For t hose of you who haven’t noticed. There’s an egg hunt craze going on. I’ve spent a “small” bit of time getting all the achievements done. I think a picture tells more than a thousand words.

Got chocolate?

I mean, this is just 400 eggs worth of stuff right there, but let’s not ignore the 100 chocolates eaten for the achievement. Or the fact that I bought most of the stuff from chocolates to do some achievements early on. Some even twice because at first I tested if buying them would count for achievement, then threw them away, and then bought them again when I got tired of searching and just wanted to do something else. And I also bought a dress and tuxedo for my bank alt. And a few more of those eggs that I have already used up. We’re looking at a total of over 800 eggs.

You know what eluded me for so long? The bloody Tuxedo Shirt. I found 7 tuxedo pants, 4 elegants dresses, 4 minipets, 3 bunny circlets, 6 spring robes and 3 flowers. My fiancee found the tuxedo set for two characters long before I found mine. I have this thing about RNG and achievements, I’m not really lucky.

But now I’m finally done. I can go back and do the tournament dailies. I haven’t missed a single day so far, and I’m looking at exalted argent champion in 14 days. =)

1 night left.

1 single night left.

That’s the timelimit I have to get Glory of the raider and a 310% mount. I’ve been going at him for 4 hours every single night this week. We’re doing the speed kill version of it, and we’re really pushing it. We’ve had both a 2% and a 3% wipe. Both would have been kills if the tank hadn’t died at 15%.

I’m pushing my dps to the limit. 4.4K dps with BM spec on the 2% wipe. Not too shabby.

Tonight’s the night we’re gonna make it happen. I sure am glad I don’t live in the US where the patch is being applied as we speak.

This is also the reason why I’ve been a bit inactive with posting more Naxx tanking strats. Plus I have a guildie visiting over the easter, and he’ll probably stay until next weekend.

After weeks of working on Kalimdor I finally found a questline of 2 quests I had previously missed in northern Barrens. And seeing that I had 698/700 when I found them I was really happy. I only had a few hard AQ questline and raid quests left when I found it. Thank God for wowhead and the ability to show questgivers for any certain zone.

Currently working on Sarth3D 10 man. Having a break now. Going decently. Some tries we’ve had enough dps for first drake, but others we’re just barely too late for whelps. Well, time to clear trash again, wish me luck.

“Be Mine! on the PTR (Source)

To clarify… Be Mine was not removed from the meta; it’s still there. However, the achievement has been changed to require any six of the eight possible candies. As such, the effort involved is still present, but it’s no longer quite so reliant on pure luck.”

Oh-My-God! Yes! Yes! Friggin’ Yes! My 7/8 candies will grant me my achievement!

Even before achievements were introduced in the game I was all about doing things just to say I had done it. But I never was much of a farmer or grinder. And sometimes it really shows. With the amount of time I played my character one would figure I should have a lot more rep with different factions.

With the recent reputation change, perhaps it’s time to revisit those folks down in that tunnel. Or why not do a couple of strat runs just for the rep it gives nowadays. It really shouldn’t be too hard to get exalted with a lot of those old factions now that I can pretty much AoE everything down in one pull. <3 Umtokk and T5.

In the quest department I’m just 76 quests short of being Loremaster Nordhbane. I’m really glad they introduced that low level quest tracker or it would have been hell trying to find them all. And apart from some Frenzyheart/Oracle dailies, I’m quite done with quests. Not counting having to get 1000 daily quests completed. Yeah, that’s gonna take a while.

It really bothers me that I didn’t get the Love Fool title. I’m one of those guys that spent the entire weekend, every waken hour to get the last piece of candy. Even got up in the middle of the night just to get that one more chance of getting yet another bag that would probably just fail to drop the last piece for me. I spent a lot more energy on that than most that got the title. To put it in code: RNG x RNG == LUCK != ACHIEVEMENT.

It’s not about the mount for me, I didn’t get the Brew of the Month out of dumb laziness anyhow. It’s all about having done everything in my power and I still fell short. Apart from Brew of the Month I’ve done everything when it comes to world events. Even long before midsummer has started I’m only lacking 2 out of 12 achievements for that one. I became Nordhbane the Elder the first day of Lunar Festival (had to revisit all elders in the old world even though I had done them all the first year it was  up). So, not being a Love Fool feel really bad.

When it comes to Professions I just need to stock up on some bandages, catch a rare fish/rat, and get my thumb out of my arse and get the cooking fixed. It’s just a matter of a bit more time to get enough tokens for recipes.

The PvP achievements I’m gonna save to last. I’m not sure how I’m gonna get some of them done. The arena achievements are just not my cup of tea. I only get frustrated playing arenas. Bloody healers being able to out heal full nuke when I’m standing still and not getting interupted, and when I’m wearing very good PvE gear. I don’t understand that if I can’t kill a healer with optimal dps, how the F can I kill one when I have to run around chasing him around every single little LOS-box and pillar that Blizzard wants to throw in my face?

So, I’m wondering, how are your achievements going?