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Part of A secret gift for Navi
Colored pencil and pen
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Raiding with Leashes!

I began my weekly pet raid runs this week with just two pets left to get. One of the pets was in Naxx and the other was in AQ.

I started the night in Naxx and headed though the spider quarter first. And Bam! Bone Spider!

I figured being so close I'd be pretty tempted to buy the last pet but I managed to talk myself into trying to get it to drop first. I figured things would look better when the first trash pull didn't drop a red crystal mount. The last three times my death knight has been though that mount has dropped but no pets except the mini mindslayer. In fact the last two weeks I've gotten four of those red mount drops. It's probably a meaningless pattern but it wasn't feeling like one. I thought I might have used up all my luck when I got another Viscidious Globule drop but after killing the twins I found an anubisith idol!

So I finally got the achievement Raiding with Leashes and more importantly Mr. Bigglesworth! Finally done!

Mortal Kombat!

This week the Survivor challenge was to create a Mortal Kombat look-alike outfit. I might not be competing anymore but I really wanted to give it a shot. My "research" pretty much just involved looking up Mortal Kombat on Wikipedia and seeing what the character's names were, looking up the characters, then seeing which images I thought could be replicated and caught my interest. I managed to narrow my selection down to four although I'm not overly wild about any of these mogs.

Sonya Blade

My one attempt at a female fighter was Sonya Blade. She looks pretty tough and that top reminded me right away of a leather chestpiece. I think it's a decent looking mog for any leatherwearers.
She's wearing Fizzle's Vest, Parasitic Bands, Dark Leather Pants, Bandit Boots, Imposing Belt, Morra's Gloves, and Taunt Dragonhide Spaulders

Raiden

I saw blue eyes and immediately thought death knight. I suppose the powers don't really work very well for imitating Raiden but it works well for looks. Although I thought those boots were bluer than they actually are...
He's wearing Field Plate Armor, Leggings of the Fallen Crusader, August Celestrials Tabard, Rock Furrow Boots, Patroller's Girdle of Endless Spring, Rockwurm Plate Handguards, Straw Hat, Overlord's Spaulders

Kenshi

As soon as I saw a blindfold on Kenshi I knew this look had to be done in leather. While it's the wrong color it's the only blindfold in-game for players to wear. The chestpiece also presented a challenge since there's a layered look to it with a sash across it. So I went with something I felt the character might consider using. I think the look is pretty decent but I'm not too found of the shoulder. The only match for the one shoulder look weren't the right color so I went with the darkest one I could find. 

He's wearing Bloodfang Chestpiece, Hero's Bonescythe Legplates, Bandit Boots, Calabast Belt, Ghoul Fingers, Cursed Vision of Sargeras, Brood-Killer Shoulerguard

Scorpion

I thought Scorpion would be interesting to replicate in rogue gear. There are other options you can use for a tabard if this one is difficult to obtain. And if you'd rather a hood and mask even though it loses the golden color there is one available that's mostly black.
He's wearing Nightshade Tunic, Leggings of Assassination, Tabard of the Defender, Felboar Hide Shoes, Stalkers Cord of Eternal Autumn, Metalworking Gloves, Valorous Bonesythe Helmet, Nightshade Spaulders

Blank Screen of Doom

So tonight was an alliance Laid Back Raid and I was looking forward to running some raids on my little mage.

First dungeons goes well and Azilem even wins a chestpiece and the raid starts flying to Gruul's Lair for the next raid. My mage has slow flying so she got a summon. I clicked accept for the summon and see this

A blank screen. Beautiful. I waited a bit to see if it would fix itself but nope. So I attempted to close WoW and restart it. Nada. Reset the internet. Still nothing. Restart the computer. Run around trying to find the password for the other internet. Finally get in.

They're now in SSC and I think about to do the Lurker. And they send me a summon. And I get the blank screen again.

Become very frustrated. The cat wakes up and glares at me. He goes back to sleep on his stolen pillow. I don't think I'm getting it back tonight. Restart Wow, Restart computer, Log back in. Decide I don't think I want to raid since I'm now pretty frustrated. Apologize to the raid. Explain that I think I'm not going to raid. Get blank screen of doom again.

Decide that I would rather stitch and watch Netflix tonight than mess with WoW again.

Think maybe I should have a bit of an explanation and apology to everyone who waited for me.
Write this post.

I'm really sorry everyone for my wonky computer troubles. Hopefully it will be better behaved next week.

Cool Toys

I've been on a mogging kick lately. I've gotten my priest, mage, and paladin decked out in new mogs and am currently working on a rogue mog. And one of the pieces that I want drops from Heroic Magisters' Terrace. Three runs so far and I haven't seen them yet. I'd like to post about my new mogs when I get the rogue one assembled but maybe I should just go ahead anyway although it would be after the Mortal Kombat ones.

While Magisters' Terrace hasn't given me the gear that I'm looking for yet, I did get two really nice goodies. Orb of the Sin'dorei and a Phoenix Hatchling!

He's so cute!

 Now I have all the cool items from Magisters' Terrace! "But what about the White Hawkstrider?: you might ask. I've had that long before I ever completed Magister's Terrace for the first time. It dropped from a loot bag Tyledres got for tanking an Hour of Twilight Dungeon.

I'm not sure which was more shocking:
Getting a mount or getting a loot bag

So I had to take a picture of my rogue with all her lovely Magisters' Terrace goodies

My elf can turn into an elf XD

Runs with Shoryl

On Tuesday I got a whisper from Shoryl who was on her hunter Breige asking if I'd want to run some heroics when she reached level 90. What kind of question is that? Oh, course I would! She said it would be a bit so I figured I'd get my weekly hunt for raid pets done and Tyledres managed to snag a Stitched Pup! Only two more left! I'm going to have to stay away from the auction house because that achievement is calling my name.

Once Breige reached 90 and managed to get her ilvl high enough to run heroics we set out. Shoryl wrote a pretty good post about that over on her blog. We ran three dungeons and had a few mishaps such as me running and pulling the first boss with only one dps. I now have complete confidence in my survivability as a tank. Those runs definitely helped to give me a big head.

On Wednesday, Shoryl thought she'd restart her Laid Back Dungeons and since it was just her and me we did heroics again. And first up was Gate of the Setting Sun. I waited for the whole group this time. Although I did a number on the group during the Commander Ri'mok fight. I've yet to figure out a way of doing that fight smoothly. It annoys me that there's really no point in the fight where I can stand still, it's move him out of the green puddles, get out of his cleave, and catch all the adds that spawn and repeat. In the end I just have one ugly mess.

The next dungeon we got was Scarlet Monastery and we had a really amazing priest healer. When I messed up the pulls getting into the Catherdral she somehow managed to prevent a wipe and said next time I should los those pulls. Oops. I suppose that makes sense. For the last boss we decided to go for the achievement And Stay Dead. I'd managed to get it before so I knew it was going to be lots of damage on me so I unglyphed my army of the dead. As soon as the boss started casting her mass rez I started summoning my army. It was glorious! I didn't take much damage from all those adds and I managed to impress our healer! She thought it was a smart idea and I told her I had to redeem myself from those awful pulls somehow.

The whole group stuck together for one last heroic and we got Shado-Pan Monastery. I was a disaster and a half on that last run. I really can't remember the last time I tanked this dungeon. I suppose I've been running as dps more often than tank. The amazing healer managed to get our group to the last boss without too much trouble but we did wipe on the first attempt at the boss. Someone managed to pull a group of adds during the boss fight and it was too much to get though especially since the adds won't die without having the floating bodies clicked. The second attempt went much better but I was glad to call it a night after that last run.

Friday I was attempting to gather the pieces I needed for a new transmog for my rogue when I got a whisper asking if there was any strategy needed to kill Vaelastrasz the Corrupt. The only answer I had was pure dps to burn him before he burned you. Since Shoryl was on her tanking Paladin Gurdid I figured that would be difficult so I asked if she'd like me to join her. She agreed so I finished up what my rogue had been doing and then switched to my druid and headed to BWL. While we got Vaelastrasz down it wasn't soon enough to avoid Gurdid getting the debuff and dying. The run went smoothly and she had both a Death Talon Whelpguard and Chrominus drop. The only downside to having more than one person in BWL is on Nefarion since he mind controls. He snagged my druid for a new minion and stun-locked Grudid down. Ouch. I rezed her and the rest of the fight went well but I sure felt embarrassed about that.

We also did some exchanging of pets. I'd gotten another Mini Mindslayer and Viscidious Globule from my pet runs so I offered than to Shoryl and she offered me some pets that she had extra of. So I got a new clockwork gnome and a Snarly!

So now it's back to hunting down Rogue transmog gear.

A bit blue

Today hasn't been my greatest day. The weather was dreary today with rain making sure there was some really slick ice outside. But I knew the terrible weather was coming when I woke up a few nights ago with one rather bloody nose. Nah, what really stank about today was that my laptop finally gave out a distress signal I could no longer ignore. It wouldn't charge. So took it in to be fixed and I'm stuck with my desktop. I like my desktop, really, it's just not mobile and I don't have a good chair. I sit for more than a few minutes on it and my butt and back start complaining. I was also pretty excited that the results of the Surivorer challenge would be released but RNG wasn't being my friend either and I was in the first batch to be eliminated. But I do feel relieved that I won't have to make a Mortal Kombat outfit. All I know about that game is that it involves fighting or something. For some reason all I can come up with is Legend of Zelda's Link and Shiek. Since I'm rather positive they're in Super Smash Brothers not Mortal Kombat I feel I'd have a rather poor chance of doing well XD All well, next week school will be starting and I'll be too busy with homework to be doing anything anyway.

Oh! Did want to add that I'm not going to be doing a Who's that pet this week because all of the files I had for that where on my laptop. Since it's now Friday just a little past midnight for me (who needs sleep anyways) I'm not going to be able to throw one together soon enough. But I'll get started so there will be one next week.