Nightfallen Exalted and Full Discography!

Full Discography might seem like a weird achievement to get excited about, but fuck Gurubashi Arena.

I actually ended up getting REALLY lucky.  I thought this was going to be one of those futile achievements.  I ended up running down around 2:30, only to find a good 8 people already camping for it. Great.  I went and did some other RL stuff (internet cut out) and when the internet came back on at 2:50, I figured, WTH, I'm already up at 3am, the worst that's gonna happen is I'm going to get steamrolled and figure out that I'm going to have to pay a raid of 40 to help me get it.

So the guy drops the chest, and I don't even bother to try to go after all the other people.  I just try to loot the chest while everyone else is at each other's throats, except there is one druid moon firing me.  Luckily I'm disc, so I just bubble, and try to loot again, moon fire, repeat cyclone, repeat, moon fire, repeat.  Then, another hunter pops up beside me, half dead, and starts looting the chest.  Druid decides to moon fire hunter first, and BING, open chest!

I learned my Angelic Music roll, dinged my achievement, and GTFO of there!  Talk about huge adrenaline rush and relief!

So, the moral is, even if you think an achievement is going to be a huge pain in the ass, just go for it.  You might just get it done.  So relieved that only took one day.

Other than that, I got Nightfallen Exalted.  Its nice to have one set of world quests crossed off the list to worry about (though, I do end up doing them for the rewards anyway.) I do need to figure out a game plan for finishing up my daily quest achievements, since they seem to be going by the wayside.

I've also outgeared my class hall gear and bought my double legendary research for my whole 0 legendaries, so I've also lost the need for mass class hall resources, so that frees up a lot of farming time as well.

Anyway, here's a pile of achievements.  I've been maintaining my surplus, which is nice because I've had a few days when I've been feeling burnt-outish, so I don't log on everyday.  But, mount drought, unfortunately, continues.


Achieved:
-Battle on the Broken Isles
-Master of Magic
-Halls of Flesh-Shaping
-Can't Touch This
-From Dusk 'til Dawn
-Pinnacle of Storms
-Full Discography
-What a Ripoff!
-Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Goblins
-Item Level Force (finally! Better believe I'm keeping up on this in Priest Hall, what a PITA.)
-Scare Bear
-Ahead of the Curve: Xavius
-The Nightfallen
-Friends in a Broken Land
-Fel Smelter
-Mass Obliteration
-Rift of Aln
-500 World Quests Completed
-Professional Legion Master
-Why Can't I Hold All This Mana?
-Hidden Potential
-Brokenly Epic
-Cretaceous Collector
-Leyline Bling

Left to Achieve: -29 

Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake!

Well, I didn't farm it from Stonecore, but I snagged it off of the BMAH.  So, kind of cheating, but I did grind up the 200,000g for it, so I guess I still farmed it in a way. I was actually surprised it went for so cheap, but other people probably figured "She's outta her damn mind, its farmable!"

Very true, but I am honestly glad that is not a farm I have to do anymore.  It probably would have been maddening, and I actually did farm it for a couple days.  Constant resetting until you're out of instances is pretty boring.  Plus, I still have to do it for Stratholme and Baron Rivendaire's mount, so I'm glad to only have one of those types of grinds to go.  (Unless the BMAH wants to be generous again.)  So I'm not rolling in more mounts, but I'm pretty ecstatic with what I got.

That said, I'm pretty discouraged by how far away I am from Mountacular.  231/250.  Lots of people already have their 300 mount achievement, so I feel way behind the curve.  It doesn't help I've been slacking off on weekly raid runs and old school dailies since I've had so much to do this expansion.  And I haven't been leveling alts like I wanted to.  I've been mostly focused on world quests and working on gear and professions.  But, there's no reason not to focus on current content before the content drought hits I suppose, I haven't been on 'cutting edge' of an expansion in a while.  (Didn't play at the beginning of MoP or WoD.)

Anywhoo, I've really slacked on updating my achievements.  I have a whole list of them, and still in the negatives.  (But doing the math week to week sucks when I skip weeks, I need to stop it.)

Achieved:
-Zandalari Library Card
-Master of Apexis
-Tormented Guardians
-Broken Isles Diplomat
-So Many Missions
-Heroic: Dark Heart Thicket
-Mythic: Dark Heart Thicket
-Surge Protector
-Heroic: Halls of Valor
-Mythic: Halls of Valor
-Naval Combat Specialist
-Adventurer of Azsuna
-Darkbough
-Champions Rise
-Heroic: Violet Hold
-Vault of the Wardens
-Heroic: Vault of the Wardens
-A Glorious Campaign
-A Roster of Champions
-Savagely Epic
-Forged for Batle
-Never a Day's Rest

Left to Achieve: -19

Finishing Class Hall

Since I've been finishing my class hall, and that has caused an explosion of stuff to do on my priest.  Definitely not a bad thing.

Though, since it is Brewfest tomorrow, I am definitely feeling the leveling alts itch.  Hallows End is coming up, and considering the RNG gods are against me having the headless horseman's mount, the more alts the better.

I have one alt to level 103.  (My herber/farmer, because 2 million gold.)  I guess I need to make a better effort to level the rest of them, though I'm not sure how many I will actually level.  I suppose if I juggle rested XP with all of them it won't be too bad.  Though, if I decide to raid the preparation for raiding would cut into leveling time.

Well, always better to have too much to do than not enough!

In other news, the RNG Gods decided to send me a two second sprinkle amid my mount drought.  I picked up the Reins of the Llothein Prowler.  Definitely not rare by any means, but its nice to have!  And its a really cute mount too.

Achieved:
-Legion Archaeologist
-Legion Aquaculture
-Black Rook Hold
-Assault on Violet Hold
-Legion Fisherman
-Heroic: Black Rook Hold
-Heroic: Eye of Azshara

Left to Achieve: -10

Queues maybe fixed? Braving dungeons.

As of now I'm not really working on any project in particular, I still have a lot of normal stuff to do for my character.  Just focusing on world quests and the like.  The gear you get from world quests is actually pretty good...makes me want to skip dungeons altogether.

I have braved a few lately.  When the other players IQ isn't sub-100, the run goes fine and I don't have problems healing.  I had one bad group last night.  The tank Would. Not. Stop.  Was pulling multiple trash packs, two of the DPS were bitching the entire time, and the mage didn't understand the concept of not standing in AOE.  And didn't understand the concept of his/her ice shield.  And kept running into walls.  Despite this, we never wiped, so hopefully that means Disc is okay/I'm an okay healer.  The other group went off without a hitch and wasn't a bad heal at all.  DPS not standing in fire and tanks not pulling 3 packs at once makes a huge difference.

This is was normal though.  Still haven't braved heroics.  I think I'm going to run everything on normal first though, so I don't go in completely blind to the mechanics.  EoA is going to be a bitch though.  I can feel it and I've read it.  It was also my first healing experience this expansion, talk about trial by fire.  (Or trial by Serpentix.)

This expansion is still new enough I'm not having to try very hard to get new achievements.  It will be nice to have a stockpile again in case I get busy.

Achieved:
-Explore Val'Sharah
-Cage Match
-Brokenly Superior
-Forgotten Depths
-Genetically Unmodified
-Surveying the Land
-Explore Stormheim
-Broken Isles Explorer
-Variety is the Spice of Life
-Quite a Few Missions
-Last Stand of the Zandalari
-Raise an Army
-Everything Tastes Better
-200 World Quests Complete
-Halls of Valor
-Neltharion's Lair

Left to Achieve: -10

Boring Achievement update, even more boring queues.

Not much to report, just some achievements.

I still haven't really gotten the guts to do a lot of dungeons yet, despite the fact healing the normal as disc went fine.  I'm one point off of queueing for heroics, so I should probably get on doing the rest of my dungeon quests.  I'm sure that's a lot of gimme achievement points too.

Oh, and on a sad note, the easy Darkmoon Faire ticket tricks is blown out of the water.  :(  It seems like you need a decent 500 fishing to actually get all the fish needed in a timely manner for the box.  I imagine its still worth doing, even if its a bit of a grind.  I do wish I got them done before this patch, but thats what I get for procrastinating.

Also, the queue times on my server are simply awful.  I have been playing on my alts on a different server sometimes to avoid it (I am VERY glad I did not move all of my toons.)  Although, lately I have learned that the goldsink mount for this expansion is 2 million gold.

2.  Million.  Gold.

That's a lot, even for me, so I decided to level my herb/miner to take advantage of the beginning ore/herb prices and bank up a bit for the mount.  Unfortunately, that means waiting in the 2+ hour queue.  Oh well, what you going to do, right?

I've hit my dry spell when it comes to obtaining mounts.  After the run of luck I had a little while back, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest, but its still a little bit disappointing.  I also have a list of stuff I need to finish for prior expansions, most of those lists leading to mounts, but that may be a future checklist.

Ah well, here are my achievements.

Achieved:
-Explore Highmountain
-50 World Quests Completed
-Nightfallen But Not Forgotten
-Explore Suramar
-Lazy Eye
-Heroic: Well of Eternity
-Tranquil Master
-Who's Got Two Green Thumbs

Left to Achieve: -1

Back for Legion!

Well, I decided to stop my mini-hiatus and come back for Legion.

So far, Legion isn't too bad.  A few irksome things here or there, but I'm sure it would be that way with any game.

A lot of life changes and business kind of was behind the hiatus, but for now I'm able to play again.  I'm going to start up the 7 achievements a week now that I am 110.

I'm not really working on any particular project now (other than the ever-present mount, pet, and toy grind.)  I guess just getting my gearscore up for raids etc.  So for now I'm just going to focus on getting the achievements and getting more acquainted with the expansion.

Actually, today is Darkmoon Faire, so I'm going to work on getting some tickets.  I found a bunch of new toys I need from there, and I have been working on getting all my music rolls, so no time like the present.  (And for the rep buff. Legion rep grinds are really grindy and slow it seems.)

So, back to playing!


Left to Achieve: 7

Draenor Pathfinder!!

I finally got it.  And DAMN does it make the game a whole fuck ton easier.

I do have to say, not having flying for this expansion more readily accessible was a big mistake on the part of Blizzard.  The terrain was absolutely obnoxious, I don't really know what possessed them to make a decision like that.  (/sarcasm.  Obviously money.)


Though, grinding the last few treasures (And much thanks to HandyNotes addon for making it a lot less painful than it could have been) really burned me out, so I have been playing a bit less lately.  But I have still managed to nab a few achievements.

Achieved:
-Expert Treasure Hunter
-Builder
-Shredder Maniac
-Master Treasure Hunter
-Draenor Pathfinder
-Celestial Challenger

Left to Achieve: -32