Here There Be Pirates

The other night we had a crazy-mog night and ran Blackwing Lair.

Nequissime was mogged as a pirate - I think I'll keep her like this for a while.

 
Head: First Mate Hat
Shoulders: Green Silken Shoulders
Chest: Crimson Silk Vest
Shirt: Red Swashbuckler's Shirt
Hands: Ebony Flame Gloves
Waist: Captain Sanders Sash
Legs: Coven Britches
Feet: Darktread Boots
Main hand: Tremendous Tankard of Terror
Off hand: Accountant's Lantern

I wanted the Corsair's Overshirt for this mog but couldn't get it.  Instead, I layered the Crimson Silk Vest (moggable but has short sleeves) and Swashbuckler's shirt (unmoggable but has long sleeves) since they have the same frontal design.

Here's the same look via the Wow Model Viewer and using the Corsair's Overshirt. The only difference in my final look vs the Corsair was the sleeves. I like the sleeves on the Corsair better, but overall I think it worked out pretty well.

Busy Busy Busy

Roowen hit 90, then the Thunder King patch hit, and then, and then, and then.... I could go on and on.

Roowen completed A Witness to History. This is a screenie of the cinematic of the Gate of the August Celestials when you first enter the Vale from Kun-Lai. Sadly it's all corrupted now and where we do our superfuntastic Golden Lotus dailies.

Roo's a... troll?!?! Right away I started working on scenarios to upgrade her ilvl and this was the first time I'd seen Dagger in the Dark. I've always had a secret crush on Vol'jin (sorry Thrall) and now we Alliance get to join in to help him out a little. I love how they kinda meshed the lore from the old Warcraft games here. He was a Shadow Hunter back then and when they brought Shamans into WoW (and made Vol'jin a Shaman) they gave them some of the Shadow Hunter abilities. In this scenario he uses some of the Shadow Hunter spells from Warcraft III.

Troll Week

Our guild had Troll Week all week in celebration of the Thunder King patch. We roamed a bunch of old troll content and I felt the need to mog into appropriate attire for the week. Now that I look back on it, it's really still more hunterish than trollish.

Shoulders: Pauldron's of Primal Fury
Chest: Val'kyr Vestments
Gloves: Grips of Chronological Events
Waist: Spiderlord Belt
Legs: Spiderlord Leggings
Feet: Softstep Boots of Tracking
Bow: Roc-Feather Longbow

Bone-r Night was one of our Troll Week events. A group of us headed over to the Isle of Giants for a few tours around the island to get some bones. Look at all the skeletons! When we first went out to the Isle of Giants, the boss Oondasta had over 800 million (!!!) health and took 4 or 5 40-man raids to kill. Because this caused the game to break (crashed/lagged servers), he's been changed to only about 400 million (!) and one really good 40-man raid can take him. The reason all these bodies are at the graveyard is because so far one of the best strategies is to pull him here for the fight.

I think only Gimm and I found Primal Eggs that day. You can only have one egg at a time and in three days, the egg hatches into one of three raptor mounts - Reins of the Black, Green or Red Primal Raptor. Gimms turned out to be Green while mine was Black. Here's the Black Primal Raptor mount alongside Elvis. They used the same skin as they did with the Ironhide Devilsaur.

 

We went back after our raptors hatched to try for more eggs. My second egg hatched into the Red Primal Raptor.

We also did some Isle of Thunder dailies as a group during Troll Week. I have to say I prefer dailies in groups rather than solo. This could be why my only exalted rep is Tillers (okay, I have Cloud Serpents exalted, too).

Ding Ding Ding!

Roowen hit 90 this afternoon - wooo! I took a quick snapshot of what she looked like when she dinged - lovely mis-matched quest rewards for the win!

 

Shoulders: Dreadspinner Amice

Chest: Mazu's Robe

Gloves: Dreadspinner Handguards

Waist: Angkhal Cord

Staff: Dissector's Staff of Mutation

So begins the post-90 grind...

Roowen hits 85!

Yay!! Roo finally gets to go back home to Pandaria.

Once she outgrew the heirloom items, I stopped transmogging her and she just wears the quest reward upgrades. So, yes.. she's been wearing dresses. *sigh* I hated how dresses looked on her, but now, now I think I must be used to them because I think she looks cute.

Here's Roo at her 85 dinging, everything she has on is from quests in Uldum, I think.

 

Shoulders: Vir'naal Spaulders

Chest: Robes of Khintaset

Hands: Keythief Handwraps

Waist: Girdle of the Rescuer

Feet: Incorporeal Sandals

Staff: Ihsenn's Staff of Terror

I thought I'd really hate how all the quest rewards seem to look the same, but it really helped - I know if she had something that clashed I wouldn't be able to keep myself from mogging her. Plus, it seems silly to keep mogging her as she levels and gets updated gear so frequently.

I will stop procrastinating... later

I'm so bummed and I have no one to blame but myself. 

I want to collect all the battle pets, but I'm so bad at leveling that I procrastinated just a little too long and have missed my chance at the Snowy Owl in Winterspring. 

This wild pet only spawns during the winter - and I just figured that since the easter/spring event hasn't happened yet that I had another week or so to get it. I figured wrong.

Last night I rushed out to Winterspring after our guild event with the hope of capturing this level 17-18 creature with my sad little team of level 16, 15 and 14. I flew into Everlook and saw a level 17 Anodized Robo Cub nearby - let's try my team against this, I thought!

I won! I couldn't believe it. I have no idea how that happened! I quickly switched him in for the level 14, healed everyone up and flew around Winterspring...

...for about 20 minutes. Then I whispered Doob from Warcraft Pets asking if I missed the owl. He confirmed my fear - he's been hearing the same, that the owls are gone for the year. Confirmation from a GM says that Azerothian winter is from November 1st through the last day of February.

*sigh* Oh well, I'm sure I'll have a better team by next November. I still need to level at least one battle pet to 25 so I can uncrate the Peddlefeet that Starre gave me for Valentine's day.

Dang it, Barla!!

My favorite hunter pet is Elvis, my Ironhide Devilsaur (okay, I have several favorites). I've been wanting to mog something to match him and this is what I've come up with: 

Shoulders: Upstanding Spaulders
Chest: Renegade Chestguard
Waist: Necrogenic Belt
Gloves: Renegade Gauntlets
Legs: Renegade Leggings
Boots: Tsunami Boots
Gun: Consortium Blaster

Tonight, Spectacular Death is running Blackwing Descent! Fingers crossed that my Spaulders of the Scarred Lady drop (oh, and that I win them)!!

another *meh* kinda mog

Shoulder: Pauldron's of the Thousand Needles
Chest: Moragg's Chestguard
Hands: Grips of Chronological Events
Waist: Girdle of the Prowler
Legs: Yaungol Slayer's Legguards
Boots: Tsunami Boots
Bow: Golden Bow of Quel'Thalas

This mog looked okay in the game, but now that I've taken a screenie, I can see a huge difference in color from the top/shoulders and the legs. I do love the legs, tho.. I'll have to work on that a bit more.

Still working on Sunwell trash for my Embrace of the Phoenix pattern. *sigh*