#wotlk shaman

[warcraft-guru]

Shaman alt showing off in WotLK Classic..

[wizard-mp4]

Nobody cares but me but I'm rank 18 in a video game I enjoy and it makes me happy to see that I'm doing well because fuck I'm trying so hard

[mezmer]

…..

I bought a WoW subscription today

Playing classic WOTLK as a troll shaman, hit lvl 7 and now I’m laying down

I don’t know if I’m going to keep my sub going, I was just itching to play for weeks and could not get a private server running on any of my computers Lmfao. Need to figure that out. For now playing blizzard scam shit

[unpleasant-ghoul]

Found myself reading Vol'jin: Shadows of the Horde today. Realized that that's it, I'm in deep, I'm reading a motherfucking WARCRAFT BOOK, so might as well...

So after a bit of searching found a private server that seemed agreeable (BFA, 1x rates available) and yep. That's it, I'm in modern WoW instead of pretending nothing beyond WotLK exists.

So far I'm loving it. Trolls look goooood here (Well, they always do. But now they look the high-polygon kind of good).

Still made the same char as my main in WotLK, though - class, color, face, hair... Even name (it wasn't taken, lucky me. Pity same was not the case for my warlock's name - gonna have to make a separate one once I can think of something)! Here he is, in all his low-level, still-basic-armor glory.

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Okay, so, you see the beginning. And now onto the other shit. That being bugs of that specific server (lots and lots AND LOTS), opinions on stuff, and an occasional rant.

The first thing I've found was with the "the ancient enemy" quest. Vol'jin, buddy, pal, my beloved leader... Not that you don't look lovely jus' standing there, but I've read how it's supposed to go and "standing there, then giving the speech, then standing in the statue, then fucking leaving" as I slowly, sloooowly chip away at that Sea B... Err, Witch's health for 15 minutes straight is NOT it. No, the fact that the quest is considered already done while she's still very much alive does not improve things. I may be a filthy pirate, but I'm a proper player, too. I want to DO quests.

And not that I don't love your voice, but that post-quest voice line? Got it from the first time just fine. No need to repeat it until I relog.

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Another thing is the Spirit healer of the Darkspear Isle's graveyard. Look, girl. I'm glad you're friends (or more. Not judgin') with your colleague at Sen'jin Village's graveyard, but maybe visit her when off duty? Not fun to run all the way there for a rez.

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That next one I should have discovered earlier, but oh, well. So that moment when you talk to that troll with the raptors and get a ride to where you're supposed to fight nagas. Heh. Not that I don't appreciate an early taste of riding a flying mount, but I prefer my raptors to be running, not flying through the air sideways. Ending up dropped off where I'm supposed to rather than amidst a bunch of very much HUMAN (no tails or scales or anything) enemies would have also been nice.

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And speaking of rides. Raider Jhash, whether you like it or not, Master Gadrin says you're supposed to give me a ride to Razor Hill. So, maybe less "you're annoying my dog", more wolf-riding? Eh? What, not even a non-working option for that? FINE, I'll walk. Asshole.

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The shaman says that he'll tell me a story. Tells nothing. Guess I'll have to think on my own. Lucky him that I need no tale to disagree with Garrosh: never liked that guy in the first place.

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Sorry, guys-that-maybe-drowned, can't save ya. Can't FIND ya. Because I'm supposed to use the spyglass at the top of the watchtower, but apparently the top is not the top, since it just doesn't work. Look, I tried. Not my fault.

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Sorry, Zen'Taji, those plainstriders ain't getting saved. No self-preservation, they'd rather die than run.

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Aww, one escort quest that has a chance to be fun, and it's not working. No caravan defence for me! I guess at this point it can be safely assumed that any "take quest, talk to the NPC for the next part" types are broken here. Pity.

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Echeyakee, what the fuck are you doing? Are you pretending to be a druid? Are you evolving? No, seriously, what's up with that staff in your paw?

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No Captain Longshore fo' me (because, again "talk to the NPC to continue), and no checking the caravan wreckage either (because... just because. Nothing happens.). If it wasn't my only option for BFA, I'd leave already.

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I have found it. The shining, flawless gemstone of my bug collestion.

Behold:

You get it, yes? No? This fella here, I'm supposed to kill him. For a quest. Kill a bunch of centaurs, he appears, you kill him. And he even appeared fine!

But allied to the Horde. To Orgrimmar.

He had slain the remaining centaurs himself and I can't do shit to him because, well. I'm a troll, very much a Horde member even if the way it is now is not exactly the way I like to see it, and he's apparently on my side now. Had to abandon the quest.

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Made a goblin since with those graphics I CAN, for once, take the gobs seriously.

Of course I've found another glitch there!

Now, the quests, so far, work fine (then again. None were of the variation that tends not to work on this server). But there's two things.

I am pretty. Fucking. Sure. That the spotlight is not supposed to be permanently attached to the car and remain where you have dismounted form it until you use the key again. Seriously, for all the love of shiny things that the goblins possess, and for all their genius with technology, I really don't think that "light shining onto a car from the skies, all the time, following it perfectly" is something they could have done. So, pretty sure it's a bug.

The PC's companions. There's that lady among them, forgot her name. Point is, there's that ONE lady among them. And then there's the quest with pirates and suddenly there are five more following me. Same name, same looks, they're all the same gob girl. Just six of her for some reason. Lasted until I summoned the car again, since there's only enough room for one of her in it.

Oh! And I've found a third thing. near the mine, when you're on the few final quests before finally heading to Durotar, the enemies are all dead. Maybe they should be dead, maybe they shouldn't be... But they sure as fuck shouldn't be sliding on the ground as if still patrolling the territory!

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And again to my very much non-goblin main character's encounters with the many, many bugs: that quest with the boat ride? Yeeeah, that ain't happening. No option to even talk to the guy. Sorry, whoever I had to deliver the semi-precious gems to, you're not getting them because arriving to you through any other means apparently doesn't count.

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The Valentine's Day quest (the one with the goblin detective): broken. The orc lady wants you to see the fuck her beloved is doing, but once you're done with that and come to tell of your findings? That question mark ain't yellow.

The normal, regular, quest chain where you, on the request of another orc lady, gather fel fire and talk to the warlock, and bomb the elves, and all that: broken. No imp transformation, the towers, again, aren't towers enough to use what you have to use on them, and there's no "persuading the warlock" (or, indeed, talking to him at all outside of taking the non-working quest). Yaaay.

Also, found another misplaced Spirit Healer. Don't know which graveyard she's missing from, but the one closest to that place with the satyr and the demon portals has two.

But I'm still staying. I wanna see Zandalar for myself (with a non-Zandalari char because Talanji's fine, but I'm not here for her), and that'll take actual progression because the portal doesn't work (fine. That's meant to be. Never went there. Makes sense) and the ship doesn't either (considering my previous experience of successfully traveling via ships/zeppelins to the areas I have no busyness being in yet, that one's probably not supposed to be like that)

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Sorry, Gurtar or whatever's your name, Draaka's not getting that flower braid. It's not that i want her to forget you, you seem like a somewhat okay orc, I'd be glad to help, it's just that the bloody flowers are NOT cooperating! They're there. They're sparkling. Interactable alright. Loot window is there. Notification in the chat about receiving said loot is there. All fine and dandy... Except for that part where they should appear in my inventory.

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Non-bug talk again. Ranting about stuff instead. Warcraft makes me feel saaaad. On the BfA server, aside from all the bugs, I'm sad because the Horde is not MY Horde, and I only see Vol'jin alive because I'm early in the story, and I'll have to go through THAT to get to Zandalar, so sadness is unavoidable. And on my usual, fine and non-buggy (aside from pets sometimes running in place when the owner stops. Annoying when fishing. Just tap-tap-tap in the background) WotLK one I'm sad because... Well. I'm a VERY TROLL player. Sure, I got some undead. But other than that? Very Troll. Love 'em. Love my trolls, love NPC trolls. So Sen'jin Village being just that tiny thing, and the state of Echo Isles at that point of the story? Sad. Master Gadrin not having unique voice lines there yet? Sad (after hearing him in BfA I maybe got a bit obsessed? Maaaybe? I have maybe visited the Village SPECIFICALLY to click him repeatedly, like, five times already? He. Just. Sounds. So. Nice. I wanna hug him. Or draw him, which with my shit skills is not, in fact, any more possible than hugging him). Hell. Vol'jin, looking non-unique, like just another troll, young and alive and not dying any time soon? Well, now I know it won't last. So I see him like that and I'm sad because I know what's coming.

So to put it in fewer words, Playing Warcraft makes me sad, not playing Warcraft would also make me sad. It's just sadness all around.

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But to lighten things up a tad: summoning a rat (battle pet) creates a rat (WILD, capturable battle pet). Rats function fine other than that. have it in your party, it does its thing fine. It's just trying to summon it to follow you that's bugged. Just endless wild rats. If I were less of as-lawful-as-you-can-be-while-still-pirating-shit kinda dude, I'd probably try to see how many I can make happen.

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Still at it, because even despite all the bugs (and having a char on a perfectly working, bug-free so far, pain-free due to the timeline, MoP server) I keep having that MIGHTY NEED! Of getting to Zandalar, and dying there, and being laughed at by Bwonsamdi. And all that.

So! O miracle of miracles! A quest that requires gathering something, making something else out of it and using it on an interactable object WORKED! And another one, that required using a thing in a specific place worked, too. Pretty sure there were supposed to be visual effects of some kind, but I'll take what I can.

Too bad Blastranaar doesn't work. Because, again. It's a "talk to the NPC to proceed". Those are fucking broken here. Killing the targets manually might be possible, but likely won't count, seeing how a similar quest went when I tried it (it didn't).

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Guys. I don't think that's how you're supposed to ride. I'm no expert, but generally the rider tends to go on top of the mount.

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Sorry, dude, those mines are staying disarmed. They just refuse to cooperate.

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Also, a few more things to say: 1. That bear dude (furbolg? I think they're called furbolgs) you should kill for his totem. Hoo, buy! For starters, the flag-placing counts as done as soon, as you take the quest. And all those guys you have to survive? They're already on the hill. All of them.

The bear leader himself is, too. Well, not on the hill, but near it. And once you kill him, there, of course, is the totem! That you can't pick up. Quest unfinishable!

Earlier, when you take a quest from the orc lady, a shaman I suppose, to meet some person from the Earthen Ring. Person in question is not there. The question mark is alright, but not the dude/dudette it belongs to. Quest unfinishable!

Also, pet battles. A lot of things you'll find are DEAD. As in, it's a species-wide thing, not individual critters slain by something. You want a coral snake? Lol, nope, they're all dead from the very start. Can't fight 'em, can't capture 'em. Cheetah cub? Dead. Creepy crawly? Just get a dung beetle and pretend that that's what you wanted. Gazelle fawn? Yep, sliding on the ground while dead as a fucking doornail.

Oooh, and when you have to kill That guy, Keeper whatever-his-name, started with O. The deer dude.

First of all, before you get to him. There are some orcs nearby, and some are friendly alright, as they should be. Others, though... Guys! Guuuuys! I'm a troll! Like, part of the Horde? Like you? I get it that our species are not on the best terms right now (through no fault of ours), but do you really have to attack me? Well, if anyone asks, it was self-defence.

And secondly. The Keeper himself. I understand he is supposed to be inside one of the tree-tower's rooms. Well, he ain't there!

He and his deertaur buddies decided "eh, deer, goat, both have cloven hooves, they're basically the same thing" and climbed onto. The. Fucking. Roof.

Killing him required abusing my pet's ability to phase through the walls in pursuit of prey (and he probably shouldn't be able to do that. Dude is a normal, living raptor, not a vengeful ghost of one! Though that'd be SICK) and some switching between passive/defensive mode of said pet as well as a bit of maneuvering on my part.

Definitely not how it's supposed to go.

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A fresh bunch of bugs! And a bit more:

The cannon that I'm supposed to shoot gnome planes with doesn't work, the balloon doesn't work either (but hey! At least the ride counts as taken, so I can just arrive to the goal through other means and finish the quest!), the bomb in the spy quest is usable, but useless due to spies not being stealthed in the first place, I'm pretty sure that falling rocks are supposed to be visible, not just mysterious death outta nowhere, those warmachines don't work either, that's another quest un-doable.

Also, not bug, but daaamn! Three (three!) last places I've been to while on quests had no vendors. Guess I'll have to go elsewhere to free up some bag space. Maybe Orgrimmar - so that I can check if profession trainers got anything new and exciting for me. And maybe gonna go visit Sen'jin Village too, while I'm at it. Not for any real purpose, just to click Master Gadrin a few times. Sure, I can just listen to his voice on Wowhead, but where's the fun in that?

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For once, glad a quest didn't work. "To be Horde" sounds like something I very much don't want to actually go through, accept-reject-go for the next that probably shouldn't be available without it, but is is juuust fine by me.

And yea, went to Orgrimmar to sell some stuff and learn some recipes, got some fresh armor (sure, I get plenty for the quests... Problem is, I like challenge, and quest ones often turn purple, while before finishing I was promised green/blue. Purple is a bit too strong for my tastes, so I mostly use what I make myself instead).

And visited Sen'jin Village. Even without actually doing that damn quest, I was still in need of lightening the mood a bit, so pestering Master Gadrin was a must.

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Another thing:

This.

See how the pridemanes sparkle? That's because they're skinnable. But no, they didn't "die weird", ending up standing as if still alive. They ARE alive. And skinnable (or show as such. I'm not a rogue, if that raptor by my side wasn't a clue enough. I can't sneak close enough to try). They aren't the only ones, there's also wolves like that, and that one giant fish.

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Stiiill at it. Changing of... Forgot his name. Doesn't matter. That orc Warlord in Desolation Hold. Point is, ya go to the top of the tower, because he asks you to go with him, thinking you'll help him. But you kill him.

And oh, you can kill him alright. That part works. And counts for the quest!

But the tower, as usual, is not tower enough. So killing counts, going doesn't, quest half-done and unfinishable.

But on the positive side, that quest where you blow up siege engines that look like firepowder stuffed in greasy socks? It works THE BEST! The siege engines actually fall to pieces, and there's "BOOM!" and you can't just blow up the same one over and over like you could with the tent-incinerating quest!

The sparks stay after the siege engine is gone, the ones that indicate that something can be interacted with, but it's a minor thing.

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Silithid mounds are either not Silithid enough, or not mounds enough. What I'm saying is, I can't pour pitch on them, so I can't do the quest. Fortunately, ones running freely near Fort Triumph count just fine.

Griffins are where they're supposed to be (though they spend a lot of time standing in the sky, rather than flying), and the hook works! But there is just tiiiny little problem:

That quest requires me to kill the RIDERS.

Griffins are on their own. Unmounted. Owners nowhere to be seen. Can't do that quest, either.

So that's ALL quests in that zone undoable (at all or in the intended way). At least the silithid quest gave me my next target, so I guess in a way that was the one most important. And it means I don't have to go to Desolace yet! I have a quest for that but not really looking forvard to it. Visited it briefly on the WotLK server. I know pre- and post- Cataclysm things may be quite different, but I really don't think it became any more enjoyable.

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!

Found a working quest! A line!

And it's a good one so far. Doesn't hurt. Just helping a guy make his dream come true. Sure, the guy is undead. And the "dream" in question is to build an abomination. But still. He's eager! He has a sense of humor! He, so far, haven't asked me to kill allies!

I mean, look at this! How can I walk past him and not help? I can't!

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Mankrik stands, surrounded by Quillboars. The quillboars are mere animated models, just walking around, nameless, levelless, untargetable. He asks me to kill 13 Quillboars. Were I to count ones around him, the number would likely match. There are proper ones nearby, quest-marked, so I can do it. Still, a strange sight.

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Sooo, Desolace! And that dead elf, Furien. The fact that I had to ride my very much terrestrial little raptor instead of taking Furien's Dragonhawk and flying to his sister because, as always, that kinda thing is broken? No big deal. Used to it. Expected it.

Furien's Footsteps (where you ALSO have to go on your own, because any sort of "tell the flight master, and they'll get you there" doesn't work either. You can use their services, but you can't talk to them) is where the fun REALLY starts! And ends.

Because you can't do it. Going to the places where you're supposed to go doesn't count. Doing the quests? Well, it counts for the quests themselves, but as far as Furien's Footsteps are concerned, those shrines, and statues and whatnot are still very much unvisited.

Quest undoable! I just hope it wasn't supposed to be a long line spanning the whole location and kicking me to the next with its last quest. That'd be awkward.

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!

"The Emerging Threat" worked!

And yes, it's a big deal. It's a "speak to the NPC for the quest-important thing to happen", and until now I thought ALL of those were broken on Firestorm's BfA servers.

Sure, it didn't work from the first try.

And it didn't work well:

Two of Korrah's mounts, one for me to ride, green-named, other - yellow, just following partially clipped through "mine", both running in the air instead of flying...

Took a long time to scout those nagas like that!

But still. I was placed onto a mount, even if only on a second try, I did a circle above the naga-infested areas, I was returned to the starting point. And it counted for the quest.

That's unusual and also wonderful.

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Guess there's no "lifting of the tired soul" for me: mounds of fertile soil aren't themselves enough to plant the Cenarion seeds.

Also, breaking the Magram spirit or whatever? Ain't happening either: the spear is already there (and wandering around), the centaurs are already there, and no matter how many I kill, it doesn't count for the quest (also, the Magram chieftain is also already there)

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Ended up going to Feralas on my own, because there are no more quests in Desolace.

As in, ones I can do: Smeed is not interactable, so I can't give him the harnesses.

Furien's Footsteps, as I've mentioned before, can't be done because the quests at the shrines can't.

Planting seeds and dealing with the centaurs - nope, not workin'

And that one where you're supposed to take control of a demon... You get the "channeling" you get the effect, but you do NOT get the demon. he is still very much loyal to his master and won't tolerate an attack on him.

And there's nothing else. Probably supposed to be, but nope. Nada. Nothing.

So I'm walking into Feralas blind, gonna have to piece together what's up with everything there without having a starting point.

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Decided that nothing will cheer me up better (and after losing all but three chapters of a fic I liked re-reading I did need cheering up) than being mocked by Bwonsamdi for dying.

So I went into the game with my untouched, made-him-and-left-him Zandalari priest.

Died.

No Bwonsamdi.

Ran all the way to Nazmir.

And, okay. He's there. Found him in two spots plus (obviously) in Necropolis.

Got mocked, feeling better now.

As for bugs - pretty sure he's not supposed to be carrying fishing rod EVERYWHERE. I mean, I appreciate the thing being made of bones. Great style!

But, Bwonsamdi, dear, sure you need it even when away from water? Whatcha fishin' for in necropolis?

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Back to my main character and back to Feralas. An amazing-sounding quest about shrinking giants and, naturally, it doesn't fucking work. Pity.

Also, still not sure what's the deal with the Dragon-lady. According to her I have apparently dealt with some problem. but I didn't. Either it was a continuation of Furien's questline and therefore inaccessible, or it's just straight up missing.

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Hmm. A variation on the trouble with wingrider masters: the option to talk to her is there, but clicking of it (or on the normal flight option) does nothing.

[thetoxicgamer]

There are WoW Classic systems Blizzard “wouldn’t want to bring back”

World of Warcraft Classic's fidelity to Vanilla World of Warcraft contributes to some of its appeal. Players who have been desiring a blast from the past after recent expansions will get it with Classic, which reduces the Retail MMORPG's frequently complex systems to their most basic components. But with the eagerly awaited Hardcore Realms just around the corner, I questioned the development team as to whether compromises to the game's fundamental integrity are required to get rid of bugs and clumsy, out-of-date features. Other than being, well, hardcore, there are a few changes accompanying WoW Classic’s new realms. Assistant lead game designer Tim Jones tells me that some quests have been changed to ensure you’re not being randomly flagged for PvP, and there are some adjustments to some escort quests, too. Some systems, however, are purely being updated because they don’t align with Blizzard’s future vision for WoW. While some players rejoiced at the official confirmation of RDF coming and quest tracker to WoW Classic, others likely see it as a pivot away from Blizzard’s promise to retain the core essence of Vanilla WoW. It’s a hard line to tread, so I asked Jones about whether the team will prioritize keeping Classic, well, Classic, or if it will implement new systems should the need arise. “Our game design philosophy evolves with our player base,” he tells PCGamesN. “When we launched Classic we were staunchly no changes, we wanted everything to be a 100% accurate recreation of the reference clients in the game from 2004 and 2005. Having experienced that, there are some systems that we probably wouldn’t want to bring back.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m7eB0Hxqf8 “I don’t think anyone benefitted from spell batching or the buff limit,” he continues. “That is more restrictive than it needs to be. That’s not good gameplay, and we acknowledge that. We’re all for acknowledging where no changes doesn’t make sense anymore, even on Era servers. “That’s sort of the mentality that we have – we can make the questing experience better. Is it true to reference? No, but it ultimately benefits the player experience. Warlocks and Hunters can cast their DoTs on bosses. That’s awesome – we want players to cast their spells, that’s only going to be a good change ultimately. Our philosophy is evolving, and I think we’re in favor of just a better player experience overall, while still staying true to the spirit of Classic.” I’ve played WoW Classic and, coming from Retail, I do notice a significant difference between the two – especially in terms of its systems. While I have spent hours happily running around as a very confused little troll Shaman (I am very thankful for the addition of a quest tracker), I do think that change is a necessary part of running Classic. It’s been quite a while since the game released, after all, and there are unfortunately systems that are just straight-up outdated nowadays. If the new quest tracker and RDF features have inspired you to dive back into the snowy-white wastes of Northrend, make sure you check out our WoW WotLK Death Knight guide because, given it’s WotLK, you have to try them out at least once. If up-close melee isn’t for you, though, then I’d advise glancing through out WoW WotLK Affliction Warlock guide for some DoT-focused chaos. Read the full article

[honestlyfullfox]

You have extra mats to create a few parts of gear

It could be in quests or even playing level at dungeons in heroics that aren't faction-related. Tabare equipped WoTLK Gold. However, the most important one , and one that you're likely to expect is the forever belt buckle that everyone is wearing is playing, whether an old main second or 20. If you will wear an item of belt during your life, it's likely to have several belts with max levels and every single one of them has only a buckle up to provide an additional socket and material costs aren't too bad. All you need is an eternal Earth shadow and water.

In addition to saronite bars This can be simple when the time is right. simply purchase the mats, make the buckles and earn the profit obviously you'd always need to confirm this prior to purchasing or using resting XPS gold or a system that will reveal which items are the most profitable to purchase the materials from the Auction House and craft cheeky plugs in the description below for blacksmithing. However, belt buckles would be my priority. However, if you have extra mats to create a few parts of gear, make those also. The same is true for blacksmithing.

As with tailoring for our every tear, you'll be given some extra recipes such as belts at times during Ottawa or some forge braces in the course of a conversation that you can sell for an affordable fee if obtain them early, or actually cultivate the mats and then sell the big items, since buyers will surely purchase them to ensure not repeating the same things for different professions. Leatherworking shares the same aspects that apply to buy WOW WoTLK Classic Gold it like tailor and and blacksmithing. Apart from the fact that gear is lever or mouth and aimed at specific classes and specifications like Elemental Shaman enhancement shaman hunters, rogues and Druids.

[caribouv]

2022 best

If it's first it means it's not last. This is probably the most underwhelming and unexciting yearly list I've ever put together.

+ ALBUM

Foxtails - fawn

FONTAINES D.C. - Skinity Fia

Drunk Uncle - Look Up

Birds in Row - Gris Klein

Pool Kids - s/t

OCULA - Crossroad

Le Youth - Reminders

Horsegirl - Versions

Beach House - Once Twice Melody

Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever

+ SONG

Chase Plato - Set You Free

djimboh - Up Here (with Lumynesynth)

+ RECORD/COVER

Honestly, whatever Lane 8 / This Never Happened cooked up this year. I spent too much time listening to mixes and not enough time paying attention to what was actually playing.

+ SET/MIX

Deep Woods with Pretty Pink was awesome, but Lane 8's season mixes played on repeat this year from start to finish. You could just throw any of these on and you've got instant 2-3 hours of deep house, trance. I'm listening to Fall 2022 right now.

Foxtails on Audiotree is awesome too. It's wild the vocals coming out of that girl.

+ MOVIE

This Place Rules (even though fucking Andrew certainly doesn't.)

Trainwreck Woodstock 99'

Nope

Pearl

Movies sort of sucked this year for me. Though to be fair I'm wildly behind on my list: The Whale, Marcel Shoes, Inisherin, Till, Quiet Girl, Avatar 2, All Quiet, etc. etc.

+ TV SHOW

Andor and Queen's Gambit. Without a dobut. Vox Machina is so so so good, but those two shows are on a different level.

Also to note: TV was really, really good this year. Half Bad, Power Rings, Dragon House, Yellowjackets, Arcane, Cyberpunk, Midnight Club, Eps 4 7 8 of Curiositiy Cabinents, Stranger Things 4, End is Nye, Prehistoric Planet, White Lotus, Severance, 1899, Wednesday, Maisel 4, Fleabag 2. I really don't think I watched much anything I didn't like other than that Salt Fat Acid garbage.

+ ACTOR

Voice actors from Vox Machina. I'm so stoked for s2 coming up here next week.

+ VIDEO GAME

Another year of Dead By Daylight. I can't get away from this game.

Project Zomboid and 7 Days To Die are both stellar. It reminds me of the Minecraft/Terraria split from 2010. WOTLK was generally a lot of fun, but I think it's more than just playing resto shaman is a blast. Cycle Frontier was cool af and the only reason I quit is because of how cracked the players are at it. But DBD. D. B. D. I think I'm at like 1,850 hours in it.

+ BOOK

Still going through Wheel of Time. I'm at book 9. They are not mindblowing anymore and I'm getting bored of the constant gender distrust themes, but they are absolutely epics.

+ ATHLETE

M FUCKING BPAPPE. I haven't seen a soccer game as exciting as that world cup final in years.

+ PERSON

Penny or Houdini or my Mom

+ FOOD

I stopped eating out as much this year and instead tried making the food I'd order because budget. Pad Thai, Enchiladas, Lasagna, Chicken Parmesan, Ragu, Soups, Roasts, etc.

The best thing I made over and over this year was Biba's Ragu though. It's dumb how easy it is for how good it is.

Also onions. No matter what you're making, if you add onion to it then it will be better. Spaghetti, eggs, potatoes, ramen, sandwich, burger, salad, pizza, chicken, soup, noodles, rice, beans, etc. ADD ONIONS.

+ TRIP

I went nowhere this year.

+ MOMENT

Probably quitting and getting the fuck out of my mismanaged firm. God damn that was liberating af. Two other attorneys peaced the fuck out right after me too.

+ BIGGEST LETDOWN

Losing Luigi was horrible.

The new Odesza and Flume albums were trash.

Blowing my ankles out in late Feburary sucked because I was starting to really get going with running in a good way.

Clerks 3 had such a brilliant concept to go full circle, but instead it just degrading into  clunky fan service, old references, and cameos.

//

Goals for 2023: Read more nonfiction & a bit the same as 2022: create something be it flash fiction, story, game, whatever.

[talesfromlordaeron]

“Race ya!”

[”You’re on!”]

[There is honestly no feeling more freeing in the world as being in my ghost wolf form while my brother runs alongside me in his travel form.  I believe this is the way our spirits are meant to roam this planet.]

[charmchiillustrations]

Warcraft doodles. I've been playing WOTLK with my husband here is my troll resto shaman :)

[ansu-gurleht]

found a way to make some gold for my shaman on wotlk classic. hopefully this works

[jacquiarno]

With Wrath of the Lich King - Classic coming out this week, it makes me reflect on when I first started playing World of Warcraft, which was the year the original WOTLK came out, so I am a Wrath Baby, haha.

I started playing in November 2008, I was playing with a school mate with the recruit a friend thing, I think that’s what it was, but there was an extra leveling buff because of it (they kind of only played with me when it benefitted them). I originally was playing a warlock but I ended up leveling a holy paladin, because I was told it was the easiest class at the time and it was better to ease me into the game better with it being my first MMO.

I wasn’t a fan of healing in pve content, so I didn’t do it, but I enjoyed pvp, so I pvp a lot, I was obsessed, haha, and I did end up topping healing a lot in battlegrounds, I even received compliments a few times, I felt like god, haha. I didn’t like pvp on my warlock though, but I liked doing dungeons on it, I didn’t do any raiding since I was too anxious to do that, and I was told to play destruction with it being the easiest but not the best for raiding at the time.

Although I had a few alts, I only maxed out my paladin, warlock, and shaman during WOTLK, but my paladin and warlock were my mains. I did some pvp healing on my shaman but I wasn’t as good on my shaman as my paladin, but it was very fun. Unfortunately I don’t have good screenshots of my shaman then, I lost a lot of my screenshots due to a corrupted hard drive in my laptop (I use to play on a Macbook, hahahaha).

A lot has changed since then, I don’t pvp anymore nor do I do any dungeons (I even changed from holy to ret and I haven’t looked back), I just level alts and play through daily content, I’m fine with that. I do sometimes watch my partner play when he raids, who I met in WoW and we even celebrated our 10 year anniversary this year. From pvp obsessed to a filthy casual, haha, but I’m fine with it, there’s a lot to do now than there was then, plus I’m playing other MMOs now, which I actually do dungeon and raid content in (only because ff14 forces you to do it, haha).

I’m not playing Wrath Classic, my partner is, I wasn’t really fussed with WoW classic but I did make a character that I’m leveling with one of his alts, and we are both around level 30. I forgot how slow leveling was, especially during the Barrens level bracket, but at least this time I am leveling my forsaken warlock first. :) 

[chipeanuts]

World of warcraft player stats :)

So uh I’ve wanted to do this for a long time so here we go 👉​👈​

MAIN

Faction: Horde (since day one)

Race: mag’har orc

Class: shaman (thanks to Thrall)

Favoured Specialisation: restoration

Primary Professions: /

Secondary Professions: cooking and fishing :)

ALTS

Number of alts: too many…

Race/Spec of alts: Orc/marksman ship hunter (my first main), troll/shaman, orc/destruction warlock 

COLLECTIONS

Number of mounts: 77 at the moment

Favourite mount: i just really love all the cloud serpents ! I find the nether-gorged greatwyrm verry pretty as well and there is a lot of drakes that I really like too ! I can’t really choose 

Number of toys: 26 only :(

Favourite toy: for a person who likes to take screenshots as much as me, the selfie camera toy is just so much fun

Number of pets: 31

Favourite pet: cinder kitten… and mini Ragnaros omg *pleading face emoji*

Favourite title: savior of Azeroth, veteran of the fourth war

Rarest item: i really don’t know

Do you still have an item that is no longer used? (ie. sigils, spellstones, etc.): probably not

Mount/toy/pet you are trying to get: Invincible like everyone I guess ? But I kinda gave up at this point - also one mount from Bastion but I can’t remember the name 

ACHIEVEMENTS

Achievement points: 4115 at the moment

Achievement you are most proud of: 

Achievement you have that can’t be acquired anymore:

Achivement/s you are currently working on: hmm I think the ones from Korthia 

Number of exalted reputations: 4

PVP & PVE

Favourite battleground:

Least favourite battleground:

Favourite brawl: idk

Least favourite brawl: idk

Favourite dungeon:

Least favourite dungeon: the ones from wotlk (please don’t hit me)

Favourite raid: THE ! BLACK ! TEMPLE ! (and let’s say the icecrown citadel)

Least favourite raid: /

Favourite quest/quest chain: to be honest the questline in BFA when you have to choose between being loyal to Sylvanas or not, and all the stuff with Saurfang and Baine etc was AMAZING and... you know... when Illidan is involved- 

Least favourite quest/quest chain: i really don’t know, probably some in Zereth Mortis because it was very long

Favourite zone: I LOVE Dazar’alor so much, bonus points for Highmountain and many Horde zones such as Orgrimmar, Razor Hill and basically all Durotar (the good ol times), and Thunder Bluff !

Least favourite zone: Suramar is very pretty but the questlines there were a NIGHTMARE never wanna do this again

LORE

Favourite expansion: definitely BFA, because I start playing during this expansion. But I also really love Legion and MoP !

Favourite moment in canon: literally anytime I see Illidan (especially his moments at Legion, I AM MY SCARS, MY DESTINY IS MY OWN, etc), mak’gora between Saurfang and Sylvanas in BFA, Varian’s death even if I cried a lot, Talanji’s cinematics, when Anduin punches Wrathion in the face (top ten iconic moments), probably every cinematic which involve my fav character at this point

Favourite 5 canon characters: Illidan (quick everyone act shocked), Thrall (I literally play shaman because of him), Varian (my king), Talanji (the best girl in WoW sorry I don’t make the rules), Saurfang (sobbing crying etc)

Least favourite 5 canon characters: Maiev (i’m sorry), Malfurion, Cenarius, Akama, Genn Greymane

Expansions played live: Warcraft I | Warcraft II | Warcraft III | World of Warcraft | Burning Crusade | Wrath of the Lich King | Cataclysm | Mists of Pandaria | Warlords of Draenor | Legion | Battle for Azeroth | Shadowlands

Encyclopedias: Chronicle Volume 1 | Chronicle Volume 2 | Chronicle Volume 3 (okay my boyfriend owns all of them but he lends them to me from time to time so…yeah)

Novels: Dawn of the Aspects | War of the Ancients: The Well of Eternity | War of the Ancients: The Demon Soul | War of the Ancients: The Sundering | Rise of the Horde | The Last Guardian | Tides of Darkness | Beyond the Dark Portal | Day of the Dragon | Lord of the Clans | Of Blood and Honor | Arthas: Rise of the Lich King | Cycle of Hatred | Illidan | Night of the Dragon | Stormrage | The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm | Wolfheart | Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects | Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War | Vol'jin: Shadows of the Horde | Traveler | Traveler: The Spiral Path | War Crimes | Before the Storm | Shadows Rising

Short stories: Death From Above | Apocrypha | The War of the Shifting Sands | Cut Short | Code of Rule |  Blood of the Highborne | Trade Secrets of a Trade Prince | Unbroken | The Judgment | The War Effort | In the Shadow of the Sun | Glory | Heart of War | Lord of His Pack | Fire and Iron | Seeds of Faith | Edge of Night | As Our Fathers Before Us | Prophet’s Lesson | Blood of Our Fathers | The Trial of the Red Blossoms |  Li Li’s Travel Journal | Charge of the Aspects | Over Water | Quest for Pandaria | Bleeding Sun | The Strength of Steel | The Blank Scroll | The Jade Hunters | The Untamed Valley | Hellscream | Dark Mirror | A Good War | Elegy

Comics: Blackhand | Blood and Thunder | Ashbringer | Death Knight | Dragon Hunt | Shadows of Ice | Ghostlands | The Sunwell Trilogy | The Comic | Legends | The Shadow Wing | Mage | Pearl of Pandaria | Shaman | Dark Riders | Curse of the Worgen | Bloodsworn | Gul'dan and the Stranger | Twilight of Suramar | A Mountain Divided | | Fault Lines | Son of the Wolf | The Speaker | Reunion | Three Sisters | Mechagon (I read the Varian comic with Tiffin and stuff but I forgot the name)

Audio dramas: A Thousand Years of War | The Tomb of Sargeras

OR

Alliance or Horde? Horde

PVE or PVP? PVE

Raids or dungeons? Dungeons

Battlegrounds or arenas? BGs are so fun

Classic or retail? Retail (definitely)

Ranged or melee? Melee 

Tank, heals, or DPS? Heal

Search for spoilers or wait for things to unfold? look for some spoilers and theories, headcanons, things like that

Sell items on the AH one-at-a-time or in a stack? one at a time

UNCATEGORISED

When did you start playing? february 2020 (and yes this is why I spent my entire lockdown in Azeroth)

Owned memorabilia: I have a wonderful illidan pin and a very cool horde badge :) but if we’re talking about official merch I own nothing particular BUT the Illidan official figure will be mine one day istg  Favourite world event: idk

Add-ons you can’t live without: the world quest tracker saved my life during BFA for the reputations + the damage meter + Bagnon

Things to do to kill time: Achievements | Reputation grinds | PVP | Mount hunting | Pet collecting | Play the auction house

[unpleasant-ghoul]

So. Um. This fella here.

This is Akaji. My shaman, yes, I decided to touch the shaman finally because I'm not in the druid mood right now.

Think he'll be a cloth shaman. Stupid, yes, but

1. I want to make my own armor and gather mats for it, too, and don't really see this guy mining metals. I'm not saying that he's a gentle and fragile flower, but I'm not sure he's a "get hands dirty and calloused without a really good reason" type... So maybe he is a gentle and fragile flower after all, by troll standards. Can't see him skinning everything he kills, either, just enough to make boots.

2. Mail armor jingles like a pocketful of change and it's PISSING ME OFF. That's the main reason.

3. It's not like I'll trouble anyone with my choice. Can't mess up someone's dungeon run if I don't plan on teaming up anyway.

As for why I'm playing a shaman at all. Well. Was always hunter or warlock, recently druid too, buuuut. Well. I think I'll keep my hunter back on the WotLK server and assume he maybe didn't even survive to this time because I've been him for a looong time. Kinda tired. Still like him, but new times, new trolls.

Warlocks... Not fond of the idea of a troll warlock. Not fond of the looks of orcs. Got trouble taking goblins seriously except as rogues. Elves are too... Elves (and what more reason can you need). And I'm not so fond of the undead anymore (because. You know. Not. My. Warchief). Like, the warlock and warrior I got back on WotLK are fine, but running around the starter location, hearing "Victory for Sylvanas" on every corner again? Ew.

And the druid. Look. I love my stupid kitty-troll (or maybe he's a smart kitty-troll. Dude's an alchemist. That takes brains). But I want mounts and even if mounts can be faster than travel form it just still strikes me as excessive. So I gotta have a character that I WILL be getting mounts for in addition to the one that'll probably stay on his own feet/hooves/fins/wings.

[swampgallows]

The things Garrosh says about how the alliance treats the races of the horde when you choose horde as a pandaren are surprisingly poignant. This is the first time I’ve played a pandaren, so I’ve never seen these lines before. Makes me a bit sad about the direction his character went.

god YES absolutely!!  i had always wondered why there were so many garrosh x specifically pandaren OC ships and, well, with that speech he gives you as a new pandaren, i DEFINITELY get it now LOL

as many know my love for garrosh began in burning crusade when i first met him in outland, but i quit WoW halfway through WotLK and then came back just before WoD. all the stuff about garrosh being warchief, his signature look with the tusks of mannoroth and bedazzling everything in red spikes, all of that was retroactively experienced for me. so there was a lot of filling in the blanks over those years of who garrosh became and why, and as most know the answers i found were quite disappointing.

as a result, i wasn’t even aware of the pandaren intro until after varian died, and my friends complained that you can’t punch him in the face anymore. then I saw the horde counterpart experience with garrosh, and i was so amazed to see that they were addressing the “old hatreds” baked into the horde/alliance conflict, and how monstrous and conniving the horde used to be in the eyes of their enemies. like, people forget that thrall’s horde was an exception to the rule, but for garrosh, who was practically frozen in time in outland, the horde and its enemies are as they were before the third war.

a lot of people say it’s “obvious” that garrosh became evil because of how brutal and cutthroat he is, but if you read the old books and play the old games, a lot of the characters are the same way (even thrall splatters some skulls with the doomhammer. the guy is a fucking badass but people only remember him as the morose world-shaman of cataclysm). i do think that blizz genuinely did take an honest crack at setting up garrosh as a good guy but jackknifed him when it wasnt working. ironically, one of the WoD concepts that didn’t pan out was garrosh formulating a “mongrel horde” of the races of azeroth like quilboar, kobolds, centaur, etc.

another secret to no one is that i prefer the ‘medieval fantasy’ feel of the franchise in its early days, and garrosh at his best exemplifies that for me. he was a “true” orc, but in wow’s current storyline and development he’s an anachronism dysfunctional to the setting, which is why he became so unpopular, i think. both in-universe and in the real world, the old ways of warcraft are no longer viable. the world has become so much more developed, nuanced, and complex, and people are less likely to be enthusiastic about faction conflict when they play both sides.

god im all riled up now I GOTTA LOOK AT SOME WARCRAFT 2 ART AAAAAA

[honestlyfullfox]

It’s actually nevertheless viable to clean content material with this spec

Difficulty Single Target Damage AoE Damage Cleave Damage Low Moderate Moderate Moderate Utility: Totem of Wrath: Increases spell energy buff (shared with Demonology Warlocks). Totem of Wrath: Increases WoTLK Gold threat buff (shared with Retribution Paladins and Assassination Rogues). Heroism / Bloodlust, Purge, Wind Shear, Hex, and plenty of Shaman totems. Elemental Shaman PvE Guide Back to Specialization Ranks D Tier DPS Specializations in Wrath of the Lich King Beast Mastery Hunter.

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Difficulty Single Target Damage AoE Damage Cleave Damage Moderate Low Low Low Utility: Ferocious Inspiration: Increases harm buff (shared with Retribution Paladins and Arcane Mages). All Hunters: Frost Trap, Freezing Trap cheap WOW WoTLK Classic Gold, Misdirection Beast Mastery Hunter PvE Guide Subtlety Rogue.

[theradicalkanji]

So the new WoW xpac hits tonight and I've decided I'm gonna get back into it... for a bit at least. The question is, what to play? I have a lock and a hunter at 50 from when I briefly played BFA, but I dont know if either of those particularly interest me so I'm open to suggestions. I have a level up token that came with the purchase of the new xpac so I can literally have any class at 50. So let's go down the list and I'll give my thoughts.

Warrior: I have no strong feelings about this class. They seem smashy which I'm cool with but I'm worried about their self sustain when solo questing.

Paladin: retadin has long been one of my favorite classes, but they are so easy to play it seems a shame to level boost one when I could be speeding through the leveling process as a draino Lite and get the heritage armor.

Rogue: I played rogue a bit back in WotLK. I have no idea if theyve changed at all. All in all a solid melee class, but i seem to remember them being a bit on the squishy side when it came to soloing.

Death Knight: aesthetically they're a fine class. Last I played, ice spec seemed a little weird, but solid all around. My issue with them is they have that silly ass intro questline which takes hours and I've done like 12 times.

Demon Hunter: similar complaint to DK vis a vis the intro questline. I've done it before and wish I could skip it. I cannot abide the purple rage bat and wish he stayed dead in BC.

Hunter: I got one. They're aight. Solid solo class but I dunno if I'd say I enjoy it.

Warlock: same as hunter.

Monk: I dunno this class so like. They seem like a fine enough melee class. I'm mostly interesting in something good for solo questing to see the world so the ability to tank or heal aren't super interesting to me.

Priest: last time I played priest, I hated it. Granted this was around cata but like. I'm not a fan of the WoW theory of healing and shadow spec bored me. It's possible they made it more interesting but...

Shaman: I used to main ele shaman during ulduar. That was a lot of fun. I dunno how they play nowadays tho. Last time I played Shaman, I did enhancement and it felt awkward and clunky. This was during cata tho so they may have made it cleaner.

Durid: if I'm gonna make a durid I'm gonna make a kul tiran for the boss ass wicker beasts, but I've got a bit of work ahead of me to unlock them. (Yeah, I'm going ally side. I've been a hordie for ages but the friends whose guild I'm crashing are ally side so...)

Mage: a solid choice, I suppose. I dunno how their self sustain is nowadays, but in the olden days they had magic shields and the universal o shit button that is invis. I leery of going clothy tho because I kinda feel like I want to play something a little meatier.

I think that's all the classes? I'm kinda trying to earmark some classes to level old school to get the heritage armor for each new race. I.e. kul tiran durid, but I've got some wiggle room there.