Token Female Gamer

Blizzard has released some buy-for-real-money items in the past, but never before have I been tempted. “What a grandiose way to waste your money!!” I would think to myself. But then this past Wednesday they released The Celestial Mount – purchasable from their online store for $25. Its a flying hours that has variable speed, but can be a ground mount or a flying mount and its incredibly pretty.

I had to have it.

Turns out tens of thousands of other people had to as well, because I ended up in a queue of seventeen thousand people waiting to purchase my brand new mount. (From what I hear the queue got up to eighty thousand at one point!)

That’s right I spend $50 and two hours of my off line time to purchase both my accounts some Bling. Yes I am a loot whore and have the fancy mount on display for everyone to see my dirty little secret.

But its soooo pretty…I think I need to go shower now.

It took me a while to get into the idea of Achievements in World of Warcraft, mainly because I disliked them so much on the console. Unlike the console version of achievements, which are essentially a glorified score board, the WoW achievements confer awards.

In fact it was one such award that started me on this crazy ride. My husband pointed out that one of the awards was a purple drake, a flying mount. As purple is one of my favorite colors I was immediately determined to get it.

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My warlocks run of fabulous mounts continues.
The Magnificent Flying Carpet!

As soon as her tailoring skill was high enough, I had to make this. Its far too awesome too pass up. Although there have been quite a few Aladdin jokes.

The description makes me chuckle every time. “This is a very fast rug.” Cute!

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After all that fan fare about getting my new flying mount, I took my little level seventy Warlock to Northrend (the land of undead and ice). Turns out that in Northrend you have to pay to learn how to fly in cold weather and that’s not a privilege you get until level 77.

So I will enjoy riding my more attractive mounts for another seven levels.

Nothing says screw you like paying a shit ton of gold for a skill that you don’t get to use. I should have just waited for Cold Weather Flying at level 77.

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Token Female Gamer

Free mounts, that was part of the incentive package I was given for leveling my Warlock. (That’s right, leveling to eighty is not reward enough. I tend to lose interest in the monotony. Besides I already have a level eighty Hunter who is impressively distracting.)

The Hawkstriders are incredibly pretty mounts, and one of the main reasons I picked the Blood Elf race. Free and pretty, I had to get as many as I could. So I purchased all the ones I could from the mount vendor. =D

Four slow speed Chocobos (Hawkstrider: black, blue, purple, pink) and three fast speed Chocobos (Swift Hawkstrider: green, purple, pink). Banner shown in that order.

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I haven’t been playing World of Warcraft much of late.

Two weeks ago a brand new patch was released. It boasted a huge amount of new content and it completely broke the game. Finally, two weeks after its release, I am starting to find my WoW legs again.

The new features were many, like a new high end raiding dungeon (that is way too hard) and a new tournament system that tests feats of skill (like jousting). But the one that got me was the option to have two sets of talents.

“Players level 40 and higher will now be able to visit their trainer to pay a one-time fee and access the dual talent specialization feature.” 3.1.0 patch notes.

It’s not clear what I was thinking as I plunked down a thousand gold to purchase this new feature. I can only attribute it to being blinded by the Shiny New factor. Because if I had for just one second stopped and really thought about what I was getting into, I am sure that I could have saved myself lots of wasted gold and two weeks of agony.

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Back in the day Warlock pets used to come with a new name every time you summoned them. Recently it was pointed out to me that this changed, meaning the pets now keep their names. The comment was that my warlock was lucky to have gotten a decent name assigned to her Voidwalker Pet.

And so I present to you Grass Moth, my own personal Voidwalker Pokemon!

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Token Female Gamer