Nogamara

I suppose this already counts as “getting it over with”.
It’s Thursday evening and the Blood Elf Priest is 80, and then 4 more are all between 74.0 and 76.25 – Troll Feral Druid, Vulpera Blood DK, Goblin Fury Warrior, Gnome Sub Rogue.

I said I didn’t even want to touch my cadre of BfA Allied Race chars, but if I’m done with this… Maybe a break is in order because with those 4 finished I’d be at 30 (14 Alliance, 16 Horde).

Saturday afternoon and only the Troll Druid had made it to 80, but I also leveled an Earthen Paladin from 10 to 70 with just Exploration XP in 3h (as described in this video, not mine).

And then on Saturday night and Sunday I did level the Gnome Rogue and the Vulpera Blood DK to 80, and the Goblin Warrior is a sliver behind 79. I originally played him with Single-Minded Fury (aka 2 1h weapons) but then I forgot, chose the cookie cutter build and was leveling mostly with 1 2h and 1 1h… and didn’t even notice because of the nice damage, doh.

Anyway, once the Warrior is finished (probably tomorrow), that’s 10 chars from 70 to 80 then in 13 days.

Sunday was a good run, quick work of the first 5, then a couple of tries on One-Armed Bandit with some nice progress.

On Tuesday we killed One-Armed Bandit on the 21st pull, yay.

On the weekend I managed to finish leveling the Kul Tiran Mage and Blood Elf DH to 80, then on Monday finished the Troll Hunter (that I had only started to work on from 70 on the weekend) and the Orc Shaman, with Tauren Druid and Blood Elf Priest on the todo list, together with the Troll Druid from Remix. Total count of 80s is now 24, all classes at least once, and each class on Alliance done. Plus the Tauren Druid before the Tuesday Raid, so 25…

The bonus XP event in WoW is unusual in a way that you’re constantly getting drops of satchels with gear, but it’s a nice bonus. I didn’t really jot down the numbers of how much increase percentagewise it is (with the XP potions), but it’s fast enough.

After 2 nights (and doing other things), I got my 4 toons to 72, 75, 76, 77 – all from 70 (but not necessarily 0% there).

You do get a basically guaranteed epic level-appropriate weapon and a BoA 30 slot bag in your first satchel, so probably worth taking out even those alts I hadn’t planned on playing for a single quest or until the thing drops. And of those characters I have another 10 or so. Oh well.

That invasion event in Hallowfall though? I hardly read about and people told me it was bugged or not exciting and not useful for our mains, but apparently you can get some 630ish gear for alts. Will look at this later, guess I’ll focus on leveling.

So on the Easter weekend we accidentally timed our first +10. I tanked a Cinderbrew +10 and everything went wrong (maybe don’t let someone tank a 10 on their 4th dungeon in the last year) and then I thought we’d do a +9 Rookery, but it was a 10 key, and with me as DPS.. we just did it. Nice. First portal!

And after some bag cleaning on all the alts I dug out my old list and updated which toon has which bags and now I need to go out and grab those easy to get 3 x 34 and 1 x 28 slot bags… many of them.

Oh, and the raid. First 4 in the first hour (3 wipes on Lockenstock), then a Stix rekill on the third pull, then we called it early. One-Armed Bandit will be hard, but we’re finally stopping to do Normal now next week.

As it’s the Easter weekend, no Sunday raid is planned.

But leading up to the weekend we mixed things up a bit with me tanking M+. Only did one each of +7/8/9 but at least we got the two lower ones in time and the last one wasn’t strictly my fault. We’ll see how this continues. And then I tried healing on the Shaman. Still in meh gear, but it works, in very low keys at least.

Also got the Horde Rogue and Blood Elf Warlock and Alliance Evoker to 80, that’s 20 done and 12 missing, if I count all 70s, but I guess I shouldn’t. Only 5-6 on the two servers I actually play on.

On Wednesday we’re supposed to get an XP buff for a month, so I already prepared a couple more characters that I had a) planned to level next and b) held off this week – Kul Tiran Mage, Tauren Druid, Orc Shaman, and Blood Elf Demon Hunter, so the last remaining Alliance class and 3 of the 4 remaining Horde ones (Priest is last, and Evoker is missing). They were mostly in terrible 350ish gear, but the Shaman in 220 seems to have skipped the whole of DF, I probably leveled her with either Archaeology or the Caverns of Time anniversary event.

And yeah, apparently right now I’m in a bit of a WoW spree, but also many vacation days.

Sunday was 3 Normal, then 3 Heroic, then 6 wipes on Lockenstock and finally a kill, so 23rd pull. Nice.

Tuesday saw us killing Stix (24th pull total) then 11 wipes on One-Armed Bandit. That will be hard.

Sunday had us do the 3 on normal with the skip, then the first 3 on Heroic, then a couple of wipes on Stix (up to around 15 probably). Tuesday we switched to Lockenstock and wiped 16 times.

One of those weeks I managed to get to 2000 M+ rating, now we’re working on 2500, but slowly.
I’ve also continued leveling chars, Orc Rogue, Blood Elf Warlock, and the Alliance Evoker. With these 3 done I’d be at 20 Level 80s.

Sunday had us short a couple people, but at least we were 10 with the right composition, so we cleared Normal in 1:50h and called it a little early.

Tuesday had us kill the first 3 on Heroic without problems, and then our best try on Stix, 1 or 2%, but no kill.

I did manage to finish those 8 M+ (one of each) and got to 1500 rating in the progress, so 2000 for the mount shouldn’t be a big problem now. So that’s 3 Vault boxes ticked for M+, then 3 for the raid, and then I apparently did enough +8s to also have those 3. Bit much this week but eh, weather is still bad.

On the weekend I somehow got the idea that I might want to play an Alt after all and so I spent some hours to get my Resto Shaman up in iLvl from 597ish, as apparently people expect you to be over 620ish to do M0 now. And then I queued for 2×2 bosses in LFR after our raid to get exactly zero pieces of loot.

Last Sunday we managed to clear and kill the first boss on Heroic, then continued with Heroic on Tuesday. Second boss (arena) on the 5th pull, third boss (Rik) on the third pull, then five wipes on Stix. Not too bad.

Today that one regular M+ team of our raid was lacking their 5th, so I was invited and we timed a +6 Theater, my +5 Motherlode and then nearly made a +8 Priory, finishign with a quick +2 Mechagon. As usual in some late-ish week I’m grabbed for the ride, get a quick mechanics intro and we time some key, at least in this case I’d known most of the dungeons already (minus the new changes or M+ vs Heroic).
Horde Hunter is nearly 80, and I’m iLvl 645 on my main, which was a nice boost today. Still haven’t tried +11 Delves for the gilded Crests, but I’ve already done 4 Tier 8 ones for the vault.