key. • turn in next 0.5 quest • Hellfire Ramparts run • BRD, LBRS, or DM E run	• still no. /cry • got it • ran 4 times! • nope more: level 64! and: honored with Thrallmar lastly: BS 333
Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus • Honor Hold for profession training • herbing for dollars, er, gold	meh, no progress on any of this stuff
Vhaas
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline • clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests • 300 cooking • neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG! • friendly with Thorium Brotherhood • run BRD again... • and maybe some other instance.	meh, no progress on any of this stuff

And on that note, here is next week's list. It's a short week, as I am out of town for the weekend.

Kuanchichi mount money, primals, and badges, o my!
• [Mazthoril Honor Shield]
• clear one "Trial of the Naaru" quest
• Netherblooms, Dreaming Glory, Felweed
• battlegrounds
• clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it

Eeyan Ony key, 0.5 quests, blacksmithing, questing with Teltanara
• Onyxia key.
• BRD
• Blood Furnace run
• finish Spinebreaker quests
• 335 blacksmithing

Trismestigus epic ground mount
• quests in Silithus
• Honor Hold for profession training
• herbing for dollars, er, gold

Vhaas mount money, and Dranei rep for Elekk:
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline
• clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests
• 300 cooking
• neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG!
• friendly with Thorium Brotherhood
• run BRD again...
• and maybe some other instance.

Kara cleared in two runs

And the first part of it had two raiders PUG'd in.

Kuan's first piece of T4...

...wasn't his gloves, becuase he lost the roll. It was his hat! We downed Prince on the second try. Kara was cleared, before 1am on the Wednesday night.

What is sad that pretty much until he has another piece of T4, the hat is a nerf from the Big Bad Wolf's Head he got on the previous run. Also, all the loot that dropped from bosses was either rogue-y, healy, or enchance-shammy gear. Blizz is trying to tell me something, perhaps.

Since Kara was cleared so early, a bunch of guildies who needed the books for the Nightbane precursor quest popped into heroic Sethekk, then SH. The Heroic SH was a matter of debate, as the party was a tank, a priest, Viljo, and two ele shamans. "Not enough CC, No Way, etc etc." The tank swapped from his Tauren warrior to his Bear (sometimes I wonder about warrior tanks, they roll a druid for variety and then spec Bear) for multi-mob-aggro-holding-joy, and we mowed through heroic SH and took down the first boss with only one death.

I've always been of the opinion that two reasonably coordinated shammies in a 5man were nigh unstoppable. I am thinking that held true here too. With 8 complementary totems boosting the entire party, all that damage plus emergency heals, plus cast-interrupts, really the weak CC wasn't an issue.

Macros

Last night during our Kara run one of the priests asked about a macro to "not have to retarget to reshackle". Unfortunately in the middle of the raid is not a great time to explain the inner workings of a macro, and focus, and have someone write and edit their own. I did, however, promise that I would brain dump my macros to the forum. Well here is what I dumped to the Darkfall forum, just cleaned up, organized a bit better, and explained more.

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The page that I pulled most of these from is here:
Mage Macros
Also the official WoW page has a Macro Guide.

• Sheep (or shackle or sleep or fear or banish)
  /clearfocus [modifier:shift]
  /clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
  /clearfocus [target=focus,noexists]
  /focus [target=focus,noexists]
  /cast [target=focus] Polymorph
  
  This sets focus automatically and on recast it casts on the focus target no matter who you have targeted. If you want to change targets in the middle of the combat you can shift-click it and it will change your focus target to the current one. It also clears your focus if your current focus is dead.
  
  This macro can be cast before combat so that you can sheep and then immediately start dps. You just must make sure that you are out of range, sitting, or moving so that the cast doesn't go off and initiate combat ahead of time.
  
  However I've found shift clicking to be really difficult to remember to do in combat, especially since button press plus shift doesn't do the right thing, so i have a second macro, that I click.
  
  /clearfocus
  /focus [target=focus]
  /cast Polymorph
  
  This sets the my focus to whatever I have targeted right that instant, and sheeps them. It's good for adds or emergency retargeting of the sheep.
  
  
• Cast Interrupt
  I've found the below macro to be the best Ever. No need to try to move or jump before counterspelling now, just hit one button and their casting stops. :)
  
  /stopcasting
  /cast Counterspell
  
  Counterspell can be replaces with whatever your character's cast interrupt is, e.g. Earthshock or Silence.
  
  
• Conjure Food or Water
  In this macro, right-clicks summon water, and left-clicks use it. The same logic can be used for food or mana gems, just substitute the names as appropriate.
  
  #showtooltip Conjure Water
  #show Conjured Crystal Water
  /cast [button:2] Conjure Water
  /use [button:1] Conjured Crystal Water
  
  
• Explode
  This will cast your Rank 1 Arcane Explosion while you are not in combat and your highest rank Arcane Explosion while you are in combat. This is useful when looking for stealth enemies to conserve mana. It is nice when protecting points of interest in PvP.
  
  /cast [nocombat] Arcane Explosion(Rank 1); Arcane Explosion
  
  
• Frost Nova/Cone of Cold
  This will cast Frost Nova with your first press, then Cone of Cold on your second. This macro will then reset itself after 24 seconds.
  
  /castsequence reset=24 Frost Nova, Cone of Cold
  
  I don't personally use this macro, but I see how it could be useful.
  
  
• Slowfall/Dismount
  This makes you slowfall but it dismounts you first. If you lack the manual dexterity to dismount and then slowfall when you accidentally drop down a cliff, this macro will help you lots. Also, this thing shows the number of light feathers you have left on the macro icon.
  Note: you will need to press this button twice to dismount and slowfall! Failure to do so in combination with un'goro or flying mounts can have bad consequences.
  
  #show Light Feather
  /dismount
  /cast Slow Fall
  
  
• Teleportation
  Left-click teleports you, right-click summons a portal. The macro
  shows the amount of teleport stones you have left. Select a custom icon
  for this one. All the city icons are in the default list. Of course, you must
  adjust the city name to suit your needs.
  
  #show Rune of Portals
  /cast [button:2] Portal: Shattrath; Teleport: Shattrath
  
  I don't use this one because it would be far too easy to left-click and teleport myself when I meant to make a portal.
  
  

draNgNon progress 10/8

So, here is my progress based on last week's post. Thanks to Viljo, Jataka, and Fanxia, Kuan is exalted with Lower City!!! I've been so obsessed on that. No doubt, that positively affected his ability to help down the bigger bosses in Kara last night.

I will probably focus on Eeyan a little more, now. But I will mostly relax.

Kuanchichi
• run Heroic Auchidoun-something... • clear one "Trial of the Naaru" quest • advance on "Medivh's Journal" questline • farm Netherblooms for Flask of Blinding Light • battlegrounds • clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it • shards for a healy weapon enchant	• [Gavel of Unearthed Secrets] • no progress • need Heroic SH • got 'em. • nope • Duke of Cynders!!! • sidelined for Gavel more: cleared Karazhan!
Eeyan
• Onyxia key. • turn in next 0.5 quest • Hellfire Ramparts run • BRD, LBRS, or DM E run • and Scholo key from Araj for Teltanara	• still no. /cry • nope • nope • nope • got it more: 605g to Teltanara for epic ground mount...
Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus • Honor Hold for profession training • herbing for dollars, er, gold	meh, no progress on any of this stuff
Vhaas
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline • clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests • 300 cooking • neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG! • friendly with Thorium Brotherhood • run BRD again... • and maybe some other instance.	meh, no progress on any of this stuff

And on that note, here is next week's list. I will probably take a day off WoW for that other video game, Quicken. I will clear that 0.5 quest for certain.

Kuanchichi mount money, primals, and badges, o my!
• [Mazthoril Honor Shield]
• clear one "Trial of the Naaru" quest
• Heroic SH
• Netherblooms, Dreaming Glory, Felweed
• battlegrounds
• clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it

Eeyan Ony key, 0.5 quests, blacksmithing, questing with Teltanara
• Onyxia key.
• turn in next 0.5 quest
• Hellfire Ramparts run
• BRD, LBRS, or DM E run

Trismestigus epic ground mount
• quests in Silithus
• Honor Hold for profession training
• herbing for dollars, er, gold

Vhaas mount money, and Dranei rep for Elekk:
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline
• clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests
• 300 cooking
• neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG!
• friendly with Thorium Brotherhood
• run BRD again...
• and maybe some other instance.

Loot System

I am convinced that the way loot drops from bosses in WoW is not random. There has to be some sort of complex formula than takes into account the group makeup and gear of each member and then selects from the boss's loot table the least useful piece of gear.

Example A:
Viljo ran Shadow Labyrinth many times to get Lower City rep, but not once did he see the Greatsword of horrid dreams. Not until he already had the Staff of Infinite Mysteries anyway. Then Viljo sees the Greatsword of Horrid Dreams from Murmur as well as Mana Wrath from Pathaleon in Mechanar.

Example B:
Again in Shadow Labyrinth, the Hallowed Robes drop, but the healer for our group is a resto shaman. So a hunter ends up taking the robes for "around town wear".

Example C:
Sethekk last night, the Incanter's trousers drop. But last week Viljo got the mana etched pantaloons.

So my conclusion from all of this is that Blizzard wants there to be a steady supply of shards on the market and that they want you to work for your gear. I have more exapmles of this sort of thing happening. Does anyone else?

[Gavel of Unearthed Secrets]

Forlorn Ridge Battleground

Dracon and I were talking a while ago and we have an idea for a new battleground:

In Azshara, at the Forlorn Ridge, there is the setup for another battleground. Given there is already tension in Azshara between the Night Elves and the Blood Elves, a battle between then would make sense. Because Azshara used to be a high elf city and there are currently quests to retrieve various artifacts from the area it would also make sense that the battle could be over those artifacts.

Specifically there should be some sort of battlefield with Alliance and Horde at the bottom two corners of a rectangle. Artifacts can spawn at any location, but are more likely to spawn farther away from the two bases. These artifacts are similar to silithyst in that you cannot mount while carrying one and it is quite obvious that a character is carrying one. (Optional if you get a buff for carrying.)

When a certain amount of these artifacts has been collected by a side, that side wins. Thus the primary method of winning is to go out and bring artifacts back to the base. However the artifacts don't disappear as soon as they are in a base; you can raid the enemy base and steal their artifacts.

So various strategies would appear about some people going to get new artifacts, some people going to raid the enemy base, and some people defending their own base. Also you could drop the artifacts anywhere, not just your own base. So another viable strategy would be to drop artifacts just outside your base and later mass turnin, to avoid getting raided.

Lore justification for a battleground like this would be pretty simple. Both the Night Elves and the Blood Elves are searching for relics of their past, before the Well of Eternity exploded. The Blood Elves want to use the magical artifacts both against the Night Elves and to feed their magic addiction. The Night Elves want to keep the magic artifacts out of the Blood Elves hands and study them to avoid repeating the mistakes that were made before.

I think that 15 characters per side would be an optimal size. It would allow for easy division of labor: group 1, defend; group 2, raid the enemy; group 3, gather artifacts. 15 people is also enough to deal with the occasional slacker while still meeting multiple objectives.

I also think that 20 to 30 artifacts for winning would be a good amount. The number of artifacts has to be greater than the number of players on a side so that a zerg of artifact gatherers wouldn't immediately win. But more than double the number of players on a side will make for too long a game in the eyes of the players.


This is just my initial writeup of this idea. If any of our Gentle Readers have suggestions please comment. I shall edit this some and then post it to the WoW suggestion forum.

Darkfall + Karazhan = Win!

Darkfall has started up a second Karashan run at 4pm. This is great! Now there is less competition for the 10pm spots, and the people who fill them are less likely to fall asleep during the raid.

So last night both Kuanchichi and Viljo went into Kara. There was a little worry at the beginning as Tuesday nights it's sometimes hard for us to find a healer. But Kuan saw that our friend Siertial was on. Siertial is an excellent holy priest, and tons of fun to run with. Anyway Siertial was pulled into the run and off we went.

Attument, Moroes, and Maiden of Virtue were all one shot kills. Our Opera event was the Big Bad Wolf, who kept eating our healers. We got him to about 7% on our first try, and after a pep talk about *running* we killed him the second time around. Sadly Viljo still bit the dust second time around. :(

After that we went on to beat the crap out of the Curator and Aran: both of them went down on our first attempt. So, buffs still intact, we pushed through to Nethersprite. However, due to an unfortunate incident with the green beam, Nethersprite only went down on our second try. Because someone got nether exhausion before they were supposed to and couldn't go back into the green beam Nethersprite healed up to full. :(

After that it was very late, but we had been doing such a good job, we figured we might as well try Prince. First try, with 4 healers, we got prince to 1%. But once the tank died, the rest of us couldn't get those last 15K of health before he killed us all. :( The second attempt I screwed up, and Viljo had more threat than the tank: instant enfeeble-wipe. Third attempt we got him to 6% and again wiped. If we'd just had some better luck with infernal placement we'd have had him down no problem. And of course if it hadn't been after 4am at this point we could have tried again and probably gotten him.

Anyway the evening was definitely a net gain. In roughly 6 hours Darkfall cleared the first 8 bosses of Karazhan. Viljo and Kuanchichi were both there and got nice drops. Kuan got the Big Bad Wolf's Head and Viljo got the Staff of Infinite Mysteries (/swoon). They both hit revered with The Violet Eye and got their ring upgrades. And since Aran was killed they got Medivh's Journal, which will get turned in tonight. Also tonight Viljo will get the +40 spell damage enchant on that lovely staff, and, with that, can stop focusing on getting the Stormcaller from Thrallmar, so more focus can be put on Auchindoun and Lower City rep for Kuanchichi.

The final excellent thing of the evening was that Siertial joined Darkfall! Yay! This makes two good priests that Kuan and Viljo have pulled into Darkfall.

draNgNon progress 10/1

So, here is my progress based on last week's post. Kuan is exalted with Frostwolf!!! I know, not such a big deal the way AV is anymore, but it's the first faction he's ever hit exalted with!

I wonder if he should buy the wolf. I may just gotta.

Kuanchichi
• run Heroic Auchidoun-something... • clear one "Trial of the Naaru" quest • advance on "Medivh's Journal" questline • mats for riding crop • battlegrounds • clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it • turn in the wingman quest in AV • mats for another healy weapon enchant	• regular SL, got our healer the key • nope • need Shade of Aran • riding crop achieved! • did I say exalted with Frostwolf! • nope • turned in • working on shards
Eeyan
• Onyxia key. • turn in next 0.5 quest • Hellfire Ramparts run • bodyguard for Teltanara. it's so hard, soloing a holy priest • ...including a BRD, LBRS, or DM E run	• this week. • nope • nope • ran around EPL, earning xp... • ...and ran the easy part of BRD. more: broke 700g on his own...!
Trismestigus
• quests in Silithus • Honor Hold for profession training • herbing for dollars, er, gold	meh, no progress on any of this stuff
Vhaas
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline • Honor Hold for leatherworking training • clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests • 300 cooking • neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG! • friendly with Thorium Brotherhood • run BRD again...!	• no progress • got it, 305 • has a bunch of turnins • stuck at 298 • 2800/3000 • no progress • nope

And on that note, here is next week's list. Kuan gets to farm, as a useful Flask seems to have appeared on his recipe list, and he's missing one of the mats. O wait, did the patch add that? Why, yes it did.

Kuanchichi Lower City rep, mount money, primals, and practice w/heroics
• run Heroic Auchidoun-something...
• clear one "Trial of the Naaru" quest
• advance on "Medivh's Journal" questline
• farm Netherblooms for Flask of Blinding Light
• battlegrounds
• clear Dukes in Silithus, damn it
• shards for a healy weapon enchant

Eeyan Ony key, 0.5 quests, blacksmithing, questing with Teltanara
• Onyxia key.
• turn in next 0.5 quest
• Hellfire Ramparts run
• BRD, LBRS, or DM E run
• and Scholo key from Araj for Teltanara

Trismestigus epic ground mount
• quests in Silithus
• Honor Hold for profession training
• herbing for dollars, er, gold

Vhaas mount money, and Dranei rep for Elekk:
• clear Fallen Hero of the Horde questline
• clear outdoor Eastern Plaguelands quests
• 300 cooking
• neutral with Timbermaw Hold, OMG!
• friendly with Thorium Brotherhood
• run BRD again...
• and maybe some other instance.