Weekend Musings

My weekend was full of real life commitments and my husband trying to cook me.

Saturday, we drove to my mother's and helped her move into her new house.  Well, I didn't.  I spent my day taking care of my adorable 9 month old nephew.  I haven't spent any time with a child like that, on my own, since my sisters (24 and 22) were that age.  So it was really exhausting for me.  I got home at like 10pm and was asleep by 11, where I slept in until 10:30am.

Sunday, I got up, checked to see if Mog Madness results were up, ate breakfast and went into the backyard to start helping build a fence.  I was outside until 4:30pm.  And dear lord, I look like a lobster.  (I live in Oregon, I'm not used to sunshine!)

We logged on for raid but didn't have the people, so we ran dungeons to get our weekly 7 and then people split up.  Husband went to play tennis (at 7pm, because he's insane) and I stayed home, watched Scrubs and leveled my hunter to level 60!  Goal 1 complete!

The results for Mog Madness popped up around raid time, and that was exciting to see.  I got 5th place, but 5th out of 26(?) is pretty awesome!  So yay me!

I then went to bed.  Where my sunburned brain caused me to have dreams that my husband had impregnated his ex-girlfriend and didn't tell me.  I may have yelled at him when I woke up this morning.  I'm still a little mad.  And I don't understand why!!  I should be mad at me!  Stupid brain.

So, to work.  Away ..... !

Mog Madnes - The Final Round

As I said before, I made it to round 5.  Yay!  Our assignment this time was to make an 'anti-paladin'.  Honestly, I'm not sure what that means.  Is it a death knight?  That's about as anti-paladin as I can think.  Anyway.  we were supposed to come up with an anti-paladin for one of the Old Gods, either C'thun or Yogg-Saron.  This is what I came up with.

This is Ezili.  She's my brand new death knight that I made just for this round.  However, she's a troll like my other death knight.  I guess I don't like trolls.  I don't know why actually.  I love having them around, I just don't want to be one!  

Anyway. She hears voices.  At first, it was the Lich Kings voice and now, she is drawn to Silithus, where deep in Ahn'Qiraj, C'thun awaits her.

She attends her new lord and master in the finest she has:

On her head she wears the Crown of Anasterian, which drops off Kil'jaeden in Sunwell Plataeu.

On her shoulders, she sports Brackenshell Shoulderplates, which drop off Morchok in the Dragon Soul.

Her back is the Cape of the Brotherhood, which she reclaimed from "Captain" Cookie in the low level Deadmines.

Her chestpiece is the Gendarme's Cuirass that Lord Marrowgar drops in Icecrown Citadel 25 Heroic.

Her gloves are the Gauntlets of the Wretched from General Vezax in Ulduar 10 man.

Her belt is the Runescriven Demon Collar from Hagara the Stormbinder in Dragon Soul Heroic.

Her pants are the Mightstone Legplates which is from a quest in Borean Tundra.

Her boots are the Veteran's Plate Greaves, which you can buy from a vendor on Isle of Quel'Danas.

And lastly, her weapon is Kalimdor's Revenge, which was bestowed upon her by Emperor Vek'nilash in Ahn'Qiraj.

Her weapon sports the eye of her God, showing him everything she fights.  

"Your heart will explode."  ~ C'thun

Holy Crap! Yay and What if ....

So, somehow I have made it into the last round of Mog Madness.  This has been so much fun, I'm very sad that it's almost over.  I'm working on something but I can't talk about it, of course.  So you'll see when I do!

In other news, I managed to gain quite a few levels this past week.  I got my blood elf warrior to 65 via a combo of leveling and having my husband take me through instances.  I'm too shy to do things on my own and my guildies with toons my level have been on vacation for the past week.  I also managed to get my undead hunter to level 53 and a half (as of this writing).  And lastly, I got my goblin warlock to level 13 so she can get matched up with the husband's new undead priest.

That puts my total levels up to 1955, so I'm almost there!  Only 57 more to go!

And that brings me to what I wanted to write about today.  I'm sure some of you have seen that Amateur Azerothian is quitting the game.  And I want to point out that I truly, truly am 100% behind his reason(s).  Now, before I say anything further, I want to say a couple of things.  What follows is MY story.  It's MY plan for MY life.  This is not me saying ANYTHING about what you should or should not do.

I am the granddaughter of alcoholics.  (Stay with me here, it goes somewhere.)  My mother and father, seeing in themselves the potential to become alcoholics themselves, did not drink AT ALL while I was a young child.  It was only until I was 13 that I ever saw a glass of wine in my father's hand.  It was only after I moved out, that I ever saw my mother with a glass of wine in HER hand.  They had decided, before they had children, that in order to raise my siblings and I the best way they knew how, no alcohol would be allowed in the house and they would only drink a little on their date nights.

My parents (being my parents) seemed to me to be normal.  I know now that what I experienced in my early years was not normal.  My grandparents, well, I thought that everyone had grandparents who started drinking at 8am and passed out after dinner.  As I grew, I found myself having issues similar to my grandparents, except not with alcohol, with other things.

When I met my husband, he ran a BBS.  He taught me to type on the computer, he taught me to 'surf' the BBS's, he gave me my own forum (called the Peanut Gallery since he had nicknamed me Peanut).  I was hooked.  When we moved out, we got DSL.  Which back in the late 1990's was impressive.  A 'fat pipe to the net' is what I believe he called it once.

I met this guy through work (I worked a computer repair shop) who got me and my husband into a MUD called Xyllomer.  (This guy became, and is still, one of my best friends.)  I got into IRC and ICQ.  I would wake up first thing in the morning to see who was online in the MUD/IRC/ICQ.  I was constantly chatting with people.  There are pictures of me at family gatherings scowling because OMG THIS IS MY COMPUTER TIME JUST LET ME LEAVE!!

Then WoW came out.  I started to play and it was very apparent to me that this game is my alcohol.  I can not put it down.  I think about it all the time, I talk about it all the time EVEN TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T PLAY!!!!  I didn't realize how bad it got until my husband started to play.  I realized then that if he and I ever were to have children, WoW would have to go away.  Note, I did not say video gaming, I said WoW.  And honestly probably any other MMO.

I am happy here and at the moment, I am not hurting anyone (other then myself), neglecting anyone (other then my husband), or whatnot.  However, I know myself and I know how people with this disease (for I believe just like alcoholism, gambling addiction, drug addiction and eating disorders, this is a disease) lie to themselves that you can do it just a little.  No one will notice.  (To have full disclaimer, I am in a 12 step program myself.  However, I won't tell you which one.  But it is helping me.)

However, as I said in a comment to Mr. Amateur, the husband and I have always agreed that if I got pregnant, we would stop playing.  All for the above reasons I've mentioned.  I remember being snapped at by my drunken Grandmother, I don't want to be the mother that snaps at you while she's raiding/leveling/farming or the mother whose face you only see when she turns around to scowl at you because ZOMG you are disturbing her raiding.

Now, this being said, I have played in the past and currently play with parents whose first duties have always been to their children.  I know that I have never, in the past 7 years ever thought to myself "Geez, where are those kids and who is taking care of them?"  This is not about that.  We've all seen the bloggers retiring from WoW because they are having children or their children are growing up.  That is not about that either.

At this point in my life, I am looking at a life of no children (seriously, who would want to pass on my genetic code?).  So this is a moot point.  But, I love children (not for lunch/dinner) and I like to day dream sometimes.  "What if ...."  I don't play it alot anymore since the outlook is pretty bleak for that.

Now, if you are a parent who plays WoW or any other MMO, I am NOT calling you neglectful or lazy or stupid or whatever you think I'm saying.  I honestly don't even have an opinion on what the average parent does with their spare time.  I know that being a parent is a really hard job and I want to thank you for taking it on.  Earthmother knows I can't do it right now!  This is just what I would do, as I know myself.

So, thank you for reading.  And have a good night.

Round 4 - The Trophy Tabard of the Illidari

The judges threw us all for a loop this time, requiring that we transmog was is probably the ugliest thing in the game.  (This is not to say I don't have one, I do, on my main.)  However, I wanted to do a transmog for my warrior, so here is what I came up with!

As this is a tabard from the Illidari, I thought it would be fitting if I made this a more 'demon' transmog.  Hence the glowing green and demon helm.  What I used was:

Helm - Warhelm of the Champion - This is a drop from Thorim in Ulduar 25.
Shoulders - Brutal Gladiator's Plate Shoulders (Warrior) from level 70 PVP.  (My blood elf is a warrior.)
Cloak - Shroud of the Highborne from Illidan in Black Temple.
Chest - Doomplate Chestguard from Harbringer Skyriss in The Arcatraz either normal or heroic.
Gloves - Refitted Bruiser Gauntlets which from a quest in Dustwallow Marsh.
Belt - Joseph's Spare Belt which is from a quest in the Eastern Plaguelands.
Legs - Augustus' Legguards which is also from a quest in Eastern Plaguelands.
Boots - Vicious Gladiator's Warboots of Cruelty which are level 85 PVP boots for plate classes.
Weapon - Torn-Heart Axe of Battle which is a quest reward from a quest in Shadowmoon Valley.

Onto Round 4 and another heroic kill ...

The results for Mog Madness round 3 went up late on Saturday night and JD let me know before he went to bed that the post should be up within an hour.  (Helps to have one of the organizers in your guild!!)  So I opened up his blog and kept F5-ing it until the desired post popped up.  (His son is adorable and I stared at him for like an hour that night.)

There was some fierce competition and I am honored to say I got 2nd place in this round!  Yay!  For this next round we have to use the Tabard of the Illidari (either green or purple) to put something together.  (Ugliest tabard EVER!)  I have a outfit mostly put together for the purple one.  I'm gonna see if I can put together one for the green one and see how it looks and then decide between those two.

During all this planning and thinking, we downed some bosses in Dragon Soul on Saturday evening.  We did our usual heroic Morchok, then moved onto regular Warlord (since heroic makes me want to weep) and THEN did heroic Yor'sahj.  It was one of those times that we were like "Hey, let's make a few shots at this and then we can just move on and head to Firelands."  I think we did 3 or 4 attempts before it just jelled and bam, first kill.  So now we're 3/8 in Heroic DS!

We did the first 4 bosses in DS on Saturday and then moved to Firelands.  We were helping our resto shaman to get the first part of the staff done, the part where you drop all those things under the bosses feet or whatnot.  So we did that and then helped him get the first part of the staff.  After we did that, we cleared a ton of trash and did Shannox's achievement, Bucket List.  This leaves us with 3 achievements to go for our pretty birdy from Firelands, 2 heroic kills that I know we'll get and Alysrazor's stupid achievement.

Other then that, I didn't log into the beta all weekend, though my husband did.  I worked on my blood elf warrior for a bit, did some actual real life house things (like helped put up a fence in the back yard) and made a ton of food for Easter/my mother in law's birthday lunch.  And while this isn't WoW related, I love to cook so here are the recipes I used for the things I made:

Gluten Free Angel Food Cake (was amazing and everyone loved it and what it was made into)
Strawberry Lemon Trifle (took angel food cake and I can't have gluten so I had to make it myself)
Avocado Deviled Eggs (everyone loved these but I hate hard boiled eggs and I'm never making these again!)
Baked Spasanga (this was AMAZING and everyone ate mostly this instead of the 'normal' food.  I made it with corn noodles so it would be gluten free.  In a HUGE dish, I only had 3 servings left over.  Every single person had some.  So 7 adults and 2 small children (2 and 4).)

So yeah.  I hope everyone had a good weekend.  I know I did.  I also got to play my warrior for a bit and she did her 1st dungeon with guildies and also got to level 55!!  Woo!!!

Mog Madness - Mail - Round 3

Yay, it's Round 3!  The goal was to use the Wavemender's Mantle.  Which according to my best friend, who has longed for those shoulders since BC, they don't exist.  But still, I made a valiant effort to get it to drop off my least favorite boss in Black Temple.  (AKA, I ran it on Monday night and I ran it tonight.)  It never dropped, so you get a screenshot series from MogIt.

My story for this transmog is that my shaman heard that Hagara went from being a shaman to being a mage.  So, she found her best lightening colored outfit, threw some water accents on and went in for training.  She couldn't pass the initial tests, as she's not a mindless Twilight Cultist.

So, here we have Kaiakalama, formerly Rokaria.

For her head - I used Techie's Hard Hat which I'm actually using right now as a head piece since I haven't played her since she dinged 85.  This is a quest reward from Twilight Highlands.
For her shoulders - We have the required the Wavemender's Mantle.  This in Black Temple of the Reliquary of Souls.
Her back is the Cloak of Malice, which is a drop off Grand Warlock Nethekurse in Shattered Halls, normal.
Her chest piece is the Sundown Vest, which is a BOE green that drops off low level 80's mobs.
Hands are the Gutrip Gauntlets, these are a quest reward from Mount Hyjal.
The leggings are the Electrified Leggings which is a quest reward from a quest in Zul'Farrak.
Her boots are the Sabatons of the Graceful Spirit, which are the BOE epic, Dragon Soul, quality boots.
I used the Vicious Charscale Belt, which is a BOE that you can get made by a leatherworker.  It's a Cata recipe.
Her weapon is the Vicious Gladiator's Gavel, which is the PVP season 9 mace.
And finally, her shield is Tharon'ja's Aegis, which drops off the Prophet Tharon'ja in Drak'Tharon Keep.

I do want this transmog for my shaman now.  Must be all awesome!! :D

Passed on to Round 3, New Heroic Boss and a Shaman

I found out Sunday morning that I've been passed onto round 3 in Mog Madness.  Woo!  This time it was Towa, my fellow resto druid healer in my guild that told me.  Except I'd already looked at the webpage before I logged on!  HAHA!  I remembered this week!!

So, since there wasn't anything up for the round 3 transmog requirements, I did a few HoT runs on my mage and bitched to my husband that I can't downgrade valor points to justice points.  (This has been an ongoing thorn in my side for about a week now.)  Then the round 3 requirements came out and ugh, they required a shaman.  Towa offered her shaman for me to transmog but that would be hard since she's about 3 hours before me so we can't really do anything together.  I have my 85 shaman back on my old server and a new baby shaman here, so I was torn.

I love actually gathering the gear so I can pose and have companion pets and all that.  Plus put myself in a location that fits the outfit.  So I was talking to the husband about this, as well as my guild, and husband says "Why don't you just transfer her over?"  I blinked a couple of times because this didn't even occur to me.  I was thinking that I'd have to go back to my old server where I don't have any monetary resources and would have to beg, borrow or steal to get what I need.  And while I know my best friends would assist, I don't want to impose on them.

So, Rokaria on Madoran is now Kaiakalama on Blade's Edge.  A very poorly geared elemental shaman.  However, I did use up those extra valor points on bracers and boots for her!  Woo!

And, I'll have you know that I already have all but 2 pieces for my transmog.  I hope I'm unique!!  Those shoulders are going to be the death of me!

In raiding news, Myth downed Heroic Ultraxion last night on our 'last attempt'.  Woo!  Yay us!  I was so proud of us.  It felt so good.  And then, when Madness of Deathwing died, a Maw dropped and BAM!  Karegina is now the proud owner of a Maw!  That made me really happy as well.

I've had this post sitting in my edit pile since the 2nd, so I suppose I should just publish it before it's out of date.  My paying job is insane and I'm finishing this up on my 30 minute lunch break.  Man.  I need a vacation!!

Bastion of Twilight, Betas and Transmog!

I've had a very full week.  I do know that it's Friday but when you consider that most of my playing these days seems to takes place on Saturday night and Sunday, that's pretty impressive.

I have already talked about my transmogging for Round 2 of Mog Madness so I'll not touch on that again.  That took up Sunday before raid and Monday after work.  Then on Tuesday, I tried to do some levels on my warrior but I think I ended up sitting around reading blogs.  I don't think I actually did anything but I know I felt like I was busy.

However, Wednesday was AWESOME!  I went on a heroic Bastion of Twilight run with my husband and a ton of people from Twitter.  It was spearheaded by Oestrus at The Stories of O, whom I've always liked due to her blog name.  I didn't say that.  Shh.  We got heroic Halfus Wrymbreaker down and then did a few tries on the Twins but ended up switching to normal and powering through so we could get down Heroic Cho'gal.  We spent some time pounding away at him and while we didn't manage to down him (THIS WEEK) we'll be heading back in next week to beat at him some more and then ... Sinestra!

Thanks Oestrus and all the Twitter peeps that went!!  Which are the following: @notfurioso @Hempia @Suzushiiro @Gastothetroph @BigPappa707 @gotowell & @tyben.  And my husband, who sucks and isn't on Twitter.

Then, last night a new round of beta invites were sent out and I managed to score one.  I started a download when I got home, but our connection is really bad right now due to the weather.  (We're in flood stage here again.  The area got 4+ inches of rain in 24 hours and it won't stop raining until Monday.)  I managed to finish the download today, got my druid copied over and then stared at the Panda creation screen until I had to leave for work.

I like the way they have changed the creation screen!  That looks awesome.  And that's my first impression of the beta.

As far as more transmog, I made my blood elf warrior a future transmog set.  It's pretty awesome.  I'll not post it, she has to go gather it first!!

Now, time to work in a office that has termites everywhere, a flooded parking lot, a waterfall outside my door and a toilet that's backed up.  Stupid slum-lord landlord!!

Mog Madness - Hunters and Druids - Round 2

As I mentioned earlier, I have made it to the 2nd round, the hunter and druid round.  We have to use either Glaive of the Pit or Marrowstrike.  I was able to pick up the Glaive off Mags my first shot, so yay there!

So, here's a pretty picture of Karegina, my main, dressed up pretty!  I chose to go with the Glaive of the Pit instead of Marrowstrike because of the fire-y effect on the weapon.  I also took the gold on the polearm and used that to put together the accents on the below outfit.  I also used the blue on the polearm as a base color for the general overall outfit.  And I loved the druid-ish markings on the kilt and gloves, so this just fell together.

My items that I'm using are the following:

Head - Ragefury Eyepatch - It's off Hurley Blackbreath in Blackrock Depths.  I picked this up eons ago.  So it was already in my bank!

Shoulders - Splinthide Shoulders - This is off Eviscerator in Blackrock Depths as well.  However, he's one of the bosses in the Ring of Law, which means he has a CHANCE to spawn and then a CHANCE to drop the loot, suck.

Back - Spore-Soaked Vaneer - I got this off Quagmirran in Slave Pens (normal).  That took me like 5 or 6 tries I think.

Chest - Tunic of the Nightwatcher - This comes from Swamplord Musel'ek in The Underbog (normal).

Bracers - Not shown so N/A

Hands - Starlight Gauntlets - Luckily, this came from Hungarfen who is also in The Underbog (normal).

Belt - Belt of the Deep - This is a quest from Zul'farrak, "A Fool's Errand".

Legs - Kilt of the Night Strider - And this comes from Broggok in The Blood Furnace (normal). 

Here are a couple more pictures for full around views:

Round 1 Passed and Various other sundries

I have determined my new favorite way of logging in.  Logging into my guild and seeing "Congrats on making it to round 2 Kare!" from JD of the Amateur Azerothian.  He happens to be in my guild and is an awesome guy (and I'm not just saying that because he's a judge!).  So I ran over to his round 1 finalists post and yup!  There I am!  I was number 12.  Yay!

So, I dug around yesterday morning and came up with an outfit for round 2 which I'm now farming.  (I actually have all pieces but 1, the shoulders.  Those are going to be a PAIN.)  I even got the weapon we're basing it off 1st try.  Woot woot!  I do know I can use a mogging program to do this but I'm going to try to get the outfits together instead.  More fun for me that way :D

This weekend, we took a couple swings at H Ultraxion.  Not nearly as annoying as H Warlord Z.  That makes me want to curl up in a fetal position and cry.  I felt bad because my head wasn't in the game.  I kept trying to focus but my attention was immediately drawn to something else.  And I kept having a hard time with in game depth perception.  When we were doing the Hour of Twilight heroics I was really screwing up left and right.  When I was mage-ing it up, my DPS was really awful.  When I was healing, I just kept spamming heals because I couldn't handle the way things were moving.

It got worse when we went to do Firelands on Sunday.  Drives me crazy when I can't tell where things are.  Go go, standing in the fire!  I spent all day Sunday working on either my warrior's blacksmithing or farming for my round 2 transmog set.  (Because I'm on a new server and ZOMG I NEED CRAFTERS.  Or something OCD like that.)  My warrior's blacksmithing is at 200 right now, so yay.  I can go back out and start leveling again.  She's level 50 now.  I don't know where she was when I left her.  (EDIT: Apparently 48.)

Anyway.  I realized I didn't cap my guild exp last week so now I'm behind the husband.  :( Booooo.  I did get capped last night so yay there.  Halfway to exalted (I think).

And now, I must get to work.  It's been quiet the last few days.  Which is very nice but I think it's going to pick up now.  So, I will leave you with a picture of my office cat.  Who was asleep but the second I started moving around did this:

Happy Monday!

Mog Madness - The Cloth Round! aka Round 1, FIGHT!

In case you haven't heard, there's a little Mogging contest going on.  The first round ends the 23rd (so tomorrow) and I'm finally getting my shit together for a submission.  To find out more, you can check out:

http://arcanewordsmith.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/mog-madness-is-here/
http://tomeoftheancient.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/let-the-mog-madness-begin/
http://effysrponwyrmrestaccord.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/introducing-mog-madness/

For the judge's consideration, I have put together a little outfit I call 'Flames'.

My mage, Annanda, is a fire mage.  I am not a very GOOD fire mage, but goddamnit, she's a fire mage.  When she was undead, she was a frost mage, but now that she's a goblin, it's fire all the way baby.

I have a couple different screenshots, but they are all of the same outfit.  I wanted to take a set of screenshots of her in a fire-y environment and then another of her somewhere we can make out the details of her outfit.

Here, we have Annanda modeling for us in the magma fields of the Sulfurion Spire in Mt Hyjal.  She wears stately red, as this is the color of her preferred element.  (If she could tame Rag and lead him around, she probably would!!)

The set is as follows:

Head: Circle of Flame   Epic that drops off Ambassador Flamelash in Blackrock Depths.
Shoulders: Mantle of Tirisfal   Tier that drops off Void Reaver in Tempest Keep (I got these, and my alternate shoulders to both drop today. Wow!)
Back: Cape of the Fire Salamander  Also drops off Ambassador Flamelash in Blackrock Depths (I got 4 of these while farming for my hat!)
Chest: Robe of Evocation  Drops off Jergosh the Invoker in Ragefire Chasm (so easy to farm as Horde, Sorry Alliance!!)
Wrist: Bindings of Raging Fire  Drops off Selin Fireheart in normal Magister's Terrace, I was farming the belt (see below) and I got like 3 of these, didn't realize they were the same design/color as the other ones I wanted, was very nice to have 'appear'.
Hands: Cindercloth Gloves  As I don't have my tailor on my new server, I got one of my guildies (Hi Goro!) to make this for me!  It's a tailoring pattern!
Belt: Cord of Reconstruction  Drop off Kael'thas in normal Magister's Terrace. I finally got this to drop today!
Legs (which you can't see): Trousers of the Astromancer  Drops off High Astromancer Solarian in Tempist Keep
Feet: Coldwraith Boots  This is a BOE green you can get off the AH.
Weapon: Anything with Power Infusion because it glows red sometimes.  (Seriously)
Offhand: Frostbridge Orb BOE that drops Heroic Occulus.  I got like 2 in 3 runs I did in there!!

Pet: Phoenix Hatching from Magister's Terrace.  She was drawn to me because I like fire!!  (Her name is Ember!)

And here are some normal pictures, without fire in the background.

This is something I was going to post anyway, so I'm excited that I can put it towards this!!  Also, I totally got 3 pieces of this all finished up tonight, just in time!!!

A Temporary Tauren Druid Transmog ...

I have been working on a good transmog set for my druid ever since I got my priest all completed.  I'm not done (yet) with the set I'm using (I'm missing the shoulders).  But this is what I've got so far.

Here we have Karegina modeling the very latest in Moonglade fashion.  As you can see, the green of the outfit sets off her reddish brown fur very nicely.

Her hat is the Guise of the Tidal Lurker.  It drops off High Warlord Naj'entus in Black Temple (AKA the first boss).  I picked it up a long time ago before transmog was even talked about.

Her current shoulders are Spaulders of Eternity.  They come from the Minor Cache of the Aspects at the end of Heroic Well of Eternity.  The shoulders I will eventually replace those with are the Veil of Turning Leaves off High Nethermancer Zerevor in Black Temple (part of the Illidari Council).

The cloak is the Mok'Nathal Wildercloak.  It's from regular Hellfire Ramparts, in the chest that spawns when you kill Nazan and Vazruden.

The chest is a Gypsy Tunic.  I found it on the AH for like 2 gold.  Thanks AH!!  It also drops off low level rares and mid-teens mobs.

The gloves are Shardtooth Gloves, which are from a quest in Winterspring.  You actually don't have to start the zone, you can go straight to the camp with this questline!  (It's the quest line for the bears at the 'BBQ pit'.)

The belt is the Fireplume Girdle.  You buy this from the Molten Front vendors.  You have to have the blacksmith, Damek Bloombeard, unlocked.

The kilt is the Giant-Friend Kilt.  It's a rep item you buy from Sons of Hodir (from Wrath).  (It's less then 40 gold.)

Then, I went out to find a green off-hand and mace to match.  And this is what I came up with!

Weapon: Main Hand Mace: Queen's Insignia.  Got it off the AH for like 4 gold.  It drops off high 60's and elite 70's mobs (mostly in dungeons/raids from what I see).

Offhand: Gaea's Scepter  Also got this form the AH for about 5 gold.  You can farm it off low 50's mobs in Winterspring, Silithius and Un'goro Crater.

And eventually, what this will look like with the correct shoulders:

Sexy isn't she?  Moooooooo.

Transmog: The Undead Rogue Edition

Back before a dragon tied to destroy the world, back before the Lich King was raging, we spent our time in OUTER SPACE!!  And during this time, I met someone who became really near to my heart.  I met her through one of my best friends.  He had a tendency to pick up random people (usually female) and introduce them to our circle of friends.  Out of all of them, I think this particular person has taken up more of my thoughts then any of the rest of them.  And she never even raided!!

She is an undead rogue and I love her.  When we server transferred, I mentioned her a few times (as my one regret was that I was leaving her).  Anyway, enough sappy stuff (Valentine's day WAS yesterday!!).  What this post is about is the transmog outfit she asked me to put together for her.

She asked for a couple things.  Something that looked 'rogue-ish' and not too 'cute', as she is undead and you can see her elbows and knees.  I came up with the above outfit.

The outfit I set out to make was completely different then this one.  However, when I found the helm, I built this set around that.  So, let's get down to the names and places these are from, shall we?

The head is the Helm of Assassination. Drops off Harbinger Skyriss in the Arcatraz.

The shoulders are Nightshade Spaulders. They're a BOE green that you an get off any mid to high 50's mob!

The cloak is Redoubt Cloak.  You have to do a tribute run in Dire Maul to get it!

The chest is the Eviscerator's Chestguard.  It's a LW-ing BOE blue from Wrath of the Lich King.  

The bracers are the Plague-Infected Bracers. This are from the last boss in Heroic Culling.

The hands are Iceborne Gloves.  It's a LW-ing BOE green from Wrath.  

The belt is the Death-Warmed Belt.  It's a LW-ing BOE purple from Wrath.   (I chose this because there was a skull on it!!)

The pants are Dark Leather Pants. Low level LW-ing BOE green.  You will probably find this on the AH for
cheap.

The boots are Riplash Boots.  This is a low Wrath levels (68-72) BOE green.  Drops off a lot of mobs mostly in Dragonblight, Howling Fjord and Boring Tundra!

The weapons are something extra that I thought looked cool.  She has 2 daggers, a main hand and an offhand.  As a result, you get these ones! (These are from the first step in the legendary quest line.)

Main Hand - Jaded Crystal Dagger  Drops of Selin Fireheart in Herioc Magisters Terrace!

Off Hand - Searing Sunblade You buy it from G'eras in Shattrath!


I don't have actual pictures of her in this outfit, but I did ask her if I could share this with people and she said yes!  And that's today's Transmog post!

The First Raid (tm)

Last night was husband's and my first raid with our new guild.  It went really well.  However, I kept asking husband if he wanted me to battle ress someone and he kept telling that he's not raid leader.  Took me a couple of those before I stopped asking.  Old habits and all.  We got a couple achievements on the first two bosses.  (Don't Stand So Close to Me and Taste the Rainbow).  3 of us got Taste the Rainbow since we already had the 'hard' one (IE Yellow/Purple).  It was awesome.

The raid leader/guild leader kept swapping people and out for each fight depending on who needed what of that boss.  I think the only people who didn't get sat was myself and husband.  It was alot of fun.  We tried for a couple more achievements but if we didn't get them within 2-4 shots, we moved on.  We made it through Spine and it was fun.  Spine was stressful for me since I had only seen it once but not downed it (no, not even on LFR).  But we one shot it and moved onto Madness.  Which is a messed up fight so far.  I'll get more exposure to it and figure it out though!!

I went in there with 4 piece tier 12, and was given my tier gloves and tier leggings.  So now I'm 2 piece tier 13 and 2 piece tier 12.  Woot!  After raid, the guild leader had his officers make husband and I the crafted bracers (which are pretty much BIS for both of us I think).  So yay!

Honestly, I love my purples and I love upgrades but it was so nice to see new fights.  Everyone was nice and  business-like but also silly too.  But not to the distraction of the raid.  It was interesting to me.  I haven't raided as 'just a healer' or 'just a tank' since Kara days.  Rather refreshing.

I also found an Alliance lantern (the Lunar Lantern) on the neutral AH for 4000 gold bid, 5500 buyout.  I threw a bid on there and 2 days later it arrived in my mail box.  Yay!  Pretty happy about that!  I do miss my horde of miners, herbalists, skinners and all the crafters I had painstakenly leveled up.  (My warrior is a miner/skinner but I'm probably going to drop the skinning for something else. Maybe inscription!!)

For my 2012 in 2012, since I moved to a new server, I have the following things that I'm doing.

I have a new undead hunter (level 11), a new blood elf warrior (level 24), and a orc mage (level 8).  I actually have a ton of level 1's around too but I'm not going to count them.  My Alliance shaman got to level 63 recently. So, that puts my total up to 1861 levels.  And since I'm 'rerolling' on a new server, I've remade a hunter and warrior.  I also have a goblin warlock but I've not started leveling her yet.  This will get me 3 of the my last classes for my 10 to 85.  (My death knight is 1 level away, I'm going to go back to my old server and get her that last level.)

And lastly, @SerenitySaz has put together a Twitter based RealId using old raid running forum for people.  And @vitaemachina has put up a public Mumble server for people to use while running things.  I haven't signed up yet myself (because I'm amazingly shy about things like this) but it's an interesting concept!  Do it!!

Oh. Damnit, I just remembered.  I am working on a rogue transmog set for my old rogue guildie that I have mentioned before.  She's undead and I've got the basics together.  I just need to crank it out!!!

Sexy Plate Pirate Outfit - by my beloved husband

My husband plays a blood elf female.  In fact, all of his characters are females, with the exception of his druid, his death knight and his warlock.  He says he'd much rather look at a pretty behind for the time that he's playing then anything else.  So, when transmog came out, he started building a set for his paladin.

Note, none of these items are specific for paladins.  They are all plate and are not Horde specific.  Aka, you can slut up a warrior just as well!

The base for this set is the Bloodscale set from Outlands.  He didn't keep good notes (as he didn't know I'd write a post about it) so all he can tell me is he farmed these items up off the AH and out of Blood Furnace (both normal and heroic).

For the legs, you will want the Bloodscale Legguards.
For the boots, you will want Bloodscale Sabatons.
For the chest, you will want Bloodscale Breastplate.
For the hands, you will want Bloodscale Gauntlets.

Now, for the other pieces ...

The shoulders are the Pauldrons of Swift Retribution.  They drop off Nexus-Prince Shaffar in Heroic Mana Tombs.  He got them the first try.  He says they have a 18% drop rate.

The belt (aka 'belly chain') is the Belt of the Fallen Emperor.  This drops in AQ40 from Emperor Vek'nilash, aka one of the Twins.  He also lucked out here and got it the first try.

The head piece (aka the eye patch) is the Crimson Beholder Eye.  This is a drop off a rare called Collidus theWarp-Watcher in Shadowmoon Valley.  This is a beholder type mob (go figure).

The shield is the Shield of the Wayward Footman.  This is a random blue BOE.  It drops off mid-60's mobs.  J found it on the AH apparently.  He tried to farm it from Old Hillsbrad Foothills (normal and heroic).

Now. You will note there isn't a picture of the back.  This is because J believes that melee characters should not have a cloak, as it's just something someone can grab onto in the heat of battle.

For a weapon to go with this, you can use something like Bloodskull Destroyer or Syphon of the Nathrezim.  Both of these are maces however, and he doesn't usually use them.  And if you are a holy pally, get Tempest of Chaos.  He can't use that since it's a 'main hand' weapon.  One a 'one hand' weapon.  (This is why there isn't a weapon transmog link for him.  He didn't transmog it!)

And Cynwise, is this enough skin for you?