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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 19, 2016 2:04:00 GMT -5
Calling the title loaded is also accurate.
Anyway, you've collected some nice and interesting data, so gj on that.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 19, 2016 0:39:02 GMT -5
Thanks Stone.
I think I have a couple of pet battles on my Iron. Will I be yellow flagged, or will this only apply to irons made after the rule update?
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 19, 2016 0:09:44 GMT -5
*coughs*
So anyway.
*mumbles something about regretting offhand comments about Ironman races*
Spent the whole day trying to get my level 60 DK to level 67, as I plan to use her to scout/work on Loremaster in Netherstorm.
Fun fact: I've never levelled an alt to 100. My main has always been a hunter. I had an Orc hunter until Cata, where I switched to a Goblin hunter. I make lots of alts but usually I get them to around level 30ish and then get bored and give up. Lately things have been different. I had 3 alts that I've been levelling slowly, at the same pace, while, as I've mentioned too many times before now, working on Loremaster. An Orc Warlock, a Pandaren Monk, and a Blood Elf Mage. I also created a Blood Elf Death Knight, which I've been saving to join the Loremaster crew in Outland. Netherstorm is the first zone for my DK.
Which is why I've "spent the whole day" etc.
Man, it turns out I can spend weeks, months, on levelling characters through Loremaster and now Ironman, and love every moment, but one day of dungeons and I'm burnt out.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 18, 2016 15:07:11 GMT -5
My goodness, that's one loaded title.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 18, 2016 2:20:07 GMT -5
Hey, Ironman is a challenge. If choosing a Blood Elf makes it even more challenging, so much the better, right? Anyway. Maybe discuss this further on the thread dedicated to discussing Iron races? ^_^ Gnumbers, your advice is invaluable. I've been following your threads closely, and I hope you'll do another set of gnotes when you've cleared your way to 100. So after completing Blade's Edge Mountains, (it's the first zone where I was able to get the Loremaster achievement for it), the Orgri'la intro quests + dailies, the Skettis intro quests + dailies, (I used a scout to see if I would be able to do the kill Terokk quest on my Ironman. Hahahahahaha no) a couple of other dailies I found around Shattrath, and the million and two Shattered Sun intro quests + dailies, (holy hell I can't believe how demanding the Shattered Sun are) I'm sitting at 35% into level 73. It's time for another break as I take one of my Loremaster characters through Netherstorm. The Midsummer Fire Festival is coming up as well, which is almost perfect timing. Hopefully it means it won't take me too long to get to the Northrend level squish.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 17, 2016 23:00:57 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that's not allowed. You have one chance to do the quest. If you abandon it or fail it or the elixir effect time limit runs out before you can complete it, tough.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 17, 2016 20:59:19 GMT -5
OK, so I know the rules say that if you need to use an elixir to complete a quest, then you are allowed to take it once. I just came across this quest, and it's the first time a quest has asked me to use an elixir, so before I do, I just want to be certain of how to go about this. Stone, do I need to let you know about the elixir and the related quest if I ever need to take one, or how does it work?
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 16, 2016 7:17:39 GMT -5
Thank you Anaralah, and welcome! ^_^
I do love Blood Elves, especially lore wise, but I also love Orcs, Pandaren and Goblins. I just get very attached to characters.
I have actually found Arcane Torrent quite useful. It's definitely in my rotation.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 15, 2016 4:17:14 GMT -5
Level 90s, RIP
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 15, 2016 4:09:13 GMT -5
Peachez my ironman toon is now up to level 47, now questing in Eastern Plaguelands. At 45 I was able to buy a new set of vendor mail armour at Crown Guard Tower. Eastern Plaguelands, eugh. "shivers" After trying to skip Eastern Plaguelands and discovering what a pain Thousand Needles is, I've made my peace with that zone. It's a long, slow, painful questline, but it's also straightforward and comes with very few major risks.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 15, 2016 2:47:25 GMT -5
Zangarmarsh was pretty straightforward. I focused on not getting mobbed and didn't go into the cave. God I hate Naga though. Now that I've reached Outland, scouting out an area has become even more essential. It helps to work specifically on Loremaster with my scouts as well, because that makes sure I really hunt for quests and learn what they involve. When it came to deciding whether to join Aldor or Scryer, I discovered accidentally that I can do both. I joined Aldor, did a few quests for them, then picked up the quest that allows you to transfer to Scryer. Then I had to build up rep for Scryer, which was a simple case of running around the lake outside Shattrath for awhile killing basilisks and collecting their eyes. (This gives good killing rep too.) Once I had turned in about 40 eyes I could do a bunch of quests for Scryers. I did a few of those, and then I did the quest that allows you to go back to the Aldor. (It didn't transfer me back to the Aldor, that would take more grinding, only this time for venom sacks). All in all this resulted in quite a nice chunk of XP. I did most quests in Terokkar, following Tanee's advice with some of them, especially the advice about Tomb of Lights and Vengeful Spirits. I didn't even try to do the quests for Private Weeks, and I left Evil Draws Near, Escaping the Tomb and What Book? I Don't See Any Book for after the level 71 squish party. I tried to do the Skywing quest but it bugs out every time, so I gave up. On to Nagrand, where it didn't take long for me to hit level 70. I went and grabbed cold weather flying and, after scouting it out with another character to make sure it's safe, explored Northrend. That took me just over half way to level 71. I know plenty of people have said do some quests in Northrend to get to 71, but I couldn't bring myself to take that risk and went back to Nagrand, where, because of the XP squish happening at 70 while one-shotting only happens at 71, getting to 71 took me a frustratingly long time. I had discovered on my scout that turning in Oshu'gun Crystal Powder Samples will grant me XP every time, but it's not a lot, and it's even less after the squish. I also knew to build up rep for the Consortium so that I could do two extra quests at Friendly. The only real close call I had in Nagrand was while attacking an Elekk. I suddenly found myself mobbed by two owls and a rock elemental, and had to play dead. wait quite awhile for the owls to fly away, and use ice trap to keep the rock elemental at bay as I flew away. Most of Nagrand is fairly safe, but there are areas where mobbing is going to happen no matter what, like underneath Oshu'Gun, at the Forge Camps and at Sunspring Post, so I avoided the quests I needed to do there until after the squish. But now I am 71, so party time in Outland! After scouting it on a level 71 monk, I decided I could do the first four Ring of Blood quests but skipped on the last 2. (I'll use my monk to scout any group quests after this.) Other than that, I finished up in Nagrand and Terokkar, and it's onto Blade's Edge Mountains next! I don't think I've ever quested in Blade's Edge in my life before, so this zone needs some serious scouting before I can bring my Ironman in. (Same goes for Netherstorm, and all I remember about Shadowmoon Valley is really, really hating anything green.) I probably don't need to stress quite this much after the level squish, but the paranoia this challenge gives you is hard to shake after awhile. I haven't found any dailies yet. I figure that comes later.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 11, 2016 2:26:14 GMT -5
Yes, specs means specialization. I'm not 100% sure for the reason behind the rule, but it's one of the oldest, first Ironman rules.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 8, 2016 6:13:25 GMT -5
So this morning, after heading over to Shattrath City to do the eels quest as well as the quests where Khadgar gets a minion to walk you around the city, I finished up in Hellfire Peninsula. I had a few more close calls with Fel Reavers, (thank goodness for the warning that one is near). The only quest I found scary was Marking the Path, where you have to light beacons. The moment I lit any beacon it aggro'd all the mobs close by. Since I'm a hunter, dealing with this was a simple case of Feign Death, but I'm never 100% comfortable with situations like these largely because I've had Feign Death bug out on me more than once before. (For example, I've lost an Ironman to this in the Cape of Strangelthorn). The last quest I wanted to do before moving on was Cruel's Intentions, where you have to kill Arazzius the Cruel. I had already decided not to do the Foot of the Citadel, because it was nearly impossible even on my monk, but I couldn't remember Cruel's Intentions being so bad. Besides, it's worth over 14,000 experience. (This actually raised some red flags, but the temptation of that much XP overcame the worry I had that maybe there's a reason why it's worth so much.) I saw that two mobs patrolled around Arazzius, which is never ideal, but figured a combination of Ice Trap and taking Arazzius down as quickly as possible would be enough. Everything was going well. At one point Arazzius and and his one un-iced Mistress of Doom aggro'd me, so I quickly played dead to drop the aggro, then continued to take down Arazzius's health. Suddenly my pet was dead. My pet was dead and I was losing health fast. And I'd just played dead, so couldn't again. I'm not even sure what happened. Arazzius was dead, but the Mistress of Doom that had been patrolling around him seemed to be casting a rain of fire spell that was destroying my HP. I tried to get out of it as fast as possible. What happened next is a blur. Concussive shot. Disengage. Bandage. Attacked by another mob. Running. I'm going to die. Running. Health almost gone. And then, play dead. My feign death spell was ready again and I hit it, only just in time. I was down to so little health, I couldn't even see green in my health bar. Feign Death lasts for six minutes so I just kinda lay there for awhile. I only got up and mounted after my health had almost fully recovered. I turned in the quest, then I took my character to an inn, and logged out. That was way too close for comfort. If a single thing had gone a different way my Ironman would probably be dead now. I think I'm going to go fly around on my level 100 hunter that's absolutely allowed to die for a bit......
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 8, 2016 4:54:41 GMT -5
A few months ago, I hadn't been playing WoW for quite some time, but I got it into my head that I wanted to get to know the lore. I looked up Nobbel87 on Youtube and watched my way, slowly, through his videos. By the time I was done, I obviously had to re-sub and start working on experiencing the lore in game. (I also started reading some of the lore books).
I decided to work on Loremaster by creating several new characters and slowly levelling them through areas, with no heirlooms, and reading any information I come across. If an NPC wanted me to go into the dungeon, I'd read up about that dungeon in the Adventure guide first. If I get a book or note to deliver, I read it first. And, of course, I read all the quests.
The combined effort of researching the lore separately and experiencing the lore slowly in game has resulted in some amazing immersion. It's one of the reasons why I love WoW so much. And I've only done Vanilla/Cata rewrites content and a bit of BC so far.
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Post by Discordiankitty on Jun 7, 2016 6:51:05 GMT -5
Ah that's terrifying to read!
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