Glory Of The Hero

Over the course of the last few weeks, I’ve been devoting almost all of my playing time towards finishing up the rather daunting, to me at least, Glory of the Hero achievement. I’m proud to say that as of last week I wrapped up the last few required achievements needed and now I’m flying around on the fancy Red Proto-Drake you see above.

I wanted to write a short post about the individual achievements we struggled with the most so that anyone else thinking about taking a run at this has a basic idea of the challenges ahead of them.

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Quick Impressions Of Patch 3.2

I managed to get the patch yesterday on my Mac with little difficulty so I was able to jump right in as soon as Greymane was up and check things out. Here are my impressions of Patch 3.2 after a few hours of play.

Champion’s Seal Loot

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Reins Of The Bronze Doh…

I ran Heroic Culling of Stratholme for the second time ever the other day. Tthe idea of trying the timed run was tossed out as we were all getting ready to head inside. I had never made an attempt at that before, and no one was particularly serious or gunning for it, but a few minutes into the actual run it was pretty clear we at least had an outside shot of completing it. We stepped up our efforts a bit and with decent DPS and excellent tanking and heals we did very well.

With about two minutes to go on the timer we sprinted to the end just in time to take on and take out the Infinite Corruptor for the Culling of Time achievement and the chance to roll on the Reins of the Bronze Drake. The resulting Need roll by everyone in the group is posted above. As you can tell, it was a heartbreaker for yours truly.

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One More Mount For The Week

I was minding my own business today, running some Argent Tournament dailies, when a tweet from Danial at Less QQ, More PewPew caught my eye. He mentioned getting the Ambassador title on his character and I immediately realized that since I recently got that title as well I now had enough Exalted reputations to finish the Leading the Cavalry achievement.

It turns out this achievement is painfully easy to complete once you have Exalted reputation with the five main cities of your faction. Before I got started I only had 21 out of the 50 mounts I needed to complete the achievement and get the Reins of the Albino Drake reward. A few quick trips to each Horde city and I was buying up 8 and 80 gold mounts left and right. I had to finish up in Nagrand, of all places, to buy a few Talbuks and I was done.

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My Mysterious Egg Stops Making Omelets

One of the first things of any note that I did shortly after Wrath launched was hit exalted with the Oracles so I could start purchasing the Mysterious Egg every week. I reached Exalted back when the White Tickbird Hatchling was selling for 250 gold and not the 30 gold it goes for today. So I’ve been buying these damn Mysterious Eggs for a long, long time and today it finally paid off.

Today’s egg, once cracked, revealed the loot I’ve wanted from the start: the Reins of the Green Proto-Drake. Now I can stop this senseless and drawn out process of weekly disappointment. I still haven’t gotten a Proto-Drake Whelp to drop but I might just bite the bullet and buy one off the Auction House.

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White Polar Bear Mount & More…

After loyally, day after day for weeks and weeks, running the daily quest in the Storm Peaks that gives the Hyldnir Spoils I finally got the Reins of the White Polar Bear to drop for me. Hallelujah! Now I never have to do any of those monotonous dailies there ever again in my life.

WIth my notoriously, and possibly self-imagined, bad luck with WoW loot a mount drop like that would normally be enough to make my day…

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Problems Claiming the Swift Zhevra Mount

This is just a quick tip for anyone having problems claming their Swift Zhevra mount from the Recruit-a-Friend screen at the official WoW site. I had seen a blue post on the official forums a few weeks ago about there being problems but never saw a follow up.

When you’re eligible to claim the mount a small icon will appear next to the account you are linked with. Clicking on that icon will bring you to a screen asking you to select your server. After that, a list of your characters on that server will appear along with a button that, supposedly, will send the mount to that character when you click on it. Unfortunately, whenever I clicked on that button the screen would refresh and nothing happened.

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Exalted with the Wyrmrest Accord

Smart hunters would probably use the new Championing system to grind reputation for gear upgrades from the Argent Crusade and the Knights of the Ebon Blade as soon as possible. Not me, folks. I was working for the Wyrmrest Accord from the second I bought their tabard.

Finally, this morning all of those Heroic runs paid off in the form of my very own Red Drake as seen above. This is, hands down, my favorite mount I’ve ever had. It’s actually so cool I’m thinking about finally dropping Engineering since the only reason I went with it in the first place was for the Turbo-Charged Flying Machine.