Date with Dragons

Feeding Tradeskills

Last night was a prime night for faffing. I started the evening by doing my semi-regular ghost iron farming run to feed my daily cooldowns on my blacksmith, engineer and transmuter. I have figured out that it is just simply easier to farm up a bunch of ghost iron and then turn around the transmute it to trillium than trying to play the mining lottery to get equal amounts of black and white trillium. In about 15-20 minutes I can farm up a big stack of ore and then funnel that off to each of the professions so I can do my daily crafts. Right now I am funneling all these resources towards two things. Firstly I am stockpiling materials so that I can make myself a Sky Golem, which when I saw it I knew I had to have one.

Secondly I am stockpiling the rare smithing material in order to make the tanky belt… the only problem is I have yet to unlock the tanky belt through the daily crafts. As a result I have more than enough Balanced Trillium Ingot’s to make one, but I figure I can use items for all of my melee characters. So this becomes a daily disappointment as I log in and craft an ingot only to see that I did not yet learn the Protector’s Trillium Waistguard. I could craft the legs, but that would currently break up my four piece set bonus… so that is not a thing I am willing to do just yet.

Once I finished with my tradeskills I worked my way through the daily Netherwing quests. Curently I am a good way into revered so here is hoping by the end of the week I will be zipping around on a new flight of Netherwing drakes. Honestly I am mostly doing this for the fact that it adds 6 mounts to my grand total, and less that I actually think I will use one of the drakes. Back in the day I never did the quest chain because I thought they looked goofy. For whatever reason I cannot look at a Netherwing drake without thinking of a shark because of the way their nose is shaped. Right now my absolute favorite dragon seems to be the one I picked up from Stonecore. To be honest farming up the Vitreous Stone Drake was far easier than I could have imagined, since it drops on normal mode.

I finished off the night running Onyxia a few times, with no luck on getting that mount, and then popped into Blackwing Lair with a friend. While I really like the blue judgment set that came from the opening of Wrath of the Lich King event… I would still like to own a full set of the original Judgment. As a result I have been clearing Blackwing Lair weekly trying for the various visual pieces. So far I only have the chest and shoulders, but that doesn’t leave that many visual pieces left, one of which I will hopefully get from Onyxia. Mostly since my paladin is now a Dranei, and boots no longer show up… I am mostly trying for the gloves. While I got no judgment, I did manage to get my mage friend robes and shoulders for his set.

Zoning Out

I am guessing that I did not get a very good nights sleep last night, because as I sit here writing this mornings post I find myself constantly zoning out. I can seem to only manage a paragraph before my mind starts wandering again. As a result I think I am going to cut this off here a bit abruptly. I am still feeling a bit under the weather and yesterday it felt like maybe I pushed myself a little too far. I went through a flurry of activity when I got home, and crashed in my recliner shortly after and was pretty much useless the rest of the night. I was offered spots on two different raids last night, and I ended up turning both down because I just didn’t feel like I could give vaguely close to my normal effort. I feel like I made the right choice, but hopefully I did not put off the people who offered me a spot from future offerings.