The only winning move is not to play
Step 1: Announce you’re not taking part in Blaugust
Step 2: Write six blog posts in the first half of the month
Step 3: Profit! (no wait…)
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One hundred thirty million
Oops, forgot to post the last one. Last post in November.
Skill category Points No. of skills
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Spaceship Command 44,481,937 66 *
Gunnery 20,895,798 43 *
Drones 11,904,316 22 *
Missiles 10,779,768 25 *
Navigation 8,606,589 13
Engineering 7,109,669 15 *
Fleet Support 5,532,130 13 *
Shields 4,339,138 12 *
Subsystems 4,096,000 16
Electronic Systems 2,863,220 14
Targeting 2,660,841 8 *
Armor 2,609,805 11 *
Scanning 1,899,374 7
Neural Enhancement 964,550 5 *
Resource Processing 902,450 10
Rigging 679,060 10
Science 502,275 13
Social 434,510 6
Planet Management 394,040 4
Trade 359,530 8
Production 276,743 4
Structure Management 135,765 1
Corporation Management 250 1
* = changes since last time
Skills at Level 5: 142 (+17)
Skills at Level 4: 123 (+1)
Skills at Level 3: 37 (-10)
Skills at Level 2: 3 (+1)
Skills at Level 1: 22 (-2)
Skills at Level 0: 1 ( 0)
And thus my alt has reached 80m.
Skill category Points No. of skills
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Spaceship Command 21,813,152 53 *
Gunnery 11,889,507 36 *
Missiles 7,333,279 21 *
Engineering 6,762,040 14 *
Drones 6,704,925 17 *
Navigation 4,548,550 9 *
Subsystems 4,096,000 16 *
Armor 3,810,275 10 *
Shields 3,103,060 10 *
Electronic Systems 2,985,495 13 *
Science 1,537,415 3 *
Targeting 1,521,805 8
Scanning 1,006,354 7 *
Fleet Support 889,570 6 *
Neural Enhancement 738,275 4
Rigging 679,060 10
Planet Management 394,040 4
Resource Processing 33,000 3 *
Structure Management 24,000 1
Social 23,072 4
Trade 12,244 3
* = changes since last time
Skills at Level 5: 107 (+26)
Skills at Level 4: 103 (-9)
Skills at Level 3: 24 (-8)
Skills at Level 2: 8 (-2)
Skills at Level 1: 10 (-1)
Skills at Level 0: 6 (-2)As there are no cap skills here, it’s a massive spike to get skills to Level V. 80m is really a comfortable place to be if you don’t “waste” skills anywhere except flying subcaps, especially if you leave out the big Battleships, and their T2 variants.
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Human Heritage Armor
The Heritage Armor for Orcs and Humans came out in 10.0.7 in March and I had only done the Orc one (and liked it a lot). Today I had time and remembered that I was still missing the Human one. Can’t say how long it took but I liked it. If my Human character had been any other class than a Rogue I might even transmog it, but maybe I can use some parts…
When I last made a consolidated list about all the races in February 2020 there were still some missing, especially as I hadn’t leveled all Allied Races to max level, but if I am not mistaken now it’s these:
- Troll
- Undead (should be in the next Patch)
- Night Elf (should be in the next Patch)
- Draenei
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Getting back to FFXIV?
FFXIV has another free login campaign, this time 14 days, until the end of the month.
I last played in November last year, that should have been patch 6.2 and before I saw this yesterday I didn’t think about it too much, and had also ignored Fanfest and hadn’t even thought about what they might have announced. Turns out the next expansion is not planned for exactly 2 years after the last, but for next summer, Kaylriene has a blog post about it.
So, for some reason I am interested and I might just take them up on the offer, there are patches 6.3 and 6.4 to look at.
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Aberrus – week 9 & 10
I missed the Tuesday raid in week 9 but they did not kill Sarkareth. Don’t remember if we managed 8 or just 7 on Sunday, doesn’t really matter anyway.
Sunday in week 10 had us down a few key people and so we missed the 8/9 by maybe one pull or so, but for dragging along someone who only had done Normal once it went fine. (The person knows how to play, does a lot of M+, but we still lost some minutes by explaining every boss briefly, no blame here.) Tuesday was a quick kill of Neltharion and then a lot of tries on Sarkareth – some bad ones, but also quite a few good ones, one at 15% – should be doable.
After the Sunday raid I got dragged into a +20 Freehold, and I don’t know why. Guess they were already sure they wouldn’t time it and so it didn’t matter 😀 That was my 2nd M+ run in that dungeon, but hey, we did it – overtime with dozens of deaths. Kinda curious about the Vault loot next week now.
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Topics, games, WoW
I’ve written many times that this is not a WoW blog, just a blog by someone who has played WoW for quite a few years (started in 2005, some short breaks until 2014, then mostly subbed since 2019 again) – but in the last year or so I think 90% of the posts have been about WoW. I do play EVE Online, and at times more than WoW, but I find it very hard to write about, so not many posts. I’ve been slowly progressing through Diablo IV but this is the second post mentioning it, without it being the main topic of the post. (Yes, it’s still fun but not awesome, but I’m still in the story part). And then there are other games. I’ve basically zero interest in Baldur’s Gate III, but all the talk made me wonder if I should replay the original Baldur’s Gate or Planescape: Torment. I probably shouldn’t.
Anyway, after a few weird months (see posting frequency since April) I should probably be happy to have some topic to write about once per week, even if it’s just a small blurb on how the raid went, even if I don’t want to exclusively write about WoW. But then again, there’s nothing drawing me to FFXIV or SWTOR or GW2 at the moment and that list of upcoming games for 2022? Yeah well, I played Gamedec and it was good and then the reviews for Redfall were abysmal and the ones for Forspoken were mixed or worse, Nightingale hasn’t released and so on…
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Aberrus – week 8
Sunday was a little slower, only managed to kill 7 bosses, Tuesday saw us reaching 25 wipes on Sarkareth Heroic with down to 25%. Progress.
Managed to do 2 M+ this week and also play for an hour or two and catch up on quests on the latest patch, yay.
Aberrus – week 6 & 7
Tuesday of week 6 was the first time I’d missed a first kill on Heroic since… I don’t know, maybe since I’ve been raiding with this guild (that would be 2 years) but RL called to do other stuff and so they killed Magmorax without me, and Zskarn as well, I think.
Sunday of week 7 was really good, we skipped Normal for the first time and straight up breezed through with only 2 wipes or so, everything including Echo of Neltharion is down, so that would be a full evening of Sarkareth pulls ahead on Tuesday. Tuesday: Soo, not sure what to make of it, but we got into P3 relatively consistently and then it broke down, like 12-13 tries in total. That will be a piece of work.
My “iLvl %” parses seem really good, but of course overall some 0f my fellow raiders are miles ahead with an average of 12 iLvl higher, that is basically a full tier. Can’t complain, if you have no time to put into gearing but a little annoyed how it could be a lot better.
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Aberrus – week 5
Oh wow, the end of a raid week and I manage to post. Nothing spectacular, but we’re 6/9 Heroic now after some grinding of teeth on Zskarn and again only 15 people. (Last week it was 5/9 with I think 4 new ones) – and we had done Normal again at the start, so that’s actually 9 bosses in 4h, weirdly quick for our usual pace.
Anyway, still raid logging and probably having to continue to do that for most of July, but at least I get to play. For some reason my DPS numbers seemed pretty stellar last week, now they’re back to “Oh I’m undergeared relative to our top DPS and thus can’t compete”. Maybe I should investigate, or maybe I shouldn’t…
Still no time for M+, but with 2 Heroic drops from the Vault that should be ok. I managed to get my MH upgraded to 437 last week and thus could upgrade my OH basically for free and now I can still upgrade my belt and also buy some more upgrades, maybe I should try to get that done before the next raid…
June in review
Oh wow, a second one of these posts. For several reasons June was probably my month with the least amount of gaming time in a long while and July doesn’t look much better with some plans.
I did end up buying Diablo 4 and starting the campaign, and it’s fun, but I’m not particularly far – taking it slow but I kinda wanna see more.
June 4th was my (and our) first raid day, cleared 8/9 Normal that week (Sun+Tue as usual) and then my next raid was the the 25th + 27th when we ended up at 5/9 Heroic. Tbh not completely sure what the guild did in the 2 weeks that I missed, I think they were on 9/9 Normal 1/9 Heroic.
Still at zero M+ and didn’t log in a lot, but at least I managed to get my gear in shape, in relation to my online time – 423 iLvl, where 424 is the max iLvl in Normal. But I guess if I can not totally fall behind with just raid logging I’m happy enough, and I got my 4 set bonus via Catalyst and a bit of rolling luck. Oh, and I’m back to playing Fury. Guess it goes hand in hand with this low-stress season where I couldn’t really be motivated to learn a new class and/or even gear it beforehand in our break between the seasons.