Hallow's End fun

An indulgent photo post...



OMG had his piccolo playing making everyone dance while we waited for the Headless Horseman.



The Headless Horseman arrives!



I'm a Leper Gnome! Look at the crowd in the background waiting to do the quest to put out the fires.



Now I am a Leper Gnome with a pumpkin on my head! Wbang is a bat and OMG is doing something in the background as a skeleton...



Too much pumpkin? NEVER!



Happy Hallow's End from Pirate Ashlean!

Thank you Blizzard! This has been the best event ever I think! Huge participation levels, the costumes, trick or treating, the PvP quest in South Shore and I can't wait to try out the Headless Horseman in SM. More PvP quests would be welcomed I think. I don't play on a PvP server anymore but sometimes I miss world PvP. I don't want to go to a BG and find myself up against well geared BGers. I want some gentle Horde killing from time to time... Had a blast last night!

Guns v Bows

I know I should be thrilled at this quest reward (Mama's Insurance) but this lil hunter ain't happy. You see, I like bows. I really like bows. Really, really, really like them. I like the way they look in my hand, I like the quiver on my back and I love the crossbow look. So, I don't want to use guns, ever!

Actually, as an aussie I don't know guns in real life and I don't really wanna use them in WoW either. Inside my heart there is a little tiny corner that loves to role play and guns just don't fit with how I see Ashlean. My gun skill is 1. I would have to shot Dr. Doom for a LONG TIME to level it. And replace my quiver with an ammo pouch and buy bullets. It all seems like too much work.

Instead I do believe I will do a long and involved quest chain and get a BLUE BOW - Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart. How hot does that look!?!

In other news we have hit 365 in jewelcrafting and honored with The Consortium. Very excited as we can now make Swift Skyfire Diamond (+24 Attack Power & Run speed increase FTW). It's just a pity we have nothing to put it in to yet.

A glorious day in Burning Steepes

Jailbreak chain photos

What an amazing event! I wish that there were more of these in the game.

Reaching level 70

Here's the screenshot!



The Evergrove Druid is as suprised as everyone else that I managed this feat as evidenced by the exclamation mark above his head...

Having fun in UBRS

Forging my UBRS key (Seal of Ascension) proved to be interesting. With me, a mage and a resto druid we decided to try to kill Emberstrife with my pet tanking. Fine until I tried to control Emberstrife and was told "You already control a summoned creature." Oh. Bit of discussion and we do it with me dismissing my pet at about 20%. Worked a treat and now I have my UBRS key.

As to why I wanted an UBRS key well, that is a long story. In Scholomance there is an interesting room (The Viewing Room) where all the mobs are yellow so you can run through safely however trying to attack the two bosses in the room will bring all the mobs charging towards you. I decided I wanted a Dawn's Gambit so I could turn all the mobs into skeletons which are easily rounded up and finished off with a few AEs. Part of the chain to get it involves freezing eggs in The Rookery in UBRS so we had to get one of the team a UBRS key... which meant a LBRS run to get the gems and seal. Which meant forging the key (refer above).

Finally with key in hand (bag) we headed into UBRS on Saturday night with the team (70 Hunter, 70 Mage, 70 resto druid and 61 feral druid) planning to do the egg quest and be on our way. Realising that we were doing well we decided to do the Father Flame event. It was a close call but we made it through that event so decided to push on. No problems with Rend Blackhand either! Get to the Beast. Great fun fight! All survived!



Skinned like a pro by Matford and out popped Finkle Einhorn.



We moved on to General Drakkisath after a couple of wipes getting there (five mobs at once was a little tricky). Got one of his guards down while one was sleeping but just couldn't get the other guard and Drak down. We WILL do it but will try some other techniques including kiting Drak into another room. Still very chuffed at downing The Beast and having a crack at Drak. Yay Team!

Discovering the daily quests

Finally I have gotten around to checking out the daily quests and I like! Wbang picked herself up a gryphon (black of course!) so she could do the bombing quests. Lucky for her she got her flying skill free with druid flight form so only had to cough up 100G. After killing 20 ogres we were sent to Skettis to bomb some eggs. How easy is that!!! Will be adding this to my list of things to do each day. Always happy to make 12G without breaking a fingernail.

Pawing through Lootables I realised that maxing my jewelcrafting wasn't going to be as painful as I thought. I've got enough mats to get to 357 waiting for me and hopefully I can pick up some more Talasites over the weekend to get me to the stage I can make meta gems. Lucky for me Wbang is an alchemist so she can make the diamonds for me to cut to 375 so no reason I can't have this skill maxed in a couple of weeks.

Of course in that time I need to keep working on reputation so I can get the recipes I need...

Strat run tonight I hope. I have three quests I want to clear out of my log. So many quests, so little time!