Mojo

MOJO! I have the world's most awesome friends. Not only did they come to Zul'Aman to help Thul and I bang the gong for entry, but they stuck around and helped us clear the whole place. A bunch of us got the Zul'Aman Achievement.
And I netted 10 Hex Sticks.
The 9th stick brought forth my Mojo. <3

Lil' Game Hunter

Lynxr earned the "Lil' Game Hunter" Achievement today for having 75 vanity pets. The reward is this cute little fawn. I'm calling her Bambi.

Rat!

YEAH! Lynxr just fished up her Giant Sewer Rat from the sewers of Dalaran! And earned the "I Smell A Giant Rat!" Achievement.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I was so excited to find them in Dalaran! I took my new rat to meet them. My new rat's name is Splinter. I'd love to see Baro try and whack this rat with his hammer... not only is he large enough to knock you over and then chew off your face, but he also knows kung fu!

Better than average luck... only took me about 500 casts, although it felt like forever. This is Lynxr's 74th minipet. I'll be hunting for the Mechanical Chicken over the next few days so I can nab that new pet Achievement and the adorable fawn.

Kirin Tor Familiar

I win! "Higher Learning" and the Kirin Tor Familiar are mine. I can stop living my life in 3 min/3 hour blocks of time.

This was a fun achievement to do. Maybe because it appeals to the obsessive part of my personality. I began my quest to become a scholar of the magical arts five days ago. I followed the wonderful guide on warcraftpets.com to learn the book spawn locations and how to time the spawns. I did a mixture of camping and pathing though the city, trying to gather as much info on spawn times as possible, and then camping when I knew the schedules.

The achievement was fun because I made a lot of new friends, chatted with a lot of random people. Misery loves company, right? The spawn points were almost never lonely. I made a few Alliance buddies--a cute Gnome and a less-cute Dwarf--and we exchanged many /dance, /hug, /sigh, /cry, and /comfort over the days. I met several helpful Hordies, with whom I exchanged information about spawn times, altered to books that I saw spawn ("get to Ledgermain Lounge upstairs NOW! BOOK!"), shared tips, and celebrated our victories. All in all, it was a much more interesting way to farm a vanity pet than to spend endless hours fishing or slaughtering mobs.

My goal is to have 75 vanity pets on Lynxr before the new patch hits. There will be a new Achievement with the patch--75 vanity pets wins you an adorable baby deer. I need 4 more pets. They will most likely be the Tranquil Mechanical Yeti, Mechanical Chicken, Mechanical Squirrel, and Tickbird Hatchling... unless I get really lucky and manage to fish up that Giant Sewer Rat, or Muckbreath, or Mr. Pinchy. My original plan was to NOT collect any of the mechanical minipets, and a lot of the non-animal-like ones (like the Christmas gnome helpers, the ghostly skull..), but I've had to sacrifice my standards in order to ensure that I'll be getting my little fawn on patch day.

Phoenix

A few of Lynxr's most recent Achievements. She earned "Critter Gitter" (which she prompty followed with "Friend or Fowl?".. mwuaha), as well as "For The Horde!" which earned her a black bear to ride on.

Most importantly, she got the Phoenix Hatchling that she's been after since Magister's Terrace was first released. It was getting a bit depressing, the number of times we've killed Kael and never seen it drop... Once we hit 80, Thulgasta and I began 2-manning MrT on a near-daily basis for several days. We got into a rhythm and were able to clear the place in about 25 mins. Finally, Kael dropped my wonderful flamey baby bird! This is one of my favorite pets, she's just so lovely.

Lynxr Dings 80

Lynxr dinged 80! Thulgasta, my photographer, lagged out right as I engaged the boss... this was a problem because if I killed him, I wouldn't get a ding shot, and if I ran away, he would eat the Troll. So I kited him around the cave for a good 5 minutes while Thul rebooted his computer. Entangling Roots ftw. :)

Lynxr dinged 80 on December 5, 2008.

Lynxr's adventures in Northrend

Just a few of my favorite moments from Lynxr's early questing in Northrend. She's mostly focused on Howling Fjord (it's beautiful!), though she did some of the Borean quests as well. She's been questing daily for the Kalu'ak to get enough rep for Pengu, the baby demon penguin. I've found most of the Northrend quests to be delightful--compared to classic WoW and BC, the quests tend to be a lot more creative and interesting, and often involve something beyond a simple "kill X number of mobs" or "collect X number of drops off the mobs." Wotlk is fun! Lynxr dinged to level 76 yesterday.