..obviously I do care about my bad reputation though, or I wouldn't be doing this. :P I hit Honored with Steamwheedle at the end of this vid btw. :D

Because grinding rep for this thing is so incredibly boring, I plan to make a few more of these how-to videos to amuse myself. :)

Insane acheivement progress:

Bloodsail Buccaneers: Honored (done)
Steamwheedle Cartel
Booty Bay: 26700/36000 Hated
Gadgetzan: 26575/36000 Hated
Ratchet: 26700/36000 Hated
Winterspring: 26700/36000 Hated
Shen'drelar: 3500/6000 Friendly
Ravenholdt: 1424/21000 Revered
Darkmoon Faire: 75/3000 Neutral

I've made quite a bit of progress, especially with Ravenholdt. Maxed out the rep I could get by farming mobs in Stromgarde (which stopped 1 rep away from Revered) and I've spent two nights so far (a couple of hours each time) on my friend's rogue Tekno farming Heavy Junkboxes at Tyr's Hand in EPL. At around 20000 through the Steamwheedle rep I hit a major bad luck streak and did about 10 DM runs in a row with no key drop, which was frustrating as hell (each run takes about 10-15min - so much wasted time!) but it's gotten better.. still feels like the drop rate has been nerfed or something though. >< For Shen'drelar I've gotten several librams from DM, but mostly I've been checking the AH for them (they're usually put up for around 80g each). I've also been farming Stratholme a bit lately for the frayed stitching I need to hand in with librams of protection (the ones mostly on the AH). And, although I haven't handed in anything for Darkmoon Faire yet (doesn't come around for a little while), I've spent several hours farming thorium in Burning Steppes on my dk & sent it off to Yuge to make into thorium widgets. I pretty much haven't done anything else with my playtime lately other than work on this achievement.. progress is spurring me on. 8D

What a fun, random day of WoW. :D I logged on just before midday today, and went straight to Dire Maul to farm Steamwheedle rep. Halfway through the first run, a random level 15 nelf rogue whispered me & said "Hi".

Panadoll: hello
Kered: what are you up to
Panadoll: farming rep
Kered: still doing the Insane achievement?
Panadoll: yeh.. who are you btw? lol
Kered: What's Kered backwards?
Panadoll: derek??

It was a friend I've known for several years now, who has always hated WoW with a passion. xD Apparently he has decided to play. :D He came to visit me last weekend - I hadn't seen him in ages - and I talked about WoW a lot. >< Maybe it was that. ^_^

So I stopped farming and went to run him through deadmines. Then I logged over to my rogue (Miuu, around level 17) and quested with him a bit. Was fun. :D

Thisevening I when I logged on I was invited to Ulduar sitout, so no Dire Maul runs.. and I didn't feel like farming Ravenholdt again. So I logged over to my rogue & Yuge ran me & Kered through BFD (on his dk Broodling). I'm getting sick of the rogue though. The only reason I rolled her was because, for the Insane achievement, the only way you can get from revered to exalted rep is by handing in Heavy Junkboxes, which need to be farmed by a rogue. But yeh, I'm not really enjoying questing because I've done these quests so many times before. :<

Anyways, I logged back over to Panadoll. The Ulduar raid broke up shortly after - I think it reformed a little later, but by the time it did I had already agreed to go to AQ20 with Death. She and Pelor have been farming Cenarion rep lately. AQ20 was pretty fun. :D I did very little healing, just lots of shield spamming. We decided to go to AQ40 after that, where I got a Red Qiraji Battle Tank! and Why? Because It's Red :D We didn't do much of AQ40 because we really didn't have enough people. But it was pretty fun anyway. :)

During AQ I asked my friend who was there, Tekno (80 rogue) if he would be interested in earning 1000g. I explained to him about the Ravenholdt rep.. seriously I would be willing to pay 1000g for a rogue to farm those boxes for me, it would be quicker for me to make back the money than it would be to level my own rogue to farm them. He said that because he's on his other account a lot these days, I was welcome to log onto Tekno myself and farm the boxes, and not have to spend any monies. Awesome! :D

Still later in the evening I offered to run Kered through SFK. He didn't have any flightpaths apart from Stormwind & Westfall. >< So we went on a very long adventure running from Ironforge to Silverpine Forest. I wish I had a passenger mount. :-/ SFK was pretty fun though.. I've done the instance on lowbie horde toons on other servers, ages ago, but had never done it on Panadoll. So I got an achievement for that too. :D

so tired! sleep time. :P

So I left Sanguinary, and went back to Twelve. I'm really, really happy to be back. Even if I'm not raiding, there's something comfortable about being in a well respected guild. There's no room for me in the 25man Ulduar group, but more often than not I can't make Twelve's 7pm raid time these days anyway. However tonight I got put on sitout (earning dkp apparently), which was awesome. :D Hopefully I might get a chance to go to a 10man run soon, I think they do them over the weekends & since I don't have my daughter to look after on weekends, I can actually make raid time.

Meanwhile, after spending much time levelling Dollfase & Zkay, I got a bit burnt out on levelling & decided to go do the Midsummer achievements on Panadoll. I got Flame Warden, the first event title I've gotten (I'm usually too lazy to do the event achievements :P). While I was running around grabbing flames I also finished off the Explorer achievement, and started thinking about other achievements I might like to do. Eventually Panadoll & Tkay went to kill goblins in Booty Bay for the Bloodsail achievement. :D It didn't take very long at all - mostly due to Tkay being able to round up practically the whole town. I mostly just healed him. :P Anyways while we were doing that, I started thinking about the Insane achievement.. I've decided to go for it. xD The day after we did the Bloodsail thing, I went back to Booty Bay and got my rep up to honored. It took me longer by myself, as I mostly just single targeted the goblins, but it wasn't a terrible grind.

So for this achievement, I need: Honored with Bloodsail, Exalted with all Steamwheedle Cartel (Gadgetzan, Ratchet, Booty Bay & Winterspring), Exalted with Shen'drelar, Exalted with Ravenholdt, and Exalted with Darkmoon Faire. I'm working on Steamwheedle, Shen'drelar and Ravenholdt at the same time. I've been running Dire Maul north (had to get the key first, which gave me some Shen'drelar rep) where there are 2 repeatable quests for Steamwheedle rep, and also librams drop which I can hand in for Shen'drelar rep. I've also been to Arathi today to kill all the Syndicate mobs in Stromgarde for Ravenholdt rep. They're just 5 rep each but I just run around chucking SW:P on them all and they drop really fast. Today I farmed 3000 rep to take me to Friendly in just a couple of hours.

So here's my progress with this crazy project so far:
Bloodsail Buccaneers: 50/12000 Honored
Steamwheedle Cartel
Gadgetzan: 1625/36000 Hated
Ratchet: 1625/36000 Hated
Booty Bay: 1625/36000 Hated
Winterspring: 1625/36000 Hated
Shen'drelar: 500/3000 Neutral
Ravenholdt: 115/6000 Friendly
Darkmoon Faire: 75/3000 Neutral

Yeh I have a long way to go, lol. :P I'm enjoying myself so far though.. I actually kinda like farming rep. xD I know it will take me a really long time, and I'll probably get burnt out on it, but then I'll be motivated to play my alts again. :D

I drew this a few weeks ago for someone in TF when I was bored on a shutdown night. :)

( priest )

Also something I didn't mention here when it happened.. Panadoll got her awesome blue birdie mount, after many many runs through Sethekk Halls with Damager's druid alt. xD I just thought of it cos I changed my lj profile & added a pic of it there. :)

It's been a pretty fun week. :) There were no raids scheduled til Sunday (today) so I spent a lot of time neglecting dailies completely and working on achievements instead. I got my For The Alliance! achievement and black war bear mount early in the week, in a pug raid over several hours, and also got Wrath of the Alliance at the same time. As I mentioned in my last post I got some PvP achievements on that night I got a bit drunk, and a couple days later I went into AV with Yuge and got Damage Control (we went to a secluded area, and he kept removing his gear - cutting his health by half - and I just healed the crap out of him. :P) I went into WSG after that cos I wanted to get the daily I'd picked up ages ago out of my quest log (just needed the mark of honor). I managed to not just get the mark but also Capture the Flag. Disc priests make good flag carriers!

Mostly though, I've been working on Loremaster. I've got up to about 570/730 Kalimdor quests done so far. But when I passed by the furbolgs in Felwood, I thought "hmm, maybe I'll take a break and work on Diplomat instead!" It took me three days to do it. I started on the furbolg rep, (started from about 3000 through Honored, as I'd already handed in a shitload of beads when I was working on my Frostsaber). That took me the first day. The second day I worked on Kurenai, which took roughly the same amount of time, even though I started from about 2000 through Revered (I had been working on their rep pre-Wrath). And on the third day I did Sporeggar, which was the quickest - I started from about 500 through Revered (while levelling I ground up their rep in order to get a wand from them). Now I have The Diplomat and 10 Exalted Reputations, plus a talbuk and a tiny sporebat. :D Afterwards I flew over to Netherstorm, bought some of the exotic pets, and got Plethora of Pets :DDD

Today I went to a pug 25-man Naxx run (started by Twelvians) which was pretty fail.. I was only there for downing Gluth, and we wiped on Thaddius many times before it was called. Afterwards I went to Delusion's 10-man Naxx. It started in the late afternoon, aiming to clear as much as possible. The run went really, really well. Delusion has been heroic farming all week (personally I only went to one heroic - I don't like them much! I did get an epic upgrade to my wand though :D) and everyone is a lot better. This time I was last of the three healers on the heal metre most of the time (the other two are resto druids) - which is how it should be imo! We don't quite have Naxx on "farm" status yet (except for, perhaps, the Arachnid quarter) but it was still a lot easier, with minimal wipes. We managed to clear Arachnid, Plague and Construct quarters by around 10:30pm. :D Tomorrow we're going back at 7:30 to work on Military, which a lot of the group has not seen before. As such it will probably take us a little longer, but I'm looking forward to it. We might even get up to Sapphi! ^_^

I've decided my favourite boss in Naxx is now Heigan. xD I am loving the Safety Dance, now that I know how to do it. Someone in the raid discovered a "safe area" bug thing though, so I found myself the only one actually doing the dance, while the rest of the raid hid in a corner. >< I've been wanting to fraps Heigan (not sure if I can, cos I lag horribly whenever I try to turn on fraps in that fight for some reason) and make a video putting it to Safety Dance (a song which has been stuck in my head badly lately) but if people are going to cheat and hide in the corner.. bah! lol. We didn't even get the Safety Dance achievement despite their cheating ways.. next time gadget. xD I tried to play Safety Dance on vent when we got there, but it didn't work well.. I just held my mic up to my headphones, and it didn't come through well apparently. :P



I decided to change Panadoll's hair. I don't change it often, as I don't really like the idea of changing her much from how I rolled her - she just wouldn't be Panadoll. :PP I probably won't ever change her facial markings. But yeh, I decided to go back to her original style and a lighter blue (her first colour change). I think it looks pretty cute. :3

I spent the afternoon today doing all my dailies - been neglecting them a bit lately, as it takes me so fucking long to do the entire round of them. wtb ports between all the daily spots. >< I had all evening open after that, as I'm not raiding again til Wednesday. Seems I'm really considered a "core raider" now in the guild, though that's probably due to Delusion's lack of healers more than anything else. I'm getting heaps better at raid healing now though, cos of my recent upgrades. And I really enjoy it more than anything else in the game right now. ^_^ It's more fun than healing 5-mans by far.

Anyways, I was going to do normal Oculus with Yuge, as it's the only dungeon I haven't done yet, and once I do it I can make my awesome Wispcloak. But Yuge had problems logging on (which he sorted out later) so I mucked around with Winter Veil achievements. :D I went over to Searing Gorge to do the Metzen quest, and afterwards I started thinking.. "since I'm here, I wanna get the Leeroy achievement :D" I looked up how to do that, and found out that I needed a key to get into UBRS, which I would have to get doing LBRS. >< So I decided to solo LBRS :D

LBRS was fun! Never been there before. I got hopelessly lost in there for a while, but eventually found my way through, though it took me a little while. Probably the most annoying thing was the poison debuff I got from the spider boss, which would not go away (immobilised me randomly for 10 seconds at a time).. I found out I had to go to an npc in Burning Steppes who would "milk" me o_O to get rid of it. Then I headed over to Dustwallow Marsh and finished off the quest chain to get the UBRS key. :D While I was over in Kalimdor, I decided to finish off a quest I got from an object that dropped off the world dragon in Duskwood which I killed with Verd a while ago. The quest text said to find a druid in Cenarion Hold or Moonglade.. it was only after I headed over to Cenarion Hold that I found out the npc I had to turn it in to was in Moonglade. >< Why put Cenarion Hold in the quest text at all?? beh. Anyways I got 2000 rep with Cenarion Circle after I turned it in. ^_^

Oculus tomorrow, hopefully - depends on shutdown time. I would really like to get my Wispcloak before Naxx on Wednesday...

I played too much WoW yesterday. >< Yuge was home from work, so I took the opportunity to spend almost all day on WoW. I did a couple of heroics on Panacea with Twelvians (UB and Crypts), then did Mags and Kara with Twelve on Panadoll, then BWL on Panadoll with more Twelve, and finally Onyxia with Yuge, Lutzi and a few other people (including Leth). Panadoll got her classic raider achievement! :D I was pretty exhausted by this time though. Took a little break to eat & watch TV, and I was just going to go to bed & read, but I got lured back in. >< I spent an hour or so before bed on Panacea grinding Kurenai rep in Nagrand, and finding out about the guild drama that had been going down earlier in Panacea's absence.

Recently there have been a lot of new people joining the guild, and a lot of them are youngens. There have been a few jokes in officer chat about the guild turning into a creche. I haven't really been paying all that much attention to guild chat lately, but I have gotten some people whispering me about the nublets. Yesterday a new recruit was gkicked because he was swearing at everyone ("fucking noobs" I think was the term he used) because nobody would come help him in STV. There is one particular new guy, called Tigerbum, who gets picked on a lot because he doesn't know much about the game and has a way of talking that makes him look kinda stupid. Yesterday he was apparently getting bullied mercilessly (one of the top offenders is another new recruit who I don't like much due to their bad attitude and general rudeness) when his brother came online and informed the guild that Tigerbum is only 11. If I'm online and see any more bullying towards Tigerbum, shit is gonna go down. I'm thinking of asking Indi to create a new 'sin bin' type rank to demote people for a set period of time if they behave like idiots. There's an officer meeting tonight, so I might bring it up there.