February 2009 Archives

as there a more controversial holiday?

I don't do the holiday achievements.  I don't have a lot of playtime and I'd rather do other things than try to get the achievements.  Not to mention that I'd never decide what character to get them on.

My boyfriend, my guildmates and various other friends have been doing them, though.  I spent a while on Sunday logging onto my boyfriend's character to try and get him the last achievement.  It was ... take a guess ... Be Mine.  He did everything else, got just about everything out of the presents that was possible ... except for bags of candy.  The first one that I did while he was at work got a bag and pulling the candies out left him with two candies to get.  Five presents later and no more candy.  He got home and did the next one himself, got a bag, and managed to get the last candy pieces he needed.  This was Sunday night.

A guildy has got the achievement on three of his four characters, and that's from focusing insanely on it (and his last character needing one candy).  I know other people who didn't even get it on one.  I think I got the candy achievement on one character, just from opening candy bags for a giggle to fill up the boyfriend's mailbox.  ;)

I do think that they should consider taking the candy achievement off the meta, or perhaps making it "get 20 pieces of candy" and it not matter which ones they are.  It's not very fair to make it such a random achievement for a week-long event.

In my own mini-test, I had two pieces of candy left to get on my warlock and three bags in her inventory today so I decided to go ahead and pull them out.

Here's how many it took:

 

Today has been a day of luck and warlocky goodness.

Firstly, I did some questing and some auctions sold and I finished raising the money for my epic flying.  I'd already made myself a new carpet.

Then I went to 10-man Archavon with a random group.  A month or so ago I went there on my druid and three hunter pieces dropped in 25-man, the sole hunter got them all.  I'd never really forgiven the place for that ... until today!  Both the gloves and the robe for warlocks dropped and I was the only one!

After that, I went to Strathholme in Caverns of Time and although we were a few minutes off getting the timed run, I finished getting revered with the Kirin Tor and got the badges I needed, so I picked up the Flameheart Spell Scalpel and the Ward of the Violet Citadel.

Pretty Screenshot!


It's a pain that I won't be raiding with my usual group anytime soon though, as I have to stay up way too late to do Naxx with them.  I got sick last week, I think because I was so tired and cold so I'm waiting until the weather improves and I have time off work before I do anymore raiding.

I'm trying to find a good afternoon raiding group on AD but had no luck so far!

Short post, I'm off work sick and feel pretty bad.

What's going on at the moment?

- Working on getting my warlock's epic flying.  I'm at about 1500 gold, with maybe 2000g worth of stuff on the AH that may or may not sell.

- Working on some random achievements, I'm hoping to get some more books for Higher Learning after the rolling restarts today.

- Instancing on my druid and my warlock.  Did CoS again a few days ago, managed the timed run for about the 4th or 5th time with some friends, and got my drake!  It helped that three of them already had it.

Obligatory pretty dragon picture: