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Ask Jeeves – Lovely Charms
– Trogs in Fractured Front, Deepholm: Another open world spot, but one that is quick to get to. The trogs are quite plentiful, but they have a bit of a longer respawn rate and take a little longer to kill. However, if you loot these bad boys you can make some gold off the drops. As the video shows, a Potion of Treasure Finding can really jack up your gold making potential.
– Unstable Corruptions in Throne of Tides: There are those who say that this is the best place to farm Lovely Charms. Claims of 100 charms in ten minutes have often been reported. However, most people who are not rocking raid gear (or a 390+ gear score) will not be able to get to the Unstable Corruptions solo. To reach them, you have to kill the first boss of the zone: Lady Naz’jar. That bitch does not play around, but she does play for keeps. If you can get someone to help kill her and then make your way to the Unstable Corruptions, you’ll be sitting pretty.
– Slags in Halls of Lightning: The best place to farm the Lovely Charms, IMO. Fast respawns, plenty of non-elite mobs to mow down, low hp, and easy to get to. It’s also in an instance, so you won’t be fighting anyone else for the respawns.
(Edit: There’s talk that the slags may have been nerfed. If that’s the case, you might want to check out Throne of Tides.)
Good luck with whatever your plans are for the bracelets. Have fun killing mobs for hours upon mind-numbing hours.
The Sudden Brewmaster
It was easier than I thought.
One of the great things about the Brewmaster Achievement Title is that it’s not as difficult to get as many other world event titles. Most of the other ones involve some kind of PVP aspect, which most people find difficult at best, and frustratingly impossible at worst. But the beauty of Brewfest as one would expect, is that it’s a very festive time. There’s beer, sausage, and drunken dancing. Oddly enough, of all the world events I would have expected intoxicated PVPing in some form. Nope, not the case. If you grind out some dailies, the title can be yours over time.
Herculano, it turns out, only needed to obtain a Brewfest mount. Luckily, for two tokens, he could buy a herb that would make his mount look like a Brewfest mount. So Herc did one quest, picked up ten tokens, and bought the herb to earn himself a double-play.
Since you can’t have drunken shenanigans without injuries, Herc also finished off a First Aid achievement.
Not bad for maybe fifteen minutes of effort.
Long Way Round
Sitting in a saddle for too long is not good for the butt.
I had some free time this afternoon, so I decided I would attempt to finish up a few more steps on the stairway to World Domination. During which time I would also have Herc queue up for his daily random Heroic. Multitasking – it’s what all the cool kids are doing when they’re not being cool!
As frustration would have it, the word of the day was LAG. I’m not sure why, but the past few time I logged on to play WoW I’ve really been having latency issues. I have a few suspicions as to what the culprit is, but needless to say, everything was slow going. Multiple deaths in Heroics (hard to stay out of the stupid when you die before you even know you’re in trouble), not to mention the numerous disconnects caused by riding around a zone. Booted due to sightseeing. Apparently my computer was stoned and would rather check out the birds flying overhead than send data packets to the WoW servers.
Duuuude…
While my eye twitched and I wished evil on the Gods of Red Latency (seriously, 1900-3200ms WTF), Herculano stomped through zones. His was an angry journey, but when he finally decided he’d had enough he hopped off his Talbuk and dropped his saddle-raw butt in the Zoram Strand. Herc put on the miles today, all on Goatback –
That pretty much leaves only the northern section of Kalimdor left to explore. Unfortunately, it means that Herc the Merc is probably going to be getting his hands dirty when he tries to explore the Night Elf and Space Goat Islands. Oh well, can’t make an omlette without breaking a few skulls – eggs, I meant eggs.
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In other news, Blizzcon tickets went on sale this weekend. I was unable to be near a computer when they were posted, so I am currently without Blizzcon tickets. I’ve put the word out as far as buying a ticket if someone ends up with an extra, but I’m not about to pay triple the listed price on Ebay just to get one. At least, I don’t think I am.
This is Herc the Merc – There may be Alliance blood on my hands in the future, but I’d rather have my palm crossed with a Blizzcon ticket. I’ve always wondered about ‘con funk.
Anyhow, have a week.
Where You At & What You Killin?
Rukgut! What have you been up to – uh, where’s your shirt?
I have great abs. Felt like showing them off a little.
That’s a lot of snow behind you. The cold doesn’t bother you?
Mind over matter, friend. Mind over matter.
Well clearly you’ve lost your mind, so I guess it doesn’t matter.
Got it in one.
I hear you’ve got a new pet that you’re leveling up.
I’m trying a Survival spec, and thought I’d get a pet that’ll hold my target down while I unload in its face.
That sounds dirty and wrong.
Says you.
Fair enough. What kind of pet did you get?
Got myself a nice blue crab.
You… you have blue crabs? That might not happen if you put your shirt on, and stopped tramping around with Tauren women with loose morals.
I have a gun, you know. A big one. Lots of bullets. And my crabs can be terminal.
Rokk, on the other hand, decided to take the plunge and get his PVP feet wet again. This time, he participated in the Big Boys version – Wintergrasp.
He actually did quite well for himself –
Might play with this for a bit, see what kind of gear he can get.
The Rokk Gets His Pumpkin On
Generally speaking, I don’t go in for the World Events. I guess that always had something to do with the fact I was never level capped when the event came along, so I never got to play with the big boys. Maybe it’s the cold, maybe it’s the pain meds, but I thought Rokk would go and give this thing a try. Maybe not the title, but at least pick up a few achievements.
Boy did he.
First, he helped save Brill from burning down. Take that, Headless Horseman!
Then he took the fight to the Scarlet Monastary, kicked down the doors, and punted Mister Pumpkinhead through the uprights!
As a reward for his pumpkin-bashing, he picked up the Sinister Squashling & Hallowed Helm:
To celebrate, Rokk binged on candy:
That’s right, not all events are wholesome and classy…
Rokk Talk 