Blaugust: Screenshot Saturday

Let’s start at the top with my +100 Luck husband. He finds every rare thing in a game and has no idea what to do with the items, so he gives them to me 🙂

Early in the game he used to spend quite a bit of time Fishing. Somehow, with the Joyous Journey level boosts, he has gotten in constant level up mode. It’s hard to take time for a leisurely activity anymore.

Even so, he began fishing once he got to Northrend, hoping to get fish that would add Spellpower when cooked. In practically his first fishing session he got the Sea Turtle Mount.

I exclaimed about his luck, but he brushed it off, and opined that it was too small for his character, who is a Drenai.

Not long thereafter, I was doing the Daily Dalaran Fishing Quest and fished up a painting that was useless except it sold for 100 gold. I don’t think he’s ever done Daily Quests in a game before but he’s now planted every day in front of the Fishing Trainer waiting for the quest to pop up. He did get the 100 gold once too, but he expects more.

Speaking of Fishing Quests, The Blood is Thicker quest has you kill an animal in the Borean Tundra, and you’re blood red for three minutes. Nice effect on my gryphon.

Why do things go so very wrong on some quests? In Escape from Silverbrook, you’ve helped a fellow get out of a cage. You jump on a horse with him and try to make it back to Amberpine Lodge. On your trail are Worgen you’re supposed to Trample to get them away from you. Things went well the first time I did the quest, but the second time…an overwhelming number of Worgen attacked from all directions. It was insane. Though I did get quest credit, we did not make it back to the Lodge alive.

While we’re talking about awful quests in Wrath Classic’s Grizzly Hills: Mr Floppy’s Perilous Adventure. The awful child Emily skips from one bear to another in an escort mission from Hades. She doesn’t stop to let you fight, she just meanders onward. The road is right in sight but she ignores it for the wild life jaunt. Grrrr.

Atheren’s June Gaming Goals

As you may guess, Don’t Be Dead heads the list.

My May goal was basically to get my Death Knight, Holy Priest and Warlock to level 75. Both the Priest and Death knight were a few boxes away when the glorious Joyous Journeys returned May 23.

I meant to keep the three together level wise, but my Warlock was already 2 levels behind, and I was able to get in a few dungeons with my Death Knight, so she soared ahead to level 80. Now my Warlock and Priest are on level at 76 each, and I’m certain they will reach 80 by June 20th when Joyous Journeys ends.

I’ve been resistant dropping down to level other characters, except, I’ve been loving my Retribution Paladin and pop down to play her sometimes, mostly to get dungeons when none are open in the regular Northrend finder.

She’s at 66, and I’ve just decided to power her to 68 and start Northrend. That will leave a Hunter, Druid and Retribution Paladin heading into the Icy Wastes to the west and rolling Hills to the east.

I’ve come to despise Borean Tundra and Dragon Blight and Wyrmrest Temple as questing areas. So everyone new will be doing Howling Fjord (which is ok) and Grizzly Hills which I’ve come to love.

Look who’s there! Our old friend from Westfall. He fondly remembered working with my Priest and Warlock in Westfall but didn’t know my DK at all.

I love the music in Grizzly Hills. After a rough day, you just close your eyes and let it play, la la la.

I also to my surprise like Zul’ Drak even more. I’ve actually never played through this area at all. The quest lines are really interesting. I even like the spiders for some reason. And I hate spiders.

Dungeons

My Ret Paladin got talked into Tanking Slave Pens. Never again. The Mage and Enhancement Shaman could not stop running out and pulling everything, then they complained I was going too fast for the healer. Brain explodo. Thus.

Class Clowns in Your Dungeon:

Mages who think they’re tanks.

Enhancement Shamans who think they’re tanks.

The Best Tank Classes

Paladin always number one. Even over the years in live servers, things have never gone south with a Paladin tank.

Bear I’ve seen some bad bear tanks in live, but in this era of the game they’re really good in general.

The Worst

Warrior Good grief. Charge, charge some more! Pay no attention to those lowly Mana Feeders.

DK I had forgotten somehow that people just pop in and start these (now with no restriction of having leveled any character ). There are some DKs that know the class, but if you’re doing Utgarde, like as not you’re getting a fresh off the Death Knight’s home utter bozo.

Dungeon Finder

I’m now at odds with myself thinking I’d like real dungeon finder just to get groups formed in less than an hour, but then, with the Finder as it is, you can see what classes are in the queue, and if there is some obnoxious wretch you don’t want to group with again, you can just drop back out.

Hmmpf.

Happy Year’s End!

As a note, I have access again to all of my Google based blogs, but, I don’t trust them and will likely not write much there if at all.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

Is there anything else? I got my live server Atherne on Blackwater Raiders to the shore of the new area. I bought Fishing for an insane ten gold. (Though Atherne has loads of money, I’m in Classic money sensibility, always.) I’ll be getting back to Dragonflight sometime.

In Wrath Classic, ah, it’s all magic.

Now that my main character is at 80, I’ll have her complete all quests she hasn’t done. Make money, be the lead character she was meant to be.

There are two other characters in Northrend: my level 70 Death Knight, and my level 68 Priest. I just got the Priest there late last night. The fights are a bit tough, but she’s surviving them, and that’s all she needs to succeed. I think I will wait for her to get to level 69 before healing dungeons. I want to gear her up and assure she’s ready to save the world, as she does.

In the Outlands are my Destruction Warlock, level 67, Hunter level 64, my second Feral Druid level 64.

I have some lowbie characters, and wanted to share my tiny level 11 Prot Paladin soloing Hogger, her greatest accomplishment so far.

For some reason lately, I’ve been considering what happens if they discontinue Classic instead of moving forward, or do something like wiping and re-starting. My babies!

Filtering into my Wrath-y brain was that ten character slots are added on live. There is now a Priest clone there. For safety!

Even better, you’ll note my live server main character is Atherne. Someone stole my Atheren name, that I made up myself, grrr, lo those many years ago. That person wisely killed off the imposter, and real Atheren now exists on Blackwater Raiders.

Dungeon Finder Notes

I thought at first the hardcore Anti-Dungeon Finder crowd was just about power. Power to demand they get their way. Power to let you in groups or not.

Power to choose the makeup of each group. I think this is a bit true, and for reasons of liking or not liking certain tank or healer types, or even specific classes wanted. I think sometimes there is a desire to not have competition for loot. Who knows.

Right now, groups forming are mostly for Naxx 10 or 25 or Heroic versions of Northrend Dungeons. You can get a group for other dungeons, but it’s not easy. At the low level there’s an endless chain of requests in LFG for Deadmines and the Stockades. After that, you’re in trouble.

Dreamily, there is always LIVE where you can select every single dungeon in the game and get a run through it.

I will say people forming groups do look at the Dungeon Finder list as their main starting point to get a group. People do talk to each other in the dungeons. I think if they do add real dungeon finder, they should keep it for your own Realm. They could even make you go to the entrance, ooohhh. The tool needs tweaking, that’s for sure.

Flying

Flying is expensive if you have alts. So much money goes to skill training. Buying bank tabs, personal and guild, empties the pockets fast. I actually only have two characters who can fly. My main Druid Atheren, and my Priest. Of course now the Priest is in Northrend, she’s hoofing it again. Such is life in WOW.

I must add I’m a Grumpy Player now who thinks Flying should never have been introduced in the “Old World”. Ack, people flying in like gnats and stealing your nodes. Or just being there like giant wasps. So cranky, here at year’s end.