WoW

So our main tank is still MIA and our DK didn’t really want to permanently switch to tank, so today it was my turn. Worked fine so far. Cleared Normal and Plexus Sentinel Hc, unfortunately a single wipe on Loom’ithar, not only but also because of tank coordination problems

On Tuesday we had a bit of a slow day with long breaks, but we rekilled Loom’ithar on the 3rd pull and then Soulbinder on the 4th one. Then some wipes on Araz, with a respectable 17% on the fifth try. Maybe we could’ve gotten them if we didn’t have to change a tank who has to relearn the fights…

For M+, until the weekend I had reached 2500 on the Warlock (5 timed at +10) and the Warrior was close (2400, and also tanked a couple +6 on the Demon Hunter and ran a couple low ones on Shaman (2x Resto, 2x Ele). That went on to become 8 +10/11 on Warrior, 6 on Warlock and nearly 8x +6 on DH. A good week.

Sunday: Cleared Normal, then 5 wipes on Plexus Sentinel Heroic, best at 6.5% – not great.

Tuesday: Sentinel down, Loom’ithar down, 6 wipes on Naazindhri, best at 18% – could’ve been a kill if we hadn’t wasted so much time on Sunday.

People seem a little on the edge, but we’re only one boss behind compared to Undermine and Nerub’ar Palace (in week 4).

Managed to time my first +10 on Warlock (Eco-Dome) and filled out all Vault slots on Warrior and Warlock.

Sunday went pretty well – no wipes on the first 7, then Dimensius rekill after 2 wipes, then we called it 10 min early.

Tuesday saw Plexus Sentinel die on the 6th pull (incl obligatory 0.5% wipe), then Loom’ithar died on the 3rd pull and then we had 4 wipes on Naazindhri (best 36%).

I managed to get a single +10 done on both chars (timed neither) but the vault items were not great, but both chars had their 4-set in that week and I did quite a lot of PvP, trying to get the Gladiator gear for Conquest (already managed to get the full Honor set).

Sunday we rekilled the first 7 on Normal without a single wipe (weird) and had time for 7 pulls on Dimensius, none of them progressing to phase 2, I think some people hadn’t even watched a video. Tuesday went a lot better, 4 P3 wipes and a kill on the 21st pull, roughly 5 minutes over time. From what I heard people want to clear Normal again for 2 weeks, but maybe we’re quicker and can at least start on Heroic.

In terms of M+ I tanked 8 – from +4 to +8 on the Warrior, close to 1850 rating and did like 4 or 5 between 4 and 9 on the Warlock, and tanked a single +2 on the VDH. Still no 4 pieces for the new tier, but maybe the Vault works out tomorrow.

So this week we finally got to start the raid (it was release week) and on Sunday we got 4 bosses down on Normal, and 3 more on Tuesday, but the few tries on the last boss were… interesting. So again a tier with 7/8 Normal week 1 in 4 hours, that’s ok and I hope we can clear 6 or 7 on Sunday in 2h.

I’ve kinda accustomed to my Demo Warlock already but it feels a bit weird to play a ranged caster instead of Melee.

Last week I did a lot of Mythic 0 and this week I managed to squeeze in 20 M+ from +2 to +4 (9 on Warlock, 10 on Prot Warrior, and one on Vengeance DH) and a lot of Delves, grabbing all that gear. Maybe even a bit too much, but next week will have several evening booked for other things, not WoW.

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.