tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47242354497673934082024-03-13T20:37:57.729-07:00Elkagorasa the Casual~ A Warlock and his adventures in Azeroth ~Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.comBlogger790125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-29326982593970118252023-03-23T14:19:00.002-07:002023-03-23T14:19:45.789-07:00Profession Opinions<p>IMHO, spend your first points for herbalism or mining in 40 into [<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/profession-trait/botany-59651">botany</a>] or 35 into [<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/profession-trait/mining-process-57263" target="_blank">mining process</a>] so that you can gather while mounted. </p><p>I hate that the skinning trainer is standing immediately behind one of the leatherworking tables. I am constantly clicking on them. </p><p>I 100% agree with everyone that says the fishing profession needs a hat slot. We may need a secondary equipment slot for toons with a fishing ring. </p><p>I wish the crafting orders system worked 'better'. To complete "# of (profession) crafting orders" quests, my default is to go to my bank toon, and order low-level items. Gimme 3 bolts of cloth, or 2 handfuls of bolts, or 3 'profession equipment'. I sort of wish that when I specify a personal order, I could see their available recipes. Oh, look my hunter can make ___, lets's order 3 of those? My bank toon could order profitable items, not just garbage fillers. </p><p>Leveling engineering is dreadful. Creating 1 middle-level item, requires 1 rare gem, 2 arclight spanners, and a handful of bolts. That arclight spanner requires one fire, 5 bolts, a set of springs and some greased gears. The greased gears require 1 order, ... Just say, I am happy that ore is cheap on the AH. </p><p>Crafting benches are a nice idea. Requiring my alchemist to run Brackenhide dungeon in order to access the "decay" bench is less fun. How about putting the bench just into the zone where the dungeon "is". I could fly there, make my </p><p>--- </p><p>10.0.7</p><p>alt skips - accept the quest, fly up to NPC, chat, select the 'I've seen this all before' then 'I know my way around' now the island is open. My main opened up the waygate, 100% planning on flying to <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=71162/waygate-algethera" target="_blank">waygate: academy</a>, then over to the new zone. Unnecessary. </p><p>New Onyx Annulet ring. Cool spell effects on the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/news/best-primordial-stones-for-all-classes-in-dragonflight-patch-10-0-7-332009#warlock" target="_blank">stones</a>, but stam only makes it hard to replace a similar level, with correct stat ring. Testing it, but not super excited. </p><p><b>Zskera vault notes</b>: </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>start off with empty bags. This place is worse than mechagon in the amount of bag filler. </li><li>Go in, do one vault, go back out turn in the quest, and go back in. There are always more quests outside to collect something (pages hidden all over). </li><li>There are two extra-action toys that you can pick up. One I got at top of the spider web (you climb it like a rope), that winds you to another platform. The second is a roll-of-dice scroll that teleports you to a random door. </li><li>There appear to be 4 upper floors. Equip the SL parasol to float and hop around between balconies. </li><li>get more keys by completing quests inside. In one room, I found some Brewfest promoters who wanted something scattered around inside, they gave me 2 more keys for completing it. </li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RgMAib7kla4" width="320" youtube-src-id="RgMAib7kla4"></iframe></div><br /><div>tl;dw - rares, treasure chests around forbidden reach, keys are boa so send them across to focus character. get 6 keys by doing quests at the entrance. </div><div><br /></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-6518091224195268162023-02-28T12:59:00.004-08:002023-02-28T13:19:18.737-08:00Dragon High Flying<p>My first Dragon Flight update.</p><p>Tuesday routine: </p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Check Great vault for my M+ item. </li><li>Pick up Catalyst quest </li><li>Pick up fill-the-bar 'aiding the accord' quest.</li><li>Pick up weekly event quest (as long as not pvp, or pet battles). </li><li>Pick up profession quests (there are about 4), 2 from trainers, 2 from the Artisan's Consortium(?)</li><li>Pick up and turn in mettle quest.</li><li>Pick up 2 rep relic quests (turn in titan relics while there)</li><li>Pick up the elemental shard quest</li><li>Find and kill the world boss</li><li>See if Storm's event is going on (this week world boss is in the primal future so 2-fer).</li><li>Check timing on the 'fill-the-bar' community item (hunt this week), while flying out to say hi to Sabellian (already buds with Wrathion). Farm key fragments for 1 key.</li><li>Turn in any totems, titan relics, etc that were saved from last week. Immediately closing that fill-the-bar quest.</li><li>Repeat with alt, and the catalyst quest will complete. </li></ol><p></p><p>Refresh a contract for free 100 rep!? None of my characters are exalted with anything yet. </p><p>There are places in Valdrakken that allow you to get very high, use these before attempting to fly to far-off places. The catalyst location is one I always need help with. Taking the elevator to where the aspects are is an easy one, but there's also one over by the elemental shard quest giver. </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji9j0tWD4AvkMX85dg_m8SDRmL_3GfZtnEHAyPUnKWkbtrwo7vHW5V4c4_HjACr3wNb2xvuhHS8UvCgWwVga221s590r5hy_qYSfQ38VWxxKZISezMRKnDmMwg-DFmFyKn1fgHSRAFFPMa83Qz0SivOExa3Y2vNmTSJjxFhD4HV95wnE2MBqgA-NK_" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="854" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji9j0tWD4AvkMX85dg_m8SDRmL_3GfZtnEHAyPUnKWkbtrwo7vHW5V4c4_HjACr3wNb2xvuhHS8UvCgWwVga221s590r5hy_qYSfQ38VWxxKZISezMRKnDmMwg-DFmFyKn1fgHSRAFFPMa83Qz0SivOExa3Y2vNmTSJjxFhD4HV95wnE2MBqgA-NK_" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Valdrakken @36.32 30.04</td></tr></tbody></table><br />DF MDI - Someone in a guild dungeon last night asked about what we thought about 0 m+ affixes? What would this look like? If no extra mechanics, does that mean stricter timers? <a href="https://youtu.be/6n9dqqQxFU8?t=946" target="_blank">T&E</a> mentions it here.<br /><p></p><p>XMOG- wear something in every slot, and xmog it to blank if you don't want it to show. That way, when you want it to show, it's already available. I like the [<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=44693" target="_blank">wound dressing</a>] as a shirt slot item. It's for sale in Dalaran 'hospital' for a few gold. Tabards are available all over your capital cities, so pick one you like. </p><p>Take a few moments and do nothing in Dragon Isles. I watched as a family of beavers made a dam along one of the rivers. Spent 15 minutes just floating around on the <a href="https://twitter.com/elkagorasa/status/1618759958157467648" target="_blank">boat </a>where you rescue the tuskar kite. Found a few drinkable beverages, and your toon sunbathes if you click on the beach blankets. </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsKus7tK2VMZ7YKfL4mfs33d_rMLAhWegE4ZeTqX25GWwQ4uzNjPM7X7YLD3SDYuKjY6-yFGFJcdfcRujnewi-pERGV6c0PUAWMJJy1jeYo9B8iQSCCQd69rBNGG6_2X0IFWiHlpUxtlgjMVFgn3pQM5MGimnUUCSFZznNso8nXJw8wBVd6OYVRdx1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="815" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsKus7tK2VMZ7YKfL4mfs33d_rMLAhWegE4ZeTqX25GWwQ4uzNjPM7X7YLD3SDYuKjY6-yFGFJcdfcRujnewi-pERGV6c0PUAWMJJy1jeYo9B8iQSCCQd69rBNGG6_2X0IFWiHlpUxtlgjMVFgn3pQM5MGimnUUCSFZznNso8nXJw8wBVd6OYVRdx1" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noah Scribeson reading his <br />risque book in public.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Start the week off doing the pre-quests for this <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/news/earn-the-artists-easel-toy-with-bob-ross-inspired-questline-331106#news-post-331106">Bob Ross-themed</a> quest chain. To complete the quest, you will need to run 7 dungeons in all. Three (Brackenhide, Ruby Life Pools and, Nokhud), then talk to NPC, then four more (halls, academy, Azure Vault and Neltharus). Yes, I can confirm that they do drop on M+ editions. <p></p><p>Alts - I now have a couple max level alts. I've been trying to mix it up a little, having my main do the storyline, but alts take different routes. Druid is mostly doing hunts. Mage did dungeons. Paladin (bank) is doing the profession quests and the holiday events (tanking valentines dungeon). </p><p>Speaking of, make sure to at least log into any alts that you plan to level to max. This will make sure they start gathering rested bonus. Here's my "RESTED" macro:</p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">/script p="player";x=UnitXP(p);m=UnitXPMax(p);r=GetXPExhaustion();if -1==(r or -1)then t="No rest."else t="Rest: "..(math.floor(20*r/m+0.5)).." /30 bbls ("if r+x<m then t=t..r else t=t.."level +"..(r+x-m)end t=t.."XP)"end;DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(t)</span></p><p>"Rest: 30/30 bbls (level+176680XP)"</p><p>Not loving the DF profession system. Some level soo slowly. I feel so far behind on recipe acquisition. There is no good way for me to compete in the marketplace. Druid is max-level skinning but only has about a dozen points in any specialization. Wasted a ton of resources on phial experimentation, to seldom discover items. I would have done better creating one of every recipe for the knowledge points. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/503/648/tsmcompat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="800" height="154" src="https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/503/648/tsmcompat.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />I miss the skillet addon. Yes, I see it's been revived, but not 100% in love with the new version. (It's crashing a bit still). The beauty of this add-on is that it queues the entire recipe. For example, if you want to make an engineering recipe, skillet will queue the bolts, springs and gear components that you don't have in bags. It will provide a shopping list for what you need to purchase. Then when you're ready, you click a button and it will create each item in order. </div><p></p><p>Speaking of professions, check out <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/guide/professions/knowledge-point-treasure-locations-dragon-isles" target="_blank">this</a>. It contains all the known treasures to drop knowledge items. Also, check the consortium quartermaster, I found a couple books on sale for resources giving many knowledge points. </p><p>When I get a quest to complete 2 or 3 (profession) contracts. I find the cheapest recipe my crafter can make and have my bank order multiples of that. 3 bolts of cloth? coming up! </p><p>Hunter got THE bow in LFR. One of two hunters in the raid and the other had M+13 level gear on. My hunter just reached the i-level (359) to even get into LFR. Felt bad winning, but shouldn't. Could my hunter with 359 main-hand even trade away a 392 bow? I've xmogged that bow to hide the appearance. </p><p>Trying the TikTok 'side-hustle' of selling PrintIfy t-shirts on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RLLoots" target="_blank">Etsy</a>. I thought a shirt with WoWAnalyzer phrases would be funny, so I grabbed some clipart and made this. I have no plans to retire soon from sales. Been playing around with Bing (AI) chat for other ideas, and trying to spin up images using MidJourney. I have a few designs that I like, but MidJourney images require a subscription and the basic model is $9/month. So, maybe once I get a few more images I love, I'll pursue that. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMXTMzuV-hQT8CcJjC1iQiDZk39ve1bDhzOLV4H7Lj-kkKfYoGZ2bpUgGSnJ20SCSfewJQWSoEulJ_WJoTroxY044gp4ZN-E-46fQ9AKE7WUYaLqD9Pyr7yUuRej5yh4nELJnmJxnxYVX8cC0y4nJkTxaAfd9OmXvq5vhuMEDd_q3dzmJRTvtL4Hll" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="794" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMXTMzuV-hQT8CcJjC1iQiDZk39ve1bDhzOLV4H7Lj-kkKfYoGZ2bpUgGSnJ20SCSfewJQWSoEulJ_WJoTroxY044gp4ZN-E-46fQ9AKE7WUYaLqD9Pyr7yUuRej5yh4nELJnmJxnxYVX8cC0y4nJkTxaAfd9OmXvq5vhuMEDd_q3dzmJRTvtL4Hll" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dying has a significant <br />performance cost.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><div>The cooking event has gotten better with 10.0.5, but man that's a chaotic mess. </div><div><br /></div>Going to try doing more of this short-form posts going forward. I know I've said that before. Let's see if I can continue. Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-81471989669423523832022-12-06T19:07:00.000-08:002023-02-28T13:22:10.843-08:00Horde Rush!<p> With the announcement of 9.2.5, Alliance guilds everywhere are experiencing a horror show! Alliance toons are jumping ship to get a slight benefit in raiding. Many are simply faction swapping their current high-level toon, with a horde race of the same toon. </p>
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Fortunately, there are so many advances to leveling up a toon! Using Chromie Time, players can choose what expansion they want to level in. A lower max level cap means only half the number of levels to quest. Queueing for dungeons is less painful as it's possible to run a dungeon with 10-50 level characters, not just a tight band (ie level 40-50) of players. </div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">What class?</h4><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Pick a class you want to play. If you're spinning up a new character, maybe it's time to try out something new. While starting warlock over again will mean you know the rotation, Warcraft has a number of options that might also be fun. </li><li>If having a hard time between two classes, try the multi-spec option. Classes that can both tank/heal and DPS give a fairly decent speed boost as dungeon queues pop a LOT faster for tanks and healers than they do for DPS.</li></ol><h4 style="text-align: left;">Gear / Heirlooms:</h4></div><div>Heirloom gear, once a mandatory staple of any altoholic, has become slightly less important with the level squish. It no longer gives bonus XP based on the number of items. Even though, I still invest heavily in heirloom gear for any of my new alts. I just spent 60k gold upgrading my existing mail heirlooms to max level.</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Heirlooms scale while leveling. If you upgrade them completely, the same gear piece can be used at level 1 as level 59. </li><li>XMog is always awesome! Since the major pieces of gear never change, (weapon and off-hand, head, chest, legs, back), the majority of the transmog stays in place. If you blank out the remaining (non-heirloom) slots it's free to hide again. </li><li>Enchant once and forget. Going back to WoD, there are enchants available for most gear slots. Enchanting heirlooms is a possibility with most enchants, with the note that some slots can't be used. For example, current expansion enchants can be level locked, like <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=177962" target="_blank">Eternal Stats</a> is locked to 50+. Whereas <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=74708" target="_blank">Glorious Stats</a>, is not useful on items OVER level 50. <i>Enchant now and forget about them until starting Shadowlands content!</i></li><li>More rested. As the rested bonus is consumed slower, continue questing longer.</li><li>Always decent gear. Heirloom gear provides the feeling of always having cutting-edge gear. Happily pull larger than normal packs of trash so that I can finish a quest chain slightly faster. </li></ol></div><div><b>Macro to display how much rested you have saved up:</b></div><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/script p="player";x=UnitXP(p);m=UnitXPMax(p);r=GetXPExhaustion();if -1==(r or -1)then t="No rest."else t="Rest: "..(math.floor(20*r/m+0.5)).." /30 bbls ("if r+x<m then t=t..r else t=t.."level +"..(r+x-m)end t=t.."XP)"end;DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(t)</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Questing</b></div><div>I suggest installing the add-on Azeroth Auto Pilot. This free add-on will give you the best route through the last 4 expansions. The authors love WoD as it has a ton of treasures that give a decent bit of xp simply for locating them. Following the little breadcrumbs between each quest objective, you'll level pretty fast. As of writing, I am ~3hrs to get to level 22. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDuTm1kPw3VR588OfNASwJF0KUTGxd7V88ATsl0oAg523ApXClNggx5tBARFjAkuqfOBwQ02RTV_9cCUvWXFpLACwgKQxLwSEXXXJ6bdsmJ59ccJ6RmEA1Gn0nv-DhrdHVPLHay7wg2wMxBTYNnN2OXLfgYBl_eC0VAa-tLgNZcQY_BNgqdFx4JjB-/s330/aap%20map.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="272" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDuTm1kPw3VR588OfNASwJF0KUTGxd7V88ATsl0oAg523ApXClNggx5tBARFjAkuqfOBwQ02RTV_9cCUvWXFpLACwgKQxLwSEXXXJ6bdsmJ59ccJ6RmEA1Gn0nv-DhrdHVPLHay7wg2wMxBTYNnN2OXLfgYBl_eC0VAa-tLgNZcQY_BNgqdFx4JjB-/s320/aap%20map.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><br /></div><div>Once the garrison is upgraded to rank 2, you can build the storehouse and you have bank access. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/heirloom-guide#flight-paths" target="_blank">Scouting Maps</a></b>:</div><div>Purchasable toys from vendors that will provide most of the taxi stations in each continent. I'd suggest at least the current expansion </div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Shadowlands alt-friendly options:</h4><div>content skips:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Torghast intro, land directly in Oribos to decide upon threads of fate or storyline. </li><li>Renown skip - purchase a "0-60 renown" token from vendor by flight master. I hit 80 soon after getting to max level. </li><li>Run back to back torghast. While leveling during my early 50s, I was getting almost a full level with each run, plus a level of renown for completing the daily quest. </li><li>At max level you'll get a series of options that will allow skipping a good portion of content. </li><ul><li>Korthia zone skip - never visit the zone</li><li>Zereth Mortis zone intro skip </li></ul></ul><div>Purchasable armor:</div></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span> Zerith Mortis has vendor selling entry level quest greens. 228 for 500g each. Replace your lowest items, but don't over purchase. </span></li><li><span>World boss and quest rewards was 233 and 246 gear. </span></li><li><span>Sandworn relics are BOA, you can mail them from established mains to alts for 246 items.</span></li><li><span>Purchasable item at Friendly with ZM faction Enlightened for 246 gear (shaman got boots). </span></li><li>Purchasable BOA 'pouch' of soul ash and soul cinders from established Korthia base vendor (at 10% loss). </li><li>Purchasable BOA Cosmic flux pouch from ZM quartermaster. Transfer roughly 4000 cosmic flux if you can to purchase max level legendary. 3000 for the pouch of everything needed to make legendary (ash, cinders) and 1000 flux left over for the 291 ilevel item. </li><li>Free 260 legendary for completing all 6 chapters in ZM, 3 are completed with the ZM zone skip. </li></ul></div>Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-40795134496880137352022-04-01T13:02:00.002-07:002022-04-01T13:02:53.758-07:00Patch 9.3 Chromie Crisis<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://static3.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/world-of-warcraft-chromie-trans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://static3.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/world-of-warcraft-chromie-trans.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The bronze dragon, Chromie is still suffering from the events that lead to her many deaths during the Legion invasion. She's fatigued from keeping up access for champions to adventure in the many different timelines. In 9.3, we will adventure into an ever-changing timeline with zones phasing between classic (including season of mastery realms), vanilla (pre-cataclysm), post-cataclysm, and a future alternate reality where the Iron Horde was successful in conquering Azeroth. Characters will phase randomly into various timelines as they are playing through a series of 'What-if' type scenarios. <p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Some of the possibilities include:</h3><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Argus never fell to Burning Legion. Quest alongside Velen to perform daily tasks. </li><li>Players turn 'evil' after killing the end raid boss of select raids. Your raid team is allowed to hire raid boss' minions and take over the raid environment. The objective is to keep the raid under your control for as long as possible against other raid groups. Raids that will include the shorter form options, Legion's Trial of Valor, and the BFA raid, Crucible of Storms.</li><li>Players questing in vanilla/TBC zones may find their graphics quality randomly drops to original quality. When this happens, they will find themselves phased onto classic or tbc classic servers, right alongside players on these realms. Players who don't complete their assigned objectives during the phasing will be stuck on these classics forever. </li></ol><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Mythic/ PVP Season 4:</h3><p>This previously announced 'surprise' season will include the 8 different dungeons. These dungeons will include a new mythic affix Chromie time that will allow players to either speed up time - a single use time warp, freeze time that will work like an invisibility potion, or even a 30-second rewind. These options will be available by interacting with Chromie who will follow you into the dungeon. On cooldown, players will be able to select a new option and granted an extra-action button to trigger their selection.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">More transmog options:</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">Glasses:</h3><p>Glasses, eye patches, crowns, and other cosmetic head items will be removed from the appearance window and moved to the barbershop. To wear these cosmetic appearances, we're adding a new option in the character builder interface that will allow you to select these options along with your helm options. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">No Mog option:</h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5j6-7JjO8-7Q-CIMwjjKh5AIOZSp1XxWsq1pSVIlaxFO9AcZ6xncTNTUGvdbBlvvYfoW7JYwTTqbsk-kNqexOb99V6z8rpEwIZUwefUuGDmTYjX_-uC19tLpNaObgekQe10cqG8sVkzmurqHNF6LGy2CHIQgrB_kXNxg7OLHO2pBly2POrXRNLWk/s1200/1200px-ProhibitionSign2.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5j6-7JjO8-7Q-CIMwjjKh5AIOZSp1XxWsq1pSVIlaxFO9AcZ6xncTNTUGvdbBlvvYfoW7JYwTTqbsk-kNqexOb99V6z8rpEwIZUwefUuGDmTYjX_-uC19tLpNaObgekQe10cqG8sVkzmurqHNF6LGy2CHIQgrB_kXNxg7OLHO2pBly2POrXRNLWk/w108-h108/1200px-ProhibitionSign2.svg.png" width="108" /></a></div>One of the biggest complaints we receive is the needing to select an appearance when they are covered by other items, bracers that hide under gloves, pants that hide under robes, etc. While the option to hide the item is available (for all but pants), this isn't valuable for all xmog situations; druids in tune with the planet, or barebow hunters. For this option, we're going to add a don't care option in the transmog panel. Next to the don't show option will be the no-mog option with a 'no' symbol above it. Items marked with 'no mog' will appear as they naturally are. You want to run around in whatever questing gear you have, but xmog only your weapon as [<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=19019">thunderfury</a>], you now can.<p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Mount Equipment - cosmetics:</h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.etsystatic.com/5575294/r/il/213cee/2449857043/il_794xN.2449857043_n6gm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="794" height="200" src="https://i.etsystatic.com/5575294/r/il/213cee/2449857043/il_794xN.2449857043_n6gm.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Mount equipment is cool and all, but how about mount vanity items? Tailors, leatherworkers, and blacksmiths will now be able to purchase new patterns available from the Exotic Pets and Accessories vendors, <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=94516/giada-goldleash" target="_blank">Giada Goldleash</a> (h) or <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=94512/tiffy-trapspring" target="_blank">Tiffy Trapspring</a> (a) in Dalaran or the player's garrison. Outfit options will include, crown of flowers or top hat, horn(s), a party hat, or even their own Pepe. <p></p><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-58474087759121089312021-12-23T13:49:00.000-08:002021-12-23T13:49:06.604-08:009.1.5 Shadowlands Leveling and Gearing <p>This time, I leveled a druid. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61qmZ+NzVwL._AC_SL1280_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="800" height="198" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61qmZ+NzVwL._AC_SL1280_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p>This was a really fun change of pace, being able to swap between melee, tank, and ranged DPS as necessary (except for this one time, tbd later). Even better was jumping into cat, or travel form when inside and couldn't normally mount. Travel form magically upgrades right before (like at 38 instead of 40) learning the newest riding speed, so always fastest self-running. </p><p><b>Gear & Enchants:</b></p><p>Leveling gear consisted of all leather-agility-haste, heirlooms where available. Upgraded a number of items to the shadowlands editions so that I could continue getting heirloom benefits up until 50. Enchants were a bit more pragmatic. I was fine spending a bit of gold on a leveling enchant on an heirloom item. I was not fine spending that same amount on a green leveling item. </p><p>Pretty detailed guide: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/guides/shadowlands-leveling-tips-and-tricks-best-advice#heirlooms-druid" target="_blank">Wowhead</a></p><p><b>Path:</b></p><p>For leveling, I followed Azeroth Auto-Pilot and played through WOD content until I got to roughly 30s. At this point, I flipped over to Legion leveling and followed the Valshara, then Azshara content paths. My intent was to hopefully complete enough of the questline to get my druid class mount. With legion time-walking going right now, it was never hard to get a group to run dungeons. This was going great, opened my class hall, got my feral and guardian artifact weapons, then started progressing through the quest chain towards the mount. Using the Wowhead addon and uploading my quest completion worked until about the first dungeons that I needed to run. Wowhead says I haven't completed beyond step 30 yet of the Class Hall guide, but I just completed collecting the 10 shards needed for step 40. The three <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=124124/" target="_blank">blood of sargeras</a> still eludes me. Spend 5000 resources in my class hall, run a dungeon or do a 'calling'. </p><p>CON to this path is that it's level-locked about halfway through. You can start the class hall campaign at 10, but you can't start step 30 unless your level 45. The quests don't even show up in the class hall at all. </p><p>- <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/class-hall-campaign-for-the-third-artifact-relic-guide#druid" target="_blank">Legion Class Hall Campaign guide </a></p><p>Instead, I found the addon <a href="https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/btw-quests-legion" target="_blank">BtWQuests </a>extremely useful. It is correctly showing what quests have been completed and what still need to. In addition, it has ever-expanding info on the quest chain-breaking it down into a nicely formatted tree. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLSHZNczaieDkzyuT5rFA4-tt_z4CdMKAbYysoy9ROvDd0biAGj9X9VROqB2p_y3_d1SLRm1VTb29NsFDyMz_5Qxd8ADdGs7GTRuAUGVYYUF9avwYmFwFAIglmhpjoZ7yzS98YP36Nm-NY1HWzcorz7JTGMm1HNcno3upQgt7zQ4Ljc4MRfG3piWgV=s966" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="966" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLSHZNczaieDkzyuT5rFA4-tt_z4CdMKAbYysoy9ROvDd0biAGj9X9VROqB2p_y3_d1SLRm1VTb29NsFDyMz_5Qxd8ADdGs7GTRuAUGVYYUF9avwYmFwFAIglmhpjoZ7yzS98YP36Nm-NY1HWzcorz7JTGMm1HNcno3upQgt7zQ4Ljc4MRfG3piWgV=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Threads of Fate: 48-60</b><div>Starting into Shadowlands, I tried to use as many of the lore skip options as possible. As I was running AAP at the intro, it auto-selected the 'show me the story' for the maw intro. Or maybe, as I learned, I couldn't skip the intro because I was 48 and it would only let me skip as a level 50 character. (odd..) As I knew I wanted to Convoke class ability, I went straight for the Night Fae (again). Previously, Threads felt slower than just following the story quest chain. This time, when running, I filled completed the requisite quests in all 4 zones, completed the new PVP (win 1 BG) quest, and completed the daily torghast quest chain in addition and still was only level 58-59. One nice to the Torghast daily quest is that it rewards 160 soul ash. When I reached 60, I had enough ash to purchase a rank 1 legendary. I still need the BIS memory, but that looks like it drops from Coldheart rank 3; which <i>should</i> be fairly easy, especially as a bear. Overall, it was a nice experience leveling this alt via the threads of fate </div><div>path instead of following the same story path again. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Shadowlands: Lesson learned</b> - If you have an alt that has 80 renown with any covenant, any of your alts can purchase a BOA token to grant 40 renown for a measly 500 gold. I didn't find this until I was at 7 renown with the night fae on this alt. Using this item, bumped me up to 40, wiping out previous progress, and I was able to keep leveling my renown up to ~50 by the time I hit level 60. I don't know if 50 is the max possible, or if I could have gone further. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Max level gearing: </b>Using the <a href="https://www.wow-professions.com/guides/wow-leatherworking-leveling-guide" target="_blank">WoW-Professions</a> leatherworking guide, I maxed out my skill and made a bunch of crafted gear. This was helpful, but not. As this is a new toon, they don't have any of the rep to purchase the recipes for the higher rank crafters marks. So I was able to make a bunch of 160 level gear, but nothing higher. I purchased a few items off the auction house at 200 level, then ran through the quest chain in order to open Korthia (at 40 renown, it's just a matter of finding the right quest givers). </div><div><div><p><b>Alternate Druid Forms - Mark of the __ </b>(see the filtered list here: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/items/name:mark+of+the/quality:1?filter=152;11;0" target="_blank">wowhead</a>)</p><p>One thing I wanted to do early on, was get rid of the stag travel form. While looking for how to change this to cheetah, I found a whole collection of other form options. Most of these are sold on the auction house and once learned, you can swap between forms at the barbershop like hairstyles. My current favorites are the cheetah, tideskipper, and raven. The bat forms (and maybe moth) are as big as the respective covenant taxi mount and felt slow flying. The raven is small and feels very quick to fly in. The tideskipper is fun to jump out of the water and do dolphin things. Jump high enough and you turn into a bird.</p><p><b>travel forms</b></p><table><tbody><tr><td>cheetah<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/640421-mark-of-the-cheetah.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="800" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/640421-mark-of-the-cheetah.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td><td>doe<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/574375-mark-of-the-doe.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="800" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/574375-mark-of-the-doe.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td><td>twilight runestag<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1038372-mark-of-the-twilight-runestag.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="800" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1038372-mark-of-the-twilight-runestag.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td></tr>
<tr><td>midnight runestag<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1038279-mark-of-the-midnight-runestag-midnight-runestag-druid-travel-form.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="624" height="200" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1038279-mark-of-the-midnight-runestag-midnight-runestag-druid-travel-form.jpg" /></a></div></td><td>sable ardenmoth<br />wowhead says <i>travel </i>form<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1037968-mark-of-the-sable-ardenmoth.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="745" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1037968-mark-of-the-sable-ardenmoth.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table><b>
swimming forms
</b><table><tbody><tr><td>dolphin<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/911914-mark-of-the-dolphin.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="800" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/911914-mark-of-the-dolphin.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td><td>tideskipper <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/771906-mark-of-the-tideskipper.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/771906-mark-of-the-tideskipper.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td><td>orca<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/334230-mark-of-the-orca.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="712" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/334230-mark-of-the-orca.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b>
flight forms
</b><table><tbody><tr><td>duskwing raven<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1039047-mark-of-the-duskwing-raven.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="800" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1039047-mark-of-the-duskwing-raven.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td><td>gloomstalker dredbat <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8Wcrihgh7YYxOb2CA3AUnkHHUw0svzasIuHZ45NOVx2ZRuWmVyCtD4KYN2wDpztz-E7WdsTxzMo48_oDctFN4FfhEry5cCBW9HCwYwCkgEMahrfd9S3_tf4R2E61ZS5b6iuvRsZ6pe9LQzA7rA3q4MjrF55bto9nB4xXh0JCPh2ErJLuyAJJHTR_O=s485" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="485" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8Wcrihgh7YYxOb2CA3AUnkHHUw0svzasIuHZ45NOVx2ZRuWmVyCtD4KYN2wDpztz-E7WdsTxzMo48_oDctFN4FfhEry5cCBW9HCwYwCkgEMahrfd9S3_tf4R2E61ZS5b6iuvRsZ6pe9LQzA7rA3q4MjrF55bto9nB4xXh0JCPh2ErJLuyAJJHTR_O=w200-h142" width="200" /></a></div><br /></td><td>humble flyer<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/773517-mark-of-the-humble-flyer-tauren-druid-humble-flyer.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="800" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/773517-mark-of-the-humble-flyer-tauren-druid-humble-flyer.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td></tr>
<tr><td>regal dredbat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQhqrXGeOgfLPjHLkAf4tjm7lGWZ_rA1WOPtQzsnKL7LFTLjbDpAcaSX73bP3Q3045CPhn1LDi5BWff-xW3tKC7Qw0mxZ61drL7vGxuZRSa4561AfigtrJecQPzRbfezzyI2lg3gMeZZPXwK5fB9BXTPBldaprpZNV05WUadW44rVJNRJ_tjxWo0RL=s436" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="436" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQhqrXGeOgfLPjHLkAf4tjm7lGWZ_rA1WOPtQzsnKL7LFTLjbDpAcaSX73bP3Q3045CPhn1LDi5BWff-xW3tKC7Qw0mxZ61drL7vGxuZRSa4561AfigtrJecQPzRbfezzyI2lg3gMeZZPXwK5fB9BXTPBldaprpZNV05WUadW44rVJNRJ_tjxWo0RL=w200-h145" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></td><td>shimmering ardenmoth<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1037959-mark-of-the-shimmering-ardenmoth.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="614" src="https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1037959-mark-of-the-shimmering-ardenmoth.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-30374034991901792102021-07-12T15:44:00.001-07:002021-07-12T15:45:03.822-07:00Can't Stop this .. Waiting.<p> <iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VUdeIFQtDYU" width="320" youtube-src-id="VUdeIFQtDYU"></iframe></p><div>I took so long to publish on this post that 9.1 dropped. Spent the last few weeks getting into the content so this is slightly outdated, but still slightly useful. </div><strike>So, rumor has it that 9.1 will drop. Eventually. Probably this year. I swear! I've heard it from all those talking heads people. My favorite theory has it dropping the last week of June. Nothing like a major US holiday weekend to deal with troubleshooting the first large patch of the expansion. Hmmm.. </strike><div><br /></div><div>In the meantime, it has allowed me to get the Mythic+ achievement for +10 or better dungeons. My hunter is sporting 200-226 level gear. My alliance warlock has reached 190s and is working on a few low-level mythic dungeons. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>So, what do I do instead? Start an alt. Just started a new warlock on Stormrage. <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">Enervati </a>- <i>the one who causes enervation - a feeling of being drained of energy or vitality; fatigue.</i> I was considering a character move to Stormrage to join "<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">The Turtles</a>" over there, but there already was an "<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">Erlenmyer-Stormrage</a>", a level 50 warrior still sporting heirlooms. Starting over new on a new realm is hard, but not impossible. My largest issue was gold.<br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><br /><li>On toon with rep with <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/guide=1069/mop-fishing-and-anglers-overview" target="_blank">Anglers</a>, fly out to Angler's island and chat with <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=63721/nat-pagle#sells" target="_blank">Nat Pagle</a> to buy another pair of <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=168416/anglers-water-striders" target="_blank">Angler's Water Striders</a>.</li><li>Enchant heirloom gear and send it over to warlock. Found out the hard way, that SL enchants don't work as they require character level 50 before they activate. Probably need to use last-expansion enchants, but I didn't investigate.</li><li>Buy 60-ish Northrend meats to level <a href="https://www.wow-professions.com/guides/northrend-cooking-leveling" target="_blank">cold-weather cooking</a> to 25+. [Rhino Meat] was selling for about 10s so I bought 100 of them. Now "E" can use the nifty <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=134020/chefs-hat" target="_blank">chef's hat</a> toy. </li><li>Copy over macros from other toons. I'll paste them at the end of this article.</li><li>Acquire Legion: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=140192" target="_blank">Dalaran Hearthstone</a> - I didn't bother until 55 but was able to pick one up from the Innkeeper in the Ledgermane Lounge in Legion-Dalaran. In case you forgot where that is, the entrances are street-level about where the words "CHAMBER OF" are.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfaZPb8UkAEMjhm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="800" height="210" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfaZPb8UkAEMjhm.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></li><li>Buy WowToken? For $20, starting off on a new realm with +<a href="https://wowauction.us/token/us" target="_blank">180k gold</a> isn't a bad start. I figured it was cheaper than the character transfer fees and it would eventually be a good base for starting an AH business. So far that's not paying off with hardly any of my WOD leveling BOEs selling. Items immediately purchased:</li><ol><li>30+ slot bags </li><li>Training for the fastest flying! </li><li>Supplies for professions</li></ol></ol></div><div><br /></div><div>After ~36hrs played, I hit 60 while finishing a dungeon. There were a number of Plaguefall runs where we only really fought the last 2 bosses. I quit running a damage meter at one point, so not sure what my numbers really were. </div><div><br /></div><div>Max level means gearing up, completing that the covenant campaign and TORGHAST. This video reminded me the obvious first upgrade is crafted gear. Crafter cloth gear cost me about 2000 for almost full-set of gear. I didn't buy a new helm (as I forgot and) as that would quickly be replaced by legendary if all works out ok. </div>
<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dHRT2YXSUGQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="dHRT2YXSUGQ"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div>Sometime later: Now that 9.1 has dropped and Korthia is explorable, just by running the content, she's replaced all that Covenant gear with 207 drops and upgraded a few to 213/220 pieces. </div></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Macros - Here are the existing macros that I use on my alliance warlock on Proudmoore.</div><div><br /></div>** use trinkets then cast corruption<div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">#showtooltip corruption</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/use 13</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/use 14</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/cast corruption</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div>** attempt at using a single CURSE button, but doesn't pay off most of the time.<div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/cast [nomod] Curse of Weakness</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/cast [mod:shift] Curse of Tongues;[mod:alt] Curse of Exhaustion:[mod:ctrl] Curse of Tongues;</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div>** casts fear on focus if exists, otherwise on the current target<br /><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">#show fear</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/clearfocus [target=focus,dead][target=focus,noexists]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/focus [target=focus,noexists]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/cast [target=focus] fear</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/clearfocus [mod:alt]</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div>** casts mortal coil on focus if exists, otherwise on the current target<br /><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">#show Mortal Coil</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/clearfocus [target=focus,dead][target=focus,noexists]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/focus [target=focus,noexists]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/cast [target=focus] Mortal Coil</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/clearfocus [mod:alt]</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div>** when demonic circle exists, click to teleport, hold SHIFT to place demonic circle<br /><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">#showtooltip</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/cast [nomod] Demonic Circle: Teleport</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/cast [mod:shift] demonic Circle</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div>** creates a single button to create a healthstone/soulwell and use a healthstone when exists.<br /><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/use [nomod] healthstone</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/cast [mod:shift] Create Soulwell ;[mod:alt] Create Healthstone</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div>** triggers Fishing Buddy add-on <br /><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">#showtooltip Fishing</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/fb macro</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/stopcasting</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">/cast Fishing</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Note: I am using a warlock weak auras and it was overlapping the default UI's soul shards display in the middle of the screen. I found this <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/52qub6/how_do_i_remove_the_new_floating_healthmana_bar" target="_blank">Reddit </a>post detailing the place to turn it off.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-56325932439561841522021-02-01T17:32:00.001-08:002021-02-01T17:32:41.454-08:00Happy 2021 - Throne of the Lich King<table><tbody><tr><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wOFJhwh8rNo/X_UzfHXgo1I/AAAAAAAB0o8/u_TnF_51T0EJZNda_gKu4-m-JAWlqRcpgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1247/banner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1247" height="177" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wOFJhwh8rNo/X_UzfHXgo1I/AAAAAAAB0o8/u_TnF_51T0EJZNda_gKu4-m-JAWlqRcpgCLcBGAsYHQ/w468-h177/banner.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table>
<br />Shadowlands is upon us and I have exactly 1 max level characters. I would love to play some of my many other characters, but I don't feel capable until I get my first hunter's legendary created.<div><br />Sadly the two "memories" that are considered <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">BIS</a> for BM hunters drop randomly from a dungeon. Update: I was finally able to grab a memory by running a M+7 Spires of Ascencion with friends. </div><div><br /></div><div>The legendary creation tool is very novel. Pick a gear slot, combine with 1 ability, add 2 secondary stats, stir in a base item and some ash for glue and you have an i200 piece of gear! </div><div><br />I feel so behind the curve in gear and story plot. I played the opening slowly, now I feel 'everyone' is completing content several levels harder than I could successfully attempt. </div><div><br />Torghast Layer 3 feels like a struggle that I barely completed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Torghast - RNG dungeon layout with RNG powerups sprinkled throughout. </div><div><br />LFR Castle Nathria's first 3 bosses are interesting. Some new mechanics.</div><div><br />Gearing has been slow. World Quest gear is 'time-gated' behind the story, not my average level. So WQ drops are useless in this in-between. </div><div><br />The most reliable option has been completing the story. I can usually add 8 levels to several covenant items, every 2 chapters. Upgrading requires ANIMA. Anima does not drop off of everything. It is a reward for somethings, like emissary boxes, er, callings. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I love that callings are usually similarly themed. "complete 3 WQ in Zone A" also tends to land with "Fill blue bar while doing things in Zone A" </div><div><br /></div><div>I never understood why someone would xmog a shirt into hidden until I had to do it myself. Why? because it's free to wear it hidden vs having it take up a bag slot. Then if I ever want to xmog a shirt, I don't need to find one in my bags first. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k2c5vWHfpC8/X_O3_9WyJpI/AAAAAAAB0lk/EhBvHmuNXwEj2VSbaP-F61CyAHCVnG21gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="320" height="236" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k2c5vWHfpC8/X_O3_9WyJpI/AAAAAAAB0lk/EhBvHmuNXwEj2VSbaP-F61CyAHCVnG21gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-54013001740487903602020-06-08T15:50:00.004-07:002020-06-23T11:14:35.528-07:00Not gone, still hereChecking this blog, I noticed that I hadn't posted anything in over 6 months now. So how about a quick update to dust things off. <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rb9D8xDb4qo/XtrSCQCubYI/AAAAAAABj6k/X5-xCVykH-41sH-PFAU0TFu7bQS_Qnd_QCK4BGAsYHg/s350/anigif_enhanced-8076-1431971975-2.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="350" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rb9D8xDb4qo/XtrSCQCubYI/AAAAAAABj6k/X5-xCVykH-41sH-PFAU0TFu7bQS_Qnd_QCK4BGAsYHg/s320/anigif_enhanced-8076-1431971975-2.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div><div><br /></div><div>In all the (14+) years, I've played WoW there are actually a couple of classes that I've never played and even more that have never made it to max level. While under the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=326419/winds-of-wisdom" target="_blank">Winds of Wisdom</a> buff, I've decided to play through a few of the other classes. </div><div><br /></div><div>First off was to finish leveling a paladin on my current server. <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/proudmoore/eraalii" target="_blank">Eraalii </a>(in honor of friend's mage "Oh Really? Ya") was a fun class to go back and revisit. She was my BFA boost and my first allied race (light forged draneii). I had forgotten how much fun tanking was, especially while wearing all heirlooms in those early dungeons. "<i>Hold on let me pull a large pack, we got this</i>". </div><div><br /></div><div>Next, I finally gave in to the aesthetic of the Worgen heritage armor and leveled a Worgen mage. <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/proudmoore/erleoniance" target="_blank">Erleoniance</a> (the random name generator gave me that one, "Erl" + "brilliance") leveled almost exclusively via questing, following <a href="https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/azeroth-auto-pilot" target="_blank">AAP</a> rather blindly. I say it took 4 days to level her to max, but that is skewed because once I went AFK and she died but WoW didn't log me out, so I was at the spirit healer overnight. She has been max for about 3 weeks now, has reached the pseudo max ilevel of 430 via some heroic dungeons, lfr, and emissary quests. Sadly, she still isn't exalted with <strike>WorgenTown</strike> Gilneas, so she still doesn't have the heritage armor (even with the tabard). A few more heroic dungeons are required.</div><div><br /></div><div><table border="0" bordercolor="#888" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); border-width: 1px;"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width: 60px;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="708" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LW5PS9E3P-o/XtrA6YIrQaI/AAAAAAABj6I/f7TGsHHa_DsK33G5CZMghLZhURp3hKW6QCK4BGAsYHg/w180-h200/2d31789b398aceb68f3fe22c998be158.jpg" width="180" /></td><td style="min-width: 60px;"> Right now, I am leveling an arms warrior. <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/proudmoore/erlander" target="_blank">Erlander</a> is full-blooded Kul-Tiran. It's fun watching this large, lumbering KT charge into battle and start swinging that gigantic ax around. I couldn't imagine the visual of any smaller class doing the job. Gnome warrior? "roaarr" LOL What I do love about playing a KT, is that he already has the Boralus portal open to him. At level 108, I might consider porting over and tempting fate to see how he does at mining and questing. That will be a few more days as he's just starting in WoD content. According to AAP that's open your garrison and open a bunch of treasure boxes. <div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><b>Coming up next?</b> The emissary quests came up for Voldunai and Elkagorasa finished off the last 2,000 rep needed to reach exalted. I now have a tiny shaman (Ejinji) that I am leveling up through Orgrimmar concurrently. (Rested bonus flipping) I loved some of the fur coloration options for this tiny race. I had chosen to go topless so that you could see his fur. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L0phYIwg9OQ/XvJFvEjUhwI/AAAAAAABlLA/iHDbTooSlP49vD0R9N7hs9yxkFPvgKp-QCK4BGAsYHg/s802/Ejinji.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="802" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L0phYIwg9OQ/XvJFvEjUhwI/AAAAAAABlLA/iHDbTooSlP49vD0R9N7hs9yxkFPvgKp-QCK4BGAsYHg/s320/Ejinji.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ejinji - Vulperan Shaman<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Next, my alliance warlock is only about 3000 rep away from exalted with the Rustbolt Rebellion, so maybe a mechagnome? This will definitely be a slower process as it's less than 1000 per day? Maybe it's about time to pre-purchase the Shadowlands expac so I can level a death knight m-gnome?! </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ng51VrrmLqo/XvJF8gFXoPI/AAAAAAABlLM/1koTAxn97WMigZ0qKMas_UZ0BNnNzNVPwCK4BGAsYHg/s661/ebot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="591" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ng51VrrmLqo/XvJF8gFXoPI/AAAAAAABlLM/1koTAxn97WMigZ0qKMas_UZ0BNnNzNVPwCK4BGAsYHg/s320/ebot.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">eBot - Mechagnome DK</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>If there is still time, I will consider finishing off one of my not-yet-max level characters. My panda monk with his dual-wield hammers or the night-elf druid (so she can equip the eye customization) sitting at 88 maybe? Or maybe I'll start over again, as it's only playing out to be a couple hours of playtime. Crap, am I turning into an altoholic? </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Have you bought the Shadowlands expansion?</b> I am seriously considering purchasing the basic edition. The boost, the big item in the second package, isn't a serious draw for me. We're going to max level 60 in 6-ish months. I am finding the leveling from 1-120 under the 100% xp boost comfortable. Mathematically, the 100% XP boost is equivalent to leveling half the number of levels. The mount is shiny but I am a little bit over that atm. Have too many mounts to have a favorite. The game-time in the best package is shiny and I'd seriously consider it if included in the middle-tier, not the top tier price at almost 2x the cost. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Question:</b> When the max level is 60, what will happen to my heirloom gear? Will they all disappear as we don't need the bonus XP? Will the 0-60 heirloom convert to a 0-30 heirloom? Will I just get a big refund check for the 60-110 heirloom upgrades that I've purchased? </div><div><br />From a leveling perspective, I wouldn't suggest upgrading your heirlooms beyond 100. Consider artifact gear and legendaries that drop in Legion and the three AZ slots, plus the shiny new neck you equip in BFA, you'd only waste the gold. Just pay for upgrading your legs, trinkets, and rings if you want to keep running them. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U_qi6Zlo70o" width="320" youtube-src-id="U_qi6Zlo70o"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Erlenmyer, my hunter, has been smashing it gearing. Ok, he's only 457, with stuff in his bags bringing him to a 465, but it still feels powerful. Soloing a full horrific vision with one mask has been easy-peasy. I am considering adding a second or third mask soon. Dark Imagination (cue creepy Willy Wonka remix linked above) was super easy as it only triggers when below 50% sanity and with the tree 80% filled, he's hardly ever that low. I used my first orb going into Thrall's fight because I figured I should. </div><div><br /></div><div>AOTC has been achieved. RL friend was able to bring me into a coveted spot in a friends & family heroic run with his mythic progression guild. I was happy to not die on 3 of the bosses! Happily, they didn't kick me before reaching the N'zoth. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p5Xcbw-SXaE" width="320" youtube-src-id="p5Xcbw-SXaE"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>2020 has been one big April Fools. No Blizz jokes. No fun. One of the few happy moments has been listening to upbeat, happy music. Electro-swing is that genre of music. It's one of those rabbit hole moments on Youtube when you find a <a href="https://youtu.be/mhO7wSAoQCI" target="_blank">video </a>you like, then keep following it until you start <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5M7xLCQTYJL0lbKIrUn3a4?si=6jbBBmn4SDy8-D8XSfAiqA" target="_blank">fixating</a>. Spotify <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5sM4cZ9MHihs0tbmkiE9n8" target="_blank">playlists</a>; <a href="https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sKOJCTAvK24&list=RDAMVMsKOJCTAvK24" target="_blank">youtube</a> music</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Interesting Ideas for 4/1.</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://youtu.be/-DUUBJQeWhg" target="_blank">WoW for Switch</a> goes mainstream. Enjoy all raiding from the sofa, fishing from the kitchen, and mining while in the restroom. WoW on your Nintendo Switch is the most versatile option for playing World of Warcraft. [<font size="1">WoW for Switch is not mobile play, must be connected to WiFi. Need new Switch 2020 in order to support gameplay. Mouse and keyboard sold separately.</font>]</li><li>AC Cross-over: Along with mining, and herbalism, WoW will be adding bug collecting. Specimens can be turned in to a new NPC, Owlsie, found near the heirloom vendors in Ironforge or Undercity.</li><li>Using this new class token, all hunters can now ride tamed pets, not just Haiti. Warlocks can mount their own minions. (still working out how Imps can carry their boss). </li><li>Mercenary modes extended beyond the BG/Battle for Dazaralor. Living on a highly unbalanced server is never fun, now enable mercenary mode while questing so that you can level on that opposite faction. Have a horde toon and want to raid with your Alliance guild? Turn on Mercenary mode so that they can invite you. </li><li>Phantasmal armor kits are now for sale on the Blizzard store. These $2 armor mods turn any set ghostly so that you can still see your DH's mythic raid set plus the glowing tattoos through the armor. Must buy the appropriate armor class (cloth, leather, mail, plate) for your toon. </li></ul><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-60573906473474450032019-10-29T23:37:00.000-07:002019-11-25T12:19:14.862-08:00Bee Math<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So you've finally realized that the Bee Mount is the absolute BEST mount in the entire game. You want one, no, NEED one right now. OK, so what do you need to make this happen.<br />
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<b>Step 0: </b>Go to the auction house and buy a few <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=152813/monel-hardened-stirrups">monel-hardened stirrups</a>. Using the stirrups is the best way to harvest jelly. No need to dismount unless you are attacking something. Try not to.<br />
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<b>Step 1: </b>Head over to <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/news=295280/honeyback-hive-and-honeyback-harvester-bee-mount-guide">wowhead </a>and read what they said over there. This will give you all the details on how to get started. Turning off ground clutter really does help.<br />
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<b>Step 1B: </b>set your hearthstone to the inn in Brannadam. It's a bit of a pain if your dalaran hearth is on cooldown, but nice to not have to fly back to stormsong each time.<br />
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<b>Step 2:</b> You've now finished the intro quest chain, and are planning to harvest lots of thin jelly. You need to level your baby bee up 10,000 (3,000 for baby, another 7,000 for mature) health points to 'mature' and each thin jelly feed this little guy 6, SIX. That is, according to my big giant calculator 1,667 jellies. (if you have the gold, jellys do sell on the ah for gold. (about 70g according to <a href="https://theunderminejournal.com/#us/proudmoore/item/168822">Undermine</a>). Also look into <a href="https://theunderminejournal.com/#us/proudmoore/item/168825">Rich </a>(= 4 thin) and <a href="https://theunderminejournal.com/#us/proudmoore/item/168828">Royal </a>Jelly (= 8 thin). They all provide the equivalent rep but sometimes sell for less (than 4 or 8 thin jelly). Gold making idea, buy low "RICH" and sell high THIN. ;-)<br />
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<b>Step 2b:</b> oh, you also need to gain rep with this little bee family, but really, I am exalted with these bees and still need 800 more thin jelly. Holidays, dark moon faire all give you bonus rep, but you still only get 6 jellies fed to your baby bee. Get to REVERED ASAP! Buy <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=169109/beeholders-goggles">BEEHOLDER GOGGLES</a>. You will want to save your last 20 rich jelly so you can buy these.<br />
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<b>Step 2a: </b>Wait, really you don't want to go flying all over stormsong looking for jelly. It's a pain in the behind. Jellies can be found in any of these circumstances:<br />
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<li>on the ground</li>
<li>on trees (about 10%)</li>
<li>in combat zones, but less common</li>
<li>on grassy zones, can be hillsides if there's grass nearby, but not on the steeper portions</li>
<li>Not in the water, but can be nearby. <b>UPDATE</b>: I found 2 in the pond near the hive; roughly in the same place in the water. </li>
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As you can see from my image, I found most of my jellies so far either around the hive (down to turtle emissary) or near the bees by mildenhall meadery. Get those goggles. Jellies can be multi-looted by several people, but they despawn about 2-seconds after the first person. You be flying along, see a jelly, land to pick it up, then it will despawn with "you can't loot that." error. VERY ANNOYING. If this does happen, you're probably following someone and should go a different route. </div>
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<b>Step 3: </b>Kill Honey Smasher daily. Use a bonus rep buff. He's a world boss so find a group to kill him quickly.</div>
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<b>Step 4:</b> Join Bee Events. They spawn in about 6 different places on the map. (do you have TomTom addon). Please turn hunter pet's taunt off! I don't want us hunters bashed during these events. (spell book (p) - pet tab - right-click growl to turn off auto-cast by pet). </div>
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Now, the <i>best </i>part of these bee events is that it takes only one impatient person and they're over. Yep, they last about 4 minutes from start to finish. If you have a good crew, you can kill 3-4 mini-bosses. Loot ONLY drops from mini-bosses. You know it's over when either a giant jelly loot box appears and/or the bee flies back and all the mobs turn peaceful and disappear.<br />
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<b>Update</b>: Bee events aren't as useful after your exalted with the hive. Sure they give a big handful of jelly, but the quest turn-in doesn't give anything useful for feeding your bee. If you're having decent luck finding jellies, pugging bee events might not be as time beneficial. 5-10 minutes filling a group for <20 jellies vs 5-10 minutes wasted of monel-hardened stirrups.</div>
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If you manage to get on a low-pop server, you could find more jellies as they are not all timing out, as they despawn about 1-2 seconds after the first person collects from it. You can pick them up while in a raid group, so just don't drop after killing honey smasher or a bee event! :)</div>
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I finally bee completed with this little quest. Lovely place, but I am done looking for jelly. <a href="https://t.co/zNRdmrvimv">pic.twitter.com/zNRdmrvimv</a></div>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-33169651058532343792019-09-10T16:17:00.003-07:002019-09-20T09:23:22.842-07:00Brain Pharts 8.2.5 and Beyond. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Finish last fight in 8.3, cut scene rolls. Wrathion has found a way to clear the purge of all of the old god corruption by triggering the <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/news=294280/wrathions-journal-and-his-plan-to-defeat-nzoth-spoilers#forge-of-origination" target="_blank">origination array</a>. Unlike our encounter in Uldum, we won't avoid the full re-origination.<br />
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Next we wake-up back in Orgrimmar/Stormwind to find ourselves no longer level 120. Nope instead, the world has been rebuilt to a date roughly in Earth 2006. Yes, the <a href="https://youtu.be/iwnntGp3WXU?t=354" target="_blank">level squish</a> will see us back at level 60 as if we've just completed Vanilla experience. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ref: <a href="https://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/blizzard/281116/world-of-warcraft-classic-preview-impressions" target="_blank">DenOfGeeks</a></td></tr>
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That new level 60 content won't be added to Vanilla. It will be the next expansion where we don't repeat our mistakes in Burning Crusade. </div>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-5355516810356622222019-08-07T10:15:00.000-07:002019-09-20T10:55:38.595-07:00Are you Mecha-Done?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the most exciting mounts to come out this last expansion (personally) is the Model-W. This wheel mount comes in two variants, new and rusty. The <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=168370" target="_blank">rusty</a> edition is dropped from Rustfeather with a 0.5% drop rate. The Model-W is a shiny edition that comes from a fairly lengthy bunch of achievements. I have been working on this achievement on my Alliance Warlock for some time now and thought it was time to look up the remaining portions.<br />
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(Note: Comparing achievements with my alts, it appears the meta-achievements are BOA. My <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/auchindoun/dingo/achievements/exploration/battle-for-azeroth" target="_blank">son</a> has Making the Mount marked completed, yet hasn't completed the quest chain.)<br />
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You can find the achievement under:<br />
<a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/proudmoore/elgorana/achievements/exploration/battle-for-azeroth" target="_blank">Character > Achievements > Exploration > Battle For Azeroth</a><br />
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It has 10 meta-achievements included in it. <strike>I believe</strike> the very first achievement "<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=13553/the-mechagonian-threat" target="_blank">Unnamed Branch</a>" is from completing the main storyline which concludes with killing King Mechagon in the dungeon "Operation: Mechagon". (update: as soon as I completed the dungeon on Monday, this achievement is now marked completed).<br />
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<b>Rest In Pistons</b> involves killing rare mobs that spawn all over the island. These rares can be divided into about 4 different categories; 1 spawn on a timer. 2 spawn during an event or quest. 3 requires the player to 'do' something to spawn it (cast lure, use a quest drop). I have a few of each still remaining.<br />
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All of the rares via Wowhead comment (plus my notes):<br />
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<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151124">Mechagonian Nullifier</a> - 56.88 52.10 (Junkwatt Depot: Requires <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/item=168023">Smashed Transport Relay</a>, which has a small drop rate from minions that spawn for 1 minute during <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=153205">Gemicide</a>'s Drill Rig DR-JD99 drilling.</li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151672">Mecharantula</a> -- 87.90 19.60 (Sparkweaver Point) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151702">Paol Pondwader</a> -- 22.02 69.17 (Roams the north side of the second-most big isles in Western Spray. Only seems to spawn when Reclamation project and/or Flame Turret projects are available) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151934">Arachnoid Harvester</a> -- 51.69 41.57 (southwest of Bondo's Yard) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151884">Fungarian Furor</a> -- Only spawns when Mylune is in Rustbolt with a daily quest: Aid from Nordrassil. Follow the link to learn how to summon him. </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151569">Deepwater Maw</a> -- 37.28 43.82 (Toothy Shallows: Requires <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/item=16765">Hundred Fathom Lure</a> to spawn) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=152001">Bonepicker</a> 65.90 26.94 (Sourback Hideout cave) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151940">Uncle T'Rog</a> - 58.65 23.58 </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=153000">Motobrain Spider</a> -- 80.14 24.84 (Sparkweaver Point: patrols north to south of the coordinates, near the cave) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151933">Malfunctioning Beastbot</a> -- 60.66 42.22 (Bondo's Yard: Spawns as a neutral giant mech-gorilla. Requires: Beastbot Powerpack to turn him on. First timer? <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/quest=55066/blueprint-beastbot-powerpack#comments">Blueprint: Beastbot Powerpack</a> at 60.93 41.57) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=150342">Earthbreaker Gulroc</a> -- 63.03 25.68 (Only spawns when Drill Rig construction projects are available. Drill Rig DR-TR35. Scrapbone's Hollow cave in Scrapbone Den) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=153205">Gemicide</a> -- 59.78 67.05 (Requires: Drill Rig construction project. Cave, south of Junkwatt Depot's wall) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=153200">Boilburn</a> -- (a cave north of the Junkwatt Depot's wall. Only spawns when Drill Rig construction projects are available. Drill Rig DR-JD41. Drops <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/item=167042/blueprint-scrap-trap">Blueprint: Scrap Trap</a>) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=153226">Steel Singer Freza</a> -- 25.29 77.55 (Western Spray) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151627">Mr. Fixthis</a> - 61.25 60.49 (Junkwatt Depot) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=152764">Oxidized Leachbeast</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=154225">The Rusty Prince</a> - 57.21 58.38 (Future Mechagon: Junkwatt Depot - may need to shard hop by joining a party.) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=154739">Caustic Mechaslime</a> -- 66.46 58.81 (The Outflow: Only spawns when Drill Rig construction projects are available. Drill Rig DR-CC73. Inside the Crumbling Cavern) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151623">The Scrap King</a> -- 72.27 50.12 (The Heaps) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151684">Jawbreaker</a> -- 77.26 44.68 (The Heaps) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=150575">Rumblerocks</a> -- 38.21 53.02 (Inside the Rustrock Cavern in Toothy Shallows) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=152007">Killsaw</a> -- 41.26 34.88 (The Fleeting Forest) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151202">Foul Manifestation</a> - 66.11 50.10 (The Heaps: follow the link to learn how to summon him.) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151296">Rocket</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151308">Boggac Skullbash</a> -- 55.64 26.37 (Scrapbone Den: only spawns during Drill Rig construction projects) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=150937">Seaspit</a> -- 19.25 80.26 (Western Spray: drops <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/item=168063/blueprint-rustbolt-kegerator">Blueprint: Rustbolt Kegerator</a>) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=152182">Rustfeather</a> -- 64.13 78.86 (The Outflow: top of the mountain) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=149847">Crazed Trogg</a> -- 81.94 21.35 -- (Tinted Cave in Sparkweaver Point. He is friendly. Follow the link to learn how to turn him hostile) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=153206">Ol' Big Tusk</a> -- 56.22 35.92 (Requires Drill Rig construction project. Drill Rig DR-TR28) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=152764">Oxidized Leachbeast</a> - </li>
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<li>To summon this rare you have to activate the <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/object=325969/weather-alteration-machine">Weather Alteration Machine</a> in the Junkwatt Depot<br /> <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=151627/mr-fixthis">Mr. Fixthis</a> drops <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/item=168961/exothermic-evaporator-coil">Exothermic Evaporator Coil</a> to activate the <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/object=325969/weather-alteration-machine">Weather Alteration Machine</a> and this will help you summon the <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=152764/oxidized-leachbeast">Oxidized Leachbeast</a> <br />Then you will see lots of slime<a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=155344/oxidized-ooze">Oxidized Ooze</a> in the Junkwatt Depot<br /> Kill them and that should spawn the rare <br /><br />For TomTom users: <br />/way 61.03 61.45 Weather Alteration Machine<br />/way 57.16 62.58 Oxidized Leachbeast </li>
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<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=152113">The Kleptoboss</a> -- 68.39 48.27 (The Heaps: only spawns when Drill Rig construction projects are available. Drill Rig DR-CC88. Inside the underground Crumbling Cavern) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=153228">Gear Checker Cogstar</a> (Only spawns when a certain amount of Upgraded Sentry are killed. They say "Bzzt... unit defeated... request immediate support... Szzt. Cogstar yells: Distress message received! Gear Checker Cogstar reinforcing target area." He spawns where that last Upgraded Sentry died) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=150394">Armored Vaultbot</a> -- 50.08 46.46 (The Fleeting Forest: roams northwest to southeast of these coordinates. He is immune. Follow the link to learn how to kill him. Drops: Blueprint: Armored Vaultbot Key) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=154153">Enforcer KX-T57</a> - 52.98 62.38 (Junkwatt Depot) </li>
<li><a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=154701">Gorged Gear-Cruncher</a> -- 72.85 54.06 (The Heaps: Only spawns when Drill Rig construction projects are available. Drill Rig DR-CC61. Inside the Crumbling Cavern)</li>
<li>The Doppel Gang</li>
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<li>OOX</li>
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<li>Stage 1 confirm that there is a <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=155254/oglethorpe-obnoticus">Oglethorpe Obnoticus</a> in Rustbolt active.</li>
<li>Stage 2 find and kill <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=151159/oox-fleetfoot-mg">OOX-Fleetfoot/MG</a> (chicken can be all over the zone)</li>
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<li>/tar <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=151159/oox-fleetfoot-mg">OOX-Fleetfoot/MG</a></li>
<li>It is running around the area and you have to use slow and stuns. Has 6 mils hp</li>
<li>After you kill it there will be an alarm that spawns the rare</li>
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<li>Stage 3 Go to the mountain west of the Bondo's Yard and kill the rare</li>
/way 56.77 39.89 OOX-Avenger/MG<br />/way 72.8 38.0 Oglethorpe Obnoticus</ul>
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I've done most of the obvious quests for this meta-achievement, found that those that I had remaining are mostly tied to the same visitor. The daily quest "<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=55658/clues-abound#map" target="_blank">Clues Abound</a>" results in a different follow-up quest depending on the item that you find. (<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=55658#comments:id=3137779" target="_blank">ref</a> by Wowhead user Fyeina)</div>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=168223/old-parchment">Old Parchment</a> leads to the Quest <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=55672">A Historical Mess</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=168234/ancient-runestone">Ancient Runestone</a> leads to the Quest <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=55688">A Growing Mystery</a></li>
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<li>IMPORTANT: While you do the Quest A Growing Mystery, don't just kill the Mutated Lashlings for your Quest, kill also the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=152653/toxic-lurker">Toxic Lurker</a> and you will receive (after a few kills) the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=168256/night-elf-ring">Night Elf Ring</a>. This gives you the Quest <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=55718/strange-discovery">Strange Discovery</a> for your Achievement. If you already turned in your Quest A Growing Mystery the Lurkers cant drop the Quest any more!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=168236/hearthstone-card">Hearthstone Card</a> leads to the Quest <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=55717">Time for Heroics</a></li>
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<li>IMPORTANT: While you do the Quest Time for Heroics don't just rescue the 3 Guys, also kill the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=150698/congealed-oil">Congealed Oil</a> in that area and you will receive after a few kills the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=169864/old-pirate-hat">Old Pirate Hat</a>. This gives you the Quest <a href="https://de.wowhead.com/quest=56469/pirates-i-hate-those-guys">Pirates? I Hate Those Guys</a> for your Achievement. If you already turned in your Quest Time for Heroics the Oils cant drop the Quest any more! If you do this in a Group only 1 Member can loot this Hat and has to share it to the others!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=55813" target="_blank">Aim High</a> - Daily quest that can popup, kill rustwing mobs near where Rustfeather spawns. (I've only seen the corollary to save 8 gnomes).</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=56501" target="_blank">Taking the Air Out </a>- Daily that's a followup with "<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=56493" target="_blank">A Direct Approach</a>". According to comments, it's only happened once since 8.2 dropped. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=56405" target="_blank">Cogfrenzy's Construction Frenzy </a>- I couldn't find any construction projects last time, but now I can fly and it should be a lot easier to complete! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This meta-achievement involves collecting blueprints from various locations around Mechagon. This comment by <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=13479#comments:id=3142230" target="_blank">Clarial</a> is super helpful in outlining all the sources. The ones that I have left include:</div>
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Advanced
Adventurer Augment</div>
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Quartermaster Honored</div>
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AntiGravity
Pack</div>
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Rare:
Rustfeather</div>
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Battle Box</div>
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Buy from
Quartermaster Exalted</div>
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Blue Spraybot</div>
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Rare: Crazed
Trogg, Data Anomaly</div>
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Emergency
Powerpack</div>
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Daily
Cogfrenzy's Construction Frenzy</div>
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Emergency
Repair Kit</div>
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Daily
Cogfrenzy's Construction Frenzy</div>
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Emergency
Rocket Chicken</div>
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Encrypted
Black Market Radio</div>
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3x Dailies
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Extraordinary
Adventurer Augment</div>
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Digitalization Relay</div>
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Microbot XD</div>
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Orange
Spraybot</div>
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Crazed Trogg,
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Perfectly
Timed Differential</div>
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Drop: King
Mechagon</div>
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Rustbolt
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Enforcer KX-T57</div>
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Reclamation Rig - Needs an item from Toys for Destruction</div>
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Resistance Insignia</div>
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Paragon Rep -
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Rare: Gear
Checker Cogstar</div>
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Rare: Caustic
Mechaslime</div>
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Vault Bot</div>
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Copper Trim </div>
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<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=56117" target="_blank">Recycling Requisitions</a> (daily)</div>
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Lemonade
Steel</div>
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Rare: Mr
Fixthis, Scrap King</div>
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Overload
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Trogg, Rare: Fungarian Furor</div>
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Gnomeregan
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Rare: Boggac
Skullbash, Mechagonian Nullifier</div>
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Mimiron's
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Rare: Boilburn, Rare: Gemicide, Ol' Big
Tusk</div>
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Triumph of
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Rare: Steel
Singer Freza, Box of Assorted Parts</div>
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For me, here are the remaining rares:<br />
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/way 22.02 69.17 Paol Pondwader (kill)<br />
/way 38.21 53.02 RumbleRocks (kill)<br />
/way 58.65 23.58 Uncle T'Rogg (kill)<br />
/way 64.13 78.86 RustFeather (blueprint)<br />
/way 61.25 60.49 Mr Fixthis (exothermic)<br />
/way 72.27 50.12 Scrap King (drop)<br />
/way 52.98 62.38 Enforcer KX-T57 (drop)<br />
/way 81.94 21.35 Crazed Trogg (blue, orange)</div>
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52.10 <span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.6667px;">Mechagonian Nullifier (vinyl)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">/way </span></span>25.29
77.55 <span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.6667px;">Steel Singer Freza (vinyl)</span></div>
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<b>Found at a Drill Rig </b><br />
/way 68.39 48.27 Kleptoboss<br />
/way 72.85 54.06 Gorged Gear Cruncher<br />
/way 66.46 58.81 Caustic Mechaslime<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.6667px;">/way </span>55.64 26.37 <span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.6667px;">Boggac Skullbash (vinyl)</span><br />
/way 59.78 67.05 Gemicide (vinyl)<br />
/way 51.2 50 Boilburn (vinyl)<br />
/way 56.22 35.92 Big Ol' Tusks (vinyl)<br />
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<b>Alternate Timeline:</b><br />
/way 57.21 58.38 Rusty Prince (bring vault key if during Chromie's quest)<br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.6667px;">Gear Checker Cogstar - shows up after several sentries killed.</span><br />
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<li>Leachbeast (kill)</li>
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<li>/way 61.03 61.45 Weather Alteration Machine</li>
<li>/way 57.16 62.58 Oxidized Leachbeast </li>
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<li>The Doppel Gang (kill)</li>
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<li>Complete Cogfrenzy's daily 3x, get 3 pressure valves,</li>
<li>/way 80.95 20.17 use pressure valves</li>
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<li>Fungariun Furor (orange)</li>
<li>OOX-Avenger/MG (blueprint)</li>
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<li>Stage 1: confirm that there is a <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=155254/oglethorpe-obnoticus">Oglethorpe Obnoticus</a> in Rustbolt active.</li>
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<li>/way 72.8 38.0 Oglethorpe Obnoticus</li>
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<li>Stage 2: find and kill <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=151159/oox-fleetfoot-mg">OOX-Fleetfoot/MG</a> (chicken can be all over the zone)</li>
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<li>/tar <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=151159/oox-fleetfoot-mg">OOX-Fleetfoot/MG</a></li>
<li>It is running around the area and you have to use slow and stuns. Has 6 mils hp</li>
<li>After you kill it there will be an alarm that spawns the rare</li>
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<li>Stage 3: Go to the mountain west of the Bondo's Yard and kill the rare</li>
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<li>/way 56.77 39.89 OOX-Avenger/MG</li>
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<li><b>note</b>: It seems the more people who successfully repair a <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=155253/dismantled-oox-35-mg">Dismantled OOX-35/MG</a> the more they will run back to <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=155254/oglethorpe-obnoticus">Oglethorpe Obnoticus</a> until he has enough to upset <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=150282/tinkmaster-overspark">Tinkmaster Overspark</a> (you will hear Overspark complaining about chickens). Once that happens you can start /tar <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=151159/oox-fleetfoot-mg">OOX-Fleetfoot/MG</a>. Chances are there will be so many people repairing chickens left and right that doing a sweep for <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=151159/oox-fleetfoot-mg">OOX-Fleetfoot/MG</a> at random intervals will land you one</li>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-10269174867212238412019-07-23T17:15:00.000-07:002019-07-23T17:19:39.772-07:00Why am I NOT Flying (a bee)?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As I log into the game, it appears that about 1/3 of all players have completed the Pathfinder 2 achievements to unlock flying. Due to a combination of a family vacation, a US holiday (long weekend) and kids off for summer (aka, get to sleep in, so they stay up later), I've had less than the usual amount of time to play the last month.<br />
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Summer Vacay</h3>
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Due to my bad planning, we took a week-long vacation the very same week that patch 8.2 dropped. My oldest is about to graduate high school, and about to start university. I wanted a chance to expose her to a few colleges in the state, so we headed to the beaches for a few days by San Luis Obispo (<a href="https://ucsb.edu/" target="_blank">UCSB</a>, <a href="https://www.calpoly.edu/" target="_blank">Cal Poly SLO</a>), then spent 4 days at Disneyland (discarding any plans to see LA and San Diego colleges). Upon our return from SoCal, we met up with my parents and aunts and uncles for a 4th of July family reunion. Equating to roughly 2 weeks away from Azeroth.<br />
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Rep Grind is a Long Grind</h3>
As of <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/flying#us-proudmoore-elgorana" target="_blank">today</a> (July 22nd), I am about 80% of the way to revered for both the Naz'jatar and Rustbolt factions. At this rate, I expect to unlock flying by the end of the month.<br />
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I haz contracts. New to BFA was the reputation contract. I suggest purchasing the Rustbolt contract as the Naz faction has a regular emissary quest available. I was a bit disappointed that none of the dailies (blue !) or the follower quests rewarded any rep; only the world quests. Starting off in Naz, you have so few WQ to actually do.<br />
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Darkmoon Faire starts again next month. If I don't have it by then, I could always fly out and get the DMF party hats!<br />
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My Son has Started Playing (again)</h3>
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With his summer vacation 2/3 over, he's been playing a bit of WoW while he's home. He made it to 120 over the winter break back in December and has only been able to play a little each weekend. (between everything else he plays). This left him at a pitiful 305 gear score. Benthic gear has been extremely helpful for him. For only 5 pearls a pop, I was able to purchase him a full set of gear and raise his ilevel to almost 385. This allowed him to swap from questing as a tank DH and over to the DPS spec. He now looks like one of Davy Jones Crew from the Pirates of the Carribean<br />
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He's very excited about the rares popping up in Mechagon. In one day, he managed to kill <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=152182" target="_blank">Rustfeather </a>5 times before realizing that he wasn't able to loot the bird but once a day. Low-pop server and demon hunter mobility for the win. He did manage to get the awesome blueprint for the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=169173" target="_blank">anti-gravity pack</a>, so he can fly around in the meantime!<br />
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While not in Mechagon, he's also started doing old raid mount runs. Last I watched was Warlord's Mythic Hellfire Citadel. He's trying to acquire the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=123890" target="_blank">Felsteel Annihilator</a>. The changes to the first "boss" made this trivial once he knew what to do. His only real big issue was the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=90378/kilrogg-deadeye" target="_blank">Kilrogg</a> fight as the boss would despawn when he filled his bar. Flipping to DPS and killing him faster solved the issue.<br />
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BeeWatch</h3>
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Like you all, I am waiting patiently for the super cute bee mount. It appears the <a href="https://discordapp.com/invite/wowsecrets" target="_blank">secret finders</a> agree that the bee is not available <i>yet;</i> "<a href="https://discordapp.com/channels/223122687227199489/323917018782760961/602794362308395008" target="_blank">possibly 8.2.5 or 8.3</a>". <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/44640-where-is-my-bee-mount/" target="_blank">Icy-veins</a> has combined a number of data-mined resources for this mount. </div>
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I still believe that this will be loosely based on the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/how-to-ptrain-your-pterrordax-kuafon-guide" target="_blank">Horde Kua'fon</a> mount quest chain. The necklace drop and later raising Bumbles could be simply the first step in the chain. Let's re-organize the quests from Icy-veins into this order. The story could be something like:</div>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowdb.com/quests/56111">The Usurper</a> - Shortly after you're introduced to the bee queen, she is killed by someone? A naga?</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowdb.com/quests/56112">A Royal Awakening</a> - Bumbles is realized to actually be descended from royalty. You must do some 'leveling' with her to reach queenship. (leveling may also killing the opposing usurper's followers).</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowdb.com/quests/56108">A New Queen</a> - Bumbles starts to get followers as the new queen winning over followers.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowdb.com/quests/56110">A Defender Emerges</a> - You must help Bumbles defend her queendom.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowdb.com/quests/56109">Defender of the Hive</a> - Rep grind portion as you raise your rep up to besties with Bumbles.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowdb.com/quests/56107">One of the Hive</a> - Now that you are besties with queen bumbles, she grants you one of her drones as your mount. </li>
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You go to complete a new quest in Stormsong, get clobbered then wake up only to find yourself turned INTO A BEE and framed for the murder of the old queen. Continue the story from above, but raising yourself as the new bee queen! Surprise! The BEE mount with you being the actual BEE and you can carry a friend.</div>
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The Essence of Play</h3>
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The biggest addition to patch 8.2 (IMHO) has been the essence system on top of our Heart of Azeroth. I've spent a bit of time these last two weeks, trying to get essences. Basically, at Rank 2, the top four essences all perform about the same, so it basically comes down to which is your favorite activity. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ref: <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/affliction-warlock-pve-dps-essences">https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/affliction-warlock-pve-dps-essences</a></td></tr>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=168854" target="_blank">Condensed Life-Force</a> is from killing bosses in the new Eternal Palace raid. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/azerite-essence-power/the-crucible-of-flame-47" target="_blank">Crucible of Flame</a> is from leveling your heart of Azeroth. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/azerite-essence/blood-of-the-enemy-23" target="_blank">Blood of the Enemy</a> is from PVP. </li>
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My oldest daughter has encouraged me to fire up the old Pokemon Go again. She spends a fair amount of time (and money) at the local mall which has around 22 different poke stops. Her and her boyfriend spend the afternoon there catching pokemon, and participating in gym/raid battles.<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">I have a quest for you! </span>I need 3 new Pokemon friends. I recently shared this out on twitter as well and those don't count. I send gifts whenever I have them in stock!</div>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-18758082438766529332019-05-23T15:25:00.000-07:002019-05-23T15:25:12.536-07:00Glory of the Legion Hero at 120(+)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Now that we're up to into BFA and have a gear score over 370, going back to solo Legion dungeons is rather painless. With 10 levels, your toon can walk passed most trash mobs and quickly take down those that you need to engage. The achievement <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=11163" target="_blank">Glory of the Legion Hero</a> has 26 meta achievements. Several of those you may have already completed as you played through the area. I found that I completed about half of them already on either my paladin or hunter toons. Since the achievements are account bound, you can complete them in any order, on any toon. There are 3 achievements that you'll need 5 people.<br />
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Eye of Azshara<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10456"></a><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10456">But You Say He's Just a Friend</a> - burn down boss, don't kill trash. don't have boss spear shellbreakers.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10457">Stay Salty</a> - boss summons droplet adds. do nothing to adds until 10 are there. boss puts debuff on you that expires in a focused spray. Use that spray to kill 10 droplets at the same time. The problem I had is boss only calls player # * 2 of droplets. So if trying to solo, you have to not kill any droplets for 5 waves of adds. Having more players in the dungeon would make this go faster!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10458">Ready for Raiding V</a> - avoid bosses abilities. </li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10766">Egg-cellent!</a> - Egg behind Dresaron. Open it before starting boss fight.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10875">Can't Eat Just One</a> - let boss eat 4 adds and will probably eat you two times, have healing pot or healthstone.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10996">Got to Ketchum All</a> - yeah pokemon. Need to squish 7 snails in dungeon using a ketchum tablet bought in dungeon. 2 snails need something to get them near you. My warlock was able to fear or shadowfury them both. This caused them to move. DON'T KILL SNAILS before you smash 'em with tablet.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10542">I Got What You Mead</a> - need at least 4 people. Kill first 3 bosses to open up path to Odyn's area. 4 people each grab a jug of mead off tables. Splash the four bosses simultaneously. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10543">Surge Protector</a> - burn down the boss before adds cast Surge</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10553">You're Just Making It WORSE!</a> - /tease millificent manastorm when prompted in fight. Helps if you have the manastorm replicator.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10679">I Ain't Even Cold</a> - when boss casts a line of lava pools, run through all of them to get debuff. kill boss while debuff active.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10707#comments:id=2605386">A Specter, Illuminated</a> - two specters are only visible using the light of elune. Need to carry it back the elevator to find them. (click on title for detailed comment)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10680">Who's Afraid of the Dark?</a> - burn her down to 45%, she'll cast creeping doom. run through the gates, pick up orb to find and kill add, finish off the boss. </li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10709">You Used to Scrawl Me In Your Fel Tome</a> - read all the hidden books in the dungeon. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10711">Adds? More Like Bads</a> - </li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10412">Poor Unfortunate Souls</a> (needs 5 people) - click on font at beginning of BRH, complete dungeon then run Maw of Souls.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10411">Helheim Hath No Fury</a> - kill the first and second boss quickly.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10775">Clean House</a> - burn down boss or soak all pools he summons.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10773">Arcanic Cling</a> - burn down boss to avoid his damaging ability.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10776">No Time to Waste</a> - avoid timeless wraiths as you are running back to the last boss.</li>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-81294016259934457852019-05-07T13:38:00.000-07:002019-05-09T13:42:02.847-07:00Busy as a Bee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Last few weeks have been busy. </b>First off with the release of the 8.2 to the PTR, WoWhead has been aggressively data mining the files. We're getting quest chains, the final raid boss of the Azshara raid, new recipes and tons of new mounts and pets to collect.<br />
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For me, the biggest thing we found that the Pathfinder 2 mount, won't be the <span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">bee</span> mount like eluded to at Blizzcon last year, but the mechanical parrot mount.<br />
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<b>I guess this makes sense.</b> It's a parrot, so that makes it pirate-y (Kul Tirans are wondering does it run on crackers?). It golden, so it's Aztec-ish in nature (thematically Zandaralarian). It's mechanical tieing into the tinker gnomes we'll see in 8.2. In fact, it's just a bigger version of the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=147583/feathers">parrot</a> that carried us un-ceremoniously across the desert.<br />
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<b>Not all was lost for this glorious mount.</b> <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/news=291250/speculation-on-bee-mount-acquisition-in-patch-8-2">Wowhead</a> announced they found a series of quests and a rep grind around the bee mount. The current speculation has the mount tied to a new mini rep-grind. The essential part of these quests appears to be tied to <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/quest=53347/bumbles-the-bee">Bumbles</a>.<br />
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So I took this as my hint to go grind the honey elementals and animated honey pools until I got the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=163699/annealed-honey-amulet">quest item</a>. At ilevel 408, it took my hunter, all of about half an hour to finally get the necklace (round up everything around me, AOE them down). I made probably 2 full laps around the area. The next step is to return the necklace to the mom, who's working in Boralus. She roams around so you need to find her. The easiest way I found was to take the taxi between the locations, spamming a targeting macro. There's a decent macro in the comments for the mom. You'll get a rough idea where she's <strike>hiding</strike> working. Then run back to that point where you initially spotted her. I found mom working upstairs in one of the buildings. Afterwards, you fly back to Ancel, and help him feed little pet bee 7 times as part of a daily quest. There's an achievement [<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=13062">achievement</a>] you can monitor to see how many more times you need to do the daily quest.<br />
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<b>Opinion:</b> I agree with theories that this is similar to the horde <a href="https://ptr.wowhead.com/how-to-ptrain-your-pterrordax-kuafon-guide">Kua'fon</a> quest chain. <span style="font-size: large;">OMG Alliance gets a flying mount and Horde only get a wing-clipped pterodactyl?! <b>THE OUTRAGE</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">**until more quests in 8.2**</span><br />
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The quest chain will probably be two-part, growing Bumbles into a jumbo-sized bee in order to make her rideable as a mount. Then rep grind to get her into the 'queen' bee role.<br />
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Elgorana, my alliance warlock, hit 120. Over the last week, she's been working on gearing. As of tonight, she is sporting <strike>380 </strike>390 level gear.<br />
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How to gear up from questing greens to 390 ilevel in patch 8.1.5:<br />
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<li>Time walking just happened to be going on the first week, so I ran the first dungeon and picked up the 500 tw tokens. The vendor sold me 5 different 310 pieces, which immediately helped. Then I completed the event to net the nice 385 ilevel item at the end.</li>
<li>You can't run LFR or Warfronts, but you can participate in the defending side. Killing WF rares can get you 355 gear. </li>
<li>Looking on mains and bank toon, I had a few 310 green items waiting for DE or AH. I sent those over. The auction house was able to provide a replacement for the one last quest green.</li>
<li>Had a few dungeons required after finishing the questing zones and by now I could run them as heroic for 355-365 gear. </li>
<li>I got a carry through a Mythic+10 dungeon while I was sporting 340 gear. This netted me two 400 ilevel items (in the dungeon and weekly loot crate).</li>
<li>Island Expeditions are not good for gear score, but they do provide a random 'treasure map' quest that netted me 220 titan residuum. Combine this with the 600 from the M+10, I was able to purchase a 400 piece of relinquished gear. </li>
<li>Emissary quest came up that dropped my nifty pants. </li>
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<b>Opinion:</b><br />
Most Allied Race options are pointless. When the base character model is the same, except for the skin (eye hair color, etc), the only defining factor between void elf and night elf is the racial abilities. (Yeah, why can't my void elf take on the night warrior cosmetics??). Until we can run around (almost) completely naked, telling the difference between my light-forged draneii and my regular draneii, are almost impossible to tell apart.<br />
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Gnomes = mecha gnomes || dwarves = dark iron dwarves || troll = zandalari trolls || night elves = void elves<br />
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Instead. make the allied races use a physically 'different' model than others. Playing my void elf, I am having a really hard time using her racial ability. She's a warlock so has a couple of movement abilities already. I could see it having usefulness in boss fights (send rift out, expecting to move later)</div>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-56063281018187512512019-04-12T17:34:00.004-07:002019-06-14T12:12:33.569-07:00Two Sides to Every Warlock<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After seeing the [<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=13517/">Two Sides to every Tale</a>] achievement and mounts, I found that I had completed the Alliance side of the story on my hunter and about half done with my horde character. After reaching 120 on Elkagorasa, I had stopped doing the quest chain. This left about 4 hours of questing in Zulduzar to do, concluding with those war quests that lead up to the Battle of Dazaralor.<br />
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This reminded me of how much fun I've enjoyed playing a warlock. While Blizzard was having a sale on their services, I was NOT tempted to simply faction change Elkagorasa to an Alliance. So, I spun up a void elf warlock. <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/proudmoore/elgorana">Elgorana</a> was boosted to 110 and I've been leveling her the last few days. To speed up leveling I purchased a few heirloom armor upgrades. I figured since I'd be replacing my azerite pieces quickly, so I purchased upgrades for cloth pants, cloak, rings and trinkets. I also purchased the Int 2-handed staff upgrade. Unfortunately, AMR never really liked the trinkets as they have 0 intellect on them and she's used the two original boost-gear items she acquired. </div>
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I remembered once to use the "Whee" buff from the Darkmoon Faire. Doing island invasions whenever they came up also provided a nice 10% buff when you complete the 4 world quests and the final blow up the opposite side. And I completely forgot to use any of the service medal flasks. When I logged off last night, Elgorana had just completed an island invasion and dinged 117. So she currently has the 10% invasion buff. I am planning to have Erlenmyer run over and grab two of the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=166750">Service Medal flasks</a>, then have Elgorana possibly run over to the DMF for the whee buff. This will bump her to a 30% XP bonus from 'buffs' + 15% from gear (weapon no longer provides bonus XP). From there I am planning on either doing a few island expeditions or start questing in Drustvar. </div>
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I started an April Fools post. Unfortunately, I never finished my <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">April Fools Patch notes</span>. Some of the items that I had thought up were:</div>
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<li><b>A new warmode option</b>, '<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=161332">Call to arms</a>' - by simply emoting 'FOR THE HORDE' or 'FOR THE ALLIANCE', immediately 5 AI followers popup to defend you while being attacked. Only usable by the losing faction.</li>
<li><b>Who needs portals.</b> Velen has returned with Exodar and replaced all the missing Alliance portals with teleport pads as we used in Legion. The horde would not be able to access them at all. </li>
<li><b>New dungeon</b>. Similar to the Tournament of Champions dungeon in Wrath, but based off the Brawler's Guild where the bosses would randomly spawn from the entire library of brawlers. No 2 runs the same. Last fight is a free-for-all with 3-4 of the bosses coming out at the same time. </li>
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I am personally FOR a level squish. The desire to spin up a new warlock was strong, but only because I could skip the leveling process for most of the old content. In addition, there are so many people that have played this game from X - expansion forward. Why should every player need to play through all the various expansions, which don't always make linear sense anymore, in order to reach max level. </div>
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<li>The leveling experience could be somewhat unique for each new alt. One through BC, one through Panda.</li>
<li>You could get definitive "intrinsic" rewards (like a new talent) more often. </li>
<li>The discontinuity from the various expansions wouldn't be as impactful. </li>
<li>Not such an insurmountable mountain for new players to overcome. Heirlooms, etc wouldn't b part of the leveling requirements. </li>
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As we look forward to the next expansion, 9.0 could be time to 1/2 our level. All our level 120s log in on patch day and become 60s. </div>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-53316411977645624882019-03-18T22:04:00.003-07:002019-03-18T22:05:24.017-07:00Free Weekend March 21 - March 24. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Haven't played in awhile? Quit because of some mechanics? <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22938498?blzcmp=app">Blizzard is offering WoW for free to returning players this coming weekend. </a></div>
Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-9903821919305704262019-02-07T13:23:00.000-08:002019-02-07T13:27:52.848-08:00Quick Gold For Casual Players<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
About 2 months ago, my hunter was in a major pinch for gold. He was trying to level up his engineering and leatherworking professions. In addition, he was trying to keep his gear enchanted and gemmed for the (no-commitment) guild's casual raid. With all those expenses, he simply couldn't keep up. Enchants missed, cheap quality gems used, and no-food or flask buff throughout the raid.<br />
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That's when he came up with this sure-fire way to make gold fast in the game. It does not require any marketplace skills or persistence. No need to install, configure special add-ons (but <a href="https://www.curseforge.com/WoW/addons/transmogcleanup" target="_blank">TransmogCleanup</a> helps!) It just needs a max level toon (preferably one with a WOD garrison hearthstone) and either a vendor mount, large bags or patience standing at the mailbox.<br />
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For most profitability:<br />
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<li>Loot every corpse. Even if you don't have bag space, when you attempt to loot, it will appear in your mailbox. </li>
<li>Look for things that help speed looting up, include engineering <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=109167/findles-loot-a-rang" target="_blank">Loot-a-rang</a>, Hunter <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=136781" target="_blank">FETCH </a>skill. Also, don't try to kill things at range, instead gather everyone up into a bunch and AOE them down. </li>
<li>Run with a class (or select talents) that grant a nice run speed, like a demon hunter, or a priest using magic feathers.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Firelands</b></span><br />
This level 85, Cataclysm expansion raid consists of 7 bosses arranged around a large arena. I like this raid because you can mount up for all but the last boss.<br />
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<b>Step 1: Hearth to your faction capital (Orgrimmar, Stormwind) then fly over and take the portal to Mt. Hyjal. </b><br />
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<b> Step 3: Kill and loot everything! </b>I like to mount up and make a clockwise loop (entrance is around 7 o'clock) around the raid. You should be able to aggro everything (except doggies which stun you) and do a simple AOE rotation to take them all down quickly.<br />
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<li>If you haven't run this raid before, one <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=53691/shannox" target="_blank">boss</a> only spawns after you've killed enough of the trash. Watch raid chat for his announcement. </li>
<li>The bridge (top of image) isn't accessible until you've cleared all the bosses visible here. </li>
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While there, you can pick-up:<br />
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<li><b>Transmog: </b></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/guides/transmogrification-guide-look-alike-tier#lookalike-tier-12" target="_blank">Tier 12 gear.</a></li>
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<li><b>Mounts: </b></li>
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<li>There are three mounts available. Two have low drop rates from Alysrazor (flying bird boss who's mount is a bird DOESN'T FLY!) and the final boss Ragnaros. Third is the Glory of the Firelands Raider (which so far requires a group of <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/guide=3916/firelands-complete-list" target="_blank">6-ish people</a>). </li>
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<li><b>Pets</b></li>
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<li>I see only one on the drop list. <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=152975" target="_blank">Smoldering Treat</a>. I collect one for myself, then sell off all the seconds.</li>
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This level 100 Warlords raid is easily solo-able at level 120. There are three levels to it (Normal, Heroic, and Mythic) that you can run back-to-back for loot. There are 10 bosses, and while you cannot mount up between them, there isn't a lot maze running.<br />
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This is a dead end containing three bosses. At bottom of the ramp, take the paths to left and right to kill Oregorger and Gruul. Go back to the swirly and look for the new (see image above) entrance to Blast Furnace boss. When done with these three, run back to the lobby and go next door to the...</li>
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<li><b>Black Forge</b> - When you land in the water for the maidens, you moved to the Black Forge. After you kill the maidens, run along the path lined with giant mushrooms. Take the path to the left to the elevator shaft. Take the open archway to Hanz and Franz (think <a href="https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/pumping-up-with-hans-andamp-franz/n9619" target="_blank">SNL</a>). Follow the path to Flamebender Ka'graz then Kromog. After his kill, there's an arch to the right, another path lined with mushrooms (you have been here before. Take the elevator back up to the lobby.</li>
<li><b>Crucible</b> - aka Blackhand- The bridge over the lava has now cooled and you can cross it without dying. Take out Blackhand's bodyguard then Blackhand is a quick kill. </li>
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<b>Notes</b>: Blast Furnace is the most annoying boss (to solo) in this raid. It consists of damaging the hampers of the furnace until it explodes then killing the elemental inside. To damage the hampers, you must run explosive bundles to the hampers (one on each side). The explosives drop off the engineers. I found if you kill them right next to a hamper, you can click the explosive satchel and the action button a couple of times. ENGINEERS WILL HEAL the furnace so don't try doing both sides at the same time.</div>
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<li><b>Transmog: </b></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/blackrock-foundry#drops:mode=mythic:100+15-2" target="_blank">Tier 17 gear tokens</a></li>
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<li><b>Mounts: </b></li>
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<li>There are two mounts that I see in this raid. Blackhand drops a fairly ugly furry kodo looking thing. <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=8985/glory-of-the-draenor-raider" target="_blank">Glory of the Draenor Raider</a> - which involves 2 of the raids in Warlords. There is one achievement that would require 10 people (<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=8983" target="_blank">Would you give me a hand</a>)</li>
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<li><b>Pets</b></li>
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<li>None</li>
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After you've completed a raid, your bags (and mailbox) will likely be full. These two raids drop ilevel gear in the 100-150 range. Sell all these soulbound items. TransmogCleanup does a really good job with this as you can set a threshold to sell all items sub 300 (or whatever your equipped gear is). You can also have it NOT sell other items (BOE, Legendary item). I like to pass any crafting materials and BOE items to my bank alt for consideration of selling them on the AH. Lastly, I send over green items to possibly be disenchanted.<br />
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<b>Let me know if there are other <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/raids" target="_blank">raids</a> that you like to run for gold?</b> There are 43 (as of 8.1) different raids available. With legacy loot rules taking effect on raids 2 expansions ago, I probably won't be running Legion raids soon (at least for gold). Maybe <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/news=287653/legion-lfr-solo-queue-coming-in-patch-8-1-tides-of-vengeance" target="_blank">LFR </a>edition?<br />
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<li>Highmaul - haven't tried but will probably soon</li>
<li>Hellfire Citadel, dislike, it's a bit of a maze and a LOT of running around. </li>
<li>Siege of Orgrimmar isn't too bad but takes a while to complete.</li>
<li>Throne of Thunder is a bit of a hike to get there.</li>
<li>Other MOP raids are ok</li>
<li>Of the Cata raids, Dragon Soul is probably worst of the bunch to solo because of the Spine fight.</li>
<li>Wrath, BC and Vanilla raids (IMO) don't seem to drop as much loot, so if I run one, it's usually just for an achievement or mount/pet drop. </li>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-67913220073738939822019-01-16T11:29:00.001-08:002019-01-16T11:35:46.735-08:00Archaeology For Beginners in Patch 8.x<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This week my Alliance guild is planning on attempting the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=12806" target="_blank">Glory of the Uldir Raider</a> meta-achievements. Unfortunately, no one in the guild has the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=64482/puzzle-box-of-yogg-saron" target="_blank">Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron</a> for the <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=12828" target="_blank">What's in the Box?</a> meta. So last night, while the guild was raiding, I attempted to find this toy, here is what I learned.<br />
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<li>Look at the world/ zone big map, click on the magnifying glass on top corner and select the checkbox for "Show Dig sites". (there is a similar 'track dig sites on the mini-map you might need to enable).</li>
<li>Scan map, there should be a number of little shovels appearing on the map. </li>
<li>Fly to the one closest to you. When you are close, the mini-map will display a zone (like quest zone) for archaeology finds. </li>
<li>From the professions window (P), click the survey button. I suggest moving this to your button bar for quick access. </li>
<li>The first survey spot (unless you are really lucky) will provide you with a spotting scope and a small light. The color of the light is your distance from the find; red to yellow to blinking yellow. (per wowhead comment "Red = more than 70 yards Yellow = 30-70 yards Green = less than 30 yards")</li>
<li>Run in the direction of the spotting scope, repeating the survey and run, until a glowing shovel appears above your characters head. Survey spots were typically on little mounds, or where no angry mobs were. </li>
<li>When glowing shovel appears, click survey again to uncover the item.</li>
<li>Collect fragments! If you have enough fragments for an artifact 'build', you can complete it, box it and store it in your bank. (note: boxes stack, items do not)</li>
<li>Repeat 5-8 until the dig site has been exhausted of all fragments. </li>
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For more info, this <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/guide=1189/archaeology-1-800-leveling-and-collecting-strategies" target="_blank">guide</a> is very useful. </div>
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<li>Archaeology pre-wod required leveling your skill for that specific area. If you want to look for items in Northrend, your archaeology skill will need to be 350 before you even see dig sites on your map. </li>
<li>During the Warlords expansion, archaeology got a revamp. Dig sites are visible at archaeology skill level 1 in Draenor, Broken Isles/Argus and Kul Tiras/Zan'dalar zones. The dig sites shrunk to roughly 1/3 of their size, but There are more fragments to be found in each dig site. They are typically in zones with little to no enemy mobs. </li>
<li>It appears the 'order' of your finds is completely random. You will likely need to go through a number of grey "normal" items before a rare item (like the puzzle box). </li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=87399/restored-artifact" target="_blank">Restored Artifacts</a> are a currency for items. DON'T get rid of them. Upon reaching level 600 archaeology you can buy a <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/item=87537" target="_blank">crate of nerubian archaeology fragments</a> to partially complete a relic. </li>
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<li>After spending too much time flying around Northrend looking for dig sites on my alliance toon, I finally flipped over to my horde warlock to work on this. He played through the zone completely AND had some skill points already for archaeology. </li>
<li>At 250, I could have either flew around Kalimdor OR skip to WOD -> BFA, which has no entry-level skill requirements. I chose BFA simply because it is the current content. Thinking back, I should have gone to Legion zones and leveled from 250-350 there. In Legion, my toon could have flown between dig sites instead of relying on taxi's and the flight master's whistle. </li>
<li>I completed dig sites (taxi, run, whistle) and restored artifacts until reaching 350. </li>
<li>At 350, cleared my bags, and moved to Northrend. The single Nerubian dig site appears to be at Talramas crash site, but there may be more (at least according to <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/currency=400" target="_blank">this</a>). To get a new one to spawn, you need to clear it and maybe a second out? (<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=-5:476318415566312543230526704485" target="_blank">Map</a> to all 5 possible dig sites)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li>I went from Borean Tundra, up to Icecrown to complete a Vrykul site, back down to Dragonblight to complete a night elf site, then Talramas respawned (1AM local time). </li>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-71946918824363360772019-01-14T16:44:00.000-08:002019-01-14T16:44:14.709-08:00Failed Mythic+ Affix Ideas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This project started as something silly going through my brain then took a life of its own. Here I'd like to detail several mythic+ dungeon affixes that never made it into the game. I now find myself trying to think of ways to deal with each of these affixes. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Demoralized </span>- While fighting mobs, they will randomly become completely demoralized and simply sit down. Once demoralized, these mobs will become unattackable. They will sit on the floor until they encounter another mob that is actively fighting you. Players may find that they are short numbers to complete the mythic+ dungeon and will want to kite trash mobs over demoralized mobs.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vomitous </span>- Upon taking a critical hit, mobs will have a 15% chance to vomit on players within melee range. This vomit will leave a pool of green, viscous vomit on the floor. Players hit with vomitous will get a [hideous smell] debuff and will cause more mobs to vomit around them. If a player steps in a vomit pool, they will slip, get a 2-second stun and also get the hideous smell debuff. Players can wash off debuff (water element in the dungeon) or wait for it to fade in 45 seconds.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Overly Optimistic</span> - The player's party aggro radius is increased dramatically, so mobs will engage when they see fighting nearby. Mobs that are overly optimistic will also start out with an enraged buff for the first 30 seconds, then slowly burn out if the fight goes on long.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Day-Z</span> - All non-boss mobs will randomly have a chance to come back to life as an undead scourge. The respawn timer is completely random. If a zombie walks over a corpse, it is highly likely to reanimate these additional corpses. The reanimated mobs will have 50% health and move at 70% normal speed. They will also have none of their original abilities. If they do any damage to a player, they will pass an 'infection' to that player. If the player dies before the debuff is cleansed, they too will come back as an enemy, undead scourge. During this affix, corpses will not despawn so players can see where previous kills are at.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fanboii</span> - Upon entering a dungeon, a child fan will be attached to your party. This child is super excited to have finally caught up with your party and will follow you throughout the dungeon. While progressing through the dungeon, s/he will make comments and take pictures during the fights. (pictures will cause momentary blindness if facing child). Fanboii children will not aggro enemies during combat but have a higher chance of triggering any traps skipped. Children can also get distracted, and fall behind, running through areas the party just passed through. Having a cute pet out will help keep the child focused. </div>
Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-55304444320585339082019-01-09T15:27:00.001-08:002019-01-11T12:06:55.232-08:00Glory of the Hellfire Raider at 120<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Now that my hunter has reached his potential max for the patch, I've decided to start running him through legacy raids for gold and glory. Last night I decided to take on Hellfire Citadel to see what he was possible of doing.<br />
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At the moment, <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/proudmoore/Erlenmyer" target="_blank">Erlenmyer</a> is level 120, sporting ilevel 378 gear. He has managed to pick up two 385 azerite pieces and fully populated all traits, giving him two 390 slot items.<br />
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During the first solo pass, he was able to complete the raid without any MAJOR issues. The only 'issue' was on the first boss (aka save the canons) fight. To win this fight, you must run waves of ammunition off the incoming tanks to the canons that the Kirin Tor have captured. Picking up the ammo box gives a short run speed buff to get you up to the canon and back. During that time, it's likely that another wave of trash has come in. I tried to do both during the fight (kill trash and run ammo boxes). After several waves, they simply stopped coming. I was able to run all of the ammo boxes then and finish the fight.. (new idea for soloing the first achievement)<br />
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As of this morning, here are the achievements that I was able to complete. </div>
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<li>Hellfire Assault: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10026" target="_blank">Nearly Indestructible</a> - If my experience last night is typical, a solo (ranged DPS) player should be able to sit between the two canons, kill all the trash (not running ammo) for a few minutes and run the ammo boxes AFTER the trash quit spawning. I'll try this again on Normal mode another night this week. (<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=95068#comments:id=2623623" target="_blank">7.3.5 comment</a>)</li>
<li>Iron Reaver: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10057" target="_blank">Turning the Tide</a> - Dismiss (or pacify) pet. Aggro boss then un-target (so as to not auto-shot). Run over to a side of the arena (near black swirls on the image above). Wait for [<a class="" href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=186274" target="_blank">barrage</a>]. I had to repeat this about 6 times as the barrage only kills one or two at a time.</li>
<li>Kormrok: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10013" target="_blank">Waves Came Crashing Down All Around</a> - <span style="color: orange;"><b>Burn </b>down the boss as fast as possible.</span></li>
<li>Hellfire High Council: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10054" target="_blank">Don't Fear the Reaper</a> - <b><span style="color: orange;">Burn down all three (AOE) fast</span></b>. I failed because I focus killed the first too fast and failed to AOE the next two in time. </li>
<li>Kilrogg Deadeye: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=9972" target="_blank">A Race Against Slime</a> - <span style="color: orange;"><b>Burn </b>down the boss as fast as possible.</span></li>
<li>Gorefiend: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=9979" target="_blank">Get In My Belly</a> - Going to require two people (one who can kill self and one who can b-rez). ?? All the comments seem to indicate that someone has to be dead to enter the boss. </li>
<li>Shadow-lord Iskar: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=9988" target="_blank">Pro Toss</a> - <span style="color: orange;"><b>Burn </b>down the boss as fast as possible</span> - he still appeared to go through his next phase but got the achievement when all the trash was dead. </li>
<li>Socrethar the Eternal: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10086" target="_blank">I'm a Soul Man</a> - Didn't attempt, but it appears to require slowing the 'ghosts' so they don't touch you and explode. Kiting them long enough to allow 20 ghosts to spawn, then burn down ghosts before killing the boss.</li>
<li>Tyrant Velhari: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=9989" target="_blank">Non-Lethal Enforcer</a> - <span style="color: orange;"><b>Burn </b>down the boss before boss summons add. </span></li>
<li>Xhul'horac: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10087" target="_blank">You Gotta Keep 'em Separated</a> - <span style="color: orange;"><b>Burn </b>down the boss as fast as possible.</span></li>
<li>Fel Lord Zakuun: <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10012" target="_blank">This Land Was Green and Good Until...</a> - <b style="color: orange;">Burn </b><span style="color: orange;">down the boss as fast as possible.</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10030#comments:id=2624086" target="_blank">Bad Manner(oth)</a> - Failed because I decided to burn down even though I had a doom lord following me around. Killing the summoners clockwise from where you teleport in worked for this. DPS boss to 30% then stand in the middle of the platform so you don't get thrown off. The link points to a comment where they used a pet class to solo this. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10073" target="_blank">Echoes of Doomfire </a>- Failed (I was tired and just wanted it to end), but (supposedly) it's as easy as "<i>wait for doomfire to be cast, then kill boss</i>" strategy. At 120, you can walk passed all his trash, and kill Archimonde directly. I had the party scene after boss fight with his 3 lieutenants still standing there.</li>
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As of Jan 9th, I am 7/13 completed. High Council, Manneroth and Archimonde should all be easy to solo. Socrethgar is going to require a bit of practice I believe. Assault and Gorefiend are probably going to require a group (can't get eaten and keep aggro also can't run boxes AND kill mobs as hunter or warlock). I'll post an update here when each is completed.<br />
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Ran raid again on Normal. I completed two of the remaining six achievements. Reaper and Doomfire were as easy as stated. AOE down the council and wait for the first doomfire to be cast then kill him quickly.<br />
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<li>"#1-Nearly" I did what I mentioned and only dps during the first few minutes. When completed, I ran the ammo boxes (probably 5 or 6) to the canons and they blew open the door. From my sight, both canons didn't have a drop on health. Sadly the video I was recording crashed 3 bosses later and nothing was saved. So I can't go back and check.</li>
<li>#6-Belly - There's no way to solo this that I can see. Normal I never got sucked in.</li>
<li>#8 Socethar - mm, I think I need a class that has run speed. Druid or maybe shaman looks favorable. Those ghosts come out 6 at a time on normal mode. If any catch up with you, or run into any obstacle they despawn. You need 20. Kill construct. Let him rebuild, don't kill ghost boss. While he's working he summons adds through 3 portals. One of those portals always has the ghosts. I could slow them, but could not outrun them. I believe he ran through the ghosts cycle about 3 times before hopping back into the construct.</li>
<li>#12-Manneroth, I was trying to get him to 30%, then still had him targeted and auto-shot killed him.</li>
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Talking it over here in the office with a co-worker that he's currently leveling a VE hunter up to get the heritage armor appearance. As part of that build, he's running the [<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=199921/trailblazer" target="_blank">trailblazer</a>] talent. This provides a 30% run speed increase when out of combat for 3 seconds. This has me thinking that about #1 and #8. Next reset (unless I want to try again on Mythic), I can test it again with this ability. Heck running old content with this talent may make all sorts of things better!</div>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-45442698898194093352018-12-02T23:37:00.001-08:002018-12-04T14:33:48.279-08:00End of 8.0<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Looking at the calendar, we are under 2 weeks until patch 8.1 drops. See! Paste this following line into a Windows 10 CMD prompt.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">powershell.exe -noprofile -command "write-host (new-timespan $(get-date) '12/12/2018').days,'days'"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>14th Anniversary!</b> I've been working on leveling Elkagorasa a lot during this event. I was able to level him up to 117 within a couple hoursHe's taken a bit of a backseat so far this expansion. RL friends have continued playing Alliance characters. Tank and healer roles have been taken. So DPS is where I stay. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking back, it's hard to believe I've been playing this same video game for 12 years now. I am still playing with one of those friends that encouraged me so long ago. <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/malfurion/Muhan" target="_blank">Muhan</a> retired a while ago, but <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/proudmoore/Velares" target="_blank">Velares</a> (formerly <a class="" href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/malfurion/Wrogh" target="_blank">Wrogh</a>) is active and well. </span><br />
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almost exactly 12 years ago.. When RAF was a 10-day credit for my friend. <a href="https://t.co/ZjE6VWRJzq">pic.twitter.com/ZjE6VWRJzq</a></div>
— Casual Elkagorasa (@elkagorasa) <a href="https://twitter.com/elkagorasa/status/1059585779872100352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>I've enjoyed the leveling experience on the horde side. It has quite a different experience than the alliance storyline. Using Azeroth Auto Pilot as my guide (with cut-scenes enabled), I've played through the Nazmir and part of the Voldun stories. (fishing for catfish in Boralus at the same time, sorry if a little distracted). I've run a couple of Island Expeditions but was only able to get a single level, so I am not so impressed with the 'best way to level' argument.<br />
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Erlenmyer has achieved AOTC! About a month we started looking for a new guild. Our tank found a home on Proudmoore-US. The three of us moved here and joined the Fluffy Wizard Hat Club. Happily this guild is very active. Tuesday they have an alt/casual raid night starting at a slightly early 8:30PM. As of the last run, Erl has reached his goal of 370 gear score before 8.1.<br />
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Unfortunately, this exposed an 'issue'. On the last three fights of this raid, I was constantly getting disconnected. I'll be fighting along, then all the sudden, all the other players will stop moving. Feel like I am in my own Mannequin Challenge. I haven't been able to wait out most of the DCs as it can take upwards of 5 minutes before it actually registers. During Zul and Mythrax, I even had to logout, log into a different toon, wait for the disconnect to register, then rejoin the raid. I <i>think</i> it's an addon (like Details, or parts of DBM), so I've been working to remove a bunch of them but nothing is really standing out as the culprit. Need another Tuesday to come around and attempt G'huun.<br />
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With moving to Proudmoore, came a different issue. Gold. My bank toon on Kul Tiras had around 40k gold with outstanding sales in the auction house. So here's my plan:<br />
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<li>Create a new bank toon, outfit toon with as many bags as possible. Elrgure (picked using Randomize function)</li>
<li>(On max level) Run old raid content and send BOE drops to bank toon.</li>
<li>Attempt to sell or DE all items.</li>
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<b>Step 1:</b> I had just had did the quest chain to open up the Dark Iron Dwarves. Created a warlock, trained her in enchanting and ran her through the intro quest chain until she made it to Stormwind. She is now parked in front of the bank/auction house. To fill in, I picked her up 4 of the bags from a bag vendor in town.<br />
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<b>Step 2:</b> Erlenmyer ran a number of old raids. Firelands was rather lucrative due to the number of trash mobs. He picked up quite a few BOE items and probably 1500 in gold (looting and selling soulbound items). Then ran Ulduar, ICC, TK, and Sunwell (still hoping for legendary bow drop). At the end of the adventure, I've raked in almost 6,000 gold for about 2 hours of work.<br />
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Erl also has been fishing. Since the Alliance is contributing this week to the warfront, Grilled Catfish is selling really well. Now that he spent the 1000g for the level 3 recipe, every 5 catfish are making 10 grilled catfish dishes. He's able to sell these in groups of 20 for about 500-1000 gold! So, fish for about 15 minutes, get 15 fish. Make 30 dishes and sell for 1000! Not bad.<br />
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<b>Step 3:</b> With Elrgure sitting by a mailbox in Stormwind, she grabs all the extra loot and attempts to sell them for a profit on the AH. This has been going 'ok'. There's not a big, big market for xmog gear on Proudmoore. I am usually able to refund my deposit on the auction house sales.<br />
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If the green items don't sell in a round or two (or are worth less than 100g according to Auctionator), I'll disenchant the items and attempt to sell the dust. Happily, level 20 toons can disenchant pretty much anything. No longer does your bank alt need to be at the same level as your main in order to DE 120 level gear.<br />
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-37176142198541349022018-11-01T20:55:00.000-07:002018-11-01T20:55:27.367-07:00OMG! It's the End of the World!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I can't watch many WoW youtube channels right now this expansion. Seems many vloggers are all click-baiting us into watching their same rehash regarding the end of WoW! I realize that I have a different perspective that these players. I only have a single toon at 120. I haven't run a normal/heroic/mythic raid (trying to get into a pug, but not completed). I come from a small guild that doesn't have enough regular players to fill a 5-man dungeon group.<br />
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This is my reaction post, reacting to Bellular's reaction of Asmongold's reaction video where he reacts to a weeks old blue post for the PTR edition of the game.<br />
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<b><br />Titanforging and warforging killed the fun!</b> </h3>
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I like titanforging. I am happy for my guild member when he gets a +15 titanforged item in his mythic+ loot box. It means that we'll probably be able to push those keys a 'little bit higher'! It means my alts that are sitting back in the starting area, probably won't be ilevel 265 for '<i>too long</i>' and can quickly catch up (maybe even be relevant). 4 world quests all rewarding a chest piece?? Run all 4 maybe <b>one </b>will drop a warforged or even titanforged item. In addition, the gear-spinner isn't something specific to me or you or even that crazy 10 year old with 30 alts. We ALL have a random 1:50,000 chance to get additional levels and stats on our gear. </div>
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The reasoning behind the system is to create an atmosphere that you could always get a new upgrade, regardless of the activity you're doing. <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/titanforged-in-wow-raids-and-endgame-reward-system" target="_blank">source</a></blockquote>
I do get that there is frustration when it doesn't happen. I've been teased numerous times about items being Me-Forged. "Oh! that 355 piece isn't good enough? I see it's not Elk-Forged!" It's was tough when every item my hunter had equipped at the end of Legion was either war or titan forged.<br />
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<b>Azerite gear is broken!</b> </h3>
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<li><b>Legion legendaries were broken</b> - random drops that randomly dropped from ANY content (including time walking dungeons). I had an alt who ended the expac with only two legendaries and one came from the Antorus quest chain due to some really bad RNG and limited end-game play.</li>
<li><b>Garrisons were broken</b> - players could farm up mats without leaving their garrison. </li>
<li><b>Reputations were broken </b>- content that was rep gated behind reps that required reps to other factions (gold lotus anyone).</li>
<li><b>Reforging was broken</b> - before armor was multi-stat'd (agility, strength, intellect) you either had to have 3 armor sets (for some hybrid classes) or could reforge some stats to make it more 'acceptable' for your class. </li>
<li><b>Glyphs were broken</b> - </li>
<li><b class="">H<span class="">IT</span></b><b> was broken</b> - If there was one stat to rule them all, it was HIT. If you for some reason, couldn't actually hit the target you were attacking, it felt bad. So instead, you stacked every piece of hit gear you could wear. </li>
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What's broken with AZ gear? </h4>
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<li><b>Trying to do too much.</b> Our Legion artifact and legendaries gave us a TON of nifty new skills and abilities. (Oh! those fond memories of the magical hamster bubble that my paladin first picked up! She wore that necklace through most the expansion! ) Now Blizzard is trying to appease players and allow us to keep many of these traits, abilities and HPS/DPS boosts on AZ gear. In addition, when they removed tier gear, players lost those 2-piece and 4-piece set bonuses. So now raiders have nothing really shiny to raid for other than ilevel increases. AZ gear is trying to be legendary, original and everything good and sweet. </li>
<li><b>Raining AZ Gear!</b> There are LOTS of places to get AZ gear, but depending on the source, traits are inconsistent. Dungeons (i.e. normal -> mythic+ dungeon bosses), raids, world bosses all drop specific pieces. On the other hand, emissary boxes and weekly mythic+ loot chest reward a random piece from anywhere in the game. The issue is that several of the traits on gear are not favored at all. So even if you get an upgraded ilevel piece, those traits could be underpowered (based on sims) than an older, lower ilevel piece. </li>
<li><b>MOAR GEAR!</b> aka the hybrid (tank/healer) tax. For example, if you play a monk and want a decent mistweaver and windwalker AND brewmaster gear set in BFA, you likely need 3 full sets of armor! OH MY! This is so WRATH! The BEST trait for mistweaver is very likely NOT the same BEST trait for windwalker. reforge or replace?</li>
<li><b>Expectation</b> - This is something that took me ages to 'learn'. One cannot expect to have the same standard of living as their parents currently do now. When my wife and I first married, we started shopping for a new house. We first started looking at houses in the best part of town, of equal size and quality as our parents. After a few weeks, we started to realize that we couldn't afford, didn't have the credit rating or even really need a house the same size as them (i.e. me = no kids vs my parents = 2 late-teen boys). <br /><br />With regards to AZ gear, we get a low-level piece and can activate <b>all</b> 3-4 tiers of it, but a new item drops and we can only activate a portion of those traits. On the other hand, that new piece of gear has 30% better stats (strength/agility/intellect & stamina). HONESTLY, how much of a HPS/DPS difference is having that well-balanced trait vs not having it? From my sims, I am seeing more increase by upgrading to the partially activated piece. As we progress in the game (aka growing up more), we'll be able to activate more traits and grow (slightly) stronger. Then the next tier of AZ gear will come out (i.e. 8.1) and we'll be back to only 1-2 traits activated.</li>
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<li>Vendor - the AZ gear vendor is nice. Scrap all AZ item that I can't use for hopes to higher level, better stat'd items. This reminds me of the withering essence vendor during the previous expansions. It worked out nicely at end game, but seems early to get this level of freedom now. </li>
<li>or how about a gear slot machine - turn in that lousy az gear item, plus some gold for a new item. Thinking of the vending machines in Fortnight. 10g re-roll gear (matching ilevel) but slot total RNG, 100g re-roll gear specific slot, total rng stats/traits, 1000g specific item</li>
<li>Tier gear style traits - Balance or remove most traits. Looking at Legion Tier gear, we had 4 possible traits. Hypothetically Blizzard could remove all traits until we are back to only those few. Sorry if you are one of few that likes (AAA) when everyone else likes (BBB).</li>
<li> balance traits so choice doesn't matter - Making them all do about the same means no matter how used it will work. Then it's simply a matter of choosing one cosmetic appearance over another.. This obesity turns me into a cow for five seconds!! </li>
<li>allow traits per spec.. Each piece of gear can be three spec. Sort of like how my hunter can play survival, marksmanship and beast master. </li>
<li>Bring back the obliterum forge. We have a dalaran hearthstone, we can port back, burn a hydrocell and some expulsom, to get five more levels on any non - AZ gear. Players in a lot of who play a lot of end game content will be able to upgrade to max per patch eventually.. </li>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-2604509233701526462018-09-25T15:17:00.001-07:002018-09-25T15:56:40.390-07:00WoW Idle Thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At some point in the next patch, the <b>Battle </b>for Azeroth is going to change to the Battle for <b>Azeroth</b>. The faction war/race for claiming the lifeblood of the planet will flip into reviving the planet as we fight for its very existence. We'll use the power of friendship and cooperation, to hug the planet back to life.<br />
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I wanted to really like the warfronts. I had grand visions from Blizzcon 2017 <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/blizzcon=275510.26/battle-for-azeroth-warfronts-faction-transmog-rewards-stromgarde-gameplay" target="_blank">slides</a>. I imagined them like a PVE BG. Dynamic, interactive and always playable. Instead, I got frustration where I couldn't queue for them for a month (as Alliance) with no real way of knowing how long until I would participate.<br />
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When are ALL dungeons going to get a blue circle on the map? I shouldn't need to use an addon, or WoWhead to find an old dungeon when the same technology is available for later expac dungeons.<br />
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Speaking of dungeons, <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/level-90-100-dungeons" target="_blank">WOD</a> Timewalking is now a thing. Since there were only 8 dungeons will all of them become part of the rotation? (all the rest only include 6).<br />
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What <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/level-85-90-raids#raids" target="_blank">Mists of Pandaria</a> raid would you like to see included as a TW raid? Mogu'shan Vaults? Throne of Thunder? Siege of Orgrimmar?<br />
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Need to finally give Uldir normal try. I've done practice mode first three bosses (aka lfr) twice now and feel good. No laser beams on the first boss.<br />
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Have been trying to level my crafting up as I go. Unfortunately, the recipe for <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=256771/mistscale-boots" target="_blank">recipe</a> BOP mail boots (for example) requires 30 expulsom and 15 hydrocore. This will require a decent number of drops from dungeons. I think I have 3 hydrocore at the moment in my bags.<br />
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Pugs don't like me. BM Hunter, 347 ilevel and no one wanted me in their Mythic+2. Maybe Monday night is a dumb night for dps.<br />
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Pirate boat, that doesn't float but has a glow like Jaina's boat should explain everything. It rose from the deeps (hence the octopus on the front) and been enchanted to keep it up.<br />
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I <a href="http://www.elkagorasa.info/2015/06/so-blizzard-you-dont-like-flying-anymore.html" target="_blank">pointed</a> out 2 years ago, there are plenty of mounts that also <i>should </i>skim above the surface of the water, but don't. Why would Blizzard put one on the store for RL money all of the sudden? Nope, not going to happen, unless they want EA-itis. Personally, I was surprised they made the Blizzcon 2017 mount last year 2-rider. Now quit your whining, go get the rep to buy the water skeeter. Put that level 100 alt that you don't play anymore out there and do the fishing dailies.<br />
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I tried to tame <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=114344" target="_blank">Guarm</a> in ToV the other night (solo). Sadly the two meta bosses need to be kept 35 apart. Hard to do that when my pet keeps aggroing everything. Frost trap? nope. Tar trap? nope. Simply kiting? Nope. Aggro off? Nope. Sigh. Maybe go try to tame the quest zone <a href="https://www.wowhead.com/npc=91386" target="_blank">model</a>.<br />
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I'd participate in more island invasions if I didn't need to go back to Boralus each time. Scenarios had their own queue back in Cata(?). I want that.<br />
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Heritage armor, please make it not chop off my hair. The BELF model has the female hair cropped. I will likely xmog my helm if the armor removes her ponytail. The dwarf model better not shave his beard. The sample model looks good so far, but he looks (personally) ridiculous when his beard is gone.<br />
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Bee Xmog is coming along nicely. When I saw this (<a href="https://www.wowhead.com/spell=259741">here</a>), I got excited! Then I realized it's probably for the taxi-stand in Stormguard.</div>
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Don't worry,<br />
Bee Happy <a href="https://t.co/BJJKTdbTJP">pic.twitter.com/BJJKTdbTJP</a></div>
— Casual Elkagorasa (@elkagorasa) <a href="https://twitter.com/elkagorasa/status/1042452022581030912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> Still waiting to be tempted by Blizzcon 2018 VT. Even better would be the chance to attend in person. Nor.Cal to <a href="https://thisdadsblessing.blogspot.com/2014/02/so-you-are-planning-trip-to-disneyland.html" target="_blank">Anaheim</a> is about 400 miles away, but that's nothing compared to what others of you'll be traveling.</div>
Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-73679189668283855012018-08-29T17:13:00.002-07:002018-08-30T09:35:59.561-07:00August Update - 120 i304<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's hard to believe that it's been already three weeks into this new expansion. During this time, I've managed to complete enough of the questing to open up world quests. I've gone back to finish the Drustvar quest chain to completion, having killed the end-boss. Now on to Stormsong and Tiragarde.<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/attunement#us-kul-tiras-erlenmyer" target="_blank">Wowhead Attunement calculator</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/flying#us-kul-tiras-erlenmyer" target="_blank">Wowhead Flying calculator</a></li>
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The contract is coming in fairly nicely. I've been running with the Order of Ember's contract (note they don't expire, so don't buy hundreds of them like I did). I get 10 rep with each and every world quest (i think only in kul tiras, not zandalar wq). So on some quests completion, I am getting three different reps (tortollan, storms watch and order of embers). At the moment, I am 85% of the way through honored to revered with the faction. This is after completing this zone, and two emissary boxes, plus running a contract since hitting 120. I'll probably change to a 7th Legion contract soon (after revered with OoE) as the 7th Legion rep gates other content.<br />
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<b>Warmode</b><br />
Like many suggested, I did run the first week and half in warmode. This was rather painless and didn't require that much world pvp. A nice perk for simply playing on a pvp shard. Last week, while questing in Stormsong though, I had to disable the option. Kul Tiras isn't that big of a pvp server. So there were small groups of horde roaming Kul Tiras zones just killing everyone, with no real alliance resistance to keep them at bay. Since then, I've turned off warmode on my hunter. It IS really nice to run the Crusaders of Azeroth world quests and not have to worry about fighting horde toons. </div>
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<b>I BEE crazy!</b></div>
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just need this honey to complete my set. Bet mounted, beehave (pet) and sweetie (battle pet) <a href="https://t.co/m3UQOjvbrB">pic.twitter.com/m3UQOjvbrB</a></div>
— Casual Elkagorasa (@elkagorasa) <a href="https://twitter.com/elkagorasa/status/1032855807736475648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I've tamed myself a bee hunter pet. Named him Beehave. I've tamed a battle pet, named her Beelieve (per my daughter's suggestion). Last night, I spent about an hour at the xmog ethereal and started working on a yellow and black transmog. ( I am torn between these shoulders I picked up this morning and ones I had in my bags that have a yellow horn on them). This is still a work in progress. The horde troll attire does fit the golden them fairly well.<br />
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<li>Finish questing in the remaining 2 zones. </li>
<li>World quest/emissary boxes to keep increasing reputation.</li>
<li>Increase gear score by 1 more point (to 305) so that I can start running random Heroic dungeons. </li>
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<li>My guildie mentioned that we could 'walk-on' to a few heroic dungeons, but would need a full group. </li>
<li>Maybe a few more normal dungeons to replace these <300 trinkets?? </li>
<li>Normal Uldir should open on this coming Tuesday. I'd like to be at least 315 by then, hoping to get a lot better gear by then. </li>
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<li><a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/uldir-raid" target="_blank">Icy-veins</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wowhead.com/uldir-raid-boss-abilities-battle-for-azeroth" target="_blank">Wowhead</a></li>
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<li>Start all over again with my warlock on horde side. He's still parked in Orgrimmar waiting to explore any new zones.</li>
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Elkagorasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868176919786509891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724235449767393408.post-56006716735082946102018-08-13T12:20:00.000-07:002018-08-13T12:20:11.650-07:00Off Topic - Roblox: Mining Simulator<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When not playing video games with his friends, my son asks me to play games with him all the time. Since we don't have 2 blizzard accounts, we've been playing other games. Our latest is the <a href="https://www.roblox.com/games/1417427737/QUESTS-Mining-Simulator" target="_blank">Roblox: Mining Simulator</a>.<br />
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Roblox is a sandbox platform that you can use to build other games on top of. Roblox and the games are typically free but have many in-game purchasable items. Mining Simulator is a simple mining type game where you're objective is to get rich. Easy. You start off with a simple pickaxe and a small 10-slot backpack. There is a patch of dirt where you can mine down in 3D, there is a shop who sells equipment and a vendor who auto buys all ore in your bags. As you run back and forth between the mine and the auto-sell vendor, you will accumulate gold. Use the gold to buy a better tool and larger bags.<br />
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<li><b>Hats </b>- Hats range in quality (common -> rare -> legendary). When worn, they will give you perks that include mining speed, ore (resale) value, and mining power(?). You can wear 3 hats at a time. All my hats currently have ore value and mining speed perks. There are other perks but meh, why would one want to jump? </li>
<li><b>Pets </b>- Pets also range in quality. You can have one pet out at a time. I am currently running with a piece of toast, who gives similar perks to my hats (mining speed and ore value).</li>
<li><b>Explosives </b>- using dynamite, nuke, c4 can clear a large area of ore. If you want to spend some money on this game, the nuke is an awesome purchase. For about $5 you get a permanent tool that sticks around between rebirths.</li>
<li><b>Teleporter </b>- set a spawn point and you can re-appear here while leveling. Mine -> sell -> teleport -> repeat.</li>
<li><b>Rebirth</b> - A rebirth resets all of your equipment back to start (low level pickaxe and 10-slot backpack) and wipes your account of remaining gold. Rebirths cost 10 million gold times the rebirth count. So your first rebirth will be 10million, then 20million, etc.. The advantage though is that your ore value increases by your rebirth #. I am up to rebirth 17 so my ore value is 1.7X the value at the start. </li>
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<b>Starting your career in mining simulator (MS)</b></h3>
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<li>Grab the quest. The new questing system in MS will start you off with some basic quests. In some zones, these give some rather ridiculous rewards (100 rebirth tokens for example).</li>
<li>Mine until you fill bags or complete the quest. My suggestion is to find a hole someone else started and drop to the bottom. Ore value is better the lower your drop, plus a higher likelihood of minerals. If the elite miner is running passed the gold ore, grab it. </li>
<li>Complete quests to get your first pet. Pets as I said give perks. (see codes below)</li>
<li>Sell immediately upon filling bags. The game offers an instant teleport to the vendor upon filling your bags.</li>
<li>Upgrade your bags faster than your tools. </li>
<li>Rebirth as soon as you hit the milestones. That 10g dirt will be so much more valuable as 11g or even 20g dirt. If you can wait to rebirth after a mine collapse and you've dug a deep starting whole. </li>
<li>Move to new zone asap. Even the dirt sells for more in candy land than in the starting zone. The zones are gated by your number of rebirths. </li>
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<b>Hacks</b></h3>
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<li><b>Codes </b>- There are a number of codes that you can enter that will grant you in-game perks. Most notably gold, pets, and hats. Yes, you don't 'really' have to start out with that 10-slot backpack when you can get codes for 50,000 gold. You also don't have to start with a 'common' pet or bland hat, when you can equip an awesome legendary pet or 3 nicer hats! I search out this <a href="http://mining-simulator.wikia.com/wiki/Code" target="_blank">wiki page</a> each time for a complete (and moderated) list. Noting that the bolded entries require you to have played the game for 5 days. </li>
<li><b>RBux items, rebirth items - </b>these items are <a href="https://www.roblox.com/games/1417427737/QUESTS-Mining-Simulator#!/store" target="_blank">permanent</a>. If you purchase the nuke for RBux or the scythe purchased with rebirth-tokens, you keep these items after a rebirth. My favorite thing is to fall into the deepest pit, then throw my nuke into dense ore locations. Then I auto-sell and repeat until I have about 5000gold, then buy a bigger backpack, then again at 50,000, 1million and so on. </li>
<li><b>Stock up on cosmetics</b> - One of the other items that stick around after a rebirth are pet and hat crates. Right before a rebirth, I've been going to the store, buying up cosmetic items until I am just above my rebirth cost. I now have 600 'omega hat crates' and almost the same number of pets. Hats are awesome (visual effects, perks) but they are both slow to open and completely RNG. There's like a 3% chance of getting an awesome (legendary?) hat out of an omega hat crate. After opening up 100 crates, I've managed to get 3 decent hats to wear. :-| My son's advice, buy eggs before rebirth, then sell them all after rebirth. Instant gold in your hand. </li>
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The first 1 billion gold.</h3>
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<li>Equip 3 hats, equip ore-value pet. (see codes above)</li>
<li>Find someone who's dug a deep-deep tunnel, mine ore. Ore = 1 bag slot per block, sand/dirt = hundreds of bag slots. Yes, the pickaxe is slow, but still effective with most ore. </li>
<li>When your bag is full, use the "SELL" option to portal back up to the vendor. </li>
<li>Run back to the same deep tunnel and repeat until you have about 58,000 gold. Purchase the Military Pack for 57,750 netting 300 bag slots. </li>
<li>Use the pickaxe until you've purchased the 1.2 million "medium canister" (4000 slots). Now purchase the best tool the money can buy. </li>
<li>Don't purchase too many upgrades because, at 10 million, I suggest doing a rebirth. This will cause you to lose all your gold, bags and tools you've purchased. </li>
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<li>purchase cosmetic upgrades, especially eggs with your extra gold</li>
<li>do rebirth after mine collapse and you've dug your own deep tunnel</li>
<li>sell as many eggs to jumpstart your next rebirth with a new bag.</li>
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Don't forget:</h3>
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<li><b>Level/Evolve your pet </b>- If you get a pet you like, find out what they need to evolve. This (so far I've only reached 5 of 10), involves collecting ## ore. Most ore is found around the 100-150 block level. Upgraded pets provided increased rewards. <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LqH9sgKo5ps/W3HKLPHSFwI/AAAAAAAAy9k/5O2xIswNabcIcWZiOL_SMEtDzW-kT2-MACKgBGAs/s1600/Roblox_2018-08-13-11-10-00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LqH9sgKo5ps/W3HKLPHSFwI/AAAAAAAAy9k/5O2xIswNabcIcWZiOL_SMEtDzW-kT2-MACKgBGAs/s320/Roblox_2018-08-13-11-10-00.jpg" width="320" /></a></li>
<li><b>R$ and Rebirth token purchases are permanent.</b> As you can see, I have the nuke and the teleporter. </li>
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<li>The nuke has a much longer range than the pickaxe so I'll mine all the ore in reach, then just start tossing out the nuke in high-density ore areas. </li>
<li>The teleporter is great for shortening that sell/mine loop. Mine down until bags full, place teleporter, sell, teleport back and click 'move' to remove it. </li>
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<li><b>"To Surface"</b> - Almost as useful as the teleporter as it will put you 10 steps outside the mine. Sell -> to surface -> find hole. "To Surface" also places you right next to the quest giver in the zone. Use it when you've completed a quest for quick rewards. </li>
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