My first ever pet battle post..!

Although I still raid three nights a week most of the time, I've began to find more time - and most of all, relaxation of mind - for casual and not-so-essential things again. With Operation: Shieldwall, dailies in fact feel quite nice to complete again. I don't really feel like running after all those Pandaria achievements just yet, so I decided to have a closer look at pet battles. Before tonight my highest level pet was level 6. I ended up with those of level 11 and 9 - plus plenty of new catches and the Celestial Dragon.

Reth'rek the Searing Scorchling, a long-term loyal companion to Nicasia ever since they met over a year ago, has got to battle himself up to level 9. Despite his rather rocky start against the critters of Elwynn, he's become good at, well... scorching things. Lok'hokor the Frigid Frostling continued to perform poorly against pretty much any enemy he encountered in a duel, so he will have to wait for his levels for some time. Perhaps he isn't yet fully empowered by the winter.

Wilba & Olba. Or Olba & Wilba, I'm not quite sure.

A rather new acquaintance was the one to reach the highest level tonight. Despite his overly cute looks, the Sprite Darter Hatchling Wilba proved to be extremely deadly in battle! With a Slicing Wind here and a Moonfire there, he annihilated nearly all of his opponents, even ones that were higher level than him. Sadly his strength was also the demise of a couple of rare-quality pets that I wanted to catch. Wilba will continue as the spearhead of my battle team as the wild winds of fortune carry us onward. Whither soever they blow, onward to glory we go!

One of the best catches of the night was a level 6 Dusk Spiderling, whom I named Aqil. My goal for now is to catch a rare quality Nether Faerie Dragon, because they're cute and they're blue, and I like cute and blue.

P.S. I wish a great Independence Day to all independent people of Finland.

Monastery madness

It's been almost an hour since I began my Scarlet Monastery runs with Nica in utmost hurry. My plan was to use all the remaining time wisely, since I still want the Tabard of the Scarlet Crusade for three characters. I have lived happily in the belief that the dungeons won't be updated until MoP release, but I was wrong. In this article it is said that Scarlet Monastery, Ragefire Chasm and Scholomance are already getting their revamps. That's very bad news for me, since I've also found out that the five instances per hour limit is account wide. I didn't know about it before. /cry

I knew I shouldn't have waited this long with the farm, argh. Now, as I'm not even aware of when the servers will go offline, I'm thinking of dropping Nica off the tabard farming list. The Scarlet Crusade has nothing to do with her lore; I only want it for her because she is my main and I like to collect things. However it's very essential for Angelus, and fairly essential for Vladan. Raleigh already has the tabard - good memories from that farm.

Please, PLEASE keep your thumbs up for me now!

Edit 2:29 AM: Since the servers are going offline for 12 whole hours at 3 am (server time, GMT+1), I only get one more set of 5 runs. They will be done with Nica. Yes, she's the one who has nothing to do with the Crusade - but I feel it's the right thing to do.

Other than that I can just wish that Blizzard decides to make some (possibly non-reputation) tabards account-wide one day. I have an extra Scarlet tabard on a night elf warrior that currently serves as my banker, as I'm not at all inspired to play that character.

Edit 3:24 AM: Nicasia got her tabard! This makes me a happy little ghost wolf. It was the thirteenth run, and I have time for two more. I have yet to decide what they are.

Here's some footage of Nica and her faithful companion Reth'rek first looting the tabard, and then shining with it in the Monastery.

Edit 3:40 AM: Heh, okay. My decision might have been a bit silly, but I decided to go into the cathedral section with Angelus. As the whole idea for the character itself was inspired by Sally Whitemane's famous hat, Whitemane's Chapeau, it's always been my plan to include it in his default transmog set. It's quite certain that the Chapeau will have the same looks in MoP (although I am just a wee bit worried about this), I wanted it to say "transmogrified into Whitemane's Chapeau" on the item, instead of "transmogrified into Whitemane's Embroidered Chapeau."

Well, I got no chapeau on those two runs that I had time for. I'll have to settle for embroidery. This also means no Scarlet tabard for Vladan or Angelus, who certainly would have been more awesome with their tabards, but I can't have everything. Regardless of that, I know what they have and haven't done in their past and that will do for now.

Other than that I spent the last seconds with Nica just throwing my last oldschool totems around. I'll definitely miss being an arctic wolf, too. I've had the glyph since the day it came out, and I've been very happy with it.