The long awaited patch 3.3 is here at long last!  However, I only got to play a tiny tiny bit and didn’t have time to run any instances or do anything like that.  I did do my cooking and fishing dailies and watched an achievement bonanza roll in.  Cooking daily was first and out of the bag dropped the Delicious Chocolate Cake recipe.  I quickly nabbed the ingredients and earned the achievement for making it.  Next up was the fishing daily.  The daily was the last one I needed for the “Do all Northrend fishing dailies”.  In the fishing reward bag was a waterlogged recipe which earned me 5 more Dalaran cooking awards, which in turn earned me the “25 Dalaran cooking awards” achievement.  Lastly, out to Outland and lo and behold, Old Man Barlowe’s daily is Crocolisks in the City, the last one I need for that achievement.

For that one I had to sneak into Ironforge and fish up a crocolisk, and while I was there I spent a while just mindlessly fishing, HOPING to get lucky and have old Ironjaw pop up for that achievement, but it didn’t happen.   However, what DID happen was that my fishing reached 370 in that time, so that when I got back to Dalaran I trained for grandmastery of fishing, earning another achievement.

While all of this was going on, friends and strangers were busy running around the game ranting and raving about the changes, for better or worse.  I started to try and do the Icecrown Citadel attunement quest, but right away it sends you into the 5 man dungeons to kill things, so that was off.  Maybe tonight.

My guild was a-bustle with activity though.  Players who were many months removed from the WoW login screen suddenly found the desire and fortitude to log in … and get right in to a raid spot.  I can’t bitch too much about it because I was unable to log in until late at night and even then I had other things going on while playing, preventing me from doing anything group-wise, but I do find it funny how a new patch always brings back the lapsed.

The new random dungeon tool looks and sounds amazing.  I can’t wait to break it in this weekend.  With any luck I cna begin farming the last set of triumph emblems I need to fill out my tier 9 while working on a frost emblem collection for tier 10 gear.