Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Pink Spirals


Take Single's Awareness Day and extend it to an entire week and I'm sure the suicide rates around the world would skyrocket. What a macabre way to start off a holiday blog about love and happiness!

Love is in the Air is the in-game event based around Valentine's Day. In 2012, it started on February 5th and ended on February 19th. All of the previous years' items are still available, but they added in something new. All of the people who repeatedly went year after year without the Big Love Rocket now have a.. "Plan B" mount called the Swift Lovebird.

This holiday is comparatively simple in its related quests and structure, the main emphasis is collecting Lovely Charms to turn into Lovely Charm Bracelets and spam-completing the daily quests to gather up Love Tokens en mass . Do NOT forget to pick-up the Lovely Charm Collector's Kit or all of your farming will be for naught, cause you won't receive any charms.

To start off with, make sure you head to your main capital city to start your holiday "bread crumb" quest, so you can knock out the pleasantries early and really get into the spirit of things. Both faction's quest starts with a Snagglebolt goblin. Do his detective work for him and you'll end up chasing another goblin all around the capital, until eventually catching him and making him talk. You learn that the Crown Chemical Company is up to no good with their perfume and cologne distribution, so it's up to you to stop them! There's an 'additional' quest upon beating the Apothecary Trio that leads you back to the Snagglebolt, but it's an abrupt finish.

In addition to the detective work, there is also the completion of daily quests. There's a randomly selected daily quest that involves testing the Crown Chemical Company's products on the local denizens of the capital, whether it be NPC or PC doesn't matter to the completion of the quest, as long as they haven't already been tested on. Certain NPCs are excluded from being targets of these quests for reasons I'm not quite sure of. I also believe, if it's the same as the year before, shape shifted druids are unaffected by these products as well.

One of the other dailies is level-dependent on your objective. While still doing the same thing no matter where you're sent, your level selects your destination.
  • Level 05-13: Sends you to the Westbrook Garrison in Elwynn Forest/West of Orgimmar's Gates in Durotar.
  • Level 14-22: Sends you to the Grove of the Ancients in Darkshore/just outside of Ambermill in Silverpine Forest.
  • Level 23-31: Sends you to an abandoned southeastern farm in Duskwood/just outside of Hillsbrad Village in Hillsbrad Foothills.
  • Level 32-40: Sends you to just outside of Theramore in Dustwallow Marsh.
  • Level 41-50: Sends you to the east of Aerie Peak in Hinterlands.
  • Level 51-60: Sends you to the east of Everlook in Winterspring.
  • Level 61-70: Sends you to the east of Shattrath City in Terokkar Forest.
  • Level 71-80: Sends you to the Forlorn Woods in Crystalsong Forest.
  • Level 81-85: Sends you to the east of the Tomb of Khartut in Uldum.
And the final set of dailies consists of creating Lovely Charm Bracelets and turning them in to your faction's leaders. In the past, each turn counted toward a vote to establish who the favorite faction leader was. This polling system is no longer in place and is now just a regular daily turn-in. Each leader hands over a Lovely Card in return that grants a buff to a specific stat (they don't stack with each other) that is calculated into what level you are.
  • Agility - Darnassus/Orgrimmar
  • Intellect - Stormwind/Undercity
  • Stamina - Ironforge/Thunder Bluff
  • Spirit - Exodar/Silvermoon City
I'm going to go ahead and quote what I said last year about this holiday's boss. I will probably continue to add in the boss strategies year after year, especially if they change something about the boss, but mostly just as a refresher course so that no one screws up and dies on a holiday boss fight. Kind of embarrassing, don't you think?

It wasn't very difficult at all when it was first introduced last year, this year wasn't much more difficult, just you had to teach the new people that didn't know what to do. It was also harder to use the same tactics from last year, and much more difficult to DPS tank. Like we were doing last year, hehe. 
Apothecary Hummel is the "main" target of the fight, but he comes with two others; Apothecary Baxter and Apothecary Frye. There are items off to the side to negate certain effects used by the bosses during the fight. Hummel uses an Alluring Perfume, using the Perfume Neutralizer negates all but his melee attacks. Baxter uses  Irresistible Cologne and the Cologne Neutralizer takes care of him. Frye is simply and annoyance and uses both, but he can be completely ignored for the most part of the fight. Upon initiating the fight, you can only attack Hummel. After, I believe, 15 seconds, Baxter activates and you can attack him as well. About the same time after that, Frye activates as well. The easiest way to do this is for the tank to hold both Hummel and Baxter and wear the Neutralizer for whichever boss gets downed first and then switch to the other. Another possibly strategy is to just have a DPS hold Baxter until Hummel is downed. Frye has no aggro table, which is why I said to just ignore him.

Nothing new, in terms of items, was added to the boss' loot tables from last year, but they did make it so the once-a-day Heart-Shaped Box dropped Love Tokens as well. They also still drop the necklaces that you can continuously farm if you so desire.
  • Forever-Lovely Rose: A simple headpiece that makes your character have a rose in their mouth, if male, or a rose tucked behind an ear, if female. No required level, but since you have to be 84 to queue for the fight.. You get the idea.
  • Vile Fumigator's Mask: A headpiece that makes your character wear a gas mask. Also has the added effect of stunning your target for 30 secs. Completely worthless, honestly, at max level. Amusing for recreational and transmogrification purposes.
  • The Heartbreaker: I finally got my hands on one of these this year. It's only purpose is to make your target burst in to tears. It doesn't work on the opposite faction and if used with no target, you burst in to tears instead. It's off the GCD, so it could technically be worked into a rotation if you want a free debuff and to just cry your heart out.
  • Toxic Wasteling: Just about every holiday now has an acquirable companion pet. Except the mini-holidays that only last a day or two, but give them time.This one is just like the Disgusting Oozeling, but as this one travels past critters.. It eats it. And gets bigger. Also, no debuff!
  • Big Love Rocket: The crème de la crème of mounts. This is the money maker. It's a giant pink rocket with a zebra-striped seat cover. Plus.. the in-game icon for it is pink and phallic-shaped. Innuendos everywhere!
Before taking the last step into the realm of the achievement spam.. Remember all of those Lovely Charms, Lovely Charm Bracelets, and Love Tokens you collected? It's time to get serious. About purchases.

Quick side-note. The Swift Lovebird is, in fact, BoE. Meaning you can farm up multiples and sell them on the AH or hand them out to friends who didn't quite reach make it to the 270 Love Tokens. Though if you do all of the available dailies everyday of the holiday, defeat the boss daily, you should be able to meet the requirements without farming for a single extra Lovely Charm. If you don't, the conversion of Bracelet to Token on the vendor is going to be your lifesaver.

Second side-note, not only is the Swift Lovebird BoE, but so are the created Lovely Charm Bracelets. You can't sell your tokens, and you can't sell your charms, but you can sell the mount and the bracelets for profit.

On to the achievements, which is why everyone reads this! Woot.

  • Be Mine!: Purchase the Bags of Heart Candies from the vendor using Love Tokens and eat one of each of the eight Heart Candies. Each bag costs two Love Tokens and the Heart Candies aren't soulbound, so you can AH or trade them off to friends to assist others in getting their achievements.
  • Charming: Grab your Lovely Charm Bracelet Kit and get to destroying lots of mobs. You're going to need 120 Lovely Charms for this achievement, because you need to create twelve Lovely Bracelets. Lovely Charms are soulbound, so there is no avoiding this achievement. Though if you don't need those bracelets once you get the achievement, you can pass them on to someone else or try to sell them.
  • Dangerous Love: Being the Crown Chemical Co. questline in either capital city and run it through to its completion of crushing the crown and turning the daily back into the investigator in Stormwind City or Orgrimmar. You'll receive the achievement at that time.
  • Fistful Of Love: Since Cataclysm's release, this achievement got a little harder. Since we don't have Dalaran or Shattrah to hang around in anymore, finding the correct Horde race/class combinations are going to require people to actually head into battlegrounds. Or have a friend who has free open character creation slots who is willing to waste their time creating toons for you to throw rose petals on them. You get Handfuls of Rose Petals from the holiday vendors; two Love Tokens for five Handfuls. Since it's uneven, you'll have to over-purchase just to complete the achievement, but keep an extra on hand for another achievement. Handful of Rose Petals are also not soulbound, so you can give away your extras or sell them.
  • Flirt With Disaster/Flirt With Disaster: Head over to Ironforge/Undercity (according to your faction) and stop in at a bar. Pile up on the heavy drinks. For the Alliance, you're going to need to head over to the Great Forge and wait for that sexy pie vendor to make his rounds. When you see Sraaz, drink up and get hammered. Chuck a Handful of Rose Petals at that darling gnome face and "plant" a wet one on him. He sells pie, so he can't be all bad, right? For the Horde, you're going to have to stick around the central bank area. Drop down to the lower levels and find Jeremiah Payson playing with his cock.. roaches. Drink up and get hammered, slathering him with rose petals, and give him a little tongue action. I have no idea why I went there with that...
  • I Pitied The Fool: This one is going to take some time. You have to be at least level 80 to complete this achievement, since you need to be able to enter a level 80 raid instance. You're also going to need the time necessary to collect and acquire 50 Love Tokens so you can buy up five Love Fools. Or have a friend who has extra, since they're not soulbound. You have ten days of real time to throw these puppies down in Naxxramas, the Culling of Stratholme, the blacksmith in Arathi Basin, anywhere in Wintergrasp, or the Gurubashi Arena in Stranglethorn and give them the ol' pity stare. Simple in it's execution to say the least.
  • Lonely?: Throw down ten more Love Tokens to pick yourself up a Romantic Picnic Basket and then ten more Tokens for a Box of Chocolates and hope you get the chocolate treat you desire. You're going to need to head over to Dalaran, plop down your picnic basket, and wait for someone who is as lonely as you to plop down beside you.. So you can share a Buttermilk Delight with them. Warcraft isn't all rainbows and sunshine anymore. As usual, the chocolates from the Box of Chocolates aren't soulbound, but the box itself is.. As is the picnic basket.
  • Lovely Luck Is On Your Side: Head over to our lovely holiday vendors and use twenty of your Love Tokens to pick up a Lovely Dress Box. Open it up and if inside you find yourself a coveted Lovely Black Dress, you earn this achievement to go alongside your newest fashion statement. The Lovely Dress Box has an even 25% chance to drop one of four dress; Black, Purple, Blue, or Red. There is also a Dinner Suit Box with three dinner suits in it, but who cares about those. It's not a pretty black dress! None of these dresses, or even the suits, are soulbound. Share them with your lowbies or friends who need something for a date.
  • My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose: Bouquet of Red Roses and Bouquet of Ebon Roses are your target items here. You do get to pick and choose where to go to find your bouquets though: Admiral Ripsnarl of the Deadmines, Lord Godfrey of Shadowfang Keep, Corla, Herald of the Twilight of Blackrock Caverns, Drahga Shadowburner of Grim Batol, and High Priestess Azil of Stonecore all offer 100% drop chances on Heroic/Normal (where applicable). With the addition of the latest dungeons, it seems that Queen Azshara of Well of Eternity, Asira Dawnslayer of Hour of Twilight, and the Echoes of Jaina and Sylvanas of End Time all also have a chance to drop them.
  • Nation Of Adoration/Nation Of Adoration: You know how you made those twelve Lovely Charm Bracelets awhile back for the Charming achievement? Hope you kept four of them to turn into the four faction leaders of whichever faction you are to gain this achievement. If not.. Get back to farming, you're going to need forty more Lovely Charms.
  • Perma-Peddle: Use forty of your Love Tokens to purchase a Truesilver Shafted Arrow to acquire this permanent companion version of the pet gained from the Silver Shafted Arrow you can purchase from the holiday vendor for a five for five deal.
  • The Rocket's Pink Glare: Love Rockets are currently on sale at your local holiday vendor for a five-for-five deal. You're going to need to pick up two sets, because you need ten for this achievement. Your goal is launch all ten of your rockets in twenty seconds or less. It's pretty simple, just don't dilly-dally if you're bad at placing your targeting area.
  • Shafted: Pick up some Silver Shafted Arrows from your local holiday vendor, turn around, and being your role as Cupid. The arrows are another five-for-five deal, so you're going to need to pick up double the initial purchase to finish off this achievement. And again, the arrows are not soulbound.
  • Sweet Tooth: Remember when I told you to buy Box of Chocolates for your romantic picnic alone in Dalaran? Well, this one is to eat one of each of the four chocolates that can come out of that box. The chocolates aren't soulbound, as usual.
  • Tough Love: Defeat the Apothecary Trio inside of Shadowfang Keep. You're going to need to be at least level 84 to even make an attempt on these guys. At least this isn't a part of the meta, so it's not required to get your "Love Fool" title.
  • Big Love Rocket: The Feat of Strength attached to this holiday through acquiring the Big Love Rocket mount from the Apothecary Trio.
For more information on this holiday, please follow this link here: Love is in the Air '12 to find all of this information and more over at Wowhead.
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Lunar Festival '12

The beginning of each year brings about the Lunar Festival in-game holiday. As always, it's based loosely on the Chinese New Years. All of the capital cities, as well as the regions of Nighthaven and Moonglade, decorate their towns with festival lanterns (much akin to the Chinese lanterns). For the year of 2012, the festival took place between January 22nd through February 12th. On the last day of the holiday, like all years prior, their a fantastic fireworks show in Moonglade over the Lake Elune'ara.


This holiday is one of the most simple in its design. The basic task is to go around the world and speak to the Elders of the Past. There are many located on Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, and Northrend. With the release of Cataclysm, they added in a few more Elders to compensate for the new regions added into the game, as well as adjusting the locations of the previous elders due to the landscape changes that occurred due to the Shattering.


Before I put out the updated list of where all of the Elders are located, be sure that you collect the "bread crumb" quest that leads you into Moonglade. Shoot off some fireworks to get your Lunar Festival Invitation that'll port you straight there whenever you're standing in the large column of moonlight. The smaller beams created by the Elder's Moonstone will not work with the invitation. You can also get a new invitation if it expires by simply speaking to the Lunar Festival Harbinger located in or near almost all of the capital cities.

As always, the "bread crumb" quest really just gets you to Moonglade so you can get the quest to destroy Omen. It's not required to knock this particular part of the holiday out first, especially since you have quite a bit of time to get it done. Just make sure that you don't forget to do it before the holiday is over.

In short, Omen has to die. To spawn him, you need to kill his minions on the opposite end of the Lake Elune'ara and shoot off rocket clusters from the nearby cluster launchers. The general consensus is about 20 clusters, but if that doesn't work, just keep firing until he spawns in the lake. You don't have to be part of the killing party, which makes this quest tons easier for low level characters. Once Omen is defeated, his corpse will stick around for -roughly- 5 minutes and in the center of his body will be a beam of moonlight. Stepping into that beam will grant you the buff of Elune's Blessing, which is the completion of the quest.

Moving on to the other part of the holiday; world traveling and honoring your elders. Like all years previous, the Elders still hand out the Lucky Red Envelopes that always contain one of two things. You either receive an Elder's Moonstone or a Lucky Rocket Cluster. The Elder's Moonstone simply creates a beam of moonlight, which is helpful for marking targets or playing musical "chairs." And the Lucky Rocket Cluster simply boosts your maximum HP by a set amount. If these rockets scaled with level, they would be worth more to a max level character. As it stands, they give a constant buff of +250 maximum health. At 85, I would label this as absolutely nothing.

You also receive a Coin of Ancestry for each Elder you honor. These coins are not holiday-locked, so they have a turn-over value, if you didn't spend (or throw out) your entire stash from years prior. These coins are the real draw to the holiday as they are the vendor currency to purchase the holiday items. Tailors and Engineers are the still the cream-of-the-crop for this holiday, as they have the only patterns available for purchase. They're still BoP patterns, as usual, so keep your alts' coins away from them.

Aside from the patterns, there are a few other purchasable items from the holiday vendors. Dresses and pant suits, as well as a percentage based food and a "fireworks pack" are all purchasable with the Coins. This vendor also sells the Elune's Candle vanity item for a handful of silver. A separate vendor sells a glowing alcohol and individual fireworks for silver and copper.

The big "item of the year" for the 2012 Lunar Festival are the new companion pets. They are faction-specific, but as they are not BoP, they can be traded to the opposite faction. The Lunar Lantern is available to Alliance and the Festival Lantern is available to the Horde.

On to the achievements!
  • Lunar Festival Finery: Take five of those lovely little Ancestry Coins you've been tracking down from the Elders and use them to purchase a Festival Pant Suit or Festival Dress of any color. To note, the red festival dress/pant suit made by tailors does not count toward this achievement.
  • The Rocket's Red Glare: Spend a tiny little bit of your money on purchasing up 10 -red- rocket clusters. Make sure they're red or they won't count. After that, find yourself a cluster launcher and have at it. With 25 seconds on the timer, you really can't mess up unless you purposely screw it up or lag hates you.
  • Frenzied Firecracker: Just like the rockets, purchase firecrackers from the Lunar Festival vendors. You'll, again, need ten of these. Set them to a hotkey and toss 'em out on each cooldown. This one is easier to screw up, missing a single cooldown will make you fail. Grab some extra 'crackers if you don't think you'll get it in the first ten. Just keep going until you get it.
  • Elune's Blessing: Complete the pre-requisite quests to gain access to the Elune's Blessing quest to go after Omen. Whether you actually participated in besting the beast or if you showed up during the aftermath, you can still complete the quest. As long as the beam of moonlight is there to grant the Elune's Blessing buff, you're good to roll. Turn the quest in to complete this achievement.
  • Elders of the Eastern Kingdoms: Simply honor all of the Elders located on the Eastern Kingdoms. There are 24 total Elders on the Eastern Kingdoms that count toward the various Elder achievements. See the complete list after the break.
  • Elders of Kalimdor: Simply honor all of the Elders located on Kalimdor. There are 26 total Elders on Kalimdor that count toward the various Elder achievements. See the complete list after the break.
  • Elders of Northrend: Go around Northrend and honor the 25 total Elders there. Some count toward the Dungeon Elders count, but they all matter toward completing the Meta. See the complete list after the break.
  • Elders of the Cataclysm: Venture forth to the newest additions to the region with the Cataclysm expansion pack and find the 9 hidden Elders there. See the complete list after the break.
  • Elders of the Dungeons: Seek out the 13 Elders hiding away in instances on any of the three continents. These Elders might require some creativity, ingenuity, or friends. As always with instance achievements, doing this at level cap is significantly easier. See the complete list after the break.
  • Elders of the Horde: Saunter, or tip-toe, your way through the Horde capitals and honor their very own Elders. There are 3 total Elders for this achievement. See the complete list after the break.
  • Elders of the Alliance: Much like the Elders of the Horde, make your way through the Alliance capital cities and honor the Elders of the Alliance. There are 3 totals Elders for this achievement as well. See the complete list after the break.


EASTERN KINGDOMS
Snowcrown: Eastern Plaguelands, Light Hope's Chapel (75, 54)
Farwhisper: Stratholme, Live Side near The Unforgiven
Windrun: Eastern Plaguelands, Crown Guard Tower (35.6, 68.8)
Meadowrun: Western Plaguelands, Weeping Cave (63.5, 36.1)
Moonstrike: Western Plaguelands, Outside Scholomance (69.2, 73.5)
Graveborn: Tirisfal Glades, Brill (61.9, 53.9)
Darkcore: Undercity, Ruins of Lordaeron Throne Room (67, 38)
Obsidian: Silverpine Forest, The Sepulcher (45, 41.1)
Highpeak: The Hinterlands, Creeping Ruin (49, 47.9)
Darkfeather: Twilight Highlands, Thundermar Ruins (51, 33)
Firebeard: Twilight Highlands, Dunwald Ruins (50, 70)
Silvervein: Loch Modan, Thelsamar (33, 46)
Goldwell: Dun Morogh, Kharanos (53.9, 49.9)
Bronzebeard: Ironforge, Mystic Ward (29, 16)
Ironband: Searing Gorge, Blackchar Cave (21.3, 79.1)
Morndeep: Blackrock Depths, Ring of Law
Stonefort: Lower Blackrock Spire, Inner Bridgework
Dawnstrider: Burning Steppes, Flame Crest (53.6, 24.5)
Rumblerock: Burning Steppes, Dreadmaul Rock (70.1, 45.4)
Starsong: Sunken Temple, Dragonkin Ring
Bellowrage: Blasted Lands, Dark Portal (54.3, 49.5)
Starglade: Northern Stranglethorn, Zul'Gurub (71, 34.3)
Winterhoof: Cape of Stranglethorn, Booty Bay (39.9, 72.5)
Skychaser: Westfall, Sentinel Hill (56.6, 47)
Stormbrow: Elwynn Forest, Goldshire (39.8, 63.7)
Hammershout: Stormwind City, Stormwind Gates (34.2, 50.6)

KALIMDOR
Bladeswift: Darnassus, Cenarion Enclave (39.1, 31.9)
Bladeleaf: Teldrassil, Dolanaar (57, 53)
Starweave: Darkshore, Near Lor'danel (49.5, 19)
Nightwind: Felwood, Jaedenar (38.8, 52.9)
Riversong: Ashenvale, Astranaar (35.6, 48.9)
Windsong: Mount Hyjal, Sanctuary of Malorne (26, 62)
Evershade: Mount Hyjal, Nordrassil (62, 22)
Brightspear: Winterspring, Lake Kel'Theril (53.2, 56.8)
Stonespire: Winterspring, Everlook (60.1, 49.9)
Skygleam: Azshara, Ravencrest Monument (64.7, 79.3)
Darkhorn: Orgrimmar, Flight Master Tower (52.4, 60)
Runetotem: Durotar, Razor Hill (53.2, 43.6)
Windtotem: Northern Barrens, Ratchet (68.4, 70)
Moonwarden: Northern Barrens, Crossroads (48.5, 59.3)
High Mountain: Southern Barrens, Vendetta Point (41.5, 47.5)
Bloodhoof: Mulgore, Bloodhoof Village (48.3, 53.4)
Ezra Wheathoof: Thunder Bluff, Elder Rise (73, 23.3)
Splitrock: Maraudon, Rotgrip/Tinkerer Gizlock Area
Mistwalker: Feralas, The Maul (62, 31)
Grimtotem: Feralas, Lariss Pavillion (76.7, 37.9)
Primestone: Silithus, Crystal Vale (30.8, 13.3)
Bladesing: Silithus, Cenarion Hold (53, 35.5)
Thunderhorn: Un'goro Crater, Slithering Scar (50.4, 76.1)
Menkhaf: Uldum, Khartut's Tomb (65, 18)
Sekhemi: Uldum, Ruins of Ammon (32. 63)
Ragetotem: Tanaris, Ruins of Uldum (37.2, 79.1)
Dreamseer: Tanaris, Gadgetzan (51.3, 27.8)
Wildmane: Zul'Farrak, Gahz'rilla's Pool
Morningdew: Thousand Needles, Fizzle & Pozzik's Speedbarge (77.1, 75.6)
Skyseer: Thousand Needles, Freewind Post (46.4, 51)

NORTHREND
Sardis: Borean Tundra, Valiance Keep (59.1, 65.6)
Arp: Borean Tundra, D.E.H.T.A. (57.3, 43.7)
Pamuya: Borean Tundra, Warsong Hold (42.9, 49.6)
Northal: Borean Tundra, Transitus Shield (33.8, 34.4)
Igasho: The Nexus, Ormorok the Tree-Shaper Area
Sandrene: Sholozar Basin, River's Heart (49.8, 63)
Wanikaya: Sholozar Basin, Rainspeaker Rapids (63.8, 49)
Bluewolf: Wintergrasp Fortress (49, 13.9)
Morthie: Dragonblight, Star's Rest (29.7, 55.9)
Skywarden: Dragonblight, Agmar's Hammer (35.1, 48.3)
Nurgen: Azjol-Nerub, Post-Hadronox
Thoim: Dragonblight, Moa'ki Harbor (48.8, 78.2)
Jarten: Utgarde Keep, Post-Prince Keleseth
Chogan'gada: Utgarde Pinnacle, Under Skadi the Ruthless
Beldak: Grizzly Hills, Westfall Brigade Encampment (60.6, 27.7)
Lunaro: Grizzly Hills, Ruins of Tethys (80.5, 37.1)
Whurain: Grizzly Hills, Camp Oneqwah (64.2, 47)
Kilias: Drak'Tharon Keep, King Dred's Den
Tauros: Zul'Drak, Zim'Torga (58.9, 56)
Ohanzee: Gun'Drak, Drakkari Colossus Altar
Graymane: The Storm Peaks, K3 (41.2, 84.7)
Fargal: The Storm Peaks, Frosthold (28.9, 73.7)
Stonebeard: The Storm Peaks, Bouldercrag's Refuge (31.3, 37.6)
Muraco: The Storm Peaks, Camp Tunka'lo (64.6, 51.3)
Yurauk: Halls of Stone, Pre-Krystallus

CATACLYSM (Since the portals are located in either contintent depending on your faction, I'm not going to put them as part of any order. Get these at your leisure, just don't forget them.)
Moonlance: Vashj'ir, Shimmering Expanse (57, 86)
Stonebrand: Deepholm, Temple of Earth (49. 54)
Deepforge: Deepholm, Stonehearth (27, 69)


For more in-depth information on this holiday, follow the following link to Wowhead's article and guide: 2012 Lunar Festival Guide


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Failed Expectations

As you've probably noticed, those of you who follow this blog and those of you who gracious click the links on my Facebook and Twitter feeds as I post them there, that I have failed to make an update in quite some time.

I've been working more at my job as a general manager at a movie theatre, plus the reroll thing collapsed in upon itself, and my goal to hit each holiday as it came in 2012 flopped pretty hardcore. As it's five months in and I haven't made a single post yet.

I don't know how I should really feel about getting back into the swing of things, it's seems more and more like blogging just isn't something I'm ever going to be good at. I have a secret project I've been working on for sometime that requires very little actual effort on my part but I've been waiting on other people to get back with me with my requests before I can continue that venture. The links at the top of my blog still lead to "dead-ends" because I haven't finished compiling all of the information/pictures/anythings that are supposed to go there.

Rough calculations..
24 hours x 7 days = 168 hours in a week
168 hours - 52 work hours = 116 hours
116 hours - (generous estimate of 6 hours of sleep x 7 days) = 74 hours
74 hours of free time a week = roughly 3 days worth of free time. One of those days being maintenance day, like today.
My 'Mondays' start on Thursday and my 'Friday' is Monday, where I pull a 16.5+ hour shift. It seems like I'd have the time to actually get something done with that "much" free time on my hands, but it doesn't ever work out that way.

I have good news and bad news though, sorta.

The good news is that I recently purchased a new computer and am waiting on its delivery. With it's arrival, I can begin coupling my blogs with my gaming vlog project. I want to start creating gaming vlogs of me playing F2P, P2P, and other such games so that people can get a peek into games that they wouldn't normally play. It'll also make it so I have a two computer setup, so I can make accurate accounts of what I'm doing in-game while actually doing it. Which would have helped a helluva lot more when I was still doing the reroll journal on Kutira.

The bad news is that I recently started playing the new MMO TERA, which has been distracting me away from WoW a bit. My only issue with TERA right now is that it's not allowing me to create more than one character per server, much like the restrictions on the Beta. I've contacted their customer support and am just waiting on a response. Hopefully this gets corrected soon, either by some technical wizardry on their end or with my new computer, so I can start messing around with the other classes over there. While I adore the Warrior class in TERA, I don't want to be restricted to a single class.

The sorta good news that goes along with the bad news though, is that I can begin expanding this blog to go over more than just World of Warcraft. Which opens up the possibility of more blog topics and gives me more things to talk about than just the random holiday events and whatever other WoW topics I normally go over.
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