Pretty Birbs

Posting this a week after the fact, but...

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IRON CIRCLE DEFEATED HEROIC ARGUS!

Congrats to all that were there on the first kill (March 29, 2018)! I'm hoping we can get the mount for some more guildies. A few folks have poked officers about it, and I think they're concocting something along the same lines as the Moose? I hope so, anyway.

We've only downed him once, so far. But I'm sure we'll get him on farm soon, so long as we can skip Coven. We've also only downed them once, and they are murder for us, apparently. I think I might be the only one in guild who enjoys the Coven fight.

Image from Moo

We skipped raiding on Monday, and we struggled a bit last night just due to lack of numbers, but we're pushing back through for another full clear.

Maybe one of these days I'll get my final piece for my four piece of tier... (That's at least something I am looking forward to in Battle for Azeroth—no tier.)

Mounts Galore

It somehow became one of those weeks where I ended up with some luck and dedication and wound up with three mounts yesterday.

That Pretty Pink Bird

I've been trying to grind out Achievements and cosmetics on my new main (Chestnaught—Chestnut probably won't get played again for a long, long time) in Warcraft for the Love is in the Air event. (A side note: some of these achievements are a pain in the butt to get since most people already have them.) 

Yes, I know I technically don't need to grind them out because they are account-wide, however, the UI does not technically treat them as such, and if it's not "earned" on my main, then it doesn't count. Plus, it gives me goals to work towards and keep me interested in playing longer. After lots of grinding mobs in Everbloom this past week, I got my pretty pink bird. 

Now I just need 450 more cards to get everything I want to purchase off the vendor that I don't already have.

Speed Runs Ahoy

After purchasing my new pink bird, I started grinding out the Archaeology bi-weekly quest. Before I could finish it (because 600 is a lot of fragments), I ran a speed run of Kara with some guildies, and got lucky enough to get the mount drop off of Nightbane. We ran Attumen for the mount, and he dropped it for another guildie, which was awesome.

I still plan on running Kara even though I have the mount. One, because I like helping out guildies, and two, it's just fun.

Ghostbusters

I binged on some Netflix after Kara, a Mythic+12 and my daily heroic, and decided to try to finish out my Archaeology bi-weekly quest. I only really started doing them recently, and I'm glad I did, because this bi-weekly is a mount. And he's gorgeous.

I ended up going from about 120ish Archaeology to 466 Archaeology in the process which was pretty great. I'll get to my Archaeology achievements eventually, and get it to 800, but for now I've been trying to focus on my holiday achievements.

Lookit That Perdy Thing

Also, I have a new mount that I need to go after.

Image from BlizzPro

How can you say no to a flaming mount? Now I just need to find a Battle.net friend willing to carry my sorry tush in some Heroes of the Storm for this bad boy... Any takers?

The Weekend Report

I seem to post less on the weekends. I'd love to try to post more on the weekends. In fact, I'd love to try to start posting daily. See if I can get to it before Blaugust hits!

Boss Train, Woop Woop!

Saturday I hopped into WildStar for an officer meeting, and then a scheduled Rose Bowl event!

Not only did we do Rose Bowl, however, we started a World Boss Train. It was a lot of fun!

I even got to do R12 for the first time! I'd love to do both again!

We actually downed King Honeygrave!! He's an extremely buggy boss (no pun intended) and can reset randomly sometimes. So it was awesome to get him down for the group. Unfortunately, I didn't get credit for him (and I didn't get credit for the other buggy boss over in Farside, either). So I'm hoping Carbine does some magic fixes on both so I can go back and snag them without glitches!

Saturday while I was out running chores, I also stopped at a Game Stop and picked up two more box copies of WildStar hoping our luck would win out. I got the hoverboard from my box, so I sent it over to Chaide as it was the last thing he needed. And he happened to get the Snarfelynx out of his box which is the last thing I needed. So now I have my fat farting cat! And a title! Hurrah!

Speaking of titles, I also finally redeemed my Anniversary gifts for my title, and toys, and Rowsdower! He's all candy-fied! He is mine! And I shall call him my Squishy!

Saturday night we also hopped over to FFXIV for a bit. A good friend we gamed with in WildStar (whom we met in EVE and have kind of game-hopped with them until WildStar) has a FC over on Lamia. We had initially played there but left due to some complications with folks who have since moved servers. So I rolled up a new Magnolia Chestnut that's going to try to main a Bard.

Honestly, I plan to play much more often over on Cactuar, but I do plan on every-so-often spending some time continuing to play with someone Chaide and I would consider family. And who knows, maybe I can get two different raiding environments. ;) (I find it funny I look forward to raids in FFXIV but could care less about raids in all of the other MMOs I play...)

Wars and Podcasts

Sunday was some Star Wars. I did two flashpoints, put on gear that will last me through to level 50 (so long as I consistently change out my mods and such) and tried to fiddle with my spells. It's a tad overwhelming the number of spells, so I'm looking for any help folks might have for a Marksman Imperial Agent!

I was also the guest over at Strange Tales from Outerspace (Episode 48) on Sunday! It was a lot of fun! If you missed the livecast, the podcast will be up sometime tomorrow, and I'll be sure to link to it... so long as you don't mind listening to my sailor's mouth, haha. I vaguely recall someone in chat calling me "sassy" and I had a great chuckle about that. It kind of comes with the territory of being a Ginger. ;P

I'm also finishing up edits to the next Yardcore, and expect to post that baby sometime today. If you're playing WildStar over on Entity, I'm looking for more volunteers (Exile or Dominion), so please hit me up and we'll set a date and time to record!

Haukke Manor

Opportunity

I haven't been online/gaming much the past week and half, really. I had an opportunity for a new position with the company I interned with fall into my lap, and had to complete a project as a part of the interview process. I'm excited to see if I progress to the next step. I know I have cheerleaders in my corner there, so I'm leaning towards the positive.

Cake or Death

Last night was my first night back in-game since, well, Memorial Day, really. So almost two weeks. Good grief. Anyways.

The last time Chaide and I played FFXIV, we had gotten the quest to unlock Haukke Manor, but we thought it would be fun to try to take on this guy.

Yeah. We ended up dead and back in Limsa. So last night we headed back out to the Central Shroud and found the entrance.

Backstory

So, I totally didn't post any of the screenshots/story leading up to Haukke manor from when we last Met with the Resistance. Ergo, here's a screenshot dump. ;) (Possible spoilers ahead!)

I think the story is finally starting to pick back up a bit!

The Manor

A guildie joined up with us, and we pugged a final spot as we headed into Haukke Manor. It was a tad difficult to tank as I am not yet level 30, so I was having aggro issues. Regardless, it was a lot of fun, and I'd love to run more of them! Special thanks to our NIN and healer for being patient with me (and Chaide for holding off on DOTing everything until I had sufficient aggro).

Much as we are getting into the main story, again, we think we'll work on hitting 30 with our current classes, and then cross-classing and leveling to 30. Then pick the main story back up. Any suggestions on quick-but-fun ways to level our second (and any following) battle class(es) to 30 and beyond?

Random Shots

As we're nowhere near ready for Heavensward, we figured we'd pick up the Digi CE content instead of the expansion (until we finish the main story, sometime by the end of the year), especially since we think it might go away once Heavensward comes out. We also hit the big-eye-mount prize for subbing! Doesn't my Roegadame sit so lady-like and cute on it?