Well, if it isnae a spiffy new tabard for me! Looks right guid wi’ aw mah other green and purple gear, dont’cha think?

I’m not a huge tabard junkie but one I loved dearly from the day I got it on Mharai was the Purple Trophy Tabard of the Illidari. Whilst running through Shadowmoon Valley someone asked me if I wanted to join to do some group quests and I jumped right on the chance as I had quite a few left to complete. We cleared our way through them, doing the one where you have to disguise yourself as a blood elf whilst kiling the large rock giants. I mentioned to the group at the time that I wished I could get one of the tabards the blood elves wore as they looked so awesome and thought nothing more of it. Of course, when I went to hand in the reward from the other quest which goes alongside it - Battle of the Crimson Watch - I was ecstatic to find I had gotten one as a bonus reward.

Fast-forward to yesterday. Grinding Scryer rep I notice the tabards again and decided I missed having one. I hadn’t managed to get a group to do that quest on Aurik as most people on the server are well past needing it. A few tentative prods in guild later, though, I struck lucky and got a few people who’d not done it or still needed it on an alt!

They’ve seriously nerfed that battle! I remember it taking us three attempts and even when we did manage it finally we had scraped through by the skin of our teeth, having used a battle res and pots etc. Yesterday we did it with four and, although the mage died, I reckon we could have easily done it with less. Reports say people have done it with two! Ah well, I walked away with a completed quest so I guess I’m happy. Lucky sod that I am, I managed to get the green one this time. Hooray!

Would be nice if Blizz added more of these kind of tabards. Although every faction has one at exalted in Outlands (at least I think so…) not all of them look very good. I quite like the Sporeggar tabard but the Skyguard and Ogri’la tabards are a bit too oddly coloured for me.

One other tabard I picked up yesterday was the Scryers one. Finally exalted. Whoohoo!