Lightning Bolt

I don't know what I did to get this vantage point in a recent pet battle, but it allowed me to get a really good view of the pet's spell effects, and I thought the lightning in the Cyclone ability was a nice touch. I don't know how to ever get this close up view again, but it was pretty cool.

You Don't Say?

I just realized the other day, though, that if Coronavirus had happened at the end of Warlords of Draenor, during the lull before Legion when the garrisons began to feel like prisons, I would have lost my mind. The Horde garrison is so depressing anyway, and I just remember at the end feeling trapped and isolated (hearty LOL) in the garrison day after day. Which isn't to say Warlords was a bad expansion, the questing experience was one of the best, or that Battle for Azeroth is such an amazing expansion, it's been pretty meh for the most part. But for me, the garrison depression would have been unbearable coupled with the reality of isolation/social distancing, compared to the feeling of having places to go and things to do in Azeroth.

Pretty Fishy, If You Ask Me

That's it. That's the post.

That's Not How Sidesaddle Works

Nothing works correctly on a Druid in shapeshift form, though, generally. I'm mostly done playing my Night Elf Druid now that I have my bee, but I started leveling my Zandalari Druid, when I'm not doing chores on my Shaman.

Queen Bee

And her pretty princess bee! I wish the hat was a toy box item, though, so I didn't have to keep a stack of them in my bags.

It really felt pretty pointless having to do this grind on an Alliance character, especially since I had to level her to 120 to start the rep grind. Also, earning a mount on a Druid always feels pointless, since my Druid is only ever going to use the mount for a screenshot, and then never again. But, it was nice getting to Druid again. Flight Form in Kul Tiras/Zuldazar/Nazjatar (I never made it to Mechagon) was suuuuuuuper easy-mode. Interacting with nodes in the air without dismounting is the Best. Thing. Ever. But it will be nice, if I ever get around to leveling my little Warlock, to have a buzzy bee mount.

When I was going through the leveling part, I was going to use this picture for a post:

...because I though it was funny that I instinctively hit Flight Form when a bomb from a quest sent me flying, although I should have known that there would be a contingency plan for non-Druids/Engineers/Demon Hunters. But then when I tried to think of a title for the post, I realized I missed an opportunity by going bird form when I could have used the title "Bearachute". I'll show myself out.

They Grow Up So Fast

I think I'm a few more bags of expensive food away from my baby Direhorn friend growing into a mount! I'll probably never use him as a mount, since he seems awfully large and bulky, and, of course, ground mount. When he was a mid-size dino, though, he would have made a perfect mount for my Goblin:

There really needs to be some mount equipment that normalizes the size of mounts for Goblin/Vulpera/Gnome/Mechagnome/Dwarf/Dark Iron Dwarf. Of course even a miniaturized version of the mount wouldn't be the same as the adorable pet model, but it would at least make them more useful.

I Can Fly, I Can Fly, I Can Fly!

I didn't bother to get a screenshot of my character flying in Zandalar/Kul Tiras/Mechagon/Nazjatar, since it didn't seem like a particularly new or novel feat, but I did immediately return to Zandalar to fly around because it was such a long time that I went without flying there. And the first thing I saw was a couple quests that I missed, including the follow-up to the quests I did with my little Direhorn buddy, and I was so happy to see him again! Apparently I was also supposed to do some stuff with Magni, so I tried to get all caught up on that as well.

"Uhh, yeah Magni, that happened a lot in Mists. Did you sit that expansion out or someth...oh. Right. Sorry."

And the other thing I immediately did when I got flying was to fly to Vol'dun to get my very own Alpaca mount!

She's adorable and I love her so much! I kind of wish I had her before I got flying, but I have a feeling that finding the spawn would have been a lot more time-consuming before I could fly.