Master of Tol Barad

Who wore it better?

For a long time (over two years) all I needed for Master of Tol Barad was to win it 12 more times.

Recently I started doing Tol Barad again and I've been having Guildies join me in these capture battles. Now I have those twelve wins!

I'm not done with the Tol Barad Peninsula, I still need the Fox Kit that costs 200 Tol Barad Commendations. But one victory at a time!

 

Hero of the Frostwolf Clan

Hero of the Frostwolf Clan

It is AV Weekend, the perfect time to finish my Frostwolf Clan Reputation. There was 2.7k rep left so it only took a couple of wins.

52nd Exalted Faction!

Also another thing done off my Pre-Mists of Pandaria list.

McTacky... Graveyard Camper!?

Joined AV for some more AV rep. I am now at 18.3k/21k. The game I joined consisted of a Pre-Made team.

After defending Captain Galvangar at Iceblood Garrison with almost the full raid we slowly moved north, destroying towers, capping Snowfall Graveyard and Stonehearth Graveyards, forcing the dead to appear up North. We then reached Stormpike Graveyard and stopped. We started to kill, kill, kill without end.

It is the first time I've graveyard camped and I'm not sure what to think of it. The players we were attacking were helpless against the Premade's onslaught.

Tol Barad All-Star: Back in Tol Barad with Exëcute. I got the last 10 kills for Tol Barad All-Star I needed while we were both defending Warden's Vigil. You need to get 10 kills at a spot without dying during the ones game. You can do this over three games (one per complete spot). Won the game a short time afterwards so that was good.

Four More PvP

Four more PvP Achievements. These ones seemed more luck based than the ones I had been aiming for.

 Wild Hammering: Luck Based Achievement I got in Twin Peaks. Get five Dwarf HKs in a single battleground.

Drop It Now!: Kill 5 people carrying bombs in a single game Strand of the Ancients. Only can do it while you are on defence. Can sorta be luck based. Gotta go on defensively before they can drop the bombs at the doors.

Ancient Protector: Kill 10 players in the Courtyard of the Ancients in a single battle. Another Strand of the Ancients achievement. Having the whole team defending the Courtyard and the Alliance just running in to their dooms is how I got this one.

One Two Three You Don't Know About Me: A Battle for Gilneas achievement. Cap 2 flags in the same game. I got Mines when we all ran out at the start. After a failed attack on Waterworks, I went to Lighthouse with others and capped the flag there. This is much easier than the Defend Achievements I think. Never managed to defend any of them.

Lazy Saturday PvP Achieves

It looks like I am running out of the very easy PvP Achievements to go after and may have to set my sights higher if I want to progress.

AV Rep is now 17000/21000. Didn't manage to win any AV games today.

I was in Eye of the Storm for Take a Chill Pill. I didn't take the killing blow, but the idea is to kill someone who is buffed with the Berserker power-up. I got it when someone else in my group killed a person with the power-up.

Isle of Conquest. Demolition Derby took me time. Not because it was hard, or I had to somehow get the killing blow. No, the problem was I just had to wait for a game where the Alliance captured the Workshop! Only then can they deploy the Demolisher and Siege Engine to destroy. I was shooting things with a turret for Mowed Down and I got the killing blow on both machines.

Mowed Down is to use a turret to destroy 100 players and 10 vehicles. You don't need killing blow on the players (thank goodness) but you do have to blow up 10 vehicles yourself. Targeting stationary catapults seemed the easiest way. Gravies were always out of range of the turret, and Demolisher and Siege Engine were rare for me to see.

100 Players just takes time. Be in a castle turret a lot and get honor kills. A little bit of a grind, especially if it your side being farmed and not the other way around

Atain's First Blood

I spoke about McTacky's First PvP Kill but I think I will talk about my very first PvP kill ever.

Before achievements. Before the Honor/Dishonor system. Before the game tracked PvP kills. May 2005.

I was leveling and arrived at 1000 Needles with Gildawg (Shaman). We were both level 35 and off to Freewind Post.

After we stepped off the lift we headed down the road. Then we ran into two alliance. It wasn't the first Alliance I'd even seen, but they were the first flagged alliance I'd seen. They were about the same level as us.

Gildawg attacked and flagged himself and was beat down by the two. I waited for him to get back before we launched our counter attack.

Gildawg took on the druid and I tool on the warrior. Somehow the warrior and I ended up on the lift while Gildawg and the Alliance druid fought down on the ground.

What do you mean Atain is wearing Dungeon Set 1 and the Dwarf is wearing Tier 9 (Paladin) and the screenshot is at Stonetalon Mountains? How dare you doubt the authenticity of this image!

Up and down the lift we fought. Sometimes I'd get healled by Gildawg when the lift was down. The alliance warrior didn't seem to be getting as much heals as I was.

Then with an Execute, the Alliance Warrior died!

... you aren't even trying to make this look accurate now, are you?

I rode the lift down for the last time and found that Gildawg had finished off the druids and we carried on towards Freewind Post.

We didn't take the lift up to Freewind Post. We took the ramp.

Nine PvP Achievements!

Today I joined Jinjersnaps (and Rogue alt Chatous), Grimoire, Parmenien, Arashikage. Did heaps of PvP. Heck I'll just show the nine achievements!

Tried to get Arathi Basin Assassin as well tonight. The all four of us and Shabadu moved around AB as a kill team to help me get this. Sadly was unable to get the 5 kills needed at Farm.

Things I learnt today:

●  There are speed boots in Twin Peaks.

●  To use Hand of Freedom more to get out of snares

●  That Twin Peaks has no achievement for capping 3 flags without dying like WSG.

●  That Glaive Grave is just for HKs, not Killing Blows.

●  The crybabies who like to say stupid things like "Horde Suck" and "Our Team Sucks Except Me" actually believe that drivel.

●  You get Conquest Points from winning a random battlegrounds. I thought you only got that once a day.

●  That as a Healer I somehow had to get a Killing Blow for Twin Peaks Perfection.

●  That Jinjersnaps, Grimoire, Parmenien, Arashikage and Shabadu  are more awesome that I first thought! Thanks for the huge ammont of help today!

Obsidian Nightwing!

After a some Recruit-a-Friend mayhem, I got [Heart of the Nightwing] in the mail and used it to learn how to transform into the flying Obsidian Nightwing! I was thrilled to be able to get this sort of mount!

Like Sandstone Drake from [Vial of the Sands], you can give a ride to another player while transformed! Totally Aces!

Then it was on to a Black Temple run with Smïles (Pahto), Exëcute, Gelina, Roshii (his alt Imwifher for one boss), and Roshii (Baha). Pugged up a warrior called Parasoul. By the end I had Ashtongue Deathsworn reputation at Exalted! I earned Sworn to the Deathsworn as a result!

Now that is all my Burning Crusade Reputations completed! 51st Exalted Faction!

In Wintergrasp I got Didn't Stand a Chance with Exëcute's help! Took a bit of time shooting people with that cannon at 85, even if they had all their armor off.

In Tol Barad I took two tanks to a tower and got myself a Tower Plower! An alliance tried to take out my tanks, but I guarded them well!

 In Strand of the Ancients, shot a lot of stuff with cannon again to get Artillery Expert.

Finally in AV. Reached 13.5k/21k Rep with Frostwolf Clan. While there I finally completed Alterac Valley All-Star.

For several days I'd gotten 3/5 of the criteria. Attack/Defend a Tower. Attack/Defend a Graveyard and kill someone on Field of Strife. Usually Field of Strife + Attack Graveyard + Attack Tower combo, but not always. The Defends were the hard two for me to pin down.

But I got a luck. The alliance had no defenders at their tower. Then I had to get a graveyard. But Alliance were turtling and the Horde weren't letting any Aliance Out! Hope was lost.

Then a rogue Capped Frostwolf Graveyard! I sprinted down and capped it! The Achievement was mine!

Rated BG (Spoiler - Tacky dies heaps)

Navimie's Rated Battleground! I was there, so was Arashikage, Azadelta, Jinjersnaps, Katrathar, Lushnek (HK), Navimie, Parmenien, Sevros, Shabadu. There was plenty of excitement and fun!

First game was 10-man version of Eye of the Storm. Half went to Fel Reaver Ruins, myself and the other half went to Blood Elf Tower and I capped the flag. The other team didn't know to cap and it was 30 seconds before they did.

Fel Reaver and Blood Elf Tower were taken by the alliance and our last stand was at Blood Elf Tower. We got the flag back just before the Alliance won
.

Then we tried again. We got The Battle for Gilneas. Held Lighthouse for a little, but eventually 3 capped and lost quickly.

Then the third match. Twin Peaks. It was a tight game. Navimie had be on defence while She and Jinjer healed Offensive. We were 2 points to 2. Each of us had the flag in the flag room. Jinjer and I ready to heal HK! It was neck and neck and the time was running out...

And the Alliance Warrior Flag Carrier was fully healed just before dieing the attack on their flag failed! And then time ran out! So close!

After match 3 I had to go. Lucky Gutsy was there to take my spot as heals.

More PvP Achievements

During Strand of the Ancients I used enough bombs on gates to get Explosives Expert.

Then on to Isle of Conquest for Resource Glut and Four Car Garage. Got halfway into Wrecking Ball when my Siege Engine and I were killed.

On to Tol Barad with Exëcute. I earned Towers of Power by killing 3 Siege Engines. Was trying to kill more Siege Engines for Tol Barad Saboteur but the match ended while on the 5th one.

Exëcute and I then tried Wintergrasp, but we were the only ones there and somehow we were greatly outnumbered. Our tanks couldn't make it to the wall. No chance.

Just joined Navime's Rated Battleground group. Lets see how it goes...

Bombs all around!

Tonight gave AV a break. (I'm halfway with the rep and 30/100 wins) and focused on Isle on Conquest. Got A-bomb-inable and A-bomb-ination in the same hightly Turtled March. Then I mostly stayed on a turrent for the rest of the games. Won about half of them.

Now I just joined Navime's Non-Meta Ulduar run! This should Rock!

Edit: It did rock! My version later! Navimie, dragonray, JD, Arv coverage for now!

Some Battlegrounds

First a easy PvP Achivement. Back Door Job. Jumped off airship in Isle of Conquest into enermy base. Won the game too.

 

Then it was off into Wintergrasp for another win. Only need 85 more wins for that achieve.

Then several people in Frostwolves started going to some battlegrounds and I joined for 2 of the battles. Navime, Gutsy, Lushnek (HK), Sevros, Shabadu, Exëcute. Arvash was there too, but he got stuck in a seperate BG alone.

In the first battle, Arathi Basin, I just followed Exëcute as heal as usual. His cap, wait for turnover then run stratergy in full display. Died in the inital assault on Stables, died a second time trying to retake farm, then a third death near the end of the the match while defending Stables. After losing Stables, Exëcute and I stayed at BS. There was no futher drama and we won in the end.

The second battleground was Battle for Gilneas. I followed Exëcute to the waterworks. I highly underestimated Exëcute. There was six alliance and two of us. Exëcute pointed out the object was to prevent them getting the flag. I stayed back and heal him up as Exëcute fought them off. Finally when  Shabadu came to help, the alliance were all dead, Waterworks was taken from the greater numbers. Exëcute showed me his true skill today.

With the rest of the guildies in the BG zerging lighthouse, we had all three flags and won in short time.  I got Newbs to Plowshares and Battle for Gilneas Perfection.

50 Exalted, Giant Rat & More AV

First thing today was some more Alterac Valley for rep. Hit 10k/21k with Frostwolf Clan. Also earned Loyal Defender. Failed to get Alterac Valley All-Star again.

 Then if was off to Dalaran. Today was the Northrend Fishing Contest and I was going to summon either Poldra or Exëcute if they got the [Blacktip Shark]. Sadly neither won, but I did some fishing in the sewers. Then [Giant Sewer Rat] popped up after 82 casts! I Smell A Giant Rat

Good luck with the Strangethorn Fishing Extravaganza tomorrow Exëcute and Poldra!

I then joined a pug doing to Old Mount Hyjal Raid run by Deadugly. After a few bosses I finally finished my The Scales of the Sands reputation. And it was my 50th Exalted!

After the Raid was over I returned to Soridormi at the Caverns of Time to upgrade my [Band of Eternity] to [Band of the Eternal Restorer].

Then I went to Outland to hand in the [Time-Phased Phylactery] I just got from Old Hyjal. After some delivery quests, I joined Maiev Shadowsong and Akama in breaking into Black Temple!

At the end of the assault I was given the [Medallion of Karabor]. McTacky was now 'Attuned' to Black Temple! I have the strangest feeling that I hadn't been intended to be allowed in even though I've killed Illidan Stormrage 5 times now. That old attunement tree was crazy!