Learn Your ABC with Mr and Mrs B!

A is for Auction House: you can’t live without it, yet the need to use it fills you with dread.

B is for Battle Pets: Gotta Catch ‘Em All!

C is for Characters: so…many…alts.

D is for Dailies: need I say more?

E is for Energy: 8 hours sleep is 4 hours wasted play time!

F is for Fire: don’t stand in it. It hurts.

G is for Galleon: I visit you more times each week than my mother… why do you not give me the mount? /sadface

H is for Halfhill: who needs real life when you have your own chickens and food supply in game?

I is for Instances: a love-hate relationship.

J is for: Justice Points. Useful only for… wait, what are they useful for again?

K is for King Varian: FOR THE ALLIANCE!

L is for Loot: /sigh… why does RNG hate me?!

M is for Mounts: so pretty, so valuable, so elusive.

N is for Noobs: Newbies. Nubs. Idiots. #justkidding we love you really

O is for Outland: the most hated place in Azeroth?

P is for Pandas. Simples.

Q is for Quests: don’t you just love that yellow exclamation mark?

R is for Raiding: similar to divorce – time consuming, emotional and expensive.

S is for Subscription-gate: WARCRAFT IS DYING! #justkidding, warcraft4evaIDST

T is for Transmogrification: aka Bad-ass Barbies.

U is for Undercity: does anyone actually ever go there?!

V is for Vashj’ir: how I hate swimming.

W is for World of Warcraft. Duh.

X is for XP: NEED MOAR.

Y is for Yak Wash: Best. Quest. Ever.

Z is for Zul’aman… Zul’Grub… Zul’Drak…. Zul… who cares, too many damn trolls!

Monday Moan #17

Perhaps a slightly silly moan this week, but one thing which I get quite annoyed about sometimes!

Hunter pets shrinking when tamed…

Look at this:

This is Weedle, my giant grub from Jade Forest who – due to a bug (haha, hope you like the pun there!) – looked absolutely amazing because he was HUGE and didn’t shrink when tamed. I got loads of compliments about how he looked.

Now look at this:

Don’t you think it’s a shame they hot fixed it? Other pets I think would look brilliant are Pogeyan from Stranglethorn, Hexapos and Rockhide the Immovable – they’re massive before tame but shrink substantially afterwards. Pffft, I want a massive pet damnit!

I know you practical people will go on about them taking over the screen etc etc, but I – for all that my opinion matters – mourn the loss of the size of some of my pets.

Do you agree??

Portent

This Quilen really interested me as he can spawn in 4 different colours: blue, red, green and purple.

Key Points

• Found all over the region of Vale of Eternal Blossoms – he has a wonderfully difficult path to follow, made worse by the recent changes to the area.
• You must be level 90 to tame and in BM spec
• He does not aggro, but, like all MoP trackables, he stealths so can not be picked up using NPC scan
• Spawns in different colours!!!

Taming Strategy

• I followed him using this map – I started at the far East and worked my way West, as I was at the Shrine at the time.
• His tracks have got to be one of the easiest to follow – they are dark brown ‘dusty tracks’ which are generally following a meandering route on light brown leafy ground. You can see them – at points – stretching far ahead of you, which makes a change!

• As always, when you reach the end of the trail, fire your flare in front of where you think he is. When he appears, stick a hunters mark on him to stop him going into stealth. This also makes him invisible to other hunters.
• The tame is easy when you’re ready. He also doesn’t aggro, so you don’t need deterrence etc. It is interesting to note here, that he moves very quickly compared to the other trackables (especially Stompy and Petrannache), so make sure you’re not too far away when you try to tame or he could wander out of range.

Special Abilities

This pet is especially brilliant to have as he has a Combat Res. – ‘Eternal Guardian’. I think most raid teams / LFR groups would be glad to have this!

I love the blue version I tamed this time, but I think I may have to go after the others too… gotta catch ‘em all!

Happy Taming!

Picture of the Week

 

Chilling with Thrall on the edge of the Maelstrom.

 

Yes, we tried to jump off. Yes, Thrall saved us by putting an invisible wall there. Spoilsport.

Pretty in Pink

Say hello to Acroniss…I only came across him by chance, after oggling him in LFR – I admit, the pink appealed to my girly nature. Waaaaay too girly for me! Luckily, I only had to wait an hour or so. I set myself in place, went into LFR and when I zoned back, he was there waiting for me.

Key Points

• Found in Silithus (more info below)
• The only tameable pink serpent wyrm thing in-game. I love the uniqueness of this pet!
• Excellent choice for low level hunters wanting a really good looking pet – can be tamed from level 55
• Has 7k health and spawns surrounded by mobs

Taming Strategy

• For a level 90, just hit tame, it’s easy
• At level, make sure you clear the mobs around the spawn point (see below) as there are at least 3 that could spell disaster if you’re up against this guy alone. Standard deterrence-tame applies here for you guys.

Finding Acroniss

• Located in the top northeast corner of Silithus, Staghelm Point to be precise. He is in the back of this cave. You know how much I hate caves, but luckily, this one is easily navigable:

• Follow the cave to the back and there’s a small circle next to a chap called Vyral the Vile. He spawns literally in the middle of that circle.

shot just after the tame

I think the colour is the main draw for me here, but the thing I love most is how he moves. Stationary, he floats and curls in the air, but when you run, he spreads out next to you and looks really cool…

…Happy Taming!

Re-roll – DING 80! Days 16,17 and 18.

Day 16

• Level: 74
• Area(s): Grizzly Hills
• Favourite quests / moment: The Outhouse at Amberpine Lodge. We had a merry few minutes giggling!

• Least favourite quest/ moment: All the troll quests in this area. I can’t put my finger on why I don’t like them, but I don’t enjoy them at all. Possibly all the back and forth? That said, I quite like this storyline!
• Instance(s): Drak’Tharon Keep – I quite like Drakuru mon!
• Favourite ability: N/A

Day 17

• Level: 77
• Area(s): N/A
• Favourite quests / moment: Meh, dungeons
• Least favourite quest/ moment: Meh, dungeons.
• Instance(s): Violet Hold, Gundrak, Halls of Stone, Halls of Lightning,, Azjol-Nerub
• Favourite ability: I’m starting to get procs and buffs to manage now, which is proving complex!

Day 18

• Level: 80 BABY!
• Area(s): Crystalsong Forest/Dalaran, Icecrown
• Favourite quests / moment: I liked doing most of these quests, as I hadn’t done them before (except a few for Loremaster).
• Least favourite quests/ moment: The back and forth over the structures in Icecrown is irritating. We were with one of those “stop pulling the dragons”/”ffs who’s pulling dragons?”/”NOOBS STOP PULLING DRAGONS!”/”…”/ “don’t take 2 healer dragons ffs” type-tanks in Occulus. I really like this instance but the tank completely spoiled it.
• Instance(s): Utgarde Pinnacle, Occulus
• Total time played to 80: 1 day 20hours (would probably be 20 hours less if we didn’t afk all the time – but we’ll be honest!)

It is really worth  noting a new feature here.

Remember getting to Hyjal and having to scour the AH for gear or each mob would be double your health? Fret no longer! Patch 5.3 bought you “Iris Moondreamer” – a lovely lady who now sells ilvl 232 /level 80 gear for 25g each!! We outfitted ourselves for the Cataclysm for the princely sum of around 400g. /cheer

Level 80 and rocking our new gear

Monday Moan #16

I have been camping hunter pets a lot these past couple of weeks, and I’ve been really annoyed with several things:

1. People killing rare pets

2. People ninja-ing rare pets

3. People sharing your camp spot for rare pets

STOP BEING MEAN AND LEAVE MY PET ALONE!

1. If you see a high level hunter in a lowbie area not moving, chances are he/she is camping a pet. Do us a favour, and when it spawns, LEAVE IT ALONE. The green is drops is so not worth it.

2. If you’re not a hunter and you see a hunter taming a pet… LEAVE IT ALONE. Don’t kill it just to be a prat… karma is a baaaad thing.

3. Oi! It’s mine, go away! If it was me and I flew to a spawn point and found someone already there, I leave that person to their own spot and go and find my own. I think it’s really rude and I refuse to compete over a pet… they were there first! It’s similar to queue jumping which also really gets my goat. May as well come back another time when they’ve gone.

In summary? BE NICE! Common courtesy seems to be a forgotten mannerism in today’s society. Let’s rediscover it, and hunters everywhere will be happy!