Pet Heaven

Well, I found out the new pet achievement in the next patch has been lowered from 100 to 75, so Seph will get her little pet deer - hurrah!

Also - I found a [White Tickbird Hatchling] on the AH at a sensible price (i.e. less than 200g). Then I waited for my Egg to hatch....


Hurrah! A cobra hatchling. That brings Sephs personal total pets to 76. Of course I went and bought my next egg. Kind of hoping for the Proto-Drake before the pet - at least I can always buy the pets - the mount is bop as far as I know.

Biker Chick

Remember I bought a [choppa] and was sad because I couldn't use it? Well, they're not soulbound - so I sent it to new level 80 priest as she couldn't buy one because the vendor has gone.


It is SUCH a pose - and great fun. I am so chatting up all my engineer friends nice and early to make me one.


Don't I make this look GOOD? I do like the hairstyle and colour as well - Seph (the real one) will be having a transformation next week. Can't wait.


I re-specced (AGAIN) and played a little bit with heals - I think I could get used to crit heals like this one... and that's without any amazing gear...

Screenies - love them

I've been going through my screenies to put as many boss kills as I can find on our new, shiny Guild website and I came across this one from last Christmas (or whatever it's called in WOW - I forget now). Ahhh - the lengths some girls will go to try to get new pets :)


It didn't work - all I got was a letter telling me to delete the one kit I had so I could get another. Not quite what I was hoping for. It was a little disappointing - I hope Blizz do better this year - a third snowman kit would not go down well with Sephrenia. Yeah, I know, it's still September, but I'm cold and being cold makes me think of winter and winter means Christmas....

Birthday Crocs

Well, it's my birthday today, so I thought I'd try it on a bit when I saw it was the crocodile fishing quest....


I got a speedy response....


Not what I wanted, but hey - you can't blame a girl for trying :)

Sephirot was lucky - he won an [Eye of the Sea]. Lorienne was even luckier and snagged her second croc - she got a [Snarly's Bucket].

He's an agile little devil...


I just wish I could swap them over to Sephrenia....

Not impressed with Human face changes

Well... this is Seph before she went to the beta....


and this is her after....


I know, I had my hair dyed, but I'm not impressed with the face changes. She now has piggy eyes, instead of big, soft eyes. Her lips are thinner and the nose is more pointy. I don't like it one bit. Don't change me Blizzard. It's horrible. I also look like I've eaten something that didn't agree with me.

I changed my hair back to see a better comparison - still don't like it....


Oh - I've just read a post at Banana Shoulders which implies the changes are not here to stay - happy news.

Lurker Down! Nice present for Sephrenia

My lovely guild went to SSC on Monday. We didn't have our resistance geared tanks, so skipped past Hydross and went to play with The Lurker Below. We had 4 tries and each one was more successful that the last, but some people were having challenges with the spout. Still, it was good practice.

Wednesday's progress raid came around and we went back again, with a little more reading, clearer tactics and more determination. The trash clearing was our typical messy scramble, but we pulled it off with one one wipe due to an oops pull. But was all one of our mages fault last night (he won our blame roll - a roll we do at the start of a raid to decide whose fault it is for anything that happens - strange that it often seems to be the mages that win it, but then we do have more than our fair share of mages).

Anyway - we got to Lurker, explained all the tactics, practiced getting into the water and out again and set off fishing. We had a specific order of killing things in phase 2 - melee mobs (avoid the cleave), one on the little islands and keep one sheeped. A few Battle Resses, lots of shouting on vent to avoid the spouts and 14 minutes later the big fishie was down. A guild first - fantastic.


Everyone was ressed and we looked at the loot - Squeee - [Earring of Soulful Meditation] - the ONE thing in the game I've wanted for sooo long and was willing to lose my number one spot on our Suicide Kings list for - I was sooooo happy. THE best priest trinket in the game is mine - all mine (laughs evilly). Our main tank got some [Hammer thing] he was after too. Oh and there was [something] for one of our trees.

So - it was 20 minutes until the end of raid - where to next? Let's take a look about...


We decided that she was probably a tank and spank job and (after losing a few people who were worried about spending 5g on repairs and wasting time having a fun wipe) we set to her. Hell, if we can get Rage Winterchill to 1% twice, surely some watery tart will be a piece of cake!

We got her to 75%.... and with only 23 of us.... (probably more like 21 as 2 sneaky people seem to be out of range according to my grid settings - chickens)...


It got a bit messy then - she summons water elemental thingies and a big tendril guy comes wandering over. He wasn't much fun. We died - quite fast actually. Even though we wiped on Vashj (what a surprise), we all had a great evening - new boss down - paid a visit to the last boss - and all in 2 hours. We're going back on Monday to see who else we can show some "Common Sense" madness to.

FINALLY - a crocodile pet

Well, after MONTHS of fishing quest, one of my characters got a crocodile pet. It's a shame that it wasn't Sephrenia, but still - it does prove they exist.



Also - beware of Gnome mages. Their eating habits have a strange effect on their digestive systems.... I think it might be time to change my in game boyfriend :)

More completely useless WotLK information

I have decided that I'm going to leave all the theorycrafting to others. I am on the search for strange, useless, fun, funny and "real" stuff. I'm going to test all the "girlie" things that I get the most enjoyment in the game from.

So - in the beta I want back to Netherstorm to buy a load of pets that I did have in the bank, but had sent them to an alt for safe keeping when I needed space to level tailoring and forgot to send back before I transferred Sephrenia. I earned the achievement "Shop Smart, Shop Pet...Smart" for having 50 pets and got a mail from Breanni...


it contained...


He's soooo cute...



Today I found somewhere to spend my time in Dalaran.


She sells [Chocolate Celebration Cake] which is perfect to share with my new found beta testing friends Softi and Auric. Was lovely to meet the two of you in game last night - when I get bored of silly stuff I'll come questing with you or maybe we can try an instance. Hide not fellow WOW bloggers who are part of the EU beta test. Come play with Sephrenya - she has cake.

Sephrenia stops picking flowers and takes up tailoring

Well, now I've got my druid all sorted with his swift flight form, I decided that having 2 herbalists was a bit much. Also I rather like the look of the [flying carpet thing] coming in WotLK.

And.... I had all that cloth lying around. (See this post).

So, yesterday evening I decided to give up the flowers and learn tailoring. It's the first time ever I've changed profession on a character - I thought about doing it before on Sephrenia, but didn't have my druid flower picker then and decided to keep it to go with my alchemy, even though the Primal Mooncloth set DID look very inviting. Anyway, I got my guides all printed off and ready, gathered up my materials and began about 6pm.

Lots and lots of my lovely guild friends helped me with donations of cloth, arcane dust and spider silk and I set off crafting. Allowing for food breaks and lots of character hopping to buy and post materials, I ended the evening (about midnight) with a skill level 371. I ran out of energy, time and netherweave cloth and so I went to bed.

The guide said I needed all this for 360-375 - eeek (and that was MINIMUM).


This morning I logged in to find MORE cloth and spider silk in my mailbox. I needed to craft 4 garments to make the skill last point (cleared out the AH to get enough cloth) - but I'm there - I have 375 tailoring skill. YAY. Now I just need to go round all the vendors and collect the patterns I'm missing so my training is more complete. I know I don't need any of them (or the primal mooncloth set stuff), but I like to be complete.


If Blizzard take out the magic carpets now I'm gonna sue! I mean - how cool does that look? A great big THANK YOU to all who gave me things to help me level - you all know who you are and I love you all to bits. HUGS all round.