Well, I didn't completely finish the Fire Festival with everyone, but I almost did. (I would have, but I was away from home for a couple of days in the middle of it.) I did it with seven of the remaining eight, so it's just Elsie who needs to catch up next year. I say 'need to', but I'm not sure how it will all work with account-wide achievements due to appear… but even if she's already got the achievements by default, the XP will still come in handy. Everyone else went up several levels on the bonfire tour, and there's the bonus that Katisha, Santuzza and Gattara now have all the Outland flight points, which they didn't before.
Also, they've all finally finished enough Darnassus cooking quests to buy all the recipes. Katisha finished first, and I was going to take her to Outland to do the Shattrath ones, but it turns out you have to be L70 to do that, and she isn't quite. So everyone's now on plan B, which is to do archaeology until they're high enough level for Outland. Not just archaeology, of course - as other events come up, they can do those - but it seems like a better solution than random questing, because (a) it makes money; (b) it gives lots of XP, both for finding stuff and for exploring; ( c) it raises archaeology skill and works towards achievements; and (d) it solves the main problem with doing quests, which is that if I do some then my obsessive nature will want to do all of them!
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are both doing occasional bits of archaeology too, just so they don't feel I'm neglecting them, but mainly I've been playing Mabel. She finished Deepholm and then raced through Uldum (which was, as usual, the most fun of all the Cataclysm zones, mainly due to Gnomebliteration but helped by the Harrison Jones rescue, which I love just as much even when I know what's going to happen). She's almost done everything in Twilight Highlands - she's done all of it except the last section (at the Twilight Gate), but we're taking an enforced break because my subscription has expired and I can't afford to renew it just yet. Soon, though!
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Monday, 25 June 2012
Fire down below
It feels as if I've made loads of progress since my last post, but actually only a few of my characters have gone up a level. That's because I've been spending all my time on my three 85s - all the others have only done cooking dailies, and not even every day.
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are still grinding archaeology as previously described, but Mabel's been storming through the Cataclysm zones. She's finished Mount Hyjal and Vashj'ir and is now at the start of Deepholm. However, we're all taking a break from all that, because it's the Fire Festival, and it turns out that very few of my characters had done any of it. Iolanthe and MadMargaret just needed to do the Northrend and Cataclysm bits (not sure why they hadn't done them before). They both also needed the torch juggling and the boss kill. Since there's no way of getting the boss kill on my own (and I can't group with strangers) we'll never get the title, but I decided I would at least try the torch quests with Iolanthe. Never again! The first one wasn't too bad, but I spent ages trying to do the catching. I went to Exodar, as the forums suggested, but it was still nearly impossible. I did it in the end, but since the forum posts also said it was much harder for non-druids (who don't have travel form) I decided not to try with anyone else. (I can certainly see why it would be harder without travel form - I could barely catch the shadow as it was!) The final quest (the one for the achievement) was also nearly impossible, but I got it after a few goes.
Mabel, it turned out, hadn't done any of the fire festival stuff, so she's done it all tonight - took about five hours. Well, I say she hadn't done any of it, but she must have done some, because she had a mantle from it in the bank - I assume she must have done a few fires but not enough for an achievement. And when I say she's done it all now, of course I mean she's done it all apart from the torches and the boss kill… and the one where you steal the flames from the opposition's capitals. Iolanthe and MadMargaret both did that, but they can both stealth and they still died a lot. There's no way I'm trying it with a non-stealther… I would if it was the only one I needed for a title, but even if I did it there'd still be the boss kill, so it's not going to happen.
Current aim: to try and get all eight of my other characters to do as much as they can of the fire festival by 4th July. It won't take as long as it did for Mabel - none of the others will be doing Cataclysm or Northrend, and only three of them will be doing Outland, and in any case I know where all the fires are now, without having to search or look them up.
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are still grinding archaeology as previously described, but Mabel's been storming through the Cataclysm zones. She's finished Mount Hyjal and Vashj'ir and is now at the start of Deepholm. However, we're all taking a break from all that, because it's the Fire Festival, and it turns out that very few of my characters had done any of it. Iolanthe and MadMargaret just needed to do the Northrend and Cataclysm bits (not sure why they hadn't done them before). They both also needed the torch juggling and the boss kill. Since there's no way of getting the boss kill on my own (and I can't group with strangers) we'll never get the title, but I decided I would at least try the torch quests with Iolanthe. Never again! The first one wasn't too bad, but I spent ages trying to do the catching. I went to Exodar, as the forums suggested, but it was still nearly impossible. I did it in the end, but since the forum posts also said it was much harder for non-druids (who don't have travel form) I decided not to try with anyone else. (I can certainly see why it would be harder without travel form - I could barely catch the shadow as it was!) The final quest (the one for the achievement) was also nearly impossible, but I got it after a few goes.
Mabel, it turned out, hadn't done any of the fire festival stuff, so she's done it all tonight - took about five hours. Well, I say she hadn't done any of it, but she must have done some, because she had a mantle from it in the bank - I assume she must have done a few fires but not enough for an achievement. And when I say she's done it all now, of course I mean she's done it all apart from the torches and the boss kill… and the one where you steal the flames from the opposition's capitals. Iolanthe and MadMargaret both did that, but they can both stealth and they still died a lot. There's no way I'm trying it with a non-stealther… I would if it was the only one I needed for a title, but even if I did it there'd still be the boss kill, so it's not going to happen.
Current aim: to try and get all eight of my other characters to do as much as they can of the fire festival by 4th July. It won't take as long as it did for Mabel - none of the others will be doing Cataclysm or Northrend, and only three of them will be doing Outland, and in any case I know where all the fires are now, without having to search or look them up.
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Uldum spawns... or not
I sometimes wonder why I bother writing this blog when I know no-one's reading it, but it's actually quite satisfying to see that I am making progress in the game, however small. It's two months since I last got round to updating, but all my characters have gone up several levels since then. Mabel became my third L85 the other day! Very exciting. She's the only one who's currently doing any proper questing - she's currently halfway through Mount Hyjal. She does need to go back to Icecrown at some point, though, because there are several group quests she couldn't quite manage and she needs them for Loremaster. (Although since account-wide achievements are on the way, that's largely a waste of time… but she's so close!) I haven't actually tried the Icecrown hard stuff since she was L84, but I think I'll wait till she's finished Hyjal and then see if she can cope any better (one level won't make much difference, of course, but the quest rewards in Hyjal are vastly superior to what she had before, so I'm hoping she'll be in shiny new gear from head to foot by the time she's finished the zone, and that will be enough to attack Icecrown.
Mabel finally got all the cooking recipes and was able to leave Darnassus, but most of my other characters are still parked there. They've all finished all the cooking and fishing dailies now and are just repeating them to get all the cooking recipes - it'll be a while yet though. A couple of them were doing fishing dailies much longer than the others, trying to get the Captain Rumsey recipe, but they all have it now. They've all been to the Darkmoon Faire in both May and June, which definitely helps the levelling process. The only part of that that's a pain is the archaeology - it does involve a bit of running around to get 15 fossil fragments. I'm all prepared now, though, because after the faffing I had to do before the Faire's current visit I've decided that the way forward is to keep them all with 15 fragments on them, and after the Faire go immediately to top up if necessary before I forget about it.
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are doing nothing but archaeology. Iolanthe has got all the achievements, but she's keeping going because she's an alchemist and wants to try and get the Vial of the Sands recipe from a Canopic Jar… but there are so few digsites that spawn in Uldum, and even when they do they never seem to be the Canopic Jar (although she obviously must have got it once at least, because it's needed for one of the achievements), and even if it does spawn the recipe drop rate is very low, I believe. But that's her only aim, so she's flying round Kalimdor digging till Uldum sites spawn, and then being disappointed! She can at least feel useful, though, because she grabs any herbs she passes and sends them to Elsie, who's levelling Inscription.
MadMargaret has quite a few archaeology achievements to complete, but she's doing well on all of them. By chance, currently four of her projects are rare ones, which means she'll be much closer to the 20 rare achievement when they're all done, but also means she hasn't actually solved anything for ages! And she has loads still to do in Uldum. But there's no hurry.
Soon it will be the Fire Festival, which I think is my favourite. I do plan to do much more of it with my alts this time. (Annoyingly I totally missed Children's Week because it coincided with a week of cat-related trauma. I've done it lots of times before, but now I've missed a year in getting all the pets! Oh well.)
Mabel finally got all the cooking recipes and was able to leave Darnassus, but most of my other characters are still parked there. They've all finished all the cooking and fishing dailies now and are just repeating them to get all the cooking recipes - it'll be a while yet though. A couple of them were doing fishing dailies much longer than the others, trying to get the Captain Rumsey recipe, but they all have it now. They've all been to the Darkmoon Faire in both May and June, which definitely helps the levelling process. The only part of that that's a pain is the archaeology - it does involve a bit of running around to get 15 fossil fragments. I'm all prepared now, though, because after the faffing I had to do before the Faire's current visit I've decided that the way forward is to keep them all with 15 fragments on them, and after the Faire go immediately to top up if necessary before I forget about it.
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are doing nothing but archaeology. Iolanthe has got all the achievements, but she's keeping going because she's an alchemist and wants to try and get the Vial of the Sands recipe from a Canopic Jar… but there are so few digsites that spawn in Uldum, and even when they do they never seem to be the Canopic Jar (although she obviously must have got it once at least, because it's needed for one of the achievements), and even if it does spawn the recipe drop rate is very low, I believe. But that's her only aim, so she's flying round Kalimdor digging till Uldum sites spawn, and then being disappointed! She can at least feel useful, though, because she grabs any herbs she passes and sends them to Elsie, who's levelling Inscription.
MadMargaret has quite a few archaeology achievements to complete, but she's doing well on all of them. By chance, currently four of her projects are rare ones, which means she'll be much closer to the 20 rare achievement when they're all done, but also means she hasn't actually solved anything for ages! And she has loads still to do in Uldum. But there's no hurry.
Soon it will be the Fire Festival, which I think is my favourite. I do plan to do much more of it with my alts this time. (Annoyingly I totally missed Children's Week because it coincided with a week of cat-related trauma. I've done it lots of times before, but now I've missed a year in getting all the pets! Oh well.)
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Productive alts
I've gone a bit mad with my alts since the last time I posted. The Darkmoon Faire, at the start of March, reminded me that it was a great way to easily level up not just profession level but actual level, so I attempted to take all my alts there (I'm nothing if not complete!) Quickly I realised that some of them needed to do some preparation work, because you can't see the Faire profession quests unless you're at a skill level of 75 in that profession. In most cases this meant I had to spend quite a while on their archaeology, but Gattara (my death knight) also needed some remedial mining and skinning - death knights are a bit of a special case with gathering professions, because when you start the profession you need low-level stuff, which is easy with low-level characters because you're in those areas anyway. But death knights start at 58 so they don't encounter any mining or skinning (or herbs, for that matter) they can actually do. The result: Gattara spent hours, a few weeks ago, running round Elwynn Forest and Duskwood. Not fun, but it's done now - and the archaeology still took longer, because of all the travelling! And I learned what a PAIN it is to do archaeology without a flying mount...
Where we're up to now: They didn't all get everything to skill level 75 in time for the March Darkmoon Faire, but they were all ready for April. In between, I got obsessed with getting them all through all the cooking and fishing dailies. They've all either totally finished in both Stormwind and/or Ironforge or have only one or two quests left. (I'm not taking any to Darnassus till Stormwind and Ironforge are totally done - too much travel! Although Mabel's been there for a while - she's done all the dailies, but she's just hanging about to repeat the Darnassus ones until she has all the recipes. Why Darnassus? Because the cooking quests there involve far less running for my other characters - since she's a mage, it's easier for her to pop to Ironforge to check what the daily is than it is for any of the others! Iolanthe and MadMargaret had maxed out everything and done all the dailies ages ago, so they've not done much. Oh, except MadMargaret hadn't maxed archaeology, but she has now. Iolanthe has almost done all the archaeology there is to do - the only achievement she has left is the one to get 20 rare thingies, and she's on 19, and will have 20 quite soon, if only the Nerubian sites will spawn. (Talking of spawning, I got really irritated the other day when I had to get 15 fossil fragments for each character for the Darkmoon Faire. Some of them already had 15, but most didn't... and would the fossil sites spawn? NO, THEY WOULD NOT. Argh.
But I almost forgot the fishing! I realised that Iolanthe and MadMargaret didn't have their Oceanographer and Limnologist achievements, so I did those a few weeks ago. And I realised in the process (a) that neither of them could complete the achievement until the summer bass reappeared; and (b) that if I was to do it with any of my other characters at any point, it would be much less frustrating if I took them all to get the winter squid before it vanished. Well, they've all caught the winter squid now, but it was harder than I thought - the areas where it spawns are relatively high level, and some of my characters died a *lot* getting to the sea! Plan A, which I thought was brilliant, was to take them to Loch Modan, run into Badlands, go to Fuselight and port to Fuselight-by-the Sea. But this plan had to be abandoned when I discovered that the cataclysm had put a huge canyon between Loch Modan and Badlands and you can't now run from one to the other! Oh well. So I had several corpse runs in the Blasted Lands instead. (Eastern Plaguelands would have been less fatal, but Blasted Lands was a lot nearer to where they were. Although I did take one to Swamp of Sorrows by running along a long path from Burning Steppes which I never noticed before - it goes right down the side of Redridge Mountains but you can't get to it from there.)
Hopefully by next month all the cooking and fishing will be done and I can get back to actual questing! But this is still fun :-)
Where we're up to now: They didn't all get everything to skill level 75 in time for the March Darkmoon Faire, but they were all ready for April. In between, I got obsessed with getting them all through all the cooking and fishing dailies. They've all either totally finished in both Stormwind and/or Ironforge or have only one or two quests left. (I'm not taking any to Darnassus till Stormwind and Ironforge are totally done - too much travel! Although Mabel's been there for a while - she's done all the dailies, but she's just hanging about to repeat the Darnassus ones until she has all the recipes. Why Darnassus? Because the cooking quests there involve far less running for my other characters - since she's a mage, it's easier for her to pop to Ironforge to check what the daily is than it is for any of the others! Iolanthe and MadMargaret had maxed out everything and done all the dailies ages ago, so they've not done much. Oh, except MadMargaret hadn't maxed archaeology, but she has now. Iolanthe has almost done all the archaeology there is to do - the only achievement she has left is the one to get 20 rare thingies, and she's on 19, and will have 20 quite soon, if only the Nerubian sites will spawn. (Talking of spawning, I got really irritated the other day when I had to get 15 fossil fragments for each character for the Darkmoon Faire. Some of them already had 15, but most didn't... and would the fossil sites spawn? NO, THEY WOULD NOT. Argh.
But I almost forgot the fishing! I realised that Iolanthe and MadMargaret didn't have their Oceanographer and Limnologist achievements, so I did those a few weeks ago. And I realised in the process (a) that neither of them could complete the achievement until the summer bass reappeared; and (b) that if I was to do it with any of my other characters at any point, it would be much less frustrating if I took them all to get the winter squid before it vanished. Well, they've all caught the winter squid now, but it was harder than I thought - the areas where it spawns are relatively high level, and some of my characters died a *lot* getting to the sea! Plan A, which I thought was brilliant, was to take them to Loch Modan, run into Badlands, go to Fuselight and port to Fuselight-by-the Sea. But this plan had to be abandoned when I discovered that the cataclysm had put a huge canyon between Loch Modan and Badlands and you can't now run from one to the other! Oh well. So I had several corpse runs in the Blasted Lands instead. (Eastern Plaguelands would have been less fatal, but Blasted Lands was a lot nearer to where they were. Although I did take one to Swamp of Sorrows by running along a long path from Burning Steppes which I never noticed before - it goes right down the side of Redridge Mountains but you can't get to it from there.)
Hopefully by next month all the cooking and fishing will be done and I can get back to actual questing! But this is still fun :-)
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Digging, digging, digging
So, none of my ladies got the Love Fool achievement, for reasons explained in my last post. Hopefully next year they'll be higher level due to the expansion, and Blizzard will forget to update the achievement requirements :p
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are now both working solely on archaeology. Iolanthe maxed it out ages ago, and has all the achievements but one: the Professor one, for which she needs 20 rare artefacts. So far she has 16, so it shouldn't take too much longer, but she won't be able to stop there... she'll want to get all the rare artefacts there are.
MadMargaret is a long way behind, but is making rapid progress now that she doesn't have anything else to distract her (she was still questing when Iolanthe started). She passed level 300 skill last night and is just thinking about going to Outland to get some orc stuff.
Mabel is the only one who's questing at the moment. She did manage to get a bit further with Love is in the Air stuff than I originally thought, mainly because she remembered she had a Mirror Image spell, and with that she was able to kill the Uldum guys quite easily. She finished the Oracle and Frenzyheart achievements while she was still in Storm Peaks. She's finished Storm Peaks now (except for the Iron Colossus quest, which seems impossible, but maybe she'll try again now she's level 84. Currently she's 30-odd quests into Icecrown (she's just finished the chain where you fly all over the place to save the dying crusader - so pretty when A'dal ascends him!) but has been a bit sidetracked by cooking and fishing dailies, after she realised that doing them is the only way to get lots of the recipes.
She's done all the fishing stuff in the capital cities (except the coins in Dalaran...) and almost all the cooking - there's one Darnassus daily (Back to Basics) that will not come up - but she'll have to continue doing cooking dailies for quite a while in order to get all the recipes. She's also been doing the Dalaran cooking dailies, but only so she can get a chef's hat, and she'll be there in another day or two.
Darkmoon Fayre will be back this week! Where did this month go?!?
Iolanthe and MadMargaret are now both working solely on archaeology. Iolanthe maxed it out ages ago, and has all the achievements but one: the Professor one, for which she needs 20 rare artefacts. So far she has 16, so it shouldn't take too much longer, but she won't be able to stop there... she'll want to get all the rare artefacts there are.
MadMargaret is a long way behind, but is making rapid progress now that she doesn't have anything else to distract her (she was still questing when Iolanthe started). She passed level 300 skill last night and is just thinking about going to Outland to get some orc stuff.
Mabel is the only one who's questing at the moment. She did manage to get a bit further with Love is in the Air stuff than I originally thought, mainly because she remembered she had a Mirror Image spell, and with that she was able to kill the Uldum guys quite easily. She finished the Oracle and Frenzyheart achievements while she was still in Storm Peaks. She's finished Storm Peaks now (except for the Iron Colossus quest, which seems impossible, but maybe she'll try again now she's level 84. Currently she's 30-odd quests into Icecrown (she's just finished the chain where you fly all over the place to save the dying crusader - so pretty when A'dal ascends him!) but has been a bit sidetracked by cooking and fishing dailies, after she realised that doing them is the only way to get lots of the recipes.
She's done all the fishing stuff in the capital cities (except the coins in Dalaran...) and almost all the cooking - there's one Darnassus daily (Back to Basics) that will not come up - but she'll have to continue doing cooking dailies for quite a while in order to get all the recipes. She's also been doing the Dalaran cooking dailies, but only so she can get a chef's hat, and she'll be there in another day or two.
Darkmoon Fayre will be back this week! Where did this month go?!?
Monday, 6 February 2012
Elder at last!
We made it! Iolanthe and MadMargaret both managed to survive enough of the Northrend dungeons that they both finally got the Elder title. I'm delighted about this! They both also did quite a few of the Northrend dungeon achievements at the same time. That's very satisfying too, because I never did any of the WotLK dungeon content with a group - everyone I know stopped playing regularly not long after Wrath launched. So it's all new stuff to me, and it's great fun. The only one that neither of them have been able to do is Ymiron in Utgarde Pinnacle, but other than him most things were OK. MadMargaret couldn't save Brann Bronzebeard in Halls of Stone, but Iolanthe was fine with that, because she could heal him, and that made all the difference.
Both of them are now trying to get the last few Love is in the Air achievements, but it looks as if My Love is like a Red, Red Rose might be the one that stops them both getting the title. I was quite hopeful when I read that the bouquet dropped from a few Wrath bosses that I already know they can kill, but I went and tried all of them (on both my mains) and it didn't drop. Seems the drop has been changed. Then I even dashed through the Deadmines last night after reading that Admiral Ripsnarl drops it on both normal and heroic, but he didn't on normal, and I can't do heroic on my own. Might try one more time, but if there's no bouquet I'll give up! Elder was the title I really wanted, anyway.
Mabel is now in Storm Peaks, but she's still popping back to Sholazar Basin to do the Frenzyheart and Oracles achievements. She's also trying to do the Love Fool achievements, but there's a long way to go, especially as one of the dailies requires her to go to Uldum to fight L83 mobs, and she's only L82 and hasn't been there yet. I took her to try it out, and she managed to kill one, but then kept dying. Oh well.
She has at least done all the Elder achievements she can do, so next year she'll only have to do the dungeons and the Cataclysm ones. But she got so much XP by running round for them that I thought it would be worth taking some of my lower alts on the world tour as well. This plan lasted only as far as Crossroads, where Katisha got killed repeatedly by a ?? Horde guard.
However, the Darkmoon Faire is in town this week, so I've taken all my alts there to do the profession quests. These are doubly fantastic, because not only do all the profession skill levels get raised by 5 for very little effort, but there is loads of XP as well. All my alts are now a level higher as a result \o/
Both of them are now trying to get the last few Love is in the Air achievements, but it looks as if My Love is like a Red, Red Rose might be the one that stops them both getting the title. I was quite hopeful when I read that the bouquet dropped from a few Wrath bosses that I already know they can kill, but I went and tried all of them (on both my mains) and it didn't drop. Seems the drop has been changed. Then I even dashed through the Deadmines last night after reading that Admiral Ripsnarl drops it on both normal and heroic, but he didn't on normal, and I can't do heroic on my own. Might try one more time, but if there's no bouquet I'll give up! Elder was the title I really wanted, anyway.
Mabel is now in Storm Peaks, but she's still popping back to Sholazar Basin to do the Frenzyheart and Oracles achievements. She's also trying to do the Love Fool achievements, but there's a long way to go, especially as one of the dailies requires her to go to Uldum to fight L83 mobs, and she's only L82 and hasn't been there yet. I took her to try it out, and she managed to kill one, but then kept dying. Oh well.
She has at least done all the Elder achievements she can do, so next year she'll only have to do the dungeons and the Cataclysm ones. But she got so much XP by running round for them that I thought it would be worth taking some of my lower alts on the world tour as well. This plan lasted only as far as Crossroads, where Katisha got killed repeatedly by a ?? Horde guard.
However, the Darkmoon Faire is in town this week, so I've taken all my alts there to do the profession quests. These are doubly fantastic, because not only do all the profession skill levels get raised by 5 for very little effort, but there is loads of XP as well. All my alts are now a level higher as a result \o/
Monday, 23 January 2012
Elder MadMargaret
I've been mainly concentrating on Mabel recently. Iolanthe and MadMargaret have both done all the quests there are (well, except a few they can't manage solo) so they've both just been doing a bit of archaeology and the new Darkmoon Faire stuff (actually I took all my characters to the Faire when it was in town, so they could do the profession quests. They also both did the new Christmas stuff, but still neither of them have got the title due to the PvP bit. *sigh*
Mabel's whizzing through Northrend quests. She's now level 82 and finished Zul'Drak last week - she's now partway through Sholazar Basin, which is much more pleasant. (She does still need to go back to Zul'Drak later to do the amphitheatre stuff so she can tick it off on the Loremaster list, but everything else there was fine. Oh, except the stupid quest where you sit on the giant's shoulders!)
Bit of a pause in that, though, because the Lunar Festival is here, and it looks as if I might finally be able to get the Elder title on both my mains. I tried last year, but there were a few Northrend dungeons that prevented it. But I was hopeful that an extra five levels might make all the difference, and so it's proved, at least with MadMargaret. She spent hours this weekend doing the Elders of Cataclysm (which was easy but time-consuming) and the Elders of the Dungeon (which took ages, and was particularly annoying because she'd already got most of them but the whole achievement had been reset). Utgarde Pinnacle was the main impossibility last time, but she got most of the way through the dungeon this time - the only bit she couldn't manage was King Ymiron, but the Elder was before him. She could have stealthed past lots of earlier bits but decided she may as well try for the dungeon achievement. I thought Skadi and his gauntlet was going to turn out to be a bit much, but it was just about OK.
After getting the last Elder - and the title \o/ - she tried to finish the Halls of Stone dungeon achievement, but Brann Bronzebeard proved to be tricksy, and kept dying. Oh well. Next task: try to get the title with Iolanthe as well. Should be fine - she's better-geared than MadMargaret, and I have much more experience playing her, and she can heal AND has treants... yet despite all this I've found that she often seems to struggle with boss fights that MadMargaret can do easily. Bizarre.
Mabel's whizzing through Northrend quests. She's now level 82 and finished Zul'Drak last week - she's now partway through Sholazar Basin, which is much more pleasant. (She does still need to go back to Zul'Drak later to do the amphitheatre stuff so she can tick it off on the Loremaster list, but everything else there was fine. Oh, except the stupid quest where you sit on the giant's shoulders!)
Bit of a pause in that, though, because the Lunar Festival is here, and it looks as if I might finally be able to get the Elder title on both my mains. I tried last year, but there were a few Northrend dungeons that prevented it. But I was hopeful that an extra five levels might make all the difference, and so it's proved, at least with MadMargaret. She spent hours this weekend doing the Elders of Cataclysm (which was easy but time-consuming) and the Elders of the Dungeon (which took ages, and was particularly annoying because she'd already got most of them but the whole achievement had been reset). Utgarde Pinnacle was the main impossibility last time, but she got most of the way through the dungeon this time - the only bit she couldn't manage was King Ymiron, but the Elder was before him. She could have stealthed past lots of earlier bits but decided she may as well try for the dungeon achievement. I thought Skadi and his gauntlet was going to turn out to be a bit much, but it was just about OK.
After getting the last Elder - and the title \o/ - she tried to finish the Halls of Stone dungeon achievement, but Brann Bronzebeard proved to be tricksy, and kept dying. Oh well. Next task: try to get the title with Iolanthe as well. Should be fine - she's better-geared than MadMargaret, and I have much more experience playing her, and she can heal AND has treants... yet despite all this I've found that she often seems to struggle with boss fights that MadMargaret can do easily. Bizarre.
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