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Warcraft Wednesday: Stalled at 80

Last time I mentioned that my brother and I hit level 80 during the Sons of Hodir quests in the Storm Peaks.  Well, we’re still pretty much exactly where we were since then.  I’ve raised all of the Alliance race reputations to Exalted except Gnomeregan (stupid gnomes) and purchased each of their mounts.  I think Blizzard removed the race restrictions on mounts in order to help players get the mount collector achievements.  My brother got the Albino Drake from the 50 mount achievement, and he and I both purchased the Artisan riding skill.  I only have the normal fast gryphon, but I’m working on getting some other mounts – including a Flying Carpet.  Now it’s a little bit quicker to get around in Northrend, as we can avoid using the flight paths that go way out of the way to get to some places.

Faster mounts have helped to do the various dailies that I’ve been doing instead of progressing through the rest of Storm Peaks and Icecrown.  I did the Frenzyheart dailies in Sholazar Basin until I got the achievement for doing all eight of them at least once – there are only three of them each day, with two of them picking from seven different quests.  Once I got that achievement, I switched over to the Oracles by killing Artruis the Heartless again.  Now I’m doing the dailies for the Oracles in hopes of getting a Green Proto Drake from the Mysterious Egg.

As for the other dailies that I’m doing, I do the Sons of Hodir dailies (I’m almost to Revered with them), the daily for K3 with the land mines, and the Hyldnir daily.  Speaking of the Hyldnir daily, Sunday I managed to pick up the Reins of the White Polar Bear from that, which is a pretty rare drop.  Even though that’s really the only item benefit from that daily, it’s easy enough that I’ll continue to do it for the gold reward.

If I find any free time this weekend I’ll probably try to do some actual questing – I’d like to advance in the story.