Owlbeasts can swim…. who knew?

While we were a little surprised that once the lure was baited, the boss was immediately summoned, after a somewhat confusing battle, we were able to down Gahz’ranka within a few minutes. We were a little unprepared for the battle and there were a few tense moments, but, down he went. We did also kill one of the Priestesses which went pretty well.

I went to the western ramp out of the lake under the bridge and mounted up near the Alliance Shaman Trainer. From there, I went up the earthen ramp, across the bridge, through the Trade Quarter, through Old Town, made a wrong turn almost into Stormwind Keep, turned back around and went into the Dwarven District and into the Deeprun Tram. I was not dismounted, ran through a number of non-pvp flagged alliance. The guards did attack a number of times, but, I kept running until I zoned into the Deeprun Tram.

Once I entered the Deeprun Tram, it was a few seconds before I was able to get on one and on my way to Ironforge I went. I didn’t really expect a lot of resistance once I got into Ironforge, but, I kept my armor on expecting that I would probably kill a guard or two if needed and would rather stay alive than take a durability hit. I brought two guards with me, and rather than run past the Forlorn Pool decided to kill them. I tried Feign Death which released one guard, leaving me with a level 75 guard to kill. He wasn’t much of an issue.

Throughout my fishing, I was greeted (or ignored) by a Fiti who fished a little in the pool while I was there. A gnome Death Knight, Rokubx rolled around me with Path of Frost up but, left me alone to continue fishing.

Several other Alliance waved, or walked by without noticing me. However, Malthias did kill me and started fishing there for a while. Rather than get killed, I logged out and came back after the Battle for Wintergrasp.

One time when I zoned in, two Horde were also fishing there. Jerrod, an orc hunter and a death knight friend of his were fishing. Jerrod got Old Ironjaw in roughly 145 casts he estimated. I was already at 800 casts when he left.

After a total of 894 casts, [Old Ironjaw] was mine.

Not that I have that many achievements complete for the Salty Title, but, one of the hardest ones to obtain is now out of the way.

Herbskinner and Qwaitxnine were in Borean Tundra responding to a Rogue/Pally that were ganking in the Coldrock Quarry. Dkhealer didn’t appear to be questing at the time and appeared to mostly be a pocket healer for Istabu. After a few deaths, they called in an 80 gnome rogue named Wulf. That went on for a while until it was time for Wintergrasp and we left.

Cdthirtyfive just happened to be questing and saw a battle at Granite Springs in Grizzly Hills and hugged Danknug.

I’ll miss my old Beast Mastery build.

I paid my 1G to respec and came up with this Survival/Hybrid 12/8/51 build

What ended up happening is a rather dramatic increase in attack power, damage, at the cost of some attack speed. Granted my gear is quest greens/blues, in some quick testing against the test dummies, I can see some real promise.

Its possible I’ll respec a few times to come up with a build that gives me good solo viability, but, I figured I would try this one for a few days.

Herbskinner, Cdthirtyfive and Qwaitxseven finally got the last daily cooking quest to complete the ones for Our Daily Bread.

Cdthirtyfive is sitting at 447 cooking. So far [Cuttlesteak] is the least expensive cooking recipe that is still green in the 440s. I have been making [Gigantic Feast] but they are quite expensive in terms of mats.

It has resulted in a number of saves.