Happy 25th Anniversary

A quarter of a century the two of you have been together. Thank you for being great role models. Love you Mom and Dad.

Farming Zul’Gurub

Three level 80s are farming the three bosses for the book and mounts. Zul’Gurub resets every three days. We make pretty quick work of it.

Zul’Gurub goals:
1. Tome of Polymorph: Turtle
2. Swift Razzashi Raptor
3. Swift Zulian Tiger

The turtle book sells for a lot of gold on my realm. I think the last on I saw up in the auction house was 1600 gold. Beyond that I am sick and tired of My Mages QQ (I know right?) about the dang thing.

Then the possibility of two different bosses having a potential to drop mounts. I saw the orange kitty and fell in love with the possibility. But heck if I am there why not try for the raptor too.

I truly believe as a warlock I can one man these bosses. But since I don’t see a direct gold benefit, except for the off chance the turtle book drops, I choose farm with friends and not to re-talent. Gahz'ranka and Bloodlord Mandokir are relatively easy to two man (Rogue and Warlock). High Priest Thekal was a challenge with two but easy with three.

Turtle Book

This nice BoE item drops off Gahz'ranka. There is less then a 15% chance for the book to drop.

To be able to summon this boss:
1. You have to pick up the quest by getting Nat’s Measuring Tape in ZG
2. Deliver it to Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh.
3. Once at Nat Pagle, don’t forget to buy a Mudskunk Lure or two. They are not soulbound so you can hold a few on a storage toon if you don’t want to track over there to get another for a while.
4. Once back at ZG, fish five of the Zulian Mudskunk. Find Fish ability makes this really easy. The fish is also not soulbound again something you can pre farm if you wish, but take all of a minute and half to fish out.
5. Right clicking on the Lure with the five Mudskunk in your bags summons Gahz’ranka. This also gets you the achievement Deadliest Catch.

I am quite sure as a demonology warlock I could easily farm him myself. Felguard tank him and I kill him. Thinking about it maybe I will try the infernal.

Gahz hits for a bout 2K and has a knock back. The knock back deals damage and you also take fall damage. So fighting in the water is recommended. I suggest under the pretty waterfall.

For efficiency sake it is best to have two people to kill Gahz. Rogue and Warlock worked quite well. Rogue evasion tanked and I dotted. He vanished I kited. Then the boss died.

Our first trip there rewarded us with the Turtle Book. Which we wrapped up and I sent to one of the mages in guild. He has 10 level 80s in guild and is a character himself. I like him, even though not only is his main a mage… he has two… level 80 mages.

Swift Razzashi Raptor

The raptor mount drops off Bloodlord Mandokir. There is less then a 1% chance for his raptor to drop.

This can absolutely be 2-maned. We sometimes kill a few mobs around the base of the temple he patrols. If you have a real concern about the fears kill a few of the packs. You can PvP trinket out of the fears and I am sure the human racial. Honestly this is about time saving farming so unless we randomly aggro a pack we leave them alone.

Kill the Troll first and then kill his mount. Mandokir does whirlwind and AoE fear. If one person dies a ghost approaches and resurrects you. Nothing fancy needed at 80 it is a tank and spank.

Swift Zulian Tiger

The orange tiger mount drops off High Priest Thekal. Again there is less then a 1% chance for the tiger to drop.

Here you need to kill all the little tigers and trolls before the boss. They will come in and help the boss in the fight. The ax throwers have a nasty silence and stun. Focus on killing them first.

The trick to this fight is that the High Priest and friends, Zealot Zath (rogue like abilities) and Zealot Lor'Khan (shaman like abilities), have to die at the same time or they will resurrect each other. And have to be killed all over again.

A warrior, rogue, and lock had no problems killing the three of them at the same time. Twice actually. *cringe*

After the three die Thekal comes back as a weretiger. Kill him and loot.

Good luck!

My Sixth Screenshot

There are a lot of sixth shots out there. I was tagged by the lovely Nib over at Mystic Chicanery. So here it goes.

The first time I ever figured out the screenshot feature in Warcraft was the time I turned level 70. I wanted to keep that moment. So I spent two seconds figuring out how my keyboard worked and where the file was on my computer.

So my sixth ever screenshot was me picking out my new flyer, Ebon Gryphon. I had 6g16s left and 43 soul shards in my bag.About that moment was when I decided that I never wanted to be that low on gold or to not have enough to buy what I wanted.

My sixth screenshot of 2009 was my favorite group running Halls of Stone for the Abuse the Ooze achievement.Oh and I have 39 soul shards in my bag. WTB bag space... still.

Random Goings On

I found this Small, Medium, and Large demonstration in Husband’s Screenshots.
A hunter and pet symbiosis is always a good thing. Yes, Fraggle Rocks.
Love Fools have the same cooldown as healthstones.
I raided 5 nights in a row. My guild starts at 8 PM server (most of the time promptly) and ends at 11 PM. I have determined that it is too much. … I am going to have figure out how to not sign up when I have an enabler at home.

I cannot decide if I like 10-man or 25-man Naxx more.

In our first 25 man Patchwork, almost all (less 2) the dps in the raid was hitting 3K or more. I hit 3841 dps per recount. I don’t like seeing the quick dips. I think that is where Shadow Embrace is falling off. I know at the end that was a whisper that caught my eye.
Warlock aggro management is an issue on Noth, Loatheb (if you're not spored and the tank gets the debuff), and Malygos. Thanks Llanion (AKA Bob of BA Chat) over at Moonfire! for confirming I am seeing a general trend. He also noted that aggro is an issue on the first few seconds of a Grobbulus fight and Patchwerk for Melee.

When someone says on vent “There is no Primal Air on the auction house.” I went and put them up for twice I thought they were worth. Yea, people bought them.
I started doing 2v2 arena. We won as much as we lost. Partner is a PvP healy pally. I have about 450 resilience.

Arena names are fun. We won our first ever Season 4 Arena together.
I think a 9 minute Arena is long. They won but didn’t live up to their name. phail.My partner still doesn't believe I am as bad as I say I am.

A while back, we were talking about all of Jaina’s high profile boyfriends.

I didn’t meeean to do it

So when new guy named Faulsey gets on BA Chat. He says he is from Scotland. Trizophenie and Maerdred get all excited about more European wow bloggers around.

I have quick thoughts of the Auzzie and European accents of the past on vent. Then state
“... times like this I wish I had voice for BA Chat.”

WHAM!

Matticus makes a channel in his vent.

Done.

Siha from Banana Shoulder.
Wyn and Matticus from World of Matticus
Llanion from Moonfire
… well I am sure others hopped on.

Me? I have three other vents. I use each of them to excuse myself from the other so that I can NOT be on vent.

Maybe if Kes got on I would. It would be like the Twisted Nether Blogcast live!

(Yes. This is a post to randomly link to people. So so SO. Whatca going to do about it??!! *grin*)

It is you

… and not just me.

I actually felt really dumb about posting this in the first place. I put my noobness out there, because I learned from it and figured others would too. This conversation made me feel better and it all worth while.
See I’m not the only one. Thank you Bun.

Let’s Take a Moment

Huh Wut?The problem with this screen shot?

It was taken on February 4, 2009.

From November 29, 2008 through February 4, 2009 I was not fully trained. That would be 68 days in total.

APPARENTLY

My habit of running up to the trainer
OMGHEREIS50GOLDSOYOUCANUNTALENTME
*look for new ranks*
OkOk Accepting the summon now. HOLDYOURPANTIES.
*puts in talents on the run*

When I would look for new ranks there would be none, because I was at the time untalented for Haunt and Unstable Affliction.

It is really amazing how much your Dee Pee Ess goes up if you actually train all your abilities.

Sometimes you need to remember to not beat yourself or some such nonsense.

Now my new problem is over taking tank threat.