Comments on: Time Lost Opportunities

By: there’s no time like the present « Kamalia et alia

there’s no time like the present « Kamalia et alia — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:08:46 +0000

[...] BBB’s recent post on just going out and DOING the things that might seem impossible or like too much work reminded me that as long as I was just faffing around anyway, I ought to take Kamalia back to Dalaran to see about finding the last few books she needed for Higher Learning. [...]

By: errol

errol — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:47:21 +0000

I think I take a diffrent view then rest. I have been trying. To get the barons mount. In Strat too drop for years. Did it rarely for years but tried. Now with pandora comeing out. Iv been running 8 too 10 times a night for 3 months. Still no drop. If I get it off my huntards lucky run. I will never ride it. I want to earn it. Atm red protodrake main mount I ride I earned him. No tank bags nothing I got before Cat. Him I’m proud of. I never ride anything that drops from tank bags that cheating imo. Just a diffrent perspective. I’m tryin desperatly too get mount while it still kind of counts. And sorry typeing on black berry on train. Idk how too paragraph

By: Riegnman

Riegnman — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:02:41 +0000

I actually found a real fox kit the other day. Driving down the road and saw that someone had run over a fox. A friend ties his own flies and is always coveting some fox tail hair so I thought that I would stop and snip some off for him. I noticed that there was movement and didn’t want to grab an injured fox. I watched for a few minutes and saw that it was a baby. Strange time of the year for a fox to have offspring so young I thought. I called a friend with the dept of game and he said that if I’d bring the kit to the local animal shelter he would pick it up and make sure that it was sent to the proper place for relocation when it got old enough. I threw my emergency blanket over it and put it in a box. It never even so much as growled.
It does, however, put a new spin on what I was doing while killing all of those foxes so that I could steal their baby.
Oh, and I got most of the foxes tail hair too. Does that make me heartless?
:-/

By: Clapus

Clapus — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:43:58 +0000

Spotted Aeonaxx today while on an alt without fast flying. He was out of sight so fast. Logged back on and never saw him after a 2 hour search. Lost opportunities!!!!!

By: Dtr

Dtr — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:58:43 +0000

The way stuff is in beta right now, you can actually “cage” pets that you have and sell them. As far as I can tell, MOST pets are no longer “bop”, so you might be able to cage and trade your friend that fox kit in MoP! A little delayed, but still =)

By: Fangtastic

Fangtastic — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:02:27 +0000

I went farming for embersilk cloth in TB to make bags for some alts… killed every fox I saw. The Fox Kit dropped off the 15th kill… I hope the rest of you interested in it get lucky soon too.

By: Matty

Matty — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:05:40 +0000

I am coming back again and again to my essential question of “Why?” And, I do not mean in terms of “why” in a snarky, defensive, or apathetic sour-grapes thing, but if I want something, I ask why–and if the answer is it goes along with the story in my mind, a narrative I’m scripting out for those dorky Draenei girls, then it’s worth the time. The other day a very sweet friend was looking for the fox pet, and he said he was trying to surprise me with it–I almost didn’t have the heart to tell him it’s soulbound. And today, one of my most favorite people in the world offered to help me get a rare pet on my hunter, “just because.” I look for mounts for my priest, a terrible shadow priest, because they look pretty when they’re in shadow form. The second, the instant, any of this becomes tainted by jealousy or disgruntlement, I try to take a BIG step back, because heaven knows those emotions are evoked all too often, and are honest emotions. I suppose that’s my MO though – hate to be competitive, and if I can’t inspire myself, I’ve already lost. I admit to feelings of entitlement on occasion, though. I think because I am a huge fan of Washington Irving, somehow I “deserve” the Headless Horseman’s mount, or some such nonsense. Paradoxically, the intangible treasures are the most real.

By: Jem

Jem — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:38:29 +0000

The time involved can be a little daunting but like everything, you have to give it a try and see at what point patience runs out. I remember getting the white hawkstrider mount from MgT and being annoyed as all hell because I only wanted the phoenix pet <.<

Some of my guildies have extremely good luck, the devil's own luck. One of them the other night nabbed the Baron's mount from Stratholme, and announced proudly it took him all of 8 runs (he'd gotten the Settek Halls mount earlier int he week). Eight runs…I find it harder to be happy for people with that kind of luck.

I think to continue to enjoy a game like WoW, you need to find your own fun in the little things. The sense of accomplishment from getting a title, mount, pet etc can't be created by Blizzard. They give things to aim for, how much it motivates people to try varies. In some ways I'm not looking forward to accountwide achievements because it means I have no interest in doing some repeat content on my alts. This is the first year I haven't done the fire festival stuff, because there's literally nothing left for me, since all my toons will have the stuff I care about come MoP. On the other hand, I've become more interested in things like the mount achievements, because I have unique mounts on a number of toons – I get each alt something special that is 'theirs'. So now, I can run TB dailies on one toon for the mount, and it counts towards all of them. I'm more inclined to pvp on multiple toons as well now due to the HK aggregation in MoP.

By: Ngita

Ngita — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:16:57 +0000

I am as guilty as you suggest on the fox kit, on the other hand, 14k fish and counting and no sea turtle. Mind you, you would be surprised at how quickly 3 tokens for the weekly win told barad +3 tokens for actually winning add up to pet+mount +0.2 of a mount so far, i barely touched the dailies a year ago but I am pretty regular about completing the weekly.

By: Anj

Anj — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:16:11 +0000

Great article and grats on all the finds! (Plus you have inspired me to take up Archeology again.)

Looks like you’re ready for the Time-Lost Proto-Drake and his buddy the Phosphorescent Stone Drake. :)