2024 in review

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Another end of a year, another review.

What I played a lot:

  • World of Warcraft
  • EVE Online

Other games I played:

  • Final Fantasy XIV
  • Diablo IV
  • Stellaris

Gaming expenses in 2024:

  • WoW: 194 EUR
    • TWW expansion – 50 EUR
    • 4x 3 month sub – 4×36 EUR
  • EVE Online: 521 EUR
    • 3x 3month sub – 3x 40.7 EUR
    • 1x 3m+6 MCT sub – 61 EUR
    • 2 packs – 15 EUR
    • 1x PLEX – 323 EUR
  • Final Fantasy XIV: 46 EUR
    • Dawntrail Expansion – 35 EUR
    • 1 month sub – 11 EUR
  • Diablo IV – 0 EUR, didn’t buy the expansion
  • Others: Steam – 10 EUR

I bought this EVE PLEX package with the plan to use it for the next sale on subscriptions, and I didn’t spend a single percentage on it for four months until the sale came. Now all my 3 accounts are paid throughout the full year 2025. The plan is to not spend more than a couple bucks on EVE next year. That will totally work 😛

Summary:

  • Amount of MMOs played 3:
  • Amount of MMO subscriptions paid: 12 (WoW) + 36 (EVE) + 1 (FFXIV) =49
  • Amount of games purchased: 1
  • Amount of MMO expansions purchased: 2
  • Amount of money for in-game currency: ~330 EUR
  • Amount of free games I didn’t play: lots
  • Amount of games I purchased and then didn’t play: 1

So the total is 771 EUR, that’s 65 EUR per month, more than 2023. (And maybe I should have counted those 236 EUR for this year, but I did count them for last year… I think)

Ah well, maybe I’m finally old enough to say screw it when my monthly gaming budget looks like a lot, but is actually about as much as a dinner and drinks for two people anywhere that is not a McDonald’s.

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Raiding Nerub-ar Palace Week 12

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Sunday was a casual stroll through the first four bosses (maybe only one shots for the first time?), then one wipe on Ky’veza and an Ovi’nax rekill on the 6th pull.

Tuesday had us wipe on the Silken Court all night, 13 times to be exact. Best try 21%. It’s hard, but doesn’t feel as terrible as Ovi’nax did.

I’ve been slowly working on some alts via Timewalking and, to no one’s surprise, scaling is ultra-broken. If you have a 70 in not-terrible but at-launch 370ish gear you will simply be destroyed by the bosses whereas a 3x or 1x tank will hardly notice any hits.

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Raiding Nerub-ar Palace Week 11

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Sunday saw us breeze through boss 1-4, then 3 wipes on Ky’veza, and on to Ovi’nax (again). Five wipes with 21% being the best try of the night.

Tuesday had us down one healer and getting a replacement (our top DPS…), 4 healers, 2 tanks, 7 DPS is a weird combo but Ovi’nax died on the fifth pull of the night. 50 wipes, 1 kill – for boss 5 or 6 out of 8 – yikes.

We continued on to the Silken court and wiped ten times, but already got to stage 3 a couple times, best try at 16% – not bad!

Unfortunately that one week I did M+ wasn’t continuing, also due to lack of time. My Warrior is at iLvl 617 now and there are not many upgrades from the Heroic raid, hardly any good ones at all.

But I already have 3 Horde chars at 80, and two more at 7x, maybe this week I’ll have some time for Timewalking and other leveling things again. Only class missing at 80 is the Evoker now (ugh) and I have two Warriors, and missing an Alliance Mage.

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Raiding Nerub-ar Palace Week 7-9

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Week 7 saw us go Heroic only for the first time, 4th pull on Rasha’nan and a couple of tries on Ovi’nax. Tuesday we went into the Timewalking Raid and ran out of time for the last boss, so everyone had to catch up solo in LFR for the achievement.

Week 8 was four oneshots and then 16 wipes on Ovi’nax.

In Week 9 we decided to change to Nexus Princess and on the 20th pull it worked. 5/8 Heroic now.

I took advantage of the Timewalking dungeons and got a Disc Priest and Brewmaster Monk from 70 to 80, a Prot Warr from 74 to 78 and a Prot Paladin from 70 to 75. So that’s only the Evoker missing now for all classes to 80. (and then also a second Paladin and Warrior…)

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One hundred sixty million

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Last post in May. Still fascinating that you will always find something you have not trained.

Skill category             Points     No. of skills
===================================================
Spaceship Command         51,016,980  70 *
Gunnery                   24,655,717  52 *
Missiles                  17,059,766  26 *
Drones                    11,904,316  22
Navigation                 9,660,314  13
Engineering                7,474,275  15
Fleet Support              5,532,130  13
Shields                    5,182,118  12 *
Armor                      4,807,049  12 *
Subsystems                 4,096,000  16
Targeting                  3,840,000   8
Electronic Systems         3,284,710  14 *
Neural Enhancement         1,913,570   7
Scanning                   1,899,374   7
Science                    1,599,255  19
Trade                      1,066,275   8
Resource Processing          976,960  10
Rigging                      679,060  10
Social                       434,510   6
Planet Management            394,040   4
Production                   276,743   4
Structure Management         135,765   1
Corporation Management           250   1

Skills at Level 5:   167 (+4)
Skills at Level 4:   113 (-2)
Skills at Level 3:    35 (-1)
Skills at Level 2:     2 (0)
Skills at Level 1:    27 (-1)
Skills at Level 0:     3 (+3)

And my alt (later edit).

Skill category             Points     No. of skills
===================================================
Spaceship Command         26,804,500  55 *
Gunnery                   19,562,515  44 *
Missiles                  11,516,943  22 *
Engineering               6,762,040   14
Drones                    6,705,425   18
Navigation                6,235,866   11 *
Armor                     4,442,510   10
Subsystems                4,096,000   16
Shields                   3,524,550   10
Electronic Systems        2,985,495   13
Science                   1,544,000    3
Targeting                 1,521,805    8
Neural Enhancement        1,055,060    6
Scanning                  1,043,609    7 *
Fleet Support             900,884      7 *
Rigging                   790,825     10
Planet Management         394,040      4
Structure Management      148,831      6 *
Social                    93,255       4 *
Resource Processing       37,657       3 *
Trade                     12,244       3
Production                250          1
Rigging                   790,825     10
Planet Management         394,040      4
Structure Management      148,831      6
Social                    93,255       4
Resource Processing       37,657       3
Trade                     12,244       3
Production                250          1

Skills at Level 5:   126 (+9)
Skills at Level 4:   110 (+11)
Skills at Level 3:    21 (-4)
Skills at Level 2:     9 (+2)
Skills at Level 1:     9  -1)
Skills at Level 0:     7 (+3)

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Raiding Nerub-ar Palace Week 5 & 6

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Week 5 wasn’t great. OK, Sunday we cleared Normal and then Ulgrax on Heroic but my damage was abysmal. On Tuesday we killed Boss 2 (4 wipes) and 3 (1 wipe) but wiped on number 4 for another 5 times, best was 24% and overall it just wasn’t great.

Then the big patch came and everyone was annoyed about respecs and stuff. And I stopped the Rogue experiment and switched back to Fury Warrior.

The next Sunday was better, we used the skip on normal (so 4 bosses, but we did Nexus-Princess extra for a trinket), wiped on the Court twice as is tradition, then oneshot Ulgrax and Horror on 3rd try.
Today we got Sikran on 3rd try, Rasha’nan for the first time on 8th try and then 4 not great tries on Ovi’nax. But it’s progress nevertheless, and a 2nd Heroic slot from raiding in the Great Vault… but 4 T8 Delves are still better, which is weird.

No M+ again.

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