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The heady heights of level 11. I do not have one gold but around 50 silver... woot

Anyway Elwyn is done for now and I am battling harvest gollum's... 'ard as nails they are....

Rain

Yogg not gone

So tonight was wife achievement time. One of the largest chunks is ulduar 10man. Final tally:

- wife 70

- me 110

Now to yoggy- we just can't do him. To get the mount you need no help and 25 man. We were the one help of anti insanity and still we failed. I will try with all help this week and solo to see how it goes. 

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After an evening of playing and get this .... da da da dum (drum roll) killing Hogger with a paladin helping. He is a level 11 elite I attained the heady heights of level 9. One more level and I get more spells

Also who knew demon trainers were a thing? I have myself some grimoires for my imp now. Also I did not know you had to right click on a demon spell to keep it active. Noob warlock - it is also interesting that the folks in the Slaughtered Lamb all have a purpose now rather than just one being the trainer

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I made my ways to iron forge... you have to wait a lot longer for the tram and there are a lot of people running down there. Omg the place is busy

Literally hundreds of people and I nearly forgot the flight path

I finished a few quests in the Fargodeep mine but died when zoning back in after a D/C. Very few graveyards :)

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Addons

So the site nostalrius provides a list of valid addons. If you use others you can be hacked and or banned

I cannot get the screenshots to work

Things I found out recently

- soul shards

- separate auction houses

- neutral auction houses

- the Stormwind map ..... there is no harbour

- very few flight masters

- WIM is a thing 

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So I am at level 5 and made it to Stormwind

I got lost as they moved the entrance to the auction house back

Omg the place was busy.......

Off to the Fargodeep mine next

Go me

Vanilla servers

So they are not legal but the idea of playing way back is appealing as it took me about a year last time. I have no issues as I pay for the game anyway

Ok starting was easy. Download client. Create an account and login. 

Loading screens all different and old models :)

Garrison gold

This is why I have a fair amount of gold but also why I do not do much else in game.

Forays into the world have been cut back as I need to worry about mining, herbs, profession shacks etc. Bag space has become an issue again so just censoring has now become a thing which is very much against my nature.

On my guild alt I even paid 5k for the 6th tab - which is huge; that is 600 slots!!! (Well nearly take off 12 as each tab is 98. 7 x 14 which I think is wacky)

Ark inventory

This is probably my favourite addon for WOW as it allows me to see all the bags... as it were

Until it went wrong and my saved variables ended up as an empty file. This also happened with WIM but we are talking bags for now

What I lost were all of my categories so I need to get used to a new layout. It is silly to be bothered by such a thing but we are talking me here

So it's a pain but not desperately so ;)

Achievements

Well since the guild I was in fell apart I was stuck with just the garrisons (which was ok but not that great).

However now the wife has returned and life is all about the achieves.... good times ;)

End of expansion

So we are nearing the time that expansions end.  The beta will be out soon and then all will be WOD. So what to do in the meantime. .. LFR with the druid wife :)

Date night

A restful sleep after a hard nights levelling with the wife - note being a man I get more bed...

Shagrad's Transmog Competition 23/3/2013

Today was the first competition (of hopefully many). Judges were myself and Sfengali (our GM). Entrants and winners as follows

Halren (1st prize 1000g).  Varied matching set with a nice weapon counterpoint

• Red Pointy Hat (Netherstorm)
• Crimson Silk Shoulders (Tailoring)
• Mageflame cloak (World drop)
• Staff (Dire Maul - Quest of Athen'a) - personal fave
• Waterfall Handwraps
• Mage-Fury Girdle (Slave pens)
• Coldwraith boots (random drop LK expansion raid)

Lavarush (2nd prize 500g). Lots of effort on a difficult to obtain set

•  Shoulder, Chest, Hands and Legs of Tier 5 from Sepenshrine and The Eye raids - not an easy run
• Feet - Husk Shard Sabatons (Quest - Death to the Traitor King - Azol Nerub)
• The shield was different for the event having the nice simple metal and single gem in the centre

Shamba (3rd prize 250g). Wonderfully simplistic matching Blue set complemented by a dragon pet

• Brood Killer Shoulderguard (Quest - Brood of Seldarria)
• Powder Burn Vest (Q - Explosives Shredding)
• Bloodstained Twighlight Belt (Q - Something to wear)
• Severed Druid's Leggings (Q - The forest Heart)
• Fancy Footwork (Q - Dances with Grimtotem)
• Main Hand "Meatface Pummler) - (Q - You Too, Brute?)
• Off Hand "Vibro Shanker" - (Q - Cutting your teeth)
• Pet - from memory this was a mechanical dragon

Speartooth (runner up prize "Lovely Blue Dress")

The first prize was hard fought between Halren and Lavarush 
Thanks to all those of you that came. If you have comments on the format then let myself or Fen know. It would be good to have a third judge so if there are any volunteers let me know.

This link (Screenshots) gives all those I took. for the next one I realise now I need individual shots rather than a group. I have included armoury shots but ones at the time would have been better as Lava for example since changed his shield.

Thanks to all of the participants

Shagrad

AoE Looting

Well looking for frostweave in Ice Crown and there is a catherdral off to the side. Just pull everything and lo

Podcasts

Current wow podcasts: Twisted Nether Blogcast, The Instance. I will have to find another soon as I have nearly caught up on both...maybe The Shattering?

Worgens again?

The Worgen Monday night group ended around November last year as I was moving house. This is now over and I am sitting in my new PC spot (very nice I must say)

This Monday just gone three of use got back together and the 4th had connection issues. We instead of Worgening (real word) we attempted Black Temple. With a few changes of classes (three warriors are quite hard to self heal!) we made it through four bosses being stuck on the 5th (Reliquary of Souls)

Next week our 4th member should be back which will help - more updates later

A year in the life...

So a years sign up - how expeive is that. In hindsight its not as all you have to do is commit to pay not actually pay. So its a winner all round - go for it people.

:)

Legendary

It has taken awhile but here we go...

OMG Phat Lootz

Weeee

... yes it arrived..finally
and the inside

And five wolves get another

So.. the Monday night group has beengoing for a coupe of weekls and we have started to get a ton of guild achieveents as well as levelling quickly...


Good times