Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

Today is Inien birthday, Happy Birthday!  I rushed on last night hoping to join his H ToC group he we getting together but apparently the tank insisted on some other healer so we ended up in separate groups that started and finished at nearly the same time.  I think he got the better tank, we had the rouge and my tank decided it was important to stand in the poison the entire time.  He also was apparently not very geared (it was a paladin) because it took everything I could do to keep him alive with the 5 stacks of poison on him plus the bosses. This caused me to loose our rogue.  Then the next boss comes up he again almost got owned by the ladys pet while I was feared (despite shields, PoM and Renew) and had to save him and the rogue died   I had been DEing but the rogue was rolling on the stuff too, he said he could as well.  He one one of the items, it was plate off the second boss then left the group!  We were totally confused, and he did it AFTER they started the BK.  So we just 4 maned it and that was it, no one died on the last boss either

After that I met up with Inien and we did a few dailies together for Argent Tournament and then went over to Storm Peaks to do a group quest he still had and I just got the other day.  I had been working on my first aid achievements (for some reason) and I managed to make the 500 bandages.  After that I had been saving my Ultimate Triage achievement for Inien.  I had not used a bandage since the achievement system was put in, I wanted the only bandage I ever do to be on him, so we did that after the quest

After that I realized that I only had a few more quests to my 1000 dailies achievement so I went and finished up my Argent Dailies to complete this achievement. Looking at that I wondered how close I was to 3000 quests done, oh I was only 5 away, and I only had 8 quests left in Storm Peaks to do as well.

So I went over and finished some Storm Peaks quests.  They were all in a very confined area so it wasn’t hard to complete!  Viola! Yay 3000 quests done!  Yes I am a bit obsessive over quests, I enjoy them and before the achievement system was put into place I just did them anyways.  I’ve even done most of the newbie quests for every Alliance race.

After finishing that I was so close to just finishing off all the quests for Northrend that I decided I should do that.  I mean what an amazing night for achievements, so what the hey!  This is me working on the last quest for that achievement, though not the last quest I have to do in Storm Peaks.  They always give you a few more than necessary.

So before turning in for the evening I completed all my Northrend zone quest achievements!  I do have a few quests left in Storm Peaks to do however and I will finish all of those before I stop there.

After that however I’m going to return to the old world to finish off those achievements.  I don’t know what will happen to those achievements after the Cataclysm but I feel like I need to do them anyways since I has always been a goal of mine.  I have just over 300 quests to do between eastern kingdoms and Kalimdor.  Most of them are over in Kalimdor that I need to do.  It was an exciting night though!  Happy Birthday to Inien again.

I had a nice relaxing day in WoW today, aside from the nagging headache I had all day.  I started of the day with making my cloth.  I hadn’t been keeping up with this and I do still need to make one more bank bag   I had to buy some more supplies on the AH and I was surprised to find NO eternal life on the AH.  Thankfully I still had 2 left but that is all.  Going to have to go get my own with Lanier I guess.

I ended up doing some Argent Tournament stuff while waiting in the queue for the heroic daily.  I ended up getting a group pretty quick for the Nexus.  It was a pro group and we tore through the instance in 30 minutes flat.  The tank was relieved apparently had a 800dps Ret pally in his last group.

After that I went back to finishing my argent tournament quests.  I was doing all the new ones but ran into one that didn’t work.  You were suppose to summon this guy at a spot on the island and that spot didn’t work for me.  Then I abandoned it to get it again and it wasn’t there anymore so I dunno if they took it out or what.

Little bit later in the day I ended up doing an OS10.  I was trying to get some quick badges with the fast raids.  The OS runs are fast and easy.  This one was even nicer because I got a raid achievement out of it   After I finished this I put myself back into some raid runs and ended up in a 25 man Vault.  That went super fast and I went on back to my questing.

I got back to doing my questing in storm peaks and there was some really good ones.  I didn’t know I was missing out on a bunch of Bran related stuff.  I love Dwarf quests and lore   I still think Dwarves are the best race!

The quests I did yesterday were very exciting and I still have some to do.  I even found out in the process there was a faction I hadn’t seen yet, the Frostborn.  This is another crazy faction you can only raise with a single daily.  This daily is even more time consuming than the explorers league one.  Why is Blizzard so evil for us faction collectors?

Anyways I got a fair amount of questing done.  Still have plenty to do in Storm Peaks though.

I’ve not been playing much lately as you  know but the game continues and now I’m a bit behind.  I got some time today to really enjoy myself. As you may have seen on my twitter, I am now revered with the Explorers League.  I wonder if Blizzard is ever going to give another way to earn this faction   I managed to agro like ever spawned gargoyle in this shot

I quickly ended up in a group in a regular ToC guild run,  a few people had never done it before.  It went a little rough, but then we got the groove and heroic ToC which was actually the daily went much smoother   I picked up some new shoes for my Surge set on that run, though I still need to enchant/gem it I never got around to it.

Shortly after that I ended up doing Heroic Violet Hold with the guild as well.  I am after badges for some new pants.  There is a nice upgrade for me on the conquest vendor.  None of the tier gear was exciting me much.

To finish off the evening I went over to Storm Peaks to finish my needed questing there.  I finally ran into the mine thing I heard so much about but had not seen   While I was there I spent the time to get the achievement.

You got to love the goblins, asking me to blow up a Mammoth LOL

Finished all the quests over at K3 then hopped on the rocket to the next questing hub and started there.  I did a few quests before my wife got home and I went ahead and retired for the evening.

My plan is to finish out the Northrend quests then go back to Eastern Kingdoms and start questing.  I am the closest to finishing that achievement and I figure I should start now and not wait to the last second since everything is going to change in the expansion    Plus I know a really great place to start, STV.  I spent the first 4 years of my life on a PvP server (Deathwing) and that place was NOT fun.  So most of those quests are not done.