My Blogger Blog wouldn’t display these cinematics, but WordPress has no trouble.
In the first, Alleria hears a voice on the Battle field, and sees that there is black blood all around them. She knows they’ve all been played and heads off to confront Xal’atath
Xal’atath laughs at Alleria’s thinking she can be killed, but lets her know she relishes and is fed by all of the violence mortals produce.
Thank you Blizzard for not drawing this return of Khadgar and redemption of Alleria and Anduin out over several expansions. All mystery readers know if there’s no body, there’s no proven death. I love that the two pick up their “dad” figure and carry him out, after all they’ve been through. My faith is restored.
Prepping for Blaugust, I thought I’d see if my Twitter Account for Gaming Starlight_Sal was still active. Or, had it been purged when The New Mgt. got rid of all those fake users?
I managed to log into my fake account, which uses a fake name by verifying and getting a code with my fake email for gaming. Now, I’m able to log in to my fake Twitter. Lots of Elder Scrolls stuff, which was all entertaining. Some Gifs about why you should have a pet. (Got two).
If I want to verify my fake self, I apparently can do so, up to the point where they want real person information. Nope.
Anyway, when I signed up for Blaugust, I didn’t list any social media accounts. Cause I’m going to poof all the Twitter ones. I’ve never liked Twitter. No hard feelings there. Of course I used to call Facebook Fecesbook early on because it annoyed me too. But all my family uses it to communicate so keeping that one.
I’ve been noticing updates to the game and I’m just going to keep a running list of them here. Watch this space! Crowds in Stormwind once again.
Stormwind Harbor now exists! It gladdens my heart.
This is now the way to get to Auberdine, Kalimdor. Take the ship at the far left The Bravery. The Menethil Harbor ship to Auberdine no longer sails.
Cooking
For “old world recipes” you no longer need to purchase spices for your recipes.
You can now place a campfire almost anywhere you’d like one, and you don’t need Flint and Wood.
Mailboxes
There are now mailboxes all over Stormwind, where previously there were only three. Still no Auction House, Tavern or Bank in the Dwarven District.
Dungeon Finder
I’m going to keep working with this. It doesn’t seem as bad as everyone has said, in their vague way.
You Choose Your Preferred Role or roles for the dungeon. The dungeon list will show which dungeons you are eligible for, and what all the dungeon levels are. This is a huge enhancement, as nobody ever seemed to know what levels could be in any given dungeon.
Check the boxes for the dungeons you want.
Once you do that, you can click List Self at the bottom and you’re added to the list of people wanting those dungeons. Grr. I didn’t notice that DPS is automatically selected. So I listed as a DPS Priest. To the dismay of the Shaman forming the group. I have not played Shadow in Classic at all, nor do I like playing Shadow. I offered to leave but we worked things out.
With this list, you can just invite people to form a group from those who also chose your dungeons. I didn’t try to form the group myself, but the group did form fast, so I thought the “finder” was workable. Then of course everyone needs to make their way to the dungeon. No insta-transport to the entrance. No queue, just a list of people also wanting to get in the same dungeons as you.
Dept of Not Such A Quality Update:
If you make a Dwarven Female, you can’t get the pretty gold color of hair in Wrath Classic my Rogue has:
Will add a pic, but on the good side: Plants and interactable objects sparkle, making them much easier to see in grassy and dark places.
If you have an existing WOW account but didn’t upgrade to Shadowlands, you can get it free plus a boost to level 50. It’s a great deal for those like my spouse who haven’t played the current version of the game.
Yay! We made it through week three of Blaugust! This was my favorite week for my own posts. It actually made me happy to write them. I really like all the posts and can’t pick a favorite. This is unusual for me.
Thank heavens next week, with it’s daunting “Staying Motivated” theme will be Easy Street. You just wait.
I think, however, my mind is erased from all my efforts.
Tatiana Maslany, the brilliant actress from Orphan Black takes on a new role in this series. She’s Jennifer Walters, a lawyer who lets you in on her secret: an auto accident involving a spacecraft and her cousin Bruce Banner leaves her with the abilities of a Hulk. She turns green, grows larger, has amazing strength.
Bruce takes her under his wing on an island he owns, trying to teach her what he’s learned about being a Hulk. In about fifteen years, she’ll be ready to take on the world.
Jennifer has no intention of giving up her law practice or her life. She learns the Hulk ropes with great speed and is able to take him on in a no holds barred fight.
It’s a super hero show played as broad comedy. Tatiana is incredible as always. As revealed in the last scene in court, She-Hulk doesn’t get to keep a secret identity. She will need to balance work and rage. This should be fun.
If I’m playing an MMO, I create a character for each class in the game if there are character slots available to do so.
There are unfortunately games that allow you to have only one or two characters. I may try these, but I’m more likely to avoid them all together, or to only play for a short time.
In these limited character games, I’ll do what I do in single player games: choose some version of a Warrior.
A sword wielder can take on most enemies, even ranged types, by running up and whacking away. Give me my Claymore and stand back. The sword wielder almost always has the best, most protective armor. When there are multiple races available, you can almost always be a Warrior, or the games version of one.
Having this reliable character type allows you to jump into the world, learn the game play, and see if it’s a game you want to spend time in.
If you like the game but not how the class plays, you can wipe her out and try another class.
Rangers and Other Archers
If I have another choice it will be an Archer type character.
Usually you have a pet to assist you, and wear at least medium armor to help you in encounters. Hunter pets, unlike many other minions or companions, tend to be more useful, in my opinion. They will hold the enemy away from you, hopefully long enough to do most of your damage. They don’t tend to stand on top of your character. You can often give them a name.
It is a frustration when you shoot something at range and they’re instantly on top of you. I really like the WOW Classic version of Hunter, who can dual wield melee weapons once the enemy is in range. I also appreciate Lord of the Rings Online’s Hunter whose bow skills do not go away when the foe is at melee range.
Heal Thyself, and Don’t Let Anyone Else Die If You Can Help It
Here’s the class I always want to excel at. In single player games, it feels like you might have better survivability if you can heal yourself during fights with more than just potions. Unfortunately you’re almost always running out of mana or magicka. By design.
In MMO’s, I want to heal even more. I want to save the day! Keep everyone safe. Save the world one dungeon at a time. Let me help anyone anytime, is always my desire, but of course that’s not allowed.
As Cloth wearers for the most part, your healer is wearing paper with the protective qualities sacrificed for your ability to heal more effectively. It also seems, in World of Warcraft at least, that if you heal someone, all the monsters want to kill you all of a sudden. This hardly seems fair. The other drawback is, again in WOW (where most of my experience is), your character is not designed to be able to fight their way through the world. They are designed for group play. I certainly run them through the world anyway. I like my TBC Holy Priest quite a bit because she can fight really well in the open world. I dread whatever expansion takes that away from her.
All The Rest
We’re back to create all the character class types. I believe the more ways you can view the game the better. Each class plays through the content of the game differently. Using a variety of skills to make your way in the world gives you new challenges. Same content, different game, in effect.
Also, playing all the classes helps in group play, because you actually understand what everyone can and should do.
Every good gamer soul baring exercise must include The Bartle Test. How can you truly know your inner gamer if you haven’t been properly quizzed? My spouse informed me that my result numbers added up to 200%. In order to be more accurate, I should slice each number in half. Sacrilege, right?
Below are the questions and my answers. I honestly was pleased as I was going along thinking I’m way more social these days, only to receive an extremely puny Socializer score. I am goal oriented, and I’m also, in games, something of a completionist, so I like my Achiever score. I’m really looking forward to Achievements in Classic Wrath. As with most of my time in Classic, I feel that I have the chance to do everything right this time. Getting all or most of the Achievements as they become available is an exciting prospect.
I’m aware of course of the Gamer Motiviation Profile, but I think too many real life personal questions are asked. I understand it’s meant to be real analysis, as much as anything to do with having imaginary lives can be, but, nope.
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