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s is holding a two handed sword standings as of july 23 2025 another thing i can say is that of the eight toons i ve been leveling the slowest two have been the feral druid and the holy priest it s not that i had issues with playing them it s that it takes a while for them to kill anything and let s be honest it s a bit difficult to level a healer if you don t go into group content and i really had no intention of taking shaluna into instances from the get go i have gotten better at healing since my original days leveling quintalan back in 2009 2010 but i ve seen enough bad behavior by tanks and dps in the pugs i ve been in that i just look at healing random groups and give it a hard pass did somebody say bad behavior how about a mage who didn t buff casters or hunters or provide water or food to the same i was on hoots at the time so i could understand the hunter part because if you only played retail before coming to the anniversary servers you might not realize that hunters use mana in vanilla classic but not even buffing the healer until they repeatedly asked for it or even asking if people need water or food that s borderline criminal a paladin tank in a later instance commented after i mentioned that mage s behavior i was offended because i main a mage i replied before you suggest the obvious that perhaps that mage didn t understand english he commented several times in chat in the instance run so yes he knew english well enough he just wasn t interested but yeah after watching behavior like that or a tank just continuously rushing forward while i and the healer were sitting back drinking i think i much prefer being dps and not dealing with stress inducing behavior as a healer or a tank for that matter whenever my questing buddy bitches about pugs when she s a tank or healer i totally understand it doesn t stop me from needling her since we first met in a pug but i understand where she s coming from okay i m sure that somebody out there might be wondering why i just don t group up with my friends to run a few instances or so there s one big problem there nobody seems to be at the levels my toons are at and if they are because they re leveling an alt they shoot right on past me very quickly because they re using one of their max level toons to boost each other for example my questing buddy borrows her husband s mage whom she also leveled by boosting him with her own mage alt and then levels those alts by boosting the other thing is that i m leveling 8 toons at once so even if they were just leveling by questing they d naturally pull ahead even though they re raiding and doing other things on their mains on a regular basis i ve been told that once i reach l50 my friends intend to nab me and chain run instances until i get to max level and no i m not happy about that so i m starting to think that i might slow down my logging in when i reach l49 or so on toons i hate carries in other news aq40 is already done and open and the 12 hour war has passed us on the anniversary server this caught me by surprise because i figured that at least a few more guilds would have worked to get scarab lord for toons but it could also have been that one guild was being an asshole about it and rushing ahead to get scarab lord solely for themselves when i heard that there was some qiraji fighting going on at gadgetzan i hopped on a flight down there and promptly discovered that it wasn t exactly the safest place for an underleveled hunter shortly after i took that screenshot a respawn happened with me too far away from the flightpoint so i rushed back to try to escape with predictable results my friends group did what they usually do and gave me some crap about it but i gave as much as i got for the record the ones giving me the most crap were all women i guess that means that by early october people will be ready to move on to naxx oh and i guess i ought to mention one more thing given how slow the holy priest and feral druid are progressing i m going to start leaving them behind a bit i might also do that to the shadow priest but we ll see i m not giving up on them completely but i have tried to keep all 8 toons together and i think i m ready to keep 5 6 of them in the same range instead of my current modus operandi given that two of them weren t going into instances and the druid was mainly going to be used as an herbalist and skinner that s not necessarily a bad thing i ll just keep plugging away and see how things progress since i ve never played hunters until now i never knew that hunters had their bar changed from mana to focus akin to a rogue s energy in retail it took the impending and now current mists classic release for me to realize that eta fixed some grammatical issues posted by redbeard at 11 37 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 operation spread the love wow classic wow classic anniversary wednesday july 16 2025 a return to the glory years i was getting on one of my toons on the anniversary servers when my questing buddy whispered me and asked if i could join her in exploring aq40 in retail for a bit i knew that the lead in to the opening of aq40 formally known as the temple of ahn qiraj had begun on the anniversary servers and she wanted to poke around inside to make sure she had the cadence of the raid down having actually completed aq40 before she could pick my brains a bit as needed what do you need i asked thinking of the retail toons that could get into aq40 doesn t matter which faction doesn t matter because cross faction grouping so i hopped on neve who was simply loitering around silvermoon city ported to orgrimmar and then took a flight down south i had to make some adjustments to the ui however yikes that was embarrassing i felt it wasn t going to be that big of a deal only there was one thing you ll have to timewalk a bit she informed me do i need to do that i haven t played neve since mists yeah you will the giant sword is in the middle of silithus what sword the irony which i called out midway through the raid was that she was on a draenei warrior and i was on a blood elf mage tbc forever i said yes this is the same gear neve wore when i last ran a bg with her in cataclysm or thereabouts my questing buddy s warrior was significantly higher level than neve because neve was still at l32 where she landed after the level squish going from l85 down to l32 and with the mobs there around l31 or so my aggro radius was pretty broad on more than one occasion i d be typing something in and i d get shellacked by a mob that wandered vaguely close to me even when i behaved myself and hid away from the fight such as the final fight against c thun one of his tentacles magically appeared in front of me and tossed me into his inside where i died quickly story of my life dying to c thun obviously one shotting mobs and bosses don t give you a good feeling of how the fights really progress and so i was just there to bounce my experiences off of her however i believe she s going to have a bit harder of a time of it in spots than we did in the fall of 2020 you have to be able to decurse here so casters can t just sit at the top and then dps you need to put them on the stairs so they can reach people for decursing that means me because our mages don t decurse i was pretty disgusted at that behavior you do what you can to help the raid if they behave like that they ll die very quickly in naxx let alone here still for a brief diversion it was fun i really didn t do terribly much other than comment on how much things had changed such as the blizzard spell behaving completely differently in retail versus classic and how you could now use any mount you wanted inside aq40 whereas back in the day you could only use those qiraji battle mounts which worked only within the raid itself also i have no idea why raid frames didn t appear like they re supposed to when we were in a regular party things looked normal but as soon as my questing buddy converted the group to a raid the frames vanished and for the record i don t have any addons in retail because this pc didn t exist when i last played retail speaking of not playing retail note i don t want to hear anything about the cluttered nature of my bars i haven t touched them in 13 years so they re bound to messed up posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 friends retail wow classic anniversary tuesday november 10 2020 another slimeball bites the dust my long time blogger friend shintar of priest with a cause posted this video yesterday showing her guild s final attempt at taking out the last boss in aq40 viscidus congrats to shintar and the rest of the order of the holy fork for the kill i did notice that unlike how our raid got rid of the poisons i believe they were using elixir of poison resistance instead of immature venom sacs but outside of that we used a similar strategy shintar did everybody have a stack of 20 to work with oh and it does look weird to see your bars with all of the hunter abilities instead of my mage or rogue abilities and i think the tranq shot addon is awesome posted by redbeard at 7 04 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 friends raid wow classic tuesday october 27 2020 end of a slimeball we finished viscidus last night kind of hard to get a screenshot of a smudge on the ground so we decided to lie down instead a couple of us took turns teabagging that old slimeball so our raiding group 95 valhalla myzrael us is 9 9 aq40 and somewhere along the line i managed to become exalted with the brood of nozdormu and revered with the cenarion circle without doing a single quest in silithus i looked at that and thought oh that s cool then i realized that i might want to do a few of those quests after all i wasn t thinking of doing much in silithus until say november or december because by then i figured i d be geared enough to consider it of course that thinking went out the window in september what i ve got now are people occasionally asking when i ll switch guilds sigh i understand where they re coming from but while i raid with them they re not the only people i hang with in classic see my 11th anniversary post i also hang with people from 9 10 different guilds and i ve even gotten invited into a guild run of strat ud with the top alliance guild on the server four of them one of me i actually held my own and didn t behave like a jerk so yay me it s understandable that people would think that i d eventually join another guild especially since so few people in my own guild ever sign on when i joined there were about 20 active members but as time has gone on people have left the game split for other guilds or simply vanished right now we have 2 3 people including me who login with regularity i suppose that those people who thought that the guild was my own personal guild can be forgiven for that misconception since i m the only one they see around azeroth and to be perfectly honest i have trust issues concerning guilds in mmos it s not like i ve never talked about them here so i m not gonna rehash them too much and to be perfectly fair the guild i run with has been nothing but welcoming to me and the few others who aren t guildies so it s nothing they ve done to make me feel that way instead it s all about me the tl dr of my mmo guild history has been about series of guilds blowing up guilds reforming blowing up again and guilds fading away as time has gone on the situation i find myself in with retail orphans is a mirror of what i experienced in mists where the guild i d joined in cataclysm slowly faded away until i was the only person who regularly logged in and while i see active guilds around that would love to have me join i keep having the doubts in the back of my head fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me fool me 4 or 5 times what kind of sucker am i so right now where i m at is where i m likely to stay for a while my wow activity is relatively stable and stability is nice the rest are a few people like me who are part of different guilds posted by redbeard at 4 24 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 guild wow classic tuesday september 22 2020 in soviet russia tentacles kill you yesterday was one of those days where you kind of wish would keep going on and on and then you realize that it did setting aside work for a moment the evening began with this yeah and on av weekend no less and ended with this yes card is in there somewhere in between there were a lot of deaths a lot of deaths the last one by one of the eye tentacles came right before c thun was weakened for the second time and those still alive were able to dps it down and somewhere about an hour before first pull i got pulled into a work call that lasted longer than the entire aq40 raid so yeah that made for an entertaining evening but c thun is dead and we proved we could kill it while trying aq40 once a week posted by redbeard at 6 11 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alterac valley aq40 battlegrounds raid wednesday september 16 2020 the cards maketh the man it wasn t too long ago that i posted about the requirements to be an aq40 raider and my thinking that it would be a second job to simply keep up with the raiding requirements well i can confirm that yes it does take a big chunk of your time to keep up with raid requirements at least the guild i raid with or tolerates me there are times i can t decide which doesn t require flasks but the requirements certainly cost a ton on the auction house and to be fair were it not for flasks and their components costing so much i d not have been able to generate the gold to cover all the items needed for the other day s aq40 raid it kind of left me hoping that i d not be called off the bench for monday s raid so i could preserve the pots and whatnot for another week after all i was second off the bench that night i figured that i d sit around play some solitaire and once i was released i could go do some fishing for a while and collect mats for the elixir of greater firepower about 10 minutes before invites were to be sent out however i got a ping from the raid leader that i m 1 on the depth chart and i had a good chance at being called up oh i finished the farming i was doing switched over to card collected the mats i d bought and headed off to ahn qiraq i wasn t kidding about playing solitaire yes i know i need to clean the carpet and no the stain wasn t caused by me however i couldn t rent a cleaner throughout the summer due to that covid 19 thing and yes i suck at solitaire to be fair most random solitaire deals from a real deck of cards aren t solvable so it s more of a method to keep yourself grounded and the mind occupied while 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