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Holiday Achievement Guide: Merrymaker

2009-12-08T10:09:01.008-06:00

Don't bother reading this... just go to wowhead's guide.
I give up on writing guides... I didn't even enjoy this, so why bother?

Merrymaker|Merrymaker

The lowest level required to complete all components of this achievement is 70. The recommended level is 77. I will provide info on the level requirements of the individual achievements for those of you in the lower levels who at least want to complete as much as they can.

On Metzen! Required level: 40

The quest chain required to complete this achievement requires level 40 to accept.

This quest chain is trivial at max level. Metzen can be found in Lost Rigger's Cove in Tanaris surrounded by Southsea Kidnappers in addition to an army of other Southsea pirates OR at a small Dark Iron camp in Searing Gorge surrounded by a small number of level 45ish Dark Iron Kidnappers.

It doesn't matter which location you go to, but I'd suggest Searing Gorge if you're Alliance since it's so close to Ironforge and somwhat near Stormwind.
If you're Horde, I'd suggest heading to Orgrimmar or Thunder Bluff because they're closest to Tanaris.

If you're going to be making suicide attempts by trying to free Metzen before getting pummeled to death, you must know that freeing Metzen is a two-step process: First, you must right click on him after coming within range of him, then you must select the option in the dialog box to sprinkle the reindeer dust on him. So be sure that you have enough leeway when using this method.

Scrooge|Scrooge Required level: 1

Easy. Throw a snowball at King Magni Bronzebeard for Alliance OR Cairne Bloodhoof for Horde.

There are many ways to obtain snowballs, the easiest way is to purchase a stack of 5 for 10 copper from Wulmort Jinglepocket in Ironforge or Seersa Copperpinch in Thunder Bluff. You can purchase snowballs from other Smokywood Pastures vendors, but the two I mentioned are closest to your snowball targets.

'Tis the Season Required level: 70

Things you'll need:

Red Winter Hat or Green Winter Hat which has a 100% drop rate on certain Northrend mage-ish dungeon bosses.
Red Winter Clothes or Green Winter Clothes made by tailors with these patterns
Winter Boots made by leatherworkers with this pattern
Graccu's Mince Meat Fruitcake

20 contained in Smokywood Pastures Extra-Special Gift awarded (within 48 hours) of completing the Metzen quest.
1 contained in Smokywood Pastures Sampler awarded (probably within an hour) after completing Treats for Greatfather Winter.

Technically, this achievement could potentially be completed at level 1 since...

the winter clothing has no level requirement.
Treats for Greatfather has no level requirement (see Mince Meat Fruitcake info above.)
it is possible to loot a winter hat randomly during the Winter Veil as a world drop from any mob.

BUT due to the unreliable world drop rate on the hats, I've set the level requirement to 70 which is the minimum level required to enter the Nexus. The Nexus being the lowest level dungeon with a boss that will drop the hat. Also, please keep in mind that the hat is only lootable by a single group member so be ready to run the Nexus 5 times in a row.

Simply Abominable Required level: 30

This achievement requires that you complete a quest chain that has you venture to the Alterac Mountains in search of some missing holiday treats that were stolen by The Abominable Greench!

The Greench is a level 36 elite, so if you're well below level 40, you may want to bring a friend or two along for assistance.

Bros. Before Ho Ho Ho's (Alliance) Required level: 1 Recommended level: 25+

Bros. Before Ho Ho Ho's (Horde) Required level: 1 Recommended level: 77

To complete the Bros. Before Ho Ho Ho's achievement, you must use Mistletoe on all of the "brothers" of your faction. There is no level requirement for obtaining Mistletoe and there is no level requirement for using it.

Alliance	Horde
Brother Nemetz in Stranglethorn Vale Brother Anton in Nijel's Point Brother Wilhelm in Goldshire Brother Karman in Theramore Brother Kristoff in Stormwind Brother Joshua in Stormwind Brother Crowley in Stormwind Brother Cassius in Stormwind Brother Benjamin in Stormwind	Brother Malach in the Undercity Durkot Wolfbrother in Warsong Hold Brother Keltan in Icecrown

The Alliance must visit 9 brothers, but most of them are in or near Stormwind and the rest are trivial to reach at max level.
The Horde only need to visit 3 brothers, but one of them is almost impossible to get to below level 77.

Brother Keltan is a tough elf to reach. Not only is he in the level 80 zone Icecrown, but he's high above the ground on the Horde gunship Orgrim's Hammer. The only way to reach Orgrim's Hammer without Cold Weather Flying skill is by warlock summon or recruit-a-friend summon.

Note: I've also heard that corpse crawling can work because when you die in Icecrown, you are placed on a flying spectral gryphon that allows you to retrieve your corpse from hard-or-impossible-to-reach places. They say that dying below Orgrim's Hammer and using the gryphon to rez on board the gunship is possible. Be aware that the gunship moves around on the map and special timing may be necessary for success. Another thing to note is that it may only work when the gunship is over higher ground because vertical distance from your cold, lonely corpse could be too far to allow a resurrection.

I can't confirm this method and I'd never recommend corpse crawling anyway because it just doesn't seem right to subject your avatar to intentional and repeated death, but you need to do what works for you.

He Knows If You've Been Naughty Required level: 1

Open a present under your faction's Winter Veil tree.
The presents will not be available until Christmas day.

With a Little Helper from My Friends
Required level: 1 Recommended level: 10+

You'll get very familiar with the location of at least one Winter Wondervolt machine before this achievement is complete. Using the Winter Wondervolt machine will turn you into one of Greatfather Winter's little helpers. You must earn 50 honorable kills while in the form of a little helper. Little helper form does not last through death. This achievement sucks. Start working on this one as early into the holiday as possible. Unless you are a PvP master who could achieve The Grim Reaper on a regular basis, this one could take you multiple days if your playtime is limited or if you just suck at BG's.

I can't really think of any viable methods for levels 10 and under to get into any heavy PvP action for this achievement. It's definitely possible, but you'll have to come up with your own solution!

Fa-la-la-la-Ogri'la Required level: 70
This is one of the achievements that inspired me to write these guides. In order to gain access to the bombing daily quest required by this achievement you used to have to complete a short quest chain of level 70 group quests to gain neutral reputation with Ogri'la. A recent patch lifted this requirement and you can now reach neutral reputation upon interacting with an Ogri'la npc.
To get started, fly up to Ogri'la and pick The Crystals from Chu'alor. After completing it, take Our Boy Wants To Be A Skyguard Ranger from Torkus. Next, take The Skyguard Outpost from Chu'alor and head over to the Skyguard Outpost and turn it in. Completing Bombing Run from Sky Sergeant Vanderlip will open up a slew of Sha'tari Skyguard dailies. Bomb Them Again! is the one to which we've been trying to gain access.
Fresh Holly can be obtained by /kissing Winter Revelers. Preserved Holly is obtained as a reward from the Metzen the Reindeer quest which you should have already completed.
It may take a bit of practice to get the hang of bombing effectively, but there is no time limit and if you're blasted off of your mount, there really isn't any great danger, especially at 80. Just bandage up if necessary and re-mount and keep bombing. The key is keep moving as you toss your bombs. If you stop in midair, the cannons will shoot you down very easily.
Don't waste your Holly trying to keep your mount in reindeer form while bombing as it is only required while turning in the quest. You will most likely get knocked off your mount several times especially if you are new to this quest.

Let It Snow Required level: 1
This is another simple achievement with no level requirement. Just stroll around Dalaran with your eyes peeled and snowflakes bound to a hotkey. Snowflakes can be obtained by performing a /kiss at your nearest Winter Reveler.

The Winter Veil Gourmet Required level: 1... I think?
The only requirement for this achievement is a cooking skill of 325 or higher. I'm honestly not sure if cooking still has a level requirement. For a guide on leveling your cooking please visit wow-professions.com's cooking 1-450 guide.

You must learn and cook three festive treats to complete this achievement. All three recipe's can be purchased from Wulmort Jinglepocket in Ironforge or Penney Copperpinch in Orgrimmar.

A Frosty Shake Required level: 30
This achievement requires that you wear a Winter Veil Disguise Kit in Dalaran and /dance with another player who is also wearing a Winter Veil disguise. The disguise kit is obtained via mail as a reward for completing the Stolen Winter Veil Treats quest and requires one Snowball per use.

Fenrisúlfr (fen-dwelling wolf)

2009-11-03T17:43:00.003-06:00

So, I've still been playing on Fen. Haven't been doing any heroics or raids at all... mostly solo play doing old dungeons and doing quests. He finally managed to snag Loremaster by finishing up in Grizzly Hills with Mrs. Fen while she was leveling.

There was much excitement to be had at Brewfest this year because it would be the final holiday achievement needed by most individuals who were going for the What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been achievement and the awarded Violet Proto-Drake. This drake is so beautiful and so much fun that I've decided to get one on Bloor this year. Mrs. Fen gave me the idea to write and post detailed guides for completing the Holiday achievements for What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been. I think that's a GREAT idea and I'm planning my first one for the upcoming Winter Veil. So stay tuned for that.

Now, with all the huge changes to hunters coming in Cataclysm, I don't really have much of a drive to try to get Fen into any serious raiding. I'm content with playing him the way I've always played him... solo and casual... still an achievement whore.
Don't get me wrong, I'm really excited about the upcoming changes to the hunter class... but it leaves me feeling like the current iteration of hunters are sorta... in limbo? I guess. I'll be excited to explore the new Azeroth and do all of the new quests and all of that, but until then, I'm not really considering doing any type of endgame content on my hunter. Right now, I'm working on a few old quest chains involving the Hydraxian Waterlords and the Brood of Nozdormu. One of them has a feat of strength attached to it and the other will net me a epic cooking recipe! Both of these goals require a lot of rep grinding... but I honestly think I've had worse rep grinding experiences. I just need to sit down and do it one day. I'm also farming the Beaststalker's Tunic in order to complete the quest chain that will allow me to complete my tier 0.5 set.

The most exciting thing I have planned is to race-change Fen to a worgen. If you're familiar with Norse mythology, then you know that Fenrir (fen-dweller) or Fenrisúlfr (fen-dwelling wolf) is a monstrous wolf who is the son of Loki and father of Sköll and Hati and is foretold to kill the god Odin at Ragnarök.
I'm very excited about this because I remember when I first started playing WoW and creating my first avatar and how I was a little disappointed about how the Horde had Tauren but the Alliance had no anthropomorphic animal races. So, like all the other n00bs of Warcraft, I rolled a Night Elf huntard! Because hunters got pets and Night Elves were the "best-looking" or maybe... "tallest?" race of the Alliance. I'm positive that the Worgen hunter will very quickly become the new Night Elf hunter and I'll be jumping out of the pan and into the fire! Oh, well...
Worgen as a target race probably won't be available for a good several months after the release of Cataclysm so I've got a good while before my dream will become a reality.

The Raiding Scene

2009-10-30T12:23:00.002-05:00

In non-WoW news: Fen Jr. will be born any day now. Mrs. Fen is getting rather large and can't hold the infant too much longer. To quote a certain Kazakh journalist, "I am very excite!"

Well, Fen got into his first 10man Naxx run months ago... it was fun. He hasn't seen another raid (or even 5man) since then.

Bloor's been running a lot of heroics (ToC and daily mostly) and he's been into Naxx several times and Ulduar once or twice as well as a few other raids.

Short guild history:

I dropped Bloor out of Fallout to join Chains of Honor. Ran some Naxx, OS, tried Maly... DK whined because he couldn't keep up with the sparks. Think he was a keyboard turner and/or tab targeter. Irritating to say the least.
Chains disbanded/merged with AllGodsMustDie... for whatever reason, I did not follow my guildmates.
Ran around guildless for a while.
Cousin got into a guild called The Band of the Red Hand and got me an invite. Ran some Naxx, but didn't seem to have the CC to down Gluth. Ran some other stuff too.
Band guildmaster went on a short hiatus and I didn't feel at home AND I didn't feel like I would be having much time for raiding with my son coming really soon... so I /gquit quietly.
Hopped into my bank guild Azeroth Bancorp and developed my glyph business and made some good money.
Just the other day, my cousin asked me to come back to Band saying that some annoying guy who I only vaguely remember was /gkicked for being a d-bag. I didn't care about the annoying guy, but I been feeling a bit of /quitters remorse. He said they wanted me and my warlock super powers back. I acquiesced. Still don't feel at home, but I really can't expect instant feelin-at-homification. Trying to remain optimistic. We'll see how it goes!

I want to send the guildmaster a wowmsg kinda explaining why I just bailed without saying anything. I had intended to do so weeks ago, but if I procrastinate on something, I'll usually forget to do it. Perhaps I'll do that tonight... or put it off some more...

State of the Horde

2009-10-29T13:29:00.000-05:00

Okay, I'm back. I may not be cut out for wow-blogging or blogging in general... but I'ma keep trying!

So, I don't remember if I mentioned previously that I deleted my paladin Brosephus. I've also decided that even though I really enjoyed the play style, I do not want to try to roll a paladin at this time. I have quite a few alts I am trying to work on and until I at least get them to max level, I've no plans to start ANOTHER avatar. (I've also decided to use the word 'avatar' exclusively now... it just sounds so much cooler than 'toon' or even 'character.')

I'm STILL trying to finalize my decision on the avatar I wish to roll Horde side with my wife... who still isn't too far ahead of me... as we've been focusing on finally leveling her Draenei hunter main to 80 (she's about 25% into 79!) And she's been working on her tailoring and enchanting on her warlock and actually just hit 45 from looting Hallow's End Trick or Treat buckets all over Azeroth.

Anyway, I've kind of lost interest in my Troll hunter Cythaeras... I like the avatar a lot, but I feel bored playing the hunter all over again (which was the SAME reason I was hoping to enjoy her.) I'm also having odd feelings about playing Fen right now... for reasons I'll definitely cover in a future post.

I took another stab at rolling a Hordie to companion my wife's warlock. I wanted to pick a class and race that I hadn't really played before and that would also be helpful to her class. I decided to try a Forsaken priest. I'll have to let you know how it turns out since I have yet to even log in to watch the opening cinematic, but I'm kinda looking forward to getting started with him.

I also started a Blood Elf rogue named Malady that I plan on twinking at 19... And here in this moment (as I write this post) I am reconsidering my previous statements about rolling a paladin... Perhaps I'll twink a paladin instead of a rogue? Hmm, something to think about...

If you've got anything to say about anything that I talked about, feel free to comment below!

update

2009-04-08T13:44:00.001-05:00

Looks like it's been another month without an update. I'd say sorry, but I'm not sure if I'm apologizing to anyone... yet.

Welp, here's what I've been up to:

Most of my play time has been spent on Bloor. I've been leveling him like crazy! I want to have another toon at level cap that can be useful in dungeons as well as an alt that is just plain fun to play. I finally settled on Enchanting/Inscription because of the ability to easily create enchanting scrolls to put up in the AH as well as the uber inscription shoulder enchants which are supposed to be better than the ones that the Sons of Hodir have to offer. I'll be darned if I'm going to do another Hodir grind again anytime soon.

I've only been getting on Fen to do cooking dailies and that's about it. I really need to work the Outland cooking and fishing dailies into that little routine in order to up my chances of picking up a few more companions as well as a cooking recipe.

My next alt project is my new Night Elf dr00d Ambroszya. I plan on dual-speccing her tree/boomkin or tree/bear. Our guild could use another healer or two and I've always wanted to try healing. We'll see what happens. She's already 13 and I decided on Skinning/Leatherworking if not for the decent epic BoPs, then for the gold I can (hopefully) make from selling leg armor kits.

MIA

2009-02-05T09:20:00.000-06:00

Sorry I've been MIA for ~~about 3 weeks~~ over a month now. Things have been kinda busy at work and I've been working on achievements and rep while at home.

I did manage to get Elder as well as the Love Fool... no thanks to the CRAZY RANDOM drop rate for Bag of Candies.) No Perma-Peddle this year :( But I think I may have enough Lovely Black Dresses for just about everyone in my guild. Okay, maybe not... but I got a lot of dresses and I am in a smaller guild, so... yeah.

Blogging frequently may not be my strong point, and I hope to change that. I also hope to improve the quality of my posts. I want to provide interesting material. I want to entertain as well as inform... I don't want to just talk all about all my in-game achievements and stuff. I also don't want be talking about the same old thing that every other blog or news feed is talking about. I'd like to find a niche. I don't have to be the ONLY only one in said niche, but I don't want to just get lost in the mix... Or do I?

Thanks for reading!

Elders of the Dungeons

2009-01-26T10:21:00.000-06:00

Well, on the 24th, I went back to the Elders of the Dungeons achievement page on Wowhead and started looking through the comments to see how difficult it was to get to each elder and where they were located. Go check it out for yourself and you will see several comments stating that Elder Ohanzee in Gundrak is in "Eck's room"... which, apparently, is only accessible on Heroic mode.

So, needless to say... ding!

Lunar Fest achievement progress:

As I failed to mention previously, I already had most of the Lunar Festival achievements completed retroactively from last year. All I had left to do this year was set off some fireworks, visit some elders, and kill a two-headed demon dog.

I'm done with everything except the Northrend dungeon elders. The fireworks were trivial. My cousin and I picked up the Omen quest, rode over to the other side of Lake Elune'ara, rode through the moonbeam glowing over Omen's corpse, then rode back to turn in the quest :) This was after I flew all over Northrend chatting it up with all of the elders there. Now, all that's left is Elders of The Dungeons.

Yesterday, before I dinged, my buddy invited me to run Drak'Theron Keep for the elder there. He's in a pretty hardcore raiding guild, so he and his guildies pretty much pwned the place up and now I'm one elder closer to completing my festival achievement.

Achievement Extravaganza!

2009-01-23T13:42:00.000-06:00

Here's an achievement progress report...

Tuesday, the 20th:

Vampire Hunter - I revcieved this upon logging into the game after the patch landed. This was awarded retroactively to anyone who took out Prince Tenris Mirkblood in Karazhan during the pre-wrath Scourge invasion and looted his Vampiric Batling non-combat pet.
Leading the Cavalry - Rather than spend 1000g for 5 Nether Rays 1 more Nether Drake to complete this achievement, I decided to wait for 3.0.8 so I would be able to purchase 6 mechanostriders for only 272g.
It's Happy Hour Somewhere - I was up to 24 drinks, so I looked around for something I hadn't tried yet.
Ten Tabards - I was up to 9 tabards, so I stopped by the Kirin Tor quartermaster and picked up a Tabard of the Kirin Tor.
On the Blade's Edge - I was up to 85 quests and knew of several group quests up in Ogri'la that I hadn't completed yet. Got a little carried away and slayed all four of the dragons that fly around up there. So, that was fun...
Loremaster of Outland - Blade's Edge was the last zone I needed for Outland, so this came along with the previously listed achievement.

On Wednesday, the 21st:

The Escape from Durnholde - I needed just 1 more key for The Keymaster and it required Honored rep with Keepers of Time. So, I hit up a buddy of mine and he pulled together a few of his friends and we pwned up Old Hillsbrad.
Opening of the Dark Portal - and the pwnage continued on into The Black Morass.
The Keymaster - by the time I completed those instances and the associated quests, I was well on my way to revered with the Keepers of Time, so I mosied on over to the quartermaster and picked up my Key of Time and completed this achievement.

What? I find all of this very exciting :) Thanks for reading!

To make a long story longer...

2009-01-22T11:27:00.000-06:00

In conclusion to my last post...

/insanelvlingmode off

I don't think anybody could look at lvling as a waste of time... even those people who hate lvling. Finding out that you're way ahead of where you thought is always nice.

So, there I am, lvl77... finally able to slow down a bit. What to do next? Well, let's see... I can start hunting Loque'nahak, the Spirit Beast... sounds boring... though, I do make a killing from mining saronite deposits and extracting crystalized elements from gas clouds.

Oh, what about that LSD Wasp of DOOM that Brk was raving about... it's supposed to be made untameable in the upcoming 3.0.8 patch. Let's see, what level is that baby? 78, huh? Okay... I'm about halfway to 78. I could probably wait and get this wasp later... what's today? Monday... hmm... tomorrow's maintenance day. There's a chance that patch could drop. Let's check WoWInsider for clues... there's mention, but nobody's willing to bet anything... Better play it safe.

/insanelvlingmode on

Okay, cool, just got through the Oracle/Frenzyheart chain and chose to go with Oracles. Did some of the initial Oracles quests...

/ding 78

/insanelvlingmode off

Whew... alright, let's do this thing.

/stable Temportary Loque'-hunting Gorilla

/mount flyer

And so I fly on over to the wasp hive and venture down into the Queen's chamber. It appears a Death Knight has just finished killing her for the Frenzyheart quest.

/wait

And she spawns... I lay my trap, hit Tame Beast, wait a few, and done! Cool... I'm going to bed now.

/sleep

/wakeup

/gotowork

/read wowinsider.com

Patch is dropping?! Sa-weet, I was just in time!

/clap

Now what should I name her? I know nobody reads this... but if anybody happens upon my little blog, please feel free to post your wasply name suggestions in the comments.

And thanks for reading!

To make a long story long...

2009-01-20T16:22:00.000-06:00

A few weeks ago (on or around the 9th), I was researching the achievements for the upcoming Lunar Festival for Fen (he's going for the Violet Proto-Drake Mount awarded by the What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been achievement) and came across the Elders of the Dungeons sub achievement.

I've already honored the elders in Zul'Farrak, Sunken Temple, Maraudon, Blackrock Spire, and Blackrock Depths. I knew Stratholme wouldn't be an issue since I've got it on solo-farm now. I wasn't worried about The Nexus or Utgarde Keep since I've already been in and out of both of them. It occurred to me that I had no idea what the level requirements for any of the other Northrend instances were, so I decided to find out. I didn't have to look far because somebody posted a comment on the achievement page that listed all the dungeons and their lvl requirements.

I perused through the listing noting 76 (ugh!) for Gundrak and this is the line that started it all:

7. Elder Chogan'gada in Utgarde Pinnacle - (80) - Howling Fjord

Panic ensued... I frantically searched worldofwarcraft.com for their events calendar to find out when the Lunar Festival began... their calendar seems to be borked right now. Remembered I could view the guild calendar from the Armory... can't log into armory without authenticator?! Rawr! Finally decide that I'd just have to wait 'til I'm able to consult the in-game calendar. Come to find out that the Lunar Festival would begin in about 2 weeks on January 24th.

Two weeks to reach level 80? Certainly doable, but will I pull it off? I certainly have an advantage... I'm 74 and only JUST got off the boat in Borean Tundra*. Quick and easy Northrend starting zone quests, anyone?
* I've been helping my wife lvl her hunter so we could travel to Northrend together

I proceeded to fly through quest after quest, from Borean Tundra to Dragonblight, and on to Sholazar Basin. I hit 77 and bought Cold-Weather Flying and that really helped speed up the questing process. It was yesterday--the 19th--that I returned to the Dungeon achievement page to find out zones/locations for the dungeons. For whatever reason, I went back to the comments tab and saw a couple new comments:

You must be at least level 75 to enter Utgarde Pinnicle

and reply, which read:

Correct. Which actually results in level 75 being the MINIMUM level required to
get the Elder title! :D

EXCUSE ME, WHAT?!!

Tune in next time for the exciting conclusion! Thanks for reading!

FOR THE HORDE: Cythaeras

2008-12-23T15:19:00.000-06:00

Cythaeras is the answer to my Brosephus dilemma. Since I couldn't quite get into playing my paladin, I rolled another hunter... a female troll hunter. She's only at 14 since I've been focusing on lvling Bloor to 30 and Fen to 80. I really don't intend on focusing too hard on lvling her atm, but I am definitely excited about having an alt that I can actually enjoy playing over on the dark side of Bladefist along with my wife's belf warlock.

I've already got several plans for her as far as pets...

She already has a scorpid: Death Flayer, a rare scorpid from south-western Durotar.
A cat... either a Durotar Tiger (which I will have to spend time lvling) or a Young Stranglethorn Tiger (which I cannot tame until 30.)
This is in reference to Dire Maul Library quest item The Greatest Race of Hunters (see item tooltip.)
A spider... Zarakh. Had this terrifying little bugger on Fen for a very short time when he was a young hunter. Never felt quite right for him.
A hyena... not sure which skin or mob I'm looking for yet... most likely the black or white skin... but I may get sentimental (read: impatient) and tame one from the Barrens.
Maybe a worm... one of those crazy hairy ones up in Northrend. If not, then a gorilla... or a warp stalker! Aaaah, I may have to roll another hunter! /cry

I've actually been playing with the idea of dropping Brosephus completely. I'm fairly certain that's what I'll do. I actually deleted my druid Varulf just last week. I just wasn't getting into his character. I still wanna play a druid (boomkin)... so I might roll a girl druid... I dunno. Either way, That's Cythaeras... I'm also trying out an undead mage... we'll see how long he lasts. Wouldn't surprise me if I lvl him past Bro! Like I said, we'll see.

Thanks for reading!

FOR THE HORDE: Brosephus

2008-12-23T15:04:00.000-06:00

Brosephus, my Blood elf pally... it's a love/hate I have with this guy.

I love the invincibility of the paladin class... I hate the proud attitude of the Blood elves.

I love the name I gave him (even though 'Broseph' was already taken!) ...I hate the male belf haircuts!

I love that I am able to heal myself and party members effectively... I hate that I keep forgetting that I can do that!

Most of all, I love questing with my wife's hordie toons... I hate that this toon just doesn't click for me.

Don't have much else to say about this guy...

Stay tuned to Fen of Warcraft for FOR THE HORDE: Part II...

Bloor

2008-12-10T11:33:00.000-06:00

Bloor is my Gnome warlock. He doesn't care much for achievements or completing every quest in sight... He's just trying to level as quickly as possible. Bloor's goals are to complete all warlock quests and max his enchanting and inscription. Although, he's thinking about dropping inscription and picking up herbalism or skinning. Something to think about...

Quick rundown on Bloor's demonic minions:

He hasn't summoned his imp in quite a while and can't quite remember his name... ~~let me get back to you on that.~~ Oh, his name is Jaklop.

His voidwalker responds to Hukthang.

He just enslaved his succubus... she goes by Sywena.

Looking forward to that felhound AND felsteed at 30. Bloor is fascinated by felhounds. They are a most interesting specimen.

Not sure what he's gonna spec once he's all 80'd out, but I heard affliction is supposed to be good for leveling so we're going that route for now. Should be good times...

Felicy

2008-12-02T12:21:00.000-06:00

The following is rated CR for Crappy Roleplaying. Please use discretion when reading the following blog post. Thank you.

Felicy was once an agent of SI:7... but during the recent scourge zombie attacks, she was killed and turned into a undead servant of the Lich King. Fen has received correspondence from his contact in the Argent Dawn informing him that Felicy has been spotted on several occasions slaughtering scores of unarmed citizens of New Avalon in the Scarlet Enclave and appeared to be having the time of her life... er--afterlife.

I'm not really a roleplayer, so I just don't know if this backstory would actually hold up on a true RP community, but its good enough for me. I truly used to have a human rogue named Felicy that I deleted and recreated as a death knight. I just wasn't getting into the rogue class and there was no way I wasn't going to try a death knight. So Felicy was reborn an iron-clad, undead peasant squasher!

Felicy's days as a cold-blooded murderer are over. She has been redeemed and has rejoined the Alliance in the fight against the Lich King. Fel's pretty much a "let's do this" kind of adventurer... she doesn't stop to smell the roses as much as Fen does. Although she does tend to pay careful attention to all of the death knight-related content.

Mrs. Fen and I are leveling DKs together. So far, we've only gone as far as porting to Stormwind to speak with the king in order to make everyone stop giving us that nasty orange attitude. Our next destination is Hellfire Peninsula, but we are tentatively planning to wait for her cousin to reach lvl 55 on his shaman so he can also role a DK and continue along with us.

So that's Fel... tune in next time and I'll talk about my lock or my dr00d... haven't decided. Thanks for reading!

Fenrisulfr

2008-11-03T15:49:00.000-06:00

I added Armory links to my toons' character pages the side panel there. Guess I should introduce them. I don't really role play, but I definitely tend to get into character when playing certain characters.

Fenrisulfr, of course, is my main. He's a very ambitious night elf... he's a slow leveler and a questoholic. He's a slow leveler BECAUSE he's a questoholic. Since he's the first of my toons to see new content, I generally read all of the quest text when picking up new quests for Fen.
He's going for several of the new achievements, but the most important one is the Loremaster achievement.
Fen is a people pleaser and a rep-grinding fiend. In addition to his current list of exalted reps (which isn't all that impressive by any means), he has goals to become exalted with several more factions including the Timbermaw Furbolg, Cenarion Expedition (and probably Cenarion Hold, as well), Sporeggar and the Aldor. And in Northrend, he'll be grinding for The Wyrmrest Accord and The Oracles for sure. Another one of his major goals is to obtain the [Ancient Petrified Leaf] from Molten Core for the Vanilla WoW epic hunter quest. I agree with BRK that this should be a hunter achievement.
Fen is also a solo-monster. He enjoys grouping as much as the next night elf, but he derives a certain satisfaction knowing that a very large percentage of his questing was completed with the help of none other than his loyal semi-transparent kitty-companion Cloudpants.

Well, there's the basics on Fen. In the next post I'll cover my "main alt" Felicy. Thank you for reading and hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Later.

Everything Must Begin Somewhere

2008-10-30T08:49:00.000-05:00

Hi, I'm Fen. I play World of Warcraft. I have a general admiration for all things Warcraft. But I would have to say that I am, by far, most interested in the lore... I guess the point of this blog is to just talk about Warcraft and the time I spend in the World of Warcraft.

I'm kind of taking a let's-get-this-started-and-see-what-happens approach to this blog. I don't have an outline of any particular topics to talk about. I have a few things in mind jumbled up in my head, but I think I just want to start out just sharing experiences, past and present and then get into other things as I see fit.

http://www.bigredkitty.net/2008/08/07/almost-everything-including/
http://aspectofthehare.blogspot.com/2008/08/it-was-dark-and-stormy-night.html
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/07/11/how-to-start-your-own-wow-blog/