Sunday, February 8, 2009
a good day of Wow
Kuanchichi got many more achievements today. What I decided was that he would get the Cooking one. I am an idiot and didn't realize after 30-Northrend-Recipes there was another one for like 45. But since the Cooking quest needed Dinner Impossible, which is really a PvP quest, Viljo and Kuan bounced around a few battlegrounds to get it.
While we were at it, we tried out Wintergrasp. That was enormous fun and I will want to do it again. But we picked up some PvP achievements there. After that we ran a few quests in Icecrown, just enough to get Kuan Revered with Ebon Blade so his melee hat could be properly enchanted.
Then we ran around doing old-school coins. But that got tiring so we decided to run Heroic Hall of Lightning. We were in a group with a tank and mage from Ides of March, and despite a couple or three wipes, we got the quests done from Sons of Hodir. Only one of them yielded rep though, disappointing us all as the rest of party also needed it.
All kinds of shaman gear dropped in this run, but it was pretty much not as good as what Kuan had, until Loken dropped [Mail Girdle of the Audient Earth]. This was a great upgrade for Kuan's healy set, wahoo.
The priest who was with us left after that but the tank and mage wanted to try the timed run of Stratholme. Yes, Blizzard likes timed runs in Stratholme so much they put it on the level 80 Caverns of Time version as well as the level 60 version in EPL. I noticed Ratrider on and idle in Dalaran, so asked her if she'd heal, and she did! She said she even had the mount so that's one less person to roll.
We were tearing our way through and made it with plenty of time to spare. And there they were, [Reins of the Bronze Drake]. To our shock, not only did Ratrider pass, so did the two from Ides. Only Kuan and Viljo rolled.
Well, Viljo has a dragon already. Now Kuan does too!
While we were at it, we tried out Wintergrasp. That was enormous fun and I will want to do it again. But we picked up some PvP achievements there. After that we ran a few quests in Icecrown, just enough to get Kuan Revered with Ebon Blade so his melee hat could be properly enchanted.
Then we ran around doing old-school coins. But that got tiring so we decided to run Heroic Hall of Lightning. We were in a group with a tank and mage from Ides of March, and despite a couple or three wipes, we got the quests done from Sons of Hodir. Only one of them yielded rep though, disappointing us all as the rest of party also needed it.
All kinds of shaman gear dropped in this run, but it was pretty much not as good as what Kuan had, until Loken dropped [Mail Girdle of the Audient Earth]. This was a great upgrade for Kuan's healy set, wahoo.
The priest who was with us left after that but the tank and mage wanted to try the timed run of Stratholme. Yes, Blizzard likes timed runs in Stratholme so much they put it on the level 80 Caverns of Time version as well as the level 60 version in EPL. I noticed Ratrider on and idle in Dalaran, so asked her if she'd heal, and she did! She said she even had the mount so that's one less person to roll.
We were tearing our way through and made it with plenty of time to spare. And there they were, [Reins of the Bronze Drake]. To our shock, not only did Ratrider pass, so did the two from Ides. Only Kuan and Viljo rolled.
Well, Viljo has a dragon already. Now Kuan does too!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
some achievements
Kuanchichi got some achievements tonight.
1) Elder - yes, all the Lunar Festival Coins have been gathered, finally!
2) Better off Dred - the last coin was next to King Dred, after all, in Heroic Drak'Theron.
3) 400 Staves. Okay, Blizzard doesn't think it's an achievement, but Kuan is now maxxed out all weapons.
What he didn't get was Revered Ebon Hold, he's stuck at 11558/12000. Quest time in Icecrown I guess, and time to swap to Argent Crusade tabard.
I will edit this post later with screenshots. But for now, it's bedtime.
OK, editted.
1) Elder - yes, all the Lunar Festival Coins have been gathered, finally!
2) Better off Dred - the last coin was next to King Dred, after all, in Heroic Drak'Theron.
3) 400 Staves. Okay, Blizzard doesn't think it's an achievement, but Kuan is now maxxed out all weapons.
What he didn't get was Revered Ebon Hold, he's stuck at 11558/12000. Quest time in Icecrown I guess, and time to swap to Argent Crusade tabard.
OK, editted.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
level 58, mining 300...
Clearly, it was time for Tylara to go through the Dark Portal.
And so she did.
And so she did.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
big fat blue Santa Claus
Kuanchichi is now revered with Sons of Hodir.
These dailies take a long time, have no variety, and pretty much preclude my doing much else in the game. Karaghiosis still thinks I am a slacker, too.
Now he's revered, Kuan has another daily to feed their king. Big fat blue HUNGRY Santa Claus.
I'm starting to feel like it's work, not a game. Two more weeks to go til Exalted, depending on what our next Halls of Lightning run brings as they gave us non-daily quests for that.
I wonder if Eeyan will be started on their grind by then.
These dailies take a long time, have no variety, and pretty much preclude my doing much else in the game. Karaghiosis still thinks I am a slacker, too.
Now he's revered, Kuan has another daily to feed their king. Big fat blue HUNGRY Santa Claus.
I'm starting to feel like it's work, not a game. Two more weeks to go til Exalted, depending on what our next Halls of Lightning run brings as they gave us non-daily quests for that.
I wonder if Eeyan will be started on their grind by then.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Wyrmrest Exalted
Viljo got Wyrmrest Exalted a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to get the Reins of the Red Drake, however I didn't have enough gold to cover the 1600g it cost and still have money for repairs and such. So I waited a couple of days and a while ago bought them! I just hadn't posted pics yet because I was busy flying around on my drake!
Wrathgate
A week ago Eeyan and Telt finally finished the runups to Wrathgate. They were doing this with Evallen and so we all did the last bunch of quests together. I really like the Wrathgate setup and event(s). And while we had done them before as Kuan and Viljo, Evallen hadn't done it at all. And she'd been good, as far as I know, and not snooped online ahead of time.
So full of obscure and cryptic warnings we all headed over to Wrathgate for the battle. We told Evallen to make sure she was in fullscreen mode, and had her sound up. And then we all started the Wrathgate event...
It was, of course, awesome. Poor Saurfang, both younger and older. And poor Bolvar, though we don't actually know his fate. His body isn't there, just his shield. But it could have been burned away. Or it could have been taken by the Lich King. Who knows? I'm sure we'll find out eventually though.
And most of all poor Thrall. He has put years of work into peace between the Horde and the Alliance. And with one betrayal from Varimanthas and the Apothecaries all that was blown away. Because of course the Alliance will only see the Forsaken Apothecaries and think it's all the horde. Never mind that Varimanthas tried to kill Sylvanas, and the apothecaries did kill many Horde soldiers.
But I do think that Evallen has been playing more WoW since she experienced the Wrathgate. Which, of course, was the desired result of that story line. It's pretty impressive how leading up to it you have no idea just how awesome it will be. The first time you see it you're expecting a quest to go kill a bunch of abominations or maybe some conversation to read. Not an epic battle that ends with the Red Dragonflight using cleansing fire (that blooms into yellow and orange flowers) on everything that was there.
So full of obscure and cryptic warnings we all headed over to Wrathgate for the battle. We told Evallen to make sure she was in fullscreen mode, and had her sound up. And then we all started the Wrathgate event...
It was, of course, awesome. Poor Saurfang, both younger and older. And poor Bolvar, though we don't actually know his fate. His body isn't there, just his shield. But it could have been burned away. Or it could have been taken by the Lich King. Who knows? I'm sure we'll find out eventually though.
And most of all poor Thrall. He has put years of work into peace between the Horde and the Alliance. And with one betrayal from Varimanthas and the Apothecaries all that was blown away. Because of course the Alliance will only see the Forsaken Apothecaries and think it's all the horde. Never mind that Varimanthas tried to kill Sylvanas, and the apothecaries did kill many Horde soldiers.
But I do think that Evallen has been playing more WoW since she experienced the Wrathgate. Which, of course, was the desired result of that story line. It's pretty impressive how leading up to it you have no idea just how awesome it will be. The first time you see it you're expecting a quest to go kill a bunch of abominations or maybe some conversation to read. Not an epic battle that ends with the Red Dragonflight using cleansing fire (that blooms into yellow and orange flowers) on everything that was there.
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