So I hit the big 9-0 last night (pretty much just under a week since I started), after killing a mini-boss and turning in a quest in the Dread Wastes. Immediately I went to Paw’Don Village at all due speed, knowing I had to go to SW to get the Level 90 flight training.
When I finally got back and got to the flight trainer, I was shocked and sickened the new flight unlocker, the “Wisdom of the Four Winds” flight training, wasn’t there. I had a feeling I had to head to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, and to the new city to reach it. But I needed confirmation.
So when I got back to Pandaria, I asked and got my unwelcome answer. I also got a helpful one from a Mage who offered to port me to the new city, the “Shrine of Seven Stars”. I took it and wound up where I was supposed to go. After waiting for my computer to stop having a seizure (god damn turning lag…) the Mage told me to speak to the guy on the Cloud Serpent to get my training, and I did, and got my Dragon Form back! 😀
Flew straight to the Jade Forest, and flew around those pillars. Just as fun as I’d hoped they would be. That area is also where you go to start your rep with ‘The Order of the Cloud Serpent’ to get your very own Cloud Serpent, aka Chinese Dragon mount. I’ll talk about that a bit later. The Jade Serpent Statue is still destroyed. I’m unsure if there’s any dailies that you can help to rebuild it.
So with that all said and done, and the Explore Pandaria achievement under my belt, and also I tried to see if the turning lag was related to my addons. So I wiped everything out. I got QuestHelper 2 to work perfectly again (even though it still doesn’t have a MoP database).
I headed back to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms to do the quest of being with the prince. Then my computer decided to LOL LOCKUP on me. Finally getting back, I was a bit saddened that it seemed, the quest chain with him had abruptly ended to the point, you went around asking people how they’re doing.
It just didn’t seem, right. The zone seemed too, quiet. Too peaceful after what I’ve gone through in Mantid territory (Dread Wastes). I found the prince at the new city, just standing there with no intention of wanting to go back home to SW, and to his father. Again, not right. His father must be worried sick about now. And what of Taylor? Why are they still at that camp? There’s just so many damn quest loopholes.
There’s also one other thing. The new city is contested, yet there’s no Horde. Just Alliance. Reason to believe that it’s faction phased. I actually like this. What I don’t like, is there’s no AH. Well, only one, but you have to have Engineering to access him. That blows.
I got a quest to meet “The Black Prince”. I’ve been seeing his bodyguards here and there. I’ve been thinking this was a Horde only thing, but it’s not. You meet “Wrathion”, who says he’s the son of Deathwing, but hopes I won’t have any hard feelings. Though I was about to shoot him right between the eyes for saying that. He does understand what hell his father put me through. But it was his father that forced me to gear up. So, all is fair on my end, and I let him continue.
And he did, explaining how the Reds stole him as an egg and experimented on him to create him.
Since we’re both civilized dragons, he offered me a drink to explain the future of Azeroth. And so I went along with it, curious to hear his story.
So he goes over to a wall, then makes a small globe of Azeroth show up, while explaining that it’s true, his father was misguided, but was right about one thing: that Azeroth is “fragile”.
He explains of a “great evil”; a great darkness. But never went into details. And that the war between the Horde and Alliance has to end soon, before all of Azeroth is blah de blah.. my guess is he’s talking about the Sha. The ones that feed off our negative emotions (fear, hate, anger). The same emotions that I have to control.
He also states that he supports the Alliance fully, and then looks at me and says “heroes like you” have the answer to stopping the war. This is a black dragon?
He ends with giving me two quests. What’s weird is since accepting the request to meet him, the quest giver icons are orange instead of the standard yellow. Quest 1 involves going into raid dungeons and collecting Sigils of Power and Wisdom… pass. Quest 2, get Honored rep with him. He states that killing Level 90 Mogu and Mantid will give me rep.
What do you get when you complete these? No idea. He doesn’t seem that worried about Azeroth’s demise or anything like that. Telling me to take my time and no rush. So, thank goodness for that. Though he did state that in “a few months”, something could happen.
So, well there’s two other things to discuss. My gear, and getting Cloud Serpent rep. The two kind of bind together. First, my gear. It’s appalling (the reason I didn’t really celebrate when I hit 90). I’m taking nearly a minute to bring down ONE Level 90 target. That’s not right. And it sickens me. My pet keeps getting his ass kicked. I’m spending most the time trying to keep him healed, or using up all of my Focus trying to Arcane Shot the target down.
I’m still killing, though, just not as fast as I want. And not killing fast can sometimes overwhelm me when multiple enemies attack. Such as getting Cloud Serpent rep.
So, getting the rep. You can get an egg and raise it up. Similar to the Raptor Mount quest on the Horde side. But you don’t get to take your hatchling with you. To start, you go to this valley which is under attack by these lizard people, who are killing off the Cloud Serpents. We don’t want that to happen, do we? So I went there and made them pay for their crimes. I also escorted wayward hatchlings back to their nests, and rescued some eggs.
Three of those eggs, only one I can claim as mine. I chose the Green one. Since the Green chinese dragon looks more natural. Like a true Chinese Dragon. Anyway, the little girl hatched and immediately likes me.
I started with three dailies. There’s more, but they aren’t related to my hatchling. Both are profession-related. However tailored to me. One is Arch. The other, First Aid. Both doable with time. Just need the materials (and Zen Archeology training) to complete them.
The three dailies I did that were related to the hatchling, I had to get honeycomb. Had to kill bees to get them. The second. Was kinda… stinky. Another shit quest! Like Blizzard hasn’t made enough of them! And the 3rd, kill a Level 90 wasp. No elites, which is good.
Turning the quests in to the hatchling. Probably the cutest thing I’ve ever seen; especially the Honeycomb one. How it wrapped itself around me and licked my fingers. D’awww.. 🙂 That is just too cute!
So anyway, that’s all there is to say. I’ll continue doing the Cloud Serpent dailies. I also have unfinished quests to do, back in the Dread Wastes. More money for me. I have 9k so far. I can use this to buy bigger, needed bags. For both my inventory and my bank. Then I can store more ‘treasure’ in my ‘cave’.