Pantsless.

Is this like jell-o wrestling?

Halinka, in her quest to gather the pieces of the perfect outfit, has found that some of her questing requires less clothing. To get some Consortium reputation and to get to the point in the quest chain where you can combine the ethereum prison keys, some slimes had to be split with electricity and then their little bits vaporized.  Problem being, with the one hit kill, the electrical charge never went off.  So, she took it all off, even her staff, and smacked those blobs around. Once the electrical charge hit, she could use mind sear to kill all the minor blobs easily.

She's thankful she isn't saddle training these!

Roping nether rays was difficult in gear, so she stripped down to make her mind flay less damaging.  Two ticks was enough to subdue them long enough to rope them.  I would have had her smack them around like the blobs, but one hit was more often less than needed but two would kill them, and some of them weren't in melee range. Everything, even rings and necklaces were ditched this time. Why is she doing this? Because she needed apexis shards to summon larger mobs to get apexis crystals to buy a geode that would have gloves in them, and later, if she must have it, the rock that has her hat. Good thing she doesn't care about stats on these items.  Can you imagine the horrific grind to get them just right?

Transmog this!

She managed to get gloves and boots and belt yesterday, which leaves the long slog for the shoulders, and more time in the Skethyl Mountains gathering Time-Lost Scrolls, killing lesser bosses to gather their magic to make Time-Lost Offerings to summon Terokk, so he can, once again, not drop the pants Halinka wants.

Need any cloth?

 This is what all that gathering resulted in, plus about 60 or more random greens, a couple of blues, a lot of depleted items that need crystal charges, and a few patterns. Halinka still has a while to go.  I think I had better equip another alt with bags for storage, because there is no way I'm going to be able to sell all of this in a week!

If you couldn't tell, I'm on Spring Break!  How do you handle time off from work when the kids still have school and you really can't go anywhere?  I have Star Wars Galaxies EMU reloaded on my new computer along with a few Steam titles hubby has been wanting me to play, so I think I have enough to keep me occupied, but I would welcome you ideas.  Two weeks is an awful lot of free time to fill!

But...I Want It Now!

Queen of da Ogres.

Halinka got a new robe early last week, and is already tired of it. There was nobody on in her guild to do anything with, so she went shopping, and found a great shirt.  Of course, you can't buy a shirt and not try and get matching everything to go with it. So, she sent me off to WoWhead to find out if it was part of a set and it is.  There is always a catch, though, isn't there? This set is looted from, with a lot of luck, from a few rares in Outland with a few pieces available from vendors.  In order to get this set completely, Halinka is going to have to get in good with Ogres, Ethereals, and Flyboys.  Here's a comment I pulled off of WoWhead that really explains the amount of work involved in getting this set:

Ugh.  Still, Halinka was on a mission, and decided to pal around with the Ogres. I think I remember her saying something about lots of beer and great parties.  She would know, they were neighbors once, right? So, she pulled together something that will do until she gets the right pieces and headed out to Blade's Edge.

How she move like dat?

She looks alright.  It's no Windchanneler's Regalia, but what do you want for less than 500 gold? Here's what she put together.

• Shoulderpads of Absolution - there was nothing great on the auction house, and she had these in her storage. If something else presents itself before the long road to the shoulders is complete, I'll edit this post.
• Windchanneler's Tunic - The shirt of dreams! The reason we are on this trip in the first place.
• Regal Cuffs - the colors match the shirt perfectly.  With the gloves listed below, the bracers really needed to match.
• Regal Gloves - Again, colors are almost a perfect match, so much so that if I never get the set items, I won't complain.
• Silver-Thread Sash - the lines on this belt match the lines on the pants that follow.  If only the shirt had silver accents instead of gold!  From the waist down it's almost like half of another transmog. 
• Exiled Dabbler's Leggings - Such a shame to cover up some of the pants in the game! But these are not the star of this outfit. 
• Voldrune Slippers - these were the least expensive of about 5 different options available on the auction house.
• Ethereum Life-Staff - another place holder from Halinka's closet. She doesn't remember who she was with when she got this. My friend from work or the OLRG (I really need to hang out with those people more. They are having way too much fun without me!) had some role in her having the shoulders mentioned first and this staff. If the non-glowy part of this weapon wasn't more purple than gold, it would be a shoe-in.

While she was starting out her paths to unlocking this set, she did some more window shopping in Area 52, and decided that she will have to put her carefully manicured hooves into the battlegrounds to earn a few of the outfits she saw there. I guess there could be worse ways to interest a girl in fighting for her faction. 

Where do you draw the line when you are trying to get the perfect transmog piece?  Mine seems to lie about the same place as most anything in the game for me.  If my attention can drift away and not cause a huge obstacle to getting the item, then I'm in.  So, no flex, regular or heroic raiding, no arenas, and no soloing old content unless it's around the same difficulty as the Timeless Isle. Tell me about your transmog threshold in the comments!

Not Quite Red.

There's this contest on this site where they are having people submit red outfits.  I'd like to get involved, but the problem I had was I got stuck wanting so badly to make an outfit work around this fabulous robe I found in Molten Core.  Can we just ignore the color of the robe and remember that I got this in a red zone?

 

What is she wearing?  She looks so fabulous!  You must tell me who designs for her!  Okay, alright, I'll make a list for you, but you have to get it yourself.  I'm done earning the appropriate currency to purchase items I only wear for the look, not the stats.

Chief Architect's Monocle
Deadly Gladiator's Mooncloth Mantle
Robe of Volatile Power
Tyrannical Gladiator's Satin Gloves
Tyrannical Gladiator's Cord of Meditation

Weapons and off hands are there just because they were red, and not because I really cared what she was carrying.  If you must know what she is holding, it is a Tracker's Blade and a Master Dragonslayer's Orb.

Do you use WoWhead?  I love that I can just look up the saved profile I have for Delgada and just lift all the info off the page to make links here.  There is even a neat preview of her standing there in her lovely, totally not red clothes.

So, all that work and no red to show for it.  Still, Del looks terrific, so I won't complain too loudly. Good night Azeroth.  Make sure to stop and smell the Peacebloom.

Chastised.

It was sparkling, which means ,"PICK THIS UP!" in game terms. I'm not bad, am I?

Delgada is working on achievements, and today she was working on finishing the Riches of Pandaria.  She didn't finish it, through no fault of this great guide on Wowhead. If the items had been there, she would have picked them up, and she did get several.  We'll finish tomorrow, she says, while she is hunting rares for the Glorious! achievement. Oh, and picking up the laundry, er, gloves for her transmog she left behind on the Serpent's Spine.  I digress.  Where I was I headed?

Oh!  Well, shiny things are tempting, aren't they?  Sometimes picking something up has circumstances.  There is a bag of coins you can pick up in Pawdon Village in the Jade Forest at a burial shrine that is not part of the achievement. Right after you loot it, you get a de-buff called Chastised that lasts an hour. I didn't think anything of it, and sent Delgada on her merry little way digging for artifacts and picking up the things left behind by the denizens of Pandaria.  I never even noticed that there was something wrong.  Blame it on always being in shadow form if you must.  I got to the shrine and noticed that my mount seemed off.  I was riding my Twilight Drake and thought to myself, "He looks more like a midnight drake.". 

Blah.

Not so colorful anymore.

Sha-touched ram.

 I would love to have something in game that can change my priest and mounts and pets (sadly, they remained unchanged) into shades of grey.  I think it more suited to my shadow priest than swirling purple mist.

In other news, my friends emptied their toy boxes all over the shrine tonight.  We rode sandbox tigers and talked to ghost magi. We tried to a annihilate turnip punching bag and let out all sorts of wildlife. We threw masks at each other and transformed into many different forms.  I left them dancing.

Set on fire by the Wickerman, or by his creaky dance moves? You decide.

Shared Topic: Mountable Mounts

From his post on Blog Azeroth, Dragonray wrote:

One of the things I have noticed since my return is the huge amount of mounts available now through rep gains. I am still working on a couple, but it has made me wonder which mounts you guys are loving or hating 

So what are your top 5 mounts - or just the ones you go to all the time because you like the way they ride? What are the ones you really dislike and can never bring yourself to use - does it rub against your collecting nature (if you have one) to buy all the mounts even though you know you will never use them?

Dragonray

 I knew I was not alone in wanting to get all the mounts I could possibly get in game!  I spent way too many hours in Grim Batol the past few weeks grinding out reputation with Ramkahen so I could buy two camels that I may never ride, just so one day I can collect enough to get a kite that I may also never ride, just so I can say that I have them.  Come on, don't try and deny that you aren't exactly the same. What if next year they said that there would be no (ugly mount of your choice) in the game.  Even if you hated it, you'd want it so you could say that you have something that is no longer in the game, right?  I thought so.  I don't have to use all of them.  Let's just pretend that I have a peon in Nagrand tending to my neglected mounts, letting orphans ride my nether rays and kodo.  Here are the mounts that I would keep with me.

Cenarion War Hippogryph.

I purposely worked out the reputation needed for this mount. After rolling an alliance character just for fun and riding a hippogryph as a taxi, I knew I needed one of my own!

Headless Horseman's Mount.

My rogue Maura (now Marea) won the reins to this mount on Hallow's End a couple of years ago.  I love that it flies and doesn't get stuck in elevators and doorways. I also love that it's undead but doesn't look like it is falling apart.

Swift Zhevra.

I love this because it is the closest thing to a unicorn in game.  I also love it because hubby did recruit a friend for me just so I could have it!

Twilight Drake.

The color of this mount is so vivid.  A friend of mine that works with me ran the Obsidium Sanctum raid on 25 man regular with all three drakes up just so I could have him.  My friend is pretty awesome, and so is this mount!

White War Talbuk.

I went back to Nagrand to earn reputation with the Mag'har sometime toward the end of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.  I love all my talbuk mounts, but this is my favorite.  So gorgeous!

I have a sixth favorite that I take out very rarely. As much as I love having a ton of mounts to ride, I feel like a huge show-off pulling this one out, and so I rarely do.  I guess that is the same as having a mount that rubs me the wrong way?  I love him, I do, and who wouldn't?  Cuddly bears and cute murlocs are the best combo!

Big Blizzard Bear.

What mounts do I really dislike?  I really don't like big mounts and awkward, ungainly mounts.  My kodo, mammoth, and turtles (and heffalumpwhatevertheyares when I am playing alliance) get put away as fast as my add-on pulls them out. The nether rays and the wyvern (except the Grand Wyvern) are not favorites, either, but I'm not as quick to put them away.  I'm not really fond of my mechanical mounts, either, but I wouldn't turn down a mechano-hog if someone handed over the keys!

Something Dragonray didn't ask was if there were any mounts that I was aspiring to or yearned for.  Yeah, sorry, that sounds way too sappy!  But there are a few mounts I really would like to add to my collection. Here are the top 5:

• Sandstone Drake - I made sure the new Carlatta had her alchemy and archaeology leveled so that she could start searching for the recipe for this one.  Sadly, the only digging she's been doing lately is on her farm, picking herbs and swatting vermin so that the guild can have elixirs. 
• Ashes of Al'ar - Who doesn't want this one?  I like the Dark Phoenix that the guild vendor has, but the colors! 
• Raven Lord - I love the Arrakoa, and am looking forward to more lore about them in the Warlords of Draenor expansion. This mount is so feathery, I wish I could hug it in real life!
• Quel'dori Steed - Another unicorn!  Guess I'm going to have to dust off my lance and do some more Argent tournament dailies.
• Enchanted Fey Dragon - I have wanted this since it was first found in the game files. At least this one is more easily attainable!

So, how about you?  What's your absolute favorite mount?  Which mount makes your skin crawl?  Which mount is highest on your wish list?  Join in the Shared Topic fun, or comment below!