Year 3 - Mount Obessions of 2010!

Be afraid, be very afraid.  Continuing through the past, 
here is a look back at 2010's madness where I had to have even more mounts.  

I had already hit my 50 mark but I had to have more <3

From hippogriffins...

 To even more wolves and raptors...

 

To the epicness of motorcycles & sparkly ponies...

 

 To bears and knight ponies, oh my...

To the delight of rares and faction love <3

And back to hunting stories after these messages, I promise :)

Year 2 - Northend Take 1 2009

Continuing through the past, still finishing up 2009. 
Wrath finally hit and to Northend I went.

 

I took my time coming into the Wrath expansion.  After creating my DK for kicks and giggles, I then returned to my beloved hunter to start exploring the icy new lands that opened up before us.  

I loved the quests and doing the odd jumping off really high things to see if I could live through it :)  just the views were worth the damage.

Virus, my stead fast (and rather sexy green) spiny raptor came along with me.  I'm sure he wasn't thrilled with the icy temperatures but he took it good naturally as always.

 

I think my all time favorite quest and yes, a girly squeee must be inserted here, were the murloc quests.  I mean come on, baby murlocs <3

And that's when I discovered the rare spirit beasts.  Of course, at the time, there was only a handful.  Tiger with green eyes?  I had to have it.  I fell in love with Gondria's skin and design and spent all my waking time hunting for her/him (given on what lore you follow).

One thing you learn as a hunter is hunting rares can take a long time, if you don't have the patience for long camps, you're better off stalking the common animals.  Twice I missed him, once he was even dead.  I camped for several weeks, my guild thought I was nuts.  I checked before and after work and in between the occasional raid and dungeon until one morning, right before work, I logged on to see him pacing right in front of me.  No time for screenshots!  Panicked that someone would either come to kill or steal him from me, I dropped a freeze trap.  He lunged at me, I hit tame and prayed.  Several hours seconds later, he was sitting beside me.  It was the first real rush taming a rare I've ever had and it's still one of my best memories.

Virus took a much deserved vacation into warmer regions and my new spirit beast, named Illusion on the spot, became my new go-to pet.  Ever the curious cat, I had a lot of fun running around with him snapping screenshots like a mad-woman along the way.

 

Along my crazy adventures in the frozen lands, I also found a wonderful fishing companion.  When I wasn't dishing out bullets in someone's face, I liked to bring this guy out.  Having a giant rhino named ThunderBrew while you fished lakes and rivers just brought a great big smile to my face.

That's about when the new Venomhide Raptor quests came along.  So, leaving Northend for a while, me and my friend/guild mate Arch raced to see who could get their new raptor mount the fastest.

After killing more raptors then I care to mention and Zed beating me to the finish line.  Another mount joined my ever growing collection.

 

Then it was back and forth, doing quests, gathering more mounts and hunting for pets that struck my fancy at the time.  And of course, lets not forget the mammoth runs through Dalaran and Orgimmar.

Not only did I get my polar bear mount but I also got my 50 mount achievement and a gorgeous albino drake as my reward <3

And to end 2009 with a extra special treat, I started hunting Arcturis.  And much to my surprise as well as a short camp that involved me waking up with his big blue butt in my face at 3 in the morning.  This gorgious spirit bear was mine.  He attracted his fair share of druids.... a start to every hunter's dream.

All in good time druids, you will be ours.  To be continued...

Year 2 - the best of Outland 2009

Ah, another blog, another year of memories ^^

Continuing through the past, 2009 started off with a bang and I do mean a bang.  My first solid guild took all us fresh members on a run through Molten Core. 

Back when hunters had to still use bullets, back when I didn't bring enough and proceeded to melee my way through the last boss.  Thank goodness for a large group where dps didn't really matter from us noobs.

After reaching level 70, I tamed a white chimaera and named em' Frostbite.  Really creative back in the day with my names ^_~ And for a good while, he remained my stead-fast companion.  


I was one of those who took their time, just coming in at the ending of BC, I started to finally make my way into Outland.

 
But not before becoming obsessed and collecting the rest of the mounts from my different factions.  Naturally, I rode the green toned ones the most <3

And then, to Outland I went. 
And I must say, it is still one of my favorite zones. 

 

Bringing with me green companions and taming every other green pet I could snag.  My new love became my spider VIII (eight) and Virus, who traveled all the way to Northend with me and got to play along during several events.

And after that, I got my first flying mount and I'll tell you this.  There is nothing to equal the amazement of first taking off.  I must have spent hours just flying around just for the sheer thrill of it. 

I then went after, you got it, the mounts offered there.  The ones I knew about at the time.  I spent many trips back grinding rep off old factions, months of work paid off when I finally got these beauties.

Next stop, Northend!

Year 1 - The best of 2008

So, continuing my trip through the past, I went about taming different things, even tried to tame a giraffe.  That didn't end well.  My first real love was a wolf I named Ghost.  Took me several tries and even more deaths but he remained by my side for my first 30-40 levels.  Even if I did do some crazy things like dancing alone on boats and such...

And then I saw it for the first time on my adventures out of Thunderbluff, the orc's wolf mount.  I had to have one, and spent the next several levels doing nothing but Orgrimmar quests to get one.  

And at level 30, I was proud to say I owned one and couldn't stop taking pictures of it.  At that time I found Warcraft Mounts and became a mount collector.  Soon enough, I started to hunt the rest of the world for more.

But you see what I'm wearing, young hunters, don't do this!  In the beginning, I didn't understand stats or that some could help or hurt me, so I collected matching sets of green outfits :) Why, because I simply adored the color, to the point of obsession.  Didn't matter if it was mail, leather or cloth to me.

Much to my ever lasting thanks, a helpful rogue saw what I was doing and helped me out.  After that, I was much better, thou I still tried to find outfits with good stats and green shades.

  

After that, I traded up my wolf Ghost for a worg to match my mount.  One truely sad moment was when I did the green tiger quest and realized I couldn't tame him.  (yes, he was once un-tamable)

Aside from that, enjoyed the festivals and did some crazy things during hallows end & winter veil.  And re-tamed another white wolf Frostbite while I enjoyed the rest of 2008.