WoW Journal - 13-May-2005

While typing the heading I noticed that it's Friday the 13th. Hope you're not superstitious. :)

I finally made some progress again with my troll warrior Raslebol. Some level 60 guild mates helped me to kill Blazerunner, the level 55 elite fire elemental in Un'Goro crater, so I finally finished the Legend of Zelda cameo quest series. I got Link(en)'s sword and boomerang as a reward. The sword is worse than my Thrash Blade, and the boomerang is a trinket of minor usefulness. I can use it for pulling, but only every 3 minutes.

I headed for the Hinterlands to get another quest series done. Problem is that I have to find the item which starts the quest first. The quest series in question is one where you find OOX distress beacons in Tanaris, Feralas, and Hinterlands. Each beacon starts a quest where you need to escort a mechanical chicken through half the zone, being constantly ambushed by different monsters. I already did the Tanaris and Feralas part, but I haven't found the Hinterlands beacon yet. It's a rare, random drop from all mobs in that zone. I spent one hour or so in the slime cave, killing slimes and collecting ghost mushrooms for alchemy. But the beacon didn't drop, and the loot from the slimes is worth a lot less than the loot of other mobs of that level. Have to try other mobs in that area.

But meanwhile some guild mates of mine logged on and told me that they had acquired the mallet of Zul'Farak. As I still had 3 quests open there, including killing Gah'zilla, who is summoned with the mallet, we formed a group and did a complete tour of Zul'Farak. That is one of my favorite instances, it has lots of cool events, some decent loot, and isn't too big. I finished all 3 of my quests there, got some green items (to be sent for disenchanting to my priest), and with the quest reward xp just managed to hit level 54. And I still got a complete level worth of rest xp bonus for the long weekend (Monday is a holiday here). The only problem is that one of the quests still has a follow-up step, summoning and killing another level 55 elite mob, Shadra the Spider God. Guess I need to ask the level 60's of my guild again.

I'll end this post with a funny link I found on Terranova, to the Star Wars Episode 3 l33t trailer. That is the regular episode 3 trailer, subtitled to "translate" the text into MMORPG speak, casting the Sith as exploiters using hacks to win. Obi-wan: "We go pwned!!!". Yoda: "A dirty haXXor that Anakin punk is.".
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