Saying Goodbye to the Vale

What can I say it's been a great run. I think we as members of the evaporating Horde have learned a lot about ourselves. We were born to fight and having since adventured so extensively upon the mysterious land of Pandaria I think we've found the answer to the question" "What is worth fighting for?"

Bullshit drop-rate gear that never ever drops that's what!

No just kidding.

We just finished off our very last Lei Shen kill of the tier, and I'd have to say this last run through I am not going to miss any of the 12 bosses and their bullshit drop rates. Just joking again. Can you sense the bitterness?

I think it's officially time to say goodbye to the Vale. Goodbye to the days of farming for Alani's poop pieces, goodbye to lazily mining ghost iron, goodbye to dailies which we can now finish in 5 minutes by pulling every single mob in the zone and using Fire and Brimstone to mow them down like the scum that they are.

We will be busy next patch. Our "boss" Garrosh is up to no good and he must be stopped before he consumes all of Kalimdor, and soon, the whole of Azeroth. I just have to ask, where the fuck were we when he dug up the heart of Ysarrj? I know where, NOT logged in or busy taking down Lei Shen that's where! Why didn't Taran Zhu call us? Or text us?

I have no news of the patch that will hit tomorrow other than a brief idea of what I will be doing: Collecting the new pets, and first priority is finishing off my Val'anyr, Hammer of the Ancient Kings (separate post pending once we finish).

I also know what I will NOT be doing next patch:

1. LFR. No more LFR. It ruins the raiding experience in that my very first exposure to a new raid is now shared with 24 idiots rather than competent people whom I'd like to actually raid with.

Oh wait, remember what happened in this expansion? LFR is pretty much the only "content" we have so....well...that's the 1 thing I am not doing. Perhaps I will take a leisurely stroll through this new "Timeless Isle" people are talking about. We will see we will see.

In other news, game cameo: Does anyone else play a mobile game called Defender of Texel? It's a little RPG i've been playing, you know...your typical collect 9 pixel fighters, place them onto a 3 x 3 grid, swipe them for glory type of thing. Here's a little gif I made of one of the legendary fighters, Nanaya, the Legendary Cannon Crab.

"I'm a crab with a cannon on my head. Your argument is invalid"

Truny the Invalid

Glyph of the Sprouting Mushroom?

Ok readers, I am in need of your help!

I've kind of stopped caring about what future our games has for us. The same thing happens. Patch is released. The top guilds clear heroic raid within 15 minutes and the rest of us "normal" people get to bitch and complain about things that will never make a difference.

ANYWAYS...so coming in patch 5.4 is a glyph for resto druids called "Glyph of the Sprouting Mushroom". And the tooltip reads: 

'Your Wild Mushroom spell can now be placed on the ground instead of underneath a target."

What the FUCK is the difference from what it is now? Don't we currently place mushrooms in 3 locations of our choosing? What do you mean underneath a target? Where on the ground? Don't we place it on the ground now? Isn't the ground underneath our "target" anyways? I'm so confused??

Turny the Confused Mushroom Planter

Garrosh Must Fall

Hello reader!

You still there?

Woooow, go check out the patch 5.4 trailer right now.

I've only been logging on to do two specific things lately for the past month or two: Raid, and herb.

I have no need for VP or charms or anything and I have no intention of playing my crappy ilvl 515 alts.

We've been in a slump, but this trailer has reminded me just how awesome our cinematics can be (compare this to the crap that was the deathwing trailer (LOOOLWHAT)!

Garrosh must fall! It's time to set aside our petty quarrels and bring down this tyrant who would satiate his craving for power by laying waste to the entirety of Azeroth!

Also, I think Taran Zhu needs to bring along his healer bitch for his fights.

Goodbye!

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