Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

So today I got on with a mission, get my new neck!  Of course I had to wait for the invasion to come so I went around and did some dailies and such.  I made a stop over at the to grab an egg for that green protodrake I never got.  I got dismounted flying over dalaran a little too low and snapped a nice picture of the crystal forest and I floated to safety

About the time I finished all my tasks, including running a quick ToC the invasion happened!  Inien was on and tried to find his rifts, and after it was over I went ahead and invited him and we went to run Grand Ambassador Flamelash.  I kept doing him the whole time it was open and the Pendant of Burning Spirits dropped 3 times.  The first time I thought, wow finally I got it.  Then the boomkin DPS rolled need on it and ninja’d it from me!  I wasn’t expecting him to roll on it so I was quite annoyed.  After all it is a healer item and if the guy doing that role rolls need on it, you are suppose to yield to him/her.

So the next time the pendant dropped was when I was with another Mage and Warlock besides Inien.  Both of them stood in the fire and died at the beginning.  I cannot save someone who stands in the fire… So basically it was the tank, Inien and I doing the whole run.  Then after the pendant popped up I was like “yes!” then the stupid Mage and Warlock both rolled need on it!  Inien rolled need on it too this time to try and win it for me.  But the stupid Mage won it instead.

The last time it dropped, again we had a boomkin in our group and Inien and I were joking about him rolling on it.   Sure enough it dropped and he rolled need on it, after I clearly tried to claim it! No one has any respect anymore I guess   Inien rolled need as well again this time and he managed to get it and gave it to me yay!  So tomorrow we are going to farm the wind guy and try for the DPS neck for Inien.  Guess we’ll use the double role method there too, turn about is fair play!

I heard speculation the world is going to be shattered on WoW’s anniversary, I do hope they do that!  It seems like a very fitting day to bring about a change of this magnitude.  It is all very exciting.  I heard they shattered the PTR but I didn’t have the client installed anymore.  Plus I think at this point since I was never in beta even, waiting till live is prudent

So this is what happens when you have a lot of people in WoW waiting on something   I got on close to the time of the next IF invasion.  I wanted to try and farm the fire boss Grand Ambassador Flamelash because I found out he had a neck upgrade Pendant of Burning Spirits for me

I took part in the invasion which doesn’t last very long with that many people in IF   The elementals are out maned and out gunned.

Did the fire boss a bunch with Inien.  Did the earth boss a few times with a group to be fair as well.  Continued to do it till we ran out of time.  My neck dropped once and it got swiped from me by a DPS! I was so annoyed!  Oh well hopefully I can get it tomorrow or something   The fire boss happens to be the more annoying boss to do of course.  That had to be the boss more likely to drop my neck lol

Had a almost as fun time waiting with people in IF and I did doing anything else tonight.  We even did a mammoth parade around the bank area

Finally left my little spot in WPL today, no ooze pet yet though.  I slept in today to be rested for Blizzcon tomorrow   Then I played plenty of WoW to get in the mood.  When Inien got on we went around hunting mounts in various instances.

We ended up in ZG last and also thought we could do Hakkar now, and sure enough we could!

Now that I’m all jazzed up on WoW it is time to go get ready for my trip to Anaheim for Blizzcon tomorrow!  Yay!

Didn’t get much time to play in today.  I spent most of the day keeping my son occupied but when I did get a chance I would login and clear a few round of oozes.  I’ve become bent on the next pet I get being the Toxic Wasteling.  So I’m not leaving this cave until I get one!  I’ve been sticking to the cave in WPL because it is easy to Holy Nova and has a good spawn rate.  People seem to be getting it from either EPL or WPL so it should work out. I’ve gone through probably 25 bags now and no pet, here is hoping I get one soon!

Maybe it is because I haven’t done one in a while or because I have so little time anymore but my goblin rep grind seems slower than normal.  Even though I know it couldn’t possibly be as bad as when I did the Timbermaw 1 rep at a time before they changed the system all the way to exalted.  That rep had the occasional turn in item do as do the water waste guys I’m doing now.

I got DK as my heroic daily today which I hadn’t done in a while.  The group had lost their healer but I joined them still at the first boss.  The tank was well geared but all the DPS were recent 80s I can tell.  I never mind not overgearing and instance, in fact they are way more fun that way

I finished up the DK run which didn’t take much longer than usual and then started my quests in icecrown for the argent tournament.  I put myself in the looking for raid system for a 25 mana voa, Inien was finishing something else and mentioned he did the same.  I continued my quests in icecrown and then got a VOA25 invite, they were full though, and had apparently been wiping

I thought oh boy but stayed with them, a bunch of people left and I got them to invite Inien.  I told Inien what he was in for and finally after a long wait we went again.  I could tell the issue was their healers were severely under geared, but they had insane dps but then they wouldn’t switch to the frost thingys when they went up.  Anyways we didn’t wipe but a considerable number of people died and in the end the of this story Inien got the mage pants that dropped from this boss with a roll of 25 against 2 other mages, and it completed his 4 piece set!  Grats to him   One guy even offered him 6k gold for them hehe

After all that Inien and I finished up some tournament quests and I think we might have done a ToC in there some where too.  We went over and hit up ZG to try again for my silly baby raptor pet and for some more mounts for him.  Of course none of it ended up dropping.  We did about 3 tries for the pet.  It is a good distraction anyways

Got on a little earlier today and ran my daily random and managed to stomp out the weekly raid.  I even managed to get an achievement in my random I didn’t have.

I got back on later that night and Inien helped me visit Zul’Gurub to do some farming for the baby raptor I don’t have.  We reset a few times but it was kind of late when we started so we gave up for the night and killed the raptor boss just to try for his mount.

A nice end to a good Birthday

I got on this morning for a short time, was just doing a little goblin rep farming and low and behold, the Hyacinth Macaw drops!  I was floored! I didn’t think I would get it while I was doing this the drop rate on it is so stupid.  After I did that some one came and screwed up my spawns so I ended up doing my random which was HoS.  Went ok, though I thought it was funny the tank with almost a 5400 GS had never been there before and didn’t know where to go lol.  Inien got on and got that random too and he actually wiped on protecting Bran.  Don’t you love PUGS?

Anyways so happy with my parrot, that made my 120th pet too! What an honor!

Got on earlier this morning to do a little farming but ended up doing a guild run of the weekly.  We ran it with just the 7 of us, it was of course no problemo   I got to let my baby XT run around during the big XT fight hehe

Got back on later for a bit of goblin farming.  I’m back onto another one of my pointless goals now, 40 exalted reps   I’m working on the goblin ones because you can work on so many at one.  Plus there is an added bonus I’m also farming for the Hyacinth Macaw which I do not own yet.  The drop rate is stupidly low so having to kill a billion of them for faction also helps make it worth it

I hope I get one by the time I’ve got everything to exalted.  Wish me luck!

BTW Happy Mother’s Day to all those WoW loving moms out there

I got on this evening with no particular plans.  I had a bad headache but had recovered enough to play as long as I didn’t jump around   When I got on Inien just joined a Ony 25 run.  He invited me to go with him and I joined.  Well it took FOREVER to get started.  The first start was a wipe instantly and we lost a bunch of people.  Then we had to refill the raid, this happened twice and then finally we after got everyone together we tried again and they wiped terribly again and we broke up.  After that Inien and I decided to do something different, and went to go do a rep run on ZG.

This turned out to be a lot easier than last time we did it.  We are so much more geared now it made things go way faster.  We did all the bosses but Hakaar, and the only one that gave us trouble was the tiger boss.  He was hard because we had to kill the 3 guys at once and with the one that kept healing that was sorta hard.  I just helped DPS and keep us alive eventually we got it after a few miss kills.

After we finished I turned in one of the pieces for rep, and broke some coins.  I ended up only need 5600 rep to get exalted.  Another full run with Inien should get me exalted.  It will take a few more for Inien though because he never did ZG originally   Of course once I get exalted it will go faster for him then we aren’t sharing the coins.

It was a fun night though, I wish we would have done this instead of that terrible Onyxia originally

I had a bad headache this afternoon and ended up lying down for a while.  I was up so I thought I’d try to do something entertaining.  No raids going on or anything so I ended up continuing my midsummer fun.  I finished collecting all of the northrend flowers(and gold) and that put me over the top!

When we esentially got to double our flowers due to the reset I figured I’d be able to afford both the Captured Flame and the Brazier of Dancing Flames.  I didn’t have any interest in it till I actually looked it up on wowhead and saw how cool it was.  Not only does it look nifty, she responds to your emotes.  I needed another item to keep track of like a hole in the head but she was just too cool to pass up.