Have been pulling together some numbers recently and started thinking about this. How much does the [Insane in the Membrane] achievement cost in terms of gold and hours? I’m talking about your average person who pays the average price for all their librams/pristine black diamonds.

I have a habit of recalling achievements completed as being much easier and less time consuming than they were. So keeping that in mind here’s what what I’ve got so far:

Bloodsail Honored
5-10 Hours to grind to honored?
No gold cost

Steamwheedle Cartel
20-30 Hours to grind?
No gold cost

Shen’dralar
84 Librams x 200g = 16800g
84 Pristine Black Diamonds x 200g = 16800g
15-20 Hours to farm mix of 84 stitchings/skins of shadow/blood of heroes?
5-10 Hours of time checking AH?
1-2 Hours of time to turn everything in?

Ravenholdt
1405 Junkboxes = 18 Hours of pickpocket grinding
OR
1405 Junkboxes = 14050g if paying someone else

Darkmoon Faire
120 Epic Decks x 350g = 42000g
10-15 Hours of time checking AH?
1-2 Hours turning in?
OR
How long if herbing and creating cards?

Help me out guys! What needs to be adjusted? Obviously for pricing information we’re looking for cross-server averages rather than specific “well on MY realm” high/low examples.

So patch 3.3 is upon us! After logging in to check out the new patch stuff like the Random LFG system and achievements I ended up having a pretty fun time.

Later on a friend, Gurry, linked the [Battered Hilt] rare drop he’d just won in the new instance. Having read up on Quel’Delar I was only too happy to part with a small amount of gold in exchange for it!

Off I went! The questline was pretty cool with a lot of little scripted scenes included. Seeing Blood Queen Lana’thyl, Being allowed into the Horde area in Dalaran, Fighting the Quel’delar Blade in the Halls of Reflection and visiting a special post-Kil’jaeden Sunwell were definitely the highlights.

I was somewhat disappointed with how easy it was and how quickly I was able to get through it. I think rare drop farming and harder instances would have made this more special. Although I was happy to get my iLvL 251 [Lightborn Spire] at the end I was somewhat reminded of the same empty feeling I had finishing my epic flight form quest – why wasnt there more?

Here’s a few screenshots of the highlights:

 

So you may recall my excitement at getting Thunderfury back in July adding yet another feat of strength to my collection. Well recently I heard from a reader, [Skipt of Anvilmar], who completed the questline and joined the druid-thunderfury club. One wierd thing though was that no feat of strength was awarded.

After a post on the bug forums it appears that an undocumented 3.2 change has caused this. Apparently you need to equip the item to get the feat of strength, this is somehow tied into the change allowing BOP items to be traded to others in the raid.

Now I definitely agree that this was a necessary change for some items, like the VoA mammoth, otherwise players could trade a single drop around and all get the feat of strength. It doesnt make sense that this should stop Skipt being awarded the feat though!

Let’s hope that this is fixed in a future patch eh?

So last weekend we knocked out [I Love the Smell of Saronite in the Morning] and [One Light in the Darkness] which were the last achievements we needed to get our 310% drakes.

I managed to fraps our General Vezax hardmode kill and uploaded it to YouTube to share with you guys:

In other news my guild Enraged has transferred from Shadowsong to Aman’thul which is an Oceanic server set to Australian times which means waaaaay more people around during our prime time.

More guides coming soon – I’ve been thinking about getting an Asus EEPC to do some guide work while I’m away for work, anyone used them before that can give me advice?

So earlier in May you may recall that I made a post about soloing Garr and having his binding drop. Well since then I’ve been dragging my buddy [Zyklia] through MC every week to duo Baron Geddon to try getting the second binding.

Why? Pretty much because it was there to do hehe – I also really like the fact that it awards a kinda unique feat of strength for a druid. There’s also the delicious tears to be had from the one-binding folks that have been less fortunate than I.

Big thanks to Zyklia for coming along every week to do Geddon. Also thanks to Cerise for the mining help and to Cheebs for not-quite-gouging me on the elementium ore :p

Sooooo…A lot seems to have happened in the last few days. Having never been a person that plays alts I’ve embarked on a somewhat ambitious 3-boxing project! My decision on what class to play came down to either mage or shaman. Since I’m not overly fond of playing Draenei I ended up deciding on going with mages and so far I haven’t regretted it.

After a lot of deliberation on names (and a lot of checking what was actually available to take) I ended up settling with Kahboom, Kaapow and Kablammo. As they level up a little more I’ll record some stuff to make a video sharing my setup and ways of tackling different things.

Second up, after recently reading about a change to [Bindings of the Windseeker] that removed the class restriction I thought it might be an interesting irony to try obtaining the [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker] feat of strength on a class that can’t even equip the thing.

I figured that the only way I wasnt going to grief someone out of the drop was to farm the bosses solo. So this afternoon I headed in and took my first crack at Garr. It was a very easy solo and guess what I got!

Next up is to gather some fire resist gear and solo Baron Geddon for the next binding. Time will tell on that one I suppose, at least now I know how all those one-binding warriors felt back in the MC days! :p

Finally I’ll finish this post with something really wierd. Two friends, Epyon and Zyklia, recently made a post on our guild forum about freaky face mismatches that had happened to them in game. I’m not sure how it happens, but a day or two after seeing their screenshots it happened to two of my 3-box mages.

Here’s a collection of all the screenshots so far:

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Has anyone else had this happen? Hit me up with some comments, I’d love to hear from you!

Just a quick post to update the site. Ulduar has been progressing fantastically, we’re having heaps of fun in both 10 and 25 mans.

I’ve finally broken the 7000 Achievement Point mark too – what a landmark! I’m now at 7175 points and with Ulduar around now I’ve got plenty more to come. Also working on the [Frostbitten] achievement at the moment too.

Absolutely have to share a few of my recent screenshots. Check out all the fish feasts for some insanity from Khasha. The shot of General Vezax I think looks amazing too.

That’s it for now, more in a day or two – enjoy!

I’ve had a few things pop up in the last couple of days that have been cool, or made me laugh, but which haven’t really warranted their own post. So I figured it might be an idea just to share them all in a quick update – so here we go!

Coolest tooltip ever? I think it just might be – this is text for a debuff linked to one of the traps in the Ulduar Thorim encounter, made me laugh!



I finally knocked this one over! The [Argent Squire] ended up being the one to push me over the 75 pets line.

I threatened to post it on the site, and here it is Block! :p This one had me cracking up in tank chat.


This classic comment probably best sums up the kinds of reactions I’m getting to my new title. Love it!


…and last, but definitely not least, I finally finished farming 500,000,000 x [Oshu'gun Crystal Powder Sample] (actual number may have been slightly smaller :p) in Nagrand for the two Halaa PvP mounts.

I chose to farm them from the Deathshow mobs at Twilight Ridge so I could build up a good stock of [Fel Armament] and [Mark of Sargeras]. In a few days I should be exalted with the Aldor for the [Hero of Shattrath] feat of strength which will be a nice little bonus.

That’s it for now!

What else can I say but woohoo, as soon as the next patch hits I’ll get to show off my new “Saate the Insane” title.

Late last night after the Darkmoon Faire finished setting up in Mulgore I took a trip out and underwent the arduous process of turning in 59 epic decks. Amusingly I ended up having 28 x [Chaos Deck] to turn in thanks to Ketch trading me some of his for my other epic decks. See, if you’re an enchanter the chaos and other level 80 decks all disenchant into an [Abyss Crystal]. This means that if you’ve just spent 200g on a chaos deck, you’ll actually get back about 90g (or whatever the crystals are going for) after also getting the rep!

If you know anyone else buying up decks for the achievement, it could definately pay for you to find out what their professions are and arrange some kind of deck-trading system if they’re not an enchanter. It makes no difference to them, since they’ll just be vendoring the decks for 10g anyway.

My Ravenholdt guide is coming along swimmingly! I’ve finished and uploaded two videos showing the different routes I used (BRD and Tyr’s Hand) and have made a good start on the content, just need to work on some of the graphics that I’m using and write a bit more and it should be done. A few more days I’d guess!