Torment II

I am halfway through Rank 4 of the Season and have unlocked Torment II, at Paragon 89. Haven’t played there, still wrapping up stuff in Torment I, but I have a full set of mediocre Legendaries and one Mythic. I’m at 17h played now and it’s getting more fun. But I’m not exactly sure how the people just killed the World Boss on Torment I in 3 seconds.

At first I didn’t pay a lot of attention to the cosmetics and this Reliquary Tab but apparently I have already earned enough currency to buy everything in the “Overwatch Reliquary” and the “Battle Pass Reliquary”, with the latter even giving me enough Platinum to unlock the “Premium Battle Pass Reliquary”. Interesting.

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Level 70 in Season 14

So we weren’t 100% sure how it worked, but apparently you can at least take part in the early ranks of the Season even if you don’t own any of the expansions.

I just hit Level 70 on my Necro, just about after finishing Rank 2 of Season 14. 7h in total, everything solo. Was fun enough and the first proper goal was reached.

I had to switch to the Penitent difficulty to progress to Rank 3 and do one Dungeon that was mostly easy with some medium hard parts in between, no deaths, and then continued to just do events for my last 4-5 levels.

And yes, I know full well the real game only starts with the Paragon levels, but for some spontaneous “I am kinda in the mood for Diablo” I’m happy enough I managed to reach this and not lose interest halfway through those 7 hours.

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Turbulent Timeways

The Turbulent Timeways event has started, so 6 weeks of Timewalking, a different era every week.

At first I ignored it and deliberately leveled my last class to 90 without help (an Evoker that already was 84 – so more Delves, a few quests, then hand in all the Delve quests late).

We formed a guild team on Friday to do the 4 dungeons that you need to get for the buff (I tanked on my Troll Warrior) and then on the weekend I found myself with some spare time, so I brought 3 Horde alts from 80 to 90 (Enhancement+Resto Shaman, Guardian+Resto Druid, and Brewmaster+Mistweaver Monk) and then even had some time to prepare the Demo Warlock – also 84 now and halfway done. I did all the dungeons as a healer if the class can heal.

So what’s missing now: Orc Hunter, BE Priest, Undead DK, Undead Mage, BE Demon Hunter, 2nd Evoker, Lightforged Draenei Paladin.

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Raiding the Voidspire – Week 16

Sunday started with Rotmire Heroic and Beloren Heroic, then we worked on L’ura (to get AOTC done). 16 wipes, saw P3 twice – best at 20%. Not bad! (Although the raidwide buff seems to be at 10% already and we’re overgeared, as usual.)

Tuesday we were 11 and managed to kill L’ura on the 9th pull (34th overall) – thus Season 1 on Heroic is done for us.

Ahead of the Curve: Midnight Falls

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Oh, Diablo IV

For some reason I got the idea to install Diablo IV again, then I found out that a new season had just begun.

So now I have a Necromancer (never tried that one before) and we’ll see if it was a 20min visit or if I will play a bit.

That’s also when I learned it goes to Level 70 and 300 Paragon now – I have chars with 50+50, so I seem to have already skipped the 60+200 part of the first expansion.

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Going back to Legion

For some reason (I’m pretty sure it was because someone said there is furniture on the vendors) I recently went back to the Legion Class Order Halls and found out you can unlock stuff by doing stuff.

In a typical “don’t know where to stop” manner, here’s what I did over last couple weeks (there are 12 order halls):

  • Recruit 20 troops – every class starts from zero, this seemed to be a newer achievement. So recruit, try to get them killed in missions as fast as possible, recruit more – 12 times
  • Finish the Order Hall Campaign – I had done that a couple of times, so maybe only did 5 or 6
  • Upgrade the Order Hall fully – this takes 15k resources for the last 2 steps, and some more before – I think I had to grind like 60-70k of those and spend the 50 I had
  • Do the Champions of Legionfall quest/achievement and recruit another follower – probably done 8 times
  • Get a hidden artifact weapon skin – also had to do this like 8 times

But today I finished, after reading a lot of Wowhead, one Blizzard bug report that was wrong (but for the wrong reasons, it’s still a bug), and doing a lot of Legion raid solo runs and some other shenanigans.

The relevant achievements are called “Hidden Potential of the …”, “Raise an Army for the …”, “Legendary Research of th …”, “The … Campaign”

The only thing I didn’t do was grind out the dungeons and the rep for the class sets, although I think I have that on 3-4 classes.

And yeah, I know I could have sped up a lot of this by playing Legion Remix, but I didn’t enjoy it. This was a nice side quest, often only logging in for 5-10min a day on that character. 12 of them is a bit much though, and this was even before we got Evokers.

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Raiding the Voidspire – Week 15

On Sunday we were exactly 10 and did Rotmire on Normal and Heroic, then the majority voted to stop and not continue today because it’s still very hot. Understandable, but it sucks. We’ve still got 3 bosses to kill.

On Tuesday we had 12 in a good comp and after Paladins on the second pull we actually managed to get Crown Heroic down relatively smoothly on the 4th pull of the night (32nd overall) and then Belo’ren also on the 4th pull (21 overall) – which seemed suspiciously good progress, not sure if there were nerfs or the Folio is just that good.

After that some 9 L’ura pulls (once to Intermission) and I’m a little happier now.

AOTC, but a weird one

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Some M+ progress and stats

Today the weather was finally a bit less horrible (read: cooler) and we got to do some M+. After a first pretty bad try at Windrunner Spire +14 with too many deaths we luckily had a 2nd key and timed it without problems, which in turn gave us Resilient 14. With 1 15 timed (skyreach)… still some way to go for 3400 (this is ~3200 now).

And then I got my last missing key on my Paladin, a Magister’s Terrace 10, and now I have timed all dungeons on at least on every tank this season:

These are sorted by RIO, so a bit random: Warrior main at 3197, Paladin at 2791, Brewmaster at 2754, Vengeance DH at 2727, Guardian Druid at 2663, Blood DK at 2661.

Yes, that’s 48 keys without taking any repetitions into account, but I didn’t actually “not” time so many on the alts (or do below 10s):

  • Paladin: 1x +2, 1 untimed +10
  • Brew: 1x +9, 9 extra +10s, 1 x +11, 1 untimed +12
  • VDH: 8 extra +10s, 2 untimed +9, 3 untimed +10, 7x +2 to +9
  • Guardian: 1x untimed 10, 1x extra timed 10
  • BDK: 8x +2 to +9, 2x extra +10, 1 untimed +8, 1 extra +11

So that’s another 39 timed and 9 untimed keys… not counting my main (80 in total, 67 timed). With 13 weeks that’s a whopping 10 keys per week. Ouch

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Raiding the Voidspire – Week 14

I’m back and we even had 10-12 people, yay.

Sunday: Rotmire Normal (first try), then Rotmire Heroic (4 wipes), then on to Voidspire, this time with the skip (so 2 down, then 6 wipes on Crown).

Tuesday unfortunately was canceled.

Due to the heat and other stuff we didn’t continue with M+ this week either 🙁

In some downtime I have leveled a Haranir Druid to 50 for the Heritage Armor over the last couple weeks. Unless I lost track and forgot to do one at some point… that means I should have all of them, but I might go double checking at some point.

I have every class except Evoker at 90 (pre 12.0.7), and now a second Rogue as of the weekend. Started the Evoker but it’s just not fun for me. Will try to use the Follow the Arrow addon again and just do it bit by bit.

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Raiding the Voidspire – Week 12 & 13

I was on vacation but apparently there was some Voidspire raiding in Week 12 (4 down, then wipes on Vanguard).

Week 13 was 5 down in Voidspire, then 5 Crown wipes.

Only 2 out of 4 raids happened, which kinda sucks. First 2 weeks I missed as a tank and meh.

Seems I forgot to post about M+.

We’re at ~3180 rating, missing one for Resil 14, having timed one 15. I finished my “tank all 10s” quest on Brewmaster and Blood DK, the Vengeance Demon Hunter is missing 1 and the Guardian is missing 3. The Protection Paladin has not tanked anything close to a 10, or no M+ at all, not sure at this point.

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