My quest for the Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement didn’t progress much yesterday, as I hit the Barrens and tried to scrounge up quests there. I found a few, but a couple of them involved tracking down rare monsters, and I spent quite a while running around and failing to find them. But, I did manage to find one of them when I logged on and checked just before work this morning, at least.

I also managed to get Chillmaw and the champion jousting in front of the Citadel done with some help from guildies, since there’s no way I was doing them on my own. That puts me at…about half the champion seals I need for a minipet…

I picked up quite a few quests for Zul’Farrak, so that’s probably what I’ll work on next.

After complaining about the difficulty in finding quests in Kalimdor yesterday, today they practically rained from the sky. I discovered that I’d left a fairly large chunk of Dustwallow Marsh unfinished, and by the time the evening was over, I’d done nearly 50 quests there. That puts me at just under 150 to go in Kalimdor now.

Hopefully some of the other zones there will have similarly pleasant surprises…

I’m kind of getting tired already of the Argent Tournament quests in WoW. Of the dailies available at the champion level, the jousting gets rather tedious since they take so long, Chillmaw needs a group, and the commanders by the Citadel are just too much of a pain in the ass to bother with. I can earn two Champion’s Seals per day at best, which means it’s going to take a long while to get the 120 needed for the top-end mounts, or even for the minipets that cost 40.

And to unlock the best rewards, I need to redo the Valiant quests for the other four city factions, which means even more jousting…

Oh well, at least I completed the Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms achievement today, after finding a lot more quests in Eastern Plaguelands. I also finished off the Explorer achievements for the Eastern Kingdoms. Next up: Kalimdor…

It was a long weekend, and I spent pretty damn near all of it in WoW, trying to get caught up. I did manage to hit level 80, a bit sooner than expected, and finished up the quests in the Zul’Drak and Sholazar Basin areas, also opening up the dailies there. We also did some more Utgarde Keep and Nexus runs, with it being my first time in the Nexus. We’re still a long ways from doing heroics, though.

And speaking of dailies, I should hit exalted with the walrus-guys in the next couple days, so I’ll be able to focus on other dailies instead. It takes a couple hours just to get through the current list of dailies, which gets a bit tiring.

I’m almost done with the Love Is In The Air event, with only a couple more achievements to go, but these ones require a fairly tough fight and entering places like Naxx, which I might not get to this year. The Lunar Festival event also started and I spent some time yesterday gathering the tokens for those, including in the Alliance home cities. I had a bit of trouble getting into Teldrassil for the elder there thanks to continually running into level 80s at the Darkshore docks, but I logged in before work this morning and managed to sneak in when no-one was around, and got the exploration achievement as well. I’ll have to do that again for the Draenei area, too.

Tonight I’d only intended to get halfway through level 76, since it’s a workday and time is limited, but I actually wound up making it all the way to 77. That, of course, was cause for celebration as I could finally pick up Cold Weather Flying. Having to ride on the ground around places like Grizzly Hills and Zul’Drak was driving me nuts.

Speaking of which, I finished off most of the rest of the quests in Dragonblight and moved on to Grizzly Hills, starting with the Hold in the west this time. I also popped into Zul’Drak briefly just to do the intro quests and open up the daily there, so I can start doing that.