Last Chapter Notes 5/14/26

 

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Visiting my brother in laws in game house always motivates me.  The timer was up on my spouse's one month re-subscribe, but he not only renewed, he purchased Midnight and got the Dragonflight Expansion, War Within and Midnight itself. 

My brother in law had moved his house next to my sister, well very near.  Next thing you know, I was looking at my own neighborhood and there (showing as a blue house on the map) was a charming plot near mine that backs up on a little pond and there's a large hill right behind the pond.

Feverish these days with layout plans in my head, I only made one change, the first room is a small octagonal room.  The outside is charming as is, for now.  Even though he plans to do nothing with it (ha, wait till we go decor hunting in dungeons), I really love that he's nearby.

 

Up and Down the Timeways 

Mr Atheren (as he called himself here in a comment) tired of the Dragon Isles pretty quickly, and wanted to move on.  If you've played through the Dalaran destruction scenario, you know it ends with a quest called The Departure and a final boss that just bangs you around, and he spawns lots of little helpers.  You have to do it once, then you can skip it.  He couldn't beat guy, I couldn't beat the guy with his character. I leveled a character up to help him but she never even got offered the quest sequence.  I'm leveling a new character (level 52 to start, not quite new) and hope she gets the quest at level 68 as she should.

Thanks to his being in the game and me having someone to craft for, I'm going back and leveling crafters in Dragon Isles trades.  I skipped that expansion altogether, and I see now it was a mistake to do that.  Never again.

Meanwhile in Kul Tiras... 

My Tailor has been gathering materials to make the decor items for BFA.  This means a ton of Deep Sea Satin. I have had my level 89 Paladin going through the Freehold dungeon to get some satin, but also cloth armor to send through the scrapper in Boralus for more Deep Sea Satin.  Bonus: nice red chairs from the last boss of the dungeon.

Crucible of the Storms in Stormsong Valley has the highly desirable votive candle rack.  You get sleepy on every approach and are bounced out of the area.  I finally found a video that gives you an alternate route!! I went in with my paladin and voila!

 

It is so much prettier in person than in pictures.  Naturally I will need another for my Horde house. I'd like to go another time and have my spouse come in and be the one to get the loot so he can have one in his house.  As someone who is not a raider, I find the timer lockout on going back in to be annoying.  I want those candles!  I do have two 90s though, and could send them.  Also annoying, there are some npcs that, even though they have no health and should just be dead, they keep chasing you.

 My main character has been slogging it out in Sothrecar's Rise, Draenor, for awhile trying to get Exalted with the Council Of Exarchs. With that rep she could buy the highly desirable Shadowmoon Valley Greenhouse.  Finally:

 

And...

 Here it is, in my "cloud room" as my sister calls it, max sized.  I picked up everything in the room and will just be admiring it for a bit.

Have a good week, off to level a character so I can help take down that Nerubian and get my spouse to Dornogal.  The War Within remains my favorite expansion.  I hope he loves it there. 

 

Screenshot Saturday 5/9/26

 We finally got 5 of us together to get my brother in law his home visiting quest credit.  It should have been easy but, of course that would be crazy.

My brother in law moved his house since I saw it last to a new neighborhood and changed the design completely.  He now has my sister as a neighbor. Isn't that sweet.  He did such a good job of creating a rambling house with a bridge on the second floor. He seemed to have most of the Mechagon decor, I'm so jealous.

Just as when I visited him last time, I was ready to re-design my Horde House, so I removed everything but the kitchen.  It now has cross shaped rooms, L Shaped Rooms, even an octagon room.

Floor one 

 Floor 2

 I put a tiny square room next to the bedroom and made the start of a proper bathroom for it.  Note I used a mechagon item that looks like a toilet for the...toilet.   Unbelievably, while I was taking a screenshot of my new bathroom I got a guild invite. WTF?  Timing city.  Declined.  Definitely enlarge for the guild name.

 

Screenshot (Sunday) 5/3/26

 I've been playing WoW on my laptop quite a bit in the evenings. I have a new Lenovo Legion laptop. It's lightweight and small by preference after my cumbersome, heavy old Asis laptop with it's keyboard that died and I had to have a clunky one set over the keyboard to play.

My new laptop is a dream and plays the game well, but screenshots are better on my gaming desktop pc with it's huge screen.   This laptop also has a Nvidia overlay which uses Alt + Z to help you take pictures in game.  You can't use Alt + Z to remove the U/I as you normally would, so teeny pictures incoming.

From the Trading Post, I purchased the sets for my Worgen I had liked in an earlier preview.  My pictures here are from the "dressing room" (?) feature that shows you while you're in the shop what your character looks like in the attire.

Epic fail, my attempt at a treehouse.  It's long gone, never fear.

I found a vendor in Valdrakken that not only sold teapots, but tea cups.  Apparently there's some long quest to get one, but once you have it you can buy more.  I thought from what I read you were supposed to do a food tasting daily till you got the one which gave you the quest.  All I ever got were weird food buffs and a cheese head.  I'm going to seek another way.

Last Chapter Notes 4/30/26

 In before midnight, my time!  Really had to scoot to get three posts in today to keep to ten posts a month.  

Here's a nice picture worth a thousand words of my recent achievements.

I'm currently trying to get the profession decor items made from all crafts in each time period.  Several trades are being held up finishing the Classic era by a need for Dark Iron Bars and a few other things dropping from the Molten Core.  Just haven't been able to get back in there.

I've moved to the Outlands era, where Primal Life, Primal Mana and other such things in combination with a need for a boatload of Khorium Ore which I can't get any of are killing me.  Never give up, never surrender.

I also have a band of characters finishing Legion Order Halls.  The need to recruit 20 troups is a major pain, because recruiting them isn't enough, you've got to use them up as well.  I'm following the tip to send them on missions where they will die, the jury is out on whether that is working.

I did get a pretty pink picture of Dalaran (sniff) being moved to the Broken Isles.

And also Legion era squishy faced Jaina.  Voice is the same.

There we go, ten for April. Thanks for stopping by.

The World of Warcraft May Trading Post

 I'm a fan of the Trading Post but haven't purchased much lately.  May's selections have a Gilnean theme, which is always sharp!

https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24259074 

 

I tend to buy mounts if anything, and I like the horses, but they are pretty identical.  One is faster (?)

 

Outfit wise, I'm looking at The Attire of the Gilneas Fox and the Gilneas Loyalist Streetwear.

 

I haven't failed to get the monthly bonus reward for a long time, so one of my Worgens will be wearing the Pyrewood Rebel Streetwear. 

 

 

 

Our House Is A Very Very Fine House

Via MMO Champion   https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/14224-Cozy-Treehouse-Retreat-Bundle-Now-Available

Those 300 decor items coming in patch 12.05?  Decor Duels (PvP Lite Hide and Seek) and Void Assaults (pop up kill em and leave ems) are the only sources so far.  

Incoming Patch 12/07 is on the PTR and it's time to get the next batch of goodies via the Cash Shop!

 The two treehouses and their extra bits can all be had for $75.00 hot real cash!  

You can get just the two tree house exteriors (this isn't giving you a new interior) for $40.00 in a pack.

 

 The two garden packs can be purchased separately for $25.00 each.  

 

I've seen lots of player made treehouse designs, and they're amazing.  I made a pitiful attempt myself which shall never be spoken of.  Keep building, folks! 

Screenshot Saturday 4/25/26

Secrets of the Horde! Garrison Outpost

As we know, my now level 50 something Blood Elf Paladin is my first Horde Character to survive past level ten.  Go, go, go!  I decided to give her her own Garrison so she can eventually get all of the red dye she wants.  I have never seen even pictures of the Horde Garrison.  Coming to you exclusively now, the Horde Outpost. It's humongous!

 

 

By comparison, the Alliance Outpost is a box in the woods!

 

More as my BE levels that place.  Yikes.

 

For Finding the Highest Peaks in Zul'Aman, I received the Amani Spearhunter's Spit.  I initially thought it was not such a great reward, but I put him to roast in my Alliance Kitchen fireplace.  Look at the steam rising.  Can you smell the bacon?

 

The previous award I received for finding all of the Highest Peaks in Eversong Woods was the Eversong Lantern Painting, also in the kitchen.  I like it a lot.

 

 

Haranir next. 

 

I'm on top of the weekly neighborhood quests, now.  The current is called Going Postal  a nice throwback title for some of us.  You're driving a race course through your neighborhood, delivering mail.  I didn't allow myself to see the timer, because they make me freeze up.  Also, you're navigating through hoops that go suddenly off the road, veering here and there.  

Go!

 Grab those pick ups! Deliver those letters!

 

Score, score score!