Sometimes a bit of brain IS required…

They both pick locks.

(probably old but funny as hell)

Remember that I told you how I often forget things? Yeah, it happened again.

Two days ago (day 24 of The Plan) I finally rounded up 5200g (no borrows) and bought my epic flying mount: Swift Purple Gryphon. I’m pretty happy about it. First impression? “OMG THIS IS FAST !!11oneoneeleven” (caps intended).

Why purple? To match my Justicar Shoulderguards. And because it’s trendy.

So I got my mount in 24 days. From ~50g to 5200g. That makes an average of ~214g/day. How did I do it? Scanning/exploiting the AH, farming Stratholme a few times, selling enchanting materials, but most of the gold came from Jewelcrafting. I’m really glad I dropped Blacksmithing for it.

On a different note, from tomorrow I’m free a whole week so I’ll probably raid those 25-mans and experience the game a bit more. Can’t wait. If I also get some nice loot I don’t mind. I’ll be sure to blog about it.

As a person, I have a very big flaw: I forget easily. So that leads to me thinking about what I should blog about, but forget to actually do it. Good thing is I remember later, but I like to blog about recent stuff, not something that happened days or weeks ago. So here is a list of things I should have blogged about, but didn’t:

• I finally got Exalted with The Consortium;
• I experienced my first 25-man raids and got some good loot: Justicar Shoulderguards;
• I developed a plan to get my epic flying mount in a months time. Surprising or not, I actually managed to stick to it so far;

Exalted with The Consortium

Got me a nice Jewelcrafting design: Design: Relentless Earthstorm Diamond;

25-man experience

It was really something else. We went Gruul and practically stormed through. I was just told briefly what to do, can’t even remember which add I tanked during the High King Maulgar fight. Only thing I remember is running from people, judging and fighting with SoL and getting the shoulder token.

After Gruul we went TK, where we killed Void Reaver in two tries. The first failed because some people (like me) we’re new to the fight. Anyway, I was briefly informed about the tactics and right away I said to myself that I’m going to have a hard time staying top of the aggro list because I will run out of mana fast. So I started with the usual rotation (SoR->Judge->Conc->SoR blablabla) and switched to SoW->SoV later on, at half mana. For most of the fight, I was struggling to stay top 3, because I was afraid to OOM, so I was just putting out enough to stay on top of the DPSers. But I noticed something weid. I wasn’t OOMing. I was actually almost at all times full on mana. Apparently he does an AoE so that meant mana back to me from healing. Went all out, rocketed to top of the aggro list, where I stayed until the end, despite his knockbacks. Lesson learned for me: long boss fights = SoC/SoV combo, no question about it.

After Void Reaver, went for A’lar. I was assigned to take the adds (did you think different?) and I did my job very good. But we didn’t manage to kill him because of some LoS issues (or so I understood). Thing is, being new to the encounter, it was soooo much info in a short period of time. “You have to take the add, move to the wall, hunter will MD you. After he’s dead, move to the other side and pick the other add up fast. Be careful in phase 2 to.. ” kind of jabbering confused me, but I managed to keep my cool.

I enjoyed 25-man raiding. It’s something special about the very well coordinated dance everyone has to make in order to kill a boss and wiping is just a big dance rehearsal.

Epic flying plan

I was just fooling around in Shattrath with my friends when I noticed I was the only one without epic flying. It was a bit sad to see that so I decided to get myself one within a months time (31 days). So I quickly opened Windows Calculator and divided 5200g by 31, which led me to conclude that I’ll need exactly 167.75g/day to succeed. I made this decision on the 26th of February. So that’s 21 days ago. I now have a bit more than 4000g, which, after a small calculus, means an average of 190g/day. I’m amazed I managed to keep an average gold/day ratio above the targeted one because there were some days when I simply didn’t play WoW at all. I’m looking forward to the next 10 days. Hope to keep the same average numbers coming.

There are probably more things I forgot but wanted to blog about. When I’ll remember them, I’ll write them down. So be sure to come back from time to time.

In the end, I have two questions:

1. How did you get your epic flying mount? Did you plan ahead, like me? Or just woke up one morning with 5200g to spare and bought it?
2. How was your first 25-man experience? I know I was pretty excited and kind of confused from so many people moving around. What about you?

Mine are:

Which ones are yours?