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

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