I’ve had a huge stroke of luck recently and managed to fish myself up a new mount.  Yes, I said “fish” up.  There is a very rare mount you can fish up in Northrend which is a sea turtle:

turtle

As you can see above, I got the “Turtles All the Way Down” achievement for this.  What I really loved was the huge wall of green guild text giving me “grats” from my guild mates.

This is a very rare mount but what made it even more unusual is how I caught it.  I was looking through my achievements and realized that I had a few more in fishing to do and thought I’d check out how “rare” the turtle mount is.

I found a nice safe spot in Bourean Tundra to land and then went to the web to try to find out just how rare it was.   I didn’t have much luck on finding any percentages but deiced I should just start finishing in any Northrend fishing pools I spot till I get lucky.  I’d at least catch some good fish to use or sell.

I got back into the game and in about 20 seconds I found my first pool.  Got my fishing rod out and then, believe it or not – on my first cast, DING – I got the turtle mount.  I was almost in shock.   I thought I may be confused at first since I had just been reading about it but nope, I got it.

ride

What’s funny is that he’s only a 60% speed increase mount in water.  While that’s damn slow on land it feels like he just flys in the water.  I also had my Mastercraft Kalu’ak Fishing Pole from my Kalu’ak reputation grind on my so I could breath underwater and ride.

I also managed to do all the Brewfest holiday things I wanted and got my new title of Brewmaster:

brewmaster

I’ve done the L80 party to kill Coren Direbrew about 5 or 6 times but haven’t even seen his mount drop.   I’ve received the Mithril Pocketwatch and the Bubbling Brightbrew Charm but that’s it.  The only thing I wanted but haven’t received yet is Direbrew’s Remote.

I did have great time spent grouping with my guild and thanks to some new gear and PVP gear rewards from doing WinterGrasp I’ve seen my DPS go from 1400 up to about 2200 now.    I’ve only recently discovered how fun WinterGrasp is so I’m working on getting some PVP gear.

**James.