WoW Update: 3/13

It’s very late, so I figure a nice short and sweet update on WoW is probably fitting.  (Plus I’ve spent a decent chunk of the last two days running through boxes of CCG cards looking for a few for future articles.  My wife thinks I’m crazy, and it’s likely true.  🙂 ).

I’ve finished up week 3 of the Legendary quest with 64 total Abrogator Stones, so I’m about halfway there.  (PLEASE, no Journey!  Unless it’s a parody by DarkPippi “Just a looney priest.  Looking to unleash the beast!  She took the midnight queue going an-knee-where.”)

I’m looking for the next side project to get involved in.  I have two characters I’m working on here and there to get to 100 – a Shaman currently at 98, and a Monk at 91.  I think I’d like to finish the Shaman off first, and I might PvP with him a bit.  Although, I might go elemental for that.

There’s also a couple collector things I’d like to work on:

Only 3 drakes away from the emerald, but I think those might be three of the more rare ones.

Just started, so a long way to go. But there’s also transmog from these raids to consider.

So, I’m not sure where to focus on next.  Any suggestions in the comments below would be fantastic!

Oh, and yesterday I did my first garrison invasion at 100.  Had the plant people invade.  That had to be the most achievements I’ve seen flash at once for me – Botani Invasion, Bronze, Silver and Gold Defenders, It’s an Invasion! and Invasions Are Better with Friends.

Not a bad haul at all!

I’m going to finish up today’s Harrison Jones quest (in Nagrand) and then turn in.  G’night!

Garrison Upgrade: Hardwood Floors

Some of the Wowblog30 crew are doing an introduction/Q&A thing that I’ll be adding in the next day or so. I’m looking forward to it.  It’s a great group of bloggers (and I hope to be worthy of them).

This morning I finally finished off the 10,000g achievement in Draenor which opened up the Tier 3 Storehouse.  While that was building I had a really strange bug with my garrison.

Introducing the garrison upgrade: hardwood floors!

Introducing, hardwood floors!

From the Pet Menagerie to your Stockpiles

Mines and Tower, no expense was spared!

Just because you are stuck on a savage world in an alternate timeline, doesn’t mean that you can’t also have nice things.

 

Other character progress this week:

– Finished up the main quest line in Nagrand along with the demise of a character who’s had it coming for a long time now.

– Two more pets to 25, including the Netherspace Abyssal.

– After 2 weeks on the Abriggator stones quest line, I’m up to 46 stones.

– Gotten my monk through the intro quest line and picked up the initial garrisons quests.

– Shaman is still at 96, but I’ve spent some down-time grinding out ghost iron and trillium ore so I can make a mount for a guild mate.  The Jard’s source doesn’t seem to be a big issue, I have those mats all together just awaiting the cool downs, but making the Living Steel is going to take a while unless I get lucky with transmute procs (have 11, need 30).  I guess I can hit the AH, but those will get pricey at 420g each (currently).

The Lesson of Pandaria

So what did we get or learn from our time on Pandaria?

I mean outside of those lovable, furry Pandaren?  I know some people haven’t taken to them, but they are a great addition, IMHO.   And also outside of a Black Dragon whelping that offers us nice things and then steals away a genocidal maniac along with an expansion of the Bronze dragon flight?  (I’m still sporting that cape on my main, just because… I still think it’s cool!)

What was the purpose of going out there?

I don’t want this to be Shadowmoon Valley’s fate…

For a game that is now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the game has had an amazing amount of tug and pull (much like the moons of Juptier) between what it was and what it will become – or more about its players – who we were and who we are now.

For me, it is strange seeing so much commentary about players being burnt out from garrisons. (Okay and that was from 2 minutes of google searches plus some other sites I knew about – and that’s just the tip of the tip of the iceberg.)

I feel like people have not learned the ultimately lesson from Pandaria, and I’m not sure what it really takes.  It is somewhat like being in the beginning of Mists and having a lot of people burnt out on dailies.  Yes there were a lot of them, but why did you feel compelled to do all of them at once every day?

Oooh, shoulda done the “Working in a coal mine, working on down down…”

Slow down, there’s content to be spread out there, especially when you have so many ways to get the purple pixels in the first place.

I’m currently up to 5 garrisons, 2 at a max and 3 in various stages of repair/disrepair.  I like having a “main” that excels a bit more than the rest, but ever her I’ve gotten to the point where garrison stuff is a once a day for missions, and everything else is every other day.  All of the other characters, every third day if that often.  (There’s a great add-on called “alcoholic” which is great for managing who is at max resources.)  But while the other garrisons are nice-to-haves, and any building I don’t have anywhere else is something I focus more upon, there’s so many other things to get out and do – leveling, PvP, pet battles, instances (OMG, and I enjoying grouping up again!  I haven’t done this many instances since… probably Wrath).

I work hard for the garrison resources. So hard for the garrison resources…

But the world seems larger again, and frankly, sitting around my garrison isn’t how I really want to be spending my precious play time.  Maybe that’s me, maybe I read it somewhere else, or maybe it was a lesson I picked up a couple of years ago.

Gotta start somewhere.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I think there’s another rare spawn to find. 🙂