Taivan... Soon my Good Boy, you will be mine!

I am Sooooooooooo close to getting Taivan!
Literally one more achievement. Sadly, this last achievement I need is all RNG. 
The Elemental Storms that spawn do not have a pattern from what I've read, and seen actually. There are 4 storms, and 4 zones to spawn in. They spawn every 3 hours. On occasion they can spawn in 2 places. I've seen a storm spawn back-to-back in the same damn zone. weaksawce! 1/16 chance for it to pop in the last zone I need.

The very first person to tell me about this was Stank. He sent me an ingame link to the achieve but I thought it was so far out of reach for me I never gave it a thought to even push for this. Next person to tell me about it was Truth. He sent me a video on it in Discord, same thing I never watched it, still haven't if I'm being honest, sorry Truth <3 Anyways, just sayin, if I pushed back then I'm sure I would have seen a Firestorm in Thaldraszus from the first mention of the achievement to me until now. For shame!
I don't know why it took someone helping me with collecting my mounts and pets and showing me Simplearmory.com to light that fire under my ass. 

Prolly because it shows you the ones you have and has empty spaces for the ones you don't have and I need to fill all the slots. 

Potato takes the time to look stuff up for me and tells me "let's go do this". Now mind you I'm usually a solo person when it comes to collecting things and getting my achievements. I don't like the feeling like they're taking the time out of doing stuff for themselves to come and help me. Or when Kreagr buys pets for me with Pet charms. Even if he can buy them with the charms and then sell them for a crap ton on the AH, he chooses to give them to me. I'm very greedy and I yes I want it all, BUT I also am someone who feels really bad about people doing things like this for me.  I never ask for them to, and I've told them not to but they still do and I am very grateful. Kreags has told me he doesn't care about the charms or gold he can get from selling the pets, and he knows I'll get more out of the pets then he will. They know I am a WoW psycho and they want to contribute to my addiction... They are huge enablers, lol. In a good way! <3 And Potato does the same. He has given me so many pets and some are not even duplicates for him. 
Ultimately, I feel guilty a lot of the time because like I said I am someone who plays solo and usually has my time booked with doing dailies or world quests. This Taivan push has got me occupied so much that I haven't been doing my gold, flying and pet battling WQs that I normally do. When people ask to run stuff I know I can say no, but usually I go out of obligation. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy playing with others, but just sayin', it's putting a wedge in my routine antisocial Skully mode of play.
Anywhos...
Here is a picture of the first and ONLY Taivan I've seen in the world. 
I talked to this person and he said the forbidden isle and the storms are the ones that took him/her the longest. And they were so nice, they wished me luck.

You will soon be mine Taivan. The Good boy Gentle Giant.

News Update: The size of Taivan has been temporarily nurfed because of bugs. People that have this are upset as the whole appeal was that he was a huge mount and now he just seems like just another normal bakar. Blizz said it's temporary, but we shall see. 

Hearthstone event

I am happy to say I have completed collecting all the Hearthstone Event items and Achievements.
I didn't know there were a lot of issues with this event until a day into it. I knew the spawn wasn't at a set time, or something like it was supposed to be but never worked out that way. So a little after the top of the hour I noticed was the spawn time when I did them. Mind you, I didn't read anything on the event prior, I just knew there was the horse mount when you logged into Hearthstone. So to my delighted surprise, there were other stuff to get. I mean I figured it would be as just like the Diablo event where there's drops from the portal spawning bosses. YES! more shit to add to my collection! happy days!

The first thing I got was the Hearthstone hearth toy which has a super cool animation. you drop the board and it opens up and cards start swirling around you while it channels. nice!

Along with that on the same drop I got the disc mount. Fuck you Tazavesh! I got a disc mount now!!!! just kidding I still want that one. The only reason why I don't farm that is cuz I think you still have to complete the Market first, and it's just too long and annoying. 

I got all the cards for the card collecting achievement yay! It was so nice cuz I sat at a table with a person I didn't know and we started to chat. They got all their cards and I needed a few. They were throwing matches to help me get the win and get all my cards. So nice! I wish I remembered their name.

With the little battle pet Sarge, it took me a while to get. Healsawce got the pet and gave it to me... It's sooo friggen cute! I named it Sawce. And funny enough I ended up getting like 5 of them after. Sadly I could not learn more than one, so I had to toss the rest :-(

Yes because I started this entry the day after the Hearthstone event, I don't friggen remember what all I wanted to write about it, like usual. So I'm super sure I missed a bunch of stuff. 
Till next time. Ok... ok bye!

Mid March update

Well poops!
I was gonna post this before Feb was done... ugh lol not a shocker though.
Anyways, I have screenshots attached already so I'll just write what I remember, and I might be all over the place cuz Im'a just type as things come to me. 
Pic to the right is of Babyskully's new mog I'll keep her in now. Twilight Witch mog with traders post staff and Maldraxxus covenant bone wings. I really love it, but I don't wanna change Deadskully's mog. If this was pink and black, I would love to put my main in it but it's purple so bleh.  

The Big Dig weekly gave me a pet Hap'he. cute! I think I got it as a drop from killing the event boss.
I've been doing these religiously due to the transmog that the vendors sell. I need it all! and I still have a bunch more to get >_< 
We did a Dawn of the Infinite Hard Mode No Death run for the achievement. Sadly, we didn't do it when it was actually hard so no Title, but at least we got a transmog outfit and the achievement. 

My boys have been running DotI with me and a couple of them have still been giving me their Quantum Courser mount things. I love them! Recently I got Deathcharger's reigns from Stratholm, The Crawg from Underrot, Mummified bone raptor from King's Rest. I think I talked about the other ones I've gotten so I'll leave them out.

I was really grinding for my 1200 pet achievement. To the point of going on the Auction house buying ones I didn't have and using my pet charms to buy them from vendors. Alas! I got my achievement!
WTF!?!?!?
Now I need to get 1400!?!?!!? are you fricken kidding me!???!
Heck NO! I'm not gonna push for this one for a looong time. I'll still going round collecting but not pushing to complete this.

Ok sooooo, This month's Traders post sucks!!!!
I only say it sucks because the amount of tender I have does not cover half the things I want. I was only able to buy 3 friggen things and now I'm broke. The Peacock mount was a given, it's very pretty, the teal back mog and the green parasol toy. So disappointed. We really do need a new way to get more tender, I might even use RL money to buy more tender from the Blizz store if they ever bring back that option, I think they did it only one month. Who am I kidding, of course I would. TAKE MY MONEY!!!!
This next one made me sad. I got a manuscript drop and I got so excited! Bronze and pink armor?!?!?! Holy cripes this is great!

I need to see this! I went to the Dragon changing room thing and was the most disappointed I have ever been in a mog (exaggerating a little). This is NOT PINK!!!! What the hell is this crap color!!?? 
I was so sad. I mean it is pink in all fairness, and I have no idea why I expected it to be a way brighter pink. UGH! such a letdown. Whatever, I'll stop complaining about something I would not even have moged anyways for that dragon with all the other full transform potions that model has. 
Alright and finally...
I joined an all-girl guild on my alt and raided with them a couple times. They are really nice and super supportive of everyone. I've never played with a bunch of ladies in game before and it was a completely different change of pace for me. I will be honest the conversations and chattiness, I'm not used to. The content of convos were different than what I'm used to. The pace at which they do/run things was different. When I say supportive, I really mean that. They take the time to teach the ones that want to learn that would otherwise be too timid and shy to dive into content with a guild full of, dare I say, guys that would find them to be a hinderance to their own progression. I have a good guild that welcomes people that want to learn and will help in a heartbeat, but at the same time, my guild has no patience for people that do not ask questions and do not ask for help and have no willingness to actually learn. It's hard, but I see it happen. I also think that some people think I do not like to play with other girls.... That is the farthest from the truth. I would love to find a chick friend that plays this game like me. Even if she doesn't raid or do dungeons, I just want a chick friend, I guess. If she plays as much as I do I would LOOOOOOVE that! She would be my new best friend. Unfortunately, every chick in the guild has a life, family, kids and go MIA for months at a time... I'm that sad, loser asshole here with no life and always playing WoW.
BUT! I'm ok with that. I just get annoyed when my boys point out that I don't like playing with other girls, 100% FALSE! 

I'm sure that is not all I've been up to in game, till next month...

ok... ok bye!

3K io... LETS GOOOOOO!!!!!

 

This just happened!

YAY!!!! super jazzed, yeah yeah I know, I said I wasn't gonna push after the 2800. But I love my boys so much they were all trying to get me to 3K, so really all the credit goes to them. I don't feel like it was a full on carry cuz I held my own for most of it. At least I think I did. Last week I should have pushed my low tyrannical keys cuz I could have gotten alot of io from those ones below 20. Next week's affixes are doodoo so I think no one is gonna really push next week, well so they say, but I have a feeling they'll still run them.
Anyways, just wanted to share my feat I thought I was never reach.  And I know for alot of people these 22-24s aren't even hard, but for someone who isn't very good at this game, I think this was a huge accomplishment and I'm proud of myself.

Truth, Shifty, Sawce, Stank, Lumi, Chris all helped me get this.

Love (heartbreak) update

Welp...
Another sad Love is in the Air event has passed and another thing to add to my heartbreak list.
First lets start with the positive report. Like the Lunar fest, I didn't have to run as much different toons as I thought I needed to to get all the tokens for the toys/pets/and mogs I still needed, I think I got them all in like 5 days running only 3 toons regularly with the dailies. So THAT part wasn't bad. 

I got an awesome toy, the Date Simulation Modifier, that changes the sky to four different ways. I love this so much! its sooo cool. I went to the places that I knew the sky does not change and set it down. The pic to the left is of Oribos. Sky never changes... but sure as shit does with this toy!!! Waaaay cool! I'm in the process of writing a story with this toy. If I actually finish it today or tomorrow, I'll put a link in here.

Two new achievements were added and I failed to get one of them. Feralas daily that you have to talk to people and give them gifts, I was not sure how to do them in the beginning and I should have read on it first. I really didn't think it was gonna be an RNG thing. Not only are the gifts you get random, but the Daily cycle for the quest are as well. and I think I missed one as I didn't check one day. I still needed to give 2 gifts to people at the end of the event. /sadness. Oh! and the achievement is not account bound so I HAD to do them all with my main.  Right is a pic of the Heartseeker Mana Ray you buy with 270 tokens. so yay I got that!

Bought two things in the Blizz store this month. The Twilight Pack.
Came with a Twilight Witch mog and the Twilight prowler. Both are the same models as the ones from the traders post this month, just purple versions. Also there was a murlock modifier toy. Makes you turn into a murlock... It was so funny! It sets out a monument and I believe others can click it as well. I might have to drop that in raids. 
Anywhos, for the Twilight pack, I originally saw it and thought nah I don't want it, but I bought one and sent it to a friend as a birthday gift and then thought fuck it! I need this too! I LOVE the color pink over purple, but I liked this mog better as it does have black in it. and I bought the matching staff in the traders post too so one of my toons will eventually be rockin this mog.... Just not my main. 

Alright NOW for the heartache...
No Love Armor Proto-Drake manuscript dropped for me.
18 toons
248 chances
= nothing
I saw 4 guildies get it and one of them got it twice (main and alt). The last day, I could have ran them all by 10am (the end of the event) but I really didn't feel like it. I felt so defeated by the end of this. Like always I will still try next year and hope for a drop, but until then I will stay salty as heck. Yeah yeah, I know I won't use it, but I'm a collector! I want EVERYTHING!
But really I hope this was not the case, but I was reading on Wowhead that people were saying that if you got the rocket already, it was bugged that the skin would not drop for you. I was trying to read if people had the rocket and still got the skin, but I got tired of scrolling. I really don't think this was an actual bug rather just people making up reasons for their shitty luck. Either way, I did not get it. Yet another person that religiously plays this game everyday, tries so hard and gets rewarded with disappointment and nothing to show for it. Such as life. Too bad, so sad.
Alright I'm done... I'm gonna go wipe away my tears. 
OK... ok bye!

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Edit:
Finished my story. Enjoy!
Love Event Adventures

Feb randomness

Frick yes! Look at that carry IO I got there eh!
I'm kidding! I do my grey parse part in those keys. I've made the decision, I will not push to 3k. Ask me in a month tho ha! I think I'll only go as far as to get all 20 keys for Fortified and Tyrannical... thats good enough for me. I have a couple 18s and 19s left. Oh! and last night I did do my first 24 key!! Alright moving on...

This week saw my first full M+ slots filled with mythic gear options. part of me was hoping I wasn't gonna get anything that I needed because I do still need gem slots for my gear. But I did have myth pants in the vault so I grabbed those. Legs are not really part of my 4 piece, but I have seen some good Demo locks rockin tier legs so that made my decision for me. If they don't have the 5 piece, then they don't use gloves. I am really collecting gear to see what works for me.

Ohhh this made me so happy today!!!!! 
Garrosh finally gave it up!!!! I'm too lazy to log in and see how much kills this took me. I'ma guess less then 30. And I'm sure that even tho I'm taking this place off the list, I'll replace it with another mount I want from another old raid. Maybe Hellfire Citadel or Nighthold. Oh scratch that, I believe I've talked about the no skip for those yet, and I still have not gone to find out how to do those skips.

Next on my list of things to talk about... People posting things on the AH for less then what you can vendor them for. I feel like I've talked about this before, but I can't be sure. why? do they not see how much you can sell them for?, do they just want to help out others get the items just short of giving it to them? One will never know I guess.

I'm sure this next one is an issue with other people and not just me.
Crafting orders...
Why the fuck would I, or anyone for that matter, craft something that would cost us a shit ton of gold, for you to only put a 10g tip? are they hoping that people don't notice the crap tip, or are they just hoping for that nice person that will do it to help out a cheap bastard? When I was looking for my first craft for knowledge points, I wanna say I have done this. I'm more keen to help someone that tips crap but they have all the mats. as long as I have crafting charges, I'd usually do it. I love when I resource proc some expensive mats... dracothyst from crests, heck yeah! but yeah so I usually put the cheapos on my ignore list. Oh and speaking of ignore lists, I really need for Blizz to up the amount of people you put on the list. I'm always maxing out the list and then I have to delete and re-ignore everyone all over again. AND they should make the list account wide. I hate loggin into an alt and seeing the same fools that spam trade for their sell carries popping up on trade chat. 

This was funny. I've mentioned before about the people that assume everyone that plays this game is a dude... I got a "broski" the other day! I crafted something for this person and then answered a question he had. I never correct them, I just giggle to myself. I don't get upset like I've seen other chicks do. That annoys me that they get annoyed by it. Bitch just play your game and hush your mouth. Nobody cares that you don't have a penis. Oh boy I'd get so much shit from feminists eh? oh well!

And my last thing to talk about...
I have the best guildies! Well the ones that don't give a shit about mount collecting and just give me stuff! Lumi gave the Reigns of the Quantum Courser that dropped from Rise.  I opened it and I got the Mummified Raptor Skull that drops from BfA King's Rest! Holy shiiiit!!!!!
and Shifty had given me his before and that one gave the Swift Zulian Panther from Zul Gurub. I was super excited for that one cuz I've been farming for that one and Armored Razzashi Raptor from there. So I just go in there every so often for the raptor.

Alright I think thats about it for this one. I'm tired, and need go to sleep...
ok... ok bye!

February Holiday Events

Alrightee!
It's that time again, Love is in the air and the grind is back... /sigh
ok ok, I know it's a choice for me to do these till my fingers bleed and my heart breaks but it's what I enjoy so much... I'm always hopeful that I will get what I work so hard for. I'm trying to keep the Brewfest dragon skin grind out of my head right now and not get discouraged. I don't think I put all my effort into that one from the start though sooooo I'ma go with that being the reason I failed to get it. I believe I got all the toys tho sooo that Holiday event wasn't a total bust.

Anywhos! Lets get on with this.
The month of Feb has so much things for me to do. First, the trading post has a crap ton of things that I want and I'm a little peeved that I can't get all the stuff that I want. If Blizz sold traders tender again in the website, I'm pretty sure I'd go and spend RL money on it just to buy all my trading post shit.

Next, Lunarfest runs from Feb 3rd till the 17th. I didn't really do these last year as there was no more achieves to get and I didn't care to check on the toys and mogs. When I went there this year I saw soooo much mogs and some toys and I needs them all, along with a hearthstone toy. like I said, I'm not sure if they added it last year as I didn't check, at least I don't think I checked.  But yeah, I saw ALOT and I knew I was gonna have to get them on more than my main but I didn't calculate how much toons I'd have to go around collecting the Lunar coins with. Turns out no alot. As of writing I gotten all but 3 things! one toon can get like 4 or 5 things if I get all the coins in Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms/ Wrath and some dungeons. Well shit, this will go by fast. By the end of today I can get them all and not have to do anymore Lunarfest stuff, thank goodness!!!!

On to Love is in the Air!

This one runs from Feb 5th to the 19th.

Sooooooo, I completely forgot about the Dragon skin mog for this event! I was prepared to NOT have to run the holiday boss for a mount and get discouraged every time because last year I got my Pink Love Rocket!!!! Just for nostalgia reasons, at the end of this entry, I'll put several entries I wrote about this Holiday event from previous years.
But anyways, so this year, yes I have to run the holiday boss for the mog skin, I also have to consistently do the quests and dailies on several toons JUST to get the new mogs, toys, AND mount. Yes another mount, but this one like the Love bird, you buy with the tokens. 

Thank goodness. I rather grind for the tokens then have another thing to be disappointed in not having drop for me. Its ugly, but its pink, and of course, I still need it. I'm sure I'll ride it once, get my screenie and never ride it again. I like how they advertise for it by the vendor by having one tied to a post with a leash. There's a few love boats for sale too. I have seen one person in the wild riding on. I'm not sure if it's like the raft and the Tuskarr dinghy and you can fish on it, but I'm so ready to find out for myself. And also there's a bunch of rose mogs to get. those are cheap so I think I'll just have my alts that I'm not taking to do the quests daily to go and buy them. I WILL get everything this year... oh I will.

So the first couple days of this event I kinda messed up. I was dumb and I took most of my 50+ toons in the Holiday Boss. Weeeeeelllllll, for the ones that are not 60 yet, I wasted my time. I just read yesterday that the mog only drops for toons level 60+... oh for fuck sake! I mean 8 toons isn't too bad, It would have been more if I didn't read it. Makes sense since 60 is when you go to the Dragon Isle so I wasn't cranky or anything. Yes I am still tracking my runs and as of today (3 days into the event) I have ran this 51 times (not counting the 8 low toons) on 17 toons. I know the drop chance is better on the first run of the day, but I still try. And for my love tokens, I will need 1145 to get everything that I want. If I get them all early I will most likely just farm to get coins to buy the Love bird, hold it and sell it later in the year. I haven't done that in a while, but a guildie reminded me of it yesterday. 

Alright and FINALLY! This week is also Darkmoon Faire and yet another month is going by that I have not went down to fish up some fish heads. Sad times, well at least I've been not smelling all fishy lately. HA!

End mog for February's traders post.

Lunarfest Hearthstone animation

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