Wranngar 1/13/09

I did the daily cooking in Dalaran on Wranngar and got another Dalaran Cooking Award which allowed me to get Recipe: Dragonfin Filet. I cooked up 4 of them because I needed it for the North Rend Gourmet Cooking Achievement and that got my cooking to 428. I also got 3 Northern Spices in my Small Spice Bag from that daily. I went and did the daily fishing and cooking in Outlands too. It only took a few minutes but I didn't get anything good. After that I went into the battlegrounds. The daily was Alterac Valley and I fought in two of them but stopped because they were taking forever to get into and were so imbalanced once I did get in. We had one battle that was 11 Allaince versus 40 Horde, a little uneven. Anyway I fought in 2 battles there and they were both losses. Then I went into the Strand of the Ancients. I fought in 3 battles in there, 1 win and 2 losses. I am still undecided how I feel about this battleground. Sometimes I really like it and other times not so much. The was one incident in the first loss we had where I died right before the Horde captured the Titan Relic and all of a sudden there was a load screen and I found myself in Westfall at the graveyard with a 15 minute deserter debuff on me. Strange thing is I queued for the battleground out of Darnassus so I am not sure how I eneded up there. I might get on a little later and do a few more battlegrounds.

Battlegrounds 1/12/09

I did some battlegrounds on Wranngar tonight. The daily was Strand of the Ancients, one I had never done before. I ended up fighting in 6 of them, 3 wins and 3 losses. I am not really sure enough of what is going on to know what we did wrong in the 3 we lost but the Horde seemed really good in those battles. There are two rounds in Strand of the Ancients, in the first round the Alliance are the attackers and the Horde are the defenders. In the second round the Alliance are the defenders and the Horde are the attackers. The object is to attack the gates when you are the attackers and defend them when you are the defenders. You use tanks to attack and destroy the gates and the main objective is a relic. If you can get the relic you win that round. I don't know what happens if both sides fail to get the relic or if both sides do get the relic but I am sure I will find out soon enough. I was queuing out of Dalaran for this but I believe there is a Battle Master for Strand of the Ancients in Darnassus too. I also fought in 1 Eye of the Storm, a win, 1 Arathi Basin, a loss, 1 WarSong Gulch, a loss and 1 Alterac Valley also a loss. I will do some more Strand of the Ancients tomorrow, I was getting good kills and good honor. This could be the new AV.

Wranngar 1/12/09

I played Wranngar for a couple hours tonight and got the daily cooking done and got his fishing skill to 420. I was fishing off the coast of Borean Tundra trying to catch Deep Sea Monsterbelly's so I could make Gigantic Feast but I didn't have any luck. I figured I would get my 10 points in anyway while I was there. I got a lot of good fish which I put in the guild bank for later use. I got a Dalaran Cooking Award in my Small Spice Bag today so I only need one more to get another recipe. I also went to the auction house and got every recipe I didn't have, except for the crazy priced ones. They were mostly lower level recipes but I want to have them all anyway so why not. I learned those and now I know 126 recipes. I also earned the Achievement for catching 500 fish. I know I have caught a lot more than 500 fish in my time but this must have started counting when this whole Achievement thing started. I looked in the auction house for Northern Spices and they are going for 5 gold each or a stack of 20 for 100 gold. That is outrageous seeing how you can get 10 for one Dalaran Cooking Award from the cooking vendor in Dalaran. I will just get mine that way because I am not paying 100 gold a stack for them.

Wranngar 1/11/09

I got Wranngar's fishing skill to 410 today while also getting some good fish to cook into buff food. I did the daily cooking in Dalaran and the daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. I got my Leatherworking to 426 and learned some new patterns from the trainer. I made a few new pieces for myself to wear which increased my health by over 1500. I cooked up some more buff food for myself too. I got a new recipe with my Dalaran Cooking Award's so now I need 3 more before I can get another recipe. I only have 3 Northern Spices but I think I can buy them on the auction house. You get 10 for one Dalaran Cooking Award from the vendor in Dalaran but they are not soul bound. I hope I can get some on the auction house anyway.

Wranngar 1/10/09

I got my fishing up to 400 on Wranngar tonight. I was fishing in the river over by Amberpine Lodge in Grizzly Hills. Unfortunately all the fish I caught were gray when it came to cooking them so I didn't get any cooking points from them. I also got the daily cooking done then went over to K3 to kill some Mammoths for meat. I needed to make some more buff food that is good for me. All that food I have been cooking lately really dosen't do anything for me, it is mostly spell power and stuff like that.

Wranngar 1/7/09

I finished up my exploring on Wranngar tonight. It took me forever to get Bloodmyst Isle cleared but I did and I got my "the Explorer" title. I also did the daily cooking quest and worked on my cooking some. I went out and farmed a bunch of meat and fish for cooking and also for the North Rend Gourmet Achievement. I got my fishing up to 391 and my cooking up to 427. I also have a lot of buff food in the guild bank again. I helped out Salintu, a guildie, in Nagrand on a few Elite quests. Tomorrow all I have to do is bake a Delicious Chocolate Cake and I will complete the Outland Gourmet Achievement. Tomorrow I will get back into the battlegrounds, hopefully the Alliance is doing better. I also had the opportunity to check out a band performing at the World's End Tavern in Shattrath.

Wranngar 1/6/09

I did my daily cooking in Dalaran on Wranngar then headed over to Kalimdor and did some more exploring. I am pretty close to finishing up there, I have Durotar to explore and Bloodmyst Isle to finish up. I will get that done tomorrow and be done with it. After that I will be able to get back to the battlegrounds and daily's.

Wranngar 1/5/09

I did the daily cooking in Dalaran on Wranngar tonight. I had to go out and hunt down some chilled meat to complete it. Once I had that done I headed over to Kalimdor and did some more exploring. I got a few places opened up and it seems to be moving right along. Maybe I will be able to finish up the exploring tomorrow or the day after. The Alliance is doing so bad in the battlegrounds I was in I am just discouraged. Maybe disgusted is a better word. I guess I will try the battlegrounds again when I am done exploring.

Wranngar 1/4/09

I played Wranngar some tonight. I did the daily cooking in Dalaran, the daily cooking and fishing in Outlands, The Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's and then went exploring. I got all of Eastern Kingdoms opened up. I am now working on Kalimdor. I spent a long time in the Barrens last night trying to open that up then I finally found what I was missing. I will do my daily's tomorrow and then continue exploring.

Wranngar 1/2-1/3/09

I only did the daily cooking on Wranngar on the 2nd, it was all I had time for. Today I did the daily cooking, the Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's, a daily at K3 and 3 EoS battles, all losses. The Alliance is not doing too well after all in EoS from what I saw. I am going to check it out tomorrow early in the day and see if it is any better. I also did a lot of farming for meat and got a bunch of leather. I have 2 Dalaran Cooking Award's, I will get my 3rd one tomorrow and get another recipe. I cooked up 13 Great Feast today and only got one point in cooking for it :(. My cooking is now 421 and I need 4 more before I can get the 425 skill recipes which will be brown to me so I will get a skill point off each thing I cook for awhile. I got my Leatherworking to 420 and went and got some more training. I will work on that some more tomorrow too. I got a lot of leather while farming the ingredients for the Great Feast and that will come in handy.

Wranngar 1/1/09

I played Wranngar tonight. I did 2 more AV's, both losses and 3 EoS, 1 win and 2 losses. EoS wasn't bad and I think we are doing good overall in there, 3 battles is not really a huge sampling. In one AV we were at Drek and were ready to take him down but people were a little scattered. Then people were running in one at a time and getting killed. Also the Horde had Frostwolf Graveyard so they we running into the Keep, getting killed, rezzing right down the road and running back in. It was a little dysfunctional on our part. The other one was a loss where we didn't really have anything. Eye of the Storm was a little better, we got beat 3 towers to 1 in 2 of the battles but we had our win by us holding 3 towers and running the flag. So I think when you get good groups together you can still win often in EoS. I also picked up Reins of the Armored Brown Bear which is a cool looking bear mount. I got it from a guy on the street in Dalaran for 750 gold. I thought it was fitting for a Druid to be riding a bear mount. I got my 3rd Dalaran Cooking Award I needed for another recipe and got Recipe: Hearty Rhino. I cooked some of that up and got my cooking to 417. That is coming along slowly but surely. 425 is the next level of recipes so they will all be green until then. I also did the daily cooking and fishing in Shattrath but didn't get anything out of the ordinary from that.

Wranngar 12/31/08

I did the Dalaran daily cooking quest today on Wranngar and then went exploring. Almost all the maps I had open all of a sudden had places I hadn't explored. So I rediscovered Burning Stepps, Loch Modan, Dun Morogh, Wetlands, Badlands and the list goes on and on. I have almost all of the Eastern Kingdoms discovered and might finish it up tomorrow. Then I have to do Kalimdor and finish North Rend. I only need one more Dalaran Cooking Award and I can get another recipe which I will get tomorrow.

Wranngar 12/30/08

I played Wranngar for a little while tonight, I did my daily cooking in Dalaran and also did the daily cooking and fishing in Shattrath & Terokkar Forest. I got my third Dalaran Cooking Award so I was able to get Recipe: Mega Mammoth Meal. It gives me +80 Attack Power and +40 Stamina for 60 minutes. After that I did 3 Alterac Valley battles, all losses. The Alliance is doing really, really bad in AV lately. It is some of the worst playing I have ever seen. In the 3 battles today we captured IBT once. That was it. One tower in 3 battles. We never even got Galv. The only thing anyone seems to be interested in is the kill 50 Horde defending Vann Accomplishment. So 7 battles later I still don't have my daily from yesterday done :(. One of the problems is the battles are starting way off balance. We are starting with 20 players and the horde are starting with 40. 10 minutes into the last battle we were only up to 27 people against 39. I think I will see how we are doing in EoS tomorrow. Hopefully we are doing better in there than we are in AV. I think part of the problem is people are busy leveling and not doing the battlegrounds. Usually when you join AV there is at least a page of battles to choose from, lately there have been one or two and yesterday none. That one took me a full 3 minutes to get into one. I always choose "First Available" when I join. AFK is completely out of control in AV too, with at least 1/4 of the people in there doing nothing at all.