Questing in Style
Lately I’ve been lackadaisically working towards the Loremaster achievement on Mania. (I want the tabard.)
I finished up Outland and Northrend first because I find per-zone count of quests both convenient and satisfying, but now I am working on Kalimdor.
(As an aside, I’ve been posting some of my more pithy-but-certainly-not-interesting-enough-to-make-a-post-out-of thoughts about my travels on Twitter.)
Anyway, since I outlevel the content in Kalimdor by at least twenty levels, and usually more like fifty, I figured I’d do my questing in style.
Above and to the left is my favorite questing shirt right now: a Watcher’s Tunic from a level 68 group quest in Nagrand. On a female character, the color of the sleeve fabric changes to match your skin color, leaving you with a spiderweb or fishnet effect.
The sleeves flare out at the bottom, though … which looks a bit odd if the fabric is supposed to be skin. But a pair of gloves fixes that! I am still looking for a pair of pants and a pair of gloves that look really good with this tunic, but for the moment I’m just wearing it with my normal combat gear.
But that’s not my only questing outfit! I also have the purple pleasure that you see above and to the right: Mordant’s Travel Tunic and The Wanderer’s Cover (both courtesy of quests in Dustwallow Marsh).
I know that you can put together some really nice purple outfits if you try, but I just happened to pick these two pieces up while I was doing quests in Dustwallow. Coincidence, or does Blizzard employ a fashion consultant for quest rewards?
And finally, for those times when I want to look like Wonder Woman, we have a Gleaming Scale Breastplate to the left, also from Dustwallow Marsh.
My thanks to Letters From Birdfall, by the way, for a recent ‘Outfit of the Month’ post that got me thinking about my own outfits again.


I had fun last week thinking about what pets might match well with an undead hunter, so I figured that next I would do the same for worgen hunters.
I suspect that a big part of my problem is that I’m not really able to picture worgen characters very well yet. And while there is some art available for them already, I’m just not able to visualize them running around in Azeroth with a pet by their side.
One of the first things I’m going to do come Cataclysm is create an undead hunter. I’ve been waiting a long time to play an undead hunter.
Personally, I am strongly hoping (wishing! begging!) that Blizzard uses the advent of undead hunters to open up the taming of these retired pets, plus more. I’d love a black slime, for instance. Or an
Last night I spent some time playing my little troll hunter, Erinye, on the Nesingwary realm (where she hangs with the US branch of the Petopians guild).
At those levels, even most orc and troll hunters don’t give these scorpids a second look — they are more interested in the level 10 raptors and boars in the area. Or at least the sexy level black and red
This isn’t immediately obvious to other players, but it quickly become very apparent to the lucky hunter who tames a beige scorpid. As you run along beside your pet, as you send it before you into battle, your loyal scorpid is flashing its beautiful inner colors only at you.