#barlafumble

To say I've been slacking doing dailies is a bit of an understatement.. I flat out avoid them at all costs. Weird? Probably. Dailies give good gold and since I love getting mounts, why am I not doing them?! I could argue with myself all day... I have a friend who rep grinds - it just amazes me the willpower (dedication?) that that woman has. Whatever it is, I just don't have it. BUT.. mention in guild chat about killing anything and I'm there! The guild goes on Zandalari Warbringer hunts for a chance at the Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn that they drop. I'm sure there are other things that they drop just as useful or even better, but I'll I see/hear is "mount". They also drop Insignias for Golden Lotus, Klaxxi, Shado Pan & August Celestial rep. I think it's just a trick to get me to do something vaguely daily-like, but it works! After a few kills, I hit exalted with Golden Lotus! So... I get to kill things, skin them AND get reputation. I don't know what to say, I'm just speechless. More please?! After we were done, I hopped over to the GL Quartermaster and picked up a few mounts:

And this put me at 100 mounts, so in the mail I got:

Mog? Pftttt.. Barla is still wearing what I posted last. I just am so in love with that outfit that it's not changed yet. Instead I've mogged my priest. Smashly was clearing Naxx for a mog, invited me to tag along and I picked up a couple pieces (psssttt, Smashly! There's a tier helm that drops there, can we go back pretty please?):

I was very excited to put this one together - just pieces from a couple runs Starre and I did today - and it turned out really beautiful.

Spectacular Death ran Herioc Blackwing Descent the other day :) We didn't get to Nefarian/Onyxia, but we did get something even better:

Barlafumble, Slayer of Stupid, Incompetent and Disappointing Minions, the longest title in WoW, I believe. And the most epic! Sadly, it's only temporary, lasting 30 minutes or until death.

The last few holidays I've been quite the slacker - I didn't care to try for most of the achievements. Silly me, I didn't really pay attention to the Reins of the Violet Proto-Drake I'd get for completing several holiday achievements. I have vowed to  complete all of the achievements for Noblegarden... and I did!! WOOOT! I am so happy and I never ever ever have to do this again.

Our guild had Troll Week all week in celebration of the Thunder King patch. We roamed a bunch of old troll content and I felt the need to mog into appropriate attire for the week. Now that I look back on it, it's really still more hunterish than trollish.

Shoulders: Pauldron's of Primal Fury Chest: Val'kyr Vestments Gloves: Grips of Chronological Events Waist: Spiderlord Belt Legs: Spiderlord Leggings Feet: Softstep Boots of Tracking Bow: Roc-Feather Longbow

Bone-r Night was one of our Troll Week events. A group of us headed over to the Isle of Giants for a few tours around the island to get some bones. Look at all the skeletons! When we first went out to the Isle of Giants, the boss Oondasta had over 800 million (!!!) health and took 4 or 5 40-man raids to kill. Because this caused the game to break (crashed/lagged servers), he's been changed to only about 400 million (!) and one really good 40-man raid can take him. The reason all these bodies are at the graveyard is because so far one of the best strategies is to pull him here for the fight.

I think only Gimm and I found Primal Eggs that day. You can only have one egg at a time and in three days, the egg hatches into one of three raptor mounts - Reins of the Black, Green or Red Primal Raptor. Gimms turned out to be Green while mine was Black. Here's the Black Primal Raptor mount alongside Elvis. They used the same skin as they did with the Ironhide Devilsaur.

  We went back after our raptors hatched to try for more eggs. My second egg hatched into the Red Primal Raptor.

I'm so bummed and I have no one to blame but myself. 

I want to collect all the battle pets, but I'm so bad at leveling that I procrastinated just a little too long and have missed my chance at the Snowy Owl in Winterspring. 

This wild pet only spawns during the winter - and I just figured that since the easter/spring event hasn't happened yet that I had another week or so to get it. I figured wrong.

Last night I rushed out to Winterspring after our guild event with the hope of capturing this level 17-18 creature with my sad little team of level 16, 15 and 14. I flew into Everlook and saw a level 17 Anodized Robo Cub nearby - let's try my team against this, I thought!

I won! I couldn't believe it. I have no idea how that happened! I quickly switched him in for the level 14, healed everyone up and flew around Winterspring...

...for about 20 minutes. Then I whispered Doob from Warcraft Pets asking if I missed the owl. He confirmed my fear - he's been hearing the same, that the owls are gone for the year. Confirmation from a GM says that Azerothian winter is from November 1st through the last day of February.

*sigh* Oh well, I'm sure I'll have a better team by next November. I still need to level at least one battle pet to 25 so I can uncrate the Peddlefeet that Starre gave me for Valentine's day.

Dang it, Barla!!

My favorite hunter pet is Elvis, my Ironhide Devilsaur (okay, I have several favorites). I've been wanting to mog something to match him and this is what I've come up with: 

Okay, maybe not tamed so much as he dropped from Razorgore tonight. Deathdriver was in Blackwing Lair and needed a second body for the first boss so I jumped in real quick to help out. Yay!