A Pixel Nomad

I read a post over at Tales of the Aggronaut that made me think about creating my own WoW Bucket List of sorts, things I want to accomplish in game (slowly, over time, these are not all easy tasks). Of course I created one and it includes the following things:

• Level a team of pets to 25 (11/25 Progress)
• Collect the following pets: Ashtone Core, Azure Whelpling, Black Tabby Cat, Chrominius, Harbinger of Flame, Stitched Pup, Untamed Hatchling
• Earn the Loremaster achievement (2/6 Progress)
• Collect the following mounts: Raven Lord, Deathcharger, Sea turtle
• Finish Hemet Nesingwary: The Collected Quests (2/3 Progress)
• Finish What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been (2/8 Progress)
• Earn 25 Exalted Reputations (20/25 Progress)
• Earn Champion of the Frozen Wastes (Progress Kel’Thuzad and Malygos)
• Earn Glory of the Hero (Progress: Share the Love, Zombiefest, Experienced Drake Rider, The Incredible Hulk, Ruby Void, Amber Void)
• Collect 200 pets

I also marked where my current progress with each item was, how many tasks to the achievement I had earned, and over time I’m sure I’ll add (and subtract) to it. I love lists (who doesn’t!) and I’m looking forward to having some goals in game to work towards besides the usual suspects (gear, etc).

I’m hoping this weekend I can hit up some older raids in an attempt at getting pets to drop, but we’ll just have to see how that goes. As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Yesterday WoW added a new patch, 5.4.2, that allows players the ability to shop from their store in game. I have no issue with this and think it’s quite neat, not to mention that to kick it off they put almost all of their pets and mounts on sale by 50%. That means I was able to add two pets to my collection guilt free. I already own a small handful of the cute little critters, so deciding which two to purchase wasn’t too hard. I eventually went with Lil’ Ragnaros who can also be used as a cooking fire, and the Cinder kitten because it was just too cute not to pick up.

Dragon Flight also managed to ding level 21 thanks to some alt leveling, I know experience is quite easy to come by these days (you get 60,000 experience per quest no matter what it seems) but considering the guild only has three members, I’m still tickled. We unlocked faster flight paths, and at 22 we’ll unlock greater tradeskill skill ups. I’m looking forward to reaching level 25 and being able to mass resurrect.

I’m hoping to inch my shaman closer to 90 this weekend (maybe even reach 90, dare I hope) as well as work on some pet battles and raids. I should also be able to master pandarian cooking, but we’ll just have to see how many white turnips I can collect.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

A few other bloggers have mentioned just how much stuff there is to do in WoW lately and I completely agree, especially if you have been away for a while like I have. I only have one level 90 character and I would like to get at least a small handful of my alts up to 90 before the next expansion. I’ve slowly been leveling my shaman who just reached 87 yesterday. I also have a 85 paladin, druid, and an 86 warlock not to mention my newly created 15 warrior, a level 2 rogue, and a level 24 monk. Oh, and a horde deathknight that I believe is level 67 or so.

There’s pet battles, collecting new pets, working on crafting, collecting recipes, and achievements just to name a few things I’m interested in. I’ve done timeless isle enough that every alt has a full set of gear – except my main – I can not for the life of me seem to get a cloth robe to drop. I’ve gotten everything to drop, multiples of most of it and not a single chest piece for the priest.

I managed to finish all but one “way of” for cooking, the last one requiring about 250 white turnips before I can complete it, so I’ll be farming for a little while first. I could try to buy them all from the broker but I would rather collect them myself. Once that is completed I can move on to completing my recipes and factions.

I’ve also been working on Shado Pan faction, and I still can’t ride a serpent mount yet (faction required). Faction grinding is the reason I left WoW to begin with, but it hasn’t been bugging me yet since I’ve been back, in fact I quite like the process since it requires no thought (and that’s what I was looking for). Whether or not it will continue to hold my attention has yet to be seen, but in the mean time I’m having a lot of fun.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

I had an urge last night to create a warrior. I’ve played a few low level ones but I always end up deleting for one reason or another. I need a blacksmith, and didn’t feel it would be a good fit for either my monk or rogue, so it was really the perfect excuse to start a new character.

I’m not really a fan of starting out in secluded starter zones (Wargen, Goblins, and Panda all share this fate). I can’t mail myself any heirlooms since there are no mailboxes, and once you’ve gone through the story one time, it gets old. I have a panda monk, rogue, and now the warrior, though the rogue has also not made her way out of the starter zone yet (something to work on today, I suppose). Thankfully the starter zone for this race feels much shorter than the one for the goblins and wargen, you leave on your way to Horde or Alliance by level 11. First thing I did was get situated with some bags and mail my heirloom over (I never realized just how much heirloom I have. There’s a lot of it). I didn’t own the plate pants (I don’t think I could afford them at the time) so I picked those up and decked the little warrior out.

I’m hoping to level this character up as a tank, and try a lot of LFG. I’m sure I’ll get lots of ‘creative comments’ from people and maybe even kicked out of an instance or two. That being said, it’s just a game, and I’m looking forward to it. Tanks are always the one class I tend to stay away from, but in WoW it’s just so easy to get a group, I would like to give it a go. We’ll see.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!