Home Is Where the Horde Is - Part 2

This is the video I'd been planning on making ever since I did the To Be Forsaken quest line and realized that I didn't need to be concerned about the faction conflict plot lines anymore. The Goldtusk Inn quest line also reminded me why the Horde is my home.

All of My Training Has Prepared Me for This Moment

Dark Iron mole machines? I know exactly what to do. Hand me a brew and watch this.

S.E.L.F.I.E. Time!

This was my third trip through the Gnomeregan pet dungeon (I'll never get used to saying that). It's getting easier now that I bought a couple of pets off the Auction House that I needed, but I'm still looking forward to collecting the rest of the pets and being done with it.

I started this post a week ago and got sidetracked, and then I haven't played at all since then, so I don't really remember what else I was going to say about it, other than I finally timed it right and caught the Gnome with his camera out. I never realized holding the camera was the /point animation.

Incredibly Innacurately Named Quest

There's a World Quest in Tiragarde Sound where you talk to a friendly Tauren who flies you over to a ship packed with enemies where you are instructed to kill three named mobs and ten regular mobs. It should say on the quest objectives " /10 Ship crew slain, LOL" because you're going to kill ten within the first few seconds of the quest. The rest of the time you'll wander aimlessly through countless rooms and what feels like ten or eleven deck levels to find the named mobs who are safely tucked away in remote corners of the ship. Just like shooting fish in a barrel. :-/

I have no idea what Blizzard employee thought "Like Fish in a Barrel" was a good name for this WQ, but evidently they have a different understanding of what exactly that saying means. I always assumed that it meant "easy", because all of the fish were trapped in a confined space and you could shoot them without the means of escape. However, it seems the alternative interpretation is that that fish are so packed into the barrel that it's impossible to find and kill the three named fish that you're searching for without killing every single other fish in that barrel at least FOUR TIMES. Except that actual fish don't respawn upon death, so even that doesn't quite work.

I would suggest the title "Like Finding Three Needles in a Haystack If You Drew Aggro on Every Single Piece of Hay and It Respawned at an Alarming Rate" but I can see why they went with something shorter. How about "Painful and Demoralizing Quest" or just save my time and call it "Skip This One".

Using Your Imagination

I finally got my Paladin up to 120, so while she's out grabbing ore for my main she can pick up the rare pet battle quest that awards Polished Pet Charms so I can buy all the pets. Since I couldn't decide which one to buy, I decided to try the Imaginary Gun toy. Apparently imagination is not included, because I tried it out and it the animation was so fast that I didn't even catch what my character did, although I did try it on my Tauren later and it looks like she made a finger-gun move as my pet flopped onto the ground. It is very quick and very difficult to capture a screenshot of. I used my crocolisk companion the first time, hoping that he would do the death animation where he flops upside down (my favorite part of Tol Barad dailies) but unfortunately he just laid down and closed his eyes. The little ferret thing from Vol'dun did flop on the ground more dramatically, so I guess I'll just have to try it on different pets as I think of it. 20 minute cooldown, though, because they don't want you to break your imagination by having too much fun.

Dismal Druid of the Cenarion Circle

I wasn't really expecting anyone to answer me. I mean, I get where you're coming from, Cenarion Circle Druid, I am a little disappointed as well, but I think you may be overreacting just a bit.

What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Seven Years. Seven long years since the first time I killed the Headless Horseman day after day during my first year of the holiday, fully expecting the mount to drop. My brother, you see, told me that he thought Blizzard must have increased the drop rate, because he had gotten the mount drop FOUR TIMES the previous Hallow's End. I felt unlucky after that first year when it didn't drop, but I still expected that my luck would turn in each subsequent year.
When I made a Warlock alt, I was disappointed that the awesome-looking Dreadsteed mount didn't fly. Then I really, REALLY wanted the Headless Horseman's mount to drop. Eventually, the class mounts came and I finally got my flying, glowy horse. It was close enough and I was somewhat mollified. This is the first year that I almost (but not completely) didn't give a crap about the Headless Hrseman. Almost. I would still /rude and /spit on his corpse after I opened my loot box each day, and ran it daily on my characters high enough to get the mount drop.
And then it finally happened.
I felt numb, cursed a little bit in all caps in chat, and got disconnected. Luckily the mount was still in my bags when I got logged back on, but it did take me a heart-stopping moment to realize that it was called "The Horseman's Reins" instead of "Headless Horseman's Reins". That was fun. Well played, RNG, well played.