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

Draenor Exalted

One of my main goals for legion was to get all of the Draenor reputations to exalted so it wasn't something I had to deal with when Legion came out.  I was going to grind them out, but I decided if I was willing to drop gold cap on a single mob, why not drop 300,000k or so getting 5ish mounts instead?

So I cheated and used Medallion of the Legion to get all of my reputations to exalted and maxed out.  I'm glad I did, because that really propelled me forward to work on other achievements before Legion comes out (and I know it will come faster than expected.  Hell, its already almost March!)  With those I got some mounts, pets, and toys.  And I figured while I was on a crazy gold-shopping spree I might as well get my alliance motor-bike-thingy 100k.  Doesn't look that awesome, but I would have had to buy it anyway.

To get my Draenor flying (which will hopefully help out other achievements/Tanaan jungle) I have to find 200 treasures.  I don't have the addons to help me with that, but I will be researching what to get. BTW, Nagrandeur was a bitch, only because finding the Ring of Trials breadcrumbs was not easy.

I managed to grab a lot of achievements from this, which is great since I'm going through a life transition right now.  It affords a lot of flexibility for the future.


Achieved:
-Steemwheedle Preservation Society
-Wrynn's Vanguard
-Shatari Defense
-Nagrandeur
-Between Arak and a Hard Place
-Loremaster of Draenor
-Securing Draenor
-Ready for Raiding IV
-Arakkoa Outcasts
-Savage Friends
-Council of Exarchs
-Mantle of the Talon King
-Tanaan Diplomat

Left to Achieve: -40

Working on WoD flying, Love is in the Air

Luckily, for the most part I was completely caught up on the Love is in the Air Pets and toys and mounts.  The only things I was missing was the Love Rocket (lol, good luck) and the 3 achievements that gave the True Love Prism toy.

It was a pain in the butt, but I got my toy last night.  So now all that there is left to do is hopefully get that stupid mount.  (And that oozeling pet that drops.)  After reading all the moaning on the forums though, I am not holding my breath.  Or I'll get myself all worked up like I do every year for the Headless Horseman's Reins that Do Not Exist.

I got a total of 5 toons to 100, which I guess is fine for now.  What's kind of lame is Legion is going to fall right on that fall cusp, so its going to be hard to get enough toons up to 110 to make a serious effort.  But I'll leave that to the future to worry about.

Other than that, I have been slowly working towards WoD flying.  Its killing my soul.  I make progress but my screen isn't showing progress.  It's so slow.  But I put a big dent into Spires of Arak (bonus: Good Arrakoa rep!) so I'm hoping to finish that up today.

I also finally upgraded my menagerie to level 3, and I've already netted two pets from the upgraded bags.  I didn't realize I'm actually pretty close to my 600 pet achievement, only 13 to go.  I think pretty soon its going to be worth it to actively hunt down those last few.  But first Spires of Arak.

And I actually have achievements to report!

Achieved:
-Merciless Pet Brawler
-It Might Just Save Your Life
-It's the Stones
-Treasure Mission Specialist
-Arak Star
-Love Magnet
-Beacon of Love
-They Really Love Me
-So Grossly Incandescent 

Left to Achieve: -27