Nogamara

Sunday was a quick clear of the first 7 (wow), just one wipe on Fractillus (expected) and Nexus-King (unexpectedly low) and calling it early.

Tuesday was 23 wipes on Dimensius, with a best of 36% in Phase 2, but 17 wipes in P1.

Our main problem seems to be number of people – with 10-11 it was terrible, with 12 and some shuffling it went kinda ok. Ideally we’d be 14-16 and running 4 healers I guess, not 3.

In M+, we’re up to 2760ish rating with 3 +12s timed, but we kinda forgot to do our last 2 +10s in +11, so if I could assume we’d manage that, 2800 is very close – just that the target is still 3000…

Other than that I’ve not really logged in – 4h of raid, close to 3ish hours of M+.

Friday we cleared the first six with only one wipe on Loom’ithar, then 5 wipes on Saladhaar.

Tuesday Salhadaar died on the 4th pull (58 overall), followed by 18 wipes on Dimensius – that will be a piece of work.

For M+, we did our weekly 4 10+ (one failed Eco-Dome +13 that was not too terrible) and I didn’t even manage to get one done on the Warlock. Slow week for WoW.

Before this week’s raid even starts I managed to get the S3 “Runed” achievement on both chars, that’s a minimum iLvl of 704 in every slot, so I can convert my Runed Crests into Gilded. After doing just that and grinding out a couple Valorstones (ugh) they’re now both at 717. And yet there is not much M+ happening, also not in the No Pressure Discord.

So this also means I don’t need a lot of gear now. The Warlock can get a free belt or ring (hopefully after Sunday’s raid) – but apparently the belt from Dimensius sims a lot better. And for the Warrior I’d also need one good ring, but not even sure a Heroic one will be a big upgrade. So not even anything to motivate me there.

The Sunday raid was uneventful, 6 bosses down – no wipe (probably for the first time), then 7 wipes on Nexus-King, and Tuesday we only had 10 people and17 more wipes, but several below 30%. I hope this will work out next week. (Actually this week, as I write this.)

I didn’t plan to play, then I didn’t really plan to level, but the mounts and transmog kept calling me.

Started a Protection Warrior over a week ago and been slowly chipping at it until yesterday, when I was 35 or so – but today I had a few hours so now I just dinged 71, at 8h /played. Just want to get to 80 quick and farm some Bronze, I wouldn’t say I’m enjoying it, but I also don’t hate it. I always liked leveling in Legion, but it’s kinda ridiculous how you get weird quests that are just done so easy. I’ve been in the Heroic World Tier since Level 42ish and it’s fine.

Every time we slow progress or I drift away from WoW except raidlogging I miss updates. Nothing of value was lost, but still.

Sunday of Week 9 saw 5 rekills, but 1 wipe on every boss except Loom’ithar. Weird. Then Tuesday a Fractillus kill and many Nexus-King wipes.

Sunday of Week 10 was 3 clean rekills, then 2,1,1 wipes an calling it early and then we lacked people on Tuesday.

Our DH was still busy with moving and having bad internet, so not a lot of M+ – still failing the +12s.

But both my toons are now 715 iLvl after the first Dinar item, but still below 2700 rating. It’s a bit of a slog right now.

Sunday was some good reclearing, 1 wipe on Loom’ithar, 2 on Soulbinder and Araz. Then some progress on the Demon Hunters, 4 wipes and best at 23%.

Tuesday they died on the 2nd try, then another first kill of Fractillus on the third try. So we’re 6/8 Heroic now.
Finally some 10 wipes on Nexus-King, which felt a little painful.

Oh, and I had to tank on both days but hope to be back on Warlock.

With people offline we didn’t do a whole lot of M+, just 4-5 on the Warrior and one on the Warlock. The first part of Turbo Boost was scheduled for the next reset, so some gear upgrades incoming.

I’ve not written terribly much about addons here, but I did make a post about my fully redone UI at the start of Dragonflight, and even when I wanted to go minimal I noticed that I didn’t go minimal.

At the time of writing this I have 148 folders inside my Interface/Addons folder, luckily that doesn’t mean I run 148 addons, because I can quickly eliminate around 100 by removing addons that are split in subpackages, but I think 40-50 remain. Surely they all can’t be important. And surely they all can’t stop functioning with the next expansion (if they are combat addons).

I suppose I’m just very happy to eliminate some quirks in the game, or just improve things I don’t love. My guess would be that half of those are just QoL addons.

Oh, and I hadn’t even counted my WeakAuras. A lot of those are also just QoL stuff or reminders “No Pet/Pet Passive/Use Battle Shout” which would be fine as addons out of combat. Or Profession knowledge point tracking, but we’ll see how that develops.

I’m certainly not in despair, especially not about combat. I’m just a little wary of maybe losing some customization I really like, stuff that makes the game more enjoyable for me – maybe because I don’t have to count to 10 in my head, maybe because a certain thing is positioned better than doable with Blizzard’s own UI.