I think that the image on the left says it all. After a long time of playing WoW, and competing in the tournament for quite a long time (with a lot of quite long breaks in the meantime), I finally won the STV fishing tournament. Since it was Noblegarden, I figured that most of the players will be chasing the eggs and making love with their rabbits, so it would be a nice time to try. And they sure did – there were significantly less players there than on the earlier Sundays, both the Horde and the jerk Alliance.
I have to say that I loved the excitement of getting over 30 fish, then racing around with 38 of them, then trying to hearthstone to Booty Bay, dying to a horde shaman (/wave Laemporio), and finally getting a spirit res and racing on the mount to the quest giver – just to be a few seconds faster than some other horde. This isn’t a raid, this isn’t a hard mode boss kill, but this excitement is really really awesome. Now I only need some kind of rare fish for my Salty title, so I will probably spend the rest of the day fishing in Howling Fahjord.
Earlier this day I did almost every achievement of Noblegarden. We had a group of guildies doing it from midnight to 4 – 5 in the morning, and some of them got lucky, so they got their titles a bit earlier. I just couldn’t find a dwarf female anywhere, so I decided to grab some sleep, and I found one easily enough after I finally got up. I liked this event – it was fast and very fun, and the designers really did a good job with reducing the amount of random drops that you need to do the achievements. If you’re not lucky, you could save some hundreds of chocolates and buy all the stuff you need, which is so much better than Valentine’s Day random drops of randomness. I was a bit worried about it finishing after the Children’s Week starts, but it’s not that much of a problem.
And yesterday, my luck kicked in for the first time, which you can see from the above screenshot as well. We went with a group of guildies into 25-man Ulduar to kill some trash mobs and get the Heroic: Dwarfageddon done, and after that one of the mages asked us to go to Zul’Gurub to finish off his exalted reputation. Sure, why not. So we go in, kill every boss there is (you don’t need a healer there anymore if you have the superior firepower of 2 mages, a warlock, a fury warrior and a rogue ;] ), and from the tiger boss drops a mount. And I rolled the highest on it!
I will now have to go with them for every ZG run they do in the future, but I don’t really mind. The red kitty is totally worth it.
And now, Howling Fahjord, here I come. Anyone wants a few hundreds of herrings?
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Congrats! To this day, winning the STV fishing tournament is one of my proudest WoW moments. And to top it off, I have not seen anyone else with the Salty title in Dalaran.
Thanks :]
The Salty title is pretty unique on my server as well – so far I’ve seen just a few people with it.
And yeah, I totally understand the thing with the proudest moment. We might kill bosses and stuff, some might do world or server firsts… but winning the tournament feels even better. :]