There I stand in the murky waters of Orgrimmar having just fished up Old Crafty. I’ve got the rascally little devil in my off-hand.

And yes, that’s my pet chicken swimming under water.

It took me two sessions to fish up Old Crafty. In total, I caught 132 fish before earning the achievement. The drop rate is supposed to be much lower than that, so I’m assuming I got really, really lucky.

In the interest of my own sanity, I’ve picked up an old warrior alt named Fengdu (that’s his ugly mug to the left). My plan is to treat Fengdu quite differently than Hynjoku. If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you probably know that the point of Hynjoku was to experience as much content as possible. After leveling 2 other toons to 70, I felt like I had skipped a lot of the game for the sake of leveling quickly.

That’s not the case with Fengdu, though. My plan is to get this guy to 70 as quickly as possible and to focus on PVP entirely. If I never tank an instance, I don’t care. If I don’t max out all the reputations, no big deal.

Fengdu is all about the PVP. Let’s see how it goes.

Unfortunately, I’ve fallen into a bit of a rut with this. Every night I usually do the daily PVP quest, daily Cooking quest, and the Skyguard dailies.

This leads to an interesting tangent: Why do the Sha’tari Skyguard daily quests?

The most obvious reason is to gain access to the [Skyguard Silver Cross], which would be tons of fun in PVP. Other than that, though, I’m not too interested in the other rewards. I’m not a big fan of the flying nether rays and probably wouldn’t ride one, given the opportunity.

For me, the Skyguard dailies are a nice source of income. I especially like camping one of the Skyguard Prisoner spawn points, and keeping the area clear until he shows up. Just doing the Skettis-based Skyguard daily quests can easily result in 50+ gold.

Anyway, the original point of this post wasn’t to talk about the Sha’tari Skyguard, but I guess I’ll have to get back to my rut discussion next time.

Happy Hunting!

A few weeks ago, she achieved a big milestone and reached level 40. For some reason, I completely forgot to blog about it!

Anyway, here she is, exploring Ironforge at Mechanostrider-speed!

Full power to the engines, Mr. Sulu!

Something wonky has been going on with the WoW Armory lately. For some reason, Hynjoku’s data has been unavailable for about a week. I first noticed this problem on someone else’s character, and thought it was because they had just started playing the character again after a long layoff. Now it’s happening to Hynjoku and I play every day (mostly)!

I’ll admit I haven’t been to the forums where I’m sure there’s some long post about this with calls for blue response, blah blah blah. But heck, I don’t care! I’ve got a web site, and I’m gonna moan and groan about it!

Ha!

Happy Holidays from the entire Hynjoku family.

I’ve spent the last few weeks PVPing pretty hard, and recently purchased my [Gladiator's Chain Helm].

But as I was wracking up the honor in Alterac Valley this weekend, I started to question all the time I was putting into PVP. All of my real life friends and family that have recently started joined the game are playing on the Alliance side. What’s the point of putting so much focus on an unguilded character when all the folks I want to play with are on another server in a different faction?

So, I made the executive decision last night to focus more attention on my dwarf hunter. That means that, at least for a while, I’m going to be less Hynjoku Horde Hunter, and more Hynjoku Hunter of Horde. It’s not a decision I’m totally comfortable with, to be honest, but it is what it is.

Any thoughts? If so, leave a comment.

Once Hynjoku hit level 70, I decided it was time to spend a little money on some decent gear. If you’ve followed this site for any length of time, you’re aware that I’m trying to experience all the game content I can on this toon. Thus, I’m level 70 but still finishing up quests in Nagrand. Here’s what I bought at the auction house recently.

• [Breastplate of Rapid Striking] – I got this item (and most others on this list) for less than 50G. The +AGI, +AP, and +hit of this item are really nice compared to the drops and quest items I’ve gotten so far.
• [Crystalhide Handwraps] – This was my big ticket item, costing right around 300G. After surveying all the glove items I could get reasonably, I decided this would last me long enough to make the 300G loss more than reasonable. I added two +6 AGI gems ([Delicate Blood Garnet]) for less than 4G each and a +26 AP enchant.
• [Crystalforged War Axe] – Again another common drop that ended up costing me less than 50G. The +80 AP translates to an additional 5 DPS, which is nice for maintaining that sustained ranged DPS that defines the Hunter class.
• [Valanos' Longbow] – Once again, a fairly common drop. This one cost me less than 50G, as well. I picked this up mainly because it was the highest DPS ranged weapon available to me and was significantly better than my [Ethereal Warp-Bow].

And there you have it. The whole lot cost me less than 450G, and 300G of that was tied up in one epic item. At the end of the day, I’ve still got 2500G saved up, so I don’t feel I’ve been set back too much.