The end is in sight..........maybe

My pursuit of the Loremaster of Northrend achievement is almost at an end. I have 6 quests left to do which should be a piece of cake right?

Not a bit of it. I have been carrying these quests for nearly a week and am really finding it hard to finish them off because they are all group quests which no one else seems to want to do. Why is that?

Although they are all theoretically 5 man quests, they are easily finished by a level 80 3 man group. So why am I finding it so hard to drum up the support I need?

Ho, hum. I will just have to persevere and try and chip away at them as and when.

To Raid or not to Raid, that is the question…..

With apologies to the immortal bard for pinching his line but this is the situation I find myself in at the moment.

I have fully explored Northrend, have only two heroics left to do (Halls of Stone and Occulus) and am within 30 quests of achieving Loremaster of Northrend. In other words I am approaching the point where there is nothing more to do, odd achievements aside, apart from raiding Naxx and Ulduar and this gives me some concerns of the ‘what next?’ variety. So what are my options?..........

One option is continue as I am and set myself some personal objectives like getting all of the non-raid BiS items or acquire money to the point where I can buy a gaggle of epic and unusual mounts or collect an example of every Leatherworking recipe ever invented. errrm dull, dull, dull, dull, dull.

I could go back to the beginning and clear all of the stuff that I missed when I originally levelled. Would it be dignified to see a level 80 toon running around Wailing Caverns? Actually this idea might offer a little light relief /consider

I could just call it a day where I am and concentrate on levelling my drood alt, which I have been promising to do for soooooo long, and just do daily’s on my main to finance other activities. Problem with that is that first, I would miss out on a huge amount of game content, second, it feels like a bit of a kop out and third of course, I am at heart a hunter so putting my main to one side would be a hard, hard, thing to do.

I could decide to have a go at this raiding malarkey but to do so I would either have to try and pug some runs or jump guilds with my main and look for a raiding guild to take me in because my current guild only has 3 level 80 characters. Trouble is I have never previously bothered with raiding, mainly because I have felt uncertain as to whether I could give it the commitment that it needs and the last thing I want to do is be unreliable and so inconvenience my raid mates. If I am honest, I still feel a bit that way /sigh.

Another option is to try and expand my guild until we have enough players to form our own 10 mans. I can't describe how much like hard work that idea sounds so bugger it.

I guess I shall just have to think about this some more and if all else fails I could always………….start a Death Knight!!!!

This place is ace......

Browsing the interweb at luch time and I found this place, The Armory Data Mine. What a cracking resource.

I'm off to have a little play. ........

Hunter Tactics Pt 1 - Heal My Pet

I have enjoyed a great few weeks of running heroics. UK, UP, CoS, Gundrak, etc etc. Lots of lovely loot, big power ups and great fun. Last night in particular cheered me up because for the first time ever I unleased my evil side, Mwahahahah!!!!

A friend and I agreed to assist what appeared to be a decent enough group with a Gundrak heroic run. Things all seemed to happen as they should until the first boss, at which point my beautiful wolf DancesWith was killed to death during the fight and I am ashamed to say I didn't notice /Gasp!

Now I know that as a fully specced BM hunter it is my responsibility to take care of by fluffy friend and the fact that he died is ultimately my fault. No argument at all. I was a first class huntard.

So I checked out Recount and discovered that my hirsute playmate had received no healing. Thats right NO healing. Not from me and not from our Lvl 80 Resto Drood in full epics. Being the polite fella that I am I whispered to my tree brother and asked that he include DancesWith in his rotation. He of course agreed.

He then totally ignored me.

So I spent the rest of the run healing up DancesWith on my own and taking him in and out of fights as needed in order to keep him alive.

And so to the last boss. Now all through the run I had made full and proper use of MD on the MT, but as we worked through the pre-boss trash an evil idea took root and ultimately I couldn't help myself ---- I MD'd the healer before the pull, then stood back and LOL'd as the squishy got well and truly stomped. Man, you should have heard the pillock squeak, he went ballistic and ranted away in Pchat.

When I explained to the party what I had done and why, they laughed too which didn't help at all and at one point the Drood threatened to leave the party. He calmed down in the end as he wanted the achievement. On the plus side he healed the nuts of my wolf on the last boss.

As much as I would like to take credit for this idea as an independant thought I can't, its not a new idea. Originally I read about it on another blog. Hey ho, it was still a laugh.

I has it.......

And so after 19, yes 19 attempts, I have finally acquired the Drake-Mounted Crossbow.

We returned home from holiday yesterday afternoon and were very tired. I logged on just to check mail and banking and received an invite to UK heroic. Why not thought I, it will only take half an hour.

And so with 3 Draenai (DK tank and 2 pallys) plus a resto drood off we went. We tore the place apart and 15 minutes later it was all over and I now have my X bow. Definitely a Heineken moment.