I held off on posting this week, because I wanted to post my epic achieves. And they are epic. But first!

Yes, that is Onyxia. Last night we grabbed 10 bodies and went in to give her a try (now that the servers are more stable than they were on Tuesday). Fun fight, but tough! Especially if you never did it before. ¬_¬; We had trouble, not because of the fight, but because of the changes nerfs to pallys that came with 3.2.2. All the same, we got her down to phase 3 twice out of 5 attempts. I’m sure once our pallys get a handle on things we’ll be able to handle her no problem!

Anyway, onto my achievements!

It started with this:

Aside from working my butt off to get 4000 gold together (half of it was easily raised by selling 2 Argent Tournament pets on the neutral AH, btw), I was going quest and daily crazy to hit exalted with Valiance Expedition so it would only cost me 4000 gold. I’ve now unlocked those dailies in Icecrown on Esa, btw. :3

It also meant that I could *finally* use my Bronze Drake (which me winning and not having epic flight made some drama on a random CoS run. Because doing the timed run is HARD! /sarcasm).

Nifty flavor screenie:

So one that was finished, I went off on my ultimate goal: the Swift Flight Form quest chain. I’d decided a long time ago that I wanted to do the quest instead of just buying the training from the trainer. Mostly for the Feat of Strength, partly just to do it that way, but more so because I’d really like to farm Heroic: Sethekk Halls for the [Reins of the Raven Lord]. That, plus my eventual Guardian of Cenarius title (my next undertaking!), and purchasing a [Cenarion War Hippogryph] would, in my opinion, make my Druid as much a complete Druid as she could be.

So on Tuesday, despite the amazing server lagginess, I started the chain. Got about 2/3 of the way through it before I lost steam- and not because of the chain (though the travelling all over the place is the most annoying, time consuming part). No, it was because I was Neutral with Lower City on Esa. Why is this a problem, you wonder? Because in order to enter Heroic: Sethekk Halls for the final part of the chain, you need to have a key. The only way to buy the key is to be Honored with Lower City.

So off I went, running regular Sethekk Halls a bunch. The last few times I went, a fellow guildy came through on his Hunter, then swapped to his Warrior for the last boss so he could have a shot at the axe Talon King Ikiss drops. Thankfull, it didn’t take many runs to hit Honored, and last night I went off to finish the chain.

After some confusion with my friends and the rep their toons had, we went in with me as a Feral Druid (Bear tank ftw!), a Priest, and a Mage. We got to Anzu pretty quickly and cleared the room. Once I popped him, I attempted doing it the “right” way- popping into caster form periodically to cast Rejuvination on the NPCs t help- but eventually gave up for the sake of annoyance.

All the same, we killed Anzu easily (no mount drop- THIS time) and off I went to turn in my quest!

Shortly after grabbing a port to Shattarath-

Feat of Strength yay! Not to mention- I snagged my permanent moonstone, so I can now summon Anzu every day! Mount farming, here I come!

Also- I am now a pretty purple birdy when I fly!

And all the time, blood, sweat and tears was well worth it- I zipped around Sholazaar Basin this morning herbing. Got 100 Adder’s Tongue and enough Eternal Lives to make a Darkmoon card in under 25 minutes- and promptly made a Nobles Card! 8 more to go, and then Esa gets a shiny new trinket ([Darkmoon Card: Greatness])!

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