You Little Stinker!

Yes! I did it!!! I got my very own Reeking Pet Carrier - the reward for completing Shop Smart, Shop Pet...Smart!

Sad, I know, but I finally got Sinister Squashling from HH today, and had a lovely little Gnome craft a Lifelike Mechanical Toad for me to top out the 50.

Done mostly with dropped, quested and vendor-bought pets, I'm might proud of myself. I didn't spend thousands at the AH, nor did I spend RL cash on eBay for pet codes, or hours and hours farming for rare dropped pets.

My advice to you if you want this little bloke is to check out http://www.warcraftpets.com/. This site has everything you need to know about in-game pets on there.

Hallows End Fun

Yes, Hallows End is in full swing, and I've been right there in the thick of it!

Between daily ass-whoopings for the Headless Horseman, and hourly Trick-or-Treating, I've managed to take a few screenshots, grind some rep, and even gain a few extra Achievements along the way.

Oh yeah! I've also got a new mini-pet! A Sprite Darter Egg. I'm working on Shop Smart, Shop Pet...Smart at the moment, and him plus my new Ancona Chicken (thx Pdx ;)) means I'm well on my way to getting my Reeking Pet Carrier!

So, make sure you enjoy the rest of your Hallows End - the celebrations close at the end of the month!

Pink Elephants. No - Seriously!

That's right folks! You've seen it here! Come to Allerian Stronghold, and see the Pink Elekks!

Apparently a reference to a sequence in the Dumbo movie, where Dumbo and Timothy Mouse accidentaly become drunk and begin hallucinating and seeing pink elephants. You too can now experience this terrifying drunken phenomenon!

If someone has recently completed the quest 'The Final Code', there is a barrel of wine placed outside one of the buildings opposite the inn, which will give you 5 free bottles of booze. Three drinks of this or one 'extremely potent' alcoholic drink will allow you to see the Pink Elekks.


Just don't forget to have your picture taken!

Servers + Fail = Chaos on Onyxia

Last night all the servers crapped out big time, so what is there do to when you get booted from your main? Find a server that still works and roll a n00b!

So that's what a helluva lot of people did. The only server Remmieh, Grumps, Brocy & myself could find working was Onyxia! I rolled a spunky little Priest called Hamsterdied, and set off looking for trouble!

...And we found it, in Goldshire in the form of a number of Lvl 70 and low-lvl Horde!



Grumps was clever enough to video the whole event, so hopefully he will have that up soon :D

W00T! Sewing and Killing

Bellor has finally made it to lvl 35, and after an epic attempt (and lots of gold!), she has sewn and sold her way to lvl 300 Tailoring!

I only went cloth farming with Helmaree 3 times, being for Mageweave, Runecloth and Felcloth.

Mageweave: I farmed the top two levels of the big troll temple in The Hinterlands, Jintha'Alor. The drop rate was very good, and I was able to get about 8 stacks in under an hour. Also a few greens, a bit of cash, and half a bag of vendor trash, not to mention some handy potions for my alts!

Runecloth: I just tooled around Eastern Plaguelands for this stuff... All the humanoids there have a pretty good drop rate, but my favorite was killing the Scarlet Elite's at Tyr's Hand. Not only were they a lot more fun to kill, but they also dropped a BoE World Epic for me! [Hurricane]

Felcloth: Everyone just LOVES farming this stuff... NOT! But I have a fairly painless system that will get you 10 - 12 pieces in just under an hour. I go to the Legashi Encampment in Azshara. There are three camps in the area, and even if you you drop each camp fast, the first one should have respawned by the time you get back. Drop rate is good, and I got a few greens and potions as well. Plus, you guessed it... I got another BoE. A Rare this time! [Blade of the Titans]

Oh, and just to show off... While I was flying around on Helmaree collecting patterns, I thought I'd go and kill some Winterfall furblogs behind Everlook, and aside from a few stacks of Runecloth, I also scored another Rare BoE! [Sapphiron's Scale Boots]

Well, enough bragging for now, I'm off to lvl Bellor's enchanting!

I got my boots!

I logged Helm on this morning to do the Midsummer dailys, and hit 201 Burning Blossoms! I finally, finally have my Sandals of Summer! Unfortunately, with only 4 days of the Festival left, I won't be able to collect 99 more blossoms in time to get the Mantle of the Fire Festival :(
Here I am showing off my Midsummer goodies in IF.

In other news Bellor (my warlock) started her tour of Azeroth to collect her own Burning Blossoms and some very sweet xp! She went from lvl 29 to lvl 31, so there's hope for her yet!
I'm hoping to get her to lvl 35 (with the help of some more bonfire visits) so that she can train Artisan Enchanting and Tailoring. She's been stuck at 225 for what seems to be forever! Here's a screenie of Bellor visiting the bonfire in Undercity.

Invasion Complete!

Today I captured the final 2 flames from Undercity and Silvermoon City, and recieved my Crown of the Fire Festival!

Also, I found a great guide to the Midsummer Fire Festival. It has every piece of information you might want about the Festival and then some!

CENTURION Invades Horde Capitals

Wednesday evening saw Brocy, Drawind and myself journey through Mulgore and scale the heights of Thunder Bluff to steal their flame away! And we succeeded! But forgot to take a screen shot. :(

Yesterday, Brocy and myself laid siege to Orgrimmar, and came away with their flame amid the thwarted attempts of a couple of would-be Horde assassins!

Fear us Horde scum! For we are determined and sneaky! Now, to journey to Silvermoon City and Undercity to complete our work...

- Helmaree

Just Showing Off

Here are a couple screenies of my new stuff from the Midsummer Fire Festival. I'm still doing the dailys, hoping to rack up another 200 burning blossoms before the end of the week for the shoes!

I've Been Everywhere, Man!

Well, I spent most of yesterday touring all of Azeroth and Outland in search of Burning Blossoms! Below is a slideshow of just some of the places I visited.

In total, I visited 60 different bonfires - some Horde and some Alliance - to collect blossoms. And what did I choose?

The Brazier of Dancing Flames and Vestment of Summer!

I'm going back on later to pick up the last few bonfires, do the Midsummer dailys, and get me those Dancing Shoes!

Burning Love

The Midsummer Fire Festival has to be my favorite in-game event of the whole year!



And this year they've re-vamped it, with new quests (including dailys!) , a new boss challenge for lvl 70 players, and some new vendor rewards!



So, I'll be spending the next week trying to rack up 350 Burning Blossoms to buy a Brazier of Dancing Flames :O

Why you don't PuG KZ

Brocy logged on early today and saw someone pugging for Kara: "LF3M DPS". W00t! He's in. One of the other DPS was already saved "can I only run Kara once a week?", so I got my butt in there too (so much for lvling that alt ;) ).

We downed, Attumen, Maiden, Opera (Little Red Hood - so cute!), Curator, Shade & Medivh, and attempted a few others with several wipes. The group had a hard time. Was going fine to start with, but you know how it goes... One wipe and everyone gets nervous, so people start to leave, who get replaced, and so it goes.

Anyway, I got some sexy boots out of it: [Boots of Foretelling]

So... what about pugging KZ?

Repairs: 50 Gold
Elixirs & Potions: 60 Gold
Running Karazhan with a group of strangers for 9 hours: Priceless!

Slack!

Well, I finally managed to log on for a little while this evening before my nightly kick-off happened. Anyway, this post is my short(ish) attempt to shed some light as to why I haven't been on much of late.

As you all know, I've spent a lot of time playing in the last 12 months, with the last 6 months or so being devoted to running and improving the guild. As a result, I have neglected many of my duties at home, and gotten into some pretty bad habits.

In an attempt to set things straight again before things get bad, both Brocy and I have set Parental Controls on our accounts so we can only play for 1 hour on weeknights, and 5 hours each day on the weekend. This is a trial to see how we go, and seems to be working well. While the amount of time that we play will probably stay the same for now, we may change the days to suit peak playtimes a bit better.

Of course, spending less time in-game means that I can't be as involved in organising runs etc. as I would like to be. I hope that everyone is happy with this, as the Guild is still a great social outlet for us all. If you feel you need to move on to bigger and better things, please feel free, but don't forget us little people!!

Anyway, enough from me for now...

-Helmaree