Screenshot time!

Hey everyone :D

More screenshots of an odd glitch, some scenery and of course a little cuteness added in - enjoy!

When will we get our OWN caravan mount!!?!

Me as a troll chillin' with Vol'jin <3

One of the best quests ever! Massive Gnome VS Deathwing!

Was on my way to Black Temple, floating infernal blocked my path!

The roof in the student room of Scholomance - Green shiny skull eyes!

My raptor baby from STV - Need to rescue her from ZG :<

Summit Prowler Mother and babies! Awwww!

Harry Potter Moment! Klaxxi Dude VS Empress

Quest Hub Highlight: Western Plaguelands

Now this used to be a zone I would dread having to go to and level, simply because the overload of the browny/red horrible undead type land would bore me to tears, but everything has changed and looks a whole lot better!

It's not all going to be sunshine and flowers after years of being blighted by scourge, but WPL is looking rather nice these days. There is actual grass and trees that aren't just trunks or dead! There is of course the same areas which you quest in, Andorhal being the main point, but I was very suprised to see how much had changed. It's a Horde VS Alliance VS Scourge battle, and some nice side stories including some of the Knights of the Ebon Blade characters I recognised from leveling my DK.

Andorhal

 Uther's Tomb is looking nice and fresh with some nice foliage leading up to it. It's improved 10000000% from what it used to look like. Nice to see the ever faithful Night Elf is still taking care of things.

Uther's Tomb

The Path Leading to Uther's Tomb

 Western Plaguelands always had the cauldron quests which were situated on farmland, which was decimated and all were turned into a scourge playground. Now there is actual LIVING crops, with a few scourge still hanging around.

Farmer Patchwerk tending to his crops

 After you complete a fair few quests killing the usual skeletons and zombies, you then get the 'level 2' scourge in the form of Valkyrs attacking Andorhal, luckily I had some farmers to help me sort them out.

I have mentioned my love of the new forsaken buildings before, but I had to take another screenie of them, looking particularly eerie and amazing, especially in this scourge filled setting!

After Andorhal you are sent north, to Hearthglen and various smaller quest points. My favourite quest has to be the ones involving a Troll Druid called Zenkiki, who is obviously struggling with how to actually be a Druid, due to him randomly changing form, usually when it's not appropriate.

He turned into a seal and was flailing around on the grass, was so random and brilliant <3

Inbetween laughing at Zenkiki, the zone was winding down to make your way onto Eastern Plaguelands, and the quests were rather dark and included some familar faces including one of the old scholo bosses, Instructor Malicia, who was harming defenseless bears - she soon died a horrible Fluffling related death. After dealing with her, Zenkiki and I were sent to the weeping cave to see what was happening in there. It was soon obvious that these quests were the back story to Scholomance and the connection between it and WPL. In vanilla it was just, this is WPL and this dungeon happens to be here. Without reading into tons of lore, you kind of just accepted it, but this lead up to it would help newer players understand why there are butchers, and scourge and cultists in Scholomance.

All in all, a very enjoyable zone to quest in, and definately worth doing just to see Zenkiki flail around on the grass in Seal Form <3

Kaitz~

Fly by mining!

What's that you say?

Fly by mining! aka helping a friend who is not the required level to use his or her flying mount to gather ore.

THE ALMIGHTY KAITDRAGON!

Whilst on my way to help my friend, Jaedia, out with some Hellfire Ramparts boosts for her lil panda rogue, we were talking and she mentioned needing a little more Thorium before hitting Hellfire Peninsula for the Fel Iron Ore to level her Engineering. I offered to help gather the Thorium in Swamp of Sorrows, now that I have a passenger flying mount and Fly By Mining was born! It was very speedy and helped out a friend in need.

Kaitz~

Feeeeeshing!

Hey everyone,

5.2 brought us many many new events, items and quest, but the most important of all of those are of course the pets! Amongst those new pets came 4 fish pets, in the form of Tiny Carp in the colours red, blue, green and white. Each fish is caught from both open water and pools, but each one is zone specific. (Images taken from Warcraftpets)

Tiny Blue Carp: Found in Townlong Steppes and Vale of Eternal Blossoms

 Tiny Green Carp: Found in The Jade Forest, Krasarang Wilds and the Valley of the Four Winds

Tiny Red Carp: Found in The Dread Wastes, Kun-Lai Summit and Townlong Steppes

 Tiny White Carp: Found only in Kun-Lai Summit

 Sadly have not been lucky enough to get my own carp pet yet. Hope to find one soon <3

Other news concerning fishing is the new daily zone event where there are absolutely swarms of fishing pools and a larger more obvious one which has way more fish than your average pool. You can find out where the daily event is by visiting Ben of the Booming Voice, located east of Halfhill along the river. The first event was in The Jade Forest, at Sri'la Village and there must have been 25-30 pools of Reef Octopus there. Here's a picture of my map to show you the amount of pools there;

I attached a glow worm to boost my fishing skill and by the time the larger pool was finished, I had around 17 minutes left out of the 1 hour timer. Emptying the pool brings forth a Lurker Below type NPC called Krakkanon, who has roughly 20 million HP. He doesn't hit very hard, if at all, on my DK tank, he does have a move which spits fish at you though, which if caught in it, pushes you further away from him, very lurker below styley. About 10 minutes later, I killed him and he dropped the Mimic Octopus which is one of the three daily fish you give to Nat Pagle to increase your reputation with him and The Anglers.

The next day the event was in the Woods of the Lost in Jade Forest which is very close to Sri'la Village and had to take some time in fishing the Jade Lungfish pools;

All in all, I ended up with 130 Reef Octopus, 60 Jade Lung Fish a Flying Gourami and a Mimic Octopus. Not bad I don't think! Great for raising my rep and also my cooking skill.

Kaitz~

Dinosaur Hunters UNITE!

Whilst flying along from checking out one of the new fishing events which was at Sri'la Village in The Jade Forest, I notice firstly a MASSIVE flying dinosaur!

(Not the first Pterrorwing I saw as I was too excited to screenshot!)

On closer inspection, this dinosaur is not the only one there and next to him is a troll npc, the Zandalari Warbringer, mounted on a Direhorn/Triceratops! The model is pretty amazing, and totally makes you instantly want the mount, which is a good thing as apparently this npc has the chance on dropping 3 different coloured versions! There is also another Troll npc called the Zandalari Scout who is worth killing too, he wanders near to the spawn point of the Warbringers.

(Also not the Jade Forest Warbringer, this is from Krasarang)

You MUST watch out for that Vengeful Spirit, it HURTS!

The Warbringer has roughly 21million HP, solo-able by some classes, but probably better to have a Dino Hunting team, myself, Ryyus and Jaedia did some Dino Hunting and I personally had great fun hunting them down! The Scout has around 5.3million health, definately solo-able. They both have some nasty moves though, including a fear (which can be interrupted), an AoE thunder cone/stomp effect, they can summon a Vengeful Spirit that if it comes too close to you, hits for a hell of a lot, a meteor shower AoE move and a summon scarab ability.

There are 5 spawn points throughout Pandaria which are as follows;

Kun-Lai Summit

Townlong Steppes

Jade Forest

KrasarangWilds

Dread Wastes

The Warbringer has a low chance to drop a mount, but does drop x3 insignia items which boost your reputation with either The Klaxxi, The Golden Lotus, The August Celestials or The Shado Pan. These items are amazing, firstly its 1000rep for whichever one you get, but if your character has the rep boosting commendation item, that rep is upgraded to 2200rep per insignia - WOW! He also has the chance to drop a Small Zandalari bag or a Big Zandalari bag, which includes materials for various professions but my last big bag I got included 2 BoE epic items. SECOND WOW! Can't wait to see what else could be obtained from those bags. The Scout drops x1 of the insignias and the chance of the bags also.

All in all, a nice random find for just flying past at the right time! Should definately have this on repeat whilst doing it though...

Two very lucky Hordies with their mounts! Congrats to you!

Also up today was Oondasta, the MASSIVE rare world boss spawn on the Isle of Giants. He is extremely mean, and took 3 full 40 man raids to take him down. His attacks hit hard, he hits multiple targets and is taunt immune... hurray...gotta admit the model is amazing though. Managed to use one of my new Mogu Runes and get myself a lovely ilvl 522 ring! Good times <3

 
Kaitz~

5.2 has arrived!

and wow what a patch it is!

Hey everyone,

5.2 is finally here! Woohoo! Been waiting a while for some new things to do, and there is plenty to keep you occupied with the addition of the Isle of Thunder and the Isle of Giants.

Lets start with the Isle of Thunder, which is the daily quest hub to begin gathering your rep with the Kirin Tor Offensive. They are back and definately mean business! You start by receiving a quest when you are in shrine of the stars or moon, depending on your faction of course, to meet with Veressa Windrunner in Townlong near the Shado Pan daily npcs are. It's basically a meet this npc and they will take you to the Isle of Thunder and they drop in some Thunder King/Mogu history along the way, which is nice to hear, and get reminded of the impact and importance of this enemy.  You arrive quite quickly and you pick up your dailies, which send you across the island to get many more dailies, theres alot of them, but I found them quite enjoyable, some variation in the objectives.

Whilst wandering around, you notice the nice new models of the trolls and the dinosaurs, which are just stunning, but also the new wild pets! The Swamp Croaker and Elder Python are lovely models, a massive leap from the old style frogs and snakes, so a big thumbs up there Blizz. Naturally I stopped for a little pet battling when I could, and managed to capture a rare quality Swamp Croaker - woohoo! Will go back for my rare quality python asap. I imagine the further you progress with the Kirin Tor rep, the island will open up further so looking forward to that!

Looks quite dull here, but is such a step up from the old snake models!

His throat inflates/deflates!

The second island, is the Isle of Giants, which is directly north from Kun Lai Summit, its pretty well hidden, I had to ask for directions of where it is, as you can't see it on your map. As you fly up close to it, you get dismounted, and have to travel via land mount, as you do on the Isle of Thunder. The isle is pretty much a grinding playground, filled with huge dinosaurs and trolls, ranging from 2million to 15million HP each - eek! I managed to kill a Direhorn and a Troll by myself, but would much prefer a grinding party to gather up the bones they drop. They can be traded with a Troll npc called Ku'ma on the west side of the island. You can trade from 1 bone up to 9999 bones for various items, including pets which includes 4 new raptors pets, a Spectral Porcupine and a mount, which of course is the 9999 costing one.The pets cost 999 bones each, so happy grinding! :D

My friend Noktharos, who I have mentioned in previous blog posts has been grinding all day, and is at approx 4k bones, good luck with the rest of the grind! He was also extremely kind to me, as whilst grinding these mobs, he has come across some of the new raptor pets, and kindly gave me 4 new pets to add to my collection. Yippeeeeee! They are adorable! Thankyou very very much <3 These pets are cage-able, so will no doubt be on your auction house very soon if you cannot grind them!

Zandalari Anklerender

Zandalari Toenibbler

Zandalari Kneebiter

Zandalari Footslasher

On top of these 4 little babies, I managed to complete the new achievement/quest, Beasts of Fable, to get my own Red Panda pet! You start the quest from your Pet Trainer outside your respective factions Shrine hub in Vale, and you have to defeat many legendary pets in order to get this little fella. Personally I didn't find it difficult, as I luckily had in my team, the pets which are strongest against the certain family groups the legendary ones seem to be in, which were Beasts, Critters and Aquatic. It's your team of 3 vs 1 also, which is nice. Once completing the Beasts of Fable quest, it then becomes a daily to, you guessed it, beat them all again! You have the chance from the new bag to get more panda pets though, so well worth it!
My pet total stands at 511 now! Woohoo!

<3

Other new additions/upgrades in 5.2 which I have experienced include the massive increase to Galleon's spawn rate, he is approximately up every 1-2 hours, so fantastic for those who never got to kill him before 5.2 hit, and the addition of the shared tag is always a welcome one, when the raid is full, the abuse in /1 was always nasty to see.

Another fantastic addition is the buff to Valor points from Heroics, depending onthe heroic you can get up to 120 points for your first one, which in itself makes you want to do a heroic a day again, but the added bonus of being able to pick a faction to gain a chunk of rep for doing that heroic, what a lovely addition! This includes The Tilers, The Klaxxi, Shado Pan, August Celestials, The Lorewalkers, The Anglers, Operation Shieldwall and even the Kirin Tor Offensive also. A nice variety for those who need to catch up, like me, but also available for those who had them all to exalted already.


For day one, that is a hell of a lot of things to have done, but thankfully plenty more to do and will keep you updated of any new 5.2 related business I get up to!

Kaitz~

Pets, Pets and more Pets!

Hey everyone!

I know I posted about me finally getting my little scourged whelp the other day, but I don't feel like I've posted a proper post about actual pet news in a while.

I'll start off on a negative, with the aim to brush over it, but I'm pretty sad and a little dissapointed with the news of the lovely Pierre being taken out of patch 5.2. Gutted as he looks amazing, but hope to see him in the not so distant future. This was confirmed when Perculia asked Cory Stockton, the lead content designer for Blizz, via twitter earlier this week.

This does mean I won't have to be frantically finding time to play my hunter to continue her engineering levelling, can now decide between her and my priest. So I am let off the hook a little!

Speaking of Cory, he has been busy over at WarcraftPets for his second interview answering more very interesting questions from Brian aka Breanni, definately worth checking it out for some exclusive info including future patch additions and Blizzcon news!

The new TCG pet, the Gusting Grimoire, was announced a while ago and I have been scouting on ebay for to see what kind of prices it is going for, and by the looks of it, its around £5, so not a major money drainer. it's a bit of rip of the Lofty Libram but will no doubt get it to add to the collection when I have the cash.

I have been busy with regards to pets, as my new achievement shows:

Lots of my guildies were calling me crazy for getting to 30, but I definately think I will be crazy by the time the next goal is reached. The last tier of the levelling achievements is to get 75 pets to level 25, and you are rewarding the Singing Cricket pet. Not the best pet in my opinion, but a pet which I do not have, so naturally its a must. I do like the reward for getting 30 up to lvl 25, the Pristine Trap, would definately recommend that you get this before trying to go for the Safari achievements, I definately did them the wrong way around - oops! :D Whilst doing the dailies for levelling my pets, I have gained some Flawless stones and another Porcupette, so thats a great bonus! Just need to decide who to use them on now.

Also remember to do your Darkmoon Faire pet battle daily as Jeremy is back, and hopefully with plenty of Darkmoon Eyes to go around for everyone!

Kaitz~

Back from the dead

Hey guys,

Recently I switched to my DeathKnight as my 'main' character, yet already I am missing the ability to be able to say 'Sure! I'll heal it for you' because well, I can only heal myself on my lady wolf.

Swift Mistsaber mount was always my fav!

I was chatting with some guildies and we kind of all of a sudden came up with the idea of trying to resurrect my first night elf priest from my vanilla/TBC alliance days. With the Scroll of Resurrection function, it would mean that whoever sent me the invite, would receive a prize in the form of a Spectral Gryphon. Winners all around! Sadly the email which I had assigned my old account to didn't receive the scroll, and I went to investigate via contacting the Live Help on the Battle Net account page. Apparently my account had been compromised and the account locked - noooooooooooo! I thought I had lost her forever, but thankfully the GM on the live help was extremely helpful and was able to confirm I was the owner of the account and get her back to me, along with my original Hunter, Kaitlyn (Still in Beastmaster dungeon 0.5 gear /weee :D) I was just amazed at how well the GM handled things. When I log in, I now have a drop down box to both accounts attached to my same email address. So I thought the Scroll of Resurrection idea was out of the window given that both accounts are on one email... until I receive one in my inbox. Now sure how, not sure why, but I will take that 30 days free, upgrade to Cataclysm and boosted to lvl 80 thank you very much! I can then decide how I feel about my characters and decide whats best for my future WoWing.

I must repeat myself with how much love I have for the Live Chat function on the Battle Net support page and the amazing GM Koblekai, seriously amazing, very quick to respond, very friendly and just ingeneral bloody good at their job. 10/10 Superb! A massive thanks to them for reuniting me with my Nelf <3

Time to transmog into my Primal Mooncloth set, transmog my staff to Benediction and it will feel like the good old times! <3



 Kaitz~