Wranngar 2/28/09

I was playing Wranngar tonight and got a nice surprise, I heard from someone who reads my blog. Their name was Mythrara and I only got to talk to them for a minute but it was really nice to hear from someone in the game that has read my blog. They are the first person to ever contact me. Hopefully I will hear more from them. They wanted to know where Gomorra was :). I was on Wranngar helping Salintu do Kibler's Exotic Pets to get a Worg Pup. We went into Blackrock Spire to get it and we had no problem. It is a level 58-60 instance and I was rounding up groups in cat form and we were just downing them. We killed a few bosses, got a few blues and a good time was had by all :).

I did the daily cooking today which was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf. I got my 4 Infused Mushrooms pretty quick and cooked them up with a couple Chilled Meat to get my meatloaf. I delivered that and got 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. My Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices and 3 Old Spices in it today, not a bad haul. I spent my Dalaran Cooking Award on 10 more Northern Spices. That is all I have left to spend them on, I have all the recipes and that is the only other thing you can spend them on. The Northern Spices will start piling up fast now at, at least, 10 a day.

I did my daily quests for The Kalu'ak today, they are: Preparing for the Worst, Planning for the Future and The Way to His Heart.... Tomorrow I will become exalted with them and will be able to finally buy the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. And of course the Nurtured Penguin Egg. I only need about 700 more rep with them to become exalted. I did my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's tonight too. I really didn't want to but I need the gold after Gomorra spent all that gold on his mounts in Dalaran. The daily's I do for them are: From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Intelligence Gathering, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire! These don't take too long although a couple of them can be aggravating. I get around 80 gold from these 6. I also did Overstock in The Stormpeaks, a quick and easy quest that only takes a couple minutes and pays around 13 gold.

The daily battleground today was Strand of the Ancients. We won the first one I was in by a landslide. We got the relic or totem or whatever it is we are after with over 5 minutes left on the clock. When it came the Hordes turn to attack they only got through one gate before their time ran out. I turned that daily in for 13g23s and 1241 honor. I fought in 2 Eye of the Storm after that, one win and one loss. The first one I was in looked like a loss. We were behind for most of it and couldn't seem to get a third tower. We couldn't run the flag. It was looking like a definite loss when all of a sudden we started running the flag, got a third tower and ended up winning by less than 200 points. In the second battle we had someone who was preaching that "a 5 cap would get it over quickly" and "the Allaince never wins in EoS". First off there are not 5 objectives to cap in EoS and second the Alliance wins in there all the time, at least during the hours I play. Anyway we lost that one.

Chef Wranngar 2/27/09

I completed The Northrend Gourmet and Hail to the Chef achievements tonight as soon as I completed the daily cooking on Wranngar. Today's daily cooking was Cheese for Glowergold. Seems this one has been in the rotation a lot lately. Anyway I went around getting Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses and it took awhile today. Didn't really seem to be a lot of people doing it, it just seemed to be taking a long time for respawns. I finally got the 6 I needed and combined it on a platter with the Aged Dalaran Limburger I got in the wine and cheese shop. I delivered it in exchange for one Dalaran Cooking Award, a Small Spice Bag and 9g93s. Today my Small Spice Bag had 4 Northern Spices in it. With the Dalaran Cooking Award I got today I was able to get the last recipe, Recipe: Worg Tartare, I needed to complete The Northrend Gourmet achievement which caused me to complete the Hail to the Chef achievement which gave me my Chef title. I will keep doing the daily cooking for the Northern Spices and Dalaran Cooking Awards which I can use to buy Northern Spices. I have about 75 Northern Spices in the guild bank so I am looking good on those.

I did my daily's for The Kalu'ak after I got the daily cooking out of the way. They didn't take me long and I am getting closer. I will get my Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole when I get done finishing my daily's on Sunday. I skipped the Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's today, I hit exalted with them yesterday and got the chest piece I was after so I decided to take the day off. I did do Overstock in the Stormpeaks. This one only took a few minutes and got me 12g96s for my trouble.

Wranngar 2/26/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and got the daily cooking out of the way right away. It was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf so I went and got my Infused Mushrooms, cooked them up with a couple Chilled Meat, delivered it and got 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag, that had 4 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it, for my trouble. Not a bad haul today at all. I will get the 3rd Dalaran Cooking Award I need tomorrow, buy and cook up my last recipe for The Northrend Gourmet achievement and get my Chef title.

I did my 3 daily's for The Kalu'ak, they are: Preparing for the Worst, Planning for the Future and The Way to His Heart.... It will take me 3 more days to get exalted with them, I will almost be there in 2 days but almost doesn't count. I get 5 gold a piece for these daily's but it is the reputation I am after. After that I did my Knight of the Ebon Blade daily's. They are: From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Intelligence Gathering, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up and Vile Like Fire!. I get 13g23s each for these Ebon Blade daily's which amounts to about 80 gold for all 6. I reached exalted with the Knights of the Ebon Blade today. I got Darkheart Chestguard from the quartermaster for 39 gold. You have to be exalted with them to purchase it. That was a nice deal. I did Overstock in The Stormpeaks too, this is another really easy quest that pays around 13 gold.

The daily battleground was Eye of the Storm today. It took me 3 to get a win. The first battle I was in we had a really bad group, too many flagtards. Everyone was going for the flag instead of towers. Needless to say we lost that one. The next group was a little better but not much. I guess the group was ok for the most part but we had 4 AFK. 4 out of 15 is pretty bad. Anyway we fought pretty hard but lost by a few hundred points anyway. In the third battle we did a lot better, we won that one and had a 3 cap going most of the time, we lost DR towards the end but I think we got it back before the battle ended. Anyway I had the win I needed and completed the daily.

Daily's 2/25/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and did all my usual daily's. I started off with the daily cooking which was Cheese for Glowergold much to my dismay. I ran around Dalaran looking for Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses until I had the 6 I needed. When I was in the cheese and wine shop looking for the Aged Dalaran Limburger and any Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses that might be laying around I found them sitting right next to each other so that saved a little time. Finally I had my 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses, combined them with the Aged Dalaran Limburger on the supplied platter and delivered it to Glowergold. He gave me a Dalaran Cooking Award, 9g93s and a Small Spice Bag which only had 3 Northern Spices in it. I always feel like I get ripped off from this one after the time you have to put in to get the Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses.When I checked to see how many Dalaran Cooking Awards I had, I thought I would have one or two, I had 3. That was a nice surprise so I got Recipe: Tracker Snacks and cooked some up. I am now one recipe away from my Chef's title. Yep, pretty exciting times.

I did my daily's for The Kalu'ak after I finished up the cooking. These are pretty easy and, although I don't make much gold off them, I get good rep from them, 500 each. I did Preparing for the Worst first. This is where I fly around a small area and pick up 8 wicker baskets of supplies and deliver them back to the quest giver. A pretty easy quest. It pays 5 gold. Then I head over and do Planning for the Future. This involves going up into the hills and kidnapping these wolf tykes. I do it in flight form which I can not be stunned in and just let the adults beat on me while I pick up the tykes. Once I have them I just fly straight up and break aggro. I turn them over to the quest giver and collect 5 gold and 500 rep. From there I head over to Howling Fjord for The Way to His Heart.... I have to go out and get some Tasty Reef Fish and then lure a Bull Sea Lion over to a Cow Sea Lion so they can find true love. Happens pretty quick so you don't have to hang around and wait. I turn this one into the quest giver for 5 gold and 500 rep. Then it's off to The Stormpeaks to do Overstock. A quick easy quest that gives you around 13 gold. I did my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's last. They didn't take me long tonight, even shooting down the Drakes and their riders went pretty fast. I will be exalted with them tomorrow and get my chest piece. I make around 80 gold plus whatever I sell the drops for from the Ebon Blade daily's.

Daily's Wranngar 2/24/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and did the daily cooking which was Mustard Dogs!. This can be a really easy one if not too many people are doing it or a really hard one if everyone is trying to do it at the same time. If everyone is trying to do it at the same time I usually go and do my other daily's and then come back to it. Today was an easy day and I got my 4 Wild Mustard pretty quick. I went to the bank and grabbed 4 Rhino Dogs which I cooked up with the Wild Mustard into a Mustard Dog Basket!. I headed off to deliver it to Archmage Pentarus by the flight master in Dalaran but got distracted, went right by him with his big yellow ? over his head, and took off to do my daily's for The Kalu'ak. I ended up turning it in when I got back from doing all my daily's. I got my usual 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices, 5 Old Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award. I went to the cooking vendor to get the next recipe in my The Northrend Gourmet Achievement which I thought was Recipe: Spiced Wyrm Burger but when I went to buy it it said I already knew it. I checked in my recipe list and sure enough there it was. It was one of the first ones I got and, apparently, never cooked. I ended up getting the next one in the list which was Recipe: Spicy Fried Herring. I cooked them both up and now I am only 2 recipes away from my chef title. That turned out to be a nice surprise.

I got my daily's for The Kalu'ak done pretty quick today, got all the drops I needed really fast. I am now 14310/21000 reputation with them so it won't be much longer until I get the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. I went over to K3 in The Stormpeaks and did Overstock. As usual this quest only took me a few minutes and I collected my 13 gold and was on my way. I headed to Icecrown to do my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's from there. I got those done pretty fast too, everything was dropping like clockwork and I breezed right through them. There are 6 that I do for them:

From Their Corpses, Rise!
No Fly Zone
Intelligence Gathering
Leave Our Mark
Shoot 'Em Up
Vile Like Fire!


I get around 80 gold for all 6 of them. Today I forgot to do Shoot 'Em Up and had to go back and do it so that took me a few extra minutes. My reputation with the Knights of the Ebon Blade is 19045/21000. I am pretty close to being exalted with them too. It will not be tomorrow, it will be the next day. Then a few days after that I will be exalted with The Kalu'ak.

Wranngar Daily's 2/23/09

I hopped on Wranngar today before the daily's rolled over and I didn't have anything to do. I could have worked on leveling Gomorra but didn't feel like it. I ended up doing 2 Eye of the Storm battles, both losses. I was in some pretty bad groups. It was definitely the wrong time of the day to be fighting in there. Then I saw in World Defense that Auberdine was under attack so I headed over there to see if there was some Horde I could kill. It was still under attack as I was flying in and could see the place but by the time I landed they were either gone or dead. Either way they weren't around anymore.

When the daily's finally rolled over I headed to do the Kalu'ak first because I was in the Harbor where you first arrive in Northrend on the boat. I did my 3 daily's for them then headed over to K3 in the Stormpeaks and did Overstock. That's a really easy daily that gets you around 13 gold for a few minutes work. I headed off to do my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's from there. I grabbed the 6 quests I do for them and got them done in no time. All in all all my daily's went pretty quick today. I get around 80 gold for the quests plus drops from the Ebon Knights daily's.

The daily cooking quest was Sewer Stew so I headed down into Crystalsong Forest and got my 4 Crystalsong Carrots which I cooked up with 4 Chilled Meat to make my Sewer Stew. I delivered that in return for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag which had 4 Northern Spices in it today. Not a bad haul I guess, it could be worse as I have seen over the last few days.

Sunday 2/22/09

The daily cooking today was Cheese for Glowergold again... I ran around Dalaran on Wranngar looking for Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses until I had the 6 I needed. I got the Aged Dalaran Limburger while I was in the cheese and wine shop looking for Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses. Once I had everything I needed I combined them and delivered them to Glowergold for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. My Small Spice Bag only had 3 Northern Spices in it today, a rip off after having to collect all those Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses.

I did Shoot 'Em Up this morning for Knights of the Ebon Blade and turned that in before daily's rolled over so I was able to do it again today as part of my daily's. I did all the Ebon Blade daily's today which gets me around 80 gold plus whatever I make selling drops. I did my daily's for The Kalu'ak today and am over half way to exalted with them so it should be about 6 more days until I have my Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. I did Overstock in Stormpeaks too, this quest takes 3 or 4 minutes from the time you pick it up until the time you turn it back in. You make around 13 gold from it, 12g96s to be exact, and suffer no equipment damage.

I did the daily fishing from Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest today, it was Bait Bandits. I headed over to my spot at the waterfall outside Tuurem and got my Blackfin Darter on the 9th cast. Didn't take me too long. I turned that in and got 7g15s72c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks, which I was running a little low on, and 2 Jaggal Pearls. Nothing good today. I did some fishing in the Underbelly, the sewers below Dalaran, today between battlegrounds trying for the Achievement I Smell A Giant Rat but didn't have any luck. I did catch: 68 Sewer Carp, 28 Magic Eaters, 7 Empty Vials, 6 Partially Eaten Fish, 6 Drowned Rat and 1 Leaded Vial. A lot of junk none of it what I needed.

Today's daily battleground was Warsong Gulch so I decided to skip it, I hate WSG. I fought in 15 Eye of the Storm battles instead, 10 wins and 5 losses. We started off not so well, we had 4 losses out of our first 9 battles but then we got back on track and started with the 4 caps and flag running. I got over 10,000 honor and was able to get another piece with my honor. I got Hateful Gladiator's Cloak of Victory for 38,000 honor. Next I will get the boots and then I will have to join an arena team to get the rest. I am not sure how I feel about having to do arena to get the PvP gear instead of being able to get it all from the battleground quartermaster but I was planning on doing arena anyway.

Wranngar 2/21/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and did the daily cooking first thing like I always do. It was Cheese for Glowergold today. This is my least favorite daily cooking quest. I ran around trying to get 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses and that always takes awhile. When I finally had those I headed over to the cheese shop and got the Aged Dalaran Limburger to finish it off. Once I had everything I needed I combined them and delivered it to Glowergold in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag had 2 Northern Spices and 3 Old Spices, pretty much a rip off after what I had to go through to get the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses. I got Recipe: Snapper Extreme tonight with the 3 Dalaran Cooking Awards I had so now I only have 4 more recipes to go until I get my chef title.

I did my daily's for The Kalu'ak and now have 9310/21000 reputation with them, after I do them tomorrow I will be over half way. I get 1500 reputation a day doing the 3 quests they have, 500 rep each. It will be another 6 days or so until I am exalted and can get the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. That is moving along well :). I did all my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's except Shoot 'Em Up which you really have to be in the mood for. I am usually not in the mood for it but do it anyway, today I really wasn't in the mood so I skipped it. I will probably do it again tomorrow as part of the group I do.

Daily's 2/20/09

I hopped on Wranngar and grabbed the daily cooking quest straight off which turned out to be Mustard Dogs!. I went in search of some Wild Mustard and soon found that everyone else on the server was looking for some too. I decided to do my daily's for The Kalu'ak and Knight's of the Ebon Blade while I waited for the frenzy to die down. I got all my daily's for The Kalu'ak done, I am over 8300/21000 rep now, and headed over to The Stormpeaks to do Overstock. This is a really easy fun daily that pays around 13 gold. Basically you set out mines and blow up Kobold's and Manataur's. Only takes a couple minutes and you're on your way. From there I headed over and did the Knight's of the Ebon Blade daily's. They take a little while, not too long, but you make some good gold from them, around 80 gold for all 6. Plus I am about half way through revered to exalted with them. They have a chest piece I want to get when I am exalted. I headed back to Dalaran and managed to get my 4 Wild Mustard in about 5 minutes so I cooked that up and turned it in. I got a Dalaran Cooking Award, a Small Spice Bag and 9g93s. My Small Spice Bag had 5 Northern Spices in it today so it was a pretty good haul. I did a little fishing after that and called it a night. The daily battleground was Warsong Gulch today so I decided to skip it. I hate WSG.

Wranngar 2/19/09

I did the daily cooking in Dalaran first thing when I logged onto Wranngar tonight. It was Cheese for Glowergold and it took me awhile to get the 6 half full wine glasses which is why this one is my least favorite. I did finally get it done and delivered it in exchange for a Dalaran Cooking Award, a Small Spice Bag and 9g93s. My Small Spice Bag only had 3 Northern Spices in it today, I feel kind of ripped off after the trouble I went through to get those 6 stupid wine glasses. Anyway with today's Dalaran Cooking Award I was able to get another recipe, Recipe: Rhinolicious Wyrmsteak which I cooked up to add to the Northrend Gourmet Achievement I am working on. I only have 5 more to go until my Chef title.

I did all my Knights of the Ebon Blade Daily's today, they are:

From Their Corpses, Rise!
No Fly Zone
Intelligence Gathering
Leave Our Mark
Shoot 'Em Up
Vile Like Fire!


They really don't take me long and are good for around 80 gold. They pay 13g23s each. After that I did Overstock in The Stormpeaks today. That one pays around 13 gold too. I did my daily's for The Kalu'ak today. I am almost 1/3 of the way through revered. I will try to keep up on all these daily's as I have been spending gold like crazy but not really taking much in. These daily's can add up pretty quick. I am only doing about 11 a day now so I can still do 14 more. The daily's for The Kalu'ak only pay around 5 gold each but I am not doing those for the gold, I am doing them for the reputation they give.

Daily's & Battlegrounds 2/18/09

I hopped on Wranngar and the first thing I did was the daily cooking like I do every day. Today it was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf again. I hope it's not stuck in that loop again. I went down into the sewers in the Underbelly and got my 4 Infused Mushrooms pretty quick considering I saw a bunch of people running around picking them. Some day's it's like that, even when there seems to be a lot of people doing it you get them quick and other days it looks like only a couple are doing it and you can't find any. After I had those I went to the bank and grabbed a couple chilled meat to cook it up with. When I had my Meatloaf I delivered it in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my small spice bag had 4 Northern Spices in it. Could have been better, could have been worse.

I did a bunch more daily quests today too, I did Overstock in Stormpeaks, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone, Intelligence Gathering, Leave Our Mark, Shoot 'Em Up, Vile Like Fire! for the Knights of the Ebon Blade and the 3 daily's I do for the The Kalu'ak. Altogether I made around 200 gold with the drops I sold the the vendor. These are all easy daily's and they pay pretty good gold. I am 1/4 of the way to exalted with The Kalu'ak after today.

Today's daily battleground was Arathi Basin. We won the first one I was in with a 5 cap. I turned that in for 13g23s and 1241 honor then queue'd up for Eye of the Storm. I ended up fighting in 3 battles in EoS and we won all 3. The first group I was in was really good and we just went in and got a 4 cap, held the Horde to their rock and ran the flag, it was over in no time. I queue'd up again as soon as I got out hoping to get the same group but I didn't. Still, the group I got in was good too, we got a 4 cap and ran the flag for the win. I queue'd up again as soon as I got out but got mostly a different group but we had another win with a 4 cap and running the flag. The Alliance was doing really well in EoS tonight. I got some good honor out of them if not a lot of kills. I usually defend in EoS and only get a lot of kills in there when the Horde have their heart set on the node I am defending. If they don't come, like the last battle where I was defending Fel Reaver Ruins, I only get a few. I did pretty well in the other 2 battles. I usually defend FRR and that usually sees a lot of action in most battles.

Tuesday 2/17/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and did the daily battleground which was Eye of the Storm. We won the first one I was in with a 4 cap so I completed my daily. I fought in 2 more, one win and one loss. In the second win we had a 3 cap throughout and were keeping enough pressure on the Horde's only base that we were able to run the flag without any interference. In the loss we had the battle started off with 13 Horde versus 5 Alliance. That was enough of an edge so we could not recover. They 4 capped right from the start but we did manage to get 2 of them back and run a couple flags. If that battle had started 15 to 15 we would have owned them again. I guess the Horde have to win once in awhile and they need an advantage like that to do it. I find the Horde hysterical to watch. If they have 2 people guarding a node and they see 3 Alliance coming they mount up and ride away, basically giving us the node, they are the biggest cowards I have ever seen. They will almost always run away unless they have the Alliance outnumbered 3 to 1. Basically that is the numbers they need to be able to take down 1 Alliance.

I did my daily quests for The Kalu'ak today too. There are 3 of them and they go pretty fast. I am getting closer to my new fishing pole, the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. I get 500 rep each for a total of 1500 a day.

The daily cooking in Dalaran was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf. I headed down into the Underbelly to get some Infused Mushrooms. There were so many people doing it I considered giving up and doing my other daily's first then coming back to it but all of a sudden everyone disappeared and I was able to get my 4 Infused Mushrooms pretty quick. I cooked that up with 2 Chilled Meat and delivered it in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it, not a bad haul. I got another recipe, Recipe: Mighty Rhino Dogs, today and cooked that up. I only have 6 more to go now until I get my chef's title.

Daily's 2/16/09

I hopped on Wranngar today and got the daily cooking in Dalaran done. It was Cheese for Glowergold, one of my least favorite. The reason I am not too fond of this one is the 6 half full glasses of wine you have to pick up around town. There are usually a lot of people doing it at the same time and it usually takes you awhile to get all 6. Today was different, I had my 6 half full wine glasses in about 3 minutes then headed over to the cheese shop to get the cheese. The cheese spawned right as I walked through the door so I got this whole quest done in about 5 minutes or less. For compensation I received a Dalaran Cooking Award, 9g93s and a Small Spice Bag which contained 3 Northern Spices. Not the best haul today. I have 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards so tomorrow I will be able to buy another recipe.

I did the 3 daily's for the Kalu'ak today. These are pretty easy and don't take up a lot of time. It is going to take me about 12-13 days to get exalted with this faction so I can buy the fishing pole they have.

Today's daily battleground was Eye of the Storm. We won the first one I was in and I ended up fighting in 10 altogether, 9 wins and one loss. We had about 5 4 caps in our wins and the rest were 2 or 3 caps and running the flag. In the one we lost we had a team of flagtards, people who think the flag is more important than towers. To give you an idea of how stupid these people were, we were losing our only tower and there were 8 people in the middle fighting for the flag. Of course if they got it they would have no where to take it but that didn't seem to bother them. Fortunately you don't run into too many full groups of flagtards.

Wintergrasp 2/15/09

I got back on Wranngar to see if I could get one more Wintergrasp in tonight. I got lucky, the battle was starting in 13 minutes. I joined a raid group and we all got buffed up, ate, and got ready for battle. I put out a Fish Feast which is always a big hit in the battlegrounds. When we started I believe we had 2 full raid groups, that would be 80 people total, plus another raid group started. I don't know what, if any, the limit is in Wintergrasp. We got in there and basically dominated the Horde. We were on offense meaning we were attacking the Keep and we got in pretty quick. We wiped out all the Horde that were inside trying to defend and then assaulted the Keep itself. We got in in no time and won the battle. It went really quick. The last one I was in earlier I got in while it was in progress and it lasted twice as long as this one did and we lost. I had no deaths in this battle thanks mostly to some really good healers but I got a bunch of kills and killing blows in :). I got another Stone Keeper's Shard bringing my grand total to 8.

Daily's 2/15/09

I did my daily cooking in Dalaran on Wranngar today which was Convention at the Legerdemain. This is a pretty easy one if the Jug of Wine spawns fast enough for you. Today it did for me, I went into the wine shop and there it was, only took a second. I cooked up some Northern Stew and delivered it. In exchange for doing that I got 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag which had 3 Northern Spices and 3 Baby Spice in it. Not a bad haul today for this daily.

I worked on my Reputation with the Kalu'ak. They have a fishing pole I want and you have to be exalted with them to get it. The pole is Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. It adds +30 to your fishing skill and is a epic piece. It is pretty cool looking too. I did all the quests they have then did the 3 daily's they offer and now I am revered with them. It will take about about 12-13 days to get exalted with them from here.

I fought in some battlegrounds today. The daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients and we won the first, and only, one I fought in. I turned that in and got my honor and gold. I fought in two Arathi Basin too to try and get my marks to 100 as I had 97. We lost the first one and one the second one which gave me 98 marks on me and 3 in the mail I can not take..... Nice Blizzard. I guess I will have to lose 2 more to finish that out. Losing is what the Alliance seems to be good at in AB lately though so it shouldn't be hard. I fought in 7 Eye of the Storm tonight and we won 5 and lost 2. The 2 battles we lost were just really bad groups on the Alliance side. In the 5 wins we had a couple where we only had 2 towers and ran the flag a lot and a couple 3 and 4 caps. Overall we are still doing good in EoS. I fought in one Wintergrasp battle tonight too. We lost that one but I did get a couple of the daily's done so I now have 7 Stone Keeper's Shard. You can use these for valuable prizes :). I am still not really sure what is going on in there but I am starting to get a better understanding of it.

Valentine's Day 2/14/09

I spent most of my night in World of Warcraft on Valentine's Day killing Horde. It couldn't have been better :). I tried to do the daily battleground on Wranngar which was Warsong Gulch. I fought in 4 battles and we lost all of them. I did get a couple Achievements in there though. After that I went and fought in 3 Eye of the Storm battles, all wins. We had a 4 cap going in 2 of them and the 3rd one was a 2 cap and a lot of flag running. It seems when you only have a 2 cap and run the flag the battles come out a lot closer. It seems to me that it is better to have at least 3 towers and not worry about the flag so much. Anyway we won all 3 of them and I was able to get Hateful Gladiator's Armwraps of Triumph with the honor from them. I am starting to get geared.

The daily cooking in Dalaran was Sewer Stew again. I flew down to Crystalsong Forest and picked some Crystalsong Carrots. When I had enough I went back to Dalaran and cooked them up with some Chilled Meat to get my Sewer Stew. I delivered that in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag which contained 4 Northern Spices. Not a bad haul I guess. I am stockpiling the Northern Spices now and only using what I need for buff food and the Cooking Achievement.

Wranngar 2/13/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and grabbed the daily battleground which was Warsong Gulch. I queued up for the battle and got in but I kept getting disconnected. I got disconnected twice while I had the flag which is really bad and also got disconnected a few other times in there. Finally I rebooted my system after a DC but I didn't seem to make a difference. When I got back on the battle had ended, I don't know if we won or lost, the score was Alliance 0 Horde 1 at my last DC. I decided not to bother doing any battlegrounds after that because Blizzard was obviously having problems. Hopefully they will have their act together by the time I log back in tomorrow.

I did the daily cooking in Dalaran which was Sewer Stew. It was nice to have something different for a change after 5 or 6 days of Infused Mushroom Meatloaf. I flew down to Crystalsong Forest and got my 4 Crystalsong Carrots pretty quick, I only saw one other person there collecting them while I was there. I flew back up to Dalaran and cooked them up with 4 Chilled Meat to make my Sewer Stew. I delivered that to the Innkeeper down in the Underbelly and he gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. My Small Spice Bag had 2 Northern Spices and 3 Baby Spice in it. Not the greatest haul but I have been hoarding the Northern Spices so I now have around 70 in the bank.

Daily's 2/12/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and did the daily battleground which was Strand of the Ancients today. I got into the first one a little after it started and we ended up losing that one. I don't know if it was just a really good Horde group or if we had a really bad group but it was over pretty quick. In the second one we had quite a battle and ended up getting our objective with about 1 minute 20 seconds left on the clock. I thought we were going to lose that one too because the Horde got to the objective pretty quick but they could not get the objective because we were holding them off. We ended up winning that one when the clock ran out. I turned that one in then fought in a couple Eye of the Storm battles. We won both of those, the first one took a little while and we had a 3 cap but the second one was a 4 cap. We won that one 2,000/87. I need to get back into Wintergrasp and do some more fighting in there for their marks but I never seem to be around when they announce it is open.

The daily cooking was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf again. This is the 5th or 6th day in a row now. I got my 4 Infused Mushrooms and cooked them up with a couple Chilled Meat to make my Meatloaf which I delivered in return for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices in it and that was it. I have had better rewards and you would think if they are going to be too lazy to change the daily at least they could kick up the rewards a little.

Daily's 2/11/09

I jumped on Wranngar tonight and did the daily cooking which was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf AGAIN!!!... That one is getting old but I need the cooking awards to get the recipes so I just keep plugging away at them. I went down into the Underbelly and got my 4 Infused Mushrooms really fast, under 2 minutes. It was like no one was doing it. I just went to where I know they spawn and there they were. I cooked them up with a couple Chilled Meat and delivered my Infused Mushroom Meatloaf in exchange for a Dalaran Cooking Award, 9g93s and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag only had 4 Northern Spices. It could have been worse I guess.

Today's daily battleground was Eye of the Storm. We won the first one I was in and I fought in 7 total, 5 wins and 2 losses. One of our losses dragged on for 25 minutes. We had a lot of flagtards in that one, as soon as we had the second base they would ALL run to the flag leaving a base either unguarded or very poorly guarded. It was like that all night and I am surprised we won anything. The way to win in EoS is to get 3 towers and don't worry about the flag. The Horde will never be able to run enough flags to beat 3 towers clocking away. Once we have 3 towers you can try for the flag but not at the cost of leaving towers undefended. A lot of our wins were 2 towers and a fight for the flag the whole way, with us losing a tower and capturing another, the Horde losing a tower and capturing another, back and forth. Makes for some good fights and a lot of kills but tends to make the battles last a lot longer. I am getting close to getting another piece of armor.