I just did the round of dailies in WoW today, not even reaching the ones in Icecrown, but I did hit Honored with the Sons of Hodir and that unlocked…two more dailies I can do for them.

At least they’re not the usual collect-‘n’-items quests though, and one of them is fairly tough. You have to tag a flying drake with a spear, and then once you’re pulled on it you have to keep stabbing it while dodging its attack and keeping your grip meter up, using a set of vehicle-like hotkeys, and then after that there’s a second stage where you have to pry its mouth open and go in for the killing blow.

It took me numerous tries to get past the first stage, and if you fail there you get to plummet to your death a long ways below, and usually in an inconvenient spot. I think I’ve finally gotten the hang of it, but the second stage feels like it depends on luck too much. If you take the time to pry the mouth open the maximum you can, you still only have a 50% chance of landing the killing blow, and by this point you probably only have enough health left for one or maybe two shots at it. I wound up spending at least half the reward money on armour repairs…

One more day until I can make my Titansteel mace. I panicked a bit when I started reading some discussions about good tanking weapons, but after reading some more, there isn’t really a true consensus against it and a lot of people seem to do just fine with it, so I’ll stick with making one. It’s a huge increase in DPS over my current weapon anyway, if nothing else.