GNERD RAGE!!!

That's right - I did Wintergrasp! Wheee!!!

Loremaster of the Eastern Kingdoms?

CHECK!

I got this achievement by doing the “Another Message to Wildhammer” quest line. Even though it’s called Loremaster I certainly didn’t read all the text for the 550 quests. Why did those trolls in Grom’gol need blue crystals from goblins? Dunno – don’t care!

It was much the same when I went through the “Well Read” Achievement. It did cross my mind that the books were written and put into the game as little bit of extra lore so I should read them. But a few times I had Alliance guards booting my butt around so many times I just clicked them and was off again. Stupid Alliance!

WTB 70 quests in Kalimdor! From what I’ve read on forums, this one is the challenge, especially for Horde. I’ve also read that the quests for Mauradon count towards the achievement, but we’ll see how desperate I get.

How's My Healing?

It is sure to be short-lived but I have been enjoying playing Ianto again. We shall see how long it lasts, but healing low level stuff has been ejoyable.

Misdirect>Serpent Sting>Explosive Shot>Black Arrow>Steady Shot>KILL SHOT

From the 3.3 patch notes:

Hunters

Misdirection: Redesigned. Instead of having finite charges, it now begins a 4-second timer when the hunter using Misdirection performs a threat-generating attack, during which all threat generated by the hunter goes to the friendly target. In addition, multiple hunters can now misdirect threat to the same friendly target simultaneously.

This is a sweet, sweet change. Since we hunters put out such AWESOME DPS misdirect is a blessing. Wait, no, Feign Death is a blessing… When I see a fellow hunter cast misdirect before me I shake my fist in frustration (at myself for not getting there first). But now we can all cast it and blow our dps loads up front and not have to worry about getting too much aggro.

The four-second timer should enable us to squeeze out an extra shot or two. Another win for Hunters everywhere!

@darthregis Nice work on the BBB reply! Well said!

I’m ticking away at Loremaster (Eastern Kingdoms & Kalimdor) on Pacheco. I am very far away (440/550 and 535/685) from the stage where I’m trying to find quests. I skipped a lot while levelling this toon mostly due to the fact that I shit-scared a lot of the time. Sometimes I would abandon quest chains because I didn’t want to go back to the place I had just been or did not pick up quests that were in the same area. Escort quest? No thanks! Lots of group quests were ignored because up until about my 30’s (when the guild formed) I did not want to talk to anyone and I didn’t respond to /whispers from strangers. In a game with millions of people I preferred to be left alone (and that’s generally still the case).

Sometimes it is boring do all the back and forth traveling and grinding but I’m thinking of it as a way to pay homage to the zones before they get destroyed/reshaped. I could also do this by playing any one of my level 20 alts, but Pacheco gets the “honour”.

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I am looking forward to delving into all that Patch 3.2.2. has to offer, but I’m currently watching True Blood and until I finish season 2 there is nothing happening in our house. Seriously this is an awesome show and I’m not saying that because of the hot vampires being their sexy selves, but I’m not not saying that. Okay, I am saying that.

I haven’t even read the patch notes or looked at the Onyxia encounter. I did try to do some Brewfest stuff, but I got a little confused…I’m just a girl you know.

I did the fishing daily that you have to do in Wintergrasp over the weekend. Even though I was barely in WG, there was no one around and it was 6:00am server with an hour until the next battle, I have never been so tense while fishing.

Because everyone is still in summer-break spirit I have levelled cooking (350) and fishing (280). All because of those silly achievements…and possibly the chef’s hat reward.