Dinner Impossible

I completed the achievement Dinner Impossible on Gomorra today, Wranngar completed it quite awhile ago.

To complete this daily you have to serve a Great Feast in Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, Strand of the Ancients and Eye of the Storm. I only have a couple items left to get Gom his Chef's title, one of which is to cook all the Outlands foods again.

Least Favorite Daily 6/25/09

Today's cooking daily in Dalaran was Cheese for Glowergold, my least favorite daily. I hate running around Dalaran trying to find the Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses. I did it on both though and got it done.

The daily fishing today was The Ghostfish, a pretty easy daily if not a little time consuming due to the travel. I got this one done on both also.

The daily battleground was Warsong Gulch so I skipped it on Wranngar but decided to do it on Gomorra so I could serve a Great Feast and get that BG out of the way towards the Dinner Impossible achievement. As usual we lost, everyone was fighting in the middle with no interest in getting the Horde flag or getting our flag back from the Horde. We lost that one 0/3. I hate Warsong Gulch. I'm assuming most the Alliance do too because they have no clue how to fight in there.

Gomorra - Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth

I got Gomorra the Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth today. I was going to wait and get the Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth for him but the more I thought about it the more I didn't think the 2 on board vendors were worth another 8,000 gold. I may still get the Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth some day but right now I have other things to spend my gold on. Now I have the Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth on both Wranngar and Gomorra so I can carry up to 2 passengers on either. That comes in pretty handy, especially when you are helping someone who is too low level to have a mount, I am sick of running places lol. It is also pretty handy when you are getting ready to go somewhere and someone says 'brb' like someone always does. They can just hop on and go AFK while I take them where we need to go. It has a picture, that comes up on my screen when I mount it, that shows me how many I have on board and where they are sitting. It comes in handy when someone gets off or gets dismounted along the way.

Alterac Valley Strategy Macro

Here is a battle plan someone was posting in AV using a Macro. I copied the text and created a Macro from it for my own use because it was working so well. Of course it only works if everyone follows it. Unfortunately the Alliance have a real problem following even the simplest plans for some reason, at least in my battle group they do, but if most people do, it will work. The way I have it, due to size, it is a 2 part Macro but the second part is optional.

This is the first (Main) Macro, I named this one AV-1:

/bg 1. GRP 1-3 GO TO RH, NO STOPPING FOR ANYTHING!
/bg 2. GRP 4 CAP FrostWolf GraveYard and Defend!
/bg 3. GRP 5-6 Cap Tower Point
/bg 4. GRP 7-8 Cap IceBlood Tower and kill Galv if possible for extra honor!

Here is the second (Optional) Macro, I named this one AV-2:

/bg DO NOT DEF Stonehearth GY... so they CAN NOT rez at RH
/bg Report AFK

If you are going to use both they are meant to be hit one after the other. If you don't know how to put this into a Macro, it is easy following the steps below.

1. Type /macro in chat to open the Macro program.
2. Click on "New"
3. Select a icon for, and name, your Macro
4. Save it
5. Paste the above AV-1 text into the Macro (Everything starting with /bg)
6, Repeat for AV-2
7. It is automatically saved so just drag the icon into your tool bar.

You're done.

Good Luck :)

-Wranngar

Battlegrounds 6/24/09

My daily battleground was Eye of the Storm again today. We won the first one I was in and I stuck around to fight in 3 more, 2 wins and one loss.

For the most part I got lucky and had some pretty good groups. In 2 of the 3 battles we won we had a 3 cap going and were running the flag. In the other win we had a 2 cap and were running the flag but so were the Horde, that one came out a lot closer. We did have a 3 cap going for a couple minutes but couldn't hold onto it. Towers are the key to winning in EoS, not the flag. If you can take and hold 3 towers you don't even need to touch the flag. With 2 towers you need to run, or at least hold, the flag to keep the Horde from running up points.

In the battle we lost no one seemed interested in getting towers, they were more interested in the flag. We got 2 towers at the start then lost one of them. No one seemed interested in getting it back, they were still trying for the flag. You can run the flag non-stop if you only have one tower and you're still going to lose. Unfortunately people don't understand that and it costs us a lot of battles.

I did my daily cooking and fishing too, cooking was Mustard Dogs! again and the fishing was Dangerously Delicious again, a lot of variety there... I ran around a little bit and desecrated some Horde fires while honoring some Alliance fires. I got a bunch more Burning Blossoms on Wranngar. Gomorra did the last cooking daily he had to do for The Rokk, (61,15) in Shattrath, to complete the Kickin' It Up a Notch achievement. He had already done all of them a hundred times but didn't have credit for any of them. He also doesn't have any credit for cooking any Outlands food which is just wrong. How did he get his cooking to 375, then on to 450, without ever cooking any Outlands food?

Daily Battleground - EoS 6/23/09

My daily battleground today was Eye of the Storm. I got lucky and got a good group on my first battle.

We won with a 3 cap but it was a rotating 3 cap, meaning we would lose one and get another one. The Horde would take DR and we would take BET, the Horde would take MT and we would take FRR, it makes for a lot of good kills :). We were also running the flag as were the Horde but running the flag means nothing if you only have one tower like the Horde did. Their time would have been better spent getting, and holding, another tower than fighting in the middle for the flag. We ended up winning by about 800 points. There were no AFK in this battle and it was the only EoS I fought in.

I fought in 2 Alterac Valley battles tonight too, both losses but I got a lot of kills. The first one I was in we were just outclassed I guess. The Horde were in Dun Baldar almost from the start and the only resistance they found were the AFK there. There were at least 10 AFK in each of the 2 battles I was in, that is 1/4 or more of our team. I am still not sure why Blizzard allows them to stay for the entire battle, taking a spot from someone who could be fighting, instead of kicking them out and giving them some kind of a ban from battlegrounds. Actually I have a pretty good idea why, Blizzard dosen't want to piss them off and lose their $15 a month.

The second battle I was in we actually started off pretty good, we had IBT, IBGY and TP capping and someone started FWGY capping. Then some idiot capped SHGY and all the Horde started rezzing in front of us. The took FWGY back, then they took IBGY back. As usual the morons that were defending SHGY with everything they had just gave DB to the horde so they capped our North and South Bunkers, along with Stone Hearth Bunker and Icewing Bunker. After that all the had to do was kill Vann and it was over. When will people learn that capping SHGY is a guaranteed loss?

The Underbog 6/22/09

I saw in WorldDefense that Ironforge was under attack so I headed there. While I was there I met up with Thayah, a level 63 Deathknight, and Dreaneth a level 80 hunter. We decided to do some of the Summer Festival quests. During that Thayah said he wanted to do Underbog so we headed to Zangarmarsh to do that.

We ended up doing 2 runs as he was looking for a certain drop but we never got it. It went pretty smoothly, we only had one death and that was me lol, I was too busy taking screenshots with the interface off for my blog and wasn't watching my health. I was tanking and I rounded up a bunch of mobs each time for us to take out, a lot more than I would have if I was the correct level for that instance. I didn't heal after one onslaught and went right into another without checking my health. I got a little too involved and forgot the basics lol.

The Underbog is around level 60, the mobs are 60-65 elites in there. I got the achievement for completing it, I haven't done many dungeons on Wranngar at all but I really enjoyed this one. After the second run the group sort of broke up so we called it a night on dungeons although we could probably have 2 manned Slave Pens. Thayah got some good drops out of there, there was nothing in there for me or Dreaneth that we could use. I plan to start raiding on Gomorra soon, the top level dungeons.

I kind of gave up on dungeons a long time ago because I was sick of getting 1/2-3/4 of the way through a dungeon to have the group fall apart. I started lots of dungeons and only finished a few..... Now I am ready to try again though. A friend of mine, Beerchick, Champion of the Naaru, said I am welcome to join their guild, BeerBeer and raid with them, I might take him up on it. It is much better to raid with a guild than a pick-up group.

The Ghostfish Mystery 6/22/09

I got my daily's out of the way pretty quick today. The cooking was Mustard Dogs! and the fishing was The Ghostfish.

I did the cooking first as usual, it only took me a couple minutes on each, not many people were doing it at that time. The rewards were the usual, nothing special.

I went to Sholazar Basin to catch my Phantom Ghostfish. I fly up top a little Northwest of the flight point to fish for it, I usually get one there in less than 10 casts. I got it on both in a few minutes. You have 60 seconds to eat the Phanton Ghostfish before it disappears, hence the mystery, you can't bring one back. Once you catch and eat one the quest is complete, all you have to do then is go back to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran and tell her what you found out.

The daily battleground today was Eye of the Storm, we won the second one I was in. The reward for that is 13g23s and 1241 honor. The first group I was in was pretty bad, we didn't have any towers yet almost the entire group was in the middle fighting for the flag.... The second group was better, we had some flagtards but not too many, not enough to cost us the battle. After that I didn't even bother with any other battlegrounds.

Battlegrounds 6/21/09

It took me 5 battles in Eye of the Storm to get my daily done on Wranngar which is just sad. It was some of the worst PvP play I have seen in awhile and I have seen some pretty poor PvP play latley. No one was defending anything, everyone was going for the flag, nobody was trying for towers, I guess they were just trying for achievements.

In one of the battles everyone came off the rock and went to MT, me and one other person were the only ones that went to FRR, needless to say we died. In a couple other battles more than half the team came off the rock and went right to the flag. A lot of people were pissed. In one battle we had one person that got, and lost, the flag twice while we didn't even have any towers..... Like I said, it was just sad to see.

The stupidity didn't stop there, it was going on in AB and AV as well. I fought in 2 battles in AV, both losses. One ended up in a turtle at DB and the other we lost because someone thought it would be smart to take SHGY which is pretty much a guaranteed loss.

In AB there was no teamwork and people couldn't understand, if all the Horde are at ST, GO CAP SOMETHING ELSE!!!!! They just didn't get it and continued to waste time, one or two at a time, trying to get ST back..... I call this phenomenon 'Nap Time is Over' because it seems like the battleground is full of kids with no understanding of strategy. Or a undrestanding of anything else PvP for that matter.

As usual there were a lot of AFK in all the battles I was in, except for the one AB I fought in but we lost that to a 5 cap so it was fast and might not have been enough time for the TuringTest AFK Reporter to report them AFK.

Daily's 6/21/09

I only did the cooking and fishing again today. The cooking was Sewer Stew and the fishing was Blood Is Thicker on my server, Aman'thul. I also did the achievement Critter Gitter on Gomorra.

I didn't get anything worth mentioning as far as rewards go from the cooking or fishing, just the usual stuff.

Critter Gitter is a fun easy quest that only takes a minute. I took some Critter Bites with me when I went to do the daily fishing and, after I got my 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy for the daily fishing, I headed out to the icebergs off Unu'pe in Borean Tundra. There are all kinds of Penguins on them and I had no problem getting 10 of them to be my friend in under 3 minutes. Actually it took me less than 30 seconds to round up 10 of them. All you need to do is target one and toss him a treat by right clicking on it. Or, if you have a universal hot key slot in your action bar like I do, just target and hot key. That is one more step towards my chef title on Gom.

Battleground Leechers 6/21/09

I am so sick of all the leechers in the battlegrounds I have decided to list them. The following is a list of the people that were leeching in the battlegrounds I was in today along with the battleground they were in.


Eye of the Storm
Kryptonikk - Frostwolf - 2 battles

Alterac Valley
Deerht Jenkins - Kil'Jaeden - 2 battles
Proteja - Tichondrius - 2 battles
Xybodhi - Ner'zhul - 2 battles
Trinketpls of the Nightfall - Frostmourne - 2 battles
Priorie - Aman'Thul - 1 battle
Korad - Blackrock - 1 battle
Darylol, Champion of the Frozen Wastes - Frostmourne - 2 battles
Supchief - Tichondrius - 1 battle
Tac - Sliverhand - 1 battle
Alkemist - Tichondrius - 1 battle
Kristana - Tichondrius - 1 battle
Talker - Sliverhand - 1 battle

These people were AFK thoughout the battle until at least the last few minutes, all the AFK seem to come alive in the last couple minutes trying to clear the AFK debuff so they can get marks and honor. Blizzard should have something in place to remove them once they are AFK for a certain amount of time but, unfortunatley, they do not...... If one of these is your character or one of these characters is in your guild, you must be so proud.

Alterac Valley 6/20/09

My daily battleground today was Alterac Valley. I almost didn't take it and now I wish I hadn't. It was some piss poor PvP on the part of the Alliance. I had to ask and see if it was AV weekend, that's how bad it was.

The biggest problem in all the battles was idiots taking and holding SHGY. Taking and holding SHGY is pretty much a guaranteed loss, it keeps ALL the Horde in front of us so we can't advance. The saddest part was it was the same people in a few of the battles who took it each time. Evidently they are too stupid to learn from their mistakes and are doomed to repeat them over and over again. It took me 8 battles to get my daily done. There were also a lot of AFK in all the battles I was in, Blizzard is doing a great job taking care of that. When someone is marked AFK they should have 90 seconds to get into battle and clear it. If they don't they should be removed from the battleground and given a 3 day ban from fighting in any battleground. That would be first offense. Second offense they should be banned from playing WoW for 3 days. Third offense should be a lifetime ban from the battlegrounds and a week ban from playing WoW. The problem is Blizzard doesen't want to piss off the AFK because then they would lose their $15 a month. The hell with the rest of us I guess.....

I also fought in 2 Eye of the Storm, one win and one loss. In the win we took and held 3 towers and ran the flag. That is how EoS should be played, get at least 3 towers before you waste time on the flag. In the loss 3/4 of our team came off the rock when the shield lifted and went straight for the flag. That is how EoS should NOT be played. Flagtards cost us more battles than anything else. I think one of the main reasons they do this is the achievements, I wish they would just do away with them, they cause a lot of problems in ALL the battlegrounds. Once again I am sick of playing with idiots in the battlegrounds and will probably take a break from them and do daily's.

Northrend Daily's 6/20/09

I got my daily's out of the way as soon as I logged on today. The fishing was Monsterbelly Appetite and the cooking was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf.

As usual these didn't take me too long. I didn't get anything worth mentioning for rewards from either.