WTFinWoW - 7

WTFinWoW - 6

Now Darkshore totally Back to Normal

Looks like that nigh elf vanguard has now gone from Lor'Danel.

Guess they've gone to hold Tyrande's hand in Storwind.

Another Alt Beats Marcus to 111

I started off today playing Ballsax the Demon Hunter. I really am doing my usual prevarication when it comes to levelling my main!!

I didn't even start him off in Kul Tiras, like yesterday I took him back to Legion to clear out alll his bags and quest log.

By 13:33 I had finished up Azshuna and 20 minutes later done the Azshara dungeon quest knocked off.

I then pop back onto Burn to do some more mining and questing in Stormsong and get his second piece of Azerite Armour.

Marcus is really getting behind!

Oops - 2 Levels Ahead of Marcus

Not learning my lesson about my main being behind the levelling of one of my own alts I continued with Burnsprocket.

First of all I took him back to Legion and either dumped pointless quests or completed certain quest lines to clear up his quest log and empty stuff from his bags.

By 15:00 he just about finished up in Legion and managed to clock up the 2000 quest achievement.

Next he moved back to Stormsong Valley and mined a load more ore.

Before I knew it he was level 112 and got the 'Got My Mind on my Money' achievement.

Burnsprocket Does Freehold

Not happy with the mage dinging 111 before Marcus I sent him into a dungeon too. He whizzed through Freehold.

He didn't managed to catch the oiled up pig but he still managed to finish up with some upgrades and a shiny achi!

Oh and he finished at leet o'clock!

Another Logic Screw Up

I was still on my mage doing some mining and the local quests when I did the Bombs Away quest. This has you collect 8 bobs from round and about and then plant the, 4 at a time, to blow up horde demolishers.

Well, I think they changed this quest half way through development and then forgot to update the quest text appropriately.

I reckon, the originally intended for you to bring the bobs back and then go off on another quest to plant them, but then put it all into one quest. Why?

You'll see in this completion text that the bombs look particularly nasty? What? I've already used them to bob the demolishers!

1000 Free Wakening Essence

So a lot of the levelling guides suggest you go to the mythic chest to grab you free 1000 Wakening Essence and buy another legendary.

Well, you can't. That was purely for the week that there was a screw up with the Mythic chests and it was compensation.

Oops - It Wasn't My Main to Ding 111 First. Subtite: Insightful Rubelite XP Gem

So, having started off well with Marcus and getting 8 bars in 1.5 hours last night I hopped on this morning and re-evaluated the levelling options.

One of which was the Insightful Rubelite gem. I checked on the Auction House and they were going for 2,500 gold - WOWZERS!

So rather than continue levelling I thought I'd get one of my mining alts out of the blocks and grab some ore and send it back to Marcus or my other JC to prospect.

So, off went Burnsprocket the mage into Stormsong and before I knew it he'd hit level 111 ... before Marcus!!

While I was doing so I also noticed an Azerite Power Progress bar, I don't know whether that is with the stock UI or a dominos thing, but vaguely useful.

There was talk abound that the Insightful Rubelite was unique equipped but only per item, so if you had to items with gem slots you could equip 2 gems for double bonus. That might have been the case in Beta,  but it's not now. You can only have one equipped anywhere.

While prospecting all the ore I got the following:

40 Storm Silver Ore :
1 x Kubeline
4 x Kyante
3 x Goldern Beryl
1 x Solstone
2 x Viridium
1 x Owlseye (RARE)

65 Monelite Ore :
8 x Kubeline
1 x Goldern Beryl
3 x Viridium
2 x Solstone
2 x Kyanite
2 x Rubelite - YAY finally
1 x Laribole (RARE)
1 x Royal Quartz (RARE)
1 x Kraken's Eye (EPIC)

Oops 5 Platinum Ore gave 2 Viridium, I don't know yet whether it's a good idea to prospect platinum. Answers on a postcard!

Disenchant or Scrap? And Can you Scrap Legion Gear

So, I've been wondering what is best to do with all the green gear you get. Scrap it or DE it?

Well, after much research, it looks like the best option is to scrap all your soulbond stuff and mail all the BoE stuff to your enchanter.

The reasoning being that enchanting materials are going to go through the roof as they'll be rarer as people just scrap everything.

Legion and below gear: you CANNOT scrap - send to your enchanter.

Never going to have a gear profession? Vendor them!

BeefAss - 24 Hours In - First Impressions plus Battle for Azeroth Levelling Tips.

After 24 hours of BeefAss I got my main, Marcusmaximi, 11 bars into level 110 and left him sat with the castaways who got shipwrecked by the Sirens.

The first logic f**k up I encountered was here. They were stranded, they talk about beig stuck, yet they have a flight path!!

I did my first dungeon on Marcus and found that a 100% pure healer has a lot of downtime and no mana sink. Add to that a holy paladin seems to be geared towards doing some damage.

This really is the closest I've seen pallies being to real hybrid healer/damage dealers since vanilla!

I then went off on a tangent and put as any more alts through Darkshore and got them ready for Kul Tiras before looking into Insightful Rubelites as a levelling aid.

At the time I looked they were up on the Auction house for a minimum of 2,500g so I decided to get a mining character out there to get some ore!

But not before looking into other levelling tips, here is my top 5 list:

1 - Insightful Ruby - Only get 1 - See next post
2 - Guild Banner - XP boost every 10 mins
3 - War Mode - turn on war mode in Stormwind. Turn off before going to Zandalar.
4 - Azeroth Autopilot - everyone raves about this addon. Review coming soon.
5 - Empty bags and rotate alts who have rested XP (that's 6, but two little ones!)

So back to the game I went, I took the mage up to Stormsong, as I didn't want to repeat the same content Marcusmaxi had already done.

He started mining and getting some quests done then bumped into some rude people!

There are some new additions to model stances. NPCs dont just have one look and walk back and forth or just stand there.

The water effects are cool as well, even with just level 5 graphics the water looks cool I can't remember if it was like that before though!

What most impressed me though was the lack of restarts and NO login queues even on Argent Dawn which is a FULL server!

Back to mining...

Didn't I Just Kill You?

As I will go into tomorrow, I left Marcus down near Freehold fighting off Sirens and logged onto Burnsprocket to do some mining because Insightful Rubelites were selling for 2500 each.

One of the first quests in Stormsong is Archived Knowledge where you need to kill Lieutenant Wade.

Then you walk back upstairs out of the basement straight into Lieutenant Wade! DOH!

Darkshore World Quests Finshed

Well, it wasn't a bug, the world quests were still running. But now they have expired and Darkshore has moved onto the next stage. The Elves have taken the beachhead and cleared out Lor'Danel.

I'll check back later to see if there is any further progress.

Update on Collectors Edition Update to Standard Account

So, as I updated in my previous post, I didn't truly believe the first GM and put in several more tickets to get an honest to god definite answer which I could screenshot as evidence if it went wrong and I lost £39.99 when applying my Collectors edition key.

TL;DR

1. I didn't get a definitive answer to my original question. Grrrrr!

2. I lost $39.99 when I applied the collectors edition key.Grrr Grrr!

3. I put in a web chat ticket and got a SE key once the GM had checked I used both on the same account. Hurrah!

4. Well the original GM was wrong on two counts. I got a bonus. But as I'm a litte bit paranoid (possibly due to the use of some herbs with dubious legality issues whilst I was at Uni :O) I'm not going to explicitly state here. Needless to say it was an unintended bonus and it's a definite win for me. I guess it's compensation for the emotional turmoil this put me through! Hurrah! Hurrah!

Anyway, so I'm in no rush on launch day to go pick up my collectors edition as I already had the pre-purchase and was 8 whole bars into level 110!

I logged onto Marcus and did a dungeon run. I registered as holy so only had to wait 7 mins.

When that was over I realised that the Darkshore WQs were still active so got as many of my alts through them and the intro quests before they either a) expired or b) Bliztards realised they'd forgotten to turn them off.

Then I logged onto the mage and got him over to Kul Tiras and did a bit of mining before finally heading out to taking one of the kids' friends to the train station and pick up my collectors edition.

The drive home was filled with trepidation. Would the pre-purchase key or price be refunded. If not then the eldest lad wasn't going to be playing BeefAss anytime soon.

I arrive home and rip open the packaging and apply the code; and my Blizzard Balance ...

... did NOT go up. ARGGG!!!

So I refresh the screen, nowt.

Log out and back in again. NADA.

I try and apply the original pre-purchase key to the second account, Nope: Key already used!!

Nothing for it I guess but to raise a ticket. On Release Day. Like I'm going to get a response anytime soon!

Which channel do I want to use: Phone (long wait). Web Ticket (longer wait). Hang on, what's this? Web Chat - 8 minute wait! I'll give that a poop then.

So after around 8 minutes Velranus the GM pops on and says he's just going to aquaint himself with the ticket and after about 10 minutes (enough time for a fag and boil the kettle for a coffee?) he's back.

He explains, as you can see above, that the balance would only be applied to digital version bought

 through the Blizzard Store(TM).

Well, I gathered that from the poorly worded blog post Blizztards put a out about it and prompted me to keep on asking about this to get a definitive answer. They couldn't credit the amount spent with a third party store ... BUT they could replace the Standard Edition key that I overwrote... [LONG SIGH OF RELIEF]

So after a little more banter I ask my usual question about GM Island. No joy this time either :D

How to Hand in The Guidance of Our Shan'do after BfA Launch

TL;DR -Skip to the bottom to find out how to hand the quest in.

So, as the lead up to expansion launch I was frantically finishing up all the World Quests and pre-launch quests on all my alts. I got most of the way through but there were a few characters that I hadn't finished. I was on my hunter and all the mobs disappeared at around 00:20 server time. I was dual boxing and the same happened to my lock. Still had the hunter, shaman and warrior on account #1 to do and all characters on account #2 :(

So, I gave it up as a loss and moved onto Marcusmaxmi to begin BeefAss.

Then I was watching levelling tips on you tube as I'm levelling Marcusmaximi and I see about the XP gem Insightful Rubelite. So I hop onto the Shammy to go mining and she's in Darkshore and all the World Quests are still active.

Not only that, she's at the same stage of the quests as the Hunter was when the mobs and quests disappeared, and the two named mobs are up, and people are still questing in the area.

I complete all the quests and get as far as the Malfurion backstab cut scene. I go AFK while that pans out and when I come back the Hippogryph is not there and all the WQs are gone. I fly out of the immediate area thinking Zidormi can reset it, but no. But then everything re-appears. I fly back to the cutscene area and the Hippogryph is flying back to the mound.

So I jump on the bird, start flying to Darnassus, but then get ported back to Lor'Danel. Damm, I think, I can't finish the chain.

So I try and fly to Darnassus but you get halfway there and there is an invisible wall. Double Damn!

I'm asking in general, I'm searching wowhead, and no solutions. Then someone suggests talking to Zidormi so you can get to Rutheran Village.

OK, I'll try that, but I'm thinking that Darnassus will also be in the pre-burning version and Gina Greymane (or whatever her name is) wont be there to hand the quest in to...

TL;DR: The Solution

Talk to Zidormi at 48.10 25.69 to reset Darkshore to pre-burning. Go to Lor'Danel flight path and get the flight to Rutheran Village. When you're nearly there the sky goes dark and Teldrassil starts burning then you get the message "You cannot abandon your duty, return to Darnassus" and you get ported into the burning version of Darnassus. Now you can hand the quest in and finish the chain.

1st Dungeon

At half past nine on the first morning of the expansion I queued for my first dungeon: Freehold.

I had got up to 8 bars of level 110 in 1.5 hours last night.

I went in, I caught a greasy pig and I came out 15 minutes later, after  killing Harlan in exactly 1 minute, with the dungeon achievement, 3 bars of XP and an Azerite headpiece.

Guess what starter Azerite armour I picked?

Yep; the headpiece!

I am now the proud owner of two Azerite headpieces!

BeefAss Launch Night

So, I got home early from work to get the last of my characters through the Darkshore world quests and storyline before the 23:00 release time for BfA.

As can be seen in my next post, I didn't quite make it, but Marcusmaximi and several others were all through the WQs and pre-quests and sat at 42,44 in Silithus.

I was there because I popped into Beta and created a new character and that seemed to be where the first quest would pop up with Brann. And the popular opinion was that the quest would be pushed to your quest log wherever you were.

It was already very busy there at about 20:00 sever time so I guess I was right; I was!

The plan was also to stay online in case there were queues to get on nearer the time.

By the time I had finished up in Darkshore it was 23:20 and I logged onto Marcus and re-did the quests (just re-done on Beta :P) and headed over to Kul Tiras.

Again, I'd done all the initial stuff on Beta a month or so ago,  but played through the intro quests anyway in case anything had changed. Nothing had that I could tell.

I seem to recall when playing either the WoD or Legion alpha/early beta that the final offering was much different.

So roll on 01:00 and I had dutifully done all the intro quests and familiarised myself with Boralus and headed down into Tiragarde Sound - I keep wanting to call it Tirisgrde ???

I've just been shipwrecked by Sirens and am questing near Freehold. I'm now 8 bars into level 110 after about 1.5 hours. Apparently there were already level 114/115s running around - Must be using the addon Azeroth Autopilot which I've just heard about.

Unlocked Void Elf

With less than 36 hours to go I managed to unlock the Void Elf.

I must admit, the quest line seemed to be much easier than the Lightforged Dranei.

Warrior At Level 110!

I'm cutting this fine, but now the warrior is at level 110! I logged on and the invasion was going on so I knocked that one on the head and I was only half a level from level cap so I thought I'd do a dungeon.

As I'm a warrior I signed up as tank and got an invite immediately. I dropped into Halls of Valor and started tanking ... as Fury - DOH!

A quick respec later and the dungeon was done! The first time for me as a warrior!

After I dropped out of that and mined a few more nodes I realised I was only 3 bars away from

dinging 110 so popped into LFG again and straight into Eye of Azshara. A quick loop here and heading over to the last boss and I hadn't dinged, but I was only about a 1/4 of a bar away.

I realised then that I would ding when the final boss dropped. I announced this in /p and /g and into the fight we went. Within seconds the fight was over and DING!!!!!!!!

My 7th level 110 on that account to go with my 3 on my lads account!

The only level 110's I don't have are a Monk (104) and a druid (about level 60 on my third in-active account!)

Stranded Riverboat

So, I'm levelling the horde shaman and I've just got my riverboat. Update: The mobile internet in Norfolk has now dropped from good 4G to intermittent laggy as hell 3G. Pretty Sure the Riverboat isn't supposed to go all the way to the top of the cliffs and into the pirate compound!

In other news, the River Boat has it's own level??

WTFinWoW - 4

A return to the Where The F in WoW series.

Answers on a postcard ...

Finishing WoW - Knocking Off Some Mythic Raids

Still on me hollygogs in Norfolk (We're talking East Anglia here, not Virginia!) and I managed to get myself into a Mythic Emerald Nightmare raid.

I've still got all three difficulties of Cenarius to do. I'm 3/4 on normal, 2/4 on Heroic and 0/4 on Mythic (as I've never finished it0

So first off I nipped into a normal run and got that complete. That was easy. Then I popped into Heroic and got up to 3/4 in there. Then I found a Mythic Group. Woah, they're as rare as rocking horse shit!

But get in I did. There was a little confusion to start with as the wanted a healer. I was DPS. I got accepted in and started changing spec and then got kicked.

I whispered the rogue leader and asked why I got kicked, he said that I was invited as healer then changed to DPS when I joined. I said I was already DPS and I was respeccing healer when he kicked me, but he didn't reply.

I was messaging him, getting more and more irate and watching the group fill up and he was just not replying.

Then I noticed they were at 1/3/15 - They were obviously looking for a final tank, so I joined LFG again as tank and got invited.

I don't think the idiot rogue RL called Tepeinick even realised I was the same person.

I joined at Il'gynoth and without even knowing the tactics we one-shot it in 2 minutes 26 seconds.

I was at this point getting increasingly rude about the RL and he wasn't biting. Then we one-shot Cenarius in 50 seconds, which was why I was there, and I was tempted to leave, but that wouldn't be fair on the rest of the raid so I stayed and we one shot Xavius in 1 minute 33.

Wow - What to do After End Game aka Where is Stormwid Embassy Again?

So, I'm on holiday, and amazingly my mobile internet is giving me 4G in the darkest depths of North Norfolk.

So, what do I do? I log into WoW and carry on finishing the game. The current target is getting the new races before launch, otherwise what would be the point of buying the pre-release (apart from playing at 23:00 UK time on Monday 13th, with Game inevitably failing to do a midnight opening!)

Right, that means doing just a few more world quests and invasions on Argus and ... BANG!! Get In There! Now off to Stormwind Embassy, now where is it? After a little bit of researching I open up the Stormwind map and see it right there in print - DOH! Yeah, the embassy is marked on the map, front and centre on the Northern edge.

So, quite some time later, I finish the new quest chain and am rewarded with ...

Can't be bothered to do Void Elves, I'll leave that for another day.

Improving on History - WoW Game Over

... and I did it, at least the balance of power questline and the achievement! Finished the day before going on holiday. Now, what next

Time for Finish World of Warcraft (At Least for this Expansion!)

Well, there're 12 days to go until the next expansion so I decided I'd best get round to clearing my main's quest log and finish the quests for this expansion as well as maybe seeing the time limited stuff on my horde character.

Now, seeing the stuff on horde might be a little difficult, as my highest horde character is level 40 ( Marcusmaximi the shaman) and I am not eligible to create a Demon Hunter on any realms either because my lad has created Alliance DMs or I don't have any level 70s!

So, back to finishing the expansion. All I really have left to do, apart from various raid quests, is to finish off the Nighthold quests with Guldan and Night shards for Balance of Power.

Also, I want to get Porkpie the warrior up to level 110, she is currently around 104 and one of the Hong Kong Phooey twins up to level 100. HongKon and GPhooey are both monks on two different accounts. Mine is HongKon and my lads is GPhooey.

I used my two legion level 100 boosts last week to bring them up from 40 to 100. I should have used it on Marcusmaximi the Tauren Shaman, but hey ho.

So, lots of legion invasions and I should easily do it. Trouble is I'm on holiday this Saturday for a week, and although I'll be able to take my laptop, the mobile internet signal I'll need to play is a bit hit and miss. So not actually that long at all!

...Oh ... And I Got a Pet Achievement!

This Weeks Additions to War of the Thorns

When you log in after maintenance you'll get another feeder quest to take you back to Malfurion at Lor'Danel: A threat from the North.

When you get there you'll see that the horde are getting closer. Hand this in for some gold. Always a winner!

Then pick up rescue effort to rescue 8 citizens for 20 gold and Defending Lor'dael to take out 15 of the horde forces then head over to Captain Delaryn Summermoon and pick up Action This Day which required you to take out two named horde mobs. That is if you can keep up with her as she runs all over the place engaging the horde!

She is also the hand in for all three of these quests.

Go and take these two out first, as they count towards the 15.

Then return and free the citizens and kill any horde that get n your way, you should now be good to hand all 3 quests in.

You'll get 19g 40s for each quest and the you'll get The Guidance of Our Shan'do to go report back to Malfurion.

He is to the south west, get there, watch the pseudo cut scene and then take the Hippogryph. Watch THE cut scene then hand in the quest for another 20g and pick up A Flicker of Hope.

Go and do what you need to do here and then when your lungs fills with smoke that quest will be removed from your quest log and you'll auto-accept From the Ashes... I've never seen that happen before!

So, hand this in to Anduin and get your new epic mount - happy, happy mount collector!