Completed! Achievement: Why? Because It's Red

Why? Because It's Red    

This achievement is gained by acquiring a [Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal], enabling you to use the Red Qiraji Battle Tank mount, found as a somewhat rare drop in Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.

What a nice new years!  HAPPY NEW YEARS Indeed!  I also got Enchant Cloak - Subtlety and Enchant Gloves - Threat too!   

I formed a raid for AQ40 with 20 level 80 alliance pugs and 2 guildies and went into AQ40.    I master looted the instance so people would not roll on more than 1 mount.   As tempting as it was to Master Loot the item to myself but I didnot.   A level 75 warrior won the roll with 99 I looted it to him and immediately whispered can I buy that from you? Opened trade with 666 and said here's most of my gold.

hehe and surprisingly enough he sold it to me.  I believe at the time he did not know how rare this mount was so probably thought to himself what a noob this raid leader was she's willing to pay all this gold for a red mount what the heck.  I can't blame him for thinking it was an easy drop considering yellow, greens, blues were dropping like candy.  After I got it I think someone told him how rare it was so  .. he was very upset .. but hey not my fault there.  He's lucky this raid leader didn't ninja loot it most pug leaders would have.

I got it by very honorable means.    Its not my responsibility to educate players so yep!  i got lucky he didn't know any better. Erm I did ninja loot one item .. it was a bop blue enchanting recipe.  I linked one and didn't link the other but rolled and won the first one with a 95.

Exalted and 13 mounts

It took 5 hours between the two reps.  Not bad i say.  Whew this vadc

Sha'tari SkyGuard = 6 mounts and a pet nether fry
 http://www.wowwiki.com/Sha%27tari_Skyguard

	[Nether Ray Fry]	32	Pet
	[Blue Riding Nether Ray]	160	Mount
	[Green Riding Nether Ray]	160	Mount
	[Purple Riding Nether Ray]	160	Mount
	[Red Riding Nether Ray]	160	Mount
	[Silver Riding Nether Ray]	160	Mount

 
Kureni = 8 mounts
http://www.wowwiki.com/Kurenai

[Reins of the Cobalt Riding Talbuk]	70	Mount
[Reins of the Silver Riding Talbuk]	70	Mount
[Reins of the Tan Riding Talbuk]	70	Mount
[Reins of the White Riding Talbuk]	70	Mount
[Reins of the Cobalt War Talbuk]	100	Mount
[Reins of the Silver War Talbuk]	100	Mount
[Reins of the Tan War Talbuk]	100	Mount
[Reins of the White War Talbuk]	100	Mount

Farming Stratolme for: Baron's Mount

Time:15-18 min per run. 
Loots:  5-8 stacks of runecloth, 8 large brilliant shards, 6-10 illusion dust, 5 greater eternal essence.
Route:  Go straight kill baroness somebody first, then go kill spider boss, then go through gate and kill your magician boss,  proceed to magisters dude, then pull all of stich monsters and swipe em to death.  kill skellies and De loots while waiting for the black guard to spawn, kill those too  then go in to kill baron all while swipping when skeletons go to him.  Rinse and repeat

I've heard that a full clear can be done in 10 mins if i do not stop to loot or pull uncessary mobs.

So far I have had no luck with the drop rate but will keep trying.  I dont have anything else to do in game as I have neither the time or inclination to raid or instance or pvp.  A fast and short instance run is just what I'm looking for. Stratolme grinding isn't hard but it is very disapointing.

Profits:  mail cloths to my tailor alt to make stuff for DE and then use mats to enchant very rare recipes for sale on the AH.

Achievement: Get to the Choppa!

Yay I got me a mekgineer chopper.
Achievement:  Get to the Choppa!
Price:  14.5k gold  off the AH

Sligthly cheaper than me farming the mats but it seems like this person just wanted to get thier original money back.

Woot! Reins of the Raven Lord

I finally got my very own raven mount! 10:30am i'm half a sleep and dual boxing setteck halls and just missed the reset timer by 10 mins so ate up today's shot at the mount and it turns out this was a really good thing because an epic mount was the drop! Reins of the Raven Lord

I wasn't sure it was real and double checked my bags then learned it fast before something bad happened. BUt yep! 45 min dual boxing runs every day or every other day. I think it took about 30 runs or so because i have exactly 20 epic gems so some runs dont drop gems so 30 runs is about it. not bad thats like 1 month of farming

i'll post pictures later. Its very very cool the best in game mount.

WTB - ZA Bear Mount (completed)

Date: 10/12/08
Item: Amani War Bear (ZA Mount)
Price: 23,000 gold

So I realized at the last min that I did want a bear mount and that I'd need both level 70 and an insane amount of gold. Too bad there was another bidder some guy willing to pay 20k so instead of bidding him up 1k at a time I went and dropped a 23k bid. Good lord i didn't think i'd have to clean out the piggy bank for this but today is sunday and basically the last reset for this as tuesday is patch day and which will take this mount out of the game. Otherwise yes I just dinged 70 on my mage (main on server #2). Luckily i'm good at making wow gold so I could afford the 23k but it's still expensive. Otherwise I got no less than 4 tells asking if this was really my main and if i bought the gold. There's this stigma to being rich in wow it's like everyone who has a lot of gold is a gold buyer.

What I really wanted to say was... well you raid endgame bosses and I raid the AH so what's the problem but that would be rude and would have probably gotten me kicked from the raid on the principal of losing face.

The raid was very smooth and the basically carried me the 10th man through the instance and it was completed in under 20 mins.

How to buy a bear mount 2 days before patch.

Have 30,000 in the bank and be prepared to fork over 25k but dont tell em that just start with the starting bid of 8k

Whisper all the top 3-5 raiding guilds on your server asking very politely if thier guild would consider selling you a bear mount. Take down names and ask if they knew of anyone who is running it if their guild won't or can't do it.

I got 1 guild who said thier guild isn't the type to sell runs. So i whispered 4 other top guilds and they all referred me to the same person. a paladin from the server's top raiding guild.
Luckily as i was about to log off for the day i saw someone from that guild going WTS Amani Bear mount pst. .. so i whispered and got invited into party with the raid leader and the other bidder and we bidded in party.

Anywayz on any given server there is usually 1 guild who is capable and willing to take an extremely undergeared person.

Raid experience: 10/10
lol i've never "bought" a run through before so this was a bit nerve wracking but both parties came out happy as I got my mount and each raider got 1270g and 11.5k to their guild bank.

Lets see their raid leader supplied all my potion needs, i even got heals and rezzes when i died due to low stam, i didn't really dps much so much as trying to stay alive .. even resorted to using mana shield for myself. it was at malakazzar i died as it really was must have 8-9k hp. lol they did remark oh mage is still alive! of course .. i am a former raider and do have some memory of that boss.

Sigh there went my goal of 218k in game gold per character. Well gold is there to make the game more fun so instead of farming to get goldto buy pots to raid I get gold to have fun. I actually prefer to just stare at the nice gold coins coming in than spending it. Its always good to have alot of gold on hand just in case something of interest pops along and it's down to who's got more gold.


Btw the going rate for 23,000g Gold is: $458 USD. Sigh

Mount Collection

Okies I have a small menagerie of mounts. Yes these are spread out over 3 severs and 4 toons. Lets see .. i enjoy collecting gold, cute looking pets, cool mounts and even cooler enchants! Okies mounts and pets are like the permanent items of wow as you upgrade out of gear at every expac.

Lol okies i have plans to grind the bloodsail bucaneer's gear and captain's hat. but that's me. I like to have things that people go Ooo .. want!

SERVER #1 (RPPVP-Alliance)
Druid 70 got the Winterspring Frostsaber in January of 2006
Priest 70 got Fiery Warhorse's Reins in April of 2007

SERVER #2 (RPPVP-Alliance)
Mage 70 got the Amani Warbear (paid: 23,000g) in October 2008

SERVER #3
Priest 40 got the Zhevra Mount in September 2008 (refered myself)

*Collectors Edition pets: WOW, BC, WOTLK

Brewfest Event & Phat Epics

ZOMG it's that time of the year FREE epics from blizzard!! lol I think i'm gonna try for a kodo mount. Ah well no kodo but I picked up 1 brewfest ram on me shadow priest. Oh well its better than nothing

My Mount Collection

Hi hi I just wanted to show off my super cool pair of mounts.

Druid 70 got the Winterspring Frostsaber in January of 2006
Priest 70 got Fiery Warhorse's Reins in April of 2007

The wintersaber rep grind is just about the hardest and mind numbing grind I ever did. This was completed Pre-BC so it should have taken 3+ months but I completed it in 2.5 weeks. I wasunemployed at the time and was avoiding a few RL things so wintersaber rep grind it was .

Attumen's mount dropped in my guild's 2nd karazhan run I paid a very high amount of points for it. Lets say i was willing to spend all my points and not have anything left for gear if need be. My logic was while I do raid the drop % is very low and who knows if there will be people with more points than me in the next raid. Also mounts are something that won't be made obsolete with new patches.

Zomg I am still missing a few mounts: Deathcharger's Reings, ZG Swift Zulian Raptor
ZG Swift Zulian Tiger, Reins of the Raven Lord, Ashes of Alar "Phoenix Mount". The rep mounts i dont care about but these zomg /drool.

Okies okies i'm being greedy so i'm happy with my 2 cool mounts but one can always dream

*undead - is me using orb of deception. NE Druid Female= UD Female