Bear Essentials

Ding: 78.

Achievement: Fo' Grizzle My Shizzle.

I also completed Explore Grizzly Hills, netting me the Explore Northrend achievement. I got Tabard of the Explorer in my mailbox, as a reward.

If I can finish off Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor, I will get both a World Explorer achievement and a title: the Explorer.

Next stop: Zul'Drak. Maybe. It depends on whether I am able to handle those undead mobs in Icecrown now that I am 78. >.<

Whatever happens, I will clear every zone before I am happy. I'm in no hurry to do it; but I will do it.

Gaiwyn of Proudmoore

Herbalism: Levelling Without Levelling

Ok, so you rolled a Death Knight and want to level a gathering profession. Namely: Herbalism, because it complements Inscription nicely, right?

It essentially breaks down like this:

1. Pick up Herbalism from a trainer.


2. Get Herbalist's Gloves, enchanted with Advanced Herbalism.


3. I recommend installing the Cartographer and Outfitter addons.


4. Start in Elwynn Forest and run around, gathering lowbie herbs.


5. Elwynn Forest > Trainer: Journeyman > Westfall > Redridge Mountains > Stranglethorn Vale > Trainer: Expert > Stranglethorn Vale > Swamp of Sorrows > Hinterlands > Trainer: Artisan > Hinterlands > Felwood > Azshara > Outland + Trainer: Master

Equip the gloves whenever a herb is within ten levels but still out of reach -- here is where OutfitterFu comes in handy. Follow the herbs on Cartographer (filter in only the ones you are working on), making circuits around each zone, as thoroughly as you can. It takes a long time to raise your skill, but I got exploration achievements for every zone while herb grinding.

Stick with it and you will raise your skill from 1 to 300 in 5-10 hours. It takes longer to fully explore all the zones for achievements -- especially Azshara!

Gaiwyn of Proudmoore

Achieving More

I had problems with the game and had to download the client, reinstall it from scratch and get all of the patches from 2.3.x onwards. What a mission!

I'm back in-game now, though and it appears that Hallow's End has started. The festival will run until Halloween itself. That's plenty of opportunity to get the Headless Horseman's Mount. Can you imagine flying around on this baby? :o

I continue to strive towards various Achievements. My current goal is to finish 700 Eastern Kingdoms quests for the Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms Achievement. I am currently 227 quests shy of achieving this. Suffice to say, it will be a long time before I grab this particular Achievement. However, in doing a whole lot of quests, I will no doubt get closer to my goal of becoming Exalted with every Alliance city. ;)

Gaiwyn of Proudmoore