Bubbles of Mischief

Rockets and Whelps

June 19, 2013

by Cymre in Achievements

Three achievements have eluded me from Ony25 so Cool and I headed in there to see if we could get one or two of them done. Now I wasn’t expecting to get More Dots! with just the two of us but we were going to try She Deep Breaths More as well as Many Whelps! Handle It! Unfortunately, we didn’t get the Deep Breath one but we did manage to get the whelps using a strategy I suggested back when were were running our Guild.

Nothing of interest dropped like the mount but it’s only one of a number of instance and raid ones I do each day/week so I still have three to go. I suspect they will come from some sort of drop since I spent a good amount of gold making my last three panthers recently (less the onyx one) but I’m ok with that. It’s just a matter of time.

Speaking of mounts, Cool dropped his Blingtron for our daily package and was gobsmacked to see four things in his. Holy Crap, it does exist! The Geosynchronous World Spinner to be exact! I knew the drop was really low for one of these mounts but I’m glad to finally see one coming out of these gift packages. It should be noted that Cool made me one of these early into the expansion but never made one for himself. I’m wondering though if you would ever see one if you already had one in your journal? Either way, I’m wishing him luck for the other mount too.

Now don’t be surprised if you see us zipping around in our two speciality rockets (although I’ve been using mine for months now).

Blingtron 4000

Slow and Steady

June 18, 2013

by Cymre in Gifts

This is the third time I’ve entered a Tyrael’s Hilt giveaway but I had never come this close to winning before. The last one was run by WoWHead so you can imagine the number of people in the running for that one. However, I still came out with a small runner up prize which was unexpected.

So for Navi’s Moving House Giveaway, I couldn’t believe such an awesome prize was up for grabs again, especially since it’s been on my Ultimate Wish List for so long. I spent a good number of hours looking for all 16 clues but there was a bit of a mixup with my answer to the second question. It didn’t help that I was missing two of the clues so I thought the last question asked

“Five who __ __ favourite NPC in WoW”

I had picked five of the eight names (derived from the first question) and tried to figure out the favourite NPCs for the blogger names I had chosen. Funnily enough I had Navi’s favourite NPC correct which meant I would have been the first one to give her the correct two answers but since I submitted five NPC names, it didn’t count. It was only later that I realised that the second question started with ‘Who’ and not ‘Five’.

In the end I managed to come up with the second correct answer by ~1am last night. I’m told it was within half an hour of both Arv and Luxy but the draw was due to happen early this morning so with only three names in the running, there was a really good chance of winning. As these things go, I ended up coming second so a big grats to Arv for winning the Grand Prize.

I’m sure he’ll have his levelled up in a day :P

Since my name was drawn second, I won the TCG Riding Turtle from the Heroes of Azeroth Expansion leaving me three to go for Mount Parade. I did wonder if this was any different to the Sea Turtle you can fish up but it appears to be the same other than the colour. One advantage is the fact that you can ride it at any level so it’s great for twinks who can use it to cross water at a speed advantage but on land your movement speed would be the same as walking. I don’t mind though since it still counts towards my achievement.

Riding Turtle

Sea Turtle

Three to go… which will they be?

Riding Turtle TCG

Brawler’s Item Guide

June 17, 2013

by Cymre in World Events

Several new additions were added to the Brawler’s Guild including twelve new boss fights but you’ll need to loot a specific item before you can purchase the challenge cards for each one.

Item	Boss	Requirement
Knockoff Grumplefloot	Rank 4 Grandpa Grumplefloot	Dance with Grandpa Grumplefloot in The Grummle Bazaar, Kun-Lai Summit. Reward: Floot-Tooter’s Tunic
Hozen-Fur Fuse	Rank 4 Master Boom Boom	Complete the The Burlap Grind daily in Kota Basecamp, Kun-Lai Summit and start killing Hozen until the item appears in your bag. Reward: The Boomshirt
Raptorhide Boxing Gloves	Rank 4 Ty’thar	Purchase some Raptorhide Boxing Gloves from the Darkspear Rebellion Quartermaster in the Barrens for the cost of one Radical Mojo. Reward: Undisputed Champion’s Shirt.
Impeccably Sharp Tooth	Rank 5 Razorgrin	Fish up an Impeccably Sharp Tooth from any pool in Pandaria. Reward: Sharkskin Tunic
Vial of Reddish Ooze	Rank 5 Splat	May be obtained from your Greater Cache of Treasures (random scenario reward) or Surplus Supplies (Barrens caravan escort). Reward: Ooze-Soaked Shirt
Frost-Tipped Eggshell	Rank 5 Dippy and Doopy	Battle Doopy (25 elite penguin) in the northern tip of Icecrown (47,14) to receive a Frost-Tipped Eggshell. Reward: Tuxedo-Like Shirt.
Modified Chomping Apparatus	Rank 6 Mecha-Bruce	Purchase the Challenge Card for Bruce (after you’ve defeated him in Rank 1). Reward: Brucehide Jersey
Dusty Old Robot	Rank 6 Blingtron 3000	There’s a chance to loot a Dusty Old Robot from your daily Blingtron 4000 gift package. Reward: Last Season’s Shirt
The Bear and the Lady Fair	Rank 7 The Bear and the Lady Fair	May be obtained from your Greater Cache of Treasures (random scenario reward) or Surplus Supplies (Barrens caravan escort). Reward: Gorgeous Blouse.
Paper-Covered Rock	Rank 7 Ro-Shambo	There’s a chance to receive a Paper-Covered Rock from harvested crops on the farm. Reward: Paper Shirt.
Digmaster’s Earthblade	Rank 9 Mingus Diggs	Complete Tol’vir digs in Uldum to receive Digmaster’s Earthblade. You can also hand in Restored Artifacts and convert Spirit of Harmonies for more Tol’vir boxes. Reward: Digmaster’s Bodysleeve
Well-Worn Blindfold	Rank 9 The Blind Hero	May be looted from the Darkmoon Game Prize after completing each daily at the Darkmoon Faire. Note: you will only be able to see the item if you are 90. Farming the item on lower level characters may still be done if you send the boxes to your Brawler character to open. Reward: Sightless Mantle.

Once you have defeated all of the bosses above, you’ll receive the Wraps of the Blood-Soaked Brawler for Deck Your Collection.

I managed to loot the Dusty Old Robot from Blingtron a couple of days after the patch launched so I was eager to see what the quest was about. From there I wanted to work on collecting the others so I did some research and referenced them here. Quite a few were fun to collect as opposed to others which took some time and a lot of luck. The Hozen item took about 30mins while two came from the daily scenario bag as opposed to the caravan escorts. Sadly, the last item I needed was collected on an alt (two days in a row) while harvesting her crops but tonight I managed to collect the item from harvesting a normal crop.