Corrupted Hippogryph!

So. The story is that last year, in the middle of October, my boyfriend wasn't my boyfriend. He was a friend who I had come to enjoy, appreciate... A man who listened to my troubles, made me feel like everything's alright, someone I could be close to and not be afraid of being hurt. And I know pain. Relationships haven't always been kind to me, and not all of those were mistakes knowingly made on my part. It's inevitable, pain with love. But this man couldn't hurt me if he wanted.

We ended up acting like we were dating without anyone saying "hey, want to...". And it felt natural. A slow progression which ended up with us going "Wait, are we...?". Because of that, we have no idea which day is our true anniversary. When we started acting as if we were, or the day we looked back on it and went "Hey...". It was honestly the most romantic thing, not being asked upfront, but just letting things be naturally and letting everything fall into place.

And, a few months after, we realized that we really hadn't a damn clue what our anniversary date was. And, after some thinking, I picked October 21st, somewhere in the middle of all of it. And days before this year, my boyfriend asked me what card I wanted. He was considering getting me a Fel Drake, they're just so pretty. But, being new, their prices are so inflated! I told him I'd smack him for wasting that much money on a flavor of the month card. Maybe next year.

And so we talked about the hippogryphs. Out of those cards, we both have a favorite. The Corrupted Hippogryph. So...

EEEE!

This is Why Asians Don't Farm...

I'm scared... If this was a hentai, you'd know why. T.T

Cloud Serpents!

Finally! I got it! I didn't farm eggs or anything, I just picked up dailies about two or three days after hitting 90. And here are two of the three Cloud Serpents! Due to my laziness with dailies (I skipped out on Golden Lotus for three days in a row... Hurr, I hate them), I'm left with only a hundred gold after buying the Blue and Golden. And I'm a day or two out of exalted with The Tillers as well... I'm going to be doing dailies for gold and nothing else at this rate! But that's okay... I've got about 700 gold after doing Golden Lotus, so I'm alright. I just have to buy my mounts very... very slowly!

I just realized that the golden dragon is like the palamino of dragons! It's so cute! That and when I was sitting there thinking to myself, "I can buy a second one. Which one should I buy? The green one?" I looked back to the dragons around the Quartermaster. "Hm. Or the Gold one..." just as I thought that, a rare spawned 20 yards away. I killed it and bought the Golden one. I can take a sign!

Reputation, Mounts, and Pets

Oh man, oh man, oh man! Not only have I not been doing personal updates, but I'd like to take note of the things happening in World of Warcraft! Note, I'm not a professional news media person. Nor am I a news media person of any sort. Most all of these things (Okay, all of them) are things I've read off of MMO-Champion, which always has its latest news article right there to the left of my posts.

Earning reputation with various factions has long been an important part to World of Warcraft and as time has gone on, we've made tweaks and changes to the system to make it more interesting and to give players access to unique items. For example, we recently hotfixed the game to apply a change to some reputation items which you can read about in our recently updated blog that allows players to purchase certain items much sooner. And we're not done!

Coming in a future patch, earning reputation is going to become much more fluid. Basically, once one of your characters has reached at least Revered reputation with a faction, all other characters on the same Battle.net account will then earn reputation with the same faction at twice the rate. Going one step further, and as an added bonus, your main character who reached Revered will also begin to earn double the reputation as he or she climbs to Exalted.

Here's a simplified break down:

Any single character earns Revered reputation with a faction
All other characters on the Battle.net account begin to earn double reputation for that one same faction
The Revered character earns double reputation as he or she works toward Exalted
???
Profit

We’ll keep you posted as this change is closer to being implemented. In the meantime, we’d love to hear your feedback!

Well! I've been thinking about how I want to handle my army of level 85 characters. Hey, don't judge, I've been playing since vanilla, I've had a lot of time to perfect the art of leveling and fail to subdue my alt-itis. With this, I think I will be putting off leveling any of my characters in Pandaria until this patch hits. A handful of my reputation farms might also be stopping on my main at Revered until this new system is implemented, depending on how long it takes and if the revered to exalted boost for the main character is going to be officially part of the new system.

This is a good thing for me because I don't want to get burned out on leveling, reputation grinding, or anything of the sort. And, with only one character on my main's server (potentially two. I'm torn between my Mage and my Shaman for who will be moving my gold to pay Kaless for the Panthers), this news puts a good lull in the game progression for me. It's hard for me to stop, back up, and just enjoy the game for what it is, but I have been! I really, really have been! Playing the same character for a month or two as my only level 90 will do me good.

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The 150 mount achievement meta mount is coming in 5.1! It's a Jade Kite!

Oh my. Horde side, I'm sitting at 135 mounts without counting the two freebies of having a Horde Paladin. I'll be getting the three Cloud Serpent mounts as soon as I have the gold (+3). I've already ordered up two more Panther mounts (+2), and I am planning on buying a Red Drake soon (I've never done that. +1). That means I have 143 phantom mounts right now. Go go rep farm!

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And last but not least...

A new item has been introduced that can be used to upgrade the quality of Battle Pets: Battle-stones.
Battle-stones are available in two basic types, general purpose Battle-stones that can be used to upgrade the quality of any pet, and family specific Battle-stones, which can only be used to upgrade pets of a specific pet family.
Battle-stones are available in two qualities: Flawless Battle-stones can upgrade pets directly to Rare quality, while Polished Battle-stones will upgrade a pet to Uncommon quality.
Players will have a very small chance to obtain a general purpose Flawless Battle-stone after winning a match against wild pets; defeating higher level opponents increases the chances of obtaining a stone. These valuable items are not soulbound, and can be sold on the Auction House.
Family specific Flawless Battle-stones can be found in the Sack of Pet Supplies obtained from performing Pet Trainer quests, and are Bind on Pickup.
General purpose Polished Battle-stones can be purchased for 1000 Justice Points.

For someone like me who only has an uncommon quality version of some of the rarer capture pets, or wants to boost a pet that can't be caught (Wolpertingers are Uncommon quality! How could they do that!), it'll be a wonderful change. I'm definitely going to be looking forward to adjusting some of my wonderful pets so that they're all on that epic blue stage! Equality for all pets!

Shade in the Mist!

Well. I don't even know where to begin! Other than that I've been slacking off in order to keep up in the game. To sum up my game time, I have come to hate the Golden Lotus rep grind. Yes, they give me more dailies so I can keep advancing in my reputation. But they keep giving me more dailies! Stop with the dailies! Just give me more rep for my dailies done! I do not need more to do when 2+ hours of my day alone is dailies with the handful of factions I'm playing for! And I'm not even doing all of the major raid ones off of the bat.

To start out with, I like mounts. I love mounts. Mounts are forever. Gear is not. So I have been questing towards my mounts first and foremost. The Tillers, Order of the Cloud Serpent, The Anglers, and Golden Lotus are the only people I've been working for so far! I am nearly exalted with the Order of the Cloud Serpent, so I will no longer be doing dailies for them starting tomorrow. Instead, I will add in The Klaxxi, who I have ignored for so long that they are still Neutral with me. Or maybe I won't and I will just focus on the three remaining reputations until I can drop The Tillers (2/3 through revered as of this post) as well. The Anglers, I have -just- hit Revered with today. And Golden Lotus? I'm still honored. Because I hate them. Stop giving me more dailies! At least dailies aren't required to be done every day. I can blow people off every now and then.

A friend of mine is a dumbass. I've told this to him to his face. He is a Scribe who made an epic off hand weapon and sold it to someone or traded it for a Ruby Panther. That's nice. He put it on the auction house for 25k gold. That's nice. He then told me to come and buy it off of the auction house, resulting in him getting heavily taxed. Facepalm. I told him to get me a Sapphire one next and trade it to me directly. I'll pay 25k full, he won't get taxed, and we'll both be happy. Except that by the time he could make another, the price of the Scribe fans had dropped too much. I'll be moving my gold to Moon Guard soon to pay a wonderful guildmate for the Sapphire (and eventually Onyx) Panther mounts. Until then, thanks a lot Agravar. You tried, you're a good friend.

I've also been having serious bugs with CRZ and the Netherwing. Now, I've hit exalted with the Netherwing. On other toons. Two or three other toons. I have all of them so I have no reason to grind it again. But on this toon...

That's right. That's me. On a slave drake. In Barrens. Buff and all. Not only that, I keep getting an odd sight every time I go from Teldrassil to Azuremyst of vice versa:

And to sum up my mount related news... Apart from nearly having my Blue Cloud Serpent and my new Ruby Panther, I've acquired the Dragon Turtles and can now solo Onyxia and EoE. I'll be taking my boyfriend along and we'll be trying 25 man a few times as well for achievements!

And to sum up my personal new... my Snow Cub named Snow is extremely shy and likes to hide under things. Benches. My feet. My Spectral Tiger...

Glitchcity, Outland

With Kal now going to do his Netherwing dailies for his shark dragons, I decided to tag along to tell him what the eggs look like and try to find an example one for him. Picking a random mount to fly into the zone I've only just unlocked (Am at neutral and will likely never do the quests due to owning the mounts already), I get my Vial of the Sands mount. I dragon my way in, land on the runway, and realize that with everyone aggressive, I should probably mount up and assume my orcish ways. So, I randomly get my Cenarion War Hippogryph and mount up, with no change. I fly out of the zone and back into the zone...

Well, I got it halfway right at least! And there, I saw a gnome with quite the funny looking hat!

Having enough for the day, I headed on out to do my Golden Lotus dailies. I finally got friendly after being stopped halfway through my dailies the day before due to a glitch. Well, Kal needed leather for his Booterang, so I headed into Netherstorm to skin some. Passing over the Twisting Nether, my screen did its usual freezing thanks to Cross Realm Zones. And, once I was back into the Netherstorm...

Oh well!

90 and a Mount!

Hit 90 a few days ago, and still gearing up. Every morning for the past three days I've taken a few hours out of my time to run myself and my boyfriend through heroic and regular instances for Cenarion Expedition rep. Perhaps about 6 hours worth of work later...

I also bought some Alliance Grypons, but they're not as pretty. And my boyfriend was certainly stoked. He's loving his new mount (and his druid isn't even 71, either!).

Tempest and the Virmen

One would think that a hunter, any hunter, much less this hunter would be bored with farming. And, at first, they would be proven right, for Shade was a restless soul. Even picking up a hoe and trying to wield it proved challenging at first, as her fingers honed to the finer art of stringing a bow and calloused beneath mail armor from hours of practicing her art of killing.

And yet, after her experiences with the Sha, having one come out of her, had left her shaken down to her very core. Though she hid it well, the seeds of doubt had been planted within her and swelled like a tumorous growth, slowly feeding off of her fiery spirit. Returning to more simple things that had never interested her before now proved a source of newly found comfort, and as such, she began to take time each day to tend to a patch of dirt just off of a beaten road.

Each morning, she checked the crops, harvested the abundance of food which had grown, and began anew with cleaning the soil of rocks, tilling it to keep the ground breathing. She made certain that no virmen were lurking beneath the earth, hungry for food they couldn't create but only steal, pulled weeds until her filthy bare hands ached along with her lower back. And in the end, the scent of freshly turned earth renewed her spirit and gave her hope in the rest of the day to come.

At first, her white tiger took no interest in this new activity of hers. What fun was there in tending to the earth and growing food which he could not eat? Tempest lazed around the farm, taking to sniffing at virmen holes or lazing in the fields with an ear turned towards his hunter's labors, waiting for the moment that they would be off on their next great adventure. Though he knew that this work gave her a foundation, his attention span and cravings for the hunting she had promised when they had first formed a bond didn't allow him the leisure to enjoy another's pleasure.

It was around the second or third day of the harvest that his sapphire blue eyes caught movement within the earth. Shade's back was turned at that point in time, trying to scrub her hands clean with fresh well water. Drawing himself up silently, the great tiger, born in the Jade Forest and elusive enough to evade all but the most keen-eyed of beings, stalked slowly towards these boring crops of inedible plant material. The soil nearly boiled as one of fruits of Shade's harvest began to wriggle and writhe with a newly found life. Instinctively, he reached out to tap his paw pads against this orange growth. And still, it shivered.

A low, thunderous growl escaped the feline. With starved instincts, he sank great fangs into the fruit, hoping for a mouthful of meat and blood, but none was to come. But it still fought, and too stubborn to let go, Tempest fought back. What Shade saw next was her great white tiger playing tug of war, and winning, against a virmen, which was slowly pulled out of the earth as Tempest easily overpowered the over-sized rat.

Once unearthed, the virmen quickly let go, but it was too late. Tempest lunged and had his breakfast.

Disturbed and amused at the same time, Shade forced the tiger's maw open and away from the kill, something only one of her kind could ever get away with against such a creature. Even she ran the risk of losing her hand, but it had to be done. Grabbing the thing by its tail, she gave a great swing and tossed it over the road and into a far field, away from her crops.

That day, Tempest became a great asset to guarding Shade's crops against overly large rodent men, for he was no longer left bored and wanting. Though he was given a bath more often than he would have liked, for after each lucky daily harvest, Shade would bring slightly chewed vegetables to market and didn't want to have to explain the blood stains on her white tiger.

Mists of Pandaria

Savage (now named Tempest) versus Raticate!

I've been roleplaying and questing since I began way back during February of 2006. One thing I noticed about the quests is that only a handful of them ever actually disturbed me, excited me, or moved me. In general, I was too busy trying to survive each experience to pay much attention to what was going on with the story line. The only one that ever stuck out for me was Westfall, because of the oddities of pigs without livers, the back story of the Masons being screwed over by Stormwind for their pay and making plans for revenge. That, and my friend always commenting on how sexy VanCleef's voice is.

Burning Crusade's quest lines didn't offer a whole lot. It was a bit more involved, but I was generally far more interested in other things. Nagrand was a very fun grind the first three times around, but soon, even that zone, captivating in its beauty, faded into another mindless grind fest in which I always had to remember to attune myself so that I could later quest in Nagrand by doing the first quests in Hellfire Peninsula, which was always such a blindingly annoying shade of red that all I could think about was escaping to the tranquil blue of Zangarmarsh, then to the adventurous outdoors and alien safari of Nagrand. On the occasion I would visit the extremely dry Blade's Edge Mountains to recapture some memories, as it was the first place I had hit max level on a toon, but generally I would fly to the purple-dyed zone of the far north to round off my last level or two. The one far to the south always remained untouched unless I felt like playing Netherwing savior again.

Northrend. I hate Northrend. One time I managed to push a grind through it in two days. No heirlooms. I wanted to gnaw my hands off afterward. If there was any expansion I could skip when playing alts, it would always and forever be Northrend. Neither of the starting zones capture more than a grind-y feeling. The only two zones I enjoy are Zul'Drak for the amazing line beginning with a cursed choker from an old friend and the sheer beauty of the jungle in Sholazar Basin, complete with a ship that spilled over into the rivers from the sea being barely held back.

The Cataclysm held very little in the way of new quests which inspired me. Vash'jir is a waking nightmare for me. I hate deep water. I cannot stand it in real life, and I cannot stand it in World of Warcraft. If I cling to the bottom, I feel a bit better, but watching a fast tide ripping about, even though it won't bother my toon, sets me on edge. Certain bits and pieces stood out, but apart from the revamped lower level zones, such as the end of the Eastern Plaguelands chain, the entire experience was unforgettable with a very painful introduction into heroic dungeons due to people not knowing what Crowd Control is.

All in all, I quest through things without feeling a whole lot. My mind shuts off while I quest, resulting in a drooling, questing zombie with a rotting brain and little sense as to what is going on. I've tried to get involved in the quests, but reading the flavor text of every one just makes my thoughts decay faster, my attention span flickers, and I go back into my old habit of going through the motion.

But even I'm drawn into the Mists of Pandaria quests.

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From the vivid scenery to the content of the quests all linking together and drawing one in... yeah, here and there it's slow, and one start off feeling the grind of getting that first level in after feeling as if you've done so many quests, but soon enough one forgets that and can't help at enjoy the incredible voice acting, amusing nods to everything from Skyrim to Battletoads, the delightfully scripted cut scenes, and feeling that moment where it feels as if everything you've done, rather than feeling repeated, has all been leading up to one amazing moment.

I reached level 86 and acquired my Savage (temporarily named Snowblind and renamed Tempest courtesy of my boyfriend) on the first day. At the end of my second day, I'm level 88. In another day or two I should be max level, then on the fast curve to gearing up, depending on how many tanks and healers have also reached maximum level. In the meanwhile, I've finished up Valley of the Four Winds, almost wrapped up the Jade Forest (I fell off of a cliff of a certain place you cannot get back up without the right Flight Path... which I didn't get, so I have to wait til 90 to finish that one up), and am one part off of finishing up the Krasarang Wilds. For once, I'm actually motivated to finish up and do everything in a continent... Not because I want the achievements, but because I want to see everything the developers have given me to explore!

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Including the nasty water stuff!

Savage

So, to expand on what happened earlier, after the hour spent trying to do the first Alliance quest (not even kidding, it took an hour of sitting in the copters before people figured out how to do the quest with the limit exceeded on how many engines could be in the air), I managed to catch sight of Bloody Tracks. My heart crawled into my throat as I noticed them and began to follow them backwards. Across the zone I went, using Camouflage to stay safe. I kept losing sight of the next track, however. Even when I cast a flare to see if I was at the end of the line, I got nothing. Confused, I kept roaming, eyeing the maps to make certain I was on course.

A Draenei hunter appeared ahead of me, telling me she hadn't been hunting as long as I had. But, unfortunately, she seemed to be hunting Savage, too, for she knew to follow the tracks backwards. Along we went, and I ran ahead up the correct path, and she followed me. I dropped my Camouflage early and a tiger began to attack me. Even with poor level 85 gear, he didn't hit me for a lot, so I ignored him. I found the edge of the tracks and backed up to wait for the next one to be placed. She dropped one early. No Savage. I dropped one, Savage came up... I hit tame! It wouldn't go off because of the other cat getting in my way somehow... Not sure why, but I had him targeted, and it wouldn't go off. She hit tame... Angry over her trying to steal a mob off of my flare, I shot him, but he wasn't aggroing her, so I couldn't take back my discovery. Not even an apology was uttered on her behalf. I went and quested to get it out of my system.

Earlier today, I came back around and sought out the tracks again. And, again, I found them! Savage was around! But, again, I couldn't continue the trail through the halfway point. I couldn't find any other tracks, and the ones that I had found faded. My heart sank, for surely Savage had been tamed again. I had lost again. But at least it wasn't a painful act, and just the challenge of the hunt. Others want him. Not just me. I went back to questing again, feeling better than my reaction before. I can be happy for someone who deserved it.

Later, I came and sought. No tracks. And again, even later still into the evening, I sought. And I found tracks. My impression was that they were facing the same way as they had the last two times, but upon closer inspection, they were tracking back the other way (heading to the western end of the zone instead of east). Surprise caught me as I saw, right before my eyes, another track dropped. I fumbled, realized I had my Water Strider out, and seeing other hunters around, dismissed it. I stood on the latest track and kept looking... There, a track! I flared... too close to the foot print as Savage winked into existence, his name grayed out from a previously failed attempt at a tame, then faded. Readiness and Flare again, and I hit tame!

And my Savage has come home to me. I dont' know who failed to tame this beautiful creature earlier. I don't know what his/her name will be yet, I've been insisting that my boyfriend name the kitty. He's not so good with names, of course... But I don't mind. Good names take time to think over. For now, I'm just admiring this glorious creature at my side. A set of stripes around his neck look like a collar. :3

Twilight Drake!

No new news on TLPD, I've given up that front for now. On Loque's behalf, I feel horrible because he's now been killed twice in a row :/ Thank you CRZs. But in better news, my Ally huntard got high roll on a Twilight Drake, the one I've been trying to get for so long! Thank you lucky 95 and welcome mount number 120!

Transmog, Dragons, and Uldum

Less than two days til the launch of Mists of Pandaria, and I've decided to main my little Alliance hunter for the expansion. I'll be taking her to Pandaria first thing of the launch... not to quest, no, but to try to obtain the elusive Savage! Then Savage and I will level steadily through Pandaria. It should take about a week to max out our level and gear up, plenty of time to head back to pick up her little friend, Kal the druid, and go back to leveling with him. Well, really, what we've been doing is I've been using Vial of the Sands to carry Kal around as I work leisurely on my Loremastery as Kal soaks experience for levels.

But today is the day to get back to work on leveling. And, also the day to finish my transmog. But first, I wanted to hit up Uldum. I realized, after starting up the quest, that I was still in Vials mode, so figured that the quest wouldn't start with me shapeshifted. I went to right click it off after handing it in, but it had already started. What resulted is this:

Was pretty amusing. I would imagine that people wouldn't dare capture a dragon >.> If they bothered to notice her!

I Found Loque!

But I was too slow to save him :/ Some paladin got to him first. Truly depressing, how ignorant people can be. I'm also sick of the lies people throw up to cover up their kills. After some research, I discovered that, not only was I 100% lied to about the TLPD Ulduar spawn by reviewing the pathing maps, but that the liar was the one who got the drake. But, there's a lighter air around this sad tale.

This is the third Loque I've seen in as many days. Two tamed and one dead isn't too bad. Maybe sometime this week I'll get one. If not, my bf has offered to help me camp a Loque for my Ally hunter. In the meanwhile, all I have to do is remain patient, hopeful, and think of a name for the second Loque. Karma doesn't suit him, I'm thinking something darker like Hex or Crux. Gonna have to see what my hunter thinks.

Vial and Gifts!

So! Due to a recent high profile sale, I came into a lot of gold. For myself, I bought a Vial of the Sands finally...

And had enough left over to spoil my soul mate a little with things he's been wanting. His first reaction was "Jeeze babe!"

I then took him out for flying lessons. First off: Hold your lunch and hold on tight, because I learned how to fly upside down. Not that you can tell very easily at first glance. It's hard to screenshot and fly.

So, of course, after he taught himself his own Vials, he had to practice, too!

:3 I have such warm fuzzies right now.

Loque Hunting

Well. I'm just sitting here, shooting the breeze with lots of people. I like cross realm zones for the open communication it brings between servers. Rarely is this a good thing, except for when you bring together a very relaxed community (and roleplayers tend to be very relaxed... usually. Sometimes). They're going back and forth over the nodes and flying around as I pick and camp a spot for Loque'nahak on my lowbie Shade. Of course, I pick the wrong spot. Congrats to the belf from... Wyrmrest I think who got him!

PuGs and Hearts

I don't know why I'm so sensitive to criticism. But I am. When people comment or compliment, I get red in the face and nervous. When they say they want to tell me something without wanting to sound mean, even a pug whose company I appreciate, I wonder what could be so bad. What could I have done?

It's not always about me. It's also about them. And usually, I'm very cruel to pugs because they mean so little to me. If someone doesn't listen the first few times I say don't stand in the fire, I stop trying to heal them. It usually words. Once they die a few times, they don't stand in the fire. So that's how I've learned how to treat them. But today, something new happened.

I was working on Ally Shade and found a tank from my server who was amusing enough to be around. We'll talk later, not sure about her yet. And this couple, a warlock and a paladin who were a couple. Which I thought was cute. It reminded me of myself and my boyfriend, when we play. The four of us ran a couple of dungeons and did more than a few fights without a healer (those like to ditch for some reason) until the tank had to go.

The three of us DPS sat in queue for a time before the warlock silently volunteered to her fiance to get on a healer for a faster queue. Not knowing what was up, I suggested to him, once she was gone, that I could get his BattleTag for a moment, and we could regroup. It worked, of course, I even got to float around on their PvP phase for a bit in my search for my Alliance's Loque'nahak. I then got a whisper from the woman. Apparently this wasn't such the case. What she said to me, though disturbing in nature, didn't make me upset. She even confessed to feeling bad for it and inviting me to stay with her, but I'd rather not become some nagging whisper in the back of her mind. Games of jealousy and betrayal had been played before, and I am all too familiar with these games.

I've been cheated on before. I've been emotionally and mentally abused. It's a wonder to me when I come across other sentient beings in PuGs, not because I intentionally forget that they're people, but because most of them have no personality, or such a negative one, that I choose to forget that they're no more than pixils. It reminded me of myself and the things I've been through, those moments where I've freaked out on my poor boyfriend for things that weren't his fault. I couldn't even take a harmless white lie from him without losing composure. I felt sorry for her and I wish her and her fiance the best of luck.

Also, as of this post, some nice level 77 hunter got herself a Loque'nahak 2 hours ago. :3 Congrats to her, I'll check again tomorrow.

Alliance

As I've said numerous times on numerous occasions, the hunter I've raided with this expansion is a new hunter, not the one I started out with way back. To be completely honest, the hunter I raided with in BC was hunter number five or something. As a new player, I managed to fill my roster up with every class/race combination except for something for shamans. Because, back then, shamans only existed for the Horde. And the Horde were ugly. I rolled a Tauren here or a Forsaken there, but I couldn't attach myself to such creatures.

Then the Burning Crusade hit. And boy was I mad. My highest level character was a level 50-something rogue, a night elf named Mideve. Of course, I didn't know jack shit about lore, so I was roleplaying a character who phonetically sounds like a certain character from lore. Most people called her Eve, though. And all was good, until that expansion hit. I was so down because I had wanted to try raiding. And let me tell you. It wouldn't have happened.

For one thing, I didn't get my first gaming PC until the BC hit, and even that PC didn't like 40 man anything. Second of all, the majority of the raid leaders back then sounded like the Onyxia Wipe guy. And, being a perfectionist, I don't like being yelled at for anything. Most of the time, I'm already berating myself in my mind to do better. That's why I mastered the art of chain trapping behind the arena in Stranglethorn over night. If someone's talking down to me while I'm working on bettering myself, I just crash. That's why I don't tank raids. The one time I did, someone promised me they wouldn't. My first time tanking through ICC 10 normals, I ask how many stacks to taunt at. The MOMENT that those stacks hit, when I had my finger on the taunt button while building passive threat, the raid leader screams over vent "TAUNT TAUNT". I vanished the next day.

Then I warmed up to the Burning Crusade. It was decently fun, the armor was pretty (even though the game designers for the leveling don't know what an armor set is and I ended up looking like a clown puked rainbows on me). I think, as memory serves, I hit 70 on Eve first, before... panicking. What do I do now? How do I get into a raiding guild? Who do I talk to? Are they going to talk down to me because I didn't raid before? Am I going to be in trouble? How much harder are raids than instances? What if I fail at them? I managed to get into a friend's raid guild, where the rogue class master redesigned my entire talent set up (good-bye Riposte) and told me to get 100 hit rating before I even think about going into Karazhan. I bolted.

I ran off to a nice little server called Ravenholdt and began to level a hunter instead of gearing up for raiding. In the Ghostlands, I met a new friend named Bel (well he had a longer name than that...), who was a protection Paladin. We leveled at about the same, relaxed but progressive pace and talked often, so I latched onto him for instancing and we had a swell time. Goofy, sarcastic, and set on getting it done one way or another would sum up our time together. An example would be in Blackrock Depths where he wanted to skip some trash. He said "Cling to the wall!". As I ran by, I pointed my character's face into the wall and hit auto run so I could creep forward at the slowest pace possible and said "Am I doin it rite, Bel?". And, with one of his friends being a bit... dyslexic, said friend read my name as Reks instead of Resk. So he called me Rex. Bel picked up on this, so we were Bel and Rex.

He found a nice raiding guild and dragged me along. There, I did Karazhan for the first time. Plenty under-geared, but that came with time. Since I was gearing up with Bel, I got plenty of good drops from 5 man heroics, and he told me I was good enough at trapping (assuming I managed to pull the mob before he got threat. Once Bel had threat on something, it was his, until death did the part. I swear, once he had a Consecration down, if my CC target ran over it, I could just forget about trapping it).

I was given prime hunter spots in numerous 10 man groups which either suited or didn't suit Bel. Wherever he wanted to go, I followed, and anyone who wanted a good Prot Paladin would make room for his nervous, shy hunter friend. But I became bolder as he showed me it's alright to do what works best for me, making numerous excuses on my behalf whenever we left a guild to head to greener pastures. Eventually, we moved from Ravenholdt to Moon Guard, where Bel began to sniff around for another guild. I moved my rogue along as well, a nice little Night Elf to go with my Blood Elf and began to gear her as well. I came across an Alliance guild who was looking for a rogue. Oh hey, I have one. I offered up my rogue, with PvP swords and half geared. I think I was pulling about 800 DPS, which was good enough to guarantee me a spot in any heroic group, but... The guild leader just sorta sniffed at me, told me to keep working on it, and they'll see.

About the same time, Bel found a guild called Sancum Patria on Horde side, a guild far more progressed than the one who sneered at my rogue and my gearing attempts. We got into Black Temple before WotLK hit, it was all pretty fun. I abandoned my attempts on my rogue and kept to Horde side, except for the occasional pug Karazhan raid on my rogue, as I had managed to make friends on Alliance side too and they started up a small group for going to Karazhan. I absolutely LOVE Nightbane on my rogue.

But. That came with an issue, too. The guild leader was very yelly. He threatened to sit Bel a few times, as Bel had swapped to his shaman for DPS and would keep up his sarcastic remarks... You got yelled at if you talked in vent, you got yelled at if you died (except for his pet fury warrior who died to EVERY fight but NEVER got replaced... -.-). In my Kara gear on my hunter, I was beating the other hunters in damage done by the end of it, and they had SSC gear. Even the raid leader, cranky as he was, was warming up to my attempts to stay alive and do my best and asked if I really wanted to ditch my hunter because I was so good at the class. And... seeing as I had more fun in melee range with my rogue on fights than at range with my hunter, I said yeah. I want to roll a Death Knight.

So I was a Death Knight. The Death Knight. Sanctum Patria's ONLY qualified Death Knight. In fact, I became something of the class leader in Death Knights, even though the only two others that I was teaching about the class had no qualifications to raid with their toons... One of them was just... urgh. She got all upset and offended because I have a gutter brain and would make innuendo remarks. Then after I promised to cut it down around her, I made a harmless remark that SHE took as perverted and got all upset. xD Everyone who liked me in the guild (most of the raid team by that point I think...) got upset at her and numerous complains were filed. Beyond that, she had no sense of how to gear... anything... she would pick quest rewards for their armor value rather than stat value... Yeah. I wouldn't have recommended her to the raid leader if she begged me :/ Not when I'm explaining to her why to pick x stat over y stat and she shrugs me off... After ASKING me what upgrade to get.

But. All in all. I was the only raiding Death Knight in the guild. The pet Death Knight. I would go in the 10 mans. And the 25 mans. Every week. 5 days a week... I burned out by the time we had Naxx on farm in both groups. Don't get me wrong, I loved my Death Knight. I was mostly a Blood DPS girl, but I would spec whatever would give me the best DPS for my armor at the time. Including the amazing dual wield tri-spec. And I mean it. It was a tri-spec. I had at least 10 points in every tree and it was AMAZING DPS and a lot of fun! But when you raid that hard and that often, and your raid leader won't even do achievement runs... Yeah.

He also kept yelling. All the time. He promised to cut down on the yelling. But he didn't. So when Wyrmrest Accord opened... I bailed. Bel bailed. A large number of his other raiders had already bailed and made a 10 man guild. I pretty much was done with raiding for all of WotLK, until I decided to move my hunter, again. Alliance side, this time... Where she would retire, only to pug ICC and run a nearly full clear on normal mode... the only time I'd ever been past the Plague Wing, and winged the entire rest of the raid based on what was said in vent. The only time I died was in a wipe, and I was the last down. I even got the ball bouncing achievement in that one run...

And now she's coming out of retirement. I give you the toon that I've had all of these experiences and memories on... Shade of Moon Guard.

TLPD 3

Watchin Star Wars with the boyfriend. Hey! A TLPD!

And it isn't mine :/

I really, really want to stop camping this stupid drake. Really. A lot.

So. Yeah. Some guy on Wyrmrest Accord got it. -.- He even said in General that TLPD spawned and he killed it in Ulduar's Ravine... then nevermind, he fell to his death. Then 10 minutes later said he killed it in the river. That's where I found the corpse. If I had stayed in a cross paths, I would have gotten it first (Angel is on a 150% flying mount, I can't move as well as on Shade who has 310%...). But I can say with 100% certainty that, without Cross Realms, that was my TLPD spawn. No one else was there, not even Alliance.

Even worse, that area of the river was my boyfriend's camping spot (he joined me the past two days) and he closed out for the movie because his laptop is like... dying. And I'm sitting here going "Man, I x-fered my second hunter too, I should have taken two spawn points. I could have group invited myself, attacked it, let it kill me til my paladerp got there, then tagged and killed it properly". So he's facepalming because he wants my camp to end, and I'm face palming because I want my camp to end and because he feels guilty. But apart from being a little cranky, I just wanted extra cuddles and played with my kitty to make things better.

All the what ifs in the world won't change it, though :3 I lost it.

Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher

I hope this camp ends soon. xD I really do. I am done with it. It's getting harder and harder for me to stay focused on it.

Once upon a time, I had one WoW account. That's the account I play on right now with the first payment being made in Febuary of '06. I'm an old, old player. Then, a couple of years later, I met someone who RAFed me up a new account. I moved a lot of my old toons onto it, including an 80 druid, 80 hunter, 80 shaman, and some other random toons (I tried to clean the account out, I really don't know who all lives there anymore...). With Scroll of Resurrection, I took my 80 shaman back and got myself an 80 mage, but that was before the Account Wide stuff was around.

Funny thing about this. My first and only time getting into Blood Council back during WotLK was on my hunter... and we got the ball bouncing achievement in 10 man, the only one that was needed. So, I decided to hop onto all of my old toons, link up what they own, then take my first hunter back with me to my primary account. I also just realized that because of all of my old accounts and reviving them for this and that, I have 3 active WoW accounts right now o.e I should use them to all camp TLPD...

Anyway. I took that toon back, put her on Jessibelle's server (Alliance for an Alliance :D), and might try to fix her gear a bit and get into a Herald of the Titans run for Alliance. She's got some decent items. Though I might have to downgrade some...

Anyway. Because of all of that, I got the last achievement I need for my ICC 10 drake!

Lord save me, I need to camp a second Loque, now...

Vyragosa 17

One ~14+ hour camp later...

Right on my head! So close, yet to far...

Fossilized Raptor

In other news.

I've been working on Archeology. It's easier to do on my hunter than my paladin for me. I guess it's because I'm bringing Karma with me. And, for some reason, Karma really likes to play with the bones I find. It seems like, most of the time when the fossils get unearthed close to me, Karma's on top of them, making them even harder to find than usual. More than once I've dug something up and thought to myself "That's funny, there should be a fossil somewhere..." only to realize my bratty Loque is on top of it!

But in the past three days, I'm very close to my 10 rares find. I've gotten two Fossil rares (but no mount yet. Sniffle) including a hatchling... it's my second hatchling because my paladin, Fate, dug one up when I tried to level Archy on her. I'm going to cage one and give it to my boyfriend with MoP hits. But, for now, with only about 5 or 6 hour's work and this being my third day, I've already got five rares solved and a sixth on the way. I can only hope that I get a mount soon!

It's supposed to be rare. To get a rare. I'm getting a lot of rares, I think xD Who knows... but OMG!

omg omg omg :3 My first Archy mount! Eeee~

Whoot! Got a shot with Karma and some random dinosaur in the background. Seems awesome that the last fossils needed came from Un'Goro.

Vyragosa 16

Wake up. Log in. Dead Vyra. Go do something else with my day.

In other news, and I've mentioned this before but not here, I'm going to be moving realms sometime in the new future. I'm going to change my name, change the blog's url, and continue to report from a completely differnt server. And once I learn how to spell Tich... Tichu... Tiche... The Tich server's name, I'll post it fully here, too! :D

Glitch Day

Theoretical misses today: 1 Vyragosa, 1 TLPD.

I'm hearing the ghost of the drums in my head again. That means something might spawn soon. It first happened to me when I was camping Ankha/Magria. I developed a sense of time for these things :/ Psychic connection to server times. Or I'm just going crazy.

Anyway, I decided to go on good faith and spend the day with my boyfriend. We played our lowbies!

But then my horse lost his legs.

And then going cross realms, my boyfriend DCed in the air going over a border. I wish they'd fix the dismount glitch. But he got stuck in the air.

Silver: ... Uh. Shadow? Love? You're kinda...
Shadow: ...

Shadow: OH SHIT! OH SHIT! CATCH ME, SILVER!
Silver: I'm trying! Dx Hold on!

Totally wasn't in character (Yeah I have some RP toons on Cenarion Circle. Angel and Silver :3). But I managed to snap some good screenshots and that's what the captions scream to me.

TLPD Camp Off

Hello? Vyragosa? TLPD? Someone, come out and play with me? No? Okay, good night.