Lovely Charm Bracelets And Other Nonsense.

"I'll bet we can't sit here forever."          "You're on."

Since the beginning of this "Love is in the Air" holiday, Delgadita has been doing her dailies religiously.  Why?  Because she needs Lovely Charms.  The only way to get them is to carve them from some dead thing that was possibly strong enough to kill her.  Why waste the effort?  The last few days, the Golden Lotus and the August Celestials have given her enough opportunity to get the charms, but not today. Today, Del had to do Shado-Pan as well.  There was a quest to kill Deathtalker Corpsedefilers that came with  their own entourage of lower hit point ghosts.  Just like the daily the Golden Lotus give to kill spirits, these also have a chance to give charms.  I had enough to make almost two extra bracelets, which means a head start on tomorrow.  Good thing.  Del needs a rest, and I am going out for an anniversary dinner and movie date!

Sitting still, hoping for a nibble.

Del is also fishing up a barge full of fish to finish off her cooking. Redbelly, Salmon, and Shrimp are on her list, but she's hitting every pool in hopes of maybe finding something slimy to impress Nat with.  Tonight, she fished up enough extras to buy a few soy sauce and found two special fish for Nat.  Sure, Valentine's day is gone away, but perhaps she'll be in line for the next romantic holiday.

Why am I grinding out bracelets?  Why am I running the instance daily?  Didn't Delgadita finish the achievements for all the holidays?  Yes, she did, but there is a new mount and another mount that we must have.  So, instead of looking for romantic corners of Pandaria to put down a romantic picnic basket and have a date with your pixelated lover, Delgadita is busy melting faces and carving out "lovely charms".  Eww.  Seems to be right up her alley, even if she cringes when she gives one to Garrosh.  She did find one pretty little secluded place, near where Kun Lai Summit meets the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.  No basket needed, as it seems someone already set the place for a sweet little spot of tea.

A little overgrown, but so secluded!

Earlier in the week, Del managed to get invited to a Sha massacre.  That guy had no chance of slithering away, and I do believe the Alliance was busy feeling Varian's biceps or tittering over how lovely Jaina's new hairdo is, because they didn't even try to wrest his attention away from our mighty army.  Del got mind controlled once, and her damage was 12th, which makes her mediocre.  Still, he went down, and both loot rolls got her some pocket change.  I am very much looking forward to the promised changes in the looking for raid loot kits they have promised.  I don't think I could bear spending quality time in a raid and getting chump change.  Anyhow, Del got a nice pair of boots, though, so she really cannot complain too loudly.

In still other news. Dinnaeh the panda mage has until Monday to reach level 30, so she can run instances again with the guys from Channel Massive.  Last week was a lot of fun, as always, and I have decided that the only way I win in battlegrounds, of which we did Warsong Gulch, is to try and top the deaths list.  Not killing blows, deaths.  Dinnaeh died 16 times in that battleground, and won the category.  Huzzah!  We ended the night in Gnomeregan, and I will leave that to your imagination how a rag tag group of heirloom-less, just old enough to enter mostly panda group fared in that nuthouse of an instance.  The latest episode should be up by the end of the week, just in time for another Monday dungeon crawl.  In the meantime, check out their coverage of the Neverwinter beta!

I leave you all with a Valentine screenshot of  Anselma at the Darkmoon Faire.

XOXOXOXO

Olive Ya!  

I'm So Excited!

And I Just Can't Hide It!

Anselma's pretty excited about the band. I am pretty excited that I get to hang out with Hydra and Fimlys on the Twisted Nether Blogcast this weekend!  Come hang out with us in the chat room on Sunday at 8 pm PST.  I know it will be a lot of fun!

The Suitor

Be Mine?

Delgadita's favorite place and a rose, this fella has it down.  Now, if only he were undead.  I suppose that can be arranged...

I wanted to do a transmog outfit for Valentine's Day.  I actually wanted to do several, and a few more may come, but this shirt caught my eye.  At first, the outfit was turning toward the Firelands for some heroic pieces, but I wanted it to be accessible to almost anyone, so I searched.  WoWhead has a color search option, but it is very difficult to use.  I then found World of Wardrobes, and I was set.  They have a search by color, by type, by slot.  Fabulous!  Much easier than paging through hundreds of different gloves for one unique pair!

I've been waiting for hours!

Here he is standing so that you can see his whole outfit. Now, for your shopping list, if you want to recreate it.

1. Encarmine Spaulders or Hide of the Lone Hunter or Hive Controller Mantle. These are all quest rewards from different but equal level zones.  Easy to get, unless you are under level.  Which would make the rest of the outfit harder, still.
2. Songbird Blouse.  This drops from a rare boss in Stratholme.  He doesn't aggro unless you stomp his toe, and he also drops a nifty trinket.  Chances are good that, if he drops the shirt and you are grouped with someone, you will be the only taker.
3. Triggerfish Girdle or Earthmender's Sawfish Girdle or Tigershark Belt. All from equal level quests.  The last two have options for Horde or Alliance, so check for the other side if the link steers you wrong.
4. Gruffscale Leggings drop from a non elite rare spawn in Un'Goro Crater.  There were a couple other with the same look, such as the Singed Pants and another that are no longer in the game, but as you can see, this is the only viable transmog option still available.
5. Taldaram's Soft Slippers. Regular or Heroic version look the same.  I chose these because they have the same colors as the belt.
6. Gloves of the Fang. See how the sleeve on our handsome model seems to have changed with these gloves equipped?  I thought these would hide nicely under the sleeve, and they may, I only have the model viewer to trust here.  Have you seen how a sword is sheathed on this thing?  Either way, these gloves win in my book.
7. Mantle of Desire, Doubt, Fury, or Patience.  These all are rewards for saving Thrall with Aggra's help.  That upon turning this in you get to witness Thrall and Aggra get married is just icing on the cake.
8. Penelope's Rose . Sadly, this is the only transmog available rose in the game, that isn't anymore.  If you kept this rose from an old quest in Scholomance, you are a lucky person.  If not, you'll have to settle for Suntouched Flowers or even vendor flowers.

Now, all you well dressed fellas.  Go out and get your girl!

Navimie the Poet

Navimie is really too sweet to have taken the time to write poems for every single person who wished her many happy bloggy returns.  She even wrote me one!

Shawndra

She's having fun in laid back raids

Achievement spam is win!

Delgadita's out of her shell

So fun it's almost sin!

She figured out that reference

'bout Lost and Diablo.

She's ready now for LFR

I'll cheer her on - GOGO!

We love you too, Navimie!  Now that this is in prose, I really had better get into that LFR I keep telling everyone I'm gonna try, someday.  For posterity, I filed this great poem here, and because my magnet wall is almost full. Thanks for the poem and the cheer! 

Need A Little Magic.

This whole last week I have logged in, taken a whole hour or more to do my farming, all the while falling asleep at the keys.  I have accomplished next to nothing with Delgadita.  I went on the instance run on Monday on Dinnaeh the mage.  Yeah, that is about all the meaningful gaming I did this week.  My daughter, however, managed to nab the One Man's Trash achievement, caged a few more battle pets, and bought a dancing bear for us.  Oh, and got us the Double Agent achievement.  She got her little gnome shadow priest to 90 on Tuesday.

Too short to see over the saddle.

So, I felt I needed to contribute in some way to this effort that is really my account.  Today, I managed to get my farming done with only a little running off the plot with the plow.  Then, Delgadita did her Golden Lotus dailies and turned in an old archaeology daily.  While there with the Lorekeepers, she managed to finish several artifacts, including a Tol'vir sand castle.  One of the artifacts was pristine, so she displayed it.  Then, she went back to the Temple of Two Moons to turn in her lesser coins for elder coins, and got her quest to start her dailies with the August Celestials.  She finished those, then headed for the Darkmoon Fair.  Like always, she forgot thread, dye, and flour, so she finished what she could, went back and grabbed those, turned those in, then realized she had to go back again for fossil fragments.  Agh!  She gathered those, doing all the Kalimdor trainers along the way.  She finished, fought Brok to complete that step in her pet training quests, then went back to turn in the fossils and the dust she forgot to turn in.  Then, she went back, trounced the Uldum master pet trainer, and went back to Orgrimmar to get her next step; Pandarian trainers.

Courageous Yon is hard to find, on the high part of Kota Peak.

Phew!  What I am noticing as Del completes each trainer is a severe lack of a magic pet in her lineup.  When she needs something magic, she has been leaning, perhaps a little too hard, on her rapana whelk and it's ooze touch.  It hits hard enough, but it's only one attack, and some fights last a little long when the other side has a heal. That, and she had been leaning on lower level aquatics to go against the elementals she faced.  Until this battle...

Another  core player at max level!

So, yeah, none of my pets have names.  I feed them, I bandage them, I kiss them and take them for walks, but I just can't seem to find a name that fits.  Eternal Strider is 35 now, which means now I can work on a magic pet, and an elemental pet, and a dragon, and and and...after I finish this round of tamers.

That Hedgehog HURTS!

Which may not happen tonight..

 *yawn*

 *stretch*

This guy has kicked my poor clockwork gnome (I have been kicking around naming him Norm after my dad, the handiest guy I know) up and down and those quills are hard to get out!  So, I think I will send Delgadita home to the Lazy Turnip with an industrial strength pair of tweezers to salvage Norm so he can come back for another round.  Tomorrow?  Who knows.  My anniversary is in a few days and we are having a hard time scheduling our dinner out.  WoW might have to wait a day or so for the boy's birthday, a niece's birthday, and dinner out at Claim Jumper.

So, goodnight Azeroth and Earth!  Maybe we'll run into each other again soon.  Like maybe a Meetup?  Our group is thinking about scheduling another day a month for TCG fun!  Look us up as the Inland Empire World of Warcraft Meetup group on Meetup.com.  We'd love to have more people to chat with!