I’m sorry. Of course your guild already HAS a tabard and it’s a very good-looking one, so I chose it. I don’t know what I was thinking about. Rolling my shit into little balls, I reckon.
Thanks
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Well, I finally got something good out of Tol’Vir archaelogy:
http://mister-rik.com/hosted/wow/war_tank.jpeg
Still waiting to find that danged alchemy recipe for turning myself into a dragon, though.
Earlier, I was digging at those night elf ruins in Stonetalon with all the Highborne ghosts hanging around chatting with each other, and I overheard something that I hadn’t noticed on previous visits to that dig site:
*Merchant Kendra says: I recommend you buy like there was no tomorrow. Who knows how long it will be until you find deals this good again.
Merchant Kendra says: All I’m saying is don’t be caught dead in those outdated fashions!*
Which completely cracked me up, because those are, I’m guessing, supposed to be some of the Highborne who perished in the Sundering, 10,000 years ago. I’m assuming, of course, that those lines were put in specifically to be funny to those of us who know the lore 
Yeah, that one’s no fun to farm. I got it on my 5th jar and count myself lucky. I’m still (very occasionally) hunting for my pet from them though.
I don’t think I’ve even found five jars. Sure have found a lot of sand castles, though. The silly thing about that jar is that you reconstruct it out of 30-odd fragments and only when you’ve put it together do you find something in it. This makes no sense. Unless the recipe was engraved on the surface of the jar, rather than being contained inside it.
As far as Pandaria archaeology, I put together a Pristine Pearl of Yu’lon, which gave me a quest to put it on display at the Lorewalker’s library. Once it was on display I clicked it and read the flavor/lore text. And … the whole text kept referring to Yu’lon with masculine pronouns. During the Jade Serpent section of the Jade Forest storyline, Yu’lon is clearly female
Well, Yu’lon changes body every few centuries. Maybe one millennium or another the scuptors at the Temple of the Jade Serpent took a few liberties with the statue is it was being built and voila! Unplanned gender reassignment.
Hmmm. On my server, it was pretty easy to gather eggs. Yes, Goldshire was a clusterfuck, but I hopped over to the Draenei village figuring it was the most pain-in-the-butt place to get to, and it was much less crowded. I put my kids to work gathering eggs, and in about two hours had enough to buy the strider mount.
Engraved on the surface of the jar in writing only an alchemist can see. Non alchemists don’t even recogize it as writing! 
Next thing you’re going to be asking crazy questions like ‘why is that boar carring a giant 2-hand sword?’.
And missing his liver? 
Striders without beaks, zhevras without hooves, boars without livers…obviously Azeroth is undergoing an ecological disaster, probably caused by the Night Elves. Those pointy-eared idiots are usually behind any major collapses…
Or other crazy questions like, "Why were the pieces of this thing scattered all over three continents?
All the Striders have beaks (and boars livers and so on) it’s just that sometimes while killing them you damage them. Or something.
I have just taken up Archaeology on one of my level 80s and it has taken me from level 80 to mid way through 81 while getting to ~200 skill level. A half decent way to level at this point if you can’t face Hyjal or Vash’jir again.
Does anyone know the formula for skinning? I want to know when a mob will be skinnable and also when it will go grey so no more skill ups. Thanks.
The rule is that a skinnable critter of level x will require skinning skill 5x.
So, at skill 200, level 40 mobs will be the highest level you can skill.
Lowest, I dunno. I always aimed high. And with the massive xp and leveling increases, it was always easy to have a higher level than the mobs, so my ability to win the fight usually exceeded my ability to skin my trophy. So you wind up in zones that have grey difficulty mobs (for fighting) but orange diffulty for skinning.
And don’t forget that any skinning knife in your inventory is a +10 skinning skill, even if it’s in your bags.
I like to say that 50% of all bad things that happen on Azeroth are because of a night elf’s decision. Then 50% of those were caused by a Stormrage. Seriously, who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to make Malfurion co-racial leader? We’re probably going to find out he led an druid expedition to Pandaria and in trying to save a sapling released the Sha of Anger that corrupted Garrosh.
Still better than Staghelm, though, even without knowing the stuff from Cata…
Oh I don’t know… the stuff from Cata gave me the chance to finally kill that asshole flat. And spit on the corpse. And ask “can we kill him again, please? I want to make sure he’s dead!”
You have a point…
The book Stormrage kinda made me feel bad for him. In that ‘look at that sad, sad little man…’ way.
I haven’t had the chance to kill him yet, but I wanna!
Thanks I still would like to know the formula though just for my sanity. My place of work has a new web policy so I have no access to wowhead anymore, so annoying.
As to the question of “lowest level mob that can still give skill”, I saw a comment on Wowhead (sorry you’re blocked out) that said:
Added emphasis mine
So, for your example of 200 skill level, grey skill mobs are skill 125 to skin, so level 25; therefore, level 26-30 mobs will be green, and level 31-35 mobs will be yellow, and level 36-40 mobs will be orange, and level 41+ mobs will be red.
Leaving aside the skinning skill bonus of a skinning tool; add two levels to all number in that case.