would tour

last night saw Z embark on an epic world tour across azeroth in search of [Coins of Ancestry]. we usually don't do much of the holiday content, partly because we've seen most of it before and partly because we tend to be goal oriented and the holiday content is a distraction from whatever we're focusing on at the time (i.e., leveling up to 70... again.). the lunar festival offers up some pretty sexy tailoring patterns, though, and since Z's a tailor we thought we'd take some time out of our busy leveling grind and go pick them up.

due to a minor misunderstanding in a conversation we had with bell (our fault, not hers), we thought that we could get patterns for all of the different lunar festival outfits. at 5 coins per pattern we were looking at collecting 40 coins out of a total 50 possible. lucky for us, wowwiki just happened to have a travel plan for visiting all the elders.

some of the elders are tucked away in instances so we skipped a few for the sake of convenience. a few more are standing in the middle of horde towns, but the only really challenging one was in Org. we managed to pick up all the coins from horde cities without getting ourselves killed, but we weren't so lucky with the coin outside ZG. someone at bliz thought it would be funny to plant the elder in the midst of 3 60 elites with a knockdown ability. we probably would have made it if not for that stun, but as it happened we got eated.

about the time we were picking up our 39th coin, it occured to us that we should go look up what mats were required for these patterns so we could craft some of them up for a few friends. this is where we realized that our evening's quest was a bit... misguided. there are actually only two patterns that you can buy with coins (the red dress and the red pant suit). the rest of the dresses and suits can be bought with coins directly, but not the patterns for them. so, we really only needed 10 coins instead of 40. /sigh

we got our two patterns and made ourselves a suit and a few red dresses that we sent out as valentine's day gifts. we also picked up the blue suit for ourselves because it just looks damn good; we even happened to have matching boots (from our healing set)! bell was kind enough to point out that the patterns aren't BoP, so we'll go back to moonglade tonight and spend the rest of our coins on patterns for the AH.

and yes, we did take screenshots of our fancy new duds but we won't be able to post them until later this weekend. we're finally getting a new version of photoshop this weekend (/cheer), so cutting up screenies and such for the blog should be a much more pleasant experience now.