Sylvi’s journal: what has 4 legs, eats brains & drops in icc

[SylviaDragon]

Just thought I would post a few screenies from my leveling adventure. Hit 89 tonight. (inc messy screenies!)
I decided that I love the fish men. They have such a cool little island.

Phobos (my first hunter pet.) has gotten a face-lift.

This zone is so pretty and the Kites for the flight paths are amazing. Brings back memories of level 8 when I would sit there mesmerized by the flying hippogryph- watching the terrain of Ashenvale flying past me.

Bloodtooth led me on a merry chase. (And my merry I mean 40 minutes of confusion) Finally realized his tracks were pointing the wrong way and found him at the very end of his path.

Stole some Troll’s mount and ran away with it. :3 *hugs Sin*

I was looking for the Quillen I wanted to tame and came across this Raven instead. Unlike the others he was soaring across the sky and doing loops around the mountains instead of huddling under a tree. I decided to tame him in loving memory of my bird Zamies. <3

I think I like these guys. They seem pretty cool and the quest line is interesting. Too bad they seem to worship an old god. I would hate to see them go the same way as the Zandalari tribe- exalted faction turned enemy.

After years of waiting I finally finished brew fest!

I ran into this guy while questing in the snow-capped mountains where I found Zamies. I had had no luck finding the skin I wanted so I decided to tame this guy until I found something better. Eventually I found the skin I had been looking for and was going to abandon Temple. I looked at the Defender… I looked at Temple…I looked at the Defender … then at Temple again. (I think Temple was making puppy dog eyes.) I decided I didn’t like the purple stone skin that much after all so I kept this guy. =P I may switch him out for Portant but I’m no so sure now.

EDIT
More screenies from leveling. (I cant get over how pretty the zones are!)
Checked for Glimmer again today. Was just about to give up when I found a footprint. Followed him all the way to the end of his path and tried to flare him out at a bottle neck but he gave me the slip and made it half way through his path again before I caught up. Had to turn down ground clutter just to find him. I named him Red Dawn


a few more flight path scenery shots



I am loving these guys more and more. I demand this little guy become a battle pet or a hunter pet at some point. So cute!

[SylviaDragon]

Well I hit 90 last Monday but deleted the screen shot by mistake >_>
Working on cloud serpent rep now along with a few other things.
I forgot to take a good picture of Glory so here she is. I may go for the pink crane later but I love the coloring on this one. =)

I’m really getting into the whole battle pet thing and I noticed that some pets are going way cheaper on the AH as battle pets then as companion pets.
I pointed two guildies towards a pair of sprite darters going for 1.5k anda friend got bananas and the tcg hippogyph hatching for a total of 3k and I finally got my black tabby cat for about 1.2k. quite a catch seeing how the “unlearned” pet goes for 13-20k. Welcome to the family little buddy

also did the rep farm for lore walkers last night. Its such a rewarding farm for something you can get in about one hour. (I will be using the arch stuff for sure.) This disk is awesome and the tabard is gorgeous and I will probably wear it once I get exalted with the alliance pandas.

[Royi]

hover disc oh my! thats just from finding all those little artifacts right?

[SylviaDragon]

Yep just found a vid on youtube that gave me all the locations and collected them in like an hour. Every time you turn in one of the scrolls to a lore walker you get a little story that’s acted out by some ghostly npcs. You can skip the stories by logging out but I liked them so I watched them all.

[Royi]

Yep just found a vid on youtube that gave me all the locations and collected them in like an hour. Every time you turn in one of the scrolls to a lore walker you get a little story that’s acted out by some ghostly npcs. You can skip the stories by logging out but I liked them so I watched them all.

Oh cool!

Question, so does it work when you find all 4 of ___ achievement, you receive a item that you turn it into a Lorewalker?

I'm missing a couple here and there for some of those lore items and I haven't completed one to figure out how it works entirely.

[SylviaDragon]

yeah basically.
collect all the chapters for the <insert story name here> ---> achievement ---> quest item scroll you get in the mail ----> sweet mount and other stuff.

have to get all of the chapters to unlock all the achievements to get exsalted. I missed one chapter and had to backtrack to finish the rep grind.
I used this vid to do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CZGTMJMcD4

[SylviaDragon]

Having a great time in mop. Been taking it kind of slow but I’m making progress. Almost exalted with the cloud serpents and the tillers so new mounts soon! I have started hunting the various rares since two of them drop pets. After finding this guy dead a few times I finally got the little water strider pet on my second kill. =) It was a close call though. (so cute! Squee!)


now I’m looking for the jade elemental pet that drops off a rare that spawns just a few seconds away from this guy. I may go back to get a second one since I have seen both pets sell for 40k. Also hoping to get the fluff item that turns you to stone.
In other news I saw a vid about a great spot to farm motes/black prince rep and possibly sky shards. A guildie needed to get some motes so we decided to check this place out and sure enough about twenty minutes in…

I can see myself hanging out here a lot in the future.

[Meggers]

Where's this epic spot?

[Royi]

yes where???

[SylviaDragon]

Its over on the wall near the gate. I think the mobs are related to a daily quest so they may not be there some days. Its not phased, I got in before I did the quests at the temple of the white tiger. (lets see… I think its riiigghht here? if not then its the gate under it )

Basically a bunch of mantids spawn in groups of 2 and 3 all up and down the wall and attack the nearest npc guard. You can farm anywhere along the wall but I like to farm inside this tower. Mobs will run in from two different sides and the npcs can help you kill them. You can also run out and pull some in from outside. They respawn instantly so you are always killing something. My sister farmed for me while I was at class tonight and she got me to honored with the black prince pretty fast and she doesn’t even play wow. No shard though. But when I came back my bags where full so she may have missed one.

Here is the vid I used if you need more info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpV8PTF5Aco

Good luck and happy hunting. If anything you will at least get lots of motes.
(P.S bring a glyph for misdirect and a tank pet. Perf a spirit beast so you don’t have to spend any down time healing.)

[Meggers]

Interesting. thank you Sylvi! How many shares are you up to now?

[SylviaDragon]

I still only have one but I only have like 40 minutes of farming under my belt at the moment. My sister farmed for me while I was gone last night but between battle grounds and not noticing that my bags had filled up with auto looted greens I wouldn’t be surprised if she missed something. I figure I will be farming for only about an hour a day since I have rep grinds to work on as well.

Best of luck to everyone else on the shard hunt.

[SylviaDragon]

I was certain that I would hit exalted with the cloud serpents last night. But after doing all their quests I ended up 300 rep short. (and my friend ended up being 5 rep short. Ouch!) lucky for both of us we managed to find an egg without wasting our whole day looking. I also managed to get the achievements for winning first place in the race and finishing with ten stacks of the speed boost. Lots of fun.
This also happened to be my 50th exalted rep! ^.^ I love these guys so much. I cant get over how amazing they look.
Think I will name them Shrine, Sunkiss and Caragon. >,> I’m not the best with names.



also got my dragon turtles today. I wont spam all eleven mounts though- just my two favorites.

[Royi]

i thought you could only get one cloud serpent out of the 3? (the one you picked in the beginning)

Congrats though! I've just decided to only do the daily quests and not egg-hunt. Drive myself crazy if I would succumb to that

[Shadow]

It's just like Netherwing. You get the one you pick for free and you can buy the rest for a pretty penny.

And congratulations on your exalted reputations and new mounts!

[Royi]

It's just like Netherwing. You get the one you pick for free and you can buy the rest for a pretty penny.

And congratulations on your exalted reputations and new mounts!

Oh thats good, I originally thought you had to grind 3 different toons through Order of Cloud serpent. (well i guess if you did that you would save a little bit if you picked a different egg)

Congrats though! They're pretty

[SylviaDragon]

Found my second skyshard today. Woooo

also got my vanity item off one of the vale rares after like 8 kills. (think its called a bindstone?) it turns you and our mount gray and sometimes your killing blows turn things to stone. Only last 10 min with an hour cd but I think it will do until I can get my onyx serpent.

also got the Tillers to exalted! Man I love those guys. Many goats! Deal with it!



also finished my first mop LFR. (after many wipes.) I thought the last room looked cool.


and that’s all for now! almost done with glorious though.

P.S I noticed this skin was labeled as unused in the game but I came across it in my rare hunt. He is undead sadly but at least he’s in the game…right?

[Meggers]

Has been since it launched AFAIK, its just not upated on petopia. I'm curious if it'll ever be tameable.

[SylviaDragon]

Today was a good day. After weeks of camping on thee different servers I finally found a minfernal. Only gray quality but I can fix that next patch. =)

also finished Glorious! I couldn’t figure out why the last rare wasn’t showing up so I started asking B.tag friends to bring me over to their server. One of my friends finaly figured out that I was stuck in a phased zone and the rare was hidden. So he killed it for me. =)

also decided to do VOA on a whim tonight just before reset and guess what decided to drop?


Thanks to each boss having a chance to drop him I managed to snag this guy in only 5 runs. quite a nice surprise.

[Meggers]

You and all your shinies! You have some luck (and grinding power)