Strand Crawler 6/28/09

I got a Strand Crawler in my Bag of Fishing Treasures on Wranngar today. It has been quite awhile since I got anything really worthwhile from this daily. I was hoping for some High Test Eternium Fishing Line but this is even better.

Ironically Gomorra got another High Test Eternium Fishing Line in his Bag of Fishing Treasures today, you can see how that ball bounces. He already has it on his Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole giving him a total of 485 fishing skill without any lures or anything.

The daily fishing in Dalaran today was The Ghostfish which I picked up from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran. These 2 items where the only items worth mentioning from my rewards today.

Stratholme - Baron Rivendare's Steed - 6/27/09

I ran Thayah through Stratholme on Wranngar a couple times tonight, he wanted the Deathcharger's Reins from Baron Rivendare. We went in the service entrance, we both had the key. You need the key to go in the service entrance and it really cuts a lot of time off. Only one person needs to have the key.

We went and killed the mobs we needed to kill to take down the crystals which lifts the gate enabling you to go into Slaughter Square where Baron Rivendare is located. Once you are in there you have to kill all the mobs outside, then kill all the skeletons that come in, then kill his personal guard that comes out, then you can go in and kill him. You must make sure everyone is in the room before you attack him as the door closes as soon as he is attacked. It doesn't open again until he is dead. I am not sure if you get credit, making you able to loot, if you are outside the door when he dies. It didn't drop the first time so we reset the instance and tried again, no better luck the second time. The Deathchargers Reins has a very, very low drop rate. I have gone after it numerous times and have never seen it drop. I know it does because I see people riding it, but I think it is just luck.

Thayah got a lot of nice blue drops, most of which he couldn't use but could sell to a vendor for a little gold. My repair bill was over 11 gold for those 2 runs. We didn't have any deaths.

Daily Battleground - Eye of the Storm 6/27/09

My daily battleground today was Eye of the Storm, it took me 3 battles on Wranngar before I got a win.

The first battle everyone was more interested in the flag than towers, so we held one tower and ran the flag.... As usual that resulted in a loss, but a few people got achievements for running the flag, good for them....

In the second battle we didn't have as many flagtards but we still had too many. We had one tower the whole time, 2 towers on and off and a lot of flag running. Needless to say we lost that one too. The sad part is it will never end. They should make the flag achievements so you have to be holding 3 towers when you complete them in order to get the achievement, I think that would wake people up. Or at least 2 towers. I have seen the majority of our team at the flag when we didn't even have a tower.

In the third battle we had a much better group. We got 3 towers right off the bat then fought for BET the whole time, keeping the Horde occupied so we could run the flag. We only had one person at DR, one at FRR and there was no one at MT. Not the best strategy but it worked. We won that one by over 1,000 points.

Porcelain Bell 6/27/09

I got a Porcelain Bell in my Bag of Fishing Treasures today from the daily fishing quest. This is a pretty good reward because it sells to a vendor for 100 gold. I have gotten a few of these so far. The daily fishing today was Monsterbelly Appetite and the daily cooking was Mustard Dogs!. The Porcelian Bell was the only reward I got from either of them worth mentioning.

I did find a new place to look for Wild Mustard though, if you're Alliance. When you are in the Hero's Welcome you go to the right side of the bar to go into the kitchen, if you go to the left side of the bar you can go down a hallway and into a courtyard outside. I didn't even know it was there and I don't think too many other people know about it either. I got 2 Wild Mustard on each of my toons from there today, I didn't see anyone else out there. The hallway to the left of the bar is the only way to get there.

The Ghostfish Mystery 6/26/09

I didn't have a lot of time tonight so I only did my daily fishing which was The Ghostfish. I got this quest from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran.

I had to fly to Rivers Heart in Sholazar Basin to catch my Phantom Ghostfish, I took the flight path out of Dalaran. When I got to Rivers Heart I flew up to the top, a little northeast of where you land. This is where I always fish for them and I always have pretty good luck. I see a lot of people fishing in the water right by where you land so they must be having some luck there to. I fish right by a little bridge at the top.

I got my Phantom Ghostfish on the 6th cast on Gomorra and the 15th cast on Wranngar. It usually takes me 10 or less casts to get one but today was an exception. Once you loot the Phantom Ghostfish, which looks just like a Pygmy Suckerfish so be careful you don't miss it, you have 60 seconds to eat it before it disappears. It starts clocking as soon as you loot it. When you eat it, it puts you into a state called Invisibility which is a little surreal. After I had caught and ate my Ghostfish I went back to Marcia and told her what I discovered. She gave me a Bag of Fishing Treasures for my trouble.

Gom's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 7g3s8c, a Glow Worm and a Worthless Piece of Red Glass. Not a great haul for Gom, but the Glow Worm is useful.

Wrann's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 9g26s23c, a Glow Worm, an Unusual Compass, 3 Deviate Fish and a Runic Mana Potion in it. Wrann got more stuff but not really anything of great value.

There are a lot of great rewards I haven't gotten from this daily yet so I will keep plugging away at it.

I tried to do the daily battleground but it was taking too long to queue so I gave up. I will probably get back on later and try again.

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.