Outland: The Final Frontier

 I haven't played much lately except to tinker with my house a bit and log off. But I made a Star Trek bridge (room) for Rocksy to be the Captain of, so that's fun. 

WKRP in Cincinnati

 

 So normally I don't get the ground-only mounts (unless it's a novelty, like a big turkey). But in this case I only wanted it because it was ground-only, simply so I could make this joke.

Hang In There

I really need this shot to have Rocksy hanging off the edge by her fingers so I could put the title text on it and make a motivational poster for Rocksy's player housing. Is that even going to be a thing we can do? I haven't watched any videos about it yet.

Anyway, I just noticed that there are Brewfest toys that I don't have, and I'm not going to grind Brewfest tokens, so I'll just have to get the hearthstone next year. And then whatever the other one is. I don't really care about the Brewfest stuff very much, but the atmosphere in the tent is nostalgic for me, and it's a thing to collect and I need* to have all the things. 

 

 

 I just looked at my blog today and realized that I haven't posted all year (and only four posts last year). I haven't stopped taking screenshots, I take them and think about posting about how much I enjoyed Children's Week this year and I love..little candle guy? I can't even remember his name. Squibble? Anyway, he was cute and I enjoyed the quest for his candle. 

 

This picture has been my computer background since Undermine, because I really, really liked that area. The music, the Goblins, the car  ok, I didn't love the car. I loved the idea of the car, because I remember being so sad that the Goblin starting area car wasn't a permanent item/mount, so that was cool. I'm just really not a great driver. I mean Rocksy isn't. Whatever. 

Also, I just really liked that I found a sleeping Goblin that clipped into the table so I could put Rocksy there to /sleep for the screenshot. I always like finding a good spot to /sleep before logging out**.

*I don't actually need them but my brain tells me I do, so there we are.

 

**When I was a noob (before time+experience made me just a perpetual-noob) I thought you had to /sleep before you could log off. I think because when we were questing we would /camp to log out. 

The Best Present

 

That I got for myself! At least they put it in a box with a bow after I bought it, so it feels festive.

Nevah Say Nevah

"I'll nevah be able to equip THAT"

 

I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, Anduin

I know the new "..." flag is supposed to show me that I'm still working on a quest, but I feel like the quest giver is just looking at me like "wtf?" all the time and it makes me a teensy bit irritable. 

"I KNOW the way out of the Dalaran sewers, ANDUIN, quit /sighing! I took one wrong turn!"
 

Here Comes the Noblegarden Gryphon

 I haven't been paying attention to holidays for so long, I barely made it on before the end of Noblegarden to get the pet/toys I didn't have yet. And I had to make a new transmog (thanks to the trading post) to go along with them. Luckily I'm terrible at Plunderstorm so I don't have to waste any time on that!

Now I Just Need a Sleigh

 I love the Trading Post. Also, I forgot that I had fished at the Darkmoon Faire and was, therefore, wearing a fish head at the time I took the screenshot (what ELSE are you supposed to do with those besides put it on?). I probably should have waited until Winter Veil to get a shot with the sleigh in Orgrimmar, but I was too excited and I like this area in the Emerald Dream. Plus it's easier to see the bugs to stomp on when you use the Inky Black Potions, and I don't like to waste them so I had to get in all the screenshots I could.

Can't Druid While Shamaning :(

 The new broom is instacast during Hallow's End. A permanent broom mount-that is freaking instacast-during Hallow's End.
I thought I must be dreaming.

 

But it turns out I kinda was, because, while it IS instacast (which is a-freaking-mazing), it CANNOT be cast while moving, which is pretty much the biggest drawback to instacast I could've ever imagined. Because running and jumping off of stuff is my whole raison d'être. So I guess I still have to get the event broom during Hallow's End every year anyway. 

C'est la vie.

Ok, Now What?

 

Every time I finish the trading post reward, I log out immediately because I can't think of anything else that I need to do. I guess I need to think of some other goals to work on (like cleaning out my bank, AHEM) or...maybe something more fun than that. I love dragonriding but I recently realized that I've never actually used the '1' button and it finally occurred to me to check what it was and I was FLABBERGASTED. I kept thinking "I wish I could just go forward instead of up and forward when I push '2'" and it turns out I COULD but all this time I've been too dumb to even look at what all of the buttons do! The only ones I use regularly are '2', to go up and gain speed when I've lost momentum, and '3', to go farther faster. So, now I'm going to have to do ALL the dragonriding races again since I've never finished a single one above Bronze (clearly only because they don't award Tin or Aluminum). 

Or maybe I'll just sit and enjoy the view.

Resurrected

We didn't clear trash He walked up patrolling It came insta-cast, HP low, and falling And I'm thinking, "why'd this happen… Ankh is on cooldown…" Hope you're feeling, like some healing I need my rez now All will be, eventually, returned into the light I'm just waiting on my rez, too. Bring me back to life! Noobs, Elites, and even DeePS, we all deserve to fight I'm just waiting on my rez, too I'm just waiting on my rez, too I'm just waiting on my rez, too, tonight I stood in a trap Stuck there in place, frozen His debuff hit fast His target was chosen And I'm thinking, "why'd this happen… Ankh is on cooldown…" Hope you're feeling, like some healing I need my rez now All will be, eventually, returned into the light I'm just waiting on my rez, too. Bring me back to life! Noobs, Elites, and even DeePS, we all deserve to fight I'm just waiting on my rez, too I'm just waiting on my rez, too We're all just waiting for our rez, too, this fight Resurrect me, tonight Rez me, please, tonight Rez me, please, tonight All will be, eventually, returned into the light I'm just waiting on my rez, too. Bring me back to life! Noobs, Elites, and even DeePS, we all deserve to fight I'm just waiting on my rez, too I'm just waiting on my rez, too We're all just waiting for our rez, too, this fight Resurrect me, tonight Rez me, please, tonight Rez me, please, tonight

Everything's Coming up Rocksy

 I am very much enjoying Dragonflight so far, and Dragon-flying is super fun, although I do miss my regular mount/regular flying a bit every now and then. It really feels like this entire expansion has been all about Shamans, what with all the primalists and elementals everywhere. It's very flattering when you're in combat and they're using all of your spells on you. 

"Oh, really? You're casting Lightning Bolt? That is ADORAble! You are doing GREAT, so I'll go ahead and let you get most of the way through it before I interrupt you, ok?"

But besides that, the Trading Post has been completely amazing, and it seems like every month it has something purple to go with my outfit transmog! A beautiful cloud serpent mount, my new cloak, a beautiful bird mount...I have been very pleased with the Trading Post offerings thus far, and it's easy enough that I can do it even though I can only play on weekends now.

♫The Lovers, the Dreamers, Rocksy♫

"The Warlocks, the Druids, Rocksy...all of us under its spell, we know that it's probably Mage-ish"

 I'd forgotten all about the Prismatic Bauble! Worth every copper. It seems like it was originally going to be a mage thing, because I remembered wanting to macro it with slow fall, but I haven't played my mage in forever. I was pretty happy with the results of macroing the Fae Pipes from Ardenweald to my hearthstone, but Rainbow Glider is definitely my best macro ever.

At the Forbidden(ish) Reach

 It turns out it's actually not that hard to get here, I'd say it's a Frowned Upon Reach at most. Nice place, though.

Well, This Is Awkward

 

I mean, it's not the first time I've fought myself in Warcraft, but I think it's the first time in dragon-form? Regardless, I think I'm going to go with Ezristrasza for my Drakonid character (when I get around to making one).

Avoiding Diplomatic Blunders

"How about the time some centaurs invited me to 'ride along' to their next stop and I noticed the Riding Bakar they provided just before I committed a serious faux pas (hoof?)"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mêlée Their Fears

 Rocksy: "Ok, I see. Allay their Fears. With the crook. So just shepherd them to some anima so they feel better?"

Korinna: "Oh, you sweet summer child. No, this crook is going to suck the anima and soul right out of them."

Rocksy: "But..won't that just exacerbate their fears, like... the opposite of allay?"

Korinna: "Nah, they'll be dead. You'll have to kill them so the crook can absorb everything."

Rocksy: "Er...So I'm going to BEAT them with this stick?"

Korinna: "Just do whatever it is you Shaman do. Throw rocks. Lightning bolts. Balls of lava. I don't care. Just kill them and the crook will fill up so you can complete the ritual and release their souls. May the gentle sound of bells follow you always." 

Rocksy: "Omg, NO. I don't want to hear the sound their souls make after all this. Does D.E.H.T.A. know about this place? Let's just never speak of this again, okay?"

Night Fae Musings

 -or-
Maybe the Real Treasure...

Nah. I do want Gus' crittershape to add to my collection, it's even cuter than the Corgi. My whirlwind tour of the covenants came to a grinding (ha!) halt recently and I'm now trying to fit it all into the weekends. I hope I can get done with Night Fae before the next expansion. 

I did find out that if you soulshape just prior to taking this quest you get a moment to enjoy the sight of a Brontofly. Or Butterosaurus. I should have gone with Alpacafly. 

I also got this handsome fellow, and realized that he's a Luck Dragon..

Which gives me more chores to do, collecting the different colors. So, so lucky. 

I did find the time to do some things for Bwonsamdi. His quests were annoying, especially as an engineer. Every time I'd conjure up a wormhole, he'd have some portal ten yards away (or halfway across Ardenweald) that you had to use to get the quest objective to show up. And the lighting in the Necropolis was nil. It's embarrassing how many times I walked off the edge here. Even for me. I was even more "i HaVe nO idEa WhAT iM dOInG" than I usually am. Perpetual noob.

Noble Creatures of Ardenweald

I forgot how much I love that ridiculous Alpaca hop. So far it's the only soulshape where I've noticed my weapon still hanging on. When my brother mentioned that I'd like collecting the soulshapes if I tried out Night Fae, I didn't realize there were so many different ones, and it's absolutely the best part of this covenant. (I guess I should upgrade everything before I can say that definitively.)
 

But..dinos. So I'm pretty confident that I will still feel that way at the end. Also, when Shadowlands is over, I hope we get access to all of the covenants we joined. Flying across Revendreth when you're not Venthyr and can't use the mirrors is the worst thing ever (note: I haven't tried Bastion's covenant and probably won't, but it would no doubt be worse having/losing access to whatever their transportation is since flying across Bastion sucks so much already.)

Then there's this guy. If I have to use my crittershape in rested areas*, at least I can turn into this goof. I got the bee first, but the legs of bees are too spidery up close, and even though it made a funny buzz when I took fall damage, I finally had to look for something else. At least it gives me something fun to look up while I'm googling maps to find my way around this treehouse.

*My brother explained how to actually read all the options in tl;dr textboxes, so now I can be an alpaca full-time!

Go To Your Happy Place

Aaah...I can smell the rotting flesh of the corpses, the pungent chemical aroma of the ooze...and hear the tortured screams of agony...♥Home♥

 FINALLY exalted with Ember Court and I'm just going to do one more party before leaving Revendreth behind. I think I'll try out Night Fae before I return to my Necrolord home for good. I don't think I'll bother with Bastion. I took the shortcut past the Maw on my Paladin and joined Kyrian, so maybe if I get around to leveling her I can experience that covenant somewhat. I don't like them for my Goblin because they're always telling me I'm pretty good at flying, for a creature without wings. It's irritating, because my Goblin *clearly* does have wings, Thank You Very Much, Tuvok.