Ahhh, happy Monday all.

You all had a good weekend, what you been up to?

Me?

Well glad you asked (hehehe, always talking to myself) Saturday went well, ZG unlocked so I figured it was time to go hunt for the mounts, my brother was online so he decided to join me on for the hunt. First target as always is Gahz’ranka on the hunt for the Tome of Polymorph:  Turtle which is an auction house favourite (500-800g) which isn’t bad for about 10 minutes work (catching the mudskunks and then dealing with him), and again this boss obliged with the book and a smattering of BoE’s (nice bonus for the enchanter alts).

Next onto High Priest Thekal – y’know this fight is really growing on me, getting the timing right solo is one thing, but getting the timing right for due attempting is another thing all together, but after a couple of them rezzing, we managed to put him down once and for all, joy of joys, it was there, yes the bloody tiger dropped – we’d previously agreed that we’d greed all loot we wanted – and thankfully we both kept to that – I rolled a bloody 16, on the mount, the one I’ve been “banging on” about (seriously you ask anyone who I know), yes you guessed it – I lost the roll, I had the Swift Zulian Tiger, right there in my grasps, I didn’t ninja it – I just did the honest thing and lost the roll (wow aren’t I the nice guy?).

The final boss in here (on our visit) was Bloodlord Mandokir, who drops the Swift Razzashi Raptor – this one is quite easy solo, in a group it’s very different – he dumps aggro and charges the next nearest (well thats how it seems) so my brother in kitty form took a battering when he dumped my aggro and charged, but we mage it through with little bother, and wait for it………. no mount (like both would drop in one run eh?). So nothing shiney for me then – or so I thought, cue the telephone – my brother, willing to trade the tiger (as I’d clearly, desperately wanted the tiger, in exchange for the tome that dropped earlier, and the understanding that I’d go far another one for him!).

So as you can see, it was a no brainer, I accepted and tigger was mine.

Sunday was the usual  raid evening – a trip to Ulduar 10 man (we’re gearing up ready for ToC 10 man – which frankly is gunna be chuffing awesome), we had an amazing run one shotting Flame Leviathan, Razorscale, XT-002 Deconstructor, Kologarn & Ignis the Furnace Master – and 3 shotting another new boss for us The Assembly of Iron – the achievements also came in pretty fast.

A productive run, unfortunately littered with hunter/shammy drops (bloody mail) and not a single one in the raid. however I did get one shiney item, Lady Maye’s Sapphire Ring which was a nice upgrade. Our final round up for the evening was a quick jaunt to onyxia, it’s nice loot and a relatively short run, we one shotted her without much fuss (yeah sure we lost a couple – but hey it happens sometimes) and my lucky dice continued as I won the head, the resulting quest dropped a very nice ring – Polished Dragonsslayer’s Signet so all in all I was pretty chuffed with the weekend.

Hey all, so what you been up to?

For me, was a quiet one, did some Wintergrasp – Healing and Boomkin quite good this changing specs outta combat, I’m certainly making good use of it. I have done a little amount for the Argent Tournament but I’m thinking of keeping that content for my next goon, when I get it up to a respectable level.

Did some more levelling on the hunter, made 54 sticking with the kitty pet, I did try a wolf this weekend as it’s supposed to have better overall DPS but tbh I found as it was -5 levels on me I was dragging aggro real eas – think I might try wolf again in later levels just dont want to slow my levelling down. I’m not sure why but I am enjoying questing in Azeroth again, altho I am concious that to get to Northrend I have to pass through the dreaded Outlands……… not my favourite location but I guess it’s been a while so I might enjoy it again.

Not sure if anyone noticed the heirloom item changes – must admit it had escaped me till we were chatting at work about it (I’m lucky I share the office with 3 other guys, and we all play – except one….. we’re working on him) they’ve added the 10% bonus to completing quests now and not just killing monsters (Prized Beastmaster’s Mantle) considering the levelling speed (for me that is) seems to be making a big difference the quests are about 9k a hand in so a good 850 – 900xp is bonus.

Oh yeah, did you see my most excellent shiney new achievement – the Wailing Caverns, I was taking my brother through on a quick run to get his quests done and to fill his backpacks with shiney loot – this managed to get some laughs from the guild, and even one or two congrats, but think they were being a little “tongue in cheek”.

What you guys been up to, weekends are always difficult to update this so I try to give content 5 days a week – but I’ll try to be good this week and give you guys more. But you guys gotta share your weekends with me, tell me what yer did – hey even if it was sleep, eat and drink.

Buel