TOS 8: Guru of Drakuru

I know you’ve had no reports for a while. Does ‘I’ve been busy being undead’ work as a reason?

I’d better start at the beginning. Just after the Winters Veil I was asked to go help out in Grizzly hills cremating the dead there so they wouldn’t be able to be reanimated by the Scourge.  I made a classic beginners error I talked to a troll called Drakuru and believed his claims to “know things, mon. Things that will aid you in your struggle here.”

Of course there was a price to pay, in doing his legwork for him before I could get this supposed information, all of which led to Drak ‘Tharon Keep and fighting our way to its highest chamber.  Where it turned out I’d been set up to help this troll win advancement with the Lich King.

His parting words were “Forgive my deception, mon. It all been for your own good. Ya needed ta prove yer worthiness…. I be needin’ worthy underlings in Zul’Drak, mon. Ones ready to wield real power. You see for yourself now. Da Lich King be generous to dem who obey. Follow dis path, mon, and soon you be tastin’ immortality! “

I’m not sure if he thought as a Kaldorei I would be more susceptible to the promise of immortality or if he was just too ignorant to realise we had it and lost it. It’s not something I want back, millennium of doing little in case you lose your never ending life doesn’t appeal to me. When will people learn immortality is not invincibility?  How many of the citizens of Azeroth ever had the luxury of dying from old age in the last few decades. Remove one cause of death and the others still remain.

I headed for Zul’Drak to see what I could do to undo my mistake. It turned out to be a lot more than offering him some fel cones . For a start I had to work with the Knights of the Ebon Flame, led by one called Stefan. They like their theatre do the Knights.  A whole lot of “ooh you’ve been chosen” and claims that a choker I tore off an undead was aimed at me. Did they think I didn’t notice the self same speech being given to others while I was there?

 It’s more likely a ploy to encourage us to do their dirty work, after all threats of being  “doomed to a mindless existence as a walking corpse” by the scourge with your only hope to  help the Knight’s probably gets them more adventurers than simply asking one to walk into the jaws of death. I doubt their claims the choker is of scourge manufacture well not the scourge still under Arthas influence anyway. It’s simply too convenient that the damn thing attempts to put you under a compulsion to speak to the Knights, even if its hidden under the compulsion to wear it, which I suppose might make the other less noticeable to the untrained mind.

The long and the short of it is that Stefan wanted me to disguise myself as a scourge and infiltrate Zul’Drak. Which given that was exactly what I wanted to do anyway I agreed to.  The disguise seemed to hold up well enough to fool Drakuru, who interestingly did claim credit for the choker, but then I know he’s a liar.

It took a few weeks wandering around as a ghoul gaining Drakuru’s trust, sabotaging his preparations for war and generally sneaking about pilfering interesting looking items for Stefan. The disguise was pretty flakey, well better than the King Mrgl-Mrgl’s I suppose but prone to wear off at inappropriate moments.  Drakuru and his lieutenants never seemed to notice they were losing men inside their stronghold as well as outside. I guess being undead really does rot the brain. Mindless immortality, really it’s not much of a prize is it.

Finally Drakuru trusted me enough to let me into his inner sanctum.  With the help of the uber scourge he’d been making I defeated him. The kill honour goes to Arthas though.

Drakuru screaming about double crosses and betrayal, called on the Lich King for assistance. For some brain rotted reason Arthas killed him and spared me. Now what sort of strategy is that kill your followers let those who want you dead alive.  I think the cold and the brain rot is getting to him too. Though I should probably pay more heed to his parting words than to most of the ‘portents’ that get thrown at me

“As for you… I spare your insignificant life as a reward for this amusing betrayal. There may yet be a shred of potential in you. Be warned… When next we meet I shall require much more to justify your life. “

Anyway with only Stefan as a way to communicate with the world outside Zul’Drak I decided silence was better than letting any missive fall into the hands of the  Ebon Watch.

Snapshot time

Another entry for the time capsule, a snapshot of gear  as we finally leave Naxx and enter Ulduar. Alright we’re two bosses in to Ulduar already but the screenshots are the gear I had when  3.1 hit the server.

First the look. Thats full tier 7 that is. I think its the first time I managed to wear and use a full tier set while it was still ‘top of the range’.

And just look at mah weapon I got  wraith strikethe first time it dropped for us. One happy boomkin, one not so happy elemental shaman.

There arn’t any spellpower fist weapons in 3.1 so I’ll have to give it up soon. We’ve already had the Guiding Star drop once and I’ll bid on it but  graphics wise its almost as bad as the pink lollipop, though more baby’s rattle.  I do care about my Moonkins street cred you know, and seriously we start off low enough running around as a big antlered owls, and with weapons being the only visible indication (well okay Wraith Strike doesn’t show up out of combat normally) I can get quite riled up about  lollipops or baby rattles rather than  impressive staves. Hmm looking at Wowhead I don’t seem to have much choice its the baby rattle or a minor  upgrade with a  dagger. There are some nice staves that have the same spellpower as the  baby’s rattle but then I lose the offhand frill.  Intensityis probably worth going after though as according to Wowhead the only caster leather gear with hit is three of our tier pieces (double that up for  normal & heroic) while there are 14  non tier pieces of cloth armour with hit to be had. Hits not the only stat obviously but it is kind of important.

Now the character stats. You’ll notice that even though I own the valorous dreamwalker legs I’m not wearing them, the cloth ones, surprise surprise,  have hit on them

so new moonkin 80 was

Str 137

Agi 138

Sta 659

Int 738

Spr 384

Spellpower 1376

Hit 238

Crit 15.76%

Haste 148

If I lost STR and AGI it must be because those screenshots above lack MOTW. Really should have applied it for the moonkin shot as its a nice boost to spirit & int and therefore spellpower. 

Str 95

Agi 96

Sta 968

Int 1008

Spr 464

Spellpower 2055

Hit 276

Crit 24,79%

Haste 282

Just look at that spellpower increase and funny 2k isn’t even a ‘marker’ like 300 was in Classic and 1k was in TBC. I’m not even sure there is a boomkin marker for Wotlk, maybe because of the change to spellpower its not the stat we ’struggle’ to obtain anymore. My haste still sucks compared to some raiding moonkins but I’ve decided haste doesn’t work for me. To get the most out of haste you need to queue casts and I don’t seem to do that very well I’m either too quick with the mashing and get ’spell not ready’ or too slow so there’s no real queue.

I did drop a point from celestial focus so I only have 2% from the talent. I think the 20% haste buff from natures grace compensates if my crit stays high, though I await a final verdict I can understand from the theory casters on that. I also dropped intensity in 3.1. Going to see how I cope without it.

I picked up two points in brambles and saw thorns  jump from around 4% of the tanks damage to 9%.  Dependent on fights and tank class obviously. Now I just have to get back into the habit of casting it.

Screenshot tagging

There’s a  meme doing the rounds to show your sixth screen shot from the wow folder and then the sixth from your sixth sub folder.  Well I don’t have sub folders, not for wow screen shots and when I installed Wrath, Vista moved the game folders to a new place and helpfully deleted all my old screen shots  so all I can give you is the sixth, but turns out its a dragon. Malygos I think as part of the quest line around the Nexus

As the original meme seems to be playing with 666 and the number of the beast it seems appropriate

go here: Sideshow & Syrana for more info, and consider yourself tagged if meme spreading is your thing.

In other news I am still playing, barely. I log on to raid three times a week then log off and do other non-wow related stuff. Hoping 3.1 will rekindle my interest but  looking at the patch notes its  been yawn so far.

Change of Pace

I may have mentioned I used to have a second female balance druid on MG, which I deleted when Ari returned ‘home’.

Well I’ve still got a hankering for a second druid, but I don’t fancy starting at level 1 again. So last night on a whim I got my deleted druid reinstated.

So the question is should I leave her as she or should I go the whole hog and have my self a nice male feral druid to complement my female balance druid. Most likely looking like this hunk.

At least I can stare at these two shots for a while before making the decision.

Breaking Through

It comes to us all at some point, we realise we’re not enjoying the game as much as we did. From past episodes of this malaise I know the best way to break through the  “meh not another quest/heroic/daily” is to wander off and do other things for a while.

Probably not long but for now I’m logging on for raids  and to make sure Ari has prepped for them properly and not much else so the blog will continue to be light on entries for a while.

TOS 7 : Tangled Skein

How many factions does it take to win a war?

A lot less than the ones that have sprung up recently if you ask me.

We have the Alliance Vanguard which is meant to bring together The Silver Covenant, the Explorers League, The Valiance Expedition and the Frostborn. All supposedly here to fight the Lich King.

The Valiance Expedition seems more interested in colonising the continent and fighting against  the Horde than truly preparing for battle against the Lich King, with the notable exception of the 7th Legion, though I’d expect no less from the former members of the Might of Kalimdor forces.  I can still recall Saurfangs speech on the eve of battle against the Qirajji

“I am Saurfang. Brother of Broxigar. You know me to be the Supreme Commander of the Might of Kalimdor. An orc – a true orc warrior – wishes for one thing: To die in the glory of battle against a hated enemy. Some of you have fought in battles. Peace has been with us for many years. Many years we sat idle but many years we battled. In those years – where strife, the land and Legion and Scourge, sacked our homes, killed our families — these insects dwelled beneath us. Beneath our homes — waiting. Waiting to crush the life from our little ones. To slay all in their path. This they do for their god. And for our gods? We defend. We stand. We show that as one. United. We destroy. Their god will fall. To die today, on this field of battle, is to die an orcish death. To die today is to die for our little ones. Our old ones. Our  loved ones. Would any of you deny yourselves such a death? Such an honour?”

 

Those were the days when taking common cause against a mutual threat meant just that. Horde and Alliance united against the Bugs not fighting against one another, or forwarding barely connected agendas.

 

The Explorers League is doing what it does best, digging into mountains and discovering more about Earthen origins. It’s fascinating stuff, but it does not help us beat the Lich King.

 

The Silver Covenant care more about who can join their magic club than anything else.

The Frostborn I think were simply co-opted by the Vanguard they have problems of their own existing in this land and if it wasn’t for their connection with the Bronzebeards of Ironforge I suspect they’d have stayed as neutral at the Tuskarr.

 

Then of course there are the two factions dedicated to removing the Lich King, the Argent Crusade and the Knights of the Ebon Blade.

The Ebon Blade is convinced they can do the job, led by undead who have already been defeated by him, who have had him examine their very souls and controlled their minds and deeds for many years. I find it hard to believe they are our best hope.

I find them by large an arrogant bunch, and rude. They actually seem to think being undead is a better state than being living. Do the forsaken believe that too?

I’ve never much needed or cared to speak to the forsaken, I wish I didn’t have to deal with these Death Knights.

I certainly draw the line at killing members of the Scarlet Onslaught – however mad or corrupt they are – and turning them into undead for the Knights to use.

I have to wonder when asked to perform tasks like that if the Death Knights have really given up all claims to Arthas goal of turning all of Azeroth into a land fit only for the undead.  You’d think we’d have learnt something from the treachery of Grand Apothecary Putress, but no the King of Stormwind would rather fight the Horde than rein in his own undead allies.

 

That leaves the Argent Crusade. Formed from the Knights of the Silver Hand and the Argent Dawn they are small in number but steeped in honour, led by the paladin Tirion Fordring. Their main force seems stuck in the Zul’Drak region, battling against Scourge there rather than in Icecrown itself. I was nothing but impressed at the lengths the Highlord was prepared to go to, to try and spare one of his men from joining the Scourge.

 

If the time comes when the Sentinel Army needs to officially lend its weight to the fight against the Lich King then it is my recommendation that they are placed at the disposal of Highlord Fordring and the Argent Crusade. He of all the human leaders I’ve met understands that how we fight for our survival is as important as securing that victory

 

Andu’falah’dor

Better late than never

Yes I know it’s Sunday, part of being at home is I completely lose track of time, throw in the  confusion of Christmas and I only have the vaguest idea when in the week it is.

So lets round up last weeks targets

Level Dax to 80 (aiming high here) I’m not sure what the issue is but I’m feeling very bored with Dax at the moment. I jump on her run around aimlessly for a bit maybe do one or two quests and then log out. Leveling Ari through Northrend was a doddle, also a bit on the boring side but with T6/sunwell gear I  accepted I overpowered areas tuned for fresh 70’s in greens and blues. Only Dax *is* that fresh 70 and its just as easy for her as it was for Ari. Maybe I’ll pop across to Howling Fjord and try the Eastern side of the continent again.

Use the mats she farms to get Ari’s professions up to 450 We’ve not farmed enough mats but we have visited the AH for them. Inscription is at 426 and out of trainer recipes so I need to mill the ink for Northrend Discoveries but the prices for herbs are pretty high still.

LW is lagging at 414, again no easy skill up recipes and I’m finding the whole 5 borean scraps = 1 borean lather, 6 Borean leathers = 1 Heavy Borean Leather annoying when I need between 3 and 4 HBL for each recipe.

Get Gwen’s mining & engineering up to 300 so she can start leveling in Outland I decided to vary this so Gwen is in Outland working towards level 61 and then she’ll pop back to the Hinterlands for some more mining skill ups, she’s currently at 225 so not far to go but endless circuits of Hinterlands was doing my brain in. Especialy as it seemed whatever hour of the day I picked I was following behind some other DK (it always seems to be DK’s) also mining for skill ups. Engineering is at 208 I need more mats to push it further and decide if I want to specialise in goblin or gnomish engineering, or if it’s worth specialisng at all.

Complete the Merrymaker meta achievement on Ari Yay I did it. In the end the hardest bit was getting hold of a hat, or rather a group wanting to do Nexus. I’d read that some 80’s had soloed her on normal so I tried it, and to my shame couldn’t find her and got clobbered by adds. When I did it with a group I realised I’d prowled past her disc a few times thinking she was somewhere else. It’s done now, we found a dark place for Ari to don the costume and eat the mince pie, it’s really not Ari’s “thing” dressing up like a Christmas elf.

Sort out the fishing achievements Ari needs Well this ended up as a post all of it’s own, a sort of mini guide. Ari has completed The Lurker Above, 250 Fish, Outland Angler, The Scavenger, Northrend Angler, Old Crafty (a total of 7 casts with the crocolisk daily) and Old Man Barlowned, since last Friday.  Meh its  4pm server time & I haven’t even logged on yet, so no winning Booty Bay this weekend. Still got a ways to go to complete the achievements but I’m on course.

So what have I been doing, well messing about on alts mainly, not that I’m sure any will survive past the festive season, working on Cooking achievements alongside Fishing. Though as I’m missing the chocolate cake recipe, a rare BOP drop from cooking dailies, I’ve no hope of completing the Meta.

Oops nearly forgot I also achieved Hemet Nessingway: the Collected Quests, backwards as I’ve had the Northrend ones for a while, then I went and finished off the Outland ones before  finally picking up the missing pages for the Azeroth one. I still think not doing that to avoid having the book foisted on the world of Warcraft was the right decision, back in the day, but as theres’s a published copy in the Nagrand camp I clearly failed.

Oh and picking up pets with the help of the Oracles. I’ve had two eggs hatch now (and a third in my bag already) so have a White Tickbird Hatchling and a Cobra Hatchling bringing my small pet total to 48 of the 50 I need to get Stinky.

I’m not setting any new targets this week, the three undone ones will stand but I think it may be a week of messing about rather than focussing.

Dastardly Denizens of the Deep

There are 31 fishing achievements in total, to get the meta achievement you need the following:

Accomplished Angler

1000 Fish- this is actually six achievements as you get  credit at 25, 50, 100, 250, 500  on your way to completing it. Should be doable as you chase the other achievements for the meta

The Coin Master – the only place to do this is the fountain in Dalaran and it’s a mini meta as you need to fish up all the copper, silver & gold coins to achieve  it. If can be quite annoying fishing at the fountain as its a small area and often crowded, best to do when the server is quiet. As the coins are random and not unique it requires time and patience

• • A Penny for your thoughts
  • Silver in the City
  • There’s Gold in That There Fountain

Deadliest Catch – you need to go to Zul Gurub in Strangelthorn Vale for this one, and fish up an optional boss. First off find a friend who’s willing to sit in a raid group for a bit so you can enter Zul Gurub. You need Mudskunk Lures from Nat Pagle (or the AH apparently)

To get Nat to sell them to you, you need to do (or have done in the distant past)  the  quest  Nat’s Measuring Tape which can be found in ZG in a Battered Tackle Box at Nagle’s Point, try not to fill up your bag space with the free Darkmoon Special Reserve that spawns there (complete aside – very useful for any RPer who wants to host a party to pop down there and pick up supplies). Once you have the lures its back to ZG to fish up Mudskunks (if you have track fish make sure it’s turned on as it helps find the schools) and watch out for crocs wanting to eat you. Get the fish, if you’re feeling generous or mercenary get extra for friends/the AH.

Go to Nagle’s Point and use the Mudskunk lure. and call up Gahz’ranka (link has a map showing where Nagle’s Point is if you’ve never been to ZG). Once he’s been summoned you get the Achievement. If you want to try killing him go ahead, not sure he’s solo-able at 80 but he’s 5 man-able at 70. He occasionally drops Tome of Polymorph: Turtle so still worth farming at 80 if you want to make a mage friend happy or some money for you mercenary types.

Fish Don’t Leave Footprints – you need to fish up a Weather- Beaten Journal from one of a variety of crates, it also has a chance of appearing  in the  Bag of Fishing Treasures that you get on completing  the daily fishing quests. If you haven’t  fished one up by the time you’ve done Old Man Barlowned or The Scavenger then try fishing in Zangermarsh. Reports are that there’s a reasonable chance of finding one in the Steam Pump Flotsam  there.

The Fishing Diplomat - fish something up in Stormwind and Orgrimmar. Obviously your own faction Capital is a doddle. Getting into the opposite one is best done in the small wee hours.  Apparently Horde just need to  swim  up the Westfall coast until they get into the SW zone and can fish in peace. For Alliance the easiest is to enter Orgrimmar through the back door (this may well involve dying if you’re not 80 and lack a stealth option) and fish in the Valley of Spirits.

For Alliance its worth doing  Old Crafty (- note this isn’t   needed for the Meta just to complete all 31 fishing achievements) at the same time as Fishing Diplomat.

Grand Master Fisherman – this is another mini meta as you get 5 achievements (one for each rank from artisan to Grand Master) on your way to picking it up.

The Lurker Above – fish up Lurker in Serpentshrine Cavern. Obviously this was meant to be done in a raid so its find a friend time again. It’s relatively straghtforward to solo (not that you’re likely to survive Lurker). You need an Elixir of Waterwalking, either from the level 70  fishing dailies or from the AH to be able to avoid the Coifang Frenzies that mob anyone entering the water. For steatlh classes its a walk round the mobs until you can see a pipe down to the water, chug the pot water walk to Lurkers  platform.

If you can’t steatlh then its jump sooner using something to ensure you don’t hit the water too hard and break the elixir. The ‘I feel light” effect from Noggenfogger has been reported as working, as do the Shat’ari Skyguard capes if you have one (Skyguard or Skywitch) Alternatively an  Invisibilty potion to sneak down the ramp and past the  Naga if you want slow but sure.

Master Angler of Stranglethorn – theres a fishing contest held by the goblins every Sunday at 2pm server time in Booty Bay. It starts with the quest “Master Angler” given by Riggle Bassbait who spawns just for the contest outside the inn in Booty Bay. The first person to turn in 40  Speckled Tastyfish (4 hour duration) wins. It can take a while to achieve this so don’t plan doing anything else on Sunday afternoons. Or you could get lucky and no-one else is bothering with it anymore

Mr. Pinchy’s Magical Crawdad Box – a fiddly one,  you need a flying mount and a skill of at least 405 (inc lures etc) to complete. You need to fish up Mr Pinchy from a school of Highland Mixed fish from one of  three lakes in  Terrokar forest ( Lake Jorune,  Lake Ere’Noru and  Blackwind Lake) and hope one of the three wishes is the Magical Crawdad Box.

As each wish has a 2 day cooldown it may take some time. Mr Pinchy isn’t unique so you can have more than one in your inventory but they share the cooldown you can’t speed  the wishing process up.

Northrend Angler – straightforward, catch a fish from each of these schools

• • Borean Man O’ War School – Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Howling Fjord, Grizzly Hills
  • Dragonfin Angelfish School – Dragonblight,
  • Glacial Salmon School -  Grizzly Hills inland water
  • Imperial Manta Ray School- anywhere in Northrend
  • Musselback Sculpin School – Borean Tundra (Lake Kum’uya)
  • Deep Sea Monsterbelly School – Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Howling Fjord
  • Fangtooth Herring School – Howling Fjord inland water
  • Glassfin Minnow School -Crystalsong Forest
  • Moonglow Cuttlefish School – Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Howling Fjord
  • Nettlefish School – Sholazar Basin

The Old Gnome and the Sea – successfully fish from a school of fish. There’ are 30 schools that qualify towards this  but you only need to fish from one of them to achieve it, you’ll pick this up doing one of the other achievements, if you haven’t got it already.

Old Man Barlowned-  do all  5 daily fishing quests. A bit luck of the draw as he doesn’t cycle through them in an orderly fashion but with all these other achievements the lures come in very handy. Since 3.0.2 there appears to be a bug that means you’ll always fish up the quest fish on the first successful cast.Don’t know if Blizz intend to fix this or not but while it’s there it makes this even simpler.

One That Didn’t Get Away – 10 rare fish listed you only need to catch one of them but the chance of any of them being caught is 1 in 1000. There’s anecdotal ‘evidence’ that the lower level rares are easier to catch, though that may simply be skewing of statistics. If you haven’t fished one of these up on your way to 1000 fish try for the 15 pound Mud Snapper  from Cystral Lake  (Goldshire) for Alliance, Stonebull Lake (Mulgore) or Stillwhisper Pond (Eversong Woods) for Horde (logic suggests other starter zones will have the Mud Snapper too just not such popular fishing locations)

• • 103 Pound Mightfish
  • 22 Pound Lobster
  • 32 Pound Catfish
  • 68 Pound Grouper
  • Rockhide Strongfish
  • 15 Pound Mud Snapper
  • 29 Pound Salmon
  • 52 Pound Redgill
  • Dark Herring
  • Steelscale Crushfish

Outland Angler – another fish from listed schools, strangely enough all Outland fish

• • Brackish Mixed School – Zangarmarsh, Terokkar Forest
  • Mudfish School – Nagrand
  • Highland Mixed School – Terokkar (see map above)
  • Bluefish School – Nagrand
  • School of Darter – Terrokar
  • Sporefish School – Zangermarsh

The Scavenger - not fish schools this time but wreckage pools.  If you’re having trouble finding these pools then fish in the school spawns in the general area, once a fish school despawns another  school/wreckage pool will spawn in the zone it increases your chances of  finding a wreckage pool. Tried this in Dreadmurk Shore & sure enough one of the schools I fished respawned as a Waterlogged Wreckage Pool

• • Steam Pump Flotsam- Zangermarsh
  • Schooner Wreckage- Stonetalon (Mirkfallon Lake) Wetlands Hinterlands
  • Floating Wreckage- Feralas, Tanaris
  • Bloodsail Wreckage- Stranglethorn Vale along the Western coastline near the Bloodsail Compound
  • Waterlogged Wreckage – Theramore (Dreadmurk Shore)

Fishing Achievements

There are also three  fishing achievements that don’t count towards Accomplished Angler  but you may still want, that’s if getting Accomplished hasn’t turned you off  fishing for life.

I Smell a Giant Rat – this one is as much for the pet collectors as the fisherfolk. All you have to do is fish up a Giant Sewer Rat from the Underbelly in Dalaran. Anecdotal evidence suggests the best place in Underbelly is the sewer water surrounding the  Cantrip and Crows Inn. You need 430 fishing  to fish there.

Old Crafty – another rare catch and one that only spawns in Orgrimmar – this is an Offhand frill rather than a pet and obviously easier for Horde than Alliance – although its been reported that if you’re on the diplomatic mission that is part of the Battle for Undercity questline then you can fish in a ‘friendly’ Orgrimmar. There’s also a reported bug with this- (as of 3.0.2) and the Crocolisks in the City daily, the chance of fishing up Old Crafty is vastly increased if you’re on the quest. You need to turn auto loot off though and delete the baby crocolisks you’ll fish up with the other fishing bug (dailies on first cast)

Old Ironjaw – the Alliance version of Old Crafty this one lives in Ironforge. For the Horde trying to sneak in he’s fishable in the lava so if you can find a quiet spot you’ll survive a bit longer than fishing in the fountain or Forlorn caverns. The Crocolisks in the City bug won’t work (you’re in the wrong Alliance city). There are various tips on the Wowhead page for Horde but no easy  option like the fishing bug or the friendly Orgrimmar quest sorry.

It’s time for action

We’re on a raid break from the 22nd to the 7th and I’m on leave from now to the 5th of January. So its time to stop faffing about on Dax with little sorties into the Tundra for herbs and skins and get leveling. So these targets are for the next fortnight, or maybe longer

1. Level Dax to 80 (aiming high here)
2. Use the mats she farms to get Ari’s professions up to 450
3. Get Gwen’s mining & engineering up to 300 so she can start leveling in Outland
4. Complete the Merrymaker meta achievement on Ari
5. Sort out the fishing achievements Ari needs

That should keep me busy over the holidays.

TOS 6 : An end and a beginning

You’ll have heard via official sources now of the events at Wrathgate. I was there. Standing guard at the Hold.

Standing watching as a man I admired was mown down by the treachery of the undead.

Standing watching as the Lifebinder and her flight saved the lives of hundreds more threatened by that treachery.

I will Not Forget.

I will Not Forgive.

I will Avenge

The Feast of Winter Veil is upon us. There will be many partying hard this year, knowing it may be the last  one they see, or trying to blot out memories of  things they’d rather not have seen. I may join them

Andu’falah’dor!*

(*”Let Balance be restored”)