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e two tanks who turned out to be from the top raiding guild on our old myzrael us server yes the guy was good at what he did but he wasn t interested in listening to what the raid leader wanted which drove all of us nuts he began freelancing his way through the raid ignoring our raid lead and essentially directing people to do it his way well our raid lead kicked him top guild member or no and our guild master also kicked him from our discord sure the tank we got as a replacement wasn t as good but at least he could work within the raid team paradigm there comes a point where you have to relinquish your desire for big numbers to work with the rest of the group mmos have multiplayer in the acronym after all and the entire point is to work with people to accomplish a singular goal if you re not interested in that maybe finding a group of likeminded people is best for you so that i can grab a bowl of popcorn and watch the fireworks when they start cardwyn i approve me that s nice and all but i m pretty sure she doesn t need your approval cardwyn we mages stick together end of story me sigh why can t the voices in my head be more normal eta corrected the year of that aq20 run it was a couple of weeks before pre patch for the original tbc classic in 2021 posted by redbeard at 7 23 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels operation spread the love tbc classic wow classic anniversary wednesday april 15 2026 second verse same as the first after my previous post about how leveling seems to have been subtly speeded up i decided i was going to make some changes how i was going to approach leveling in outland as of april 15 2026 i was originally planning on leveling briganaa all the way to l70 and then go back and level other toons one at a time after the process of slowly leveling what eventually became 4 toons at once i figured changing the methodology was in order well then i met the speed of leveling in outland in the two weeks that i ve been enjoying the view in hellfire peninsula i now have one toon at l62 and two at l63 i suppose it s slipping back into old habits but i discovered the quickest way to combat a game that insists on pushing me faster toward max level is to simply spread out the leveling process among several toons at the moment i intend to stick with three but i think that i ll eventually bring five into outland something i have been wondering about is what i intend to do once i start getting toons to max level even if the leveling slows down the farther in i go i expect some of these toons to be getting to l70 by july what to do then well the first thing i ve thought of is to simply not get flying blizz opened up the quest chain for the nether drake mount right when the dark portal opened so you can t go a couple of minutes without seeing a player on one it s almost as bad as seeing the paid boost ground mount reward everywhere as a reminder that people paid money to skip playing the game i don t need it to get to max level and since i m not raiding i don t need to do the tempest keep instances as part of any attunement quests i don t intend to impoverish myself just because and i m still expecting a lot of players to stop running instances as time goes on other than getting to tempest keep there s no real reason to get basic flying a fast ground mount is quicker a druid s fast flight form is much quicker at diving in and obtaining gathering nodes and it does cost a bit of gold is it a hipster move i m sure some people would say yes but i pushed back on it even in 2021 and then in late 2022 in wrath classic i simply don t want to be a slave to having to make gold just to get a mount that i won t really use and i don t like standing around somewhere preening and showing off my new fancy mount and or gear if i m not doing flying and i m not raiding i m starting to think about running some alterac valley battlegrounds i m not interested in arenas because i know i m not good enough for them but i would like to go out and play some av for a change i could also run some instances so long as i m not required to utilize flying for them and oh yeah i ve got a couple of horde toons around i ought to work on them too you need flying to get to the tempest keep instances no way around it as the time of posting you can t even summon a player in front of the instance entrances themselves i do think that ll change as time goes on but i d not count on it just yet that happened in 2021 where druids with fast flight form would frequently pick entire zones clean of gathering nodes because they were so fast compared to anybody else so why should this be any different once a druid s fast flight form becomes available in phase 2 yes i m the sort of guy who when presented with a cost is no object choice would likely end up buying a decent quality built sedan to drive around with i don t want to be seen and i don t want anything flashy in my experience people noticing you isn t really a good thing as i like to tell people who i am introduced to in meetings if you don t know my name it s because i m doing my job well and if you know my name it s probably because people were shouting it during emergencies posted by redbeard at 2 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels operation spread the love tbc classic wow classic anniversary monday april 13 2026 meme monday work intruding on real life memes yes yes i know work is real life yeah but on the argument of live to work vs work to live i m definitely on the side of work to live i can be a workaholic as necessary but i prefer to keep work to a minimum i have work acquaintances and friends and i have acquaintances and friends outside of work in various hobbies never the twain shall meet and i prefer it that way i ve learned that even though i work in a geeky job that doesn t mean that people in that career are into geeky hobbies quite frequently the people involved are as anti geek as you can possibly imagine almost to the point as if they were deliberately trying to prove they were not geeks but no matter these memes are for those times when you want to do your geeky hobby but work intrudes pretty sure this started out life as a tiktok meme from instagram been there this past week in fact from instagram i have had bosses who told me i didn t have the fire to go all in on whatever the job i had was well call me crazy but i think i get more motivation out of my hobbies than most work period from reddit and mematic i ve heard that one before still on a mac impressive from memedroid yeah yeah yeah from reddit and imgflip uh from memedroid although originally from pizza cake comics reference courtesy of shintar posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes tuesday april 7 2026 we ve gone to irrelevance speed i suppose that it s inevitable that i would have more thoughts about being in outland for the third time okay it s not the third time ever to be certain but going there fresh as part of either a first time through wow back in 2009 or through wow classic when the tbc portion was current 2021 and now 2026 it s definitely not my first rodeo in outland but it s my first time going there in a fresh context in almost 5 years this is also the first time i m heading to outland period without a further goal in mind in 2009 it was to get to northrend and to the current expansion to meet up with souldat and his wife who got me into wow in the first place and in 2021 it was to get to max level and ready for the initial tier of raiding within a specific time limit here in 2026 i don t have any further goal other than exploring outland and just getting to l70 no raids no endgame no heroic instances nothing more than the journey itself late sunday i got briganaa 2 0 to zangarmarsh the second zone in outland there s one questline i refuse to do in hellfire the one that eventually leads me to killing maghar orcs so i was largely finished with hellfire peninsula i arrived at the cenarion outpost in the marsh collected a bunch of quests and ran up to the initial alliance base in the zone and did the same then a strange sensation began to take hold of me so monday over lunch i dusted off card and sent her over to outland to see if that sensation went away yes getting the robe of the archmage sewn was one of the goals i d set before she crossed over the burning crusade questing feels like it s designed to push me into going faster and i can t shake that it s all relative of course but it certainly feels less organic than vanilla questing does some of this is explicit to the anniversary servers where the sparklies that indicate that something is the object for a quest is now present on the anniversary servers which completely eliminates the need to look around with your eyeballs on the screen and remember what the quest text said considering that i m practically the only person on the anniversary servers to not use questie i m probably the only person to notice but it s pretty obvious to me that blizz said here you go you want it you got it and there it is quest markers all pop up on the mini map just like they did in wrath classic so i ve suddenly found myself staring at the mini map far more than actually paying attention to where i m going which is never a good situation to find yourself in when there s fel reavers wandering around when you combine those quality of life changes with the questing hub changes it s become far more explicit that blizz is streamlining the leveling process further than in 2021 wrath brought in the concept of the zone stories complete with phasing so that s not present in tbc but it s only when you decide the journey is the destination do you begin to realize that the pace of the journey changed it did feel that while brig was leveling in the old world she was almost effortlessly moving forward but not so quickly as to outlevel her ability to pay for training gear and consumables when the joyous journeys buff made an appearance in late tbc classic in 2022 it was tuned to level you so quickly that you d outstrip your ability to make gold to pay for those associated costs i found that similar to the leveling process on the original wow classic seasonal servers season of mastery when you can t afford even the basic spells for l10 because you leveled so damn fast then yeah you ve got a problem apparently blizz tuned the anniversary servers better without creating an explicit buff so that while the leveling was faster in the old world it wasn t so fast that you couldn t afford to level so quickly but now in outland everything seems tuned just enough to make it easier and quicker to go through the leveling process mobs do seem to respawn faster except named mobs as one of my friends noted the other day they go down quicker and the xp feels chunkier maybe that last one i m not sure of but i do know that when you combine these changes with the tbc specific tweaks to the concept of quest hubs boy do i get the urge to just keep going and not pay attention to things such as sleep food etc at first i wanted to describe the leveling in outland anniversary edition as hollow or boring but that s not it it feels like the leveling is being pushed toward irrelevance by speeding it up given that tbc anniversary will only be around for a year i guess it s not that great of a surprise but it certainly shows that speeding up the leveling process doesn t make for a better experience by itself leveling on these anniversary servers is merely a means to an end and you re in the wrong place if you want to enjoy leveling itself if there s a wrath anniversary edition coming this fall then we can expect some further streamlining going forward it wouldn t surprise me if the concept of follower dungeons gets ported back to the anniversary edition in a bizarre reversal of retail being the testing ground before being added to the old game however that will only come into play if we have a repeat of the collapse of instance grouping as happened in 2021 and the no changes crowd has sufficiently been cowed into submission blink blink i just thought of something could it be that the big thing that holly longdale teased in the community update video be a release and support of official private servers for vanilla wow it s most definitely not classic plus but it would eliminate the private server problem in one fell stroke plus getting the flightpoint it was in wrath where that first began showing up if there s somebody out there who doesn t i ve not seen it yet whenever i m in a group and i m talking about every single time if someone gets all the items for a quest the party chat immediately is spammed with an announcement saying that they re done another reason to not want questie is that it can snoop on you and share your progress with others in your group providing they also have questie installed unlike vanilla wow the quests are congregated more completely into centralized quest hubs if you go into ashenvale as alliance in vanilla quests are scattered throughout the zone and you re constantly running back and forth across the entire length of the place however if you go there in tbc and wrath several of the quests for the eastern part of the zone are moved out of the shrine of aessina area and to forest song which becomes a fully developed quest hub blizzard centralized things further in outland where the questing equivalent of one stop shopping allows a player to blow into a quest hub grab everything and head straight on out into the field posted by redbeard at 3 58 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings operation spread the love tbc classic wow classic anniversary older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact 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