So it's been a while...

Yeah, sorry about that. We took a bit of a hiatus from the game and didn't notify anyone. Sorry 'bout that. Now we get to play catch up.

I will divide this post into two parts. This part is all the rares I didn't post over the last few months. You will note we are still playing alliance side but there are a few horde there as well.

Alors.

Gorefang:

Gorefang's loot:


Snort the Heckler:

Snort's Loot:


Rocklance, whom with this character I could not take down:


Great Father Arctikus with loot:


Gibblewilt:

Gibblewilt's loot:


Krellack:

Krellack's loot:


Arash-ethis

Arash-ethis' loot:


Rogish Jowl:

His loot:


Timber:

Timber's Loot:


This one was an interesting surprise. We found a ?? vulture around Westfall, Vultros:

And then he found us:

So we had to dig up his loot. Sweet, non? It may be worth a trip back to try and find this pretty blue.


Sergeant Brashclaw:

His loot:


Blackmoss the Fetid:

Who dropped something interesting:

Which became this:


Uruson:

His loot:


Foereaper 4000, whom I got down to 10 life with my rogue, but just couldn't kill:


Shadowclaw, whom we saw as just as he unstealthed right beside us:

His loot:


And finally, Narg the Taskmaster:

His loot:


See why this is going to be two posts?

Rares? Aren't they supposed to be hard to find?

I decided it would be fun to start cataloguing the rares I am finding in the WoW world. So here are a few screencaps I managed.

Geolord Mottle, at the quillboar camp outside of Razor Hill:

And his drop:


Magister Hawkhelm at the elf camp in Azhara:

Her drop:


Sister Rathtalon near the Stonetalon Mountains-Barrens border:

And her drop:


Snarler, in Feralas north of Camp Mojache:

His loot:


Tregla, in the troll camp south of Silvermoon City:

His loot:


And one rare elite that Vassyleen was unable to beat so no drop shot, Geopriest Gukk.

Grinding away

Kaewhy has finally completed all the quests in Netherstorm do-able by one person. I now wait for guildies to catch up, or anyone who is looking for a group. Shouldn't be hard. Of course, I decided to do some Skettis quests to grind for the purple Nether Ray. Can you imagine Kaewhy on that baby? Giggidy giggidy.

I also to Barbaracue into WSG again, since I am having so much fun with her in there I decided to make a break for the level 28 Outrider's bow. Saturday's numbers:


(Note the gratuitous shot of Sauce, my pretty kitty.)

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And finally a question for the readers:

I love reading general chat. I enjoy the banter, and even all the bad Barrens Chuck Norris jokes and slams at ones mother do not bother me. I came across this conversation in Netherstorm:



The person in red is a 66 warrior, Prot spec'd complaining he can't complete quests on his own because he isn't tough enough. He has been asked to be prot spec'd by his guild and now is trying to quest and can't get it done. How is this possible? How does a warrior, wearing plate, able to take all kinds of damage, not be able to kill some Sunfury magic users? Can someone explain this to me?

Which brings up another question. Any thoughts on guilds demanding certain specs? I feel if a player knows their class (and I certainly hope that if one is over level 60 they do), they should be able to play the spec of their choice. I have seen shadow priests be more effective healers than holy priests (and vice versa), and rogues out tanking warriors. It all depends on the player. So what are your thoughts?

The only thing better than one...

My wonderful husband bought me an in game gift. Seems he had been perusing the auction house and found Ced's Carver for a mere 65 gold. Considering I have never seen it for less than 150, this was a steal. And so:



Pretty, non? Complete with a life stealing enchant. Where did we get that fancy enchant, you ask? Well we are a pretty small guild, with 16 accounts. There are only 6 characters (4 players) over 60. So guild run instances in the Outlands right now is not an option. We do want to help bring our guild up so we thought we would do a few Scholo runs to see what the deal was (yep, most of us had never run it), and to see what we would need when our guildies got high enough to start getting their Tier 1 armor. The first three times we ran it as a group, (Kaewhy at 70, two 65 priests and Velvyt at 55, 56, 57, & 59), the Life Stealing enchant dropped FOUR times. Once it dropped TWICE in the same run. Gah. Needless to say our guild enchanters are very happy.

I had a supply of Nogginfoggers elixir on me during these runs, and had great fun -



I was shrunken down and Peanut kept looking at me with love in his eyes.

So what about this blog title then? Glad you asked. A few days later Scott found another Ced's in for 80g. And so:



Complete with Life Stealing - to balance things out, of course.

Just keep grinding

So Schokti and Vassylleen have seen more play time recently and I have managed to get Schokti to 45 fairly quickly. She is now spending her time in the Hinterlands killing trolls and owl beasts. Woot, good times.

Vassylleen is busy grinding most of the Crossroads quests. Yesterday, thanks to Ravenkiller she got her poisons. Yay! And then, like a total noob (and a sure sign I have been playing Kaewhy far too much), I promptly went and spent two gold on crystal vials when I should have spent 3 silver on empty vials. Some days I am convinced I just bought this account on eBay.

I did manage to find a rare I have never seen. Ravenkiller tells me he is a popular haunt for hunters, and now I know where the blue raptor comes from. And so Takk the Leaper met my blades:



And he dropped something I could actually use. Woot!



And in true form I created a new character yesterday. I know - I just can't stop myself! I will try to resist logging in with her, I really just wanted the name.



My (soon to be) frost mage on Valen. Cuz I want to see what Scott is on about with Himhotepp's "mob control". Plus she just looks cool. But I have to catch Vassylleen up with the rest of the guild first.