My Primal Egg hatched!

I saw a lot of my friends with these things and I never thought I would have the patience to farm one for myself.  Even Narishma got one in his failbag and he was wondering what it was.  I wasn't really a person who looks for mounts anyway.

However, the other day, Luxy was on the Isle of Giants and I asked her if she would like some company, because I was sick of fishing for carp - or rather, fishing and NOT GETTING CARP.  I told her to FFA the loot and she could take all the bones, and off we went trying to kill the big ones.  Ouch.  Then, as I looked at all the dead dinos lying around, their leather rotting away, I asked Lush if he'd like to come and have some free skins.  He joined the party and I told him that Luxy gets all the bones, and he can have all the skins.  After a few more dino kills, I was feeling a little left out, because I wasn't looting anything.

"Can I have the Sharp Fangs?" I said.  "I feel a bit left out not looting anything."

Lush and Luxy laughed at me, and let me have all the Sharp Fangs.  I was happy.

Then Lush said there was a Primal egg there.  He let me have it.  I was so excited!  Luxy said she didn't need it because she had them all already.  Hardly surprising, since she had almost 9k bones.

So my egg hatched the day before patch and guess what colour I got!

I guessed wrong.  I said black.  Luxy guessed red.  Lushnek won by default because there was only one colour left.

Is it just me or does he look... constipated?

Achievements this week

Sometimes I keep some of my easy achievements up my sleeve so that if I don't get any of the harder achievements, I still have the easy ones to make a few for the week.

A Little Patience was one of the Scenarios I hadn't done yet, and there are a lot of achieves in there.  So I started with building the defences of the Gnome and Jinyu.

It feels kinda weird killing horde, I must admit.

I had a battered hilt and I finally got around to finishing that quest chain with cool weapon.  But which one to choose?  I admit, I chose the most interesting one, but now I struggle to find a transmog for it... I think the shoulders of this set are too dull.

It was interesting forging the blade.  I shall have to write a more extended version of it later, because back in the day, I'm sure it was a pretty awesome chain.  I did have a giggle when the Blood Elf - oh wait, am I giving spoilers? - tried to touch it.

Weekend PvP - A new addition

No Shab on Friday and with a sick child I decided to take Friday night off WoW, so my PvP night went down the toilet.  However, the boys got together and did some 2s (Shab and Narishma joined Sev's 2s team) and they did really well.  It must be nice being double DPS :)

Tried a few 3s on Saturday and some 2s, and Sev and I did ok in 2s, but not used to having a shadow priest in a 3s team so we will need practice with that.

On Sunday we had no raid again, and I had already suspected that so I had asked Broll if he would like to come and PvP with us and do 5s (as Soultouched has been too busy for 5s lately).  Broll brought his monk and it felt like there were only 2 or 3 teams playing because we just played he same teams over and over.

There was a solo healing team (resto shaman) with a hunter, warrior, shadow priest and mage who beat us as many times as we beat them.  The other team was a double healing team (resto druid, resto shaman) with an ele shaman, warlock and ... I can't recall the other, but we had a win and a few losses against them as well.  One time the other members of the opposing team didn't have all 5 enter the arena and another time they just didn't join.

Our first 5s was hectic.  Shab even said OMG as the GladiatorLOSA addon went crazy non stop talking - I couldn't even hear half the polymorphs being called and got cranky with myself for getting poly'd so much.  Sev was smashed in that first game and after that we said we would do more healing on the poor squishy warlock.

There were some particularly hairy moments that I recall.  The shadow priest rezzed the hunter in one of our BGs, and then in the same match was rezzing the warrior, and the guys said the priest was moving while rezzing and Narishma had also silenced him and he was still doing it.  Weird!  The boys are sure the rez went off but the warrior didn't get up.

The resto druid did some amazing survival as the boys called a target switch and focussed the druid.  Unfortunately the druid lived and managed to heal up.  And we lost that game.

Monks are way OP I've decided.  They are so hard to kill.  With a bit more gear I think Broll would be way more useful on the team than me!  His disarming and the bubble thing are so awesome.  Rogues who are disarmed must be really cranky.

We did some BGs after that which were all good as we won them all.  So, after a disappointment in terms of raiding, it was good to have a half decent PvP night.

Edit: I take that back.  I had an excellent run of RBGs on Monday night.

My Top 10 favourite companion pets

It was started by Swenyola and then Zeirah and Luxy did it so I can't resist any kind of list relating to pets. However, how do I list my top 10 pets? There are so many ways to list them, and I have discussed some of my favourites for battling and for looks, but I think I will take the sentimental route this time!

1. Baradin Fox Kit

I have never gotten one and I feel bad for all those foxes I had killed.  This one was a treasured gift from Tome of the Ancient which was made all the more special because it was her very own one that she farmed for ages for, and she only had the one, and she gave it to me - how many people would do something so generous as that??  A truly amazing gift which has it's own post.

2. Darkmoon Rabbit

This pet has a lot of memories!  Making friends with other pet battlers has benefits and the person who gave me this gift, Luxy, actually WON a Darkmoon Rabbit when I asked her to come to fight one cross-server, which was very exciting, and I felt bad that she felt like she owed me a rabbit, which wasn't the case, but when she gave me my own one I was very very excited indeed.  Of all the pets she has given me this was the one I treasured the most.  She has been an extremely generous friend :)

3. Gregarious Grell

This gift was the start of a great friendship.  Arvash gave this to me when we first met, and it was one of my first battle pets to Level 25.  I didn't want to name it after him because he might have thought I meant he was a bit of an imp, but his generosity has always inspired me.  It's great to have friends like him.


4. Emerald Whelpling

This was farmed for me by Roshii, and though he said it didn't take long, I know it would have taken me FOREVER.  I felt really honoured that he gave me one - it was one of those things I was never successful at getting and I remember how warm and happy I felt at the time.

5. Bananas

The first TCG gift I ever received, was from Moopie, because he really loves monkeys and apes.  He gave me this little fella who was so cute!  He's too cute to ever battle with, so I use that despicable Darkmoon Monkey instead.  I couldn't face the thought of him getting beaten, the poor little guy!


6. Thundering Serpent

My souvenir of being in that awesome guild, Apotheosis, on my pissy little alt, getting to chat to the likes of Jasyla, Tikari, Serrinne, Kaleri - this was my souvenir of my time there!  Though I had many invitations to other guilds to grind for the pet, I decided to choose Apotheosis as the guild I would grind it with - after all, Jasyla, who is my hero, is there so how could I NOT do it..  Phew, though, I hate levelling.  I won't go into details because I wrote all about it here.

7. Soul of the Aspects

This was part of a matching set for my birthday from Lushnek.  It was like a gift pack - matching pet and mount.  I even tried to make a matching mog for it but I failed - gold isn't really a druid colour, especially in leather.

8. Terrible Turnip

Nabe is another very generous person and gave me his Turnip - you know I didn't ever get an Ominous Seed till a few weeks ago after all that time farming!  My turnip has been invaluable in capturing pets.  And besides, what a cool vegie he is, so cute!


9. Aqua Strider

A joint gift from Roshii and Souglyy who camped this rare to get me a pet - in those days the Pandaren rares were heavily camped and even to this day I have never seen that pet drop!



10. Teldrassil Sproutling

This was a gift during WOTLK from a rogue in our guild, Shadevar, who played a lot alliance side (sadly, he doesn't play anymore).  This was before the days of account wide pets, and he transferred it across from Alliance to Horde to give to me as a gift.  I was really touched - all that effort, all those dailies!  I didn't know how to pay him back for his generous gift.


All images without me in it are courtesy of WarcraftPets.