A ton more achievements, finishing up Lich King Raid

I managed to get quite a few more achievements in the past few days.  I've been cleaning out a few of the Lich King raid achievements.  (Have you seen how many there are?!  It's insane!)

Good news is I and hubby can easily kill Heroic Lich King and Yogg-0, on two sets of alts, so weekly mount farm is ON!

Also, running these instances is GREAT money, which helps with the whole hoping to get gold capped thing.  More update on that progress later.

Despite being so far ahead...I haven't done any Christmas shopping.  It sucks.  I have to get on that, but really hate standing in lines and holliday traffic.  I guess that leaves me with Walmart at 3am and internet shopping.  I'll figure it out.

I also still need to do bathroom demo.  And pack up everything.  And train people how to do ridiculous complicated billing at work so I can quit.  Ugh.  WoW is more fun.



Achieved:
Earth, Wind, and Fire (25 player)
He's Not Getting Any Older (25 player)
Alone in the Darkness (25 player)
In His House He Waits Dreaming (25 player)
They're Coming Out of the Walls (25 player)
Shadowdodger (25 player)
Not-So-Friendly Fire (25 player)
Getting back to Nature (25 player)
Deforestation (25 player)
Don't Stand in the Lightning (25 player)
Getting Cold in Here (25 player)
Nine Lives (25 player)
If Looks Could Kill (25 player)
With Open Arms (25 player)
Take Out Those Turrets (25 player)
Ten Hit Tunes
Fall of Deathwing
Destroyer's End
Heroic:Madness of Deathwing
Heroic: Spine of Deathwing
Heroic: Warmaster Blackhorn
Minutes to Midnight
Heroic: Ultraxion
Siege of Wyrmrest Temple
Heroic: Hagara the Stormbinder
Heroic: Warlord Zon'ozz
Heroic: Yor'sahj the Unsleeping
Heroic: Morchok
Demon's Souls
Savagely Epic
Stay Awhile and Listen
Heroic Grimrail Depot (fuck that instance.  Seriously.  Fuck. It.)
Grimrail Depot (still fuck it.)
Call of the Grand Crusade (25 player)
Salt and Pepper (25 man)
Heroic: Fall of the Lich King
Keeping it in the Family
The Light of Dawn
Upper Back Pain (25 player)

Left to Achieve: -66

(guess I should work on leveling those alts.)

Grove Warden Mount!

Full Disclosure: I bought it.  (Well, hubby set me up with the raid to buy it.)


But I'm glad I have it, I would have been sad if I didn't get it next expansion, so I think it was well worth the money.  Maybe not earned the traditional way, but farming gold is 'work' too, and I fully intend on paying him back.  (Added it to the tab, lol.)

                                          Comes with free crystal ball!  So you can see where your next mount is!


There wasn't too much farming today, except heroic farming, which netted 0 mounts.  We farmed renovation materials instead.  Was not fun.


Tonight I'm feeling kind of tired and unmotivated, so I might just kill Onyxia a couple times, maybe do a LFR (which is basically AFK in the back.)  I have to get up slightly early for the festivities tomorrow and have to be slightly functional, so I may not do too much tonight before sleeping.



Achieved:
The Black gate
Time is a Flat Circle
Ahead of the Curve: The Black Gate

Left to Achieve: -34

Heroic Firelands

I kept up the achievement steam going by stealing Hubby to do Heroic Firelands and Throne of the Four Winds.  On top of achievements and dropping a mount, these raids are an INSANE amount of money.  Hubby is now convinced he wants to farm raids every week.  No complaints from me!

(Except I'm running out of space for transmog gear!  I need to do a bank purge.)

Achieved:
Heroic: Conclave of Wind
Heroic: Al'Akir
Heroic: Beth'tilac
Heroic: Alysrazor
Heroic: Baleroc
Heroic: Majordomo Fandral Staghelm
Heroic: Ragnaros

Left to Achieve: -31

Moar early morning can't sleep achievements.

Delightfully, I found a lot of random Blackwing Descent achievements I didn't have. I've been cleaning up a bit of those in the 5 hours I have left until raids reset.  Its nice doing achievements while most of the world sleeps.  (Even though I should probably be Christmas shopping.  I don't do black Friday.  Its the whole masses of people thing.  And traffic thing.  And I'd probably go to jail for curb stomping any rude ass person that would try to take shit out of my cart thing.)

But yeah, if you have them left over.  Easy.  Don't even need a guide.

Nefarian Selfie.  He's a cold one!

Achieved:

Aberrant Behavior

Silence is Golden

Full of Sound and Fury
Heroic: Nefarian
Unbroken (25 player)
Must Deconstruct Faster (25 player)

I Choose You, Runemaster Molgeim (25 player)
Earth, Wind, and Fire (10 player)
Spore Loser (25 player)
Shocking (25 player)
Glory of the Raider (25 player)
The Only Escape
Heroic: Valiona and Theralion
Heroic: Ascendant Council
Heroic: Cho'gall
Heroic: Sinestra
Three Sixty Pain Spike (25 player)

Left to achieve: -24

LUCKY Monday!

It rocks to have a Monday that is awesome once in a while!

First order of awesomeness: I discovered that Al'Akir is now soloable, so I can start working on that.

Second order of awesomeness: Almost immediately after I read the words "Assume the mount isn't going to drop" about Alturius, the drake of the north wind dropped for me.  First time ever running it outside of Cataclysm.

I told Hubby make the bathroom these colors!

Pretty sure all my luck has been spent this week, but its nice to have one time sink off the list!  I'm pretty stoked.



While researching, I also read that heroic cataclysm dungeons are pretty easy now, so I may just go on an achievement spree, its going to be good to have a bunch banked up before the holiday seasons.  Especially since I have 0 Christmas shopping done, I'm doing a reno on the house I'm moving into, taking care of hubby's grandmother, and my work from home contract runs out on December 31st.  (This is actually a good thing, but I have to infodump all my knowledge into my replacement.  And hope she doesn't jump ship like she suggested she might. May take a "not my problem" approach to this one.)


Achieved:
Ohganotsofast!
Heroic: Omnotron Defense System

Left to Achieve: -7

200 mounts

I just realized there is now a 300 mount achievement. I feel sad that I am so far behind.  But for now, I am 7 mounts away from my 200 mount achievement, so I feel the need to power towards that goal.



But, I haven't been playing WoW consistently for the past 4ish years, so I guess I can't complain.  I've been increasing my WoW mount farming efforts.

I finally transferred my main to the new server, and I'm happy its done.  I did a little farming for the bronze whelpling (about an hour) but, unsuprisingly, it hasn't dropped yet.


I've been working on some raids and old reputations I need to finish tonight (Avengers of Hyjal,) and I got a few more achievements.  And I worked on Icecrown Citadel with my Death Knight.  She's still a little gimpy, I might have to enlist in the help of hubby to help me farm Invincible.



In the future, I'm going to make another mount list to help kind of guide me towards getting the mounts I need for my 300 mount achievement.  I also need to start seriously leveling alts, and making some serious WoWcash.  But, for tonight, here's a few achievements.


Achieved:
Do a Barrel Roll
Working More Orders
With a Nagrand Cherry On Top
Firelands
Black Forge
Iron Assembly
Blackhand's Crucible

Left to Achieve: -5

Early Sunday Morning Achievements (technically)

I decided to try out some raid finder, since it's epics you can get while drooling on your keyboard.  I figure that perhaps it would alleviate the pain of being bad at killing stuff if I could get a couple purples.


I got a bit more gear, nothing amazing, but who knows.  Maybe farming apexis won't be so lame now.  It would be more advantageous to farm it on my priest, but considering my priest is my main (and where all the achievements are) I feel like I should stick with her.  As gimpy as she is.


I also read about Legion Disc priests.


Spoiler: I'm thinking I may just go holy.





Achieved:
Monomania
The Walled City
Arcane Sanctum
Imperator's Fall
Slagworks



Left to Achieve: 2

Evened out.

It's been a busy week, I haven't had too much for anything except garrison chores.  It was nice to have a bunch of achievements banked up for the week, it took a load off.


As much as it is cheating, I'm going to use my two WoW anniversary achievements as my achievements.  Maybe partially because I feel cheated out of toys.  I'm a little sore about the lack of pet...and the charges (seriously?  Couldn't it just be toys?)



I'm also disappointed, because there is a couple transmog items I thought I had...but don't.  I really wanted to put on my white absolution set (SO pretty) just to find out I'm missing the shoulders and hat.  I'm really disappointed.  I could have sworn I had it (and really don't want to go back to black temple until my rogue goes for glaives.)  But, the set is pretty enough I might just go for it.


I'm actually kind of torn on what to do.  I want to level my alts for the monies, but I also want to farm mounts.  Which means apexis shards.  Which means a lot of time on my alt.  Though, honestly, maybe my DPS alts could farm them a lot faster than my "smite pew pew."



Eh.  I may try out a raid finder tonight.  Or a heroic or two.  I've really slacked on those.


Anyway, happy Friday.




Achieved:
WoW's 11th Anniversary
Did Someone Say...?


Left to Achieve: 0

End of the week.

I've been doing pretty good doing achievements, I'm caught up and a little bit ahead, and I'll probably need it.


As of now, I'm thinking I'll be focusing on just getting achievements and leveling alts.  I have a lot of quests left over from my garisson inn to get random toys and pets, so I'm just going to do those and level alts.  Considering how much I've been ignoring dungeons, it will probably net me a few achievements as well.


Achieved:
Heroic: Iron Docks
Iron Docks


Left to Achieve: -5

HAPPY TUESDAY

I guess happy Tuesday is a thing for WoW.  Dungeons reset, weekly quests reset, I get another gold farmer from my head hunter, etc.

I am planning to replace all of my followers with followers that have the treasure hunting trait.  What is really awesome about this trait is that the gold benefit stacks with each follower.  Quests with gold rewards that need 3 followers could be a serious chunk of WoWcash.

Soloing raids is also a nice chunk of change as well.  I need to  be more diligent about it, especially getting my alts in on the action.  I have been slacking in the gold farming as well as the alt leveling department, especially while getting used to this life transition.

I managed to get two more achievements, finishing out this week on a Tuesday (how did THAT happen?)  I do plan on banking up some achievement points as well, if I can free up a couple weeks then I can focus on gold farming and alt leveling in preparation for the next expansion.

And I get to transfer my main and it's 7-tab guild soon!  YAY SERVER WITH AN ALIVE ECONOMY!!!!1!!1!ELEVEN!

Well, I really need to do IRLdishes, and IRLlaundry, and some IRLwork-from-home-work, so I better wrap this up.


Achieved:
Pet Charmer
Heroic: Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
I Was Framed!
Skyreach
Heroic: Skyreach


Left to Achieve: -3

Just more achievements

Happy Monday.

Bleh.


Even 'working from home' Mondays suck quite a bit.


Despite this, I still managed achievement.



Achieved:
Pet Charmer
Heroic: Shadowmoon Burial Grounds


Left to Achieve: 2

(Seems easy, but with the life changes, any respite I get is pretty major.)

Completely caught up! LEGION TRAILER!

Through some miracle (and perseverance) I managed to catch up.  I'm at 0 for this week, so now I can continue on my quest as planned.

Also, in exciting news, Legion is planned for summer of 2016.  While I wouldn't mind more time to get my affairs in order, its nice to have a deadline for goals.

So, my goals for Legion:

Keep up with 7 achievements a week.
All high-level alts to 100.
All gold debts paid off to hubby.
Gold cap by release.


Too lofty?  Absolutely.  But there's this saying about shooting for the moon and at least you land by the stars.  Except the moon is closer...and you'll just jump out of a tree...and smash your face on a rock.


Still feeling kinda jaded.  But despite this, I'll probably add a gold counter soon, just for more WoW tracking funness.

Achieved:
I Want More Talador
Shoot For the Moon (Irony)
On a Metric Ton of Missions
Heroic: Auchindoun
One Many Army

Left to Achieve: -3!!!!

So, uh, about draenor flying...

I figured a good way to spend my achievement goals was to work towards getting my flying mounts.  It's pretty annoying not to have one.  I'm not a fan of how they handled the flying mount situation in this expac, but there's a billion rants on the forums that I am sure have covered all points of what I would say.


But think I'm butt hurt about the flying thing...just wait until my husband tries to get his.  He hates questing.

*Chants* just make it to legion...just make it to legion


Achieved: Explore Spires of Arak
Explore Draenor
Explore Talador
Explore Shadowmoon Valley
Explore Tanaan Jungle

Left to achieve: 2 (Woot! back on track)

Master of Mounts

I finally managed to grab all six mounts from my garrison. I haven't worked on any of the other achievements that comes from the stables, I may work on that or look into it.  I'll have to transfer my character soon, now that I bought my bank slot from the guild vendor.

And get to gold cap.  I got a long way to go.



Achieved:
-Master of Mounts
-Working in Draenor


Left to Achieve:7

I'M BACK!

For the past couple weeks I haven't had my computer set up (had to redo the layout of my house.)  I have it back, and am very behind on achievements, but having a source of enjoyment/a hobby you like does wonders for your mental health.


I've definitely broken the chain of achieving seven achievements a week, but when the life horse bucks you off, just gotta get back on and make up for lost time!  I'm going to try to make up for the deficit of achievements I've lost.  Isn't perfect, but it keeps my achievement number climbing.


I'm kind of sad that I've missed out on Hallow's Eve achievement blogging time.  There is a wealth of achievements that this event could help you get, from pet leveling to alt leveling, but sometimes you just have to bow down to RL and accept that RL comes first sometimes.  (Can Sword Art Online become real?  Someone trap me in virtual reality.)

Luckily, I managed to get the two pets and toy that I didn't have in my collections.  Even though I didn't get my mount (no griping about it for this year, I definitely didn't give 100% trying to get it) I'm glad I got those.  Saves me a few thousand gold since I won't have to buy them.


My schedule in life has changed radically.  I have went from a 8-5 corporate whore job to a 24/7 caregiver job with a 16 hour part time corporate whore job.  You'd think living at home would allow for more WoW time, but it really doesn't.  Being a perfectionist, neat-freak caregiver takes up a lot of time, but I'm sure I'll adjust.


But hey, at least I get to wear my facial piercings and have cool hair again!


RL Achievements: 
-Return to Punk Rocker Self
-Sleep?  Who Needs Sleep?


Okay, anyway, it took me a while to figure out my deficit, but I think it will be fun, and having a goal to work towards will be mentally healthy.


Achieved:
-Filling the Ranks
-Bloodmaul Slag Mines
-Heroic: Blood Maul Slag Mines
-Come With Me If You Want to Live

Left to achieve: 9  (Heroic Splurge, anyone?)