I haven’t been completely idle during my long posting absence (and won’t be next time I disappear, I’m sure). In fact, I’ve been busy doing all sorts of WoW content, aka mostly complaining about dailies, gearing extremely slowly, being unable to pull together a second raiding team for my guild and therefore not raiding, playing the AH to mild success, and — most importantly — remembering at the last minute I actually want to participate in a holiday celebration.
You see, last year I didn’t realize Blizzard had added a new mount, the Swift Lovebird, to the Love Is In The Air event until after the event had finished. And alas, it was one of my favorite model/skins, the pink tallstrider Mazzranache (two of my many hunters use this as one of their main pets – Mamisha, my Tauren hunter, and Likal, my Night Elf hunter. Yet for some reason I had not gotten the Mulgore Hatchling pet until just a few weeks ago when I purchased it off the AH. Wait, I remember why — it has to do with dailies). As soon as I saw the mount I knew I had to get it.
Flash-forward to this year, and on the Wednesday before Love Is In The Air ended I remembered my deep desire for this mount. A bit late there.
Nevertheless, I carried on, and with the help of a few guildies and Jed from twitter to get into a farming spot, I got enough tokens to get my very own!
A fellow Tauren also got her pretty pink mount. 🙂
Even more excitingly, my Night Elf hunter Likal, who is on an RP realm, can use the Swift Lovebird as a way to ‘ride’ her pet bird, Kanoni!
Here she is with her pet…
Likal and Kanoni
And here she is riding her pet!
Likal riding her trusty pet and steed, Kanoni
I’ve even made a macro to assist in the mount switching, so two Kanoni’s don’t show up at once!
The ‘Ride Kanoni’ Macro
Here’s the macro text:
/cast [pet] Dismiss Pet
/cast Swift Lovebird
/cast [nopet] Call Pet 1
Sure, it takes a little longer to mount up, but it’s totally worth it!
(Especially once I get into RPing on the Alliance side again >_> ).
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