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Honest truth: Why am I still playing the game after all these years?

January 8, 2018, 3:30 am
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When I see people at work whom I haven't seen in a while, they always ask me:

"Hey, are you still playing that game? Warcraft?"


And I tell them, yes I am still playing "that game". The next question is always inevitably "What level are you now?" or "Isn't that game really old?"

And yes, the game is old. This game is older than my kids. It's going to be 14 years this year!

And yet, I am still here playing. How is it that I am not bored of it yet? This is the longest I have ever played a game - though Words with Friends, is that counted as a game? I like playing that a lot too - and yet I will still be playing WoW for another 14 years, easily!

There are many versions/reasons why I am still playing!

Romantic version:
Wow has been a stable source of entertainment as well as a font of friendship. Like everyone who has played this game for a long time, those friendships are as close and real as any we have made in real life. In fact, I find it strange to think anyone would think your game friends are not real friends, as spending 2 hours a night playing 3-4 times a week is more time spent than any of my other IRL friends!


The social aspect of having a solid and stable guild is also another cementing factor. I look forward to talking to listening to Kel/Vork reminding me every night to turn of guild repairs. Or listening to Gen howling at Sev when he trolls her with swapblasters. Or Ram moaning about Sev changing guild notes again. Or laughing at people dying to Kin'goroth's ruiner.

Addict's version:
The goal posts are constantly moving in WoW. And I always like finish something and WoW has just enough things that I can't finish. What do you think I'm referring to? Yep, I'm talking about achievements and collections.

No, this is not me. But I think some people THINK this is me
If I had finished every bit of content that I enjoyed in the game, then I would stop playing until there was new stuff. But there is no way that could happen. Firstly... achievements. I like - no, I LOVE - achievements. When we are done raiding then I will go out and finish chasing some achievements. PvP achievements are still a ways off to completion, plus all the dungeon achievements. And helping guildies get their achievements.

AND, if I did finish all my achievements, then there are alt achievements. I hate alts, so I probably won't even get to there but it would be good to finish off those profession achievements. But since I dislike alts, I'll find any excuse to get out of doing them, but if I did finish every achievement or goal then I would start on those.

Overlord version:
I really like being the guild leader of Frostwolves. I love talking to people, I even enjoy the conflicts because I actually like whinging about them. I like having problems to solve and finding solutions to them. And I like order. I like boundaries, and sometimes I'm itching for people to push boundaries so I can just shove them back in line.


I like finding out details about every guildie, so that if someone asks me about them I can at least say 2 things about them. Is that stalker like? Is it nosy? I don't know, but I do love investigating and getting to know everyone. Many of them are personal - as a doctor, I think people don't feel as weird telling me about their medical issues, maybe it's because I understand them, or won't judge them.. From bipolar disorders to inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes to migraines, I find it fascinating how prevalent various illnesses are.

I have thought about whether I could give up being a guild leader. I actually would find it hard to give up. I mean, if someone was doing a better job than me, was more available and reliable than me, then I think I would give it up, but I'd miss it. I would miss being able to help steer the direction, miss help ing organise and plan stuff, miss making decisions and things. So, I am still playing after all these years because I like being the guild leader! Would I stop if I wasn't the guild leader? Probably not, too many things to do. But I definitely would miss it.


Well now you know the honest truth! So tell me, why are you still playing the game after all these years?

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Prestige 22 - Catching Twenty-Two

January 10, 2018, 2:13 pm
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Heh, a cute pun on Catch 22!


Got a title with this one - Navimie, Bound by Honor. Not sure if I like that title, but since it is not an easy one to get, might as well run around with it for a little bit longer.

Only 8 levels left to go! Think I can finish that before next expansion? I think at the rate I'm going I'll probably get there in early June.

And Bloody coins... I wonder if I can get to 1000 before then!
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Minipost: Feral Legendary #4 - The Wildshaper's Clutch and a cool new weapon mog

January 11, 2018, 4:07 pm
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I actually didn't even see legendary drop in raid. It dropped for me doing Heroic Argus and it wasn't the only thing that dropped. Everyone was congratulating me but I was trying to figure out what this weapon that dropped was and why everyone was saying grats.


Yeah, that was a bad time to take a picture. I could have at least taken a picture of the dressing room with me facing the weapon towards everyone.

So this

But what it is, is a cool transmog weapon. It looks like this (and damn, I wish I had a good transmog to go with it. This plate wearer is looking pretty swish)


Now I have to make a new mog for it. Any suggestions?? As a placeholder I'll just wear it with my cool Xavius shoulders!


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Raiding - Almost ready for mythic Antorus!

January 12, 2018, 2:03 pm
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Last week we had pretty useless run on Argus. People were asking about mythic, but I thought if we keep playing like that there is no way we are going to do any mythic.

However, there was a total turnaround this week.

We did everything up to (and including) Aggramar, and then 1 shot Argus on Thursday, leaving lots of free time for us to do stuff after raid. If we keep playing like that, then there is a good possibility we can have a few goes at mythic so we can get mythic caches.

It was a good Thursday for me - picking up a Legendary and a cool weapon mog.

I have been avoiding mythics after our mythic efforts in Hellfire Citadel. We pugged people to fill a raid, our own raiders stopped playing because they didn't like playing with pugs, then we started filling other people's pugs which ended up having people leave the guild to join other guilds. Overall, a rather unsatisfactory outcome with mythic raiding, and the sour taste in my mouth still lingers. THis time it would be different. We only do it if we had the people. We won't make extra raid days to do it - in fact, we would cut our Monday raids and have only one Mythic day, and one heroic day. The best day to do it would be Wednesday, I think. I'll make sure people who have to leave early have a partner they can swap with - ie preferably someone who can only turn up to raid late! Galestion and Mesa are late arrivers, and Cosima and Gravy are usually the early leavers. That might work. Then of course there are the non mythic raiders like Crooked who has no interest in doing mythic.

I have it worked out to make it less stressful to do mythic. We aren't going to do it if people are goign to be shitty to one another. We're not going to do it if it makes life unfun.

Now the only difficult thing is trying to figure out who is going to come. I have a feeling we won't have that problem - I actually think we will struggle with numbers. But let's hope for the best shall we?


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Fail Friday - What is a dead key anyway?

January 13, 2018, 8:22 pm
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I need to keep up with my Fail Friday posts. I actually find them rather liberating!

Now this week's Fail Friday happened on a Saturday. Was doing keys with Anna and Gal and HK and we were doing upper Kara. Everyone seems to love upper Kara. Melee love it because they want the Eye of Command. So people are always keen to run it.


HK's Upper turned into an Arcway, and my Upper turned into Lower Kara. Everyone said they were terrible keys and didn't want to do them.

So I figured what the hell, I'll put it up in a LFG, and see if any bites.

I managed to get a group together, and off we went. The tank died to the first few mobs (something in that trash was hurting a lot) and we managed to get through everything and were doing Moroes. The hunter was a bit slow and getting back and then the tank did a countdown but not everyone was there, and I panicked and hit something which was my trinket which hit the boss and the fight started and we wiped. After that it was a bit rubbish. The DPS yelled at the tank and we tried it again after that but we wiped at 6% on Moroes (and that was with no lust). So we decided to go to Attumen but the tank left group and that was the end of that key. I was a bit bummed because we could have done it! That was my epic fail, that pull on Moroes. Ugh. The only reason I wasn't kicked from the group was because it was MY KEY.

The warrior and the boomkin really wanted to do the downgraded version of the key so we went off again - this time we had a DK tank and a WW monk. Unfortunately, that monk died to everything! The tank at least was pretty good.

We managed to finish the dungeon going 4 mins over despite all our deaths and wipes. I was happy with that! 

So a dead key is a key that you can't finish in time. But that's not a dead key to me! A dead key is a key I cant' finish! And I have had a few of those!

The interesting thing is that I managed to finish the key with random people from groupfinder. One of the other guys said that they only pug high keys, because with the raider.io addon, it's easy to find people who are good at high keys.

I installed that addon ages ago, but I found the constant updating annoying. So I stopped loading it. Then everyone was telling me to use the Twitch client.


So, all I have to do now is install the Twitch app and I can update my addons instantly. People have been telling me to do it for ages, but I only started doing it after guildies said how easy it is to keep my DBM up to date with the Twitch app.

I never used the curse client/w  to update (many many years ago people said that your account could be hacked with the curse client). Now it's so convenient! Why didn't I listen to everyone and get this installed before?


Now it's heaps easier to pug mythic plus, because my raider.io is up to date. And, after last night, maybe it's not so bad to pug after all.

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Get More Bag Space by making even MORE SMS's go to your phone!

January 17, 2018, 3:54 pm
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With patch 7.3.5 this week they added 4 extra bag slots on your backpack for all characters on that account for adding SMS protect.


To me it's a no brainer - I mean with work passwords, my banking stuff and everything else that keeps going to my phone, it's not so bad.

But, there are heaps of people unhappy about it. And you know what? The funny thing is that it's ENTIRELY OPTIONAL. You don't miss out on anything by not having it, you only gain a few extra bag slots if you DO opt in to do it!

There are a few people who don't have mobile phones and are upset they are missing out on the bag slots because of that. Though, think of all the money they are saving by not having a mobile phone! I mean, they were totally fine without it before.

There are also many people upset because they feel like Blizzard is making them jump hoops to get extra things. Sigh. These are EXTRA things! You don't NEED these things! It's a reward if you do the thing Blizzard asks you to do, not something that's given to you regardless because you want to do your own thing!

Well, fortunately for me, I have a mobile phone. And also, I am thrilled to get the extra bag space. I recently paid half a million for my extra 4 slots, and now all I have to do is add my phone number for SMS's when I forget my password and I get another 4 slots! Yay for extra bag slots!

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Fail Friday - This darned patch and bugginess

January 19, 2018, 3:30 am
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This week's Fail Friday comes to you courtesy of patch 7.3.5!

If you tried to raid this week, you will have noticed a bizarre FPS issue when raiding. In fact, it was almost unplayable for some of our players! Notably, the warlocks.

Heavy AOE fights were pretty ordinary with us wiping on dogs because of people getting terrible framerates. We tried turning of DBM (worked for some, not for others) and changing graphics settings. By Thursday it was better (and we even managed to clear heroic for the week with that rubbishy bug), but then there were other weird issues as well.

There were buggy dungeons. I heard that Vault of the Wardens was dreadful because you couldn't target the ads during a boss fight so they would just overwhelm the group. Someone had a buggy Arcway with a boss that wouldn't come down from the ceiling.

My personal Fail Friday was related to an Arcway I did on Monday. We were trying for a 19 and then I had something happen so I was always in combat. I couldn't drink and so I was relying on innervates and my mana trinket and pots to get me up. Made the instance REALLY long as I kept trying to kill myself to get out of combat, which not only added to the kill timer but lots of time wasting.


The other personal fail was dying on the Kurtalos, the last boss of Blackrook Hold. Pancake was on his DK and said he can solo it, and I died from swarm trying to get into melee and I felt super stupid about that. Galestion died first, then I did, but then once I was down, pretty much every other DPS was going to die. But, then we watched Pancake solo the boss from like 35% or something, except it was a LOOONG fight. Failed the time on the key (which we MIGHT have made if we'd all just died and come back to do the fight again) but it was rather cool to watch Pancake solo the fight, even if it took like... 14 minutes or something.


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Wounds of Azeroth... after Argus

January 21, 2018, 2:30 am
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After we killed Argus, I was super lazy and didn't go out to Silithus to look at the sword stabbed deep into Azeroth.

But, with all the new quests popping up as breadcrumbs to the expansion, I had to go out and look. Wow, does it look different!


Look at that big crater! Cenarion Hold gone! My druid brothers and sisters :(







For something so ugly and terrible, it is amazing the amount of colours it has.

The Warchief wants me to go secure the Azurite since the goblins are busy mining it. Kill a few SI:7 agents, and then some cultists who seem to have crawled out of the woodwork... oh and there are new rares to kill! And there is a pet to be had!





Woo! Success! That's all I needed to do out here. What are you waiting for? Go get your pet now!



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So this is Uuna's story - the Hidden tale of a Draenei ghost girl

January 21, 2018, 6:51 am
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Those guys in the hidden Discord have done it again! Apparently there is a back story to Uuna, the little Draenei ghost pet/companion you get that drops from Many-Faced Devourer (one of the rare mobs on Argus).

Uuna's pet journal text says "Uuna was found bound to an Ur'zul and was released into the Shadowlands, where she wandered in the utter darkness."


The Many-Faced Devourer is an Ur'zul - a demonic creature formed from the tormented bodies and souls of fallen members of the Army of the Light or the Krokul (Broken).

A quest chain back on Antorus gives you a bit of background to the Ur'zul.

In Strike back (which can start from Birth of the Ur'zul - a dropped item that starts the quest), we find a scroll detailing a spell that can create new Ur'zul from the souls of the Krokul, signed by Lady Shahzarad. Off we go to kill her and a few Eredar ritualists.

I wanted to start the hidden quest line to find out more about Uuna, but I needed a buddy. Good ol' HK! One problem - he didn't have Uuna. He had to kill the rare 5 times before he got Uuna's doll to drop.




You have to wait for her to say "Can anyone hear me?""C-c-cold...." and then you whistle at Uuna. Then she says:




After this you /roar at her. Seems a bit mean! But she runs away!



She disappears! But you can resummon her, and then you need to /cry and she will talk to you again.





So let's brighten it up for her! We take her to Shattrath City to see A'dal.



Off to look for some light that's a little less photophobic. There's some nice moonlight in Ashenvale at Lake Falathim which is juuuuust right.

/way 18.9 41.5




You know what's next. Find Nuu. How anyone knew where Nuu was... that's why those guys in the WoW Secret discord are so hardcore! Nuu is in Mac'Aree, on a floating island.


HK thought he'd do something smart and chi torpedo across. It was a bit fail. I managed to make it across though! So I rezzed him and he was there next to  me.


So I tried to get across this one, but somehow came up a bit short...


Luckily, HK made it across and managed to rez me. Oh, and make sure you have a Goblin Glider. I wonder if you can make it across as a demon hunter?


There's Nuu! That little teddy thing on the top step. Can you see it?



Now she is always holding Nuu! Hmm, did you notice Nuu is kinda like Uuna backwards...?


Now we have to go to Bloodmyst Isle to get something else. How the hell did people find this out!!!

/way 56.3 56.5
If you look REALLY closely at the table you can see the wand. Magnify!


Now Uuna is holding Nuu AND the wand. Cute huh!


Time to accessorise our little Uuna even more. Off to Shadowmoon Valley, Draenor.

/way 56 41
The crown is sitting there on the edge of a chair. Uuna runs up to it.




And now she is wearing a crown! Doesn't she look adorable!


But the darkness is coming. A few minutes later, Uuna gets taken away.



And she disappears. You can't summon her again. To find out where she's gone, you have to go speak to a spirit healer. Fortunately there's one right nearby in Shadowmoon Valley.


Now we have to go to Dragonblight and click a stone in a dragon's skull.

/way 66.2 74.5. You go first HK. I insist.
Clicking the tear teleports you to an individual scenario, The Dark Place. In there, we need to find Uuna and /cheer at her.

I see her! There she is!





Here, Uuna. A nice warm cooking fire just for you!








These creepy Soul Eaters remind me of Demogorgon from Stranger Things! They keep coming and you just have to run into them to make them run away. Keep doing it for a while and then Uuna says different things.



When Uuna starts saying "I--I can't do it! I just wanna go home!" and then you see the line
Uuna wraps her arms around herself and begins to cry - it's time to /hug her.


You can fail the scenario, and she screams the above line and she is swallowed by darkness. But if you /hug her then you might be able to salvage it. Even if you fail it, you can do it again.





And her light is SUPER strong! Bye bye Soul eaters! That little magic wand is amazing!












Now it's time for the world tour! It's like Children's week... First stop, Gate of the Setting Sun in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.





Then to Nighthold in Suramar (the outside not the instance)




Next stop, Dalaran. Krasus Landing.





Dragonblight, Wyrmrest temple is next.





Now off to see the tree in Mount Hyjal.





Time for some scenery at Kun-Lai Summit, Pandaria.




Down inside Blackrock Mountain to smell the fumes...





And finally, the Temple of Karabor in Shadowmoon Valley, Draenor.






Now Uuna will run up and hug you and her appearance in the journal is changed to reflect her new accessories. A lot of people complained that they did all that and didn't get any significant rewards... but it's for fun! Don't do it if you don't want to! Just a cute little side chain story with some cosmetic stuff on. I liked it. Dunno about HK! But he finished it!

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Minipost - Guardian Legendary #5 (or Feral Legendary #5)

January 26, 2018, 3:00 am
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Picked that one up from the Suramar Cache. Legendaries have been flowing thick and fast lately because now you can buy a legendary using your essences. Drop rate has been increased (ie you get 30 or so now instead of 6) and you can also get them from doing BGs. Renewed interested in doing random heroics and random BGs, and everyone has been out farming them.

3 more to go! Spoon says I should go buy my legos, since I'm not using those essences for anything else...


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Prestige 23 - Protocol 2.3

January 28, 2018, 2:00 am
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Got AP with this reward. I'm looking forward to another title at Prestige 26.

I'm not sure why this achievement is named this. Is it to do with Sombra from Overwatch? People were going on about her having Protocol 2.3, and that she is the 23rd character in Overwatch in part of a big alternative reality game leading up to the release of Sombra.


23 Enigma is a thing! Apparently there is a superstitious belief that the number 23 is found everywhere. Why couldn't they have used that as the achievement name?


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Minipost - Achievement: Paragon of Argus

January 14, 2018, 12:30 pm
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Well, I was pretty lazy with doing Shoot First, Loot later. I just couldn't be bothered running around with different Vindicar buffs to open things, and when I'd find stuff it would be the wrong buff... /waves hand dismissively UGH it was just a pain in the ass.

But since we have SLOOOW time a few days ago I finished it off and netted myself this easy achievement. Fortunately, was the last thing I needed to do my Paragon of Argus as well, so that was a nice 2 achieves knocked out!
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The Postmaster's Questline - Fun, with a useful toy and a new pet!

January 24, 2018, 5:00 pm
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Yesterday I received a mail from Spanky. In it was an attachment "Lost Mail". I whispered him on battlenet "What's this thing?" He was probably asleep, so I turned to Wowhead instead. And asked trusty ol' HK... who told me to got Wowhead.



Well, I went down to give it to Madam Goya. She seemed rather preoccupied talking to some dwarf down there.


Ah, so the lost mail was gold that the dwarf sent for his kit from the BMAH! Well, after we gave it back, he was all good and all dressed in his armour set.

Kieran Stonebrow: Keep yer paws off me, fuzzball!

I handed the quset in to Madam Goya.

Madam Goya: Ah a bank note. Mr Stonebrow's payment. Just in the nick of time it would seem.
Madam Goya: It seems you're in luck today, Mr Stonebrow. You may take back the goods.
Kieran Stonebrow: Yer damn right I will! I bought this armor fair and square, even if I ain't done payin' for it.
Kieran Stonebrow: Ahh, that's better. Armor befitting a might hero! One whose legendary deeds shake the very foundations of Azeroth!
Kieran Stonebrow: Welp, I'm off to the tavern.


Off he goes in his Dreadnaught armour. Hm, wonder who he is!

I then get a nice mail from the Postmaster, thanking me for my work!


Behind the Magus Commerce Exchange there was a pipe which was the entrance to the mail centre. Very Mario Bros feel as we clicked on it to go down into the busy mail centre!




The Postmaster had a quest for us,  Return to Sender.

You've arrived just in time!
Unlike the mail as of late, I'm afraid.
We are severely understaffed, and demand is at an all-time high. We simply can't keep up!
I'd love to chat, but I need help catching up before I can rest for even a moment.
First thing's first. Several parcels of rejected mail have broken loose again; will you help me round them all up and return them to their senders?

After we have clicked those 9 packages we then had to carry 1362 heavy stone in A Huge Package.

Due to the incredible volume of complaints in recent months we have been barred from delivering s... s... (The Postmaster holds back tears, pain visible in his eyes.)
Solid stone. We're positively swimming in it - if we can't deliver it then pretty soon we will be overwh-
(The Postmaster's eyes light up suddenly.)
That's it!  There is an old Consortium portal not far from here that we could deposit it in with none the wiser!  Can you help, Navimie? The stone is extraordinarily heavy.




Now you walk SUPER slow as you carry those stones. Flying doesn't help nor does mounting up. HOWEVER, if you party up with a friend, you can ride their 2 person mount and go at usual mount speed!
Aimei thought he'd jump on but the weight of the stones + Panda was too much!
Woo! Fast ride!
I read some funny things about this quest. There is a bag of stones to pick up to get your stones. Some people actually went out and bought the stones... and one person even went out and farmed them!!!

I tried to find out the significance of the 1362 Solid stones, and some weird hits came up. Firstly, someone commented on Wowhead about the Vernal Bank in Utah, where it was cheaper to MAIL bricks than it was to move them by commercial freight. So they mailed the bricks, and it cost the post office a fortune! Perhaps this was a reference to that.

The other 1362 and stone reference I found was regarding the Kensington Runestone, a 92kg slab of inscribed stone which was reportedly a record from 1362 by Scandinavian explorers. Since then it's been reported to be a hoax.

So I dumped all that stone in the Consortium portal near the Horde Bank in Dalaran. The Ethereal on the other side is less than impressed...




The next part of the quest is something we're more familiar with. In Priority Delivery, someone forgot to get their loot of Lich King! So off we go to ICC (via a convenient portal from the Postmaster's assistant) and need to get to the body, fighting off some Ethereals who are trying to ninja the loot.


And what do you think they forgot to loot? Invincible's reins??!!

Apparently the guy we have to give it to is hanging out in the Steam Pools at Feralas. When we get there... it's none other than Johnny Awesome (that pain in the ass).


In Service with a Smile, Johnny proceeds to tell me that he's already GOT an Invincible, which is why he didn't bother looting it...

Oh, simple tauren. Simple, simple tauren.
I did not 'forget' to sweep up those reins from that foolish cakewalk of a knight they call the Lich King. I simply did not bother, as I already received the mighty steed during my raid last week.
(Johnny motions to the horse on his left.)
Since you're here and clearly intrigued by my sweltering greatness, won't you take that superfluous stallion to the assistant resort director in town? My coffers could use a bit of extra lining.

The goblin is excited to get the mount and gives us a huuuuge bag of gold.

Gott says: "Pleasure doing business with ya. You just made my freakin' career, pal!"
When I get back to Johnny, he raises his arm exaggeratedly, glancing at his naked wrist.

My, my, quite the LETHARGIC adventurer, aren't you? That just might cover my repair bills from the many dungeons I've plundered.

Now he wants me to take Sparkle's favourite toy and put it on his grave in Hillsbrad Foothills. OK, off I go to do that. And what do you think Sparkle's favourite toy is? MIMIRON'S HEAD.


Back to the mailroom and it's time for the minigame and achievement!


The quest asks us to sort 15 mail to the right mail tubes. There are 6 mail tubes, each named with a continent (Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Outland, Northrend, Pandaria and Broken Isles). Each letter is labelled with a city and a zone (like Gadgeetzan, Tanaris) and you have to put it in the correct mail tube (Kalimdor). Finish this quest and you get The Total package achievement, which gets you the Katy Stampwhistle toy (yay mailbox toy!)


There are 2 achievements to get from the minigame. If you do 30 mail in 60 seconds, you get the Post Haste achievement, which gets you the pet, Mailemental! If you do 30 mail with partial addresses (ie no zones, just the city) then you get the Priority Mail achievement which rewards you a title as well (The Postmaster).

I just kept trying the partial addresses because doing that successfully will get me BOTH achievements. I did it for aaages.


There are lots of things that people used to help them - there was a weak aura (which I didn't try), I just kept trying to persist. I made a list of the cities I couldn't remember to help me to remember. I was sure I could do it!

Sorting the cities I kept forgetting into Alphabetical order and then doing the game helped me the best. After a while, I could remember where the cities where and didn't have to use my cheat sheet so much.


So after it's all done, you get a letter you can give to your friend (chain mail anyone?) and they can do the quest too! Or, you can look around post boxes and find one on the ground. Note, these ones on the ground are BOP whereas the ones you give away are Bind on use, so don't go trying to pick one up! You actually can't pick up the letter if you've already done it, which is good, I suppose!

See the letter!
Good luck and happy mail sorting!
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Wednesday Raiding - First foray into Mythic!

January 31, 2018, 4:30 am
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Mixed feelings about mythic. I get that.

People were a bit disgruntled we were trying Mythic on Wedneesday. They said that it wasn't confirmed. I did put in the message of the day "Considering mythic ABT on Wednesday", which technically is not CONFIRMING we are doing mythic but perhaps its only me who reads between the lines to say that "We are considering doing Mythic on Wednesday if there are enough numbers, but if we don't have 20 people then we will do heroic." I do spend a significant amount of time trying to deciper meanings and implications when sometimes there are none, when most other people read it and take it as it is. Literally.

So next week, I will have to be more specific and say "Mythic ABT on Thursday pending numbers." Actually, that's a heaps better way to say it. Why didn't I say that the first time?

So, we actually had 20 people turn up. Splatz was held up at work but we were all ready to go, so in the end we decided to just flip to heroic and do that until Splatz arrived. He arrived as we were about to pull Dogs, so we did Felhounds, and then went back to Mythic.

Fortunately the first boss in Mythic is easy, and it only took us a few goes to get it whilst we worked out the things we needed to do. Everyone was keen, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, but everyone did NOT enjoy the fact that I forgot to turn off master loot. UGH. And, I forgot to roll. BLAH.

What makes it even worse? We forgot to take a kill pic! We thought, hey we'll take it from this bridge angle whilst we're doing mobs, but the boss despawned and I had a mini-hissy.

Felhounds is another story with tons of stuff on the ground everywhere and more coordinated movement which is killing a lot of the casters. But, it's making some solid movement, so we're going ok.

Which moves to the next topic. What day did people want to do mythic? Everyone said that Wednesday was a dumb day. I chose Wednesday because that's the day with the most people on so we would guarantee a run. However, most of them wanted to do Thursday, and so, next week we will do Thursday. My concern is that once we kill Argus, people will just go away and not come to Mythic. I only want to get 13 mythic kills (I don't know how many I need, but I know you can get it at 13) so I can get a mythic cache from my Antorus missions. And, with this week's release of Allied Races, prepurchase of the expansion, there is a lot of time left for us to do our kills. More on that later!

But! Good work Frostwolves on our first Mythic kill! See, that wasn't so bad was it?
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Fail Friday - Oops I'm an idiot

February 2, 2018, 12:00 am
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Last week Thursday I had to go out for dinner so I missed raid, which was just a heroic Argus kill. It was also unfortunately a year since Xyn died and I think guildies wanted to say something, but I wasn't there, so I think nothing was said. Sad.

So, I thought I'd give a go at pugging. And there was my fail for the week.

I wiped the raid. TWICE.

Both times I had the bomb. The first time I ran to the wrong side, but as I realised as I was runing and ran to the correct side, but I was killed before I got there (my bomb didn't go off). The second time I was running to my marker and my health was ticking down and I died before I got there.

Anyway, they decided I was a troll and booted me.

That was embarrassing. Anyway, the lesson learned is that I need to pay closer attention to where markers are, because people put them differently to how our raid does them! That was just dumb, on my part.
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Prepurchase Battle for Azeroth and start playing the new allied races!

February 1, 2018, 3:30 am
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All the excitment! Logging on yesterday and the notices telling you that you can play ALLIED RACES when you prepurchase the Battle for Azeroth... which will be out no later than September 21 of this year.

So guess who quickly went to get theirs! I didn't log on till 8pm and raid was in 45 mins so I wasn't sure if I would have time to do some of these allied race things, but HK said that the Nightborne one was quite quick, so I went and did that.

NIGHTBORNE


Thalyssra's meeting with the Night Elves didn't go very well. Though the nightborne do have the night elf model... it's cool that now we can play night elf type things too. Do we have that bounce too, I wonder?

Off we go to see Lor'themar. Alleria is there too, trying to talk to him about something Alliance-y, but Lor'themar brushes that off. Invites all round to go check out the Sunwell. Alleria wants to see it too, having not seen it for AAAAGES... and though one of the other blood elves thinks that's a bad idea, her being void-touched and all, Lor'themar says let's ALL go and see our wonderous magic pool!



Well, poor Alleria. I knew that her being there at the Sunwell with her void touched business might be no good for the Sunwell, but then when she corrupted everything... well that's the end of Alleria. No more Sin'dorei for her.

Moonwell, Sunwell, Nightwell... well, I wonder what's next. Wishing Well? Heh.


HIGHMOUNTAIN

The Highmountain campaign was a bit longer. We had to run around killing old gods stuff, tentacles, creepy shadow creatures, and a lot of it was shared - as in the mobs would be there and other people could hit them and you had to wait for them to respawn. The Nightborne scenario with it's solo scenario linear role seemed to run much better as a story, in my opinion.

Old gods unleashing their rubbish everywhere. Reliving some spirit memories (Highmountain Tauren do that a lot. All this reliving the past stuff... Sev should have been a Highmountain Tauren) and placing some wards... I didn't find the quest chain very interesting.




EXCEPT for the fact that now we can tell everyone that Ebonhorn is a Black Dragon. As if he couldn't pick a more obvious name.. EBONhorn. As in black horn.


Is he making a fat joke? :D



I think EVERYONE knows, Ebonhorn. Well, everyone Horde, that is.


Some people already race changed for raid. Ultra was Nightborne. After raid, I did the Highmountain chain with Splatz and he changed to Highmountain. He quite liked the charge. I lost some obscure bet with Spoon which meant I had to race change to a Highmountain Tauren.

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Minipost: Guardian legendary #6 - Archimonde's Hatred Reborn

February 3, 2018, 4:00 am
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Spending all those hard earned Wakening Essences! I am pretty lazy when it comes to farming them, as I just cruise along picking up the ones from raid and BGs, but this is a bought one.


Well, I've added it to the pile. 2 more to go!
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Raiding - No mythic this week

February 8, 2018, 3:30 am
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Darn shame. I think with many of our guildies off playing Monster Hunter that interest in doing mythic raiding has dropped right off. That and a bit of shitty attitude which I normally see at the end of an expansion, which is a mixture of frustration and boredom.

Still, we had a decent turnout but we wiped a lot because of ... I don't know what. Fights were sloppy, and people were not doing mechanics properly which made other people angry. Raid felt tense overall, and it was not comfortable, despite Sev trying to defuse it by being silly and making quips and swapblasts.

Admittedly, I was tired and so were a lot of other people. When we died to Coven twice from lousy execution and people were getting snarky the officers had had enough and we called raid. Wasn't really a good vibe, that Wednesday. People whispered me afterwards saying I was weak because we called it after only 2 wipes. Or how can you possibly do mythic when you call a raid after wiping a few times? Or that the only thing they needed was on this boss...

Thursday was heaps better, and after we did Argus, everyone logged, which was a clear message to say, no mythic. Someone said to me back in the day they would tell people that you can't raid if you don't do mythic, but that's not how things are anymore. We're not like that, and you can't force people to have fun, because we're only doing it to have fun.

There are heaps of other fun things to do. Like dungeons. And PvP. And achievements. Man, I can't wait till attendance drops off so I can go chase raid achievements on Sunday!
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Fail Friday - Didn't read the Bnet message

February 8, 2018, 8:45 pm
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I was happy this week to go off and do HoV after raid, hanging out with Spoon, Pancake, Galestion and Hwired. HoV is my fave instance, as you know!

Even better, it was a 16. I like doing 16s because that means next week we can have a 15 ready to go, and not have to work a key up.We were happily ploughing along to the first boss when we got the dreaded message...


Well shit. That killed this key.

Then I remembered that I did see a maintenance message when I was logging in. Servers were going to go down at midnight. Sigh, I had totally forgotten about it.

What a waste of a beautiful key! SO FAIL!!!
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Minipost: Feral Legendary #6 - Elize's Everlasting Encasement

February 9, 2018, 2:07 pm
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I got this legendary yesterday from one of my Emissary Caches - I think it was one of the Argus factions. Well that was a surprise! But another one to add to the pile :) That legendary bag in my bank is getting full!
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