Farming Finally Pays Off

Last fall when Mists came out I happily leveled my druid first, got her raid ready, then leveled my monk.  And when I found out that Mekgineer's Choppers didn't translate to Mechanohogs (at the time), I made her an engineer.  So for about 5 months now I've been wanting the Depleted Kyparium Rocket for a mount.

They take three orbs of mystery.  THREE!!!

Each orb is still 18k gold.  And that's not even including the 12 living steel, 12 spirits of harmony, etc.  Which I was able to farm and have the druid transmute, but still:  it takes time to get all of this stuff together.

And after months of transmuting and farming and selling on the auction, last night I finally achieved my goal:

I've also been working on the Alliance side of my account to get the remaining jeweler's mounts made.  I'm missing the jade and sunstone panthers, and of course the Jeweled Onyx Panther, which takes all 4 of the others to make.

In doing this, I've been using my lock to farm, since he's a miner and engineer, and I realized I could make the Gnomish Engineering mount, the Geosynchronous World Spinner, on him.

I used to complain about being broke all the time when I was raiding due to raid preparations and repairs.  The truth is no matter what I'm doing in game I find a way to spend gold!

Happy Mount Whoring!

Rough Month

April is always a rough month for us.  My boyfriend works in the casino industry, and people in April are more concerned with paying taxes than tipping dealers.  So I've spent most of this month without my WoW subscription while we play catch-up.

Never fear, because I have a trial account!  And why on earth would I have a trial account, when I have so many characters I don't play already?

For exactly times like these.  And for times I don't feel social.

Seriously, I love my friends and wouldn't trade them for any others in the world.  I love the new friends in-game I keep making.

But there are times, especially as a bi-polar woman, when it's better for me to, shall we say, quarantine myself?  Just ask Drakontis.  He'll tell you.  Poor guy, and still a good friend in-game.  But I nearly took his head off one night before a raid right after Cata came out, back when everyone was stressing over the new talent system and I had someone reporting to our GM that I had no clue how to play my druid.  I missed one important change, but I people helped me with it.  And I was still pissed that the person had whispered behind my back instead of coming to me with it.

See my point?  Once I get going, I don't always stop.  So there are definitely times when I really want to play, but should not be allowed around other people, especially friends that I want to keep as friends.

I actually like playing the trial version from time to time.  I haven't played it much since I've been so busy with my new project, Old Mother Tucker  (on tumblr, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest).  But it's kind of neat to start over from scratch without gold or heirlooms.  It's not really like starting from Vanilla, since that content is almost all gone, but we can't keep living in the past, now, can we?  Besides, I started playing in BC just before Wrath, so I don't know what it was like in the beginning anyway.  *sigh* Damn I miss Cenarion Refuge in Zangarmarsh when the Horde would kill our mage friend, and we'd retaliate, and the guards would kill all of us and it would end up looking like a boneyard.  Good Times!

Again I digress.  My point is that sometimes it's good to just enjoy the game without distractions.

Happy Gaming!

A Moment of Sadness

I've been meaning to post this for some time.  I actually did it last week.  But it just depresses me.

With one drake up.

Solo.

I never thought I was one of those that clung to the past, at least not in World of Warcraft.  But after all of those horrible pugs where someone pulled and left, or 8 out of 10 raid members stood in the fire wall, this just made it all seem so sad and pointless.

Of course, I was kinda proud, too.

Happy Achievement Whoring!

Mountain O'Frustration

I already have my mount achievements and the blue kite to prove it.  That doesn't stop me from wanting more mounts, now, does it.

So lately I've been running Sethekk Halls and Utgarde Pinnacle, trying to get the Reins of the Raven Lord and the Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake.  I still don't have the mounts from Stratholme, Zul'Gurub, Zul'Aman or Karazhan, either.

I was running my Horde monk and druid and my Alliance druid through each, not every night, but over several nights here lately.  And all to no avail.

So tonight I got ambitious.  I have 5 Alliance 90's and 2 Horde 90's.  And yep, you guessed it, ran each one.

The Raven Lord was unforgiving.  But on my 6th run through UP:

Now if I can just get online when my friends are still awake and don't mind being in a raid group...or teaming up in the Zul's...

Happy Achievement Whoring!

Arcade Video Game Sticks?

August Celestials!

I got my horde monk, Diralin, exalted with the August Celestials yesterday.  And spent 7k gold on this:

There, a couple of different shots so you can see the lightning.

(Voice of Darnell) Really, Blizz?  Really?

I mean, I paid that much gold for the golden cloud serpent with a lightning overlay?

Now I just need to get her exalted with the Huojin Pandaren to get the kite.

Happy Rep Grinding!

*Sigh* One More 90

I got my priest, Lycette, to 90 yesterday.  And just before I hit, I went and had an early celebration:

And yeah, after I uploaded it, I thought, 'Why didn't you walk her off, THEN hit levitate?'

My roots are brown, believe it or not.

Happy Falling Without Dying!

Quick Question

If I'm dead, how can I have life?

WTB flying corpse runs.  And rares that don't chain blade flurry.

Ok, I'm done whining.  For now.

Happy leveling!