I'm on a mount!

A 310% flying mount, to be precise!
After what has been the longest grind thus far, both Tim and myself finally finished the Lunar Festival yesterday and with it, the What a Long, Strange trip it's been achievement! It's done! No more frustrating running around and flying around the whole of Azeroth to get achievements, no more getting ganked repeatedly in the Alliance capitol cities because some jerk thought it funny to kill me just before I got to say hello to an Elder or light a fire or throw a snowball at their leader's face. Never again!

It has been fun, though. As the apprentice to our Vintage Loremonkey, I was delighted to see all the little nooks and corners of Azeroth that were either designed for the World events or re-assigned to fit the event. It has been terribly frustrating and funny at the same time. I remember our first actual World Event, Winter Vale, where we tried to kill the Grinch at the same time as 250 other players. Before they upped his spawn rate. Or when we tried to desecrate the Alliance city flames and were allowed to run through Ironforge without trouble and reached the flames with a host of guards chasing us, only to run out, and get ganked on the way out by some players. Or when we went to Scarlet Monastery to kill the Headless Horseman and decided that puking all over each other was way more fun than killing the horseman. Or how frustrating it was to chase all those bloody turkeys, only to reach 30 and see another player coming from the other side, killing off all the turkeys you had planned out to kill to reach 40. If I remember correctly, it was 3:30 am when I finally got that achievement. And that wasn't the latest we ever made it when trying to get a World Event done.

But now that's done. We finally got our Violently Pink Proto Drakes to soar through the skies with. And I need to find something else to amuse me in-game.. Guess I should go for Loremaster now...

Hmmm.. Salty

After doing the fishing competition more than I'm willing to count, including losing a few times with a few seconds to spare, I finally won the booty bay fishing competition, granting me the salty title. And even though salty kavash sounds like some kind of snack, I still like the title.

In other news, since ICC seems to drop only hunter loot, Kavash is currently wearing a mail belt. The fact that there isn't a plate belt that's any better at this moment in ICC 10,doesn't really make it better.

And I try to keep real life stuff out of this blog, but since this might have an impact on my game time, I would like to note that I'll leave my current job somewhere in march, and that I'll start at my new workplace shortly after. While I look forward to it, it's a bit scary.

To leave on a light note, I only need 9 more mounts, done all of the valentine's stuff and now only need the lunar festival for my violently pink proto drake. I'll be soaring around on a 310% mount before our dear Colin will have his epic flying.

The DK.. It's.. Damnit.

Yeah. It's not too bad to play a Death Knight. There, I said it, it's out in the open, I do not loathe playing the DK as much as I said before. I kind of like and hate at the same time the fact that I can walk up to a bunch of mobs, gather up 5 or 6 of them, and just nuke the shit out of them without taking lifethreatening amounts of damage. After playing a rogue for more than a year, not dying is a refreshing change.

Proboscidea is approaching lvl 65 and is currently in Nagrand, helping Hemet Nesingwary get rid of the entire animal population of one of the more interesting zones in Outland. Nice man, that dwarf. Very environmentally friendly, too. I'm still getting used to the differences between a leather-wearing meleeclass and a plate-wearing tankclass, and apart from the staying alive part, I'm having a blast deathgripping giant mammoth-like creatures and make them soar through the air towards me (which, by the way, would be so much better if they'd make that MUHHHHH-sound they make when they die when you deathgrip them..) and then just blast the crap out of them, Sly Stallone-style. That is, if Stallone were a DK.

Now, my jewelcrafting, on the other hand.. *deep, exaggerated sigh* Let's just say that levelling jewelcrafting is like learning to use a pottery wheel. It takes ages and ages and ages until you are able to create something that is not completely pointless or ugly but actually worth anything, and all the stuff you make in between can just be dumped in the trash because it's not worth anything whatsoever and even the AH won't take your stuff.

Mining is entertaining, though. Frustrating at times, especially when you're after the same nodes as that annoying fucktard of a gnome rogue on his flying mount and you get caught up fighting off mobs who stop you from getting to the node in the first place while that jerk flies in and steals it from right underneath your nose. Twice. GODDAMMIT I HATE GNOMES.
*twitch*
I'm okay. I'm good. Sorry about that.