Ding 76

Wow, does levelling ever get tedious. When I began the long process of getting Sonar to 80 I was impressed by how non-tedious the Outland area was, I was expecting it to be much worse than it turned out to be. I am, however, now hitting the wall. I dread logging on for more levelling.

Hopefully, since I have now completed the Howling Fjords, (I hate questing in this zone), things will move quicker. Once I hit 77 and can fly, (I can afford Cold Weather Flying if not speedy flying), things will improve as well. I also think I can begin the Argent Tournament dailies at 77 which will be a nice change of pace. With those dailies as well as the remainder of the Midsummer quests I think I will ding 80 while questing or just finishing questing in Grizzly Hills.

Ding 75

Sonar dinged 75 last night, the last 50% done completely on Midsummer quests, and I still have more. It probably took me a lot longer to level that 50% but thats a bunch of quests that I will have left over at 80 for more cash. Also, Blizzard is going to be resetting the Midsummer quests done so that people who have finished them in previous years can do them again, this means I can get another 50% when I do them again, pretty sweet.

I also managed to steal Undercity's flame last night although I died in the process. I waited for ahile in stealth until there was only low levels around the bonfire but of course as soon as I unstealth a 80 Belf Pally comes through the portal from Silvermoon and spots me, go figure.

Oh well, 5 more levels to go.

Edit: It appears that my quest count has been rolled back (I'm assuming the midsummer quests) making for an amusing situation where I have 1492 quests done (for achievement purposes) but I already have the achievement for 1500 quests, lol.

74 + Pets #14, 15, & 16

Not quite as much play time this weekend as I would like but still managed to get some stuff done. Reached 74 questing in Dragonblight with Brooklynn and made it to Dalaran to make it my home base for now. With the onset of the Midsummer Fire Festival Sunday morning, I have been doing all the quests which give very good XP, and also save the Northrend experience for later which will allow me to do more quests after 80 for good money. I also managed to stealth up to Thunder Bluff and steal their flame, 3 more of those to go.

I picked up 3 more small pets the 2 owls in Darnassus (Hawk Owl & Great Horned Owl) & a Lifelike Toad. I've been Selling some inventory on the AH and have managed to net myself ~400 gold from that. I'm still well short of the 6000g needed for Swift Flight + Cold Weather but I will get there eventually.

Ding 73

Again, not a whole lot to report. Did a few quests in The Fjord solo last night and managed to ding 73. Then Brooklynn (raid leader/brother Ellevis' Druid alt) and I went to Stars Rest in Dragonblight and completed a few more quests. Still no further achievements completed, I'm saving those for Sunday when the Midsummer Fire Festival begins, an excellent time to make major headway into my explorer requirements.

Some interesting things happened while questing last night, PVP things. It began when Brooklynn decided (without informing me) to jump a 71 Tauren Warrior that was questing near us, this of course is no big deal; a quick Feral Charge and the Warrior is being double-teamed and goes down without hitting anyone. We move a little ways off and suddenly we git hit by a Typhoon, a Tauren Druid (obviously) had appeared and was apparently upset with our antics with the Warrior. The Druid was focusing on Brooklynn allowing to me to go to town shredding his backsides. The druid falls but not before he was able to take down Brook. Over Vent, Brook says "That must have been embarassing." I had no idea what he meant until he told me the Druid was level 80. Funny stuff, we were sure he would be back for revenge so we vamoosed but he left the area anyway. We finished a few more quests and finished the night by ganking a Death Knight that was in the area as well. Lol, love the Lazer Chicken - Kitteh smackdown !!

Update:

Level: 73.29
Gold: 1629g
Quests: 1409
Reputations: Valiance Expedition to Revered

Small Pets #11, #12, & #13

So after going through all my alts inventories looking for stuff to dump on the AH, I found some small pets without homes. The White Kitten, Father Winter's Helper and a Tickbird Hatchling have been added to the collection. A 14th pet has been spotted in Sonar's own bank account but will have to wait until probably level 74 when Dalaran becomes available.



Not much accomplished last night after raiding (where we downed FL+3, got the Disarmed achievement and the achievement on Thorim for noone getting hit by lightning); did some questing in Dragonblight and logged off.



Update:

• Level: 72.89
• Gold: 1592g (got an exact count last night)
• Quests: +27
• Pets: +3

Introductory Post

Since I have been levelling my Druid lately I have been trying to decide on a purpose for her. While there is the possibility that eventually (way eventually) she may take over as my raid main this is highly unlikely and not something I will work too hard toward unless it becomes necessary.

So my plan is to turn Sonar into a soloing/collecting Achievement whore with an eye towards attaining raid gear (alt runs, pugs, Vault, etc.) in case she becomes my main. Mmmm, tasty waffles. I will probably close down Taxiderm's blog sometime soon since I've only been posting raiding news and in all honesty, Honors does it much better.

So, time for the to-do list:

1. Level to 80. Currently at 72, ~halfway to 73. The plan is to solo in Howling Fjord (Borean is done.) and when Wich is on with his Druid we will quest together in Dragonblight.
2. Learn how to make gold. Mounts/pets/tradeskills and gear can be expensive and I will need all I can make. I am currently Skinning/LWing but will definitely be dropping LW. I will have to see if Skinning can create some income for me.
3. Rep grinds, rep grinds, rep grinds. Nuff said.
4. Farm for pet drops.
5. Farm old instances, the obvious one being Strat.
6. Old quests, leveled naturally through Vanilla but went through TBC after nerfs so many quests to do.

Initial Status:

• Level: 72
• Gold: ~1600 (will get exact figures later).
• Achievement Points: 530
• Quests: 1355
• Pets: 10
• Mounts: 1
• Reputations: Exalted - 1, Revered - 4, Honored - 8
• Skinning - 414, LWing - 250, Fishing - 0, Cooking - 0

That is all for now, will update as I level and as I come up with plans for more achievements.