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"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
Robert C. Gallagher

How To: Attain Jubjub

Today I'm going to explain how to obtain this little beer loving frog, since Darkmoon Faire is in town I figured I'd explain it while you can get him.

Jubjub is only attainable during Darkmoon Faire.

First you're gonna wanna take a trip to Black Rock Depths and head to the Grim Guzzler portion of the instance. Look for these mugs on the second floor of the pub area.

Grab about 3-4 Dark Iron Ale.

Now head to the Darkmoon Faire (currently located right outside of Thunder Bluff). Find the female orc named Morja.

Place one of the mugs at her feet and wait for a cute little frog to hop over. When the frog is near Morja she'll get a blue question mark over her head. Talk to her and give her a mug of the Ale. In return she will give you an egg which will hatch in a week. This will hatch [A Jubling's Tiny Home] Which is your new frog pet.

Congratulations! Feel free to e-mail me pictures of you and your frog to wrathofduck13@yahoo.com! I will post if you do!

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. "
H.G. Wells

Do You Care?

It's maintenance Tuesday so it's time to fill your head with useless trivia.

Time for a little Do You Care? (This is taken from one of my old favourite shows, Cheap Seats.)

Do you Care...

• That Loatheb is an anagram for Healbot, which is funny given Loatheb's abilities.

• That Female gnomes shout "Sega!" when they die, a reference to Sega's television ads.

• That when you kill Mr. Bigglesworth in Naxxramas, it hurts Kel'Thuzad's feelings.

• That you can get Swine Flu from the pigs in Borean Tundra.

• That supposedly there was a legendary neckpiece that dropped from Molten Core, but was quickly removed.

Now maintenance should be done now so off to play some WoW!!


"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. "
Mark Twain

Walker, Wintergrasp Ranger

The picture above depicts the last achievement I need to get the Wintergrasp Meta-Achievement. And this achievement is mildly stupid in my opinion. It asks for me to kill 10 people in various regions of Wintergrasp, some of which are just areas. Non-traffic areas. In a perfect world where world PvP exists, this achievement makes sense. Think of epic battles in various locales with beautiful backgrounds. That would be extraordinary. But realistically, no one hangs out in The Chilled Quagmire, and other places like this. So that is why this achievement is ridiculous.

That's me in action. And by "in action" I mean... sitting on my mount looking for Alliance gatherers/fishermen. How exciting!

That was not the only thing I accomplished today. I did knock out the heroic daily (Culling of Stratholme) with a terrible group. By terrible I mean if I wasn't healing I could have outdpsed everyone there. In fact, one pull I holy nova spammed and managed to outdps everyone, this is how I know I would've. *sigh* It's bad when a group can't even beat the 25 minute timer without anyone dying. Alas, the joys of pugging.

Until tomorrow...

"Common sense is not so common."
Voltaire

Motorcycle of Illogicality

That's right. Today I have defeated the Celestial Being. I leave the moon hanging, because I am a Starcaller. I have now officially killed Algalon before Yogg-Saron. Weird huh. I feel terrible about it because we would've gotten "He feeds on your tears" achievement (Killing Algalon without dying) if I hadn't Disconnected right as we pulled the first time. We downed it the next try. This made me feel terrible, but what could I have done? Nothing. The fight was a blast and I hope I get to kill him again!


Please note, that picture isn't too great. But after we downed him I disconnected for a long time and couldn't do a better picture! I will get better screenshots next time!

Yesterday I was very busy doing a lot of the weekend holiday Battleground of Eye of the Storm. That was very fun and I was joined by my friend Lazarin (Please note: I had absolutely nothing to do with his guild name)

It was a very fun night of battlegrounds as we continued to try to get the Eye of the Storm Assassin achievement. That took a while (We kept getting stuck with no Blood Elf Tower kills). The best part however was the amount of wins we got. Usually I expect to lose in Battlegrounds, and was very happy to see we dominated.

It was while we were fighting that I learned I can kick people out of my sidecar in my motorcycle whenever I want. So then it became a game for me to get random people to hop in the side car, and I found a certain gap in the map that I could jump over without killing myself. Then right over the gap I would kick them out of the sidecar. Evil? Hilarious? Absolutely. It was a blast.


The picture above demonstrates why the world of Azeroth is a great one. A world where this picture makes sense.

That's all for today... now go out and enjoy the Darkmoon Faire!

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. "
Mark Twain

Quickie!

Enough said.

Sleep time!

My apologies, Warug

This entry is dedicated to the hundreds of the Magram clan that have been slaughtered today. I'm sorry, Warug, but you just ran out of quests to give me. It was nothing personal.

Grinding rep is boring. Grinding old world rep that has noooo importance anymore, is even worse. This is just a taste of what my chat log looked like for an hour and a half straight!



If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I guess you've never quested in Desolace. This barren wasteland of gray sucks any fun out of your mood. As mentioned above I had to finish a quest chain with one of the warring factions, then regain rep with the faction that already hates me just to get FIVE more quests. One day Warug, I shall make my peace and become exalted with your people. Until that day... stay clear sir.

I didn't just grind away quests and reputation, as I took a moment to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

An obvious Kodak moment.
Moving on!

Through all this time of sitting around doing old world quests it leaves a lot of time to think. And my brain (once it gets past the obvious thought of "why the hell are you doing Loremaster") soon went to thoughts of WoW themed jokes I've heard from GM's and just various locations. Some of my favourites are...

~What do you call 40 paladins in a lake?
A bubble bath

~What do Noobs and Rogues have in common?
They both pick Locks.

~An orc with a parrot on his shoulder walks into a bar. The barkeeper is impressed and says "Wow that thing is great! Where did you find him?"
The parrot replies "Durotar, they're ALL over the place."

Those are three of my favourite jokes. I now am asking you all reading to send me your favourite WoW jokes, either through replying with a comment with your joke in it, or just e-mailing me your jokes at wrathofduck13@yahoo.com

Thanks for reading! If you like what you've read please follow me or leave feedback. If you have any questions about the game or about me please e-mail me at the address above.

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. "
Francois Fenelon

Boremaster

That's right.



61 quests to go.

My advice to anyone deciding they want to do Loremaster is...

Don't! As expected this is an incredible boring achievement that is very difficult. Right now I've taken a break from this epic journey for the sake of my own sanity. Kalimdor is rough, I'll be honest. If anyone reading this already has Loremaster, please give me some advice by commenting. 61 quests to go and I'm not too sure where to get them ><. Going through this experience makes me realize there are some really cool quests in the game. And make me realize even more so there are a lot of really crappy quests in the game. Sadly the crap outweighs the cool... but hey look at me and this mechanical ape!

Don't let that sleek fur exterior confuse you, that sexy thing isn't real. Today I've met the love of my life. This entry is for you, A-Me.

In raiding news! So far this week I have received two upgrades! This is incredible in one week, even more so considering my current rank in Bad Example. The two items I got were...

[Honed Fang of the Mystics]

and

[Pants of the Soothing Touch]

I'm very excited that we recleared all we accomplished last week (That being 5/5 Totc, 3/5 Totgc) Tonight we should be heading into Ulduar to try to attempt Hard Mode Mimiron and 3 Guardian Freya. Wish us luck!

Quick update today, but I do have a good one in store for tomorrow! Remember if you like what you read please follow me and leave feedback.

If you have any questions about me or the game please e-mail me at wrathofduck13@yahoo.com and I will answer them in an upcoming blog entry! Thanks again!

"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone."
Javan

How to: Attain a Sprite Darter Hatchling

It is Wednesday so that means I've prepared a guide to help you attain a very cool vanity item or achievement. Today I've decided to explain how to get this very snazzy companion. Keep in mind this guide is explaining how HORDE players can get this pet. Alliance players get this pet from a quest chain.

First off you're gonna want to head down to Camp Mojache in Feralas. You don't need anything other than you to get this pet. I've marked the location of where the Sprite Darter mobs are on the map below. Head over to the circled area. It's not too far of a ride.



Once in the circled area look for Sprite Darters.



Now you are going to want to kill these monster over and over until you get the Sprite Darter Egg to drop. I know, I know, grinding is terrible. The reason I made this a guide is because honestly the drop rate is not bad at all. I got this pet after about 15 minutes of killing, trust me it is not difficult or tedious.

And there you have it, that is how you get this unique pet. The Sprite Darter Hatchling is one of my favourites in the game.

Did you enjoy this guide? Did you go get your own after reading this? I want pictures of you and your new Sprite Darter! E-mail them to me at wrathofduck13@yahoo.com and I will post them in an upcoming blog entry.

Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed what you've read please follow me or leave comments with feedback!

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
Oscar Wilde

Halls of *Groan*

So first off I would like to update on my current status. As you can tell from the photo above, my quest (HAHAHAHA GET IT) for Loremaster is getting closer hour by hour. After day 2 of this very exciting venture in doing old world quests I have gotten the 3000 Quests Completed achievement. That means I'm on the home stretch! Only 109 quests to go!

Now let me give you a brief history lesson as to why Loremaster is particularly difficult for me. When I made my priest I had the brilliant idea to level just from pugging instances, not doing any quests once I reached level 13 (When I could join LFG for Ragefire Chasm). This means from level 13-70 I did no quests other than instance quests. So basically when I started this rigorous process sometime ago, I had less than 100 quests done in both Kalimdor/Eastern Kingdoms put together. If I could go back in time and slap myself, I would.

Today I took a break from that idiotic achievement and did some raids and the daily heroic in preparation for tonight's 25 Man Raid of Trial of the Crusader/Trial of the Grand Crusader. Reason I say "In preparation" is in Bad Example, my guild, to get a trophy you need enough badges to buy it immediately. Doing 10 man Onyxia, 10/25 Vault of Archavon, and the heroic daily today put me at 73 Emblems of Triumph, so I am one Northrend Beasts encounter away from potentially getting a trophy. I am still new in the guild, so I probably won't receive one anyway, and that is alright.

Everything went smoothly... well except the Heroic Daily. Before I explain that struggle, let me make one thing clear. I am in no way elitist. I'm confident, and I know my abilities, but I do not in any way brag or put others down before I see their capabilities. With that said, let me continue.

The Heroic Daily was Halls of Stone. First off that spells disaster for me mostly because that is one of my least favourite dungeons. I join a group that just needs a couple dps which those spots quickly get filled... since ya know, there's more dps in the game then there are Blood Elves named "Sephiroth". As always I head to summon and in chat there's the usual arguement of who is going to go summon and who isn't. I always feel like when pugging instances people attempt to get as far away from the instance we're doing as possible just so they don't have to summon, it makes no sense to me. Faster we summon, faster we finish. Yes I do mind if you finish that daily, I'm here to do a dungeon not sit and wait for you to catch 7 three-eyed fish. Five minutes later someone else shows up to summon and finally things start moving. First pull I immediately am aware that this is going to be rough.

Our group make up was disc priest (Myself), a hunter, enhance shaman, mage, and our brilliant death knight tank. On the first pull we all learned that the actual tank of the run was going to be the enhance shaman since our beloved tank could not hold aggro. I had to use the 5 second aggro rule on my heals so I wouldn't pull. It was bad. As we clear the trash and reach the 4 way intersection I learn a very scary fact. I look and see our death knight post in party chat "So which way do we go, I've never been here before."

...really? Now in my opinion it only makes sense that you run a regular version of the dungeon before you try heroic. This isn't to say heroics are hard, but it keeps you from looking like an idiot and making your healer want to leave before they're saved. This is something I wish Blizzard would change. They need to make all heroics like Magister's Terrace was. Where you need to do a quest chain in the dungeon on regular before you get a key for heroic. That made life so much easier on that instance. Why not do it on every dungeon? Oh yeah, because people complain about things that make sense.

So we make our way through trash slowly but steadily, as I continue to heal the tank (shaman) and we make our way through no problem. We killed Gruul's clone, then moved on to Maiden 2.0 where the group decided it'd just be safer to stay in the black hole the whole fight. Sure it kept them from getting stunned, but it kept me suicidal.



As our group moved into hell (Aka, the "protect Brann" event) I was terrified. There went my confidence in my abilities. This was the group breaker. There aren't many heroic fights that are actually challenging. With a bad group, this fight is difficult. This was the case. After minutes of intense healing and dps laser tanking, somehow we all lived. Really. The death knight even got the achievement [Brann Spankin' New]. I was feeling pretty good after that, we had a not so great group and we made it through that gauntlet of stone guardians.

Now, I get compliments from time to time, and really don't think anything of them. I just appreciate them and move on, dwelling on them would lead to big ego and that's not good, that's not who I am. However I did get this unique compliment, I'm not too used to this reaction.



I guess good healers are a fetish for some.

After we finished we had to reinvite the death knight as he thought the instance was over. We moved to the last boss and finished him off with the help of blood lust. Afterward I took the time to hang out with my dwarf friend Brann.

He was as surprised as I was that we made it through.

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed what you read. Tune in tomorrow when I do my new weekly Wednesday guide. This guide will be for some achievement or rare pet/mount you can get! If you liked what you've read and are interested in more please subscribe and leave comments. Also if you have any questions about me or the game that you'd like me to answer, shoot me an e-mail at wrathofduck13@yahoo.com. Thanks!

"There is no failure except in no longer trying"

An introduction

Basically I've decided for my first post I would introduce what this blog is about and what I plan to do with it. I am an avid World of Warcraft player who plays far more than anyone really should, but I'm really okay with that.

This blog is going to recount my adventures in Azeroth, as well as share some information through guides I will make. I plan to use a lot of pictures and have a lot of fun with this. This blog will give a daily update of what I am up to in the World of Warcraft and I hope it will be interesting.

Let me tell you about my in game persona a bit. Now when I say that I don't mean I role play, I'll just tell you about what I do and aim for. I am a huuugeeeeee achievement whore. I collect mounts and companions, as well as vanity items. I am not a big alt person, I like to spend all of my time improving my priestess through achievements, gear, just everything. Asilwen, my priestess, currently is on the realm Drak'Tharon Keep on the US servers and resides in the guild Bad Example. Bad Example is a very high ranking guild on the server, I think #2. I love raiding, I raid as a discipline priest.

The goal of this blog is to share my opinions about the game as well as share my abundance of knowledge in this virtual world. So if anyone ever has any questions they should shoot me an email at wrathofduck13@yahoo.com . Ask me any kind of in game question and I will do my best to address it and answer it in the latest blog.

This introduction was kind of bad, I understand. Lemme make it up to you with the upcoming posts. If you like what you read please subscribe!