Pandaren Style

Going along with the Welcome Mists of Pandaria party Savage Darkness is aiming for, here are some alternate outfits based on the dresses and pets I mentioned in one of my last posts.

Usually anything black will complement either of these gowns, but keep in mind the Festival Suit will not display any kind of pants or belt. The Robes of Koegler have a neat long-sleeve under three-quarter sleeve effect that you can play off, or switch up with complementing bracers.

Featured above: Robes of Koegler, Wisdom of the Timbermaw, Runed Spellcuffs, Knitted Sandals, Rune Sword. Lucky Quilen Cub.

Featured above: Robes of Koegler, Runed Spellcuffs, Knitted Sandals, Spring Flowers. Lucky Quilen Cub. 

Featured above: Robes of Koegler, Knitted Sandals. Festival Lantern. 

Featured above: Festival Dress, Rune Sword. Festival Lantern.

Update 18/09/2012: It appears Blizzard has changed the model of the Robes of Koegler (at least the ones that drop in the low-level instance). This sucks for a vast number of role players and fashionistas. Hopefully Blizz will give it back its beautiful blue pattern.

League of Arathor MogOlympics Athletes

Since the link from the MogOlympics' site points here, and since I post my results and items list on my other blog, I've decided to set up a list of links to each specific entry here, for anyone interested or curious! :) Or, you can simplify things by checking out the entire MogOlympics Category!

Week One:

Opening ceremonies! Meet Ella, Quinn and Verity, Flagbearers for League of Arathor!
Round one, Cycling. Meet Rodney "Red Rod" Crankshaft!
Round two, Hammer Throw. Meet Corrick McCord!

Week Two:

Round three, Discus. Meet Jaremy Thompson!
Round four, Wrestling. Meet Dranoss "The Fang"!
Round five, Archery. Meet Fenn Nightvine!
Round six, Javelin. Meet Dalessian Stormpole, winner of the Gold Medal! Woohooo! /cheer

Week Three:

Round seven, Fencing.
Round eight, Freestyle.
Round nine, Equestrian.
Closing Ceremonies.

Bamboo Grove

Darger, our very generous GM, has once again humored me in one of my dress-up doll endeavors—I have this whole idea about our end-of-expansion guild party. Anyway, you know how things get when the creative juices are flowing...

Featured above: Festival Suit, Knitted Sandals.

Anou has crafted a veritable army of Festival Suits and Festival Dresses, and has bought and gift-wrapped many a pair of Knitted Sandals and sent them along to willing guild members for our "end-of-expansion" party. We'll be doing an Asian theme and dressing our toons in Festival garb to celebrate the arrival of the Pandaren. The location is still to be determined but people are definitely getting into the swing of things!

If you're fortunate enough to have saved a Festive Pant Suit or one of the Festive Dresses during the Lunar Festival, those will also do magnificently well! Or, try running the new Scarlet Monastery instances for a chance to win Robes of Koegler. Then it's as simple as getting a pair of Knitted or Cross-Stitched Sandals and a hair cut and presto-change-o! Hello Mists of Pandaria! Welcome to Azeroth! Actually, it would be even funnier to pull a "geeky Asian" and wear the socks under the flip-flops ;) (Ringo's Blizzard Boots/Shimmering Geta).

Non-combat pets that fit the bill would be things like Pandaren Monk, Ancona chicken, Westfall Chicken, any variety of serpent, Dragon Kite, Festival Lantern, Lucky Quilen Cub, Lunar Lantern, Magic Lamp, Panda Cub, Tuskarr Kite.

Updated Chef

Pilfering rice from the trolls wasn't such a great idea. After catching her for the second time, it was off to the kitchens for Anou, to cut up, debone and fillet a rather large bowl of raw slitherskin mackerel.

"Ugh. More fish."

Featured above: Chef's Hat, Brewfest Dress, Brewfest Slippers, Old Crafty, Neurosurgeon's Tool.

Yes. My head almost popped off too when I realized the axe was actually a dagger. I must say, THANK YOU BLIZZARD! for giving us caster-types a way to carry something that looks appropriate for the kitchen! Now, let's just hope we get to keep daggers in MoP!

Merciless Gladiator's Dreadgear

Back during the Burning Crusade, Anoukisse plodded her way painfully through an endless string of battlegrounds to get her hands on a full epic PvP set to make raiding a bit easier. (At the time a lot of people were doing it, and being my first experience in World of Warcraft, I took the advice and worked my fingers raw.)

Anou was a struggling warlock, the worst of her class. She spent most nights as a ghost, resurrecting in one graveyard or another only to race headlong into some random group of alliance just to die again. However, after many trials and much adversity, she proudly sported her five pieces of "full Glads" into Karazhan.

Welcome to the very sadistic, Warlock-specific, season 2 PvP, Merciless Gladiator set...

Sacrifice

Shaafenn and the Staff

Demonic Circle

Featured above: Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Hood, Mantle, Robe, Cord of Screaming Terrors, Merciless Gladiator's Dreadweave Gloves, Vindicator's Mooncloth Slippers, Zhar'doom, Greatstaff of the Devourer.

The belt and boots were won in recent forages for transmog gear, as was the staff. In fact, the belt listed above is the same model as Veteran's Dreadweave Belt, which is the one that comes with the PvP set, only it was made to match the Corruptor Raiment, which is minimally lighter in color. Veteran's Dreadweave Stalkers and the correct belt are on my to-do list.

Despite the allure of Void Storage, I can't bring myself to put this set in there because of all the hard work that went into earning it and enhancing it with gems and enchantments. It will stay in Anou's bank, authentic, forever.

The Enchanter

Anou's Enchanting Office

Please stay behind the line and take a number.

Then, I don't want to see you until your name is called.

Thank you,

The Management

Featured above: Faded Wizard Hat, Simple Black Dress, High Councillor's Sash, Calico Shoes, Torturing Poker, Furbolg Medicine Pouch.

You can't see it in these photos, but Anou's got Torch of Austen equipped in the wand slot, you know, to light the darker corners of the office (or to hold back an angry mob screaming for enchants after a raid). In the bottom screenshot, the belt was removed and I've swapped the pouch for Lantern of Enchanted Flame. I looked for a pair of purple gloves that would not become soulbound, but had no luck.

There are two other pouches that can be used if you want to set up your own enchanting outfit in a different color: Khadgar's Knapsack and Lost Bag of Whammies. In my case, I built my outfit around the hat because it's a shape-shifting item, and I didn't want to have extra slots taken up for a second hat. Furthermore, in my opinion, the Torturing Poker looks like an enchanting rod, so I chose the Furbolg Pouch as a "Hypnotic Dust container" to match it. The Torturing Poker itself has look-alikes, but this one is a dagger that I can equip at the same time as the pouch.

The office is now closed.

Go away.

Before I turn you into a Soul Shard.

Thank you,

The Management

By the Fountain

Here is a great spring get-up, pale colors and pastels being the way to go when the flowers start to poke out of the earth and grass begins to uncurl. Below, Anou is enjoying a leisurely stroll around a fountain in Dalaran, her favorite city, after having picked a bunch of sweet-smelling flowers down below, in Crystalsong Forest.

Featured above: Patchwork Armor, White Swashbuckler's Shirt, Ancestral Belt, Inconspicuous Pantaloons, Knitted Sandals, Spring Flowers.

This particular belt was used for two reasons: 1) because it matches the bands on the sleeves of the chest piece almost perfectly while creating a nice contrast; and 2) because it's one of those most awesome unbound items that can be brought back and forth from my closet bank very easily. Naturally, you can mix up off-hands to complete this set, using any variety of books or flowers. I bet even a Wine Glass would look fantastic if you're setting this outfit up casually in an inn or tavern.