WoW

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.

As I was away on vacation I didn’t really play a lot of WoW, but this week after I’d come back we did the Raider.IO Break The Meta event – funny how we’ve been playing with Blood DK, Holy Priest, Fury Warrior, aka 3 of 5 non-meta specs the whole season anyway. Our Hunter had to respec to Survival and our DH had to go on his Monk and Mage though. In the end we had to do three, because while the first was no problem, we didn’t make the timer for the 2nd one (Floodgate). Cinderbrew Meadery worked.
Anyway, wasn’t great, wasn’t terrible – we just think we’re remembering that 2 or 3 seasons ago it was easier, maybe doing 2 +15s with the old system, which would be 2 +8s or so, not 2 +10s.

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.