One of the times lowbie horde attempted to gank me while I was farming Ravenholdt rep at Stromgarde. It was always rogues who tried it. :P I actually frapsed this by accident. Fraps is bound to my F9 key, which I must have inadvertantly pressed while alt tabbed. I was cleaning out my fraps folder and found this xD

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

Yesterday was a busy day.. In the morning, Panadoll ran heroic BM with my brother and his friend (Hannika and Soffscia). It was my first ever heroic. Panadoll went as DPS, lol. xD It was ridiculously easy. :P Then afterwards, Panacea ran heroic Slabs with them, which was also ridiculously easy.. we 4-manned most of it. :P I am quite liking these nerfs! Gives me more of a chance to see content & loots. :D

Verd was getting a Kara group together after that, so I joined up. We had the whole group together & summoned, but we couldn't zone in to Kara.. all the instances were down, which meant everyone got stuck trying to get through the portal. This had also happened earlier when we'd been doing the heroics, but the instance servers came back up after a while. The Kara group stuck together for a bit hoping the instances would come back up, but eventually fell apart. I got my Swamp of Sorrows and Blasted Lands exploration achievements done, then headed back through the Dark Portal. :P

There was horrible, horrible lag in the afternoon. This lag really did not like my mind flay and mind blast spells for some reason. Still, I had to go do my Isle dailies, so I persisted through the lag to get them done. If I didn't know better, I'd swear the Horde wasn't lagging at all. -______-; After the dailies, I headed over to Nagrand to farm up the last of the primal waters I needed for my FSW robe, then flew over to Terrokar to gather the last of the netherweb spider silk I needed. Then - finally! - I made my Frozen Shadoweave Robe!! :DDDDD

( screenie of the making under here )

yeh I did actually stop right there, among the spiders, to make the robe as soon as I got the last of the mats :P Anyways, Panacea looks like this now :)



I took her to the Dark Portal to take pics of her in her FSW set, like I did when Panadoll got her PMC set (hence new icon ^_^). Panacea doesn't seem to like having her picture taken as much as Panadoll though.. maybe she feels naked out of shadowform :P

Later on in the evening I logged onto Panadoll to do her Skyguard dailies. I wasn't planning to do much else (cos it was late), but after I'd finished them I got kinda caught up in doing exploration achievements.. in the end, I finished up all of the Outland exploration achievements, and got all the Outland Hallow's End candy along the way, and went to bed way too late. xD

bah, maintenance night. >_< I guess I am kinda glad that Blizzard doesn't usually take our oceanic servers down later on in the night - last week when they did that we got a huge influx of people at 8pm, making things pretty lagtastic.

Anyways. Panadoll got her Primal Mooncloth Shoulders yesterday! :D



I couldn't stomach the thought of farming the 8 primal lifes I needed for them (I've already farmed so many just to make the mooncloth), so I bought the damn things. :P I've made the gold back already with dailies, so it's not too bad. And I've saved myself hours of mind-numbing bog lords. :P Now I need to make the robe. Which requires 12 pieces of mooncloth.. that will take me about 18 days if I make it all myself. I really don't mind the wait though. I've accepted that it's going to take me ages to do all of the things I wanna do in WoW - saving up gold for epic mount & getting exalted with Sha'tari Skyguard in particular - and I have my little Panacea to turn to if I want a faster pace. :)

So Panadoll's heals are at 1200 now. :D Happy! Hopefully I'll get into another Kara soon. Where I could maybe.. just barely.. actually be useful as a healer. :P Yuge's gonna tank n bot for me next (hopefully tomorrow?) so I'm looking forward to that as well. :)

And just randomly - here's a screenie of Panacea dinging level 27 today (I has an addon that takes a screenshot every time I ding). Yay kill 20 Plague Spreaders quest. :3 ( screenshot )