Next Stage of BeefAss War of the Thorns Campaign

So, with the Tuesday reset, oops there I go again with my Vanilla terminology; I meant Tuesday Maintenance, comes the next stage of pre-expansion quests, the War of the Thorns campaign.

According to Wowhead:

The War of the Thorns is the pre-patch event which will start on July 24th and last until August 14th, the launch day of Battle for Azeroth. Part one of the Horde and Alliance questlines start on July 24th, and part two is speculated to start on July 31st. Up until the launch of Battle for Azeroth, the Horde and alliance will go through a series of quests to try and gain control Teldrassil.

I have a feeling we'll see Teldrassil burn tomorrow. We may even be able to get Smoldering Reins of the Teldrassil Hippogryph. I'll update tomorrow when I've played through it.

Don't forget to get all you alts moving as well, once you have completed the initial quests on one character your faction leader should give you the option to skip straight to the world quests, happy happy altoholic!

Rogue - Coins of Air Not Dropping

If like me you popped onto your Rogue, who you haven't played for a while, and noticed you had a quest to collect 10,000 coins of air, proceeded to pick pocket loads of mobs and get 0 coins of air; then you may be confused.

I was.

The quest text didn't help and even wowhead wasn't that great.

I eventauly found out that you need to have in your bags (the bank just won't do) Shining Lamp of Alabas.

Oh, and don't have two apparently, having two stops the coins dropping too.

Pre-Patch Events - What Not to Miss Before BfA Launches

In case you didn't know there is the usual time limited event in the lead up to the release of BeefAss.

You really want to do this because once you finish the initial questline, which takes you from Ashenvale up to Darkshore and then Rutheran Village you open up Darkshore World Quests which reward gear upgrades to start you on your way in BeefAss.

And, this questline will only be around until launch day, so get your skates on, accept the teaser quest you should have got when logged in and get world questing.

Also, as the weeks go by more content will open up.

Oh, and spoiler, Darnassus gets torched!

I Hereby Name the New Expansion BeefAss

Yep, you heard it here first. I've copyrighted it. BfA =  BeefAss

How to Open Long-Lost Augari Treasure

Now, I know this is very late in the expansion, what with BeefAss about to drop (I'm copyrighting that by the way) but some people may still be trolling around Kokrun grabbing treasures.

Many times I have arrived at a treasure chest only to be told its locked and you need to be blessed by some Croatian Demigod or something to be able to open it. Grrr! The actual message being: "Will only open to one welding the power that echoes that of the Augari." (spelling mistakes included).

Now, the last time I researched it I didn't really understand what it was telling me, so I didn't bother looking any deeper into it, but now, after a little research on Wowhead, I get it.

You need to unlock the Matrix core and its 3 additional abilities.

There are several chests dotted around Argus that need one of the abilities to either reach or to open.

This one requires you to have the Shroud active, so head down to the Matrix Core at the bottom centre of the Vindicar and select Shroud of Arcane Echoes.

Other chests require you to use the Lightforged Warframe to smash through things or the Light's Judgement to blow things up.

There is a good run down of what you need for each one under the spoiler button in the comments of this Wowhead page.

Grid is Dead, Long Live Grid

If you use Grid as part of your healing set up you will have noticed that the latest version on Curse is 7.3.5

But luckily it looks like the addon author Attict has simply been unable to update the project on Curse.

You can get the addon from github and then follow his instructions below:

I have created a set of fixes for patch 8.0.
Since I cannot get access to publishing these changes, you will have to download the updates from here: https://github.com/Attict/Grid-Full

Once you have downloaded the files, you will need to rename the directory to "Grid" and place it inside of your "World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns" folder.

A Monk For All Races?

So, since when did non-Pandarans get to be Monks?

Confusing Quest - How to Complete The Mark

This had me confused for a bit, then I turned to wowhead. In case you got here first this is what you need to do.

Look for the glowy blue circle on your mini map - it's east and inside.

Head to the yellow dais.

Click on Eyir to target her.

/kneel

Hurrah, return to the quest giver and hand in.

RIP World Quest Group Finder

It's been suggested before that World Quest Group Finder was dead time after time when Blizztards changed the way it interfaced with the game.

Now it looks like it is going to be gone for good as the two latest changes with patch 8.0 make it un-workable. The main one being that addons can't write to the Group Finder.

Well that's fucked!

Last Few Hours to Complete Mage Tower before Pre-Patch July 18th

Yes, that's right folks in just a few hours (Wednesday) the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch (8.0) drops and with that the Mage Tower challenge will not be completeable. Check out Wowhead's guide to complete it quickly.

Not only that but many other things are going.

The Power in Our Hands - no, REALLY!

Wow, once you've done the final quest the commenters on wowhead weren't wrong.

The artifact power on mine is still spinning ever upwards and I'm on level 132.

The added bonus is that this applies to all your artifacts, so any artifact power item you now acquire is worthless, well ... except you can sell them for sh*t tons of gold!!!

Pre Purchase BfA Then Buy Collectors Edition

UPDATE: I didn't trust the original GM, I put in several more tickets for confirmation. NONE of them could definitively say that it would work!

UPDATE 2: See my new post on the 14th August - They were WRONG. It DIDN'T work. I had to put in a ticket to support to get a new key.

It has apparently been a thing for the last couple of expansions that you can pre-purchase a digital version of the upcoming expansion and get all the goodies that come with it.

Then if you want to upgrade to the Collectors edition on release day you can do so and release the original pre-purchase key and use it on another account or sell it.

A bit clunky, but it allowed you to effectively pre-purchase a collectors edition.

After speaking to a GM last night (screenshots to follow) it appears the process has been streamlined! I don't know if they changed it for more recent expansions but for this expansion this is what you  can do.

1. But a pre-purchase edition, either a physical box or a digital download.
2. Apply all the pre-purchase goodness to your account.
3. On release day, go out and purchase your shiny Collectors edition box.

In your battle.net account you should be able to upgrade your pre-purchased version with the CD Key of the Collectors edition.

This will no longer release the old key but instead upgrade your account and refund the cost of the pre-purchase to your Battle.net account, which you can then use to purchase a digital download for your second account or whatever you want.

Now, don't take my word for it, or blame me if this is not so (If it's not then I'm going to be might p1ssed off!), below is my entire conversation with the GM.

Note:

a) When upgrading to the Collectors edition you don't get an additional level 110 boost, instead you get the refund.

b) The GMs still won't give you  a free ride to GM Island! Gits!

The Power in Our Hands - Where to go

If, like me, you accepted this quest on the flying boat above Silithus and then wondered what part of the sword you had to go to to click on or do whatever ...

... and then flew around ages looking ...

... and read the quest text as do that and then come back and speak to Magni ...

... just speak to Magni, watch cut scene, done.