Went back to the PTR today to do what I hoped new dailies in the Firelands. Turns out.. only one of them were different. I had to kill Druids of the Flame instead of the Molten Behemoths. I guess that’s better since I don’t have to watch out for their damn meteors.
But that didn’t stop me from exploring the Molten Front (the soloable half of the Firelands). There was this one achievement you can get without doing a daily, called “King of the Spider-Hill”. You go to Widow’s Clutch, shoot the spiders on a Q-Bert-like mountain who “help you up” by pulling you up to them so they can kill you. I had to ‘solo kill’ them, meaning my pet couldn’t assist due to how small the platforms are.
Once you get to the top, you get the achievement.
There’s also some new dailies in Mount Hyjal. One involves doing a past Hyjal quest of climbing trees and chucking stuck bears from them to the landing pad. Due to how new the quest is, almost all the trees were occupied by other players. But there’s a twist with this version of it. Instead of chucking a bear at the pad, you can chuck it at a sleeping Core Hound. This helps with the achievement “And the Meek Shall Inherit Kalimdor”.
Back on my live char, I decided to finally complete the “Trolls, Ogres, and Orcs, Oh My!” quest I had since I came back to WoW, which means soloing LBRS. Was a piece of cake. The quest giver, a red dragon in an Orc form, had two more quests that involved doing UBRS. I accepted them and did it too.
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During my UBRS run, I tried again for the “Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy!” achievement, based on the hilarious, yet old Youtube WoW video of a guy wiping out his group by running into the Rookery in UBRS and getting killed by the whelps. I’ve never attempted it as an 85.
I tried an idea. Gather up the whelps and let them attack me, let my pet attack one, Feign Death to get them off me, tell pet to Stay and stop attacking causing the whelps to attack my pet while I run back, and Multi-Shot them over and over. The first try I had 48/50. Seeing that I KNEW I could get this thing if I keep trying. And on the forth try… “You have earned the title Jenkins.” You could not tell how fucking THRILLED I was. I told everyone on my friends list, including Cooleow, who wanted me to help him get it.
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I tried to talk him out of it, while selling my shit in IF (originally after the run I was going to head to MT and try to get that Phoenix Hatchling from the final boss), telling him the whelps will be all over him like bees to honey. But he wanted to try, and I agreed. So I resetted the dungeon and we went in.
Again, it took four tries. He was getting impatient with me, but I told him to stay calm. And finally he too got it. But that didn’t end there. He wanted 280% speed training, and I agreed to pay for it as long as he pays me back. He agreed, but I didn’t know he would pay me back in small payments. Plus he wants me to remember how much he owes me. I could take advantage of this situation, making him think he owes me more than what he’s actually paying, but that would be wrong. I told him if he started questing in Northrend, he would get the money back. And of course it didn’t end there. He asked if I would help him. I agreed to that, and I shouldn’t of.
At first I thought he was just going to begin..questing, but it seemed he was just killing random hostiles for no reason, and wasting my time. He wasn’t even turning in any quests. Plus, how is he supposed to get to 80 with me helping him? I’m sucking his XP away. Finally though he had to go, and I was able to go back home.
I still need to do that MT run, but thanks to him.. I’m exhausted.