The beautiful piece of art below was gifted to me by Fyreuni of Daily Quests! She did a brilliant job- Thank you again, Fyreuni!

My own contribution was a picture of Vanha of The Art of the Hunt.

More of the pictures can be found on this page.

I’ve not managed to find out if there’s anything new happening this year with Winter Veil, but I know that the achievements for the meta have stayed much the same and so, if you’re doing it on an alt, or didn’t make it last year, I figure my

2008 guide to winter veil

achievements, quests and some of the shinies that you can get will be of some use!   If anyone knows of anything new happening this year, or if I discover something myself, I’ll add it to the guide asap!

I may be slightly mad, a bit tired and my fingers are sore from pressing healing buttonz hard… but I has my puppy from Looking for Multitudes (and a hug from the dev team!) /happy /sleep

The model is really nice, the texturing and animations are sweet – like the corehound. Though, as you can see, he has some unsavoury habits…

On a separate, but related,  note: I love the new LFG tool!

Currently, I get to stare at this:

Why?

WHY!?

Because this is so goddamned ugly:

[Cloak of the Fallen Cardinal] I know that there isn’t much variety by way of capes and, sure, a half-cape now and then is sort-of cool… but could we not please have something which looks at least a little more cool than, well, a level 10 cloak? /saddruid

(Ok, ok I know I spend most of  my time in tree form but… shhh!  It’s still a terrible looking cape =( )

Seeing all the awesome-cute chibis Baenhoof’s been drawing recently made me want to do my own, and an evening of trying to kill mobs highly resistant to frost spells transmuted into this little doodle:

I have to admit, though, once I got past those my lackluster mage ’suddenly’ seemed to be a killing machine, slicing through enemies with bolts of deathly cold.  Hehe.  Pvp was a lot more fun, too, as I was nearing the end of the bracket… then I stupidly tripped over thirty and became Squishy Mcsquishface the Squishful.  This mage might actually get somewhere, though, she’s now over double the level of my last  one!

In other news…

For the Horde Eastern Kingdoms is, by far, the easier of the two old-world Loremaster achievements – but having done this one, it’s given me the determination to get my teeth into Loremaster of Kalimdor – just over 100 quests to go there.  I suspect, though, that the new patch will distract me away from it for a few days at least, hehe.

Silv got his wings, yesterday, much to my delight – it’s one of those spells which I always felt slightly envious of – especially at screenshot time.  He’s also rocking a very bloody familiar shield… Still, at least it’s prettier than most of the Northrend levelling shields – for which I’ll likely have to give up this one soon.

Also, apparently I still have a really bad case of altitis and shaman-lovin’:

I’ve promised myself to get on a bit with Loremaster before I level this baby-shammy up, though!  I always find the low-levels a nice distraction when I’m feeling a bit over-done on my main, though, so we’ll see how long it takes me to cave and play him s’more.

He’s rocking the cloth shoulders, at the moment, because I got them for my mage and tauren-priest-in-waiting – I’ve enough shards to buy the mail ones now, though, so he’ll hopefully be rocking those as soon as I can be bothered to drag myself over to Wintergrasp, hehe.  I just wish you could buy the chest pieces with Wintergrasp shards, too… re-doing all of the Argent Tourny dailies is not appealing and I’ve too much else to buy with badges.  Oh well, maybe later.