The lucky streak continues: Onyxia

I took a break from leveling my hunter and ran to Onyxia's lair and scored an Onyxian drake.  Pretty stoked!

Now I only need Blazing Drake for 'Awake the Drakes' achievement and the Emerald Drake.  The only problem is I haven't figured out how to solo the back of Nefarian.  I really haven't put too much effort into trying, so hopefully its soloable on a lot of my characters.  I can do it fine with the hubby helping me, but he got into this weird game called "Destiny," so he hasn't been on much.  I may have to strike up a deal.


I also managed to snag a Mudback Riverbeast from my shipping yard.  I had to take a break to farm some of the shipyard plans, but it was worth it IMO.

That brings me up to a total of 216 mounts.  Slow progressing, but when you're mount hunting any progress at all (especially 5 mounts in one week!  Incredible!) is awesome.


In another little bit of luck, Eriss finally gave up her Bone Serpent.  Though, I hadn't realized I needed to get my garrison to level 3 for chances at more pets, so I'll have to get on that ASAP.

Leveling has been kind of stagnant as of yesterday, I've been feeling a little under the weather and lost a little bit of steam, but I'm hoping to make some progress tonight.  (Hooray rested and garrison exp potions!)

Progress as of now:
Goblin Hunter: 98
Blood Elf Rogue: 97
Night Elf Druid: 91
Troll Warlock: 88


Left to Achieve: -25

INVINCIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have achieved my life long WoW goal.


I got Invincible.

I didn't even have to spend a million gold to get him.  I got it on a last minute run of Icecrown Citadel that I hadn't really planned on doing.  So much relief.  I had actually taken a week and a half break because I got burned out on mount hunting (Thanks again, Huolong.)  It gave me another boost of WoW energy.

With that major goal out of the way, the game is actually more fun now.  I think I'll just set my next ultimate goal to getting 300 mounts, and be relatively caught up on this expansion so I don't leave a ton behind to do for the next expansion.  Hopefully I can get all of the reputations to exalted before Legion. Barring any breaks, I don't think that this would be too difficult.


What's awesome is my lucky streak didn't end there: I managed to snag the Drake of the South Wind too.

So thats two instances off of my weekly to-do list. Freeing up time on the to-do list is almost as awesome as getting the mount itself.


Speaking of mount farms, the Love Festival (or whatever it is) is coming up, and I don't have the mount from there, so I figured now would be a good time to blast my way to Quintessential Quintet. I actually have 3 toons I want to get to 100, so that would be six, but I figure the more chances at the mount the better.  (Tough, if Headless Horseman's Reins is any indication, I could have 100 100s and still not get it.  But trying is better than not trying.)

Which cleared off another thing on my to-do lists: Got my 5000g on my mount so I can add my hard-earned Blue Proto-Drake

So far that brings me up to a total of 214 mounts.  (So. Far. Behind.)  But, its nice to know that there is a pit-stop on the 250 mark, I'll be looking forward to that.  Probably my next glut of mounts will come from getting all of my Draenor factions exalted. (Dungeon rep bonus coming up!)

So for now, just leveling alts.  My goblin hunter is 98, my blood elf rogue is 92, and my night elf druid is 91.  My goblin seemed to go fast, but the blood elf seems to be dragging a lot.  On top of this I'm working on their professions as well, because that is one thing I really don't want to leave until Legion.

But of course, there's always real-life to tend to.  I will be actively moving next week, so that is going to put a dent in my progress.  I'm hoping to get at least a couple of my toons to 100 this weekend so I don't have to kill myself next week to get them all to 100.  (I may or may not try to get my troll warlock to 100, since she's 88 that feels like a tall order, but its in the back of my mind.)


Achieved:
-Tons of Toys
-Invincible
-Petty Officer
-Master of All

Left to Achieve: -32

Cleaning up MoP

So, didn't make it too far in Spires of Arak.


But, I kind of got a second wind looking at the few reputation grinds I have left for Pandaria.  I figured doing anything is better than nothing, and I'd take a trip back to Pandaland to tie up some loose ends.

As of now, I have to finish reputation grinds for:

-Emperor Shaohao
-Kirin Tor Offensive
-Operation Shieldwall
-The Black Prince
-Nat Pagle


The Black Prince...I'm screwed.  Guess I'll be doing Celestials once a week for 40 some weeks.  Too bad for me.


Achieved:
Commander
Operation Counter Attack
Pilgramage
Master Relic Hunter
Don't Call Me Junior
Ashran Victory
Heroic End Time

Left to Achieve:-42

Analysis Paralysis

Lately I've been feeling a little burned out on WoW.  Probably from the incessant mount farming.  I'm even tired of doing Icecrown Citadel, which is a problem if I don't want to spend gold cap on Invincible.  (If I ever get gold cap, and if the mount ever shows up.)

Last night I looked at all the achievements I was missing and needed to do before the new expansion hit, and instead of freshening the game it made it feel worse.  So many mounts and reputations I have to grind for MoP and WoD....and so many apexis crystals...omg the apexis crystals...

It almost made me want to take another break just because I'm so far behind and it feels overwhelming.  But, I want to narrow it down to a few goals, and I'm sure after that things will fall into place naturally.

I also need to get back on the achieving horse, because the reserve is drying up fast and moving time is coming up soon.  (Yeah, I got half moved and then it was postponed for MONTHS...so I will be in box forts again in the upcoming months.)  So, I just need to get to it.

I think one thing that is going to GREATLY help is getting flying in WoD, so I want to focus on Draenor Pathfinder.  The terrain is just abysmal in this game, and I think that is something that's really sapping the fun out of the game for me.  I'm a good while off.

For today, I'm going to focus on finishing Spires of Arak (I have almost NOTHING done there.)  I don't even know where to get the quests or where I left off.  So, I guess I'm going to half to hunt around.

So, I guess I'll just focus on that.  I have a whole 1 achievement to report.  Slacker.

Achieved:

Naval Siege Specialist

Left to Achieve: -43

Obtaining Darkmoon Faire pets

I have been really slacking on all things Darkmoon Faire the last few times it was in town.  I still have a ton of achievements to do for it, but for some reason all the mini games are annoying.


Anyway, I have formulated a plan to get all of the Darkmoon Prize Ticket pets, mounts, and toys in the most efficient way possible.  And it isn't playing minigames.

The best way to get all of the pets and mounts is to fish for 100 darkmoon daggermaw (can be fished in open water anywhere off of the shore) and then buy the Faded Treasure Map off of the Fishing Prizes Vendor (Gallissa Sundew.)  Once you complete the quest, you'll have 100 Darkmoon Prize Tickets.  You can only do it once per character, so you'll have to go through all of your alts to do the quest.

It will also give you the chance to get the Sea Pony pet, if you have no already obtained it.

Its a lot quicker (and less expensive) than trying to do all of the mini games once a day.  But, you can get the quest at level 15, so if you run out of alts just level another one up to 15.  (It won't take long, especially if you have heirlooms.)

1. First clue is in a bag in the tent on the boat. (1)
2. Second clue is in the sand pit underneath the purple toy tiger. (2)
3. Third clue is in the pen with the basilisk, under the head of the Careless Carnie. (3)
4. Fourth clue is underneath the banner of the knight being shot out of a cannon, off the path. (4)
5. The treasure chest is underneath the water in the sunken ship. Complete the quest for the tickets.(5)

I have also finally found the magic combination of my own personal pets to beat both Darkmoon master Pet Tamers.  For some reason these really gave me a hard time, so it was a relief to find a combination that I didn't have to try the same fight over and over to finally RNGwin.

For the Grand Master Pet Tamer (Christoph VonFeasel)

-Wild Crimson Hatchling
-Lil' XT
-Lil' Bling


For the Master Pet Tamer (Jeremy Feasel)

-Wild Crimson Hatchling
-Doom Bloom
-Lil' XT


But neither of them seem to want to give up their pets to me, so no luck on that front.


Other than that, I've only done one achievement: Seaman.  So I've been pretty pathetic on the achievement front.

But, I have snagged another mount: Pureblood Firehawk.  It is cool that its the mount off of Ragnaros, so it shaves a good amount of time off of my mount hunt each week.  Weirdly I've been feeling kind of lazy on the mount farm this week,I need to get my butt in gear and finish.  (Here's hoping for Invincible, prz WoW gods *sacrifices several exploding sheep.*)



Achieved: 
Seaman

Left to Achieve: -49

Happy New Years Eve!

It has been a long time!

As usual, holidays have been crazy, I am super glad that I had a bunch of achievements saved up to float me through the holidays.

My DK is 100, I transferred/faction changed my druid, I bought the Legion expansion and got a level 100 warrior, and I got a bunch of mounts!

-My husband and I got the deluxe edition of Legion, so we got the mount that came with that.

-My husband was super awesome and bought me the Minion of Grumpus for Christmas, so I didn't have to do all the poorly thought-out dailies for nothing.  :)

-And, super excitingly!, I got my Blue Protodrake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The catch?  I got it on one of my lower level horde toons, and I can't learn it because I don't have the gold to learn the flying to use it.  (Transferred all my horde gold with my druid.)

But honestly, I'm okay with it.  It gives me an excuse to work on my fourth level 100 for my Quintet, and maybe start farming for the drake in Stonecore.  I'm just glad I don't have to park any more toons outside in Northrend.  Now, if only I could get Invincible I'd be DONE going to Northrend (until the Northrend raid pets.  Can't wait.)

And all of those mounts got me my mount parade!!!!  Now I feel the crushing goal of getting my 300 mount achievement.  There will be another mount list coming up.

I also finally paid off all my debt to hubby!  So now I just need to focus on getting gold cap.  And finding out where the BMAH actually is.

It's New Years Eve, btw.  Given how the past two years have been, the only resolution I have is to just be happier and have a better year than the last.  I hope everyone else has a better year too!


Achieved:
-Crashin' Thrashin Flamer
-Got My Mind on My Draenor Money
-Mount Parade
-Chromatic Champion
-Movin' On Up
-Elementary

Left to Achieve: -55

16000 club!

And I am aware that is totally lame.


Life is still busy, but this is my last week of corporate work (YAY!) So I'm looking forward to that freeing up some time.

Lately I've just been focusing on farming mounts, farming gold, and paying back gold.  (Heroic Cata raids are the way to go by far.)  I've also been working on leveling my DK.

Strange tip: If you can't get into leveling your alt, put a cool transmog on it.  Leveling alts are a lot more fun when they are wearing shiny gear.  I'll probably be 98 on my DK tonight.

I'm four mounts away from my 200 mount achievement, and its happy TUESDAY! So hopefully I'll be a little lucky this week.  I haven't had too much luck, except I got my panther from ZG, so thats exciting.  Still no Blue Proto-drake.  I'll be so so happy when I don't have to take time out of my day to run that six times.

I do have a few more achievements to report.  Nothing too exciting.


Achieved:
I've Had Worse
Three Faced
Doesn't Go to Eleven
Hex Mix
Hellbreach
Avenger of Hyjal
Achieveatron
Double Dragon
Can't Do That While Stunned (25 player)
Lumberjacked (25 player)
Set Us Up the Bomb (25 player)

Left to achieve: -70