Flametalon Acquired

Hello reader!

Yeah yeah I've been slacking lately. I want to talk about mounts today. That is a savory topic as well as any other.

Specifically, I'd like to talk about rare-drop raid/dungeon mounts.

Even more specifically (OK I know, it's in the title but shhh), I'd like to talk about the fiery bird that gets pooped out of Alysrazor's dead butt-hole in Firelands. The Flametalon of Alysrazor.

Throughout our raiding adventures during those months, our raid group had never seen a single one of these mounts drop. I can probably estimate our kills to have been around 20. So 20 weeks and no mount. Fair enough.

We have heard of friends of friends winning the mount, so we know that it exists somewhere and it is a beautiful bird.

Now according to the 12 embers that I have in my bag, I assume that around 12 weeks ago I came up with this crazy idea to go and solo Alysrazor every week since we are now so OP and there's really nothing left to do.

The first time through I thought it was kinda silly that a sole hero could just stroll straight up to Alysrazor and bypass ALL her mechanics and kill her before her tornado phase. Silly.

I called upon my significant other to join me in such frivolities and there we went, each week we took down the bird and by week 10, nothing. We started to use our alts, anyone who was 90 and was capable seemed to work so I'd say in the past five weeks or so we started running Firelands four times a week.

Two weeks ago, one of them fiery fiends dropped and just last week, a second one drop, thus giving us no reason whatsoever to ever walk into Firelands ever again!

I'd say that our total kills would probably be around 50. This would put us at 50 equivalent weeks of raiding Firelands. That sounds about right?

And because I'm not feeling creative with the screenshots I'll just stick them in the middle here like this:

75% Complete

Oh hello reader,

As of last week, our raiding progression is officially that of what the good players were in the first two hours of the initial release of patch 5.3. Dark Animus was a fun fight, in the fact that I got to be useful!

Normally my job is to do oodles and doodles of damages, but because our comp consists of three pet classes, we used all our pets to hold onto the little animus things.

The last time my voidwalker was useful was when he helped us do the weekly quest in ICC for Lady Deathwhisper, something Darnald or Arnald?

Anyways that's it. We've locked our progression going forward to Iron Qon now with the sight of downing Lei Shen real soon!

Truny the Lazy

Progression Update

Hello Again,

Not that anyone gives a Borean Marmot's ass about my raiding progression, I think I skipped last week so here we go.

Durumu is dead. Oh wait and Primordius got one shot. God why would boss #8 be so easy?

We've now officially locked ourselves to Dark Animus and onwards for the sake of progession and the feat of strength.

I am also officially 100% done with LFR (a very awkward and eyebrow raising statement for the devs). With the last secret of the empire, I went and facerolled my way to the ilvl 600 cape. This cape I believe, helped me rank on both Jinrokh and uhh who else was it....oh Tortos (gimmick fight with lots of bats).

So I've officially only ranked on 3 bosses, and was looking forward to doing Primordius BUT we accidentally face-pulled him and he died before I could re-spec so...whatever!

Actually now that I think of it I guess I don't have that much to update, peace out!

Truny the Capeful

A Legendary Find

Hello Dear Reader,

Wow, it's been a long time since I've last updated and ..that's okay actually. You know with all the buzz about 5.3, despite the dreadfully boring new weekly quest and getting to fight the Korkron head on, there isn't really much to do but run your daily heroic scenario then log off. And that's fine.

Now let's backtrack to BC, there was a raid called Sunwell and within this raid there resides a legendary bow, a bow which required no arrows. When you think of it now, it's silly. No one uses arrows, no longer do we have to carry stacks of up to date arrows in our bags.

Anyways I guess you know where this is leading. It was a grumpy week for me and I decided to jump into Sunwell just to see if all the bad karma would reverse in my favor. Well, it did.

Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury is mine!

Meet Kulumtum the Core-Hound!

Now being that my hunter was my original character, Thori'dal holds a special place within my dark black heart in that as a noob browsing Thottbot, this bow was the "best" bow out there and I had no freaking clue how to get it nor would I ever think that one day we would be so strong that we can go and solo old raids.

With everything so accessible now, there a sense of everything being cheapened. You can't go a single day now without seeing the once rare Ashes of A'lar. But that's not the point. My point is that we are so "epic" now that a Legendary is just the natural next step.

But with Thori'dal, in my noob days, even obtaining an epic was difficult. I farmed and played the AH constantly so I can always afford the next best rare, or even epic BOE bow (Hurricane). I can tell you now, the moment I managed to save up that THREE HUNDRED gold to buy Hurricane, it felt like such an accomplishment. I was stronger, and the mobs in Ungoro where I was questing had to fear me. I think gearing up has long lost this magic. The feeling of slow but sure progression, the non-existance of entitlement.

I was what you could say a "casual" player back then and I can also say that perhaps the Great Loot Rain of T9 really did throw a corrupted dart into the already ruined heart of the community.

Anyways, this is just the first of many updates this week since I've been SLACKING!

Turby the Bowlicious

Battle Pets for Warlocks: 2nd Installment

Evening,

Raiding With Leashes 2 gives us malefic pet collectors access to some very warlocky pets, pets that you know at one point you had wanted to summon/control for your very own evil use.

Let me introduce the first pet, the Netherspace Abyssal. This delicious abyssal drops off of the last boss of Karazhan, which means you must go and solo the chess event in order to obtain it.

As I try to re-enact the Warlock from the Vanilla WoW Trailer.

 The chess event is not TOO difficult depending on your luck with the game "cheating". What I always do is free up my doomguards so they can AOE mobs, then immediately free my King just before Medivh cheats and then focus fire down his king.

Anyways, the Abyssal casts hellfire occasionally when left alone, and this could actually cause some chaos in your raid group as you see people try to move out of fire. I found myself moving out of its fire once then thinking "wait, this encounter has no fire...". I wonder if they will add in a green abyssal once the Black Temple pets are released.

"I can has lanterns LOL"

The next awesome pet is the Lesser Voidcaller,which drops off of Astromancer Solarian in Tempest Keep. This pet took me the longest, two weeks worth of cycling every character in there, with the damned thing finally dropping for my level 86 shadow priest.

This guy is awesome, I have always wanted the void-lord-with-lanterns model to follow us, or even to fight for us and our plea has been answered!
That's about it, I have work to do. Goodbye.

Truny the Petted