It’s been raining all week and we didn’t really go outside, but at least yesterday felt somewhat productive.
Someone reminded me of the Mage Tower challenges and because I was curious and had time, I tried the Fury Warrior one, just with my normal iLvl 677 gear and none of the special pieces. Took about 90 minutes and I had it. Nice transmog. Then I tried the Guardian Druid one on my 640 Druid and got instantly smashed in the first 30s, repeatedly. But you get the Werebear Bear form and not just a transmog set, so I got to crafting and spent about 3000 or 4000 gold (in mats I laying around) to get 4 pieces crafted (Symbiosis weapon, Shoulders with a Writhing Armor Banding, and the Darkmoon Decks Symbiosis and Radiance). Took another hour and I got it down, after wiping repeatedly with just the first 3 pieces (and trying to save the 2k Radiance deck). But now I have that Werebear form.
I also got some of the Dragonflight (Emerald Dream) and TWW (Isle of Dorn) Skyriding achievements done and have positioned a character to continue. I’m not going for Gold (unless it’s easy), but for all Silver, which usually only takes one to three tries.
And then finally someone on Discord asked about Sulfuras and if it worked for Druids, so that reminded me I had started to collect the mats ages ago. Turns out I was missing some mats but this was a good opportunity. So I bought the remaining Dark Iron Bars (don’t have a char to smelt them and the savings would have been miniscule), and then the ugly part – transmuting 50 Arcanite Bars, which needs 50 Arcane Crystals, and those were 330g on the AH and I only had 14 saved up. So I bought a couple, transmuted, and hoped for procs. In the end I procced about 9, so had to buy 27. I guess in the end it cost me about 13k, and I needed to fly to Blackrock Depths to craft the Sulfuron Hammer on my Troll Warrior who knew the recipe (got an achievement), hearth back, put it in the bank, take it out on my Orc Shaman, use it with the Eye of Sulfuras she had banked, got the Legendary (and no achievement, boo) and now I have that 2h Mace Transmog. It still looks nice, better than the Firelands version.
Also the Darkmoon Faire started today, so that means 2 free profession skill points, which means I could finish up Blacksmithing and Enchanting just as it hit midnight, and I had put in some work into Leatherworking (94), Tailoring (90), and Inscription (90) – but not sure I will finish those to 98 with crafting orders this week. And I still have no Jewelcrafter on this server, just 26 on my Horde Paladin.