Sunday (28 May) - Back On The Road (Almost)

Sunday (28 May) - Back On The Road (Almost)

Our week in Virginia is about over, and we'll soon be heading to South Carolina. We've had to add a couple of days to our return trip in order to make a second visit to Mississippi. We are looking at 15/16 Jun as our arrival date home now. The details are available on our trip blog as usual:

http://tazzydbell.blogspot.com/

I just wanted to add a quick Warcraft update. Since the trip started Happy and Lost have tried hard to get a few minutes in game each day to keep up with Auction House progress. That has been going well for Happy, who is very close to having the gold needed for Wild to get the special mount he wants : [Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]. This mount can carry two people in addition to the rider. Those seats can also be used to carry an npc repair vendor, which is the main reason Wild wants it. With this mount Wild can repair his gear whenever he needs to, making him pretty much self-sufficient in raids. Of course, it'll also be fun to carry around other toons, too! Too bad it's just a ground mount. Maybe we'll see a flying mount with extra seats some day. Wild will likely wait to buy the mount when his guild reaches ilevel 24, when he'll get an additional 10% discount. The MM guild is about 75% there. The mount is a Kirin Tor Faction item, and it happens to be one of those rare factions that Wild is actually Exalted with. Being Exalted drops the base price for the mount from 20,000 gold to 16k gold. With the 10% discount the price goes down to 14,400 gold.

Speaking of guilds, MM guild raiding appears to have gone dormant. The Friday raid still appears on the schedule, but Wild has never seen more than four guildies signed up for it. No new bosses have be defeated since we started our vacation. It's summer, and there are certainly other guildies taking vacation, so that is likely the reason. However, MM2 has been raiding, and often. Wild has seen his friends running the Four Winds still, as well as Bastion of Twilight and Blackwing Descent. One way or the other Wild will be raiding when he gets back.

In other news Wild and level 85 Lao had a chance to talk a couple of times. She's reached the minimum ilevel now to do the five man Heroics. Like Wild, she doesn't much like the random nature of the dungeon finder because we prefer to know ahead of time what dungeon we are going to be in to be prepared for the fights. Hopefully we will be able to hook up to run some together once Wild is back in action - at least we can make sure nobody can vote to kick us out of a group lol. Lao is planning to join MM once Wild gets back, and Wild is hoping to get Lao into the guild raids as soon as possible.

Lost, the alliance side Auction House toon, hasn't had as much in game time as Happy, but has still had enough activity to keep things moving. The allie bank hasn't seen much progress, though, because Happy keeps stealing the low cost materials that Lost is buying. Allie AH prices have been well below Horde side AH on many items, and that has helped pad Happy's bank account at the expense of Lost's. These things run in cycles, however, and Happy will find himself having to send stuff he buys to Lost for sale I'm sure.

JB even got a tiny bit of in game time, getting in some herb farming and fishing. The guild is trying to get the guild fishing achievement done - which is to fish 10,000 fishing holes - and JB needed to raise her fishing skills, anyway. Fishing is slow work, though.

Lastly, I was talking with my brother and online games came up. Long story short, he seemed intrigued with WoW. He may try the free trial to see if he likes it and I offered to help him learn the game. The monthly fee could be an issue, though, even if he likes the free trial.