WoW

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.

Yeah, of course I couldn’t not try to research this after the other post.

• Vanilla
  • ( Human Warlock – lost to time, June or July 2005 )
  • Orc Rogue – May-June 2005
  • Orc Hunter – May 2005
  • Undead Mage – July 2006
  • Tauren Druid – September 2006 or earlier
• TBC releases – January 2007
  • Blood Elf Warlock – January 2007
  • Troll Warrior – February 2007
  • Blood Elf Priest – March 2007
  • Blood Elf Paladin – not sure, but should be close to launch
  • Orc Shaman – January 2008
  • Human Rogue – February 2008
• WotLK releases – November 2018
  • Undead Death Knight – probably not at launch
• Cataclysm releases – December 2010
  • Night Elf Warrior – got to 85, maybe created even earlier, current main, 2-3 server transfers
• Mists of Pandaria releases – September 2012
  • Horde Pandaren Monk
  • Dwarf Shaman – killed Algalon in March ’14
  • ( Gnome Rogue )
  • ( Night Elf Rogue )
  • ( Goblin Warrior )
  • ( Troll Hunter )
• Warlords of Draenor releases – November 2014
• Legion releases – August 2016
  • Night Elf Demon Hunter – maybe August?
• Battle for Azeroth releases – August 2018
  • ( Dwarf Paladin – left behind when transferring )
  • Blood Elf Demon Hunter
  • Worgen Druid
  • Kul Tiran Human Mage
  • Draenei Death Knight
  • Dark Iron Dwarf Monk
  • ( Mechagnome Warlock – left behind when transferring )
  • Worgen Priest
  • ( Dwarf Hunter – left behind when transferring )
• Shadowlands releases – November 2020
  • ( Void Elf Rogue – left behind when transferring )
  • Lightforged Draenei Paladin – July 2021
  • ( Vulpera Death Knight )
• Dragonflight releases – November 2022
  • Void Elf Warlock
  • Alliance Pandaren Hunter
  • Alliance Dracthyr Evoker – 2023, late
• The War Within releases – August 2024
  • ( Troll Druid – MoP Remix )
  • Horde Dracthyr Evoker – May 2025

Yes I cheated a little. Since WarcraftRealms.com is down and I only had noted the first appearance for some of my older characters some years ago already, the newer the character, the less exact I can put the date. But I have my list of who was max level in which expansion, that helped a lot, even before looking at individual blog posts, but those only go back to 2009

Also I put all the non-primary characters per class (and faction) in brackets, so there should exactly be 26, but unless I miscounted I forgot exactly one.

So some useless stats:

• Horde characters (main server) created between 2005 and 2018
• Alliance characters (main server) created between ~2008 and 2025
• Most server transfers per char: 3
• Most servers any one character has been: 2 (don’t ask, the NE Warrior went Aggramar -> Tichondrius -> Agg -> Tic)
• Characters with 2 server transfers: 1 (Aggramar -> somewhere -> Aggramar)
• Characters with 1 server transfer: around 8, all Alliance and Hellscream -> Tichondrius

Unfortunately I couldn’t say I’ve played my Horde toons actively for the last couple years, just bringing some (or most) to the level cap each expansion, or I guess I’d have to celebrate the 20th birthday for some of them this month. Kinda shocking.

Sunday was uneventful, killed the first 6 with 2 wipes, then 4 good and 1 bad try on Mug’Zee.

Tuesday was just 17 not to great wipes on Mug’Zee for several reasons – me tanking this raid for the first time for a bit only being the cause of maybe 2 of them. Ah well.

Only timed 2 +10s this week, so also nothing to look forward for in the vault (I bet) but tomorrow this magic loot patch is supposed to drop as well, we’ll see.

I had looked up something in my old SWTOR posts (apparently I haven’t played in nearly 3 years, wow) and noticed that I wrote about some goals from time to time. Yes, I think I can say I am very much goal oriented (not all of them are useful or other people’s common goals) and I have checklists and other spreadsheets.

Maybe time to post one for WoW again, I thought, just to promptly forget about this draft from early? April.

• Get Alliance Mage to 80 (last Alliance class missing on main server) – done before the XP event came
• Get missing Horde classes to 80 (except Evoker, don’t plan to make one and ugh, there’s another priest) – all done and Evoker started, thanks to the XP event
• Try to grab one event satchel for the missing ones (Druid, DK, Warrior, Hunter, and Priest, Warrior, Rogue, Paladin, also another Rogue, and maybe another set of Paladin, Hunter, Rogue) – haha, one satchel, they’re all 80 now
• I just noticed I’ve never *really* been happy with any of the Paladins I played (Blood Elf was ok, Dwarf was ok, never clicked with any of the others) – so maybe try to find a race/gender combo I can like? Level another Paladin maybe? Same is true for my Worgen Druid. Can I fix this somehow? The Tauren was ok but a) Horde b) wrong server c) feels a little too bulky now for my taste – I have created several new Paladins – one Earthen, two Tauren.
• Get to 2500 M+ rating – done
• Get the last remaining three M+10 dungeon teleports
• Get AOTC (not sure we will make this until the end of May, probably not, 3 bosses missing) – 7/8 as of May 6th
• A couple of Shadowlands achievements I’ve been tracking for a while – an actual TODO
• Maybe, just maybe, gear a 3rd toon in Season 2 – I had underestimated how much semi decent gear drops from the Hallowfall event, after gearing the Shaman to 649 the Demon Hunter is already close to 640 as well

Guess I need more goals for May, unless I dial back on WoW, which probably would be a good idea anyway.

Sunday went really well, no wipes on the first six (not even on Bandit), then 5 tries on Mug’Zee, best at 16%.

And then he just died on the third pull on Tuesday, 13ish wipes total, very quick.

Gallywix on the other hand seems to be harder than anticipated, we’ll see how long that will take.

In TWW Season 1 we raided like 17 weeks, killing the penultimate boss only in like week 14 or 15. The last tier of Dragonflight, Amirdrassil, took us 14 weeks, Aberrus took us 12 weeks and Vault of the Incarnates 14 as well.

The Jailer in Season 3 of Shadowlands (Sepulcher) took 22 weeks and Sylvanas in Sanctum also around 20.

And in other news we broke 2500 M+ score this week, which means the Keystone Hero achievement and some transmog options, by timing a couple +10s. I’m just missing 3 of them for the teleport spells now.

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.