It’s been raining all week and we didn’t really go outside, but at least yesterday felt somewhat productive.

Someone reminded me of the Mage Tower challenges and because I was curious and had time, I tried the Fury Warrior one, just with my normal iLvl 677 gear and none of the special pieces. Took about 90 minutes and I had it. Nice transmog. Then I tried the Guardian Druid one on my 640 Druid and got instantly smashed in the first 30s, repeatedly. But you get the Werebear Bear form and not just a transmog set, so I got to crafting and spent about 3000 or 4000 gold (in mats I laying around) to get 4 pieces crafted (Symbiosis weapon, Shoulders with a Writhing Armor Banding, and the Darkmoon Decks Symbiosis and Radiance). Took another hour and I got it down, after wiping repeatedly with just the first 3 pieces (and trying to save the 2k Radiance deck). But now I have that Werebear form.

I also got some of the Dragonflight (Emerald Dream) and TWW (Isle of Dorn) Skyriding achievements done and have positioned a character to continue. I’m not going for Gold (unless it’s easy), but for all Silver, which usually only takes one to three tries.

And then finally someone on Discord asked about Sulfuras and if it worked for Druids, so that reminded me I had started to collect the mats ages ago. Turns out I was missing some mats but this was a good opportunity. So I bought the remaining Dark Iron Bars (don’t have a char to smelt them and the savings would have been miniscule), and then the ugly part – transmuting 50 Arcanite Bars, which needs 50 Arcane Crystals, and those were 330g on the AH and I only had 14 saved up. So I bought a couple, transmuted, and hoped for procs. In the end I procced about 9, so had to buy 27. I guess in the end it cost me about 13k, and I needed to fly to Blackrock Depths to craft the Sulfuron Hammer on my Troll Warrior who knew the recipe (got an achievement), hearth back, put it in the bank, take it out on my Orc Shaman, use it with the Eye of Sulfuras she had banked, got the Legendary (and no achievement, boo) and now I have that 2h Mace Transmog. It still looks nice, better than the Firelands version.

Also the Darkmoon Faire started today, so that means 2 free profession skill points, which means I could finish up Blacksmithing and Enchanting just as it hit midnight, and I had put in some work into Leatherworking (94), Tailoring (90), and Inscription (90) – but not sure I will finish those to 98 with crafting orders this week. And I still have no Jewelcrafter on this server, just 26 on my Horde Paladin.

The event with the increased drop chance for mounts has ended and I got a lot of them.

• Drake of the North Wind (2025-07-03)
• Drake of the South Wind (2025-07-03)
• Azure Drake (2025-07-04)
• Armored Razzashi Raptor (2025-07-05) – Zul’Gurub
• Swift Zulian Panther (2025-07-05) – Zul’Gurub
• Smoldering Egg (2025-07-05)
• Ottuk (2025-07-05) – reward for 500 mounts
• Vitreous Stone Drake (2025-07-07) – Stonecore
• Inarius Charger (2025-07-12) – Event Goblin drop
• Underrot Crawg Harness (2025-07-13) – Underrot
• Fiery Warhorse (2025-07-15) – Karazhan
• Sanctum Gloomcharger (2025-07-16) – Sanctum
• Fiendish Hellfire Core (2025-07-17) – Nighthold
• Deathcharger’s Reins (2025-07-23) – Stratholme
• Sharkbait (2025-07-24) – Freehold
• Astral Cloud Serpent (2025-07-24) – MoP Classic launch thing
• Felsteel Annihilator (2025-07-24) – Hellfire Citadel
• Chrono Corsair (2025-07-24) – 4 or 5 weeks of Timewalking
• Shreddertank (2025-07-24) – 3000 M+ rating
• Glacial Tidestorm (2025-07-29) – Battle of Dazar’Alor

Oh, and then I finally finished leveling the Horde Evoker to 80, so all classes on both factions to 80, but I’m not sure I will continue this, it’s getting moot with how fast leveling has become.

It finally happened: 3001 M+ rating, a mount that looks worse than the 2500 rating versionm, and an achievement to brag about.

We spent (probably entirely too much) time on slowly pushing our way from “all +12s” to 3000 rating, but in real time it was only like 3 weeks.

While I was on vacation in June my team didn’t stop playing and got a bit of a lead I had to catch up first, so they got their stuff done yesterday, and by chance with the one dungeon I had timed but they hadn’t, so I was still missing 13 points – but that was fixed today.

Total tally of tries:

• DFC: 12 -> 12 2 chest -> 13
• Rookery: 12 -> 4 failed 13 -> 13
• Motherlode: 12 -> failed 14 -> 13 -> failed 13 -> 13
• Cinderbrew: 10 2 chest -> 4 failed 13 (2 completed) -> 13
• Floodgate: 12
• Workshop: 12 -> 2 failed 13
• Priory: 12 -> 2 failed 13 -> 12 (tried to 2 chest)
• Theater: 12 -> 4 failed 13

Most tiers after we got our AOTC our raid team of two guilds kinda disperses – a couple people continue to do M+, but up to 10 of 15 take a break until the next tier. For some reason this did not happen this time, we’ve continued logging in on Sundays and doing achievements – all Dragonflight raids on Mythic, and the TWW ones for the mounts. And farming our last couple of levels of rep.

Not speaking about the raid, we’ve had some sort of M+ break this week. I have all +12s timed, most of my team has 2 +13s – so we’re kinda close to 3k. 3-4 weeks left only.

And then there’s this event with the increased drop chance for mounts, which takes up most of my WoW gaming time – I got six of them relatively quickly, since then only two more, for many more hours invested. Ah well, at least the collection of transmogs is steadily growing in size.

Half of last week I didn’t really have fun doing M+, but it’s since come back. We’re 2880-2970 rating, so missing a couple +13s (or +12s) for 3k rating, slowly working our way up. I definitely need to get some variety in again, which means I should probably prepare one alt to go on our Normal raid next tier, and then only maybe switch to the Warrior for Heroic, just like I did with the Rogue in S1 of TWW. That was better in regards to not getting bored. Oh, and we did an achievement run of Nerub’ar Palace, another nice mount – unfortunately I missed the Undermine achievement run with the *really* cool mount.

Not sure what to think of this increased drop event for mounts, I’m usually not one to farm old stuff on the regular, just every couple of months I am in the mood and do it. But am I in the mood right now? At least I tried it for about 2h now and already got 2 mounts, not too bad. I positioned nearly 10 chars next to some instance entrances, for further use, but maybe more like “run these 2-3 once per day and run these 2-3 once per week”, we’ll see.

As I was away on vacation I didn’t really play a lot of WoW, but this week after I’d come back we did the Raider.IO Break The Meta event – funny how we’ve been playing with Blood DK, Holy Priest, Fury Warrior, aka 3 of 5 non-meta specs the whole season anyway. Our Hunter had to respec to Survival and our DH had to go on his Monk and Mage though. In the end we had to do three, because while the first was no problem, we didn’t make the timer for the 2nd one (Floodgate). Cinderbrew Meadery worked.
Anyway, wasn’t great, wasn’t terrible – we just think we’re remembering that 2 or 3 seasons ago it was easier, maybe doing 2 +15s with the old system, which would be 2 +8s or so, not 2 +10s.

I did a post of goals for April/May and I missed a followup.

• Get the last remaining three M+10 dungeon teleports – done at some point in May
• Get AOTC – done
• Get missing Horde classes to 80 – all old ones done, new Evoker is 70
• Level a new Paladin – postponed, maybe I do like my LF Draenei after all
• Shadowlands achievements – ignored
• Gear a third toon – somewhat, but not really

So, on to goals for June/July maybe?

• Finish one +12 M+ on time – doable
• Finish all +12 M+ on time – maybe doable
• Get Horde Evoker from 70 to 80 – maybe I will feel like it
• Catching up on the three BfA? reps I am still missing – Rajani, Uldum Accord, Council of Exarchs (ok that one is WoD I think) – I have 3 toons stationed in these 3 daily areas and do them whenever I have time and feel like it
• Catching up on the Undermine rep I have not filled up to Exalted
• Not really feeling like doing old achievements except the aforementioned rep grinds atm, so nothing here

Sunday of week 12 had us clear everything, then 7 wipes on Gallywix, Tuesday 17 more wipes – two times stage 3 at 39% and 41%.

Sunday of week 13 I wasn’t online but as I was told they cleared everything and had some tries on Gallywix. On Tuesday we had one (lucky) latecomer when we got to 9% just before our break (that’s when he arrived). A couple pulls later we got Gallywix down, another AOTC done. My total pull count was 72, but apparently it was a tiny bit higher. All 15 people online, so we don’t need to rekill, but we might.

For M+, we’re slowly making our way through the +11s and on Monday we only missed a +12 Floodgate by like 24s, that would have been 2 of the 9 deaths. So close.

Sunday wasn’t too exciting, but we cleared and killed Mug’Zee again and got some tries in on Gallywix.

Tuesday was cut short a bit due our main tank arriving an hour late (as announced), some tries on Gallywix. Not a fun fight.

We managed to get one +10 in on Saturday (then half my team wanted to watch the Eurovision Song Contest) and one on Monday. I ran my weekly Delves and upgraded some gear, iLvl 669 – not bad.