Successes, both small and big.

Sunday was a day off for myself, so I decided to focus on my mage, Msmage. She's level 65, working her way into Terrokar Forest, fire specced, and in desperate need of Lower City rep. 9000 rep in particular. And what is the best way to get that rep?

Arakkoa Feathers. Lots of them. 1080 of them.

I've been working at this all week, taking Eldron to Veil Shalas and running circuits around there nuking every Arakkoa in sight and seeing just how many I can pull with my pet and not have Sweetums die. I've been buying every significant and reasonably priced auction, and when I've been bored with my hunter, Msmage has gone to the various Veils to grind. When Sunday came, I still needed 480 to finish off the rep grind. So, off to Veil Shalas again, for about 5 hours of constant slaughter.

I really can't find words to describe how dull grinding Arakkoa feathers is. At one point I thought I was going to be sick.

I made a little bit of fun along the way though. I passively killed a Tauren warrior who was using Thunderclap constantly by body pulling extra mobs into his aggro radius. He died, his mobs reset, I killed them.

I let a Belf pally kill some mobs for me by pulling them through his consecration. Well, the worked until I pulled so many that he died... ah well.

I helped out about 6 different players, Alliance and Horde, with the Skywing escort quest. Luanga the Imprisoner, the elite that spawns at the end of the escort, drops 3-4 of the feathers, as opposed to the 1-2 that the other Arakkoa drop.

I then switched to my mage for some grinding. She singed 66, which was nice, as the majority of lvl 65 was rested experience grinding for feathers.

Sundays are also raid nights, so eventually Eldron was brought back into play, and he joined in on our first ever kill of Leotheras the Blind. No, his trinket didn't drop, and neither did any Hunter T5 (I reeeeeally want a second piece for the set bonus), but we've been wiping on him for two weeks now, and dropping him would be considered a small success.

The big success came at about 1am when, having returned to my mage, the 480th Arakkoa feather of the day dropped. To say I was relieved would be an understatement. I actually danced a little in real life!

And so, I can finish one grind, and get back to another - Levelling!