I don’t know if I’ve ever said it before, but I’m an achievement whore.
Actually, that’s a lie. I do know that I’ve said it before. I just like hearing it. Couldn’t tell you why, but I take some perverse pride in achieving some goal that the developers set. The more unrealistic or unattainable the goal is, the better!
Which is why it should come as no surprise to anyone that I have set my sights on becoming Cayleb the Insane. This title is, to be honest, probably the most accurate of all the achievement titles. In order to complete [Insane in the Membrane], you pretty much have to be not normal.
One part of this exceedingly complex achievement requires farming 84 rare-drop librams for Shendralar reputation. In order to turn in these librams, you must have a Pristine Black Diamond for each libram. These Diamonds have a drop rate of approximately 0.5% for the mobs that they do actually drop from.
So when I tell you that I found about 75 of them on the Dark Iron auction house this weekend, and that they were selling for less than 100g for a stack of five, know now that I had a really, really good weekend.
Still, I’ve got a ways to go yet in order to earn this achievement. My rogue alt, Shankspeare, is still languishing in the mid-30s. I’ve been leveling him solely to pick pockets for the Ravenholdt rep turn-ins. After Saturday’s auction house orgasm, leveling a rogue has become my least favored part of this achievement. Sorry Maliyah, no offense intended to you or to roguery in general, but in all seriousness I’d rather run Dire Maul until my eyes bleed than have to grind another rogue.
So, without further ado, here’s my progress towards the achievement criteria:
- Honored with Bloodsail Buccaneers – DONE
- Exalted with Booty Bay, Everlook, Gadgetzan, & Ratchet – firmly at Hated with all four
- Exalted with Darkmoon Faire – hovering in the upper Friendly range, will probably start grinding out cards soon
- Exalted with Ravenholdt – leveling the rogue I’ll need to farm rep turn-ins
- Exalted with Shen’dralar – good progress, currently I have a total of 15 librams and 77 PBDs (yay!)
