Almost 45, Stranglethorn Vale...Again

Last night was a pretty slow night, I didn’t even bang out a single level, so still stuck at 44. At 45 I get to upgrade my food again and can get that happy feeling of being 50% done with the 40s, but I was pretty tired last night and finished all but 1 ½ bars of 45, easily finishable tonight.

Possibly the highlight of the night was that I finally decided on a name for my Ravager. I decided on Gorefield, a decent play on words and really syncs with Caspurr nicely, two cartoon character names twisted to fit my pets. It was a toss up at first between Gorefield and Igore, but a decision was made.

I was worried that Stranglethorn Vale was going to be a nightmare again last night when I was collecting Skullsplitter Tusks (awful droprate btw) and a ?? Tauren Druid unstealthed behind me and one-shotted me. It is a long run through STV to your corpse and it made me mad having to make the run and I decided that I would return the favor and gank at least one horde before I left STV for the night. I got my chance when I was working on my last quest, Excelsior, to kill an Elder Saltwater Crocodile. I came across a 38 Troll Hunter heading out to the Mysterious Island, followed him and when I got close, unleashed Gorefield on him. +4 honor, mission accomplished.

To further lament on awful droprates, I felt like I was in droprate hell at times. First, collecting Skullsplitter Tusks (21% droprate), then Singing Blue Crystals (31% droprate), then Snapjaw Crocolisk Skins (28% droprate) and finally Mistvale Giblets (17% droprate) for one of the funnier quests, Scaring Shakey. If anyone is keeping score, that’s a 24% droprate overall, basically translating into killing at least four mobs for each quest item. It would be one thing if it were all rested XP, but I don’t ever seem to have any of that.

Enough of STV, next is Badlands.

42-44, Onyxia’s Lair and some PvP

Last night I finished up the Theramore quest lines including the Shady Rest Inn quest line and the Mudsprocket quests.

As I wrote yesterday, I was again wholly unimpressed with Mudsprocket as a town. That being said I did get to do the Onyxia’s Lair questline. Basically the Ogre in the Inn gives you some quests to kill dragonkin and suck their essences, then collect some dragon’s tail herbs and then purge some Ogre bones. The dragonkin killing quest also coincides with a quest to retrieve an Ogre banner from a cave. Ultimately you get to plant the banner in front of Onyxia’s Lair as a “challenge”. Unfortunately, or fortunately, Onyxia herself is too cowardly to come and accept your challenge and instead sends out a level 41 non-elite dragon to fight you. Needless to say, Bestial Wrath + Rapid Fire = Death. Caspurr tore through the dragon like there was no tomorrow.

Going back to the Shady Rest Inn quest line, which I had never completed before, you beat down some deserter leader who points the finger at another guard and then ultimately you are directed to the rogue Tauren tribe in the swamp as the culprits. In the end you torch their tents and report back to Theramore where the Captain asks you to lay a wreath at the tomb of the Hyal’s. Laying the wreath summons the wife and son of James Hyal (who has regressed into Smiling Jim) who thank you for pretty much getting revenge. Nothing like a revenge questline to tug at the heart strings.

I did also get a slight taste of world PvP yesterday.

The first was short and sweet. I was collecting dragonkin essences when a 40 Priest came into the compound, saw me attacking a dragonkin, Mind Blasted and then Flayed me. Before I could recover a Shadowmelded Night Elf Hunter popped up beside me and nuked down the Priest. I had no idea he was there but I thanked him profusely!

The second was a little longer, but while collecting some merloc heads for a quest (I think the Ogre you give them to eats them) I ran across a 38 Mage and 41 Warrior also doing the same quest. The Mage was AoE clearing them pretty impressively so I did a /cheer and /wave like I usually do and kept clearing merlocs. I saw that the Warrior was targeting me and figured I should get ready but he didn’t come at me until I was killing another merloc (cowardly). As soon as he charged and stunned me I spammed Freeze Trap and redirected Caspurr to the Mage who was hitting me with Frostbolts. I finally trapped the Warrior and popped Bestial Wrath but I was already quite low on health and died. That made me mad.

I immediately rezzed and corpse-ran back to the spot and made sure to pop back up behind a hill where they couldn’t see me. I ate/drank and waited for them to engage some merlocs then popped Bestial Wrath and Rapid Fire and sent Caspurr at the Mage. The Warrior charged me right as I dropped a Freeze Trap and I took a single hit, but trapped him. Then the Mage outfoxed me and Ice Blocked. Caspurr beat on him but I figured I was screwed and started to get out of there when the Warrior came out of the trap and stun/charged me. By now the Mage was out of the Ice Block and Caspurr shredded him. We both ended up dying at the exact same time.

I immediately rezzed again and corpse-ran back hoping to beat the Mage’s rez and sure enough, the Warrior was all alone. I didn’t even bother eating/drinking and just sent Caspurr in and popped Bestial Wrath. The Warrior didn’t last long. I made sure to /spit on his corpse before I swam off to do a different quest.

Ahh, the fun of a PvP server. I guess you never know who you will run across, but my demeanor is that I won’t start a fight, but I’ll try my hardest to finish it.

40 to 41, Arathi Highlands and Dustwallow Marsh

Back to leveling. I didn’t want to waste too much time in PvP because the goal of 60 is still a real possibility. I’m on a good pace and haven’t lost the leveling bug yet. I know I’ll lose it eventually.

In the past I had skipped most of the Arathi Highlands quests and all of the ones that take place in Stromgarde but this guide directed me to complete a good portion of them, including the Princess Trapped questline and the multiple “bosses” in Stromgarde. At one point I happened across a 39 Blood Elf Rogue trying to gank a fellow Alliance in Stromgarde so I jumped in and assisted, quickly dispatching the Rogue. I also came across a different 39 Blood Elf Rogue near the Air Elemental circle of binding who tried to gank me but I was a little quicker and got him first. Unfortunately I didn’t realize he would resurrect so close and he came back and ganked me while I was drinking. Oh well, chalk it up as a draw.

The Arathi quests easily got me 40 and then I moved on to Dustwallow Marsh and a multitude of quests I have never done before. I did the ones near Witch Hill which surprisingly rewarded a ton of experience. I killed a ton of Raptors and Grimtotem Tauren. One of my favorites was to collect some meat and then release it in the center of the Grimtotem camp and watch a horde of Raptors appear and fight the Grimtotem. Definitely a well thought out quest.

I ended the night with a few quests around the crashed Zeppelin and made my way to Mudsprocket. Along the way I dinged 41.

Arathi Basin, Arathi Basin and More Arathi Basin

Going into the 39 Bracket of Arathi Basin I was ready for disappointment because of my experience in the 29 Bracket getting dominated by Horde at every turn. What a pleasant surprise after the first game ended and the Alliance totally dominated the Horde and completed a 5-cap faster than I had ever seen before. I finished the “Capture” quest on the first match.

All the games after that went pretty much the same way with the Alliance completely dominating the Horde save for a few hiccups in games where people didn’t call out incomings, etc. I went from 10 Arathi Basin marks to 60 in a single day. My final record, 15 wins and 5 losses. This put me well above the goal of 50 Arathi Basin marks by 70 and is tempting me to collect the next 40 for the PvP Boots…maybe.

I’m speechless and a little hesitant to level to 40.

37 to 39, Desolace and Another Stranglethorn Vale Run

Time to kick it into overdrive, 39 is right around the corner and I’m dying to get back into Arathi Basin and see if the 39 bracket is better than the 29 bracket. I’m hearing good things from the people I come across.

Step one is Desolace and the various quests there, including my first reputation with the Argent Dawn. I got to do the Rackmore’s Treasure quests and surprisingly the two keys dropped almost immediately from the mobs. Per my guide I skipped one of the Centaur quests I’ve done in the past, to gain reputation with the Gelkis Centaur and instead just collected ears from any Centaur I came across. I also did the quests to save the two Night Elves in Thunder Axe Fortress, the escort is usually a pain, but seemed easier as a Hunter.

Before heading to Stranglethorn Vale I ran down into Feralas and grabbed the Flight Path from Feathermoon.

Back to Stranglethorn Vale and again constantly looking behind my back for that unseen ganker waiting to get me. This time I was able to grab a bunch of quests in Booty Bay including another “ear” quest. The Old World has a fascination with ears while Outlands has a fascination with poop quests…I can’t explain it either.

First off I cleared the stealthed Panthers for another mastery quest then cleared Goblins followed by Raptors and then Tigers before doing a turn in run at Nessingwary and getting the next round of mastery quests. From there I killed Sin’Dall and then heading to start collecting ears. There were a few Horde around so I headed into the temple complex and cleared for ears there before working my way down to the Basilisks and then popped a water breathing potion and started collecting fins from the Merlocs. In the past I’ve skipped the Merlocs because they all used to be elites, they aren’t anymore and the quest was pretty easy. The water breathing potion was a must. While collecting fins I also roamed around and collected Blue Pearls for a quest later in the Badlands.

Now for a big turning in Booty Bay followed by a run to Shimmering Flats to turn in a bunch of follow ups followed by a hearth back to Menethil Harbor and a flight to Southshore.

I cleared up the final few quests I had in the Alterac Mountains to ding 39 and ended the day by flying to Arathi Basin and getting the quest to Capture the Farm, Mine, Blacksmith and Lumber Mill. I then flew to Ironforge.

Tomorrow I head into Arathi Basin for some PvP.

35 to 36, Shimmering Flats and Dustwallow Marsh

Shimmering Flats is a great place to bang out a couple levels. The quests are tightly packed in together and can all be done just by doing one big circle around the zone. It’s all flat land too (it’s a salt flat that the Gnomes and Goblins race in) so nothing gets in the way when you are circling. I’ve got these quests down to a science too:

Saltstone Gazers and Crystalhides, then Scorpids, then Turtles and Saltstone Basilisks then finishing up with Scavengers all the while collecting Rocket Parts along the way. I dinged 35 about half way through.

Next up was Dustwallow Marsh, but not before grabbing the Flight Path in Gadgetzan and then flying there. I’ve never done any of the Dustwallow Marsh quests, so these were pretty new to me as well. All the quests took place in Theramore and included working on the Traitors and a “Propoganda War” and then finally killing Threshers for their oil to restart the lighthouse. I was surprised with the amount of experience I gained as I dinged 36 by the time I was done and prepared to head to Desolace.

33 to 34, Southshore, the Alterac Mountains and Another Stranglethorn Vale Adventure

First off, Southshore sucks on a PvP server. There is some unwritten law that Horde must attack Southshore and that Alliance must attack Tarren Mill and that both sides must enact revenge for the other side’s transgressions against said towns. Of course, when I arrived, a 70 Orc Shaman was busy destroying everything in Southshore, including any low level Alliance that landed via Flightpath or arrived via road…including me. But maybe it’s because I took a potshot at him. I never claimed to be smart all the time.

So I took a break for a little while.

Back at it in Southshore I did the couple quests there, including killing more Merlocs and then headed into the Alterac Mountains to do a couple Syndicate quests and to tame a Mountain Lion for a new rank of Prowl. Stupidly I turned off Prowl and since the pet never used it I never learned the new skill…again, today is stupidity day apparently.

Next I made my way back down to Stranglethorn Vale to finish up some mastery quests before getting ready to head to the easiest quest hub in the game, Shimmering Flats. I easily dinged 34 half way through the mastery quests my guide listed.

Next up Shimmering Flats and the racetrack.

30 to 32, Retribution Ganking, New Quests, Wetlands and Refuge Point

After the debacle in Arathi Basin I was more than ready to start leveling again and it took me back to Ashenvale to finish up the Rayne’s Cleansing quests and to a new quest hub I’ve never explored before: Forest Song.

Long story short, I finished up the Rayne’s Cleansing quest line up to where it rewards me with Dartol’s Rod of Transformation so now I can become a Furbolg at will. As I stated before, this is probably one of the coolest items in the game and a must have for any Alliance player. It still surprises me that a lot of people have never seen this item before and are shocked when you turn into a Furbolg. Now if only the Furbolg had some animations, no dancing, nothing cool.

Forest Song is a quest hub I have never explored before, I think it may have been beefed up before the Burning Crusade was introduced. The majority of the quests here had me dealing with demons near Felfire Hill and satyrs in the north, some of which I have quested through when leveling Horde toons on other servers. I also decimated the populace of the Warsong Lumber Camp across the way. My Ravager really enjoyed shredding through the mobs there.

I also had a chance to get a little retribution ganking in. While questing I was hassled by a couple Horde and one level 28 Orc Hunter in particular. He never got a chance to kill me, but to return the favor, when he was fighting the elite Hyppogryph for a Horde quest, I ganked the hell out of him. As I’ve said before, just leave me alone when I’m questing.

I finished up here and made my way back across the sea to Menethil Harbor and the Wetlands to finish up a few more quick quests including killing the Dark Iron Dwarves near the Thandol Span before I made my way to the Arathi Highlands and Refuge Point. Somehow I’ve gotten ahead of the guide in levels again and dinged 32 just getting to Refuge Point. The last thing I did was to sneak into Stromgarde and get the First Aid books needed to level my skill.

Next up is Southshore and the Alterac Mountains.

Arathi Basin

Wow. The Alliance really stink in the 29 bracket of Arathi Basin.

After losing 5 in a row, mostly to 5-caps, I just gave up. I’m sitting on 8 Arathi Basin marks, really earned the hard way and have no desire to go back in there until at least level 39.

It was really surprising how poorly the Alliance played. Specifically, not calling out incoming Horde, not asking for backup taking nodes and a general sense of noob players in there. Granted it is pretty easy nowadays to level to 29 but I had hoped a little bit of skill would follow people into the battleground.

As a test, I jumped over to my Horde Rogue, Stabberz, on the Twisting Nether server (it shares this battleground) and laughed as I rolled the same people who I was just playing against. At least Stabberz got 3 marks.

Tomorrow I go back to leveling and head to Astranaar again.

Warsong Gluch

This will be a rather boring entry. I spent all my playtime yesterday in Warsong Gulch acquiring marks. It was a 50/50 split in games it seems where we’d win a few in a row and then lose a couple, back and forth, back and forth.

No real highlights from the games, but I’m at 27 marks, just 3 shy of the 30 mark goal. I decided that I’d had enough for a while and will try out some Arathi Basin tomorrow and wait until 39 to work on the remaining 3 Warsong Gulch marks.

28 to 29, Skeletons, Zombies and Duskwood Ganking

Duskwood is located a little too close to Karazhan for my liking, especially because it is a contested zone. This basically means that at any time a Horde 70 can ride through town and gank you. Usually it is a Rogue and they are sneaking around picking people off on the rods. At 70 a Rogue can easily one-shot me. Proof? Ok, a 70 Undead Rogue named Roguerage was riding through, saw me and one-shotted me. At least he had a cool name.

In Duskwood my guide had me do a few of the longer quest chains here including the Worgen ones, the Telescope ones and the Stitches one. Unfortunately, the guide didn’t have me finish any of them. Maybe when I hit 70 I’ll go back and finish the Stitches quest at least since it’s funny to see Stitches come sauntering down the road.

For those who don’t know, there is a Hermit at the cemetery in Duskwood who has you get Ghost Hair, Zombie Juice and a number of other items, each time saying he needs it to do something for himself when in the end he is really creating a giant abomination named Stitches. After you get all his “ingredients” Stitches comes to life and heads down the main road, ganking lowbies as he goes, until a high level kills him or the guard finally do. It’s really funny the first time you see him because it’s scary as hell to see him coming down the road at you.

I also got the Morladim quest chain here, but again didn’t finish it. This is sort of a sad story about a warrior who heads to fight the Scourge and comes home many years later to find Duskwood changed to how it looks today and his home empty and family dead. He discovers their graves and begins to wildly beat on the tombstone with his sword when some gravediggers come along to help/stop him and in a blind rage he kills them. In despair he then takes his own life only to be resurrected as an undead Lich in the graveyard. The end of the quest chain has you destroy his undead body and then go find his only living child to tell her what happened and that he has been redeemed.

The good news is that while questing in Duskwood I dinged 29! That means time for some Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin over the weekend. I’ve decided that as soon as I ding 70 I want to be able to buy as many pieces of the Season 2 PvP set as I can and I’d rather not set foot in Warsong Gulch or Arathi Basin after level 70, because the Alliance really gets creamed in there and the honor gain isn’t as good as Alterac Valley (which I actually like playing). So this means 30 Warsong Gluch and 50 Arathi Basin marks before I can go back to leveling.

On to the battlegrounds!

26 to 27, Wetlands and Redridge.

I really enjoy coming across another Alliance killing skinnable mobs, looting them and then continuing on to the next one. I easily skinned 30 or 40 mobs while I followed one guy around and got a ton of free Leather to sell. Pownybank is starting to make some serious money on the Auction House these days. I’m well over 200 gold just from selling smelted Ore and Leather in stacks of 20.

I finished up my Wetlands quests quickly and made my way to Redridge to do some quick questing there. Really I was only doing the Blackrock Bounty quests and the Gnoll quests in the northern part of the zone. I came across a Druid who was also doing the Blackrock quests and we blitzed through the cave faster than I ever have before. We did the escort too, way too easily. I’m thinking they nerfed the Orcs a little bit because this was always a tough quest for two people because of all the mobs that spawn.

Next up were the Gnolls which I did solo and decided to push my luck a little bit and see how many mobs Caspurr could take at once. The answer is three with a fourth one trapped. I did have to stop and drink afterwards because I was usually out of mana, but Caspurr can really take a beating. I’ll experiment more on this later and see if I can get five or six at once.

For now I’m off to Duskwood.

24 to 25 and Wetlands

One thing I like about Wetlands is the abundance of skinnable mobs. From Raptors to Crocolisks to Whelps, there is a good chance of taking in multiple stacks of Light and Medium Leather…to sell!

Wetlands is also the only place that Alliance can buy the Minor Discombobulator schematic. Every chance I get I snatch this for a few silver and then resell it for anywhere from 10 to 15 gold on the Auction House. Taking advantage of the lazy is how I make my gold now.

While the Wetlands is full of quests, none are really memorable or stick out except for the expedition quests where they have you searching for artifacts and killing Raptors at the same time. I buzzed quickly through both 24 and 25 in the Wetlands before I called it a night.

Next I’ll finish up a few more in Wetlands before heading to Redridge for a while.

21 to 23, Caspurr and Astranaar

First things first, it was time to tame a Ghost Saber. The Ghost Saber is a spawned beast from clicking on Cat Statues in the northern part of Darkshore. It’s also a small chance that a cat will even spawn as most just give you a statue in your bag. They are scattered all over the place and on my fifth statue a Ghost Saber spawned. I immediately tamed it and fed it because if you don’t get it to happy quickly it will despawn and you will lose it. Needless to say, I got mine to happy, it despawned and I called it back. Pet tamed, now for a name. I decided on Caspurr because the Ghost Saber retains a ghostly appearance and you can see right through it in certain areas. A really cool feature.

Now I have two pets, a Ravager (still unnamed) and a Cat named Caspurr. I will leave the third slot open for future tamings to upgrade skills.

The rest of the night was just doing quests in Darkshore, like the Sleeper quest, where a Druid follows you and falls asleep occasionally and you need to ring a bell to wake him up. This quest brings you into Ashenvale and to Astranaar.

In Astranaar is the start of a long quest chain called Raene’s Cleansing. While this may just seem like an annoyingly long quest, at about ¾ of the way through you receive one of the coolest quest items ever created: Dartol’s Rod of Transformation. It turns you into a furbolg! I’m still a ways away from getting it, but this is a chain I will do regardless of whether my guide says to or not.

In Astranaar I also got my first taste of world PvP in the form of a few 70s Horde running around killing quest givers and us lowbies running around. I must have been killed four or five times last night, annoying when you are just trying to quest and level. Hopefully it doesn’t carry over from zone to zone. Stuff like this makes me long for 70 so I can go raid Splintertree Post.

I quested as fast as I could and now it’s on to Wetlands.

16 to 20 Time to Slaughter Blood Elves

I finished up all the quests in the third starting zone last night. There were so many in rapid succession that I was flying through them. I’ve also been amassing large quantities of Light Leather, Copper Ore and Stones. Surprisingly these are selling very well via the Auction House. The leather and ore (smelted into bars) are commanding between 1 and 2 gold and the stones 50 silver a stack. It just goes to show how inflated the economy of WoW is right now, and how lazy some people are that would rather just buy it than farm it like the old days.

There were a large number of quests involving Blood Elves in this zone. From the quests, they setup a portal on the island and are coming through it to invade and it was up to me to stop them. I got turned into a Blood Elf for one quest to interrogate a prisoner, used a flare gun to capture a high ranking Blood Elf (who is later executed) and went on killing sprees at various times. My hooves are soaked in the blood of a thousand Elves.

/dance

On to Darkshore, Darnassus and the other Night Elf zones.

11 to 15, Pets and More Starting Zone Quests

First off, the mask sold for 30g. I immediately decked both Powny and Pownybank out in some new 16 slot bags. This is good because I found I was dumping a lot of grey items before I could get to a vendor to sell them because my bags were full.

I did the Hunter pet quest today as well. It was the usual, tame three pets then you learn the skill, simple enough and means now I can grab a Ravager! They Ravagers are located at another crash site near the Furbolg cave. This will be my main pet for a while, at least until I can tame a Ghost Saber at level 20. I still need a name.

At level 12 I moved on to the third and final starting zone for the Draenai. This is a pretty large encampment north of the other starting zones and is filled with tons of quests. My guide says I will stay here until I hit 20, and by the sheer number of quests, I believe it.

6 to 10 Draenai Starting Zone Part Two

I finished the initial starting zone quests and headed off to the second starting zone where there is a larger settlement of crash survivors. There is also a Furbolg here which is truly confusing but I have to assume he is how the Draenai learned to be Shamen (a class I have never experimented with or tried).

There is also an encampment of folks from Stormwind along the coast led by an Odyseus, clearly stolen from Greek Myth. Gotta love when Blizz throws little things like that into the game for laughs. I also got to do a hilarious quest called Tree’s Company where I gathered a hollowed out log and a bunch of leaves and received a tree disguise in return. Then I had to go to an island and put the disguise on and listen in on a conversation between a renegade in Odyseus’ camp and a Goblin. Quite amusing and well thought out.

On my way back from this quest I was traveling along the road and got ambushed by a stealthed Blood Elf spy and he dropped the Blood Elf Bandit Mask! The reason this is so spectacular is that these easily sell for 20 or more gold on any server due to their rarity and being one of the only head items that are wearable at lower levels and are enchantable for twinks.

This reminded me that I need to create a bank alt. Done. Name: Pownybank.

Blood Elf Bandit Mask up for bid on the Auction House for 30g buyout. Fingers crossed.

2 to 5 Draenai Starting Zone

Again, I’ve never done this zone before so please bear with me if this is a little boring or something you’ve done before. I did really like the Gift of the Naaru quest where you have to go find a hurt crash survivor and heal them with the Gift. Just a cool way to introduce people to the ability (which I’m sure I’ll still forget to use all the time). Other than that the first five levels really flew by, just doing simple quest after simple quest.

I’ve made up my mind to learn Skinning and Mining as soon as possible and just try and make as much gold as I can. Once I hit 70 I can worry about choosing between Engineering, Leatherworking and Jewelcrafting as my main profession.

I also chose an all new UI to use for my toons. It is simple called Marydoll.UI and is downloadable on Curse. It looks like this:

Meet Powny

This is an offshot of my wildly popular Bzak's World (of Warcraft) blog that I started a while ago to follow the exploits of Bzak, a Dwarf Hunter on the PvE server Shadow Council.

Today I rolled a new Draenai Hunter named Powny on the PvP server Dark Iron. I chose Powny because it is a mix of Pony and Own and a little Pwn thrown in for good measure. It seemed to me to be the perfect name for a Draenai on a PvP server. They have hooves afterall. Also, Pwny was taken which was my first choice.

The alternate name I was going to use was Kyukyu (read QQ and think crying eyes for the forum virgins). I've saved this name as a level 1 in case I want to roll a Death Knight in Wrath of the Lich King.

This will mark the first time I've attempted to level a new Hunter. Bzak was my first toon ever on Shadow Council and I know my levelling choices were unorthodox because I was so new to the game itself. I have a lot more experience now and plan on working my way up the Beast Mastery tree once I hit level 10. More on that then.

As for now, I get to experience the Draenai starting zone. I've never been here before so the quests are all new and should provide a little excitement and newness to WoW.

It's also time to set some lofty (maybe) goals for where I want this toon to end up. I plan on workig my way up the Beastmastery tree all the way to 70. I hope to be 60 before I go away for vacation in late August and I hope to be 70 before Wrath of the Lich King is released. At 70 I would also like to be able to just grab the Season 2 Arena set. Finally, at 60 I want 1000 gold to be able to buy my Epic ground mount and at 70 I want another 1000 gold to be able to buy my Starter flying mount. After level 70 I want to quickly amass the 5000 gold for the Epic flying mount and then an additional 1600 gold for the Cenarion Expedition Hippogryph Epic flying mount. Again, some of these may be lofty, but I'm going to try my best to hit them all.

Stay tuned.