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!

Patch 2.3

Wow! The patch notes for 2.3 are out today and over at the official boards the Hunters are going mad! Seems to be mostly those who play in the arena so I'm not about to start giving my stuff away just yet.

Some of my favourite changes are:

• Introduction of Guild Banks
• Reduction in the amount of experience required to level to 60 (can't wait to play my shaman again)
• A new flight path has been added to the Rebel Camp in northern Stranglethorn Vale
• Increased vendor discounts
• Pets will try to get behind their targets when engaging in melee combat
• You can now control-click on a recipe to see how the item that is made by that recipe will look on you in the dressing room
• Daily cooking quests are now available from The Rokk in Shattrath City! In addition to gold, you can receive random cooking reagents and new recipes as a reward for completing these quests
• Fishermen and women can now track fishing nodes. This ability is learned from a journal sometimes found in crates obtained through fishing
• Level 1-60 dungeon quests have had their experience and faction rewards increased
• Lowered the fireball damage of Defias Pillagers
• Increased the cooldowns on the heals of Kurzen Medicine Men
• Corpses that belong to someone in your party, but that you cannot loot will say in the corpse mouseover who has loot rights on that corpse. This will help skinners who want to know who to talk to in order to skin their corpse

Some of these are very whimsical likes but overall I am happy. Can't wait to level my shaman again and try out some of the revamped instances.

Where has the time gone?

Personally I have been sick for ten days. Today I feel human! That still is no excuse for no posts in nearly a month. Bad hunter! What exciting things have been happening?!?

I managed to hit level 70 helped along by a week at home sick. Could have done without being sick but was sure happy to hit 70! Then I realised how much more there was to do in the game...

Last night was an exciting first with our small team of four doing our first Outlands run together. My husband, Matford, is levelling a feral druid up to tank for us and we tested him out well in Ramparts. He's just hit 60 (WOOT!) and did a marvellous job tanking and keeping agro and as a reward he replaced his bracers, gloves, belt, ring, got a healing necklace and new boots as a quest reward! That's some instance run and is part of the joy of running with three 70's who don't need that gear.

I had in mind that if the Scale Leggings of the Skirmisher dropped from the first boss I would be very happy as even at 70 they are an upgrade. First run a cloth piece dropped so we decided to just clear to the first boss and see what he dropped. YAY, I got lucky and the pretty blue legs dropped. As I have the "matching" chest piece I am very happy with the overall look. I *am* a chick.

Levelled jewelcrafting to 345 and now need tonnes of Adamantite to make the leap to the next level. Reached Honored with CE and bought my key and sexy Warden's Arrows. Soloed my way to getting the Coif of the Wicked.

As a group we have been doing some of the old content, Stratholme, Scholomance, BRD, LBRS. Great fun instances and I do like feeling uber! Got myself attuned for Molten Core, hit revered with Argent Dawn and got Naxx attuned, got my BRD key, got my Scholo key and got the pieces to make my UBRS key. We did LBRS with 3 70's and a 60 which was a really good feeling. We did the Jailbreak quest chain including the extremely cool slow walk through Stormwind to confront Lady Prestor so we are nearly attuned for Onyxia as well.

I now have a pretty snowy gryphon to fly around Outlands on. I can't believe how cool it is to *FLY*. I just love it. Wbang got herself an elegant Talbuk from the Kurenai after killing 3,012,486 ogres, handing in numerous beads (I wonder what they do with all the beads!?!) and reaching Exalted. Great job!



Next step is to get Matford to 70 and do all the instances along the way!