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Crafting Decor and Exploring Old Expansions in WoW

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On the hunt for pretty decor, I’ve been spending a lot of time in Warlords of Draenor, killing mobs to raise my rep to exalted with the Council of Exarchs to get a very cool Greenhouse for the garden. At 5rep a kill, it took a while but it was worth it to get the pretty glass greenhouse.

Once I got it though, I promptly ran out of outdoor decor space so need to do some re-arranging to actually be able to fill it up!

I also had my enchanter run around gathering up Warlords mats to make some sparkly purple party lights.

I have a long wish list of crafted decor items from across the full gauntlet of professions (yay for alts) which is going to take a really long to fill as some of the items I want come from expansions I’ve never been in before.

I spent an incredibly long time running around in Outland zones looking for Khorium ore to make the Glazed Sin’dorei Vial. Heads up before you get invested in this decor like I did – Khorium Ore is incredibly difficult and time-consuming to find and I had the most luck cutting laps around the Isle of Quel’Danas.. many many laps … to get enough ore to smelt into 4 precious bars. This is likely to be the one and only time I make this decor.

A decorative vase with a geometric design, featuring a combination of purple and blue colors, and a metallic base.

Crafting my own decor from the expansions I’ve missed is giving me a good opportunity to tick off leveling up some of the newer races … meet Aghlen my new Dark Iron Dwarf who is leveling through Shadowlands with the ultimate goal of becoming a Shadowlands Blacksmith just to make some shiny wine glasses.

What has Blizz done to professions though? When I left they were relatively easy to max out just by gathering materials from the world and patterns from a vendor… but now in the newer expansions it seems to be difficult to find recipes to level up with and the cost of the vendor requirements… ouch!!


Early impression is that these are not fun or easy anymore and probably going to cost me a lot of gold to get them up to the level needed to buy the decor patterns… maybe I’m missing something in the process though? Let me know if I am!

Profession gripe aside, WoW is still such a pretty game; my screenshot folder is quickly filling with new pics.

Bastion in all it’s dreamy glory. If only there was Kyrian decor, I’d never stop farming in this zone until my house was full.

Silvermoon at night. The Inky Black Potion is still one of the best items I’ve come across for making the world look extra special.

Fungara Village (also inky)

I think I need to take all the sitting photos with my Panda, her pose is much more refined than the hunched over grumpy Night Elf.

How are your housing adventures going?

Just a casual 7 year break…Housing has Zee bopping around in Azeroth again

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Six years is a long time to go quiet on a blog and 7 years since playing WoW… long enough that I honestly wasn’t sure if I’d ever dust this place off again.

But here we are!

Housing in WoW has pulled me right back into Azeroth. I’ve spent a happy few months bopping around Azeroth, pulling my Night Elf Druid out of storage and wandering around questing in old (new to me!) expansions, decorating my little in-game home, and taking far too many screenshots of cozy corners and unexpectedly cute moments out in the wild. So this post is a bit of a “hello again”.

Even though my husband is the most patient person I know, I suspect there’s a limit to how many times I can drag him over to admire each new decor addition before even he runs out of convincing “oohs” and “ahhs”.

So this blog springing back to life is purely practical: I need somewhere to share the screenshots and show off a new rug, plant, or perfectly placed candle without completely exhausting the one person who has been very politely pretending to understand why moving a chair two pixels to the left was absolutely necessary for the past few months.

I’m putting the pictures out into the world so I can feel like I’ve properly shared the excitement, and my husband can be spared the 47th house tour of the week.

My own personal moonwell! Once I get some more troops recruited over at my Legion hall, I’ll have a fancy Cenarian Arch to add here.

World of Warcraft Midnight player housing - moonwell

Books and Tea.. Art imitating life!

World of Warcraft Midnight player housing interior - books and tea pot

How can she look so glum in that well stocked kitchen?

More art imitating life here.. I get to collect eggs from my own hens each day, so Zee had to have her own chicken coop. If only I could add a chicken wandering around! Instead I get invading boars!

World of Warcraft Midnight player housing outside

My big bear butt getting a guided tour around Voidstorm; she stole aboard a ship, took out the pilot and happily floated around taking in the sights.

Catching up with some old friends!

Until the next batch of screenshots … whenever that may be!

My poor neglected blog

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Wow, time sure does fly. It’s been ages since I last blogged. I feel so bad for my blog, I just haven’t been in much of a chattering mood lately.

My wow time is pretty low at the moment, I’m pretty much logging in Wednesdays and Sundays for raiding. We’re currently sitting at 8/13 Heroic and 13/13N. I think though once we get 13/13H I may unsub from wow until Legion comes out. I’ll revisit that idea when I finally get there but paying the sub fee to just  log in every now and again seems a bit silly. Of course I could be wrong and I’ll get my wow interest back and I’ll be playing and blogging up a storm by the time Legion is released.. I’ll wait and see.

I’ve still been flitting around the game universe a bit. I have a level 70 seasonal Witch Doctor on D3 which is incredibly fun to play. The build I’ve been working on for her involves dropping large clouds of acid onto mobs heads and not only is she quite strong at dps, graphically she is really fun to play. I’ve just started a crusader which isn’t as interesting to play, and she takes forever to kill mobs but nothing seems to be able to kill her so I’ll keep going along with that.

I downloaded Civilisation 5 last night and have already invested quite a few hours into that.. my Sunday morning run may well have been delayed by me heading to bed at about the same time I normally get up.. next week.

And I’m currently waiting for Payday 2 to download. Not the style of game I normally play but I have a few friends playing it and it’s on a massive sale.. down to $4.99 US so not a big loss if I really don’t enjoy it.

On the personal side of life.. I have a new job which so far (it’s only been 3 weeks) is looking really promising. The work is quite interesting and in a field which I like working in and best of all it’s only a 6.6km drive from home rather than the 45km my last job was located away. So it’s amazing to only have to fill up the car with petrol fortnightly rather than weekly and be at work in 10mins. Makes quite the change.

Well wow friends.. let’s keep all our fingers crossed my wow mojo comes back because it’s a little frustrating to not be interested in the one game that I used to think defined me as a gamer but seeing all the other types of games out there is good and I’ve even been making room for some TV watching. I’ve worked my way through the 3 seasons of Orange is the New Black and now only have a year to wait for Season 4.. so plenty of time to explore the gaming world.