Elkagorasa the Casual

BlizzCon 2016 This is my second year purchasing the Virtual Ticket . I knew there was no big Warcraft announcement. In fact, I was more excited about the Overwatch announcement of Sombra than anything else. Unlike last year, the streaming performance was flawless. Maybe because I was simply streaming this on my work desktop :-O (and not a wifi attached laptop), maybe because Blizz has up'd the streaming quality. My Biggest Complaints: Hard to Watch while Live. When it was playing Live (aka "Hall D") it was hard to pause and go back. I wanted to grab a screenshot of the warlock mount, going back 30 seconds, is virtually impossible on the live stream. Instead I spent 5 minutes, skipping back and forth approximately half an hour of  the video coverage looking for a 10 second video clip. Sigh.. With it paused, the video grey's out, making my screenie rather useless. A DVR-style 30-second rewind button would have been awesome! Bookmarks to each of the various ...

Whew! October 20th, finally completed my class-hall campaign!. I picked up the remaining 3 hall champions in one quick swoop. Nice. With that, it took a little running normal dungeons, but I am now geared up enough to start running LFR. Not a lot of new mechanics to note. Panda Steve does a great job at summary. (see here ). I've also started running world quests (fka dailies). This format does have some nice benefits. You have time for grinding down 10 bad guys and grabbing their shoes? Or how about just killing 4 elites? Easy. You pick.This also creates a nice variety where you can mix it up each week. Still have only the one max-level character. There's so much good stuff that I can't get around to restarting it all on a second or third character. Maybe after I finally get into Karazhan. Source: Overking Overwatch's RNG has been mixed bag on my loot box luck. I've purchased 22 loot boxes and (my son) won 2 of them via leveling. From these 24 bo...

Legion is upon us. Only took me three days to finally login. I started on my main, Elkagorasa, and spent about an hour to go through the artifact weapon quest chain and settle his class hall. It wasn't bad,  or hard like the green the chain. In fact,  it was a quaint bit of lore.  My biggest complaint is that I had a human disc priest helping me out, casting his healing bubbles on me for some big fights. But then, he deserts me on the boss fight, causing me to wipe twice on that fight. The warlock class hall is a major let down. I know that Blizzard said it was going to be dh prison world, but really? So,  can I take any of these demons with me as a body guard? No. Can I change my demons names with one there already? No. Can I learn vanity glyphs that allowed my pony to run on water?!  No. BTW my druid CAN pickup a spell to CHANGE HER travel form.. Gearing has been relatively easy. Went from. 704 post pre-expansion to 718 before leaving first q...

The Legion invasions have shown us that Timewalking is about to go mainstream.  Blizzard has mentioned that there will be no questing from zone a to zone b path, instead you'll be able to go in any order you wish.  What I think they've failed to explain is that it doesn't necessarily mean at level 100+. I forsee content having no borders.  You approach a bad guy, he will automatically match your level.  This means you could theoretically raid, quest and run heroic dungeons if your gear is appropriate. Or would you need to complete the pre-quests? Of course, some content will still be gated. You can't have people flying around before level forty, can you?? Oh! Disregard my chauffeur please, and this pair of wings,  and the feather from Draenor. So my question is, why am i bothering to level my bank toon? Next week,  she'll be running Siege LFR!! Leveling via all possible dungeons! And maybe even questing in Panda land even though she's not even level...

Monday I finally got a chance to logon and run Elkagorasa through the new pre-patch content. Horde side, it's rather distressing to watch all the chaos in the event. My priest even considered levitating down to the Alliance to help them out.. (invisible wall). I did find the final horde cutscene awkward in that Vol'jin looked like this guy. I do like the direction, so far, of what I've seen. At max level, wearing lfr gear, the demon invasions 'hurt' but I am never really worried about dying. On the final 'boss' fight, I've been killed due to aggro, but that's after all the tanks died. The rewards are fairly nice, with a gear piece dropping pretty much each time. Elkagorasa has gone from roughly 700 gearscore to 703, and Eride (priest) has (after only one event) gone from 698 to 700 gear score (2 i700 items, one warforged 710 item).. I am hoping to run my max level alliance hunter and my level 94 monk through the scenarios as well. I want t...

I recently subscribed to " Taliesin & Evitel Do Games " on youtube. The video that started it all was Taliesin's video "5 Things We'll Miss About Warlords when Legion Comes." This got me thinking about things that I already miss from prior to 7.0. So far, my biggest complaint is the disappearance of the dual-spec option. Excuses like "Sorry I can't play a healer, I only have DPS and Tank build".  No longer, can I queue up with my druid for dps, and hope that I'll get to play DPS through the entire dungeon/lfr. Now, if the tank or healer drops, there's a chance that everyone will look to the hybrids to help finish the dungeon. I am not sure I can handle the pressure. Even my priest is considering sitting in the stables so that she doesn't have to heal?! Ok, Discipline looks fun, maybe it won't be so bad. Alternate PVP Builds Speaking of my Disc Priest, I had a lot of fun playing PVP one day a week, then going o...

I've been having a long (140 characters at a time) conversation with Goldy (aka @ BFSTINMG ) about Blizzard's new " Silence System ". This system will 'silence' users who abuse text chat in the game. If they get reported for spam or abuse multiple times, they will get an account wide silence penalty. This penalty will range from 24 hours for the first incidence, doubling for each additional incident. Goldy's comment on Twitter was why can't they automate this? This is way too complex of a system. Seeing some tweets regarding the silence system, and wondering what are the majority of the situations this is trying to correct? — Goldy in Legionland (@BkfstinMG) July 21, 2016 As a fairly avid PVP/LFR player, I can think of several times that people have become abusive. That random BG, where you have one player bashing everyone for their 'terrible DPS' or lack of healing, etc.. That dungeon late at night, where someone playing drunk o...