Drak'Tharon Keep

Added another heroic to the list of what the Grins have cleared: Drak'Tharon Keep. I did try it ages ago, but couldn't get passed Novos, now with some better gear all around I just went in and one-shotted the whole place.

The fun part about this new random heroic quest is that I do get the motivation to try some new heroics, and I have been much more successful than I thought I would be. I've still to do any of the real hard ones, but also, I haven't spent any triumph badges either yet.

Back!

Well, not 100% sure of that yet ;)

A few months back I started focusing more on raiding on my main, and didn't box much - And the ToC content stunk from a raiding perspective, so coupled with a high workload that turned in to a all time low in playing WoW - Canceled the 4 extra accounts and fired up 2 accounts in EVE instead (since it is much more friendly to low play time play).

However, with the release of 3.3 I found my WoW interest revitalized!

Raids are fun, new instance is great - And the LFG tool is amazing. I renewed the 5 accounts to farm a Battered Hilt from the trash in the new heroics (can't yet box the bosses). So far I scored one, realzied it wasn't much of a DPS upgrade for Perrigrin and proceeded to sell it just before they upped the drop-rate, making a nice profit.

Badge farming is now easier than ever, I boxed a few daily random heroics and added Violet Hold and The Nexus to the list of cleared instances with the Grins.

I think I'll be pushing to get the mixed team to 80 (they are now sitting at 70) over the holidays, given how much easier it is to gear now it definitely rekindled my interest.

In other news I completed What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been on my main for the Violet Proto-Drake!

Bronze Drake and RAF finished!

Not as much boxing done as I thought I would be doing lately, mostly due to the fact that I'm now raiding more on the main (which is all good).

Did get around to doing COT timed and got 2x Bronze Drakes so far.

I got a couple of weeks left on my RAF, but decided to call it finished - Got warrior, druid, warlock, hunter and priest to 60, and a rogue on main account to 54 - Not much, but it is what I need and I can't be bothered to do more boosting.

I had intended to get the rogue to 60, and have another druid + maybe get a team up on another server - But there just haven't been time or energy enough to get it done - So calling and end to the RAF now. The decision was made even easier by the fact that I now what that druid to be a Troll ;)

The plan going forward is to make sure I can comfortably take the Grins' through all heroics to make sure I get the dailies done to maximize the emblem farming, farm some TOC normal and learn it on heroic (my dps is still low, need to tune macros and gear some). Any spare time will be spent getting the mixed team to 80.

On a side note, I upgraded to Windows 7, 8 GB memory and a SSD on my boxing computer - And now it runs fine even in Dalaran despite being a old machine processor and graphics card wise :D

Cleared Trial of Champions

Well, 3.2 is live - Lots of badge loot to get, not much time to post between work, raids on main and boxing.

The Grins' are in farm mode now and I intend to add more heroics to the rotation, which means that the mixed team will have to wait on its leveling.

The new 5 man is somewhat involved to box, I got it down to no wipes now on normal, but not sure if I have the dps to deal with the heroic - Should probably invest some in geming and enchanting the gear of the shamans.

ZG Cleared!

Been a while since I posted, did some pvp on the Grins', including winning a few 3v3 arenas, clearing some heroics and clearing ZG + 1 boss in KZ for mount farming for Perrigrin.
The mixed team is 66/67ish, and just about getting done with Nagarand.

Update

Finally got all the transfers done, so now my mixed 60 team is on the appropriate accounts, ready to start the run to 80. I must say that once you get through the mile long phone wait, Blizzards tech support is excellent.

While waiting on that to go through I farmed enough shards to buy the +10% xp shoulders on all accounts, so the mixed team will have a 10% bonus leveling.

Also, the Grins' got a few upgrades and did some dailys for cash - I'll be splitting my leveling time with some easy heroics and daily quests to get the cash to support the mixed team and to get badges for retribution gear for Perrigrin.

And, on a side note, I am getting quite bored of SFK and SM boosting ;) I need a couple of more characters leveled to get my rogue and druid 2 on the main account to 60 - And then the goal of this RAF session will be filled.

The Grins' are Back!

Well, starting to move my 60 team over to the main accounts now - Slight hickup with Blizzards billing department, so not quite done yet ;)

But, while waiting on that I took the Grin's back to Gundrak heroic and cleared it - One wipe due to me muting keyclone, but other than that just a few odd shaman deaths - So fairly happy with how it went.

Will be farming retribution gear for the pally and gear for the shamans while leveling the other team. Having the shammies at better gear level will help if I need to gear out tank 2 a bit + Next patch will have some great improvements in loot potential for 5 man stuff, so I need to be ready to exploit that for the paladin.

Heroic: The Culling of Stratholme Cleared!

Well, figured it should be easy, so headed over to CoS to check it out....

Boy, I was wrong - The mobs by themselves really were not that hard, but the gauntlet type of event, coupled with my lack of coordination and lack of knowledge of the zone turned the whole adventure into a wipe fest.

I eventually finished the whole thing, after 5 or 6 wipes and an additional 2-3 deaths - I think that if I watch a few boxing movies about it, my gear is good enough to get the 30 minute event done, but I just can't help myself from silly wipes on thrash. Don't think I will add this to my Gundrak + Utgrade Keep badge farm rotation just yet.
One key factor seem to be to not loot to be able to keep moving in the right pace. Might have to try it out with master loot mode on or something.

The good news is though that it gave me enough badges so that now all the shammies have Protective Barricade of the Light. And thanks to some generous guild mates of Hordeland Security, I now have Revenants gear on most of my shammies.

I had to spend a few minutes leveling Babegrins enchanting today to, so that see can shard the Epic drops that I wont use from heroics.

Heroic: Utgarde Keep Cleared!

Well, once I figured the Prince Keleseth out - It turned out to be quite a easy place ;) Took me 4 wipes before I grabbed this video to figure it out.
Been farming Gundrak enough to get Babegrin the badge shield (Protective Barricade of the Light), and Tuffgrin is not so far off.
Some drops of interest, Battlemap Hide Helm, Dalronn's Jerkin and Annhylde's Ring as well as Design: Fierce Monarch Topaz for Perrigrin.

Heroic: Gundrak Cleared!

Well, been way overdue to try a heroic with the Grins'. General opinion seem to be that Gundrak is the easy option for a shammy heavy team - And today it was the daily, so I went there.

Didn't give me to much trouble, think I had 3 deaths and 1 near wipe (but no full wipe) on the whole clear - Of course I forgot to share the daily, so will have to go back tomorrow :P

One drop that was interesting: Sash of Blood Removal of Gal'darah. Had some melee drops that I stashed on Tuffgrin as she is my "main" dps shammy. Debating leveling my mage to replace one of the shammies, and swap in a Moonkin druid and Holy priest as a longer term project.

Violet Hold Normal Cleared

Not a big piece of news at 80, but wanted to get rid of the quest for 3 of the shammies ;) In other news Perrigrin now has the 'Elder' title from To Honor One's Elders.

Epic Flyers!

As I played the team a bit more the last few days, the fact that only Perrigrin had epic flyer was starting to annoy me - Specially when doing dailys.

So, I took inventory of all my gold, and came up with the 20,800 gold needed to get 4x training + 4x Swift Red Wind Rider - Very nice.

Of course, now I have to get my butt in gear and do dailys to replenish my cash - Less than 1k between 5 accounts.

Onyxia Down!

Was bored, so went and tried Onyxia.

Quite easy, possibly solo-able by my paladin. But, a quick 130ish gold, and I got a Judgement Crown for vanity :P

First Batch of Dailies

Well, had intended to go to a normal level 80 instance with the Grins' today, but decided to do a run of Icecrown dailies instead - A run following this thread + adding in a few non-daily quests I hadn't done yet netted me close to 2000 gold.
Not to bad, but gonna be starting from zero soon as I must buy my wife's hunter her epic flyer :P

Some guildies needed DPS for a few heroic runs, so I took Tuffgrin there - Really showed me that

• I don't know how to play a elemental shaman outside boxing
• The gui setup that I use for slaves don't work that well for "main" play
• 12k hp sure don't last long in heroics

But, on the up-side I got 4-5 very nice upgrades for her, there will be no contest which shaman will do most DPS in my team now :P