Thanks for giving

A non-raid night for me. The Munquis were moving on to TotC last night. Ulduar has now moved to Monday / Tuesday, with TotC on Thursday.

I wasn't in the group, although I did listen in to the first hour or so of conversation on Ventrillo. And It all seemed to be going pretty well. They definitely made some progress, as they were announcing the kills and showing the loot in Guild Chat. Gratz Guys.

I actually enjoyed the more relaxed pace of a non-raid night. I managed to do Heroic ToC as the daily. And it all went very, very, smoothly. I even picked up a new cloak for my Healing-set out of it. Only a minor upgrade, but still an upgrade.

I then spent the rest of the night working on my bank balance. I did the Hodir dailies, the cooking daily, a couple of the thanksgiving quests (simply because I already had some surplus food from levelling my cooking), and a few of the Argent Tournament dailies. So my Pallies wallet is back up to about 350g. And he's slowly leveling the last hundred points of his cooking from the Dalaran dailies.
It felt strange being paid to level my cooking to 350. I think it cost me about 3g to reach 350 skill, but I made back about 12g in the quest rewards.
And I also picked up a lot of  achievements. I'm not really in to that sort of thing though. I wasn't expecting any of them, and it was strange being "Gz'd" on stuff that I'd made practically zero effort to achieve.

I'm only dabbling in the Argent Tournament, but I do see it's appeal, even though I started it at the time when most others had already finished it. It's a nice excuse for the extra dungeons, and raids, it provides.
And of course the Argent forces are the main charge against the Lich King.

The dailies are generally simple enough, but I'm not a fan of the jousting challenges, where you have to defeat the NPC aspirants. You have to kill 3 for the daily, and I usually waste so much time trying to get them down that I just give up and move on to another quest instead. It's a much better use of my time.

As with anything, some of the dailies are simpler than the others, and that isn't the only daily I avoid like the plague.

If the Daily HC is Occulus I ignore it. I'll probably do it one day, but my only ever visits there were horrendous, and I didn't like the setup.

The Hodirs Spear daily, where you have to wrestle with a dragon. It's a shame because I could do with the rep at the moment, but the death penalty if the dragon drops you puts me off this one. It's just not time / cost effective.

And I'm not a huge daily fan anyway. I do enough to keep my cash level sufficient, and to grind whatever rep I need. But other than that I don't really make any effort with them.

I did like the Isle of Conquest they brought in at the end of TBC. As it made alot of sense. If you wanted to grind dailies, you went there. It was a fairly small island, that was easy to get to and from. And it had around 10-12 dailies that paid out nicely. And it had decent rep-rewards and vendors that you could spend tokens on. And even it's own raid.
Shame it gets nerfed in relation to your level. I've visited it once since WotLK, and it was deserted. I thought it was a very nicley designed place though.

My neew graphics card continues to amaze me with how much real effort went in to producing some of the areas and zones. And how good a job Blizz did to let the game scale with system specs.

So let's all give thanks to the founding fathers of WarCraft, and slay a few more turkeys in their honor.
I'm not an American, but I think the tradition is a good one.