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Level 160

Posted in Kamalia, Midnight, Warbands on March 27, 2026| 2 Comments »

Kamalia and BTH dinged Midnight-90 last night. They’ve been around since Burning Crusade, though, so it’s really their 160th level.

We then went and did the endgame quest series leading into the Voidspire raid. We got to the end and I found myself thinking, Wait, that’s all? That’s all the build-up to going into this raid? Story Mode for Voidspire is already available, so that will probably be our next play session if there’s not a gear level we have to get to first.

Now that I’ve got that first Warband Mentoring bonus, Kaelinda will be able to get that much closer to her own Level 160 just from doing the Campaign and Local Stories in Eversong Woods (and gathering and first-time crafting, too). She’s currently working on the Local Stories near Windrunner Spire, to see if any of them lead into that dungeon itself, before going to Deatholme for the big finish of the Tranquillien chapter of the Eversong Woods Campaign.

I’ll do the introduction questline to the Prey feature to clear it from my map. After that, I’ve been dithering about if I want to engage with it just long enough to get the Mog (like I did with Horrific Visions), or just ignore it.

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Chronoscholar goes poof

Posted in Real Life, Achievements, Events, Legion, Warbands, Haranir on December 11, 2025| 2 Comments »

Between school being in session, the WoW Fall holidays and their abundance of low-effort XP for alts, and HOUSING!!!, there were days when I just didn’t play Legion Remix at all. Last night, my Timerunning Mage finally completed the achievement for doing 150 Infinite Research Assignments and received the Chronoscholar title. Her Order Resources and Bronze transferred easily to other characters thanks to Warbands, but I had to convert her out into the standard game to be able to send her 13K Gold to another character. With that done, I deleted the toon and replaced that slot in my roster with a placeholder toon for a future Haranir Mage.

My Timerunning Enhancement Shaman is currently at level 60; with the leveling speed in Legion Remix having apparently gotten even more bonkers-gonzo speedy in the last phase, he’ll undoubtably hit level 80 well before I manage to complete his objective of doing the whole main storyline of Highmountain.

As happened with Pandaria Remix, I accumulated enough Bronze to get a lot more stuff than my original very conservative shopping list. I got all the cloth stuff and several sets of leather and mail items from the event-exclusive and dungeon vendors. I got all of the Mage, Paladin, Monk, Druid, Priest, and Warlock raid tier sets. Now, the Shaman’s goal is to get all of the Shaman raid tier sets.

Although I told my kids that they could buy whatever they wanted with the Bronze their Timerunning characters acquired, they haven’t stuck with any one character long enough to get enough Bronze to buy anything. I suppose that when it gets to the very last day of Legion Remix, I’ll have the Shaman pull all the Bronze from all my kids’ Timerunning toons and then see what last-minute purchases I can make.

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Finding myself in Delves

Posted in Delves, Screenshots, Silly, War Within, Warbands on November 4, 2025|

Although I generally don’t do much Delving, I hit the Delves really hard during the Delves Bonus Event week that just ended. I had a couple of goals driving me:

1) I’d rather like to get the Void-themed Heroic coloration of the Manaforge Omega Mage set, as I’d love to play mix-and-match with it with both the Void Elf Heritage armor and the Midnight top package Mog set. The only way for me to do that is to get Champion-quality items and upgrade them. The only real way for me to get Champion-quality items, right now, is from the Cache of Delver’s Spoils when Delves are the weekly bonus activity. So I’ve done five Delves each with all six of my current level 80 Mages. I toured the Bountiful Delves at Tier 4 with the Eversong Elves (a different character each day) and I did a regular Delve (when there was an easy story variant in a Delve with a map I like) over and over and over at Tier 1 with the Tauren.

2) In War Within Season 2, the Cultist’s Quay/Nightfall Sanctum Warband campsite was the reward for completing the Delver’s Journey for the season. I considered it out of reach because I didn’t want to spent that much time doing Delves. When Season 3 rolled around, however, the Nightfall Sanctum campsite became purchasable from Sir Finley for the rather modest sum of 10K Undercoin. Suddenly, it seemed a lot more within reach, and I started doing just one Bountiful Delve every week to get the 750 Undercoin from the The Key to Success. During this Delves Bonus Event week, I realized that if I really pushed hard, I could finally reach that goal!

Along the way, I was amused to “meet myself” a couple of times.

I don’t die very often in Delves because I don’t push the difficulty very hard. But on one of them, I did. When I came into the same Delve with a different toon later in the same day, I found my own tombstone!

Between the four of them, the Eversong Elves got two pieces of armor and two pieces of jewelry (upgrades, yes, but useless for the objective of getting the Heroic Manaforge Omega tier set). On Monday night, as the Tauren were trying for another piece of armor (one of them got armor and the other got a trinket), I saw an echo of another of my own toons who’d done that particular Delve two days before!

I’ve seen tombstones and echoes of other players in Delves before — sometimes even players whose names I know, most frequently Tome of the Ancient or Cymre — but I didn’t know that if I was running lots of Delves with lots of different toons, I would be able to see tombstones and echoes of my own other toons!

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here a little, there a little, all the way to 80

Posted in Alts, Classes, Holidays, Housing, Professions, Tauren, Warbands on June 26, 2025| 2 Comments »

Doing a little here and a little there, and with the Midsummer Fire Festival Holiday boss active, I got the rest of the Tauren Class Cohort to 80 this week:



They’ve all picked up the quests to get Cyrce’s Circlet and the DISC belt; maybe I’ll get around to doing those with all of them, maybe I won’t. I don’t really intend to do much with most of these characters, just gathering and crafting to get ready to make Housing decor come Midnight.
I had been getting a little anxious to get them all to level 80 because my Warband bank was filling up with Warbound stuff. Once they all reached level 80, I could distribute everything out, then Disenchant the stuff that didn’t get used. Then I could use the now-emptied tab to begin stashing the odds and ends of past expansion herbs and ores that I’ve been gathering, here a little and there a little, as I’ve been out and about in Azeroth — also in preparation for making Housing decor.

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Dreaming up an Azeroth Dream House

Posted in Alliance, Expansions, Horde, Housing, Races, Warbands on May 16, 2025| 5 Comments »

The latest round of hype for Housing definitely has me feeling hyped!
Each account/Warband will get to have one Horde house and one Alliance house. Houses can have up to 10 rooms and be up to 3 stories tall. Like various other magical buildings, there will be little to no correspondence between exterior and interior.
My Horde house will be my main house, and it will be something like a functional dwelling. It will probably have a Tauren exterior, if that’s available. It will need to have a kitchen/dining room, a bathroom, a library/museum of curios, a conservatory, a crafting room, a Tauren/Highmountain-themed bedroom, a Sin’dorei-themed bedroom, and a Rendorei-themed bedroom. That leaves me with two rooms yet to be assigned. Maybe a wardrobe, if the devs decide to allow Barbershop and Transmogrification services to be available inside Houses?
My Alliance house will be more of a collection of themed rooms; I’d like to have at least one object for each race and from each expansion somewhere in my houses. There won’t be enough rooms for each race to have its own room, so I’ll have to group them up a bit. There will probably be a Human & Kul Tiran room, a Worgen room with a few pieces of Forsaken decor (such as that candlestand with a few dozen candles on it), a Night Elf & Nightborne room, a gadgetpunk room of Goblin & Gnome & Mechagnome stuff, a Dwarf & Dark Iron Dwarf & Earthen room, a Draenei & Lightforged Draenei room, an Orc & Mag’har room, a Troll & Zandalari room, a Pandaren room, and a Dracthyr room. Since the outsides of houses can also be decorated, Vulpera stuff will probably end up in the yard of the Horde house.

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Camping around the Isles

Posted in Achievements, Alts, Dragonflight, Questing, War Within, Warbands on April 14, 2025|


As you can see, I’ve finished up the 11.0 Loremaster achievements, and with them, All that Khaz. My characters who are actively adventuring in Khaz Algar are now camped at Freywold Spring.

The Tauren are in the Ohn’ahran Plains.

And the Minor Mages are at the original Azure Span campsite.

I’ve still got work to do for the Undermine Sojourner achievement, but that will come in time. I’m not going to pursue all the things for the Gallagio campsite, though — that just isn’t my style. And I haven’t touched Delves this Season since I did the two new ones just to see what was what with them, so I won’t be getting the Nightfall Sanctum campsite, either. I hope the next Warbands update that’s down the line on the Roadmap will include a couple more campsites.

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A Season for Sojourning

Posted in Achievements, happy dance, Questing, Raiding, Reputation/Renown, War Within, Warbands on March 7, 2025|

Even with four Mages on the job, I still got lucky to have each of them get a different Season 2 Veteran-level item during the first week of Undermine. These items, of course, could be Catalysted into the corresponding LFR-level Liberation of Undermine Tier set item, then upgraded into the Normal-level Tier set item. Even luckier, the items I managed to get included robes, shoulders, and belt — the three pieces from the Liberation of Undermine Mage Tier set that I was most interested in acquiring.

So, with no particular interest in farming the raid after I do the story-mode version of the Gallywix fight next week, it’s time to go clean up all those Sojourner quests I have thus far been ignoring. Including, ugh, the bug ones in Azj-Kahet. There’s a cool duster coat to be had from one of the Undermine Sojourner questlines, and I’ll need to finish up all of the 11.0 Sojourner achievements as part of the meta achievement to get the Freywold Spring campsite for my Warband (I also need to do some lore object and Skyriding glyph hunting for that one).
Will I ever get around to capping out Cartels of Undermine rep/renown? Eh, yeah, probably, if only for the valorstones and crests for upgrading my stuff so that I’ll be able to get into Patch 11.2/Season 3 LFR without too much extra effort when the time comes. It might also depend on how long it takes me to get through the Sojourner questing and how interested I end up being in the Patch 11.1.5 stuff.

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Five Warband Mentors

Posted in Achievements, Ianestin/Ishaleron, Raiding, Reputation/Renown, War Within, Warbands on December 12, 2024|


Some of the Dornogal weeklies are available to leveling characters; the guys had three of those in their logs — do three Delves, do six world quests, get 100 Titan Disc fragments (which could be easily accomplished by doing three Delves). That was more than sufficient to get from 78 to 80! With those Pinnacle Caches, along with some Bronze Celebration Caches from Codex of Chromie and Blackrock Depths, they were almost able to get into Nerub-ar Palace LFR. A little bit of gear upgrading and/or buying Renown gear got them over the threshold.
With four Mages having done the first wing of Nerub-ar Palace LFR this week, hopefully one of their Great Vaults will have the Warlock-lookalike robe in it next week!

Now I’m all ready for Patch 11.0.7 next week — ready to follow up with the Kirin Tor about the destruction of Dalaran, ready to look for some clues to where Xal’atath scarpered off to after Alleria shattered the McGuffin she got from Iridikron, ready to sail to the Siren Isle and get to work on collecting some sweet new Mogs!

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Squirrel!ing around Khaz Algar

Posted in Dragonflight, Questing, Reputation/Renown, Shadowlands, War Within, Warbands on September 12, 2024| 2 Comments »

Something I feel like I’ve learned from Shadowlands and Dragonflight is that with the way I, personally, play the game, I don’t need to be in any rush to Do All The Things or to Get All The Things. At the beginning of the expansion, there are so many new things to want and to set goals to acquire, and it seems like they all cost tremendous amounts of the new expansion-specific currency, especially compared to how fast that currency can be acquired… But if I putter along focusing my playtime on whatever facet of the game I am most interested in doing at the moment, the reputation/renown will accumulate, and the expansion-specific currencies will accumulate, and by the end of the expansion, I’ll have been able to acquire whatever I was most interested in getting, and some of the lesser priority stuff, too. Warbands will make that process even easier.

I’ve been trying out the different world events in War Within. I like the Theater Troupe; it’s clearly the next iteration of the Iskaara Soup/Time Rifts/Big Dig type of event; but since it only gives Warband reputation once a week, I probably won’t do it more often than that. Awakening the Machine reminded me, somewhat unexpectedly, of doing the Proving Grounds from Mists of Pandaria; I’ve managed to get to wave 15 in one attempt, but I think I’ll need some better gear and some more skill before I can get to, let alone defeat, the 20th and final wave. I’ve tried a few Delves, just on Tier 1, and have mostly liked them well enough. There was one, though, that had rotating death beams in it, and right after the mid-Delve respawn point there was a gauntlet of those things that I just couldn’t seem to get past — I rapidly hit my frustration limit of too many deaths in quick succession and quit the Delve.

I feel like I ought to get to work on doing the 11.0 Campaign, but I keep getting distracted by World Quests and Sojourner quests and events. I’ve finished this week’s wrapper quest and capped out the world activities Great Vault row for the week, though, so maybe this weekend I can knock out a chapter or two of the Campaign.

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Sunday on the Promenade 229

Posted in Raiding, Sunday Mog Show, Trading Post, Transmogrification, Warbands on August 11, 2024|

It must be the tail end of the expansion for sure, because for the past month-ish, I’ve been ignoring whatever is going on in the Dragon Isles in favor of returning to the Broken Isles and farming the Legion raids with multiple toons.

Ranger Captain




Wanderer’s Lively Scarf, Matted Fur Pauldrons, Trapper’s Fur-Lined Quiver, Patient Ambusher’s Hauberk, Sterilizer’s Insulated Gauntlets, Vintage Duskwatch Cinch, Ulfgor’s Greaves of Bravery, Malignant Sabatons, Bow of the Ranger Captain; Orb of the Sin’dorei
Completing the Hunt for the Harbinger questline awarded this replica of Alleria Windrunner’s bow. Before I could use it, though, I needed to get some suitably shiny elvish gold and green armor to wear with it. Fortunately, the entire Hunter Tier set from the Nighthold & Emerald Nightmare has lookalike pieces available (not all sets from that raid tier do), so I could collect it all by farming those raids with my Dragonflight level 70 characters while Ketura remained at level 60. This is the Normal mode version of the set.

Sky Breaker

“Rhinestone” Sunglasses, Mantle of Waning Radiance, Hauberk of Frozen Mist, Vicegrip of the Unrepentant, Waistguard of Interminable Unity, Jol’Grum’s Frozen Mace, Safeguard of Krag’wa’s Disciple
Although I long ignored the Black Temple and Tomb of Sargeras sets for Mages because I didn’t particularly like the style, recently I decided to farm them up anyway for mix-and-match with another set. With the introduction of Warbands, I’ve been adding a bunch of stuff for other classes to my Appearances collections, too — such as enough lookalike pieces for the Shaman set to Mog it! This is the Normal mode version of the set; the Mythic version matches the coloration of the original Black Temple Shaman set more closely.

Second Honeymoon






Mister: Tropical Sunrise Sunshade, Tropical Sunrise Shirt, Tropical Sunrise Wristwraps, Tropical Sunrise Trunks, Tropical Sunrise Sandals, Jinyu Staff
Missus: Lord Godfrey’s Old Spectacles, Tropical Sunrise Halter Top, Tropical Sunrise Wristwraps, Trader’s Azure Sarong, Tropical Sunrise Sandals, Jinyu Conduit
I thought of this before I saw folks running around Pandaria Remix wearing the Sunny Tropical Halter Top with the Trader’s Sunny Sarong — which was certainly pretty, but not quite enough to convince me to spend Tender on the Sunny Tropical Swimwear set 😛 The Deep color of the sarong that came out with the July Trading Post wasn’t quite right, so I held out a little longer for the Azure sarong to arrive — fortunately, I only had to wait until the August Trading Post.

Kaelinda split the week again: Bronze in the first half, Red in the second half.

Amber Duchess



Chromie’s Timespun Shoulderpads, Bronze Wings of Awakening, Gossamer Desert Gown, Golden Mobile Timepiece, Trader’s Sunny Sarong, Gnomish Casting Boots, Valdrakken Guard’s Cutlass + Bottled Neurons/Valdrakken Bladewing Staff
Although Soridormi gets an “I am a Powerful Dragon who can Get Things Done: Respect Me” appearance makeover when she appears at Nozdormu’s side in Thaldraszus, this high-resolution update of the Classic gown she wears while strolling around the Caverns of Time was still my go-to for this outfit (plus, the gear she wears in Thaldraszus is Plate). If I had the Waist of Time, I might use it with this kit, but every time I look at the walkthrough for how to get that Secret item — a very long process which starts with obtaining not just one but two specific and rather hard-to-get Battle Pets — I think um, NO.

Carnelian Duchess



Nar’thalas Scrollmantle, Ruby Wings of Awakening, Simple Robe, Gilnean Noble’s Buckle, Noble’s Fancy Boots, Tz’onna + Air Raid Beacon/Infinite Dragonspire
For the final outfit in this series, a callback to the first with another coloration of the same shoulder style. I chose this belt because of how its colors coordinated with those of the shoulders, and how the rose and the wax seals have similar shapes.
I thought I might use white shoes with this robe, only to discover that there’s a dark shadow along the very bottom edge — which made black shoes look better.

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This series of posts began because I set myself a goal to document new Transmogrification outfits in a more timely fashion. As soon as I create a new outfit, I write it up in a draft post. As the weekend approaches, I start working on taking fashion screenshots, processing them, and updating “Things my [Class] Wears” posts. On Sunday — though not every Sunday — I publish the collection of my recent efforts. Then I begin the next “Sunday on the Promenade” draft post.

Occasionally, I have ideas for themed Transmogrification collections that take several months to completely assemble. Thus, some of these outfits might get re-posted at a later date as part of such a themed Transmogrification collection.

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