You love me, you really love me!

A while back I mentioned Schokti would begin grinding rep with as many factions as possible. The other day I realized I was less than 7500 rep away from Exalted with Undercity, Darkspear Trolls and Thunder Bluff (each). Yesterday I took it upon myself to start the long grind of that last few points.

I got exalted with Undercity within an hour. Thunderbluff took an hour and 45 minutes, since after doing all the quests I was still just under 500 rep away. I discovered I had yet to do the TB quests for RFC, and in I went. Ding.

Darkspear Trolls was by far the hardest rep for me to grind, since I had already done all the quests in Durotar and the Barrens in order to get my wolf mount from Orgrimmar so long ago. I checked Desolace, and found only one quest that I didn't do (in Mauradin - can you blame me?), one in Feralas (I even did the hippogryph egg and got a bad one - score 3 points!) and then I was stuck. Along browse through the quest list on Wowhead showed a few quests in Arathi Highlands which I was pretty sure I didn't do.

I was right. Back when I was leveling Schokti, the mobs in Stromgard were still elite - I got around 1500 rep there. Which left me with about 3300 rep to go. Back to Wowhead to investigate.

I found a quest line in STV that I was sure I hadn't done. Saving Yenniku was a quest line that awarded another approximate 1500 points. When I got there, sure enough, I not only had I not done that quest line, I had not done ANY QUESTS IN GROM'GOL! Being on a PvP server, Stranglethorn Vale is hot point of ganking and I guess I decided as a squishy, it would be better for me to level somewhere safer... like the badlands. And so, after all this, my line of mounts:

My wolf, which I had starting this mission. You may recall the getting of said mount with this post.



My horse:



My kodo:



And my raptor:



The reason for this serious rep grind? Why this, of course!

We're Baaaaaaaack!!

And we have Epic Flyers! I can be seen zooming around on my Epic Purple Flyer, and Schokti can be seen on her Red Epic Flyer.

We are now active members in a new guild - Death Threat - and are moving toward Zul'Aman with eager anticipation. This is a great guild, with great people. And with our help, it will become even greater! Muha!

I am certain that Schokti will want to post pics of her new precious mount, and give all an update, so I will leave that to her, for now.

~Cheers, Scott

Lie? Me? Never! The Truth is far too much fun!

 

 

EXALTED!!!!!

Schokti spent some time last night grinding all kinds of low level Orgrimmar quests to get the last 4000 rep points so I could get rid of The Stupid Ugly Bird. I tried handing in 60 extra runecloth and discovered that while one's first donation results in 350 rep, subsequent donations are only 75 rep. That is a lot of runecloth. So I started scavaging for more quests. I recently started a troll on another server and recalled a few quests in Sen'jin village that led to Org quests. Well it turned out even killing tigers and Zalazane resulted in Org rep. I followed all the quests along, finally reaching the conclusion by destroying the demon seed, and was 115 points from exalted. Arg!

I checked out WoWhead (since Thottbot is woefully lacking in rep quests and anything except exact searches) and discovered that while the first samophlange quest from Ratchet results in rep from... Ratchet... the resulting quests gave Horde rep which was enough for me. I did the samophlange and talked to Wenikee Boltbucket, sauntered in and gathered nugget slugs, and delivered them to Orgrimmar, which pushed me over the edge. And so:



My second step:



As if they needed to ask me twice. ;)

---xxx---
In other news, some more rares:

Death Flayer, to the west of Razor Hill:


His loot:


Felweaver Scornn in Skull Rock:


His loot:


Rathorian, guarding the altar the demon seed quest (fyi - I did this quest with two different characters yesterday, he was here for both of them):


His loot, the same thing both times:


And of course everyone's favourite pink flamingo, Mazzaranache, wandering around Thunder Bluff:


And his loot:

Dings and other notable notables.

I have been tired of staring at Shamue, sitting there all pretty in her leather at half way through 38. I finally got the motivation to get her levelled and mounted, so off we went through Scarlett Monastery for two reasons - the fantabulous mail set that drops and hopefully a level. Or two. And so:



Voila, my third mounted character. Most of what she is wearing is from SM, including two pieces of the Scarlett set. Fortunately the helm and shoulders also match the fantastic red. I am such a girl at times.

I have been running Vassylleen as well and she is level 12 now. In the first hour I had her online, I got all kinds of these:



Ah, good times. I will say that since Valen is a new server the lag is practically non-existant. Which all I can say is, Woot! Now I just need to get to the SMC to sign the guild charter.

Grind, grind, grind...

As much as Himhotepp has been grinding, so has Kaewhy. I have gotten her to 66 on Sunday, and in the last few days have been earning an average of 75 gold per session, from drops and quest rewards. I have been putting nothing in the auction house, saving every penny for my epic mount. And I have been rewarded.



Now I have four more levels to go to raise enough for the flying mount. But I have to come up with a few gold for my level 66 training first. This is more urgent than I realized - I get Cloak of Shadows as an ability. Mages and priests no longer even have a chance.

Especially those gnomes.