Iron Dwarf, Medium Rare

Blizzard recently merged the 10-person and 25-person older raid achievements into a single achievement. This is good news for those of us who didn't want to do this achievement twice. http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=2924/iron-dwarf-medium-rare-25-player Iron Dwarf, Medium Rare is one of those achievements that I've tried to do as part of regular Ulduar runs around twenty times without success. This time I was determined to finish the damn thing. All told, it takes about half an hour to do after zoning in to Ulduar. Flame Leviathan takes part of that time but most of the time is spent AFKing until 25 Guardians appear. This is the best strat to use at 110 that doesn't rely on timing things just right: 1. TAKE OFF YOUR WEAPON and anything else that may proc to kill mobs 2. Start the fight and allow all four harpoons to be built. 3. AFK for 10-15 minutes until at least 25 Guardians spawn. 4. Use all four harpoons to ground Razorscale. 5. PUNCH Razorscale below 50% health then immediately target yourself. 6. Wait another 10 minutes for Razorscale's breath to kill all the adds. 7. If you didn't get all 25, just reset and start again - the counter stays at the level it was before.

Two mounts :) Other stuff: I farmed 100 chocolates for the noblegarden pet (thanks to ALL THE THINGS addon for the reminder). I also completed some quests that I'd had lying around forever, picked up another 100 Darkmoon Faire tokens for the Dirigible and started working on both the "Kill 2000 non-trivial demons" achievement for the mount and the achievement to find all of the hidden chests around Argus. Planning: I have just over four months before the next expansion comes out. In that time I want to complete almost all of the solo and small group achievements that I have left, as well as any that will be especially difficult to complete once the xpac is over. (As an example: achievements that rely on having a large number of players in an area, like some of the world PVP achievements, are often very hard to complete later). I should also pick up some gold and sell off anything that I don't especially need. Specific plan: 1. I need to max out the professions on my alts. This means herbalism, mining, skinning and tailoring (which requires leveling my mage to 110). I've got a good route for the gathering professions that uses speed boosts, barding to prevent daze and the sky golem to allow harvesting herbs without dismounting. I know a druid would be best but, alas... 2. I'll run through all of the old quest areas in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms. While going that, I'll use ALL THE THINGS to grab any items in the zone that I'm missing. This includes any exploration achievements nearby. 3. Grinding out Pandarian and Mogu archaeology until I have all achievements. Buying up keystones is likely a good idea here, even if they ARE a ton of gold. Actually, it may be wise to find a server where the keystones are especially cheap, buy a wow token worth of gold, then buy up all the keystones consistently before transferring. Once I have these achievements, I can switch to 100% mantid spawns, finish the mantid, then use the thousands of crated relics to help finish the others. 4. All the old soloable dungeon achievements. This includes the raids that grant x-mog gear needed for an achievement. 5. Fishing achievements, including the ones for the new fishing buddies. This is pretty important to do before the new xpac comes since they are best done in a raid group. 6. Pets. Weekly: 1. Taking advantage of whatever the weekly focus is (e.g. world quests, or timewalking) is important for efficiency. 2. I need to finish my rep grinds for a lot of the old-world raids like Molten Core and AQ20/AQ40. At a minimum, I need to remember to use the guild standard on MC bosses. There is likely a bunch of xmog gear to pick up for the achievements here as well. 3. I need to grind a few key raids on every alt I have to get achievement-based mounts. In particular, I need to do Onyxia on every alt, as well as Malygos in the Borean Tundra until I get both drakes from there. 4. I need to do the old garrison invasions weekly. There are achievements for this, plus four mounts. 5. I need to do the Legion archaeology quest every two weeks until I've done all of them. Daily stuff: 1. I'll do the daily WQ consistently - I need to do 10,000 of these fucking things and the most efficient way is to get the bonus rep for extra mounts. I get 150g and 100 order resources per world quest due to my triple legendary follower too. 2. I should be sending out my shipyard every day to get the achievement. Naval missions with the fishing equipment can apparently award the sea turtle mount too. 3. Blingtron 5000 on my alt until I get the last message for the achievement. Other: 1. I'm seriously considering dropping Jewelcrafting for Engineering. Having a whole bunch of teleports and other useful stuff sounds fantastic long-term. The main blocker is that I don't especially want to have to re-level both JC and Engineering and, more importantly, I like having a lot of the rare recipes from JC. Still, I think it's time to bite the bullet and get this done sooner rather than later, likely right after I get the "800 in all professions" achievement.