The Latest from Owl

Well, I've been kinda away from all this blogging stuff. My bad. But then maybe we all have times when the real world can overwhelm us with real life problems and challenges. I've been facing a lot of my own and it's pretty tough... particularly that wasp that decided to sting me one day on my way to work... now that pissed me off for about a minute or two. If I were a real druid I probably would have moonfire spammed it till it was dead, and then looked around and hoped nobody noticed. I mean druids are supposed to be caretakers of nature, right? Well, the real life wasp probably is still out there somewhere, but it's nuthin' compared to the wasps from the Zul Gurub instance in WoW. ;-)

Anyway, the wasp sting on my left hand... That's nothing to worry about... although it itches like hell. I need to stop scratching at it or it'll never get better.

I have however been busy leveling a second druid up to 85. I managed to get her to 84 in time to start doing the brewfest boss for the holiday event. It drops some of the better trinkets for the time being, especially if you just hit 85 and need to get out of those blues and greens, and the loot has a chance to drop a weapon as well, so you could get lucky. Also, for those mount fanatics like myself, the keg shaped loot box has a very rare chance of giving you one of two mounts, although I have heard of one player getting two mounts in one! One of the mounts is a ram that looks just like the ones you can ride on when you deliver kegs on the Alliance side of the realm, and the other is a kodo, like the ones the Tauren most often ride but seems to have a few kegs on the sides like saddlebags... Now that MUST be refreshing!

Way back before the dungeon finder, Owlaf had to form up a group of five people from her server. I almost miss the trade channels saying, "LFG Direbrew, need 1 heals!" and etc. Nowadays we have the Dungeon Finder ability. As a tank and sometimes a healer, it's an instant que, and for dps the wait time is around 4-6 minutes for the direbrew boss this year... plus you don't have to fly all the way out to Blackrock Mountain and fight your way through low-level mobs just to get to the Direbrew boss... I bet this is a big relief for the Horde side since they'd have to travel two or three times the distance from their own capital city. So yes, Blizzard has made this a whole lot easier. You can get the daily kill for Direbrew done a lot faster and have more time to run around and do your daily quests or farming.

But back before the dungeon finder, Owlaf won the loot roll for the swift brewfest ram. It was the first rare mount that she got from a dungeon.

Anyway, another year, and another Brewfest is gone... and Owlaf still hasn't gotten a remote that could take her to this dungeon whenever she wants. This means if I wanna go in and cause a ruckus, I'd have to wreak havoc on the rest of the instance... so Dark Iron Dwarves, put up signs in your tunnels that say "Beware of Bears!" RAWR!

Amazingly enough, she now has both festive mounts from this holiday, and my hunter has two remotes now... I wish I could give one to this main druid of mine. *sigh*