Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer...

My toons went on a kissing spree and Eld was the first to get lucky with the sprig of Fresh Holly... So, on the way to Nagrand to run the Circle of Blood quest, Eld rode a reindeer with sparkly bits behind...



Eld has been running quests in Shadowmoon Valley and while killing some water elementals with Naraa's help, the pattern for Ragesteel Shoulders dropped. It looks like it's something worth making for my grinding set, but the urgency is not there... When I continue my blacksmith grinding, I'll make one of those. Till then, tanking gear takes priority...

I also finally got round to planning and actually training my pets properly. Zeph is now a grinding/PvE pet and Frostie is the PvP pet... It was also during this time to my horror that I have yet to learn Prowl 3... So off to STV I went, tamed a Jaguero Stalker, who also came with Cower 5 (yeah....) and quite fortunately, learnt the skill almost immediately.

Ho Ho Ho

The Christmas event has started in Azeroth.

Unfortunately, doesn't look like there is anything new in the quests, so I'll probably skip those.

But, my tailors, leatherworker and cooks with high enough levels all receive patterns/recipes in the mail. The leatherworking boots and food are not that exciting, and the dress looks drab on males... BUT, put them onto the females, esp the blood elves... I'll let you decide for yourself...

BrewingFest

Last night was a wash-out. The barking quest was broken... So I pretty much figured on giving up on it.

However, Blue posted that it's been fixed but they've given up on the Dark Iron Dwarf invasion thing. In the meantime, they are increasing the reward for the barking quest to 40 tickets and 3 tickets per turn-in of the keg! Hmmm, some hope? :)

Brewfest

This started yesterday and I was running around trying out the festivities...

Rather interesting, but to get the number of tickets for some of the more interesting rewards will require repeating some rather tedious things (like the racing rams) which will get boring after awhile... Oh well, no choice.

I figure you can safely get the 15 tickets for the daily barking quest. The racing rams need some practise but I am averaging 20 or so tickets for 35 tickets per day. Brewfest lasts for 14 days (2 weeks) so that's about 490 tickets. If I want to get the ram, I'm going to need to camp the dwarf invasion a lot more or find somewhere to do another run (it resets every 12 hours).

Damn...

More Festivities

Just as the (very disappointing) Harvest Festival ends, Brewfest begins. Based on the Oktoberfest, it looks like one big booze-fest... Interestingly, some of the rewards available will persist after the event which is always something nice.

One item is a mount which looks fairly similar to the Rams the dwarves get. Frankly, that looks pretty dumb but maybe I'll get it just for laughs... Maybe Gren, since Raptors are just as ugly...

For Shevane, probably get the dress since she is my look pretty gal...

When Halloween comes about, Hallow's End will be here. Usually good for Bobbing Apples (uber food) and party tricks, there is a nice boss being implemented in Scarlet Monastary. Based on the info so far, doesn't look like he's too tough or anything but his loot table includes some really nice drops (like a +35 dmg ring!). Definitely worth getting the guys together to farm this dude.

Bite and Claw

Finally peeked at my combat log last night and I realised that after the initial dump where all the abilities, Dash, Growl, Bite and Claw went off, my pet would not Bite again for the duration of the fight. Claw was going off and Growl also done, but Bite was not there. Leads me to thinking that perhaps training Claw is sufficient and the points can be better spent elsewhere.

Not much has been happening. I've been grinding my Hunter's Consortium Rep and collecting her gear. I figured on trying for the rifle. Warlock comes out for the odd instance run. I've also started grinding my Warrior to 70... So many things to do, so little time...

On the downside, Blizz has not fixed the bug which doesn't allow Blood Elves to finish the Harvest quest. Looks like won't be getting free bread till next year...

Chinese New Year!

Another festival, another pretty dress... :)

On a seperate note, finally Honoured with the Scryers on my lock. No biggie but now have access to the Blue Spellthread.

Valentine's Day

The V day event has started and it's time to do the silly things once again...

I'm still thinking of getting the little cupid goblin pet for one of my toons (probably Gren the hunter) but requires luck... Fortunately, I did get the black dress and of course it looks gorgeous on my Blood Elf.

Previously, I always thought the Chinese New Year cheongsum looks nicer mainly because it did cover up a lot of the bones and rotting flesh for the undead. Now, I'm not so sure. When the CNY event is up, I'll get it and then I can compare...