Tonight, the Gold Team went back to the dreadful Zul'Aman and triumphed over Akil'Zon, the Eagle Aspect. He took a few tries, but eventually succumbed to our superior fire power and strategy. Instead of trying to collapse on one person in the outer ring, we all collapsed on the tank in the middle. We also just ignored the eagles and we were able to defeat the evil eagle.
Journaled at 11:07 PM by Tiddlywinks
Last night, while working on obtaining the Crescent Key, I also was able to get a new recipe for Runn Tum Tuber Surprise. I unfortunately couldn't find any tubers in Dire Maul last night, but will look for them again tonight. Either way, with my cooking skill at the highest point, rather than focusing on creating better foods, I'm looking to create rare foods. I'm sure those who enjoy Stormchops (thanks Harkor for cooking some up for me...I have yet to find this recipe in a crate of meat), would also enjoy the Tuber Surprise.
Journaled at 10:51 AM by Tiddlywinks
Last night, after my dailies, I enlisted the help of Harkor and Llyr to obtain my Crescent Key. We quickly cleared through Dire Maul as necessary and Pusillin was no match for us. With my new key in hand, I entered Dire Maul north and starting killing ogres until the Gordok Shackle Key dropped. I then happened upon a kind goblin named Knot Thimblejack who was being held by the ogres. Before I released him, he offered to teach me how to make a Gordok Ogre Suit. I thanked him for the information and released him from his chains. Apparently, even while chained to the floor in this remote part of Azeroth, he had still managed to collect some precious items, which he gave me in exchange for his release. One of the items within his cache was the Ogre Tannin required to make my own ogre suit! I quickly gathered up the necessary items from my pack, sat down, and used my skills to create a disguise that makes me look exactly like one of the Gordok ogres.
Journaled at 7:13 AM by Tiddlywinks
Yesterday during my usual auction house perusals, while looking for patterns and formulas to complete my tailoring and enchanting skills, I stumbled upon the recipe for a Shadow Hood. Unfortunately, I was not able to figure out how much the pattern was worth, but I figured it was worth a lot to me since I had not seen it at auction before, so I quickly bought it for 80g. The price might have been high, but I needed the pattern, and I'll usually pounce on anything cheaper than 100g. So 80g was almost a steal. And I know one more pattern now.
Journaled at 7:48 PM by Tiddlywinks
Monday night, after I was done questing and fighting in arenas, I made my way over to the hall in Stormwind so I could purchase my new Vindicator's Pendant of Conquest. So yesterday, when I was ready to continue questing and raiding, I quickly bought my pendant with my saved honor points and lamented the fact that I had not earned enough arena points to purchase my Vengeful Gladiator's Silk Trousers.
Journaled at 7:42 AM by Tiddlywinks
Unfortunately, last night I was only able to get in games with Phill the Battle Chicken. We had some really great matches where we completely destroyed the other teams, and a few matches which were amazingly close, and only a couple where we were dominated. We kept our rating above 1500 and I should receive about 380 arena points today. Unfortunately, that's not nearly enough to buy the pants for tonight's Zul'Aman raid, so I am stuck with the Spellstrike set. If it comes down to it though, I could don my Trial-Fire Trousers and the Crown of the Sea Witch which grant me an extra 50 stamina, 40 intellect, and 20 spirit at the cost of 38 hit, 64 crit, and 23 damage. Pretty big tradeoffs. From a pure damage output point of view, it's not a good tradeoff. From a surviveability point of view, it could work. The question is, do I add 500 hit points in exchange for damage output? Will 500 hit points keep me alive that much longer? Or will my extra damage output bring him down that much quicker?
Journaled at 1:32 PM by Tiddlywinks
I've done the calculations and I will not be able to buy my new pants tomorrow unless I can get a 3v3 arena team going. Hopefully I can persuade some of the people in my 5v5 group to join a 3v3 team and then I'm sure I can get Mercreus and maybe Nefernetcher from my 2v2 team. Or perhaps tonight Nefernetcher, Mercreus and I will start a new 3v3 team and I can get somewhere around 800 arena points for the week. I only need 774, so it might be close if our ratings get too low on the 2v2 and 3v3 teams.
Journaled at 11:27 AM by Tiddlywinks
A few nights ago, we ventured back into Zul'Aman for the second time in as many days. We made quick work of Nalorakk, falling short of the 20 minute timer by just a couple minutes. We then worked our way through the gauntlet twice getting in quite a few attempts at Akil'Zon. Unfortunately, we were unable to get him under 40%. The fight itself has a few confusing components, and I'm still trying to figure out how exactly we as a team can handle the fight.
((For those that haven't yet, download BigWigs - you shouldn't be doing instances without it!))
Journaled at 8:28 AM by Tiddlywinks