Luxy Has a Blog? Shocking, I Know

Things are busy in Luxyland. Well, not reeeealllllyyyy but uni, not-so-tiny puppy, and actually playing (afking) WoW are stealing away all of my blogging time...

Notable things I have done whilst I haven't been posting:
Challenge Conqueror: Gold - While I got silvers on my Shaman with Navi, Lush, Sev and Arv, I got the golds on my Priest.
I've Got the Biggest Brawls of Them All - Rank 10 Brawler's Guild - Took me long enough but I finally got my Brawler's Burly Mushan Beast with some awesome cheerleaders to keep me motivated.

Another ugly Mushan!

Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider - Yay! OpenRaid got me most of these in just one weekend.
Fire-Watcher - My apologies to Barthilas who had to suffer me for a couple of weeks while I farmed their delicious Bloody Coins. I might still be accidentally stealing coins from friends though. Dem Lava Burst procs!
Master of Deepwind Gorge - Can't even thank Putress enough for this. I couldn't have capped all those carts or sat through all of those wins alone. <3

I doubt I will miss Deepwind Gorge any time soon.

Veluxia is no longer a Draenei, and no longer named Veluxia! It was hard to faction change her, but I really wasn't playing her as alliance on a dead server. For now she lives on Mal'Ganis, a happy little Goblin again!

Back to Goblin and a new transmog!

Things I want to finish up before WoD:
Glory of the Pandaria Raider - A few to go, Show Me Your Moves! seems a little challenging, but with the right group it should be doable! I have tried it with a couple of OpenRaid groups without success. I just need to find time to get into some groups for the other meta achievements. Still a lot of points to be gained there!
Glory of the Thundering Raider - Just one to go. I think I need a couple of different platforms on Lei-Shen for A Complete Circuit, again just need the time to commit to a ToT run!
Proving Yourself: Gold Damage - Proving Grounds are something I have been pretty lazy about because I found it quite boring to be honest and it is so lonely in there! I got silver on my Shaman though, I suppose there is plenty of time to work on gold.  
Going To Need a Bigger Bag - 3 to go! Generally I am studying on second screen while camping a rare on the isle so it's not as boring as it could be but this achievement really sucks! I am just left with camping Spirit of Jadefire for Glowing Green Ash, then I will be killing High Priest of Ordos for Ash-Covered Horn and mannnny crabbies to make the Monstrous Spineclaw spawn for Spineclaw Crab. 
I stillllll need to finish leveling all of my 5.4 pets to 25. I think I have around 20 to go but I am still quite burnt out on pet leveling and battling in general, though I have been having a lot of fun forcing other people to start pet battling, some even obsessively asking for invites to look for rares now!

It looks a lot less daunting when I look at it like that, although, some of those won't be fun or fast... Luckily I have awesome friends, the kind who are always there to help me, listen to me rage, and often always mock me! :D

Primordial Direhorns

Late Saturday night I saw a Zandalari Warbringer on an Amber mount! 'NAVI! YELLOW EYES!' She was in LFR so I continued on my rare rounds. When she was done we went back to check on the Warbringer, stopping by Kun-Lai on the way. There was one up! We killed it and moved on to Jade Forest, where I had seen Yellow Eyes. He was still up! I should have known this was a good sign. We killed him and a Warscout at the same time, it got a little intense but we killed them and Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn dropped! AMG! It was the last one I needed. Navi didn't need it so I won the roll. AMG! It had been a long time since we had seen a mount, actually now that I am thinking about it, we might not have seen a mount since we transferred to Saurfang. I was excited and it was a nice way to finish off a day that was pretty crappy for a few reasons.

The newest addition - 'Yellow Eyes'!

"Ugly Jade' was my first Direhorn mount.

Slate, who didn't get a nickname but is the one we all preferred.

Looking at them, Amber might be my favourite. Slate is pretty too though. Navi still needs Ugly Jade, Lushy might still need two of them and I would like to help all of the guildies who joined us get at least one so my Warbringer days are not over which is fine, I actually enjoy killing them!

The three mounts are:

Reins of the Jade Primordial Direhorn 
Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn 
Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn

The Warbringer's drop the corresponding mount to the one they are riding, so if it spawns on a Slate, Slate has a chance to drop. In some zones I had to actually look at the eyes to tell Slate and Amber apart.

Each of the 3 Warbringers has a chance to spawn at any of the 5 locations marked on the map below.


The TomTom waypoints are:
/way Dread Wastes 47 61
/way Krasarang Wilds 38 67
/way Kun-Lai Summit 75 67
/way The Jade Forest 52 19
/way Townlong Steppes 36 85

Generally we found that when one died another spawned so there was always one up, however occasionally there were none to be found or multiples up at once.

Good luck to anyone farming them!

Rare Spawns Must Die

Whenever I don't have anything to work on in game I am farming in some manner. Lately it has been by killing rares and collecting their baggies. Perhaps a little obsessively!

Small Bag of Goods
Small Bag of Zandalari Supplies
Big Bag of Wonders
Big Bag of Linens
Big Bag of Mysteries
Big Bag of Skins
Big Bag of Arms
Big Bag of Food
Big Bag of Jewels
Big Bag of Herbs
Big Bag of Zandalari Supplies

The Zandalari Supplies seem to have the same contents as the other bags, much like the Big Bag of Mysteries can be any of the other big bags that drop in Townlong Steppes. I do wonder if the Zandalari eat though as I have never seen the Big Bag of Big Bag of Zandalari Supplies contain food.

It was hard to keep myself from opening them as I got them!

I have chosen to spare myself the looks given to hoarders when someone sees their house for the first time by only showing half of my inventory. Much like as a child when told to clean my room I would shove as much as I could into the closet and close the door while pushing the rest under the bed, crossing my fingers behind my back that my parents wouldn't look in there. They always did.

Let's see what's in these bags! I don't have space to open them all so I had to mail things away as I opened each bag.

Gold x1011
Mote of Harmony x72
Windwool Cloth x635
Bolt of Windwool Cloth x38
Heavy Windwool Bandage x56
Eternium Thread  x40 
Fool's Cap x177
Silkweed x68
Green Tea Leaf x142 
Golden Lotus x20
Rain Poppy x53
Snow Lily x89
Spirit Dust x101
Ethereal Shard x25
Sha Crystal x2
Ethereal Shard x11
Pandaren Banquet x20
Great Pandaren Banquet x20
Banana Infused Rum x5
Black Trillium Ore x44
White Trillium Ore x93
Ghost Iron Ore x445
Kyparite x484
Magnificent Hide x5 
Exotic Leather x229
Tiger Opal x11
Roguestone x11
Primordial Ruby x6 
Sun's Radiance x9

This was about 8 hours of flying from spawn to spawn. On top of this was 1500 gold from vendoring the blue items as well as any trash from adds I pulled. 14 BoE epic items from the Krasarang and Jade Forest rares. Multiple Grinder and Aqua Strider and too many rep insignias from the Zandalari Warscouts.

Luckily 5.3 is this week, saving me from laps of Pandaria!