Pretty Fishy, If You Ask Me

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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.

Squeaky Surprise

I got an email the other day that said I had a new mount, and I recognized it as the 6-month subscription mount I'd seen advertised on the launcher. I was confused because I'm normally on a monthly subscription, but I looked up my account and saw that apparently in September I'd bought a 6-month subscription, and since it was still active for another month, I'd earned the new mount, Squeakers, the Trickster!

When I tried out the mount special in Orgrimmar, I was surprised to see that it sprouts wings and flies. I guess that makes sense but I hadn't thought about whether it was a flying mount or not. I love the way its little paws hang uselessly while flying. I also love its little hat. But the best part is the mount special. It floats up in a whirlwind, sprouts its wings, and flutters back to the ground. I'm so glad I unknowingly earned this mount, I think I may stick to the the 6-mount subscriptions from now on.

Third Time's the Charm

I am really inordinately pleased with this, although I didn't get my first or second choice of spelling. I am also incredibly pleased with this...

...because I'm surprised I actually finished the quest to get my Deathwing mount. When I found out the anniversary events went on until January I laughed at what a ridiculously long time that would be. But over the next month I barely logged on, aside from a couple tries queuing for the raids and opening my gifts from Greatfather Winter. The outland raids were over and done in no time and I thought the whole thing was going to be easy, but then I ended up wiping on the Lich King more times than I could count. I did enjoy the novelty of the tier gear and taking screenshots the first few times around:

but it quickly became tedious and I didn't bother getting screenshots of my last (several) attempts. Oh, well, it was all worth it in the end! Other screenshots I took but didn't end up posting include buying the Shadowlands expansion with the hearthstone and pet (naturally): 

And circling Orgrimmar in Greatfather Winter's sleigh:

I can only conclude that my shaman is now Greatfather Winter. 

The quest to allow Vulpera into the horde took a lot more time than I wanted to spend, because I couldn't wait once I realized what I needed to name my new Warlock. I was also disappointed that I couldn't use Nomi's useless carcass to smash grapes, even though I tried my hardest to offer him that position. Apparently the UI wanted me to realize that Nomi was best suited to come up with a new recipe for wine. 

These are the results of my administration over the process, supposedly working out perfectly:

Did anyone else notice that the vat of grapes seems to be on fire? Because obviously this is fine. I can't wait to taste Nomi's dumpster fire wine. It sounds delicious. I'm just gonna keep it here in my toy box and let it age a couple years, or centuries.