Alright! The good news is: I got my violet proto drake! I had to disable all my add-ons and tone my graphics down to the lowest setting to get my latency down far enough to even attempt Torch Juggler in Dalaran. I even took Leralie up to the tower that you can only get to via getting Higher Learning achievement – though I have heard going to the sewer pipe entrance/exit works as well. It took me several tries where I would get to 37 torches when the timer ran out and I finally, in a fit of rage, just mashed keys until the achievement finally popped. I’m not very proud of losing my temper but I was pretty giddy afterward when I was riding around on my drake!
Now, the Fire Festival is a nifty holiday with its seasonal boss. He’s not really hard and I can see how the change to the holiday boss drop mechanics does minimize a lot of headaches on Blizzard’s part. You get a chance at your bag of frosty crap which will contain at least 2 badges with a possibility of something extra special. Its still RNG based and this is all well and good…
To start with, I currently have four level 80 characters (though my little hunter is slowly creeping up there):
Lerali, my warlock, is currently being neglected with the exception of the holiday stuffs going on. I have ran Ahune nearly every night and she has managed to snag a cloak and the scythe but no enchant or pet. She is my achievement, pet and mount collector.
Haitia, my druid, is seeing more action being a healer/dps and all but after a week, she finally got the scythe (and a cloak – you can’t miss getting a cloak of some kind from this holiday…) which is an upgrade for her – dps and healing wise. But, again, no pet. Haitia was my original pet collector…
Leralie, my pally tank, has farmed Ahune every night for the tanking cloak. It hasn’t dropped. At all. In over a week. She does have the dps cloak as I was able to shift around some of her gear to still stay def capped. But still! I have only seen the tanking cloak drop once (and I was on Haitia, at the time)! I didn’t really care if Leralie got the pet… and she got the pet…
You know who else got the pet?
Ophélia. The one toon I don’t really collect pets on, got the pet. She got the scythe too but she has a better staff from ICC10 that is actually a dps staff. She got the enchant as well and several other cloaks but, again, she has a better cloak.
Argh…
Why?!
