WoW

WoW is a bit boring right now and I’m mostly playing around with addons. Others’ and my own.

My sub will run out soon and I plan to only pay on the day of the expansion launch, not earlier, but to continue doing addon stuff I needed a low level sub-20 character, so I have a new Shaman now.

Looking at my list of too many characters I started counting the high level ones. 5 Warriors, Rogues, Paladins – 4 Hunters – 3 Warlocks, Druids, DKs, Priests – so from my actually favourite classes only Shaman and DH were missing, so that’s why it’s a Shaman. If we had server transfers I’d shuffle quite a few around, but I am not planning to spend money on chars I hardly play. It’s still a shame, though.

My trial and error phase expanded in the last 2 weeks (part 1), and there are some new developments, first some 1:1 replacements or installing what I missed:

• AstralKeys – keeping after all
• Chattynator instead of Prat – trial
• Details – keeping after all
• Platynator instead of Plater – trial
• WarpDeplete – keeping after all
• TargetedSpells for M+, trial
• Missing Class Buff instead of several WeakAuras – trial
• Sensei Class Resource bar – trial

And then some other stuff:

• WeeklyKnowledge – for professions, trial
• Watchtower (WeakAuras Light) – trial
• Already Known? – trial

The Cooldown Manager seems semi-ok, but the last big thing is Unit Frames. I’ve had no luck finding something I like and that works, so I’ve started writing my own (not from scratch, of course), but based on the setup by oUF’s main developer. We’ll see if I get that into a usable shape until the release.

This week I spent a bit of time in Dornogal, sorting all my gear from this expansion, converting to set pieces and upgrading stuff but I’m missing a few bits and pieces.

So today I checked out the prepatch event and it’s kinda… bad?

Story is meh, but that’s ok, the quest line itself is short, but then I get to two weeklies – kill 3 rares and also a combined “kill 8 rares and/or do WQs in that zone” so I dutifully do my 4 or so WQs and need some rares (only managed to grab one while doing the WQs) and then I notice they’re only spawning every 10 minutes, one at a time. What? Got one, missed one due to looking at the other screen, then I set my phone alarm and go tthe last two. But I was just waiting for 20min. Engaging gameplay!

And then I don’t even need most of the gear.

I had posted about Heritage Armor several times and the last time I was still missing some of them.

Just logged through all characters (one per race) and apparently after posting about Humans I had already done Undead, Troll, and Draenei… and probably got all the Allied Race ones when I dinged max level.

According to the Warcraft Wiki only Dracthyr is missing one now.

Also just noticed the latest version of the Catch-up gear thing let’s you do “I’ll decide later” and not forgo the chance. About time, but thank you Blizzard devs.

We did it! In a fantastic finish today (Streets +13, Halls +13, Ara-Kara +12) we got to 3000 M+ rating and have finished also this goal – this time 2 weeks after the raid. This took some time and I was only logging in for this I’m glad to have a bit of a break from scheduled activities for now. Too bad my sub auto-renewed yesterday of all days.

We did it.

Did the first three for the Vault because our 12th raider was late, then the skip, so had to kill Nexus-King – that’s 4. And then Dimensius died on the 96th pull, last try of the evening, 1 minute before the usual end time, so last or second to last pull of the night – finally. Another AOTC bagged, took 4 months though. Luckily no one was missing (except the poor sod who stopped raiding due to a prolonged hospital visit) so we don’t have to rekill, and now it’s just clearing the achievements in Normal.

Then it’s only M+ until the end of the season, and I’m really happy I can cut down on weekly appointments in December, it’s packed enough every year.

Week 14: 7 kills, 3 wipes on Nexus-King, then 22 wipes on Dimensius, once to phase three.

Week 15 we finally focused on Dimensius with 16 pulls on Sunday, 4 times phase three and one time 18%.

Tuesday had 10 more pulls, again 3 times in phase three and a close 3.7% wipe that could have been a kill. Clearing the start for gear after that.

I’m not really logging in much – basically 4h of raid and 2-4h of M+. We knocked out a few more 11s and 12 and are around 2850 now.

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+.