Random stuff...

Well, working hard all this week, but we convinced the boss we need to work 10 hours a day instead of 12.  With that in mind, I'm got myself up to 8670 Achievement points!

More next weekend!

Once in a while, alliance win at BGs

And every great once in a while, horde completely suck...

 299 kills might be the most ever I have received in one BG.

Also got my 10,000 kill on the previous BG as well! (we lost this one pretty bad)

I got this one too, that brings me to 8640 achievement points!

8510!

Getting there!  Picked up some "easier" ones a few days ago but have been sidetracked enough I could not post them.

Figure I can get 9-10 more today if try!

Not quite 9000

Sitting at 8470 achievement points as of tonight...

Had some guildies run through reg heroics and pickup up Deadmines and two achieves while in there.

Getting a little harder to get these day by day.

I'd like hit 9000, just might have to start doing loremaster.  I think that's worth at least 300 right there.

Ideas?

RAGEQUIT

I fell victim to this today in Ulduar 10.  I'm one achievement away from my proto-drake and the only thing I need  is Disarmed!

4th week in a row I go in for the raid and 4th week in a row, these jackasses screws it up.  We're in vent, RL and I explain exactly what must happen.

What happens?  Chest dies with both arms at 65%.

/sigh

Did he just say that?

I really hate to dime out friends, but I have a few that say just the funniest things.  I wind up screnshotting many things, mostly for reference later, but these two take the cake.

First of all, WTF is a Horde Worgen?  I never got an answer to this.

On the other hand, I ain't received my frequent flyer card as well.  I did many of these acheives for lunar festival BEFORE you could fly, so I don't wanna hear it.

Busy week...

Sorry, RL got the best of me this week, only had an hour or so a day and that I used for Love Dailies and farming charms.

I did find a nice place to farm them in reg Halls of Lightning.  DK or Feral Kitty works great at level 85.

I also stole a Love Bird from the AH at 12k gold.  Horde side on Azgalor they are going for 40K and up.

Big Cauldron of Battle

We got it...

Thanks to all that helped farm...Roselea, Mickdundee, Sheelar, and Cloudku!

Love is in the Air Guide!

Be Mine!

The Bag of Heart Candies can be purchased for the low price of two Love Tokens at any Lovely Merchant (located in major cities). If you don't get the specific candies that you need from one bag, just buy another, and keep doing so until you've nabbed them all. While it's theoretically possible to get all eight candies you need from just one bag, the odds of this happening aren't high. Most players wind up buying three or four bags to get everything they need.

Dangerous Love

This is a short but fun quest line that will involve running around Stormwind (for the Alliance) or Orgrimmar (for the Horde) on a goblin NPC's bidding to investigate the recent goings-on of the Crown Chemical Company. If you don't start off in either city, an NPC in any other major city (located around that city's designated "holiday area") will direct you there via Uncommon Scents (Alliance) or Uncommon Scents (Horde). Quest progression after that is as follows:

Something Stinks (Alliance) or Something Stinks (Horde)
Pilfering Perfume (Alliance) or Pilfering Perfume (Horde)
Fireworks at the Gilded Rose (Alliance) or Snivel's Sweetheart (Horde)
Hot On The Trail (Alliance) or Hot On The Trail (Horde)
A Friendly Chat... (Alliance) or A Friendly Chat... (Horde)

After finishing the quest line, the goblin will offer you a daily quest to kill Crown Chemical Company NPCs and disable one of their chemical vats, but where the quest sends you will depend on your character's level. Once you've finished the daily for the first time, you'll get your achievement.

Fistful of Love 

Sure..........

Getting a Handful of Rose Petals is easy enough; they're sold in quantities of five for two Love Tokens at any Lovely Vendor, and you'll need 11 Handfuls to nail all the race/class combinations listed for the achievement (so bank on spending six Love Tokens). The extras won't go to waste; you'll need one for Flirt With Disaster (see below), and you can always use the three extras to annoy your friends.

The real trouble is going to be finding the less common race/class combinations, and on most servers it's the effort to find a troll rogue that'll drive you up a wall. As with all the holiday achievements concerned with tracking down race/class combinations, Fistful of Love is probably going to be more difficult in Cataclysm now that there's no neutral city for both factions to occupy. Your best bet is probably to hang around a popular area for dailies or questing (e.g., the Temple of Earth in Deepholm) -- or, failing that, flying directly to an enemy city and hoping for the best.

What I did for the Christmas Achievement with snowflakes was make 4 free to play accounts and make different horde rogues.  I then bribed a player who had a mage on the horde side to port each toon to Orgrimmar.  Once there, each toon was parked safely outside, away from guards.

Flirt With Disaster (Alliance) or Flirt With Disaster (Horde)

You'll need another Handful of Rose Petals for this one, in addition to some booze and perfume (the different varieties of which are sold by Love Vendors for one Token each).

If you're Alliance, toss on some Perfume, buy enough alcohol to get "completely smashed," and stumble your way over to Sraaz, the gnomish pie vendor who paths around the Great Forge in Ironforge.

If you're Horde, toss on some Perfume, and BEFORE you go to Undercity for this achievement, make sure you stop and buy alcohol elsewhere. Curiously enough, there doesn't seem to be any alcohol available in Undercity; you'll have to bring some with you, fly to Tarren Mill, or -- because the Lunar Festival is still on -- walk upstairs to the Lunar Festival area to purchase some. Jeremiah Payson, the cockroach vendor, is located under the bank steps.

Charming

Once you speak to Kwee Q. Peddlefeet in any major city for the daily quest concerning a Lovely Charm Bracelet gift for various faction leaders, he'll give you a Lovely Charm Collector's Kit. This will enable you to collect Lovely Charms from any non-gray mob you kill (or any non-gray mobs that dies to another player while you're grouped), and you can make one Lovely Charm Bracelet for each 10 Lovely Charms you collect. Consequently, you'll need 120 Lovely Charms total for this achievement, which -- if you don't go out farming for them on their own -- amounts to three days' worth of dailies giving bracelets to faction leaders.

I Pitied the Fool 

Bleh. I'm not a fan of the PvP achievements, but oh well. Fortunately, doing this tends to be more travel-intensive than difficult. The Love Fool can be purchased from any Lovely Vendor for 10 Love Tokens, but the catch is that the item's a one-use only deal. As a result, you'll need to shell out 50 Love Tokens in order to get this done, but it's as simple as dropping a Fool, targeting it, and typing /pity in your chat box (or, for convenience's sake, creating a macro to do the same).

If you're doing this achievement at the same time as a few buddies or guildies, multiple players can use the same Fool, so you don't necessarily have to pay for all of them yourself. Have a friend drop a Fool, everyone around can /pity it, then you can move on to the next spot.

The locations are as follows:

• Arathi Basin blacksmith Make sure you see the "Blacksmith" zone title flash on your screen before you drop this, but this is easy -- you should be able to drop it just about anywhere on the central island in AB and get credit.
• Battle Ring of Gurubashi Arena The Gurubashi Arena is located in Stranglethorn Vale north up the road from Booty Bay. You'll need to enter and drop down from the spectator stands into the ring below in order to get credit for this. Bear in mind that the battle ring is a free-for-all PvP area -- you can be attacked and killed by any player in the game here, even those of your own faction.
• Culling of Stratholme You do need to be inside the instance. Whether it's normal or heroic doesn't matter, but you have to be at least level 75 to enter the normal version (and 80, obviously, for heroic).
• Naxxramas As with Culling of Stratholme, you need to be inside Naxx to get credit for this (where doesn't matter). If you're not planning on running Naxx, group up with a buddy or two, convert the group to a raid, zone in, drop the Love Fool, /pity it, and be on your merry way.
• Wintergrasp Location doesn't seem to matter here; as long as you're in the WIntergrasp zone, you'll get credit.

Getting there!

Just made 80 flasks...not too hard as I had my daughter helping me farm!  I hit Shimmering Expanse and she hits Uldum.  Between us, we can make probably 100 flasks an hour if we try.  Ordo Solaris has been the best guild so far I've been in (since Dec 2006).

Not sure if I will ever truly raid but the cauldron will help the guild!

Better late than never!

Got this two weeks ago but decided to share.  I solo'ed many of these but there were a few I just could not.  Big thanks to Eyesoffury and Mikdundee for the help!

Love is in the Air!

Well, my most hated achievement starts in about two weeks.  I guess I will have to get off my ass and actually do some work on it.  I don't have this completed on any of my toons, just bits and pieces here and there:

Can't get it in both places but I will work on a guide of a sort to help others out.  Warrior will be done first!

Hooah!

Hooahmiester, my shammy just finished!  No more lunar festival EVER!

More Lunar Madness

 Four more toons down and working on last one!

Challenge Update

1. Sizzlelegs         85 Rank 2 5460 NC
2. Flutterkicks     85 Rank 3 4445 NC
3. Kaelin 85 Rank 2 4080 +2
4. Roselea 85 Rank 3 3955 -1
5. Blazzer 85 GM   1 3820 -1
6. Hellxbound 85 Rank 1 3560 NC
7. Firefoxx           85 Rank 1 3535 NC
8. Cresselia          82 Rank 3 3500 NC
9. Crushinskulz 85 Rank 3 3380 NC
10. Elowynnen 82 Rank 1 3370 NC
11. Misticmig         85 Rank 1 3275 NC
12. Pithhat 85 Rank 2 2800 NC

Well, big kudos for Kaelin for working his way up two places.  The challenge ends at the end of May.  I did bring in 3 other toons but did not list them in here as they are not playing. (hint...top two toons are mine)

Peace until next week!

Sizz

The challenge...

Well, after rejoining Trail Biters and seeing people did not have many achievement points, I decided I needed to get some of them off their butts.

I am offering 1k gold to the next toon to hit 5k Achievement points.  I'm #1 and #2.  My daughter, thanks to me dragging her around, is #3.  The GM, a good friend, is #4.

I further added some cash to the pot by saying if anyone can beat Flutterkicks to 5k, I'll give them 1k gold as well.

I'll post updates every so often.  I started this a week ago and Flutter already got 150 points.  I ain't screwing around so people better get busy.  I'll update every 10 days or so to see if anyone really cares...lol

1. Sizzlelegs         85 Rank 2 5410
2. Flutterkicks     85 Rank 3 4200
3. Roselea          85 Rank 3 3955
4. Blazzer           85 GM      3820
5. Kaelin            85 Rank 4 3800
6. Hellxbound     85 Rank 1 3560
7. Firefoxx          85 Rank 1 3535
8. Elowynnen      82 Rank 1 3350
9. Misticmig       85 Rank 1 3205
10. Pithhat            85 Rank 2 2780