Achievements this week

Sometimes I keep some of my easy achievements up my sleeve so that if I don't get any of the harder achievements, I still have the easy ones to make a few for the week.

A Little Patience was one of the Scenarios I hadn't done yet, and there are a lot of achieves in there.  So I started with building the defences of the Gnome and Jinyu.

It feels kinda weird killing horde, I must admit.

I had a battered hilt and I finally got around to finishing that quest chain with cool weapon.  But which one to choose?  I admit, I chose the most interesting one, but now I struggle to find a transmog for it... I think the shoulders of this set are too dull.

It was interesting forging the blade.  I shall have to write a more extended version of it later, because back in the day, I'm sure it was a pretty awesome chain.  I did have a giggle when the Blood Elf - oh wait, am I giving spoilers? - tried to touch it.

Weekend PvP - A new addition

No Shab on Friday and with a sick child I decided to take Friday night off WoW, so my PvP night went down the toilet.  However, the boys got together and did some 2s (Shab and Narishma joined Sev's 2s team) and they did really well.  It must be nice being double DPS :)

Tried a few 3s on Saturday and some 2s, and Sev and I did ok in 2s, but not used to having a shadow priest in a 3s team so we will need practice with that.

On Sunday we had no raid again, and I had already suspected that so I had asked Broll if he would like to come and PvP with us and do 5s (as Soultouched has been too busy for 5s lately).  Broll brought his monk and it felt like there were only 2 or 3 teams playing because we just played he same teams over and over.

There was a solo healing team (resto shaman) with a hunter, warrior, shadow priest and mage who beat us as many times as we beat them.  The other team was a double healing team (resto druid, resto shaman) with an ele shaman, warlock and ... I can't recall the other, but we had a win and a few losses against them as well.  One time the other members of the opposing team didn't have all 5 enter the arena and another time they just didn't join.

Our first 5s was hectic.  Shab even said OMG as the GladiatorLOSA addon went crazy non stop talking - I couldn't even hear half the polymorphs being called and got cranky with myself for getting poly'd so much.  Sev was smashed in that first game and after that we said we would do more healing on the poor squishy warlock.

There were some particularly hairy moments that I recall.  The shadow priest rezzed the hunter in one of our BGs, and then in the same match was rezzing the warrior, and the guys said the priest was moving while rezzing and Narishma had also silenced him and he was still doing it.  Weird!  The boys are sure the rez went off but the warrior didn't get up.

The resto druid did some amazing survival as the boys called a target switch and focussed the druid.  Unfortunately the druid lived and managed to heal up.  And we lost that game.

Monks are way OP I've decided.  They are so hard to kill.  With a bit more gear I think Broll would be way more useful on the team than me!  His disarming and the bubble thing are so awesome.  Rogues who are disarmed must be really cranky.

We did some BGs after that which were all good as we won them all.  So, after a disappointment in terms of raiding, it was good to have a half decent PvP night.

Edit: I take that back.  I had an excellent run of RBGs on Monday night.

My Top 10 favourite companion pets

It was started by Swenyola and then Zeirah and Luxy did it so I can't resist any kind of list relating to pets. However, how do I list my top 10 pets? There are so many ways to list them, and I have discussed some of my favourites for battling and for looks, but I think I will take the sentimental route this time!

1. Baradin Fox Kit

I have never gotten one and I feel bad for all those foxes I had killed.  This one was a treasured gift from Tome of the Ancient which was made all the more special because it was her very own one that she farmed for ages for, and she only had the one, and she gave it to me - how many people would do something so generous as that??  A truly amazing gift which has it's own post.

2. Darkmoon Rabbit

This pet has a lot of memories!  Making friends with other pet battlers has benefits and the person who gave me this gift, Luxy, actually WON a Darkmoon Rabbit when I asked her to come to fight one cross-server, which was very exciting, and I felt bad that she felt like she owed me a rabbit, which wasn't the case, but when she gave me my own one I was very very excited indeed.  Of all the pets she has given me this was the one I treasured the most.  She has been an extremely generous friend :)

3. Gregarious Grell

This gift was the start of a great friendship.  Arvash gave this to me when we first met, and it was one of my first battle pets to Level 25.  I didn't want to name it after him because he might have thought I meant he was a bit of an imp, but his generosity has always inspired me.  It's great to have friends like him.


4. Emerald Whelpling

This was farmed for me by Roshii, and though he said it didn't take long, I know it would have taken me FOREVER.  I felt really honoured that he gave me one - it was one of those things I was never successful at getting and I remember how warm and happy I felt at the time.

5. Bananas

The first TCG gift I ever received, was from Moopie, because he really loves monkeys and apes.  He gave me this little fella who was so cute!  He's too cute to ever battle with, so I use that despicable Darkmoon Monkey instead.  I couldn't face the thought of him getting beaten, the poor little guy!


6. Thundering Serpent

My souvenir of being in that awesome guild, Apotheosis, on my pissy little alt, getting to chat to the likes of Jasyla, Tikari, Serrinne, Kaleri - this was my souvenir of my time there!  Though I had many invitations to other guilds to grind for the pet, I decided to choose Apotheosis as the guild I would grind it with - after all, Jasyla, who is my hero, is there so how could I NOT do it..  Phew, though, I hate levelling.  I won't go into details because I wrote all about it here.

7. Soul of the Aspects

This was part of a matching set for my birthday from Lushnek.  It was like a gift pack - matching pet and mount.  I even tried to make a matching mog for it but I failed - gold isn't really a druid colour, especially in leather.

8. Terrible Turnip

Nabe is another very generous person and gave me his Turnip - you know I didn't ever get an Ominous Seed till a few weeks ago after all that time farming!  My turnip has been invaluable in capturing pets.  And besides, what a cool vegie he is, so cute!


9. Aqua Strider

A joint gift from Roshii and Souglyy who camped this rare to get me a pet - in those days the Pandaren rares were heavily camped and even to this day I have never seen that pet drop!



10. Teldrassil Sproutling

This was a gift during WOTLK from a rogue in our guild, Shadevar, who played a lot alliance side (sadly, he doesn't play anymore).  This was before the days of account wide pets, and he transferred it across from Alliance to Horde to give to me as a gift.  I was really touched - all that effort, all those dailies!  I didn't know how to pay him back for his generous gift.


All images without me in it are courtesy of WarcraftPets.

Where Navimie is not Legendary

I am clearly not Legendary material because my latest section of the legendary quest was anything but.  It was more... a comedy of errors.

WARNING: Spoiler alert!  Contains details of the Secrets of the First Empire part of the Legendary quest chain!

I had just finished collecing the 20 Secrets of the Empire and the 40 trillium bars and was heading to the Thunder Forge with Wrathion.

The first bit where you have to make the mould and defeat the Mogu went ok.  I went into the scenario in my guardian spec like I usually do because healer DPS is pretty rubbish (a classic example is the scenario after opening up one of the sections of the Isle of Thunder and you had to DPS a boss who had a bubble that would reduce damage and it would take FOREVER as a healer to dps him down, even out of the bubble).

Then we went into the forge and I was pretty hopeless at trying to keep everything off the Celestial Blacksmith.  He died twice and I thought ok, that's it, switching to heals.  I should have just clicked the Anvils.  I kinda forgot.

So I switched to heals and then it was easy, and I healed the Celestial Defender who was killing the stuff for me as well.  Coolies.  Then I came to the last part where there is a big bad Sha with a crapload of health and the Celestial defender was helping.

I tried healing it and I ran out of forges to click when he cast insanity and died at the end.  OK, I thought, I guess I will have to go back to guardian again.

So I rezzed... and you are in combat straight away so there is no changing specs so I had a bash at it again as resto.  I tried to DPS it but health got a bit low and then there was insanity and I was a bit far from the next available forge so I died.  Oops.

Then suddenly, I was disconnected.  I logged back in but when I logged back into Navimie, it would immediately disconnect me.  I tried that 3 more times but could not get in. So I logged onto an alt and that was ok, so I tried again to get into Navimie - nope, disconnected.  Sigh.  I had 30 more minutes before I had to go out so I put in a ticket and hoped for a response by the night time so I could raid.  It would be pretty crap if I couldn't raid.

So I was on my little alt (shock horror, I have an alt!) doing a few quests and I got a response from a GM!  That was quick.  S/he  was very polite and kindly moved my character away and asked if he could help me with anything else before he went back to Booty bay.  Being the naturally inquisitive being that I am, I asked him why was he going to Booty Bay?  Or was it secret GM business?

"I like the sound of the waves," s/he said and I grinned and left it at that.

I logged back into Navimie - great, she was dead in Durotar.  I ran back to the outside of Org to collect my nicely deposited corpse (thanks to that lovely helpful GM) and headed back to the Isle of Thunder, and I had to start all over again.  GRRRR.  So I started off as guardian and decided to stay as guardian, determined to DPS this thing down before I had to go.

So I DPSed as best as I could and tried to take some of the heat off the defender by taunting it (also because if the thing isn't hitting me I don't have any vengeance so I hit like a wet noodle) which was ok until the meteor phase and I am running around trying to dodge stuff and heal myself up, but not doing it well... I hate melee!  I hate DPSing!  Needless to say I died two more times and then I had to leave to go out.  I learned the hard way that standing in that pissy little green healing beam will not counter the meteor damage so that hurt a lot.  I also noticed that the Defender regenerates himself when he dies, but it takes some time for him to come back - it seemed a lot faster when I was healing!

So, an hour later, I finished what I had to do and I was back again, starting from the beginning.  I decided I would do the entire thing as resto.  The first part when you are outside was actually easy as resto - pick up those overcharged lightning things and all your heals also do damage to the mobs as well.  The Mogu boss runs at them as well and picks them up so don't dilly dally on your way to get them.

I complained to Luxy that I was the suck as I was working through up to the forge again.  She said, don't bother healing that defender guy!  Just DPS and heal a little bit.

So I did that.  I healed the defender a little and healed myself and DPS's when I could.  My pissy little resto DPS seemed hardly worth doing and I thought how am I going to get this down again?  But there I was, using my last forge and I thought, well this is shit.  Not enough DPS again... 

Suddenly Wrathion shouted at me that the lance was ready and to use it on the Sha!  Where, where is this lance, I wondered, opening my bags in a panic.  Oh it's a button!  I clicked it.  "You can't use that on this target" it said.  D'OH! I had the defender targeted for some reason.  I targetted the Sha who was doing insanity again.  Do or die time!  I clicked the lance and yay!  The objective was completed and it was over.  Time to go stab Nalak.  Oh wait - time to go pick up my daughter from school.

I logged in later in the evening and Roshii was forming a Nalak group.  Cool!  So I went along, got ready to throw my lance and waited till Nalak was about 20%.  I got ready to run but the add came and killed me.  Damn.  Fail!!  I ran back but there was a cooldown on the lance so I couldn't use it again before Nalak died.   Damnation again!

After raid there was a Nalak group forming so I wanted to go again.  I asked Lush to heal me and so I got ready to throw the lance again, did it, the add came and I started to run, trying to heal myself as I did.  Lush forgot to heal me and I died again.  Damn it!  I ran back and the cooldown for throwing the lance came up just as Nalak died.  *BLEEEEEEEP*

I logged off in a huff.  Stupid Legendary quest.  Way to make me feel not legendary, you noob, Navi!  I guess there's no hurry, since I don't have a helm I can stick this meta gem in anyway.  I can just keep trying until I get it. Though... I would like to get started on the next part of the chain.