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at phasing in this way but i don t like to be pressured and told what to do whether it be directly or indirectly and wow has enough peer pressure already present in game without any more being added thankyouverymuch or a tabletop game you were expecting me to say more no way i m pretty sure nobody wants to read about that while eating a meal and perusing their blog readers and if you do what the hell is wrong with you kind of interesting how blizz has pretty much ranked what is important using the three tiered system normal quests phased quests quest chains instanced content different players might have different opinions on what they perceive to be most important but blizz put the unofficial imprimatur on their design based on which content goes into which bucket several mmos in a post wrath world that use multiple servers do have layering in place they just call it something different i think swtor calls them game worlds for example but more and more mmos are migrating toward a singular megaserver with multiple layers to accommodate the sheer population size yet also adjust the game to make the game not seem overwhelmingly populated she did give it a good attempt but i wasn t interested there was more drama in the franken guild that day that i heard about secondhand but it was sufficient enough to not make me want to go into any 25 person raids put on by the guild it s jes raid my questing buddy replied trying to lure me in and pointing out to me that it s not an official alt pug raid put on by the guild i know i replied i like jes a lot and she does a great job at raid leading but the most recent official response to an incident concerning the guild banks is to restrict the guild bank usage to the 25 person real raids only this is not what i d consider a correct response punish the offender and change operation of the bank so that withdrawals need to be handled via a banking toon identified by the guild so the capricious nature of the response just stuck in my craw we already knew that 10 person raids were considered casual by the guild s leadership but lumping our raid team in with the person who caused the problem and implying it s a casual vs hardcore issue rather than someone who abused the guild banks infuriated me from my perspective it certainly seems like they re pissing away all of the goodwill they d earned over on myzrael us and they re going to acquire a poor reputation on atiesh us if they keep this up and why would i want to be associated with that there were enough whispers that i wondered briefly if i was conned into swapping over so i could be recruited but i knew better i was just being paranoid unlike say apple stubbornly refusing to change their imessage app to utilize the rcs standard which is quite deliberate apple is in a passive aggressive way utilizing peer pressure and bullying by iphone users to force people into swapping from android phones to apple s iphones it s mainly a us based thing since most of the rest of the world uses whatsapp or signal or other messaging applications but it is quite effective especially among tweens teens and 20 somethings to pressure their peers into buying iphones so they can stay with their friends group chats you d think that apple ceo tim cook who as an lgbtq person was likely bullied would step in and try to change this marketing tactic but i guess profits are more important than integrity posted by redbeard at 4 23 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings wrath classic friday november 11 2022 the magical world of whatever when i last encountered the mage ocracy of dalaran in the world of warcraft it was 2010 sure i d parked the original neve there retired from adventuring and permanently having a drink at the legerdemain lounge but there s a big difference between hanging around at a tavern and actively using a place as your home base back then i had little idea as to what dalaran really was i knew where it should have been you can t miss the dalaran crater if you quest through alterac and hillsbrad foothills and i was so confused when i d see souldat s location as dalaran when i checked out the social tab that when i hit l70 i went back to the crater to see if something had changed narrator it hadn t you bet your ass i m bringing this screencap back out it was only when i began playing through northrend that i began to realize that dalaran was actually up in northrend itself hence the crater in fact reaching dalaran was also my first exposure to phasing in world of warcraft soul was escorting me on quintalan my paladin on the way from sunreaver s command in the dragonblight and when we drew close to the kor koron vanguard he vanished uh i said in vent you disappeared i did he replied yeah you just faded away let me backtrack a few moments later he reappeared that s weird i said doing my best captain obvious impression oh i know why he realized after a very long pause you haven t done the wrathgate yet the what don t worry you ll get there for now just go up to the flight point at the vanguard grab it and then head east i should reappear shortly sure enough souldat reappeared once we got far enough away from the kor kron vanguard and we continued up into the crystalsong forest for some reason i was ignorant of the quest at l74 to enter dalaran because when we got to the teleportation crystal on ground level beneath the city i couldn t use it there was a long pause while soul checked something out oh he said finally you can t get there until you re l74 well that sucks my memory is hazy after that so i don t know if i either waited until l74 to get the quest or we got soul s wife who played a mage to port me to dalaran it s probably the latter because i don t recall the quest until my next series of toons tomakan and neve made it to northrend after cataclysm was released upon my arrival i looked at dalaran as simply another home base in much the same fashion as shattrath was before it a place for the horde and alliance to congregate before heading out to do stuff in northrend it was a safe hub in a pvp world on a pvp server and this was where you could get access to some of the daily quests such as the cooking and fishing dailies i was ignorant of anything resembling dailies for instances i believe the heroic ones were replaced with the automated lfd dailies that didn t require an official daily quest raid gear or even that this was where you could purchase heirloom gear i m sure that today in wrath classic that s what dalaran is to most people just a place to hang out and crafting stuff done but to me i ve found myself reluctant to be inside dalaran in wrath classic as i told my questing buddy a couple of weeks ago she s probably seen all the times i ve been in dalaran because it s a place to open a portal to after an instance or a raid the city is centrally located so if you re trying to get somewhere after having run an instance on the edge of the map such as gundrak or halls of lightning it s easier to have your friendly neighborhood mage tm open a portal to get to dalaran first the few times i ve been in there the place hasn t changed the streets the lights the sounds the npcs everything is still as it was back in the day then why don t i like hanging around dalaran much i changed or rather my circumstances changed back in the day i hadn t any concerns about things such as guilds raiding or endgame in general the servers i was on first stormscale us and then area 52 us were huge servers with a good sized horde population a 52 was approximately 10 1 horde back then the ratio is much worse now and more importantly there was no such thing as layers so a crowded dalaran was just that a huge mess of a crowd normally i d avoid crowds anyway because i dislike them but i quickly discovered that crowds as found on a 52 brought anonymity with them nobody knew me and using the automated lfd tool meant most people i found via the tool didn t know me either since i didn t raid i had no titles next to my name no gearscore to worry about either since that was only utilized in reference to pugging raids i mean if you had people looking for gearscores of 5000 to run heroic halls of lightning they likely wanted to be carried even the non friends and family guild i eventually joined with soul and his wife the grey death legion was small potatoes compared to the rest of a 52 now in classic the script has been flipped atiesh us is a much larger server than a 52 us ever was but due to layering there aren t many crowds in dalaran you d think that was a good thing for an introvert who doesn t like crowds much but because so many people from myzrael us migrated to atiesh us i always see people i know the few times i enter into dalaran especially ex guildies it s a constant reminder to me that i left valhalla by remaining behind while everyone else migrated to atiesh us and i fully intended to remain mostly on myzrael us until i was recruited into the 10s raid that i m presently in so here i am mostly on atiesh us these days despite my original intentions and while i ve made it plain that deuce is not og cardwyn people still whisper me periodically about how i m doing and whether i ll join the franken guild yes i m doing fine no i m not joining so far my explanation that deuce predates any migration or even the announcement from myz and i wasn t planning on maining her until i got recruited into a raid has been enough to satisfy people who inquired however i do know at least a few people who if given half a chance are going to ask why and won t take a simple it s a private matter as an answer i ve seen enough guild drama to last a lifetime and i d rather not cause any more that aside there s a larger reason why i don t hang around dalaran it doesn t feel like home to cardwyn this is 100 percent due to my fiction card has been around she s traveled she s fought against powerful enemies and she s even spent time away from the fray due to ptsd from the fight against kel thuzad her initial idealism about mages was deflated early on in her career and replaced by a certain degree of cynicism this has been encouraged by her first teacher evelyn who grew up in dalaran and saw the shades of gray and blindness in that community that allowed a kel thuzad to grow and flourish before his betrayal and creation of the cult of the damned the full extent of evelyn s involvement with dalaran is unknown to card before you ask yes i know what it is but card knows enough that she can see beyond the utopian veneer presented in the avenues and shops to acknowledge the reality that dalaran is not what it seems to a mage who is not part of the kirin tor dalaran can feel well like your know it all golden boy sibling who despite their best intentions always feels like they re perpetually mansplaining things to you what d be especially grating is that in the aftermath of the rise of the scourge and the destruction of the northern kingdoms dalaran turned tail and hid behind it s own bubble belying all their lofty aspirations oh no a dalaran mage tells you early on in the nexus war questline we re not allowed to torture people to extract information from them but you can the implication that we can t get our hands dirty performing tasks that are beneath us would grate on cardwyn either you believe in torture or you don t cardwyn would have replied just because i act as your proxy doesn t mean you re absolved from any guilt so don t give me any of that holier than thou bullshit that little exchange could have set the scene for so many more shades of gray interactions with the kirin tor that i m disappointed that blizz didn t head in that direction instead that quest was a bit of an outlier in the whole we re magical paladins feel that i got out of interacting with the kirin tor this time around it all boils down to whether cardwyn would want to be associated with a society like this and based on card s backstory and personality i d say no or maybe grudgingly so finally there s one picture that came out of retail several years ago that haunts me to this day this is disney in a nutshell that pic from legion looks like it d be something out of spaceballs or maybe a disney channel mashup of star wars and cinderella s castle darth vader where are the plans to make a genie s lamp cinderella i don t know what you re talking about i m on a diplomatic mission to see captain america vader you are a member of the princess alliance and a traitor take her to the black pearl either way it has to be one of the sillier things i ve ever seen yes i was aware of heirloom gear at the time and while i was leveling i was insanely jealous of all the people who had been at max level and were populating their toons with heirloom gear it was such an obvious advantage for a player to speed level with gear that essentially was like having blue gear that scaled with you all the way to that max level particularly if you ever set your foot inside a random battleground that a new person felt like a scrub until they finally started getting gear from heroic instances once they reached max level it was mostly notable for being a guild that wouldn t let you curse in vent or guild chat that didn t prevent the guild from blowing up due to the difficulties in icc however about 3 4 weeks ago while i was on og card for something or other i was contacted by a leadership member of the franken guild asking if i was going to join them on atiesh not planning on it was my reply and that was that how do i know this because i ve seen them do this before and that s part of the reason why i m not in the franken guild that some people in guild leadership are people i simply can t respect and neve won t ever let anyone forget that in addition to being the prince of quel thalas kael thas sunstrider once was a member of the kirin tor posted by redbeard at 11 38 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dalaran wrath classic wednesday november 9 2022 wrath classic phase one raids part 3 something something something black dragonflight monday night my raid team ventured forth to do battle with malygos again and then to the only raid instance i d yet to see in phase one of wrath classic the obsidian sanctum once again i hunted around for a quest any quest that pointed people in the direction of the seedy underbelly of wyrmrest temple but i rolled a 1 on my intelligence check is the redone onyxia raid out yet i asked in voice no it still says l60 if you go visit her our warlock replied i think the redone ony dropped around the time of trials of the crusader then i m trying to figure out why we re here i couldn t decide if blizz decided to redo ony after it created obsidian sanctum or before it feels like this raid obsidian sanctum came first then onyxia s revamp but unlike ony there s absolutely no reason for us to know this raid exists in 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