Milly Bays

Projects

I had promised that this blog would not only be able my random babblings and adventures, but also about my many projects. So here's a bit of a teaser of what I will be working on while I'm back in the world where internet ceases to exist, and what you may possibly come to expect sometime in the next month or two.

First off is Project OA. I'll leave it in it's cryptic form for right now, since it is faaaaarrr from finished. This was the project that I had originally intended on getting the rest of my material for during this past week, but sadly due to a CPU issue on the computer I normally use for WoW, I got zero of the screen shots needed to complete this rather large, four part video project. Perhaps if the computer gets repaired this project will be able to be completed prior to the Cataclysm release date (which was the intent), but if not, this particular project may see a full revamp/re-imagining or will just be scrapped.

Next up, I'd like you to meet Jenesee. I will soon be starting a project that revolves completely around her, but as to what that project really is...I'm going to be leaving you in the dark on that one till I launch the start of it ;)

I'll also be starting up a few minor writing projects over the next few weeks, though they probably won't be WoW related, thus a bit out of place here in this particular blog. If it's anything relevant though, I'll be sure to share it.

That's about it for this particular update. Nothing was accomplished in game today, other then some good ol' sitting around jabbering with friends. Now it's time to hit the road, get "home", and get to work on some of these projects. More hopefully in a week or two!

Cata Pets!!

Oh oh oh! I know I just did a post, but I just hopped over to MMO-Champion and they had new pets listed!!! These are pets that are unlocked via guild achievements.

Amadillo Pup - reward for Critter Killer Squad (50,000 critters killed)

Dark Phoenix - reward for United Nations (55 exalted reputations)

Guild Herald - reward for Saving for a Rainy Day (100,000 gold from creatures)

Guild Page - reward for Horde/Alliance Slayer (something to do with slaying so many of each of the opposing factions races)

Pebble - reward for Rock Lover (Complete the Lost in the Deeps daily quest in Deepholm 10 times)

Oh man, I'm posting as I'm reading though this list...it's HUGE!!! Check out more here.

I'm ECSTATIC!!! I'm loving the elementals!!! I absolutely adore my little fire elemental that I already have (I missed out on the Frigid Frostling this year), and I'm so very much looking forward to adding all these new little guys to my collection!!

Between all these new little guys, the new mounts, new achievements, trying to get at least two of my 80s to 85 (the shaman and druid will most likely be back to back...I won't be able to support leveling both of the shaman's professions without the income of the druid), hopefully getting into a new guild, and still unsure as to if I'll have a working computer, let alone a connection to the online world...man, it may be spring before I step foot into a raid again. So many new things to see and do! So very very little time. December 7th seems so far away, yet so dreadfully close (depending on which of the two spectrums I'm looking from at the moment).

Needless to say, I am very much excited to see what Cataclysm has in store for us!!

Green + Blue = Epic

First off, I'd like to share some funnies, and then we shall get into what I really want to babble about.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Alamo

Storng cat durid is haf no ninervate ok? This link makes your head hurt a bit, but it's oh so funny, and oh so true imo : P

http://www.wowwiki.com/Server:Tichondrius_US/Halbrium

This PvP guide is an old favorite of mine. It's funny lines have managed to stick in my head like transparent glue for the better part of this past year.



H'okay! Now that the hilarity has ceased, down to the epicness!!!!1!!11

K, so my priest friend and I were working on our Scepter quest line, correct? Well, we finished our Green portion of said quest line, and let me just say....the fight against Eranikus was pretty famazing. I ended up tanking him though because little level 73 Remulos didn't stand a chance in keeping aggro off me. Towards the end I was taking about 3k nature damage per tick, but between my healing (both through wolves when they were up, and my maelstorm heals), the healing of my priesty friend (bubble/mending/whatever else she threw at me), and eventually Tyrande, the slow killing of Eranikus wasn't too bad. A tad chaotic, but all in all an amazing encounter. It was really nice to be able to free Eranikus, as opposed to toting around his poor tortured soul in a trinket.

 Please excuse the incredibly plain UI. The computer I've been playing on had a CPU death, and I've had to resort to a craptastically crappy laptop. I refer to it as my lagtop.

Once this was completed, we began our Blue portion of the quest line.

Before I go any further I must state that Azuregos is my fucking hero. Don't even bother to pardon my language there.

Ahem, as I was saying, we began the Blue part. A-mazing. We're probably only about half way done currently, but from what I've seen thus far, it's a hilarious goose chase at best. From Azuregos's hair-brained way of hiding his portion of the scepter (I gave it to a fish. Not just any fish, mortal. a minnow. This fish was a minnow. A very special minnow) to what we have to aquire to get said minnow (there's something that deals with a 500 pound chicken, a crazy gnome in love with all things velvet, a lonely mermaid, talking to afore mentioned gnome's ex b.f.f. that resides in a crate, to taking on someone named Dr. Weavil), to having to collect bits of a book so that we can read something in draconic...let's just say there are many laughs to be had. While there are several farming headaches (I can only imagine how painful this was at 60), this quest line as thus far been worth all the hours.

Unfortunately the plans to get through Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, and Onyxia to get our missing book pieces fell through for the day, so our journey is halted for a bit. Perhaps if it rains I can stay in town for a day longer!

Because todays plans fell through, I did some much needed farming. Rep farming that is! On my shaman I've managed to finish off my Consortium rep (fiiiinally, I've been slacking and this one took a few more hours than planned), thus getting the achievement for them and getting the 35 Exalted Reputations achievement. Later on I'll go pick up the Consortium's tabard and attempt to live in a few bgs to get the Stormpike Battle tabard so I can grab my 25 Tabards achievement. Have I ever mentioned how much I love achievements?

Today I also finished off my druid's Argent Dawn rep, and to top that one off, Baron dropped his mount!!! I was soooo very happy to have gotten that after only 23 kills. I also managed to pop the Stable Keeper achievement off of learning Baron's mount (epic, I know...I don't collect on my druid like I do the shaman). I'm very very excited to say the least. The downer of the day for the druid though was realizing on the last day of Brewfest that I wouldn't be able to get enough tokens to renew my Brew of the Month Club subscription. I'm one lousy brew away from that achievement *hangs head dejectively*. I'll have to remember that one for next year.

On the topic of mounts, this morning I managed to get a ram on my warlock's Brewfest bag. Kind of exciting, I guess. So this year's Brewfest total is: 4 rams (1 shaman, 2 hunter, 1 lock), 2 Tankard of Terrors (1 shaman, 1 lock), and 1 remote (lock). Fail RNG is fail. Guess I'm waiting yet another year for that illusive kodo :  /

That's all I have for the moment. Until more adventures are had, stay cool.

Adventures!

I'm loving my extended stay here thus far. How I miss the interwebs, the lovely sunsets of Azeroth, the killing of pixel monesters! This week has been semi busy WoW-wise, Brewfest aside. Earlier this week a dear friend of mine decided that she was going to do the Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest line, and that I should come along and do it too. Thus begun our journey. We collected bug bits, spoke to dragons, witnessed the Dragonflights fight against the masses of buggies....

                         (Hey! It's a guest appearance of my new pet, Oozey!)

Last night we had begun on our Charge of the Dragonflights portion of this incredibly long quest line, starting with the Green Dragonflight. Fairly simple to two woman this as enhance and shadow respectively, until we got to the Twilight Corrupter who resides in Duskwood. After having me getting MC'd twice by the bugger and nuking my poor priest friend, we figured out that he was a actually a raid boss. Needless to say that since it was getting late, we just gathered up our bits from the Hinterlands portal and parked our characters in Duskwood for the night. New tactics to be tried later today!

Ahn'Qiraji makes me really wish I had been around for Vanilla WoW raiding. Everything about this place just screams epic....from the questlines to the old stories about how bad the lag was rushing towards the gates. Now, I've managed to miss a lot of the big events that have taken place in WoW, and I'm sorely disappointed that I wasn't around to experience the things that literally changed Azeroth and how we interact with it. Soon Cataclysm will change everything for good once again. Everything familiar will become strangely new, and some of these remnants from "the good ol' days" may very well vanish. I'm really hoping to at least finish off this epic quest line before that happens though.

So much to experience, so little time!

More updates on this journey later!

Cata Mounts!

Oh man oh man, mmo-champion has some new mount models, aaaand I'm a bit in love. I'll just highlight the Alliance ones (sorry Horde!).

I lovelovelove the Spectral Steed. This mount will apparently be purchased from the Tol Barad quartermasters (you will also be able to purchase the Spectral Wolf mount from them).While it's still the typical horse model, the coloration is gorgeously done and I can't wait to see it in motion. I wonder if this guy shoots out stars like the Celestial Steed...

This is the new Alliance guild mount. Kind of a neat design, and I can't wait to see it merged with a guild tabard (which apparently will show up on the white area of the saddle, according to mmo-champion). Not quite sure if I'd ride this mount myself (a Draenei on a lion, that may look a bit strange), but I'll certainly be adding this to my collection. The new Horde guild mount is a scorpion, and I'm rather looking forward to seeing some Tauren sport that particular mount : P

These guys I saw just a few days ago and saved the image...buuuut I have completely forgot how these guys are acquired, if I had read anything about them. The Glory of the Cataclysm Raider is pretty straight forward, but as far as how we get our paws on the different variations, well...it's beyond me for the moment. These skins are verrrry slick though, I'm very much looking forward to getting these.

There's also been a few pet images released lately, and by far my favorite is of course the Dark Phoenix Hatchling. Apparently this little guy is acquired by exalting 55 reputations. I absolutely love the standard Phoenix, and you bet that I'm going to be working even harder on my reputations to be able to get this little guy.

Brazie's Sunflower, another new Cataclysm pet, has been released. Apparently it's aquired through a questline. I'll spare the image right now to save up some space, but it's kinda cute.

To check out the Sunflower pet and the Spectral Wolf, hop on over to mmo-champion.  If you want to check out the scorpian mount, I'm afraid you'll have to dig it up yourself : P

In Sazland my luck has seemed to change a bit. Finally today I manged to gnab the Swift Brewfest Ram on my Shaman, and even got a remote on the Warlock! I also broke down and purchased an Oozeling on the AH for Saz yesterday, and I must say that I'm kind of pretty much in love. Also to bring up my luck, I finally managed to get my hands on that neck piece I was after for my priest. All in all today has been a good WoW day. Sometimes it seems like a bit of complaining (ie getting frustration off your chest) somehow tends to help things turn for the better...if done sparingly. I'm still rather convinced that I have some seriously bad RNG luck, but thankfully it decided to get a bit better, if only for a day.

Back to geeking about the new Cataclysm mounts!!!

New Alchemist Recipe for Cata!

Vial of the Sands....I. Am. Stoked!

Orange Stone Drake - Youtube

I'm a huuuuuuge mount person...and now as an alchemist I can not only get a new mount, but TURN INTO ONE?!!? Awww yeah. This is one happy little shaman right here :D

Also, I haven't geeked about this guy, buuut I'm also very very very very excited about the Dark Phoenix mount!!

Dark Phoenix Mount - Youtube

Oh Cataclysm, you're making the collector in me happy.

References

Just a simple post with links to some machinima guides/how-to videos for future use. No, these are not by me, I'm just putting links here for future personal references : P

http://www.gamecreds.com/util/blog/lesson-wow-model-viewer-olibith-6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDh6c4dvyBU&feature=related
(This guy does several guides, covering everything from building a character to animation and lighting).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6pAg8ZmYPo&feature=related
(Using panoramic stills in video.)

http://wowdirectors.com/



Day 6 of Brewfest farming resulted in a second ram on the hunter and one Tankard o' Terror on the lock. The oozeling remains yet to be found as well.

To the Rant Mobile!

To be quite honest, during this latest internet visit I've been having some pretty serious RNG hate. Once again it is time for Brewfest, which certainly excites the collector in me. This is the third year now that I've experienced this holiday, and let's just say that despite the newly implemented holiday boss system (which has a huge thumbs up from me, no lie there), I'm feeling the QQ frustration. Thus far, while running five characters daily, five days in a row now, I have only had one mount drop. That's it. Of course it was the ram and it dropped for my hunter -_- It's incredibly heart breaking to hear of friends who got two or three mounts in one night (on their mains plus various alts), to be in group while someone opens their bags and receives the achievement, and to see that someone opened their bag to receive not one, but two of the weapons. I've been hearing of people getting the direbrew remote x3 on one character, while I have yet to see that in one of my bags (lovely item for alts, thankfully I have this item on my shaman already). I suppose I just feel the stress a bit more knowing that my online time is limited, and that any day now I'll have to go back home again.

To add to my RNG frustrations, ZG is continuing to hold out on both mounts. With the ever looming approach of Cataclysm, this has been stressing me out. I've been farming this place on and off for over two years now, and to have it taken away empty handed is just...harsh. Aside from the mount woes, I'll honestly miss farming the place. I've always loved the jungley atmosphere of STV and ZG, and beating up bosses in a solo fashion as a squishy shaman has just been a very happy thing for me. Zen-like if you will.

Further RNG hate has been coming from our little Disgusting Oozeling friend. I've been farming him on and off for a good while now, over various toons. I wish I would have kept some type of tally for this bugger. I'm now getting to the point now where getting bags no longer has that heart-a-flutter effect, more or less knowing that the bag in question is more than likely just filled with some silver and a plant. I had a small leap of hope today, seeing as though not one, but two bags dropped off of one ooze mob, but alas, nothing but junk...

To top it all off, the Arcane Loops of Anger, which I have been farming for for quite some time now on my priest, finally dropped today!....only to have it snatched by the horrible healer we had. If only I was able to raid to be able to gnab a 251 neck piece out of ICC, then this ordeal wouldn't have been so heartbreaking.

So yes, this is my RNG QQ for the month. I suppose this is the karma backlash for the one good weekened I had where I obtained the Karazhan mount, the baby raptor from ZG, and DFO on my warlock. All my good luck has been spent until half way through Cataclysm. *Hangs head*

/end QQ. Now that I feel a bit better, back to farming ^_^

Fall is here...

and while things are cooling off in many parts of the world (mine included), 'tis the season when things are most likely to pick up. Whether it be the the storms in the oceans in the world, or in the minds of all the students that are back in school, everything seems to be kicking into motion to help prevent premature winter hibernation. With out my typical internet hookup (by this I mean my IV), my usual constant contact to what is the digital world, I've been left feeling a bit out of sync. WoW-wise, while all my friends are in school, cooling their heels (or working like little ants, carrying far too great of a load) while waiting for the much anticipated Cataclysm expansion, I find myself longing to raid with the full force that I've missed out on in the past few months.

I'm hoping that soon I can return to the world of flashy spells and sexy pixels. In the mean time though, I've been teaching myself a few tricks that will hopefully come into use once a fore mentioned digital residency is reestablished. I've taken a great interest in the world of WoW Machinima, as well as a few other much more minor projects, and hope to be able to dive into that world very soon. Being offline gives a girl more than enough time to dream up all kinds of fun projects, and once the pieces fall into place on the tech end (hopefully soon) I plan on putting those little dream projects into motion.

Until the pieces fall into place though, I shall enjoy what little time I have to heroic/rep/mount/pet farm : P

Much love, Sazzy