busy weekend

funny what a little car trouble will lead to. we'd originally planned to go play in the snow last weekend, but ended up staying home and playing a lot of WoW instead. and we were productive! we started our kara key quest and got our first fragment from Shadow Labs. in preparation for the last step of that quest line, we finally ran Caverns of Time: Durnholde. aside from just being a fun instance to begin with, this also got us some of the best pre-raid shadow priest gloves, [Tempest's Touch], available as a quest reward. a couple of gems later and these lovelies are worth 45 spell damage!

next up, we finally whacked Zuluhed and opened up the Netherwing dailies. you know the old saying, "it takes money to make money"? the Netherwing dailies could be the poster child for that expression. it takes 5000g (plus assorted repair bills) to open up them up. however, the money pours in once you start doing them. each daily quest is worth at least 12g. the vendor trash you pick up along the way, especially from the quests in the mines, also sells quite well; 2-3g per stack of things like broken fangs or slime. it's pretty easy to bring in 100g just by doing a handful of these quests.

after our second round of dailies and a couple lucky [Netherwing Egg] drops we hit friendly rep and opened up what is, quite possibly, the best daily quest ever: The Booterang: A Cure For The Common Worthless Peon. teh [Booterang], we haz it. we lovez teh [Booterang]. true story.

anyway, from there we went and joined up with a Shattered Halls group. we had 3 quests for SH in our log still and wanted to clean 'em out. conveniently for us, no one in the group had the key but we were on the last stage of the key quest! so, we went off and spanked hellfire's resident Fel Reaver and we got our [Shattered Halls Key]. the run itself went pretty well, except for a 15 minute pause mid-way through where we had to find a replacement tank. picked up some new healing gear from quest rewards, the [Runesong Dagger] off the ogre boss (nice boost for us, since we were still using our [Battle Mage's Baton]) and [Pattern: Spellstrike Hood] off the first boss. the pattern is especially timely as we were planning on having this item made for us this week. now we have to decide if we want to farm the primal nether ourselves (we were sooo close to winning the roll for one last night) or buy someone else's.

all in all, not a bad weekend.

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DING!

say hello to our newest 70. Zhered ding'd last night with a total /played of 9 days, 16 hours. conveniently, Z was questing in shadowmoon valley at the time so he hot-footed it over to wildhammer stronghold and sat patiently in front of the mailbox while we moved funds around.

remember that post we did a while back about making money? well, here's proof that it works: Z went first class and bought his epic flying mount, [Swift Blue Gryphon], within minutes of hitting 70. we didn't even bother buying the regular flying mount first. that's 6000g (800 to train expert riding + 5000 to train artisan riding + 200 for the mount). we also had to train our level 70 spells and gem out our new duds (pictured above). after all was said and done, we still have about 500g in the bank.

and now, we're off to start our kara key adventures...

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screenies!

we finally got photoshop installed (CS3 Web Premium Edition, oh how we love thee! /swoon), so here are the promised screen shots.


here we have the ever-popular [Festive Suit] in traditional red. perfect for those formal occasions or anytime a bit of flare is required. Zhered can now make these (for a small fee, of course).


and here we see our lovely model wearing the dashing [Festive Blue Pant Suit]. so cool it's hawt!

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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.

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just in time!

hot on the heels of us recently becoming guildless, we stumble across this treasure trove of tips and tricks for how to get ourselves through the interview process of a top-notch raiding guild. with the expert advice and practical demonstrations of the techniques involved shown here, we can't possibly go wrong!

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PTR patch notes

patch notes for version 2.4 on the PTR have been posted. no exciting changes for any of our classes in store; no real nerfs either, though, so yay for that. as always, a few random tweaks as well. my favorite of the bunch:

Saber/Tiger Mounts will now make footprints when walking backwards in snow.

seriously, who reports this stuff?

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guildless

we left our guild last night. left a brief farewell post in the public forums and a bit more explanation in the officer forums. logged into WoW on our officer char, went through the guild roster and friended folks we wanted to stay in touch with, gkicked our alts and then gquit. a sad moment for us, but we think it's the right decision and it's one that we thought about long and hard.

we'll be looking for a new guild to raid with at some point, but it's not an immediate concern. our next few weeks will be devoted to bringing Z (64 and going strong!) up to 70 and pimping him out a bit, gear-wise.

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