Firelands Action Plan: Step 2

So I've been looking at my older posts and WOW were they as bitter as a witch's tit dipped in tangerine juice. (Awkward moment)

I had said that I would "work" on my other toons once my hunter had received:

4/5 Upgrades. Let's count. 378 Bow and Weapon, 378 Gloves, Matoclaw's Ring, VP Bracers thanks to my friend who grinded the VP for me before quitting ;)

And today I will have enough marks FINALLY to unlock ONE of the Firelands Vendors, and I am going to choose the dude inside the tree as the agility trinket is pretty nice, and because of my Engineering I can make some money selling stuff!

Another requirement was to tame a new pet: Ban'thalos.

So now, who to play? It's a tossup between my druid and my warlock and I am edging towards my druid because he's pretty much been my main tank/heals forever and Warlocks are still KINDA clunky.

BUT the real question is: Do I want to do dailies on my Druid as well, with him eventually completing the Molten Front Shenannigans? Ehhh...... I dunno.....maybe at a REAAAAAAAAALLLLY slow pace. Maybe I'll do somewhere along the lines of one to two dailies a day and see how that goes. Though the entire round of dailies seem to only take 20 minutes on my hunter.....We. Shall. See.

Again it's the "what else can I do?" syndrom. Well, gather and stockpile mats, run weird guild groups where we only melee mobs, do old raids, etc etc etc.

Ban'thalos is Difficult to Photograph

The only "bird" whose Kill Command is highly effective!

I took my Ban'thalos named Celebrimbor off ot my favourite picture taking spot in the ocean and realized that...hmm a transluscent green blue bird does not photograph well on a shiny bright blue background. SO we decided to head into the sewers of Dalaran instead!

Ban'thalos: The Flying Spirit Beast

So one night over the weekend I logged in exclusively to check for Ban'thalos the flying spirit beast. Turby had already been perched on the tree at the Sanctuary of Malorne with his buttons all lined up and ready. I was gladly met by a neutral yellow dot on my mini-map: Ban'thalos!

I looked around and there didn't seem to be any other hunters around, yet.

I waited for Ban'thalos to loop around on his flight path, then I flew straight up to be on the same z-axis as him and shot! Nothing. Autoshot is too short-ranged. I must have also shifted forward, and fell to my death! NO! I fly back and now there are other people gathering around, trying to get to land on the one pixel of the tree. GAH! Luckily they were failing. I land back on the tree, due to many weeks of experience, choosing that tree-tip as my log-out point each night. I set my trap, fly straight up and Serpent Sting him! Success! He attacks, I fall onto the tree and lose half my health, he gets frozen and I begin my tame. Oh crap someone is attacking him and he breaks out of the trap, 20% health, tame is almost complete, success!!

Great, now I have nothing to do.

I don't have any pics, I will post some tonight if I remember!

Patch 4.3: What ELSE Can We Do?

Hey I'm back my dear one reader! I've been very very busy lately, I think I mentioned this before but I don't remember where but I am still a-studyin' away for my super accounting exam in just under two months.

We downed Al'akir for the first time this weekend, and for the first time of me logging on for more than two consecutive hours. I healed, and I'd have to say after the nerf he's pretty easy.

That's about it for news. Raids are still fun, especially the dumbed down ones, which make them akin to mini-dungeons or skirmishes.

Yes I always bring up LOTRO because I have been playing LOTRO more than WOW lately. There's so much stuff to do there! That and the non-existance of flying mounts gives the game an overall slower paced feel.

The one complaint I have with wow right now is that there isn't anything to do. Anything left that is worth doing anyways. Firelands dailies are there but.....blaaaaah please no more dailies. I just unlocked the Druids of the Talon, which means I can now GRIND 375 more emblems for each of the three new vendors by doing the dailies over and over and over and over again. Don't get me wrong the quests are interesting and varied but....in terms of current tier content that's IT. Do dailies. Raid Firelands. How do we acquire VP on our own? Run the SAAAAAAME dungeons over and over and over and over again!

Maybe we should have kept dungeons longer and a tad more difficult so that we won't get BORED of them so quickly by running them so often. We're all probably at a point (if you're still playing my dear reader) where we can list off the location and ability of every single trash mob and boss in all of the Cata heroics, and all of the trash and boss abilities in the T10 raids.

How about Scaleable dungeons? It's already been done why not do it for all dungeons? Level 85 Ragefire Downs oh god I've forgotten what it's called...you know...RFD! If you scale it to T11 you get 140 VP for finishing and only 70 for scaling it to T10 difficulty. It would add some much needed variation.

Steal LOTRO's Legendary Weapon system. Rather than have people gasm over new gear why not let them keep one "special" item in which they can level up and make even more powerful even at end game. So even if your character isn't levelling at least SOMETHING is making progress.

What about Pet Armour? Or Multiple Pets? Or Pet Combat Jets? Ok that's asking for too much haha!

Ok I'm done goodbye!