Mounting Frustration and General Meanderings

Mounting Frustration and General Meanderings

Wild spent the past two evenings at the Darkmoon Faire, primarily to try and capture a Crow. The combat pet Crow can only be found during the Faire, and are pretty rare even then. Wild never saw a Crow in the wilderness surrounding the Faire, but there were the occasional blowflies (well, I guess they were glowflies, but they're still just bugs). I figured that crows were secondary combat pets, and eventually Wild did capture a poor quality crow (grey), the Speed/Speed version. Wild can upgrade it to a rare, but I'm hoping to get a better power/speed combination and will keep looking until the Faire closes in a week.

Wild's most needed piece of gear is a trinket (i409). He has three overlapping plans to acquire one. (1) Wild is growing tired of the Timeless Isle, and the endless farming of elites and coins. He hasn't seen a treasure chest in days. He'll keep going back, though, to get coins to buy a high powered trinket that can be earned there. Wild needs 50,000 coins, but only has a little over 13,000 so far. (2) Wild has two sets of Darkmoon cards, one of serpents, and one of cranes, both of which make very nice trinkets. However, I am missing one darkmoon card from each set, and without one of them, no trinket. If Wild gets his Darkmoon trinket he might give up on the Isle completely. (3) If Wild gets into an LFR raid, that might also solve his trinket problem, since the bosses in those early Pandaria raids drop trinkets.

Wild is still fussing about, though, dragging his feet and claiming he needed to work on some "things." Wild's ongoing preps for raiding hit another snag when a favored addon went on the fritz. It tracks Lifebloom and Harmony stacks, two critical healing elements that must always be active. It was working (somewhat) last week, but is balking this week. Then, in the middle of trying to work out those kinks, Wild was disconnected from the game. Disconnects are becoming more and more frequent, up to several times a day. I know the drill. If I complain, Blizzard will just link the standard fix-it notes that involve hours upon hours of deleting/scrubbing files and folders. Then there are more hours of rebuilding the destroyed user interface caused by the scrubbing. Even after all that work, the odds that the disconnects were fixed are about 50/50. I'm not sure I want to go through all that.

Fist was embarrassed when she earned an i496 Timeless cloak and forgot to change her spec to get the healing cape. Instead, she got her second DPS cape, which she has no need of. I put in a ticket  with Blizzard. Maybe someone will take pity on Fist and swap her a healing cape. We won't mention her two deaths - because she forgot to change back to DPS spec and was battling elites in her healing gear.

Finally, it was something of a pleasure to watch an alliance death knight at work on the Timeless Isle. He had drawn not just one, but two level 91 elites (some kind of moss monster). He was patiently and expertly kiting them across the Isle to the Celestial Court. It was a long, slow slog, and few helped him, which I think is the way he wanted it. It was obvious he wasn't trying to kill them outright, since most of his effort was just to keep himself alive. I soon realized what he was doing. The death knight was kiting the monsters into the path of the non player characters at the Court, who obligingly began attacking the monsters and helping the death knight once he got them close enough. The two elites went down once the npcs came to his aid. Nicely done.