#jic even tho it's not that visible

[howdyboh]

have been in artblock lately but i've been wanting to draw her for a while cause middle school me (<- gore lover) would have been obsessed <3

[twunkass]

girl who likes to gossip + girl who likes to listen to her gossip

[susiron]

I have spent entirely too much time farming this horse (the Fallen Charger) since the Korthia patch release omg. I killed this bastard 52 or 53 times!!! And on the kill where I finally got it, he was far south in Perdition Hold, being heavily attacked by ally players, and I only got a tag on him at 1% health. It was an emotional moment. His drop chance is like 5% so I just had rlly fucking bad luck with how many times I had to kill it before a drop

I definitely recommend hopping groups where the horse is already up to farm him, rather than the waiting groups. You do have to be FAST tho to farm him this way. You gotta be willing to just sit there and keep hitting refresh on the group finder, using the search phrase “fallen up” and hope that you can click on a group within 7 seconds of it being up.

Half of the groups are also bait or troll ones, unfortunately. But a lot of them aren’t like visibly trolly so you still have to just sign up for everything, knowing in your heart that half of them won’t even fill up (because it’s a troll that never intended to invite), or that you’ll eventually get a group where the leader just leaves after inviting 39 people, leaving a sea of disappointment behind them.

I also recommend waiting up on top of the big rock I’m on (location is where my character is on the map). A lvl 62 rare spawns up there so it’s more ideal if you have stealth, but it’s a nice vantage point to glide to most of the spawns the horse can appear at. So I would just wait up on that rock (which has grapples to get up easier), search for groups, and then I would use pterrodax swoop or a goblin glider once I had a general idea where the horse was in the group I entered. Sometimes he’d be right under the rock, which was always fun.

Also be kind and just tag the thing and wait for people to get there. I recommend a macro to target him jic you get to the spot late and have a sea of people around him.

Idk how many people on Tumblr care for my WoW horse advice, but I spent entirely too much time becoming a master of farming this fucking horse to not want to blab about it.

[lokh]

I'm hoping to one day have a table at a con so I was wondering - what's it like when you do - do you get a lot of traffic, is it hard, is it more or less exciting than imagined - and what prepwork would you suggest (aside from the obvious: have stuff to sell)?

ive only been tabling for 3 years so im also working out what to do and what not do but ill do my best to help out!!

on traffic it really depends on a) where your table is b) the time of day and c) the day. i got situated just in front of a door the first year and that means a lot of people going by. the place tends to empty out whenever an event (eg cosplay comp) is on, so theres less traffic then, and more people show up on saturday than sunday (though i dont think this is necessarily tru anymore??? we got a lot of normies [for lack of better word lm ao] coming in on the sunday, im suspecting they were just walk ins and that by sunday most people kno smth is going on at the center so they can decide to pop in. this year there were those flight issues tho so maybe thats why sat was relatively empty)

i dont think that it is hard so much as it feels hard? especially ur first go around, therell be a lot of things u didnt expect and u will feel like u were ill prepared (eg theres no good way to get posters on weird fuzzy fascia board, ran out of change, nothing to roll up posters with, everything is a total mess under the table, accidentally ripping prints, ur stuff wasnt tacked down so a gust of wind blows everything......) but i think its to be expected!! its a learning experience and can be pretty fun in and of itself. tho ive also only shared tables, and that can definitely help out

umm im not the best person to ask about excitement levels tho lmao..,,,, personally im on high alert the whole time jic someone wants to buy something so theres not really any time to get bored. talking w ur tablemate is fun, i brought a guitar this year so there was that too (p fun to see ppl recognise songs =P) AND!!! the best part is seeing cosplayers tbh??? its great omg. also seeing people flip out over ur stuff, i think its p exciting but i guess it rly depends on the person?

PREPWORK:

FOOD

con food is super overpriced and ur sitting down for hours on end!!!!!! bring FOOD

write down expenses on production so u kno when ur breaking even

this one isnt necessarily prepwork but when ur actually tabling note down whats selling so 1) u kno how much money u got and 2) u kno which prints are selling! theyre a p reliable indicator of whats popular at the time 

TRY to print stuff early. arnd here everyone prints at the same place so about a week or two out from the con the place is all backed up

figure out how ur gonna carry all ur stuff in conjunction w how ur gonna get there

think of ur table layout? im not gr9 at displays etc so im still working on this, but its always a good idea to know how to arrange stuff as it does affect visibility and consequently potential purchases

familiarise urself w the con regulations ie when to show up n get ur ticket/lanyard and if u can try and make bump in times the day before. ur morning self will thank u especially if ur cosplaying

i dont have a lot of advice by the way of prepwork orz mostly bc it involves me throwing myself out of the house in a rush and arriving a whole hour late BUT thats what i got!!

hope it helps!