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So, I gathered up the gold to train for Artisan Riding. Finally. And I embarked on my druid quest around midnight Thursday night/Friday morning. Before going to bed, I had gotten over halfway through the solo parts. This quest chain was just amazing. And somewhat a pain in the neck. Mostly because of the travel involved at the start. The first thing I had to do was

teleport to Moonglade. Now, I don’t know about other druids, but I’ve only ever used this as a shortcut to the trainer. So I never appreciated it’s lack of a cooldown. I do now! I teleport to moonglade, only to be told to go RIGHT back to Outlands and talk to this guy in Cenarion Refuge, Zangarmarsh. Fine! Hearth, fly down (glad I grabbed a swift mount when I grabbed my riding skill), and he wants me to pick some flowers from atop the mushrooms in Zang. But I must be careful, they explode violently when mishandled. Hmm…ok, I think about Nightmare Vine’s former damage over time effect and go for it. No. wrong. Try again. They throw you OFF the mushroom! For any future druids, keep your finger over flight form’s button during this quest. I didn’t. It hurt. I learned.

Turned them in along with 10 Dreaming Glory, and 10 Ancient Lichen. Then it’s BACK to Moonglade to escort some guy around a den, without letting him die to get the three relics you need. Done. Back to Zang. I went on with the chain up until the eagle spirit. That killed me. Resto is not good with a dozen birds pecking at their bark. That part, and the other two spirits waited til today. Oddly, twice today I got parts of this chain done at others’ reminding. My friend Aq called and asked if I was ready to start. So I logged in and we did the three spirits easily with his hunter.

Next up, Azshara. Again using that handy Teleport Moonglade spell. Much love for it now. I need to retrieve a moonstone near the river. Now, I’d heard this was a fun quest, so other than get the coordinates for the stone, and the overview I didn’t read any comments, tips, or ways to make it easier. I just got there grabbed my stone, and proceeded to giggle at the events that unfolded. First I get stunned by this snarky little goblin, giving her time to jump in the Southfury River and run away with my stone. I jump in, and have to swim after her (first real use I’ve had for aquatic form!). Along the way I’m dodging bombs that either frost nova me, blow me straight up out of the water (and out of swim form), and try and grab the speed boosts (like you see in BG). So, I got crafty. Well, I suppose it’s druid common sense. Every time I got frost nova’d, I used cat form to get out. Cat form tracks humanoids, so I could see where this little snot was. Eventually she got caught in her own trap, and I scared her into giving me the stone. Dire Seal Form FTW! After returning the stone to Cenarion Refuge, I was given THE quest. Defeat the Raven Lord. But, it was time to log off and only a couple hours before Kara which my priest was signed up for.

After Kara (where my priest got some sweet new holy gear for her new holy spec…yes, again.), I logged off, ran to the store, and logged back in. I got a whisper from a guildie asking if I’d gotten a group for my quest yet. This is the second time, someone else has thought of it first by the way. Very cool. I didn’t see any tanks on, except the ones who’d just finished Kara. I asked in gchat, got another whisper from our druid tank volunteering any of his toons we needed. Sweet! I whispered our Kara pally tank, and he agreed, so I called up Aq again and told him to get on, since he offered earlier. Off we went, Tree, Pally, Rogue (with jumper cables!), Hunter, Mage. We had a couple unfortunate incidents with those stupid ghosts that spawn from the mobs. They kept killing ME. The second they spawned, they came right after me and boom, dead tree. It happened so often, the common cry on vent was “Run Jess Run!”. I’m a tree, that’s so not fair. We one shotted Anzu though. We had a bit of trouble with the final boss, and after many repairs, and attempts, we called it. But I know these guys were tired, and it was late, and we’d ALL just done Kara…so it’s super awesome that they helped me with this. In the end I finished the entire swift flight quest in less than 24 hours.

I went and turned in my quest, flew around swiftly for a while Squealing, and danged near crying for joy when I cast it for the first time.  This is something I have wanted for SO long. To see my druid hit 70, see her start raiding, gearing up, seeing things I NEVER thought I’d see. That includes raiding by the way. I never pictured that happening when I created this first character.  Geting my priest to 70 was cool, so was my hunter. But Jessamyn, she is my first, and favorite. I guess I just saved the best for last. She still has a lot to do before the expansion comes out. Many badges to collect, Elixirs and Flasks to discover. Most importantly she needs to pay back the 1200g she borrowed from her unsuspecting husband’s rogue…hehe. It’s been an exciting day, that’s for sure. And maybe tomorrow will be too. Who Knows. Either way, I go to bed a happy druid.

Good Night:)

  Deaths Per Second that is. Kara part two was tonight. And although Eyebrows, Boomkin of Doom tried, he could not beat my mass quantities of horizontal DPS. I think he beat me last night though. I actually had a spectacular yoyo effect on Netherspite. I died, my Twisting Nether trinket procced, so I rezzed, I died again, and got a battle rez, after which I died AGAIN. That’s right, 3 deaths, 10 seconds. I’m the queen. I actually beat everyone. TWELVE deaths all told. Why do I have points in Subtlety again?

Tonight we had another newish tank, so there was alot of learning going on. Both tanks picked up their roles, and are progressing quite well. This is where I brag about my guild again. I admittedly was spoiled by my former raid leader. It was terrifying thinking of moving, and having a new one. But, not only has every leader been calm, and easy to listen to, they are all incredibly patient. I was so used to a tank always leading, but these guys can run with a priest leading, and that priest (an example from this run actually, when he wasn’t on his rogue) will still know what every class, including the tank needs to know/do/remember. I guess that comes from their many many alts/mains having already come through all of this. I’m happy to say I’ve gotten used to their way of doing things finally, my biggest challenge going from one guild to another. We had some decent drops going around. Still no boots for me, but as long as I need badges, I can keep trying. Grats to Awl on her new shinies!

Epic Flight is coming along. I’m working on the last 2k gold now. After Kara I went to my hunter and farmed some basilisks for the meat and skins, flew around gathering herbs, killed some bog lords and herbed them til my bags were full. After which I went to Jess, had her make Elixirs and pots, and a flask, sent those off to my broker alt to AH. Gotta love when you decide to make 10 elixirs and get 20 out of it. I made over 100 potions, and elixirs in the last couple days and not a single discovery. Tomorrow I’m logging straight into the game after my morning coffee and Blog Azeroth chat, and doing two rounds of dailies. I’ll probably go back to questing on Jess since there’s no room in her quest log to get the dailies done efficiently. My goal is to have at least the skill by the end of the weekend. I also can use Hubby’s miner, since he’s not home.

For now, it’s bed time. The dog keeps nudging me and walking back to the bedroom, so either Timmy fell in the well, or she’s ready to go to bed.

So, I knew hubby was leaving this week. But it was NOT supposed to be today. It  was SUPPOSED to be tomorrow. Found this out last night. Found out this morning, when he woke me up to kiss me good bye, that it was now this MORNING not this EVENING. He came home to leave me the truck, and say goodbye. This is not how we like being woken up. This has totally thrown off my day.

Onward…last night was Kara, it was quite the adventure. We had a new tank in, so it was a learning run for him. I’d run with him a time or two, and he was eager to learn and did ok, so he got a few Kara lessons last night. And a couple nice tanky drops.  Kara as usual was a blast, but I’m still one of those people that loves the place.

Outside of that, I’ve been slaving over epic flight form for Jess. I’m over halfway to it. I’ve auctioned everything I’ll never use, that wasn’t soulbound. I’ve made flasks, elixirs, anything that would sell. I’ve done quests all over Netherstorm, and I’m ashamed of what at least one made me do. Then again, it was Sunfury blood elves, they had it coming. I’m sure it’s ok to use fire for the good of the world, even if it’s not ok for celebrating. I hope?  I’ve also stopped in Zang whenever I pass through to kill lightning bugs, but so far no lucky drops. Can’t blame a girl for trying though right? Tonightis part 2 of last night’s Kara run. I’m PRAYING for some nice Ugg Boots from chess. Oh, back to swift flight, I’d like to thank Part Time Druid for his sage advice.

I was mulling the idea of dropping my leatherworking skill, so I could use my swift flight (when I get it) to pick up herbalism. My hunter right now takes care of skinning and herbalism, for Jess’s Alchemy/Leatherworking. But as he pointed out, farming is farming no matter how fast you fly. And I’d kick myself if I got to wrath and saw some awesome leather patterns I couldn’t use. Now, I’ve heard skinning and mining in WOTLK will provide buffs depending on skill level. If Herbalism has one worthy of a tree I might have to reconsider at that point.

Now it’s off to finish waking up, get some stuff done, and get back to grinding out that gold.