Merrily We Grind Along

I hate Nazjatar. Utterly. Completely. It is now my second most-hated zone of all time. (Karnak, you will forever be number one in my heart.) Yet, for the sake of flying mounts to come, I endure the area for an hour or so every day. I'm perfectly ok with this taking a few days longer if it means skipping "hunting 3 rares" or other ludicrous dailies that give a smattering of rep.

I feel like the zone was designed with the idea that you already have flying and I feel so bad for classes that can't drop combat every now and then. Bear in mind even "Greater Invis" is shoddy at best, since your bodyguard will break it and throw you back in combat. Between that and the mob density, it's just zero fun. So I inch towards my Revered rank and will be so glad to take to the skies… eventually.

Meanwhile, I can spend hours in Mechagon happily doing my thing. My biggest (read: only) gripe with Mechagon is that some dailies don't show on the map until you're right up on top of them. Otherwise, it is my zone!

Aside from rare fish to catch, pet battles, dailies, and a couple of WQs, the big draw is up to 33 rare elites than spawn on the island. Nearly all give a chance to drop a nifty thing, be it a tinkering blueprint, pets, mounts, music tracks for a jukebox, toys, paint for your mechanocat-- I have a mechanocat now! (To get robotic feline mount, you craft a laser pointer.) Not all bosses are up every day and some require certain events to be triggered and what have you. All in all, it keeps things fun and interesting.

Two big fun things I got over the weekend was a rare blueprint for a jetpack and some secret fish-finding goggles. The jetpack is a "not exactly cheap" consumable, but it lets me fly in Mechagon for up to 20 minutes by double jumping to activate. It'll just be a novelty in a couple of weeks once everyone can take to the skies normally, but for now it is amazingly convenient.

The goggles do something! When activated, for an hour I can see "secret fish" hanging in the air in little bubbles (about 1 fish bubble appears every 30 seconds or so). These are often just "white quality" fish you could get from fishing in the zone, but every now and then you get a rare one, which is a little coin and takes you closer to an achievement which grants the Hyper-compressed ocean toy. (All the fish in one place!)