I still enjoy the game because I've made some good friends that I still hang around with on my Ventrilo server, and Dad and I still play together once a week, questing and advancing our characters into the 70s that started together in their 20s.

Upcoming Video Content

And I still have the drive to make videos and offer helpful tips and tricks every time I play.

So, as a result of a wee bit of playing recently, I've got a video coming out soon that I'm working on putting the finishing touches on right now in iMovie '09, and I'll be posting it to my long-estranged YouTube channel which you can subscribe to through that link.

I hope to see a lot of comments on the videos when they're posted! Feel free to link to the video from your guild website or blog or wherever, if you think the tips and tricks would be helpful for your friends.

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2. How To Get Into PUG Raids Without An Achievement
3. WoW Fun Vid: Noblegarden Bunnies In Love

Wow, what a series of tests that instance is!

Dungeon Tool Is No Way To Learn Wailing Caverns

Dancing Dranaei Tank

The logic behind the statement is that Wailing Caverns is a twisty, turny, confusing instance at the best of times, but if you're trying to learn the route, the Dungeon Tool is likely NOT going to be your friend.

This isn't to say that it will ALWAYS not be your friend, but by and large, when I get into a Wailing Caverns group, it's a partially complete run, and your first job will be to find your dungeon mates.

Without dying to wandering slimes.

Wailing Caverns Test #1 and 2: Find Your Teammates (Without Dying)

I got into a fresh Wailing Caverns the other day and while it's a long journey to the end, I personally think that's the best way to get into this particular dungeon, unless you know the route through the instance by heart (which I do, which is why I'm comfortable tanking it).

The party itself was well-built, with a solid heal/tank team and DPS who did their job without causing extra mayhem.

Team Wailing Caverns

The instance door, of course, was too far away for those panicky people to get to, so everyone died and everyone had to run back. (Note to dungeoneers: Fight to the death. Defend someone who can resurrect, to the point of dying yourself. Don't run, it's unlikely you'll make it anyway)

One damage dealer decided to take a Spirit Rez, and then eventually left the group, and the trials of finding a successful new party mate began, while our team continued through the instance, four-manning the content.

We then went through three DPS - and watched each of them die (to slimes, they confirmed) as they tried to get to us. Each of the three waited for a full minute for a resurrection that was never to come, and had to be told to release and run back.

"We're too far in to run back to get you, so run back and be careful not to aggro the slimes again" was what I told each of them. (yay for alt + arrow up, repeating your history of chats)

So they'd release, and try to run back, but being Alliance folk who didn't make a huge home of The Barrens in order to learn the route to Wailing Caverns, all three ended up leaving the party before they found the instance door.

Meanwhile, our team is continuing to progress further and further into the instance, making it more and more difficult for someone unfamiliar with the instance to find us.

Finally one of the DPS make their way to us successfully. We're nearly at the end by the time they do.

Wailing Caverns Test #3: How's My Jumping Skills?

Deep in Wailing Caverns, there are two different places where players need to jump over a gap in the floor in order to progress.

The first Jump Test is the biggest - jumping onto, and then off of, a boulder that connects two hallways.

We've all failed this Jump Test as newbies in Wailing Caverns. This gives us patience to wait for the others who are currently working to pass the Jump Test for the first time, but it also gives us special pleasure as we watch you jump.

And fail.

And Jump again.

And fail again.

It's a little sadistic, but once you can reliably pass the Jump Test, you'll probably get some kind of sick pleasure out of watching others learning the skill as well.

This recent run we had two members who were new to Wailing Caverns and hadn't practiced nor passed the Jump Test yet. They both fell down five times each and had to run back around the loop to try again before they made it across.

Thankfully, the second Jump Test is a lot friendlier in that while the fall down is completely brutal for getting back up, the distance one has to cover in order to "pass" the test is a lot shorter than the first one. Nobody failed the second Jump Test, thankfully.

Wailing Caverns: Good Practice Keeping Focussed

Final Boss In Wailing Caverns

Letting go of the thought that we should run back to escort a new player.

Letting go of the expectation of having a clear run through to the dungeon group if you join part way through.

Letting go of the thought that it takes 5 to progress through an instance well.

Letting go of the thought that all lowbie instances are fast and easy, and above all, letting go of the thought that dungeons have a linear path from start to finish.

What a great place!

Related posts:

1. Wailing Caverns: Don’t Worry, I Know The Way!!
2. Farming Wailing Caverns, Flailing Around in Blackrock Depths
3. To The LFG Tool: An Ode

There are instances that Alliance folk are afraid of that Horde folk run a kabillion times when they level a toon family, and this Horde-based knowledge pays off big time in these few times.

Wailing Caverns and Razorfen Kraul

Druid Tanking Wailing Caverns

But in general, Wailing Caverns and Razorfen Kraul are two lowbie instances where a Horde cross-over can look all uber knowledgable and educated by taking the directional lead of a group of Alliance payers.

Wailing Caverns is one that I find the tanks often leave the party as soon as they zone in when I'm in there on my Shaman who cannot tank. They leave partially because the instance is so darned long, but also because as a Tank it's generally your responsibility to lead direction and get the group from the start of the instance to the end.

If you don't know your way through the twisty turny intestine-like mess of loops that describes Wailing Caverns, it's really easy to get lost and run around in circles while you try to find whatever it was you missed to bring you on to the next boss. And in order to get the Wailing Caverns completion achievement, you have to finish all of the regular bosses, and then talk to the Tauren at the start of the instance, in order to escort him to the final boss.

It's not a small trip! So if you find yourself in WC as an Alliance, and the Tank is leading direction well and actually gets you to the escort at the end, be sure to say "thanks for leading us through that twisty maze!".

Razorfen Kraul Pally Healing

Razorfen Kraul Is Easier Than It Looks

I was surprised at the concern that Alliance players tend to have when entering into RFK, though.

I mean, Wailing Caverns is long and twisty and confusing, but Razorfen Kraul is actually pretty straight-forward with few places to get lost and run around in circles like in WC.

Yet, when my Horde-turned-Alliance friend who was in the PUG with me died (fell into the pit of pigs and couldn't get back up), we both had to convince the rest of the party that there was no need to back-track to escort him back to where we were from the start of the instance, and at first I think the rest of them thought I was being cruel!

My friend and I laughed over vent at their responses, and my Mage friend was sure to pipe in on the party line to let folks know he knew the place very well and had no troubles getting back to us, too. He was back with us in no time at all.

Does The Dungeon Tool Encourage? Or Hinder?

Truthfully tho, the new exposure to instances that Alliance and Horde had minimal easy access to before cross-realm dungeons and instant teleport to the instance in question, is a challenge that I wonder about.

I've been in groups that have used the death of an unruly party member as a way to get rid of them from the party entirely when the person in question cannot find their way back through the instance to the rest of the group (without dying again that is), but I've also been in groups where we're nearly at the end of the instance and a new party member finds his or her way to us quietly and without problem.

I'm interested in hearing from readers, however. Does the new Dungeon Tool setup (of teleporting you in to the instance and potentially adding you to a party that is halfway done the instance) ENCOURAGE you to find your way through instances you're not hugely familiar with? Or does it HINDER your learning of these instances when you jump in to a partly-done run?

Let me know!

Related posts:

1. Wailing Caverns via Dungeon Tool = Tests Galore!
2. Farming Wailing Caverns, Flailing Around in Blackrock Depths
3. LFG Tanks: Don’t Screw Your Healers!

Wanna know why?

Cuz I'm a dummy. I already said that! Keep up! :)

It Always Helps To Read

Shrimproll's Achievement Screen

Things like the Coren Direbrew event in Blackrock Depths for the Halloween event is a good example of this type of "strangers snubbery" if you're not level-capped.

Each one of these Seasonal Events also has MORE quests than are required for acquiring the title.

This is where I screwed up last year. I didn't properly check to see what quests were required for "the Love Fool" title and which weren't, and I got snagged up on one that wasn't part of the meta requirement, and then didn't do one of the EASIEST meta requirements....

Only to find out that if I did the easy one, I would have been DONE!!

Duhhhrrrrr....

Standing With The Dalaran Flower Vendor

And Here I Stand...

Waiting for the Love Is In The Air event to start.

I've parked myself in front of the Flower Vendor, because all I need to do is buy a bouquet and I'm done!

Duhhhrrrrr.....

Hey Cool, New Quest!

While I was looking at my Achievements screen today and lamenting slightly about the silliness that marked last year at this time, I noticed there's a new quest in the Love Is In The Air section!

It's not required for the title (not a meta requirement), but it looks like something even my lowbies will be able to complete!

Tough Love
Defeat the trio of Crown Chemical Co. apothecaries in Shadowfang Keep

Cool, I can't wait to see where they hide out, and get my picture taken with 'em before we beat them down!

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3. Midsummer Festival Guide and Bonfire Locations

Elemental Shaman in Icecrown Citadel 25

Sure, I'm having a great time advancing in-game but I'm missing out on something I really love to do, which is write on this blog.

This blog that I spent so much time upgrading and re-designing!

So, I'm back.

Demoted To Reservist Raider

I've officially requested that my characters be demoted to a Casual Raider rank within our guild.

Of course, there were a whole bunch of reasons that went into the request for a demotion to "Reservist" raider, but the main ones were that I've got some RL things to be working on, and the level of commitment to stay anywhere near the "average" was getting to be too much.

Ah, the price one pays for being in a guild that's rockin' the new content ;)

Seriously tho, I had been slipping behind since before Christmas time, even with the switch-over from my Priest to my Shaman and all the effort that went into there. It was time to acknowledge to the team that they'd be better to recruit a full time raider for my spot for now.

With over a year and a half of raid experience with half of the Officer core, it was easy to move to the Reservist rank instead of considering removing myself entirely.

I do like my raiding mates after all.

Lock With Mechanohog at the Bulwark

What I'm Doing Now

I find that my gaming interest waxes and wanes. Not that I lose interest in playing, more that my interests move from place to place within the game.

When I started, leveling was fascinating.

PvP was something I got deeply into in terms of battlegrounds for a while, too. Wintergrasp is a lot of fun.

For a while, I quite enjoyed raiding.

But all in all, I find that I can write more fluidly when I'm writing about virtual strangers, instead of virtual teammates or virtual friends.

So now I'm taking my enjoyment of the new LFG system, and basking in the anonymity of adventure it allows, and looking to write more about this "back to the social leveling guild" view of the game.

And of course, now that I don't have the raiding costs, I'm having a lot of fun watching the Auction House earnings pile up with very minimal effort, too.

On my main realm where I'm well-established with 5 level 70+'s all with Epic Flyers (and a Motorcycle mount on my now-54 Warlock), I cracked 40k recently. On a lowbie realm I'm LFG Tank Leveling on (highest playing toon is 24) I have just over 1000g already.

Gold doesn't make the social part of the game any easier, but it sure makes the technical advancement part easier :)

I'm planning on publishing my strategies and AH-specific adventures on a new site I've got set up, called Don't Buy Gold (Auction House Strategies for the Intelligently Lazy).

It's not live yet but you can sign up to find out more about my plans, and be notified of its opening on the front page there.

If my hosting provider hasn't somehow hosed my temporary front page again, that is.

Achievement - Ragefire Chasm

Would You Subscribe To My LFG Leveling Podcast?

I'm also thinking now of making a podcast based upon my LFG leveling adventures, with two special focuses: One on Tanking as an LFG leveler, and another on things you can do to improve your own dungeon-running skill and contribute to a great run.

I know a lot of people are afraid of PUGs (pick up groups with complete strangers, especially cross-realm), but would anyone be interested in my experiences and advice?

My plan is that the free podcast would be no more than 30 minutes in length, published weekly.

Oh, and I'd also definitely want to relay some of the funny PUG adventures I have - you know, the Bad PUGs that are just SO classically bad that they're funny...

That on its own might be worth the subscription!!

Related posts:

1. The Heroics Divide
2. Why My Raiding Guild Rocks, Part II
3. Summertime's Effect On Your Raid Team

It's a BIG leap to go from "Normal" 25-player ToTC to "Heroic 25-player ToTC, and we've steadily been chipping away at the gearing requirements and raid attendance requirements, getting closer and closer to victory.

We've gotten to phase three of Heroic Northrend Beasts (25) quite a few times, but with our limited raiding schedule (three nights per week) and some troubles with Farm night vs Progression night attendance, we've done a bunch of recruiting over the past month, and the result is a much stronger team ... that needs a bit more time to "gel".

It won't take long, we're back up to having a solid enough group of attendees on Progression nights that we don't have to break into 10s. It's all good.

Sometimes, tho, it's a lot of fun to take a step back from the Trial of the Crusader raid and head back into Ulduar - even though most loot is disenchanted because everyone's primary and secondary specs are pretty well set.

Guildmates Cheering On Guildmates

One of the best things about being in a Guild Raid vs running with a PUG is that there's a "team feel" to the environment, instead of the feeling of a bunch of individuals coming together to accomplish a task and then go about their own business afterwards.

Going back into Ulduar was not only a fun adventure because we hadn't really been there for a couple of months, but also because we had picked up a sizable number of new recruits to our guild over the past two months and as a result, Achievements that the core raid team had gotten long ago were ones that still brought advancement to the newer folk.

So, we trounced through the raid up to Kologarn doing Achievement after Achievement for our newer guildmates, and then were stopped cold by Auriaya in our attempts to do the Crazy Cat Lady achievement.

Before being stopped by Auriaya (and we progressed quite well during our attempts, the achieve will come soon if we keep at it), however, one of the most fun achievements we got - and one that took a few deaths to get there - was the Razorscale achieve Iron Dwarf, Medium Rare. That's where this entry's picture is from.

Trying New Things When Wiping A Raid

An Odd View of Razorscale

She's still firing on people (in fact, the previous entry in this blog has one where I'm watching as she's firing on me in a previous attempt).

Well, one of our guildmates decided when a wipe was called (en route to our Iron Dwarf, Medium Rare achieve which required that we not actually kill Razorscale until we got the achieve) to test whether one could actually jump off of the edge of the cliffs that surrounded the area.

One guy went, and at least 7 of us followed, me included. Sounded like a good idea to me!

You know, like the whole "If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?" question that parents used to give to us as kids - turned on its ear like gets done in fantasy games with unlimited lives. ;)

And do you know, it took a LONG time for us to fall far enough to be jettisoned down into the abyss to our official deaths? I mean, I used to jump off of the Netherwing Ledge for a quick ride back to Shadowmoon Valley's Scryer Inn, and I swear it didn't take that long to die.

Laughter Bonds The Team

I think it was a great idea for us to have headed into Ulduar the other night, when our raid team was full but not quite the right configuration for progress on Heroic Northrend Beasts.

It gave a chance for the team to romp and play together - for us to pair up to take on Flame Leviathan (and it's odd how that teaming up in that fight helps new guildmates connect with their new raid buddies), for us to cheer each other and pat the new folk on the back for achievements they've picked up, and for us to all get a chance to laugh at death, knowing it won't make or break the attempt for one person to die early in a fight.

I don't think it's a good idea to put Ulduar onto our schedule every week, however - this bonding agent works partially based on novelty, and novelty is easily worn off by repetition.

But for a growing, morphing, advancing progression raid team, I think it went a long way to refresh the team :)

Related posts:

1. Why Do You Raid (or not)?
2. Summertime's Effect On Your Raid Team
3. How To Destroy Koralon The Flame Watcher

I'm sure I'm not the first person to make this statement, so if you'd like, you can associate the above quote to "Unknown", or "Anonymous". Whatever happens, it's the truth, no matter who first assembled the words in that particular order.

Falling In Game? Commonplace

One thing that is markedly different in how I operate In Real Life and how I operate In-Game comes in the form of how I travel from place to place.

In Real Life, I'm no longer light and nimble like the 10 year old who loved to climb stacks of 2-by-4s and 2-by-6s in the lumber yard while waiting for Dad to finish pushing the loads in and out of the dry kiln on the weekend.

Achievement: Going Down?

And I'm not really sure that I'm all that interested in jumping off of the high dive at the Olympic-class pools I go to on occasion anymore, either. (Doing it in Grade 6/age 10 earned me huge respect of a few bullies for years, it was worth it back then)

But in game, I'm constantly jumping or running off of cliffs and roads and buildings and whatever else is in front of me. For the most part, I don't die.

Sometimes, I even get an Achievement for my boldness!

About The "Going Down?" Achivement

The "Going Down?" Achievement requires a player to fall 65 yards without dying.

If you're a Mage or a Priest you might immediately think about Slow Fall or Levitate as your "secret weapon" to getting the achievement without the worry of death, but unfortunately - that doesn't work.

If you're a Paladin, however, you'll find that your Pally Bubble DOES indeed work with this achievement. I found it out by mistake when I jumped off at Thunder Bluff heading towards the Darkmoon Faire grounds in Mulgore - I bubbled right before I landed and got the achievement. I'm pretty sure I would have died had I not bubbled in time.

Where To Safely Do The "Going Down?" Achievement

Isle of Quel'Danas Inn Rooftop

I personally was on the Isle of Quel'Danas at the very top of the building that the Innkeeper resides in, and i jumped off of the roof to get to the ground (and flight path) quickly. I'd now recommend people run off the edge while mounted instead of just on foot, because the extra speed will help put you past the spiral ramp that brings you to the top of the building originally.

Others have recommended the Scryer's Tier in Shattrath City - but I'm not sure if they meant at the elevator or not, as I haven't tested that spot myself (can anyone confirm?)

I'd imagine there are some great places for this achievement in the battlegrounds - with my love for Levitating or Slow Falling from the Lumber Mill to the Blacksmith and from the BS road to the Mines I'm sure there's got to be a spot or two I don't know about.

Where's Your Favorite Spot For Jumping But Not Dying?

The key to this achievement is to jump a long way down, but not die.

But nearly die (unless pally bubbled). Just not die.

Where's your favorite place to take a big long jump yet survive at the end?

Related posts:

1. Achievement: For The Horde! Off Night Raids
2. How To Get Into PUG Raids Without An Achievement
3. Wailing Caverns via Dungeon Tool = Tests Galore!

Shrimp's Personal Mole Machine

Admittedly, I don't love it enough to get the cards from the WoW card game, nor do I love them enough to actually venture over to eBay to purchase the specific cards needed to get the specific pets, but that's because of my general philosophy of "beyond buying the game and renting the server usage each month, games shouldn't cost real life money".

And I also don't love the pets enough to buy Collector's Editions of the various expansion packs of WoW as they come out.

And I certainly didn't love to collect them when they took up precious bank space! But now that they and Mounts are stored differently, I'm just a plain ol' available-to-common-players pet and mount collector in World of Warcraft, and that suits me just fine.

Getting Pets For The Entire Family

Some pets are easy to get for your entire toon family.

If they're sold by a vendor and aren't items with a limited supply, then it's easy - with enough cash - to buy as many pets as required for every toon you have:

• Prairie Dog Whistle

• Ancona Chicken
• Brown Snake

And of course ones that are dropped but are Bind on Equip and therefore sell for a pretty penny in the Auction House:

• Captured Firefly

• Cat Carrier: Black Tabby
• Dark Whelpling

Some pets require a certain level of reputation or the completion of a quest, and therefore, not easy to collect on every toon that you currently have, unless they're all the same level, and that level is high:

• Miniwing

• [Tiny Sporebat]
• [Nether Ray Fry]

And then there are pets that come from quests but are super easy to do on any toon of any level, once you have the components required to do the turn-in for completing the quest.

This post is about how your Direbrew's Remote from Brewfest is the key to getting the components required for a unique frog pet that is only something you can pick up when the Darkmoon Faire is in town.

About The Direbrew's Remote

The Direbrew's Remote is a Bind on Pickup device that players were able to pick up during the Brewfest celebrations both this recent year, and the year before. It was a rare drop from the "Brewboss", Coren Direbrew, just like the [Great Brewfest Kodo] and [Swift Brewfest Ram] have been for the past couple of seasons.

As I noted in a previous entry about the social dynamics in play during the Brewfest Brewboss event, if you were below level 75 and didn't have some good friends to help out, you probably don't have the Remote yourself, but ask around - there are a lot floating out there now.

I was lucky enough to get the Direbrew's Remote on my Priest this year after picking it up on my Mage last year, and when the Darkmoon Faire came to town this time, I made use of my new contraption!

Shrimpy and Plugger Spazzrig

Direbrew Destinations

For those unfamiliar, the Direbrew's Remote is what summons those strange Personal Mole Machines (like at the top of this entry) that you saw in strange places during the Brewfest event.

The machines allow anyone in the same party as the owner of the Remote to hitch a ride via this Iron Dwarven invention, and it takes you straight into the Grim Guzzler (aka "The Bar") in Blackrock Depths.

Once you're in the bar, you can venture out of the alcove you land in (Coren Direbrew is in that alcove with you during the Brewfest celebrations) and up the stairs to your left at the end of the room. At the top of the stairs head to your left again, and walk nearly to the end of the room.

Outside of the alcove in front of you, to your left, is where the bartender for this alcohol establishment is pacing around. He's actually walking around on top of his own bar, and his name is Plugger Spazzring.

What To Buy, Where To Turn It In

Plugger is a vendor with food and drink stocks for sale. You want to buy his Dark Iron Ale Mugs - two for every character that wants the companion pet. He only sells 10, so that means per trip, you can get pets for 5 of your toons.

Extra Achievements Tip: If you haven't completed the Tastes Like Chicken and It's Happy Hour Somewhere achievements, this is a great place to get some new foods and drinks to get your numbers up!

Levitating Into Darkmoon Faire

Now you need to go to the Darkmoon Faire grounds, where ever they may be at the current time. Check the in-game calendar to find out when it's on next, and what zone you need to search in order to find it.

Once you're at the Darkmoon Faire grounds, look for an NPC by the name of Morja.

She's an Orc that can be found where I've X'd and Circled on the picture nearby - note that she's in an area that's away from the crowd, away from any type of vendors. If you're having troubles finding her, go where the vendors aren't ;)

Once you're beside her, take your first Dark Iron Ale Mug and set it on the ground by right clicking the mug and then left clicking the ground nearby (you should have a green circle if you do it right). Then, wait.

Who Knew Frogs Liked Beer??!

Apparently, Morja has lost her darling pet Jubjub, and her darling Jubjub is a boozer who absolutely adores Dark Iron Ale.

Adores it so much in fact that once you put that mug of Ale down on the ground, Jubjub smelled it from however far away it was, and if you wait long enough (sometimes about 45 seconds) that little thing will hop its way to wherever you put the Ale down.

If you're close enough to Morja, she'll activate with a blue quest question mark, where she'll ask you for another mug of ale for keeping her Jubjub happy.

You give her the second mug of ale, and to thank you, she hands you an Unhatched Jubling Egg.

In seven days time, the egg will hatch, leaving you with a special pet and memory of your Darkmoon Faire adventures!

Related posts:

1. Rockin’ It Out In Blackrock Depths
2. Under 77? Number One Thing To Avoid in Brewfest 2009
3. Brewfest 2009: Top 5 Things For Players Under 77

Shrimproll's Achievement Summary

Personally, I think it's a pretty decent number of achievement points, but I know if I reviewed the folks in my raid team I'd find that I've only got an average number of points.

Who's got the most in our guild? I think it's the Pally Tank with 7780 achievement points as of today's posting, but I didn't go through every guildmate to be sure.

Shrimproll's Current Achievement Goals

These days I'm working on the Classic Dungeonmaster achievement, with a side of Lil' Game Hunter.

Classic Dungeonmaster has me going through all of the Azeroth 5-man dungeons and defeating the final bosses, whereas the Lil' Game Hunter achievement has me collecting 75 non-combat companion pets.

To note, both my other 80s have already gotten the Classic Dungeonmaster achievements - being DPS it was easy for me to solo all of the bosses and instances required for the task. But until recently, I hadn't done much as a DPS spec on my Priest, and therefore had avoided many of the dungeon achievements I hadn't gotten through normal play.

But recently I decided to drop my Holy off-spec (Disc being my main spec) and pick up Shadow. And what better place to practice the absolute basics of Shadow Priesty spells and abilities than low level dungeons where nothing could hurt me?!

Classic Dungeonmaster Progress

Partway through September 2009, I decided to nail down all the Classic Dungeonmaster achievements because it seems to me that those dungeons are going to change come the Cataclysm expansion, and it's probably a good idea to get the achievements done now.

Plus, this toon has a decent number of Raid achievements but isn't terribly well-rounded when it comes to the rest of the Achievements available to do out there. (I blame it on the alt-o-holism)

So I looked at my list, and started from the easiest that was undone - Wailing Caverns - and worked up from there.

Travelling Vendors Rock!

I still made hundreds of gold with very little effort, and even got a few Bind on Equip blue/rare drops that earned 50-100g just by themselves!!

Wailing Caverns, Shadowfang Keep, Deadmines, Blackfathom Deeps, Scarlet Monestary, Blackrock Depths, Gnomeregon, and the Stormwind Stockades I did by myself over the period of three different days when time allowed.

Then, I started to turn to my friends to see who else needed these achievements. This resulted in me running one of my friends' alts through Zul'Farrak to get us both the achievement, and then later that same friend joined me on his level 80 to make quick work of nailing down the three wings of Dire Maul.

Now, the only ones left to do are Lower Blackrock Spire, Scholomance and Stratholme.

I finished up the Scholomance key (Skeleton Key) quest chain after we finished up Dire Maul, and as a bonus got The Keymaster achievement, too!

Lil' Game Hunter Progress

I love pets. Pets are a lot of fun. Pets entertain me when I am bored. In game, and out.

Shrimproll currently has 65 unique companion pets, plus an Unhatched Jubling Egg which I got from the Darkmoon Faire carnie and is due to hatch in just over 6 days into another pet to add to my collection.

Enchanted Broom Companion Pet

If you're still approaching the 50 pet marker, you'll be looking forward to a [Reeking Pet Carrier] which of course encases Stinky the skunk pet who has a special relationship with black and bombay cats.

It looks like it'll be quite a bit of luck in farming, money to pay others who have had luck in farming, and time in order to get to the 75 pet marker. All of the pets I can buy from vendors are purchased, and I'm not a big fan of the Tournament dailies... so that leaves watching the Auction House and trying to farm for occasional pets on my own.

That is, once I get the Worg and Spider pets from Lower Blackrock Spire.

When's Children's Week again?? :) :)

What Achievements Are You Working On?

I'd love to hear from you, especially if you're a fellow WoW blogger - I'm looking for new links to populate my Links page!

What achievements are you working on, and how many points do you have on your highest-achieved toon?

Related posts:

1. How To Use Your Direbrew’s Remote To Get A Companion Pet
2. How Children's Week Can Help Get You A Stinker
3. Farming Wailing Caverns, Flailing Around in Blackrock Depths