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s a rather painless affair if you pug however that s when the problems begin you have to prove yourself time and again and constant usage of the lfg tool is an accelerant on the process make a mistake and some people will judge you faster than middle school kids at lunch time when it is soooo easy to just kick or leave instead of working through problems you can bet that people will choose that option the automated lfg tool if they were to implement it covering battleground server groups would also mask other problems with the wow classic community allowing them to fester without a long term resolution such as server imbalance it needs to be said but in the wow classic community the battleground server groups are practically all the servers in a specific time zone which is great and all for the automated lfg tool but when you transition to raiding not so much i ve covered this before but the reality is that the raiding scene on the smaller servers has been declining close to the point of no return while a couple of gigantic servers are so huge because layering hides problems normally associated with them being too big being unable to farm materials and the consequent inflation of auction house prices spreading the server population out would help a lot because it would prevent the brain drain that is currently happening throughout tbc classic and stretching back to the last few months of vanilla classic it s one of those it sounds great in theory solutions that nobody seems to want to tackle head on because it means that blizz would have to confront one of their big cash cows paid server transfers do i know the answer to the automated lfg tool conundrum no but i do know that installing the solution implemented in retail wrath is a disaster in the making what we know now about wow as implemented in classic courtesy of 50 million walk through videos podcasts blogs websites would likely make people less tolerant of others and that accelerant capability that the automated lfg tool has could be the spark that the community might not recover from remembering the old definition about insanity as performing the same actions over and over and expecting a different result is worth remembering right now something different is called for here perhaps server merges perhaps bans on toon creation transfer to the giant servers perhaps free transfers off of said giant servers or servers with huge faction imbalances or even perhaps some combination of both is worth trying but what i do know is that simply going down the same old path and then expecting it ll all be fine is being incredibly naive thanks to shintar for reminding me of this i thought for the longest time that it was on individual servers even though i did know it was among battleground groups when it released selective memory i guess i do know that with mists and the coming of don t call them server merges the automated tool s reach did expand once before i joined my current guild i tagged along on an instance run of theirs i m so glad we re all friends one of the people in the run said because i absolutely hate pugging instances i could understand the sentiment but given that i got to know most of my in game friends via pugs i felt somewhat slighted posted by redbeard at 9 57 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lfg tool musings retail tbc classic wrath classic thursday may 26 2022 letters from outland part 4 dear sis i m writing this while i m taking a break from the fighting it seems that the burning legion has a never ending supply of infernals to drop on both the alliance and horde fortifications in the poorly named shadowmoon valley and both factions are hard pressed to keep the supply lines open here at wildhammer hold i can only dream of the hellscape that greeted me when i first crossed the dark portal and think ah for the good old days i m sure the contingent at honor hold would disagree but when the sky is on fire you tend to have a different outlook on life a pleasant land this ain t any other name would have likely been a better one than shadowmoon valley which sounds closer to something near astranaar than outland although i m told by an orc whom i knew back in our argent dawn days that the valley takes its name from the shadowmoon clan who led the orcs straight into the legion s lap all those years ago vindicator aluumen has told me he feels that illidan will strike more directly against our fortifications in the coming days but he also thinks that illidan is caught between a rock and a hard place as hard as the legion is hitting us they re also preparing to strike against illidan himself i guess with a name like the betrayer illidan has a certain reputation to uphold and he appears to have double crossed the burning legion too every time i turn around the uglier illidan s troops get at least they all die even if we overcome the odds and hold our ground we need to break both of our enemies before we have a chance to bring a measure of peace to outland hmm since i name dropped the title vindicator i guess i should explain a few things about draenei society that i ve learned over my time spent here the draenei have their equivalent of the knights the vindicators and the priests the anchorites but they also have their version of military commanders the exarchs these roles used to be allowed to specific genders only such as that up until recently had been the case with the night elves and tauren but the need for bodies has broken down their rigid conservativism the fact that my friend zarlie is an anchorite is now by choice rather than by societal expectations she informs me that her sister is yet another classification a farseer who follow the ways of the elements akin to the shamanism of the orcs tauren and trolls i ve also heard whispers about the draenei keepers of the dead the auchenai but only from the lower city while apparently they do exist the great city of the dead auchindoun was destroyed in a disaster only a few years before i crossed the dark portal and the auchenai who survived have well gone a bit crazy i don t know if it s the everybody died and i can t handle it sort of crazy or not but what i ve heard is that the auchenai have been experimenting with things that you d find more out of the cult of the damned than any draenei organization draenei may have a distinctive outlook on life but they are by no means a monolithic race the only thing that truly unites them is their hatred for the burning legion well not hatred per se but probably closer to disappointment apparently many of their brethren were tempted by the gifts offered by the legion and chose to join the legion instead of rejecting them and those fallen draenei are now commanders and leaders among the legion s forces uh i was in the crate please don t look please don t look despite all that i ve grown to like them during my time here i now know how you feel being the shorty of the household as i ve discovered that when you re surrounded by draenei even the kaldorei can appear small the draenei may at first glance seem overly pious and sanctimonious but once you get to know them they open up quite a bit and are quite capable of incredibly bawdy behavior like the elven kindreds they have an unconscious grace and strength that can be quite stunning i m not entirely convinced they re so uptight that they won t drink but it s worth a try sometime either way the draenei have decided that the alliance is their future and so we have to learn to live with them they have suffered under a certain amount of suspicion by our troops because people know their brethren from the legion but it s also intimidating to meet someone who is smarter stronger faster and more graceful than you who is also more sanctimonious than high priestess laurena don t tell her i said that now that i ve been on assignment here in shadowmoon valley i can say that despite first impressions the place has not been totally abandoned by people i know of a few scattered farms here and there particularly on the northern edges of the valley where some orcs refuse to leave and instead eke out a living i ve become rather fond of one oronok who has a ranch high up away from roaming elementals i can tell he took up ranching late in life as he still makes some basic mistakes but i ve learned not to pry too much like many orcs he has demons in his past that he d just as soon forget and if keeping a watchful eye on his helboars helps i m not one to tell him otherwise angry elementals are everywhere an organization of shamans called the earthen ring has been trying to placate them without much success and given the response from our leadership which is mostly get out of here i m busy i can see why i ve been helping to get them some answers from the elementals but not much has come of it so far except for the case of heartburn i ve got right now another fire lord nonetheless we ve also had our run ins with more of those avian types apparently one of them turned traitor which is good for us because their companions were going to try to summon forth what looks like an old god straight into outland given how much trouble they gave us at ahn qiraq i was more than happy to take on that assignment and destroy their summoning attempt that certainly matches a description i m sure you re familiar with good riddance one more thing i realize that this will probably hurt elsharin but i ve encountered many of her ex brethren here in shadowmoon valley as well the sindorei who still follow kael thas have a base here originally they had two but the sindorei following the na aru took over one of them and i ve had to kill more than my share of this sunfury regiment i ve even had to go undercover for a while and thank goodness that i got to know your teacher or i d never have been able to pull it off i actually look pretty good as a redhead and wearing pointy ears don t ask where the ears came from i m not proud of that it s all in the walk and the attitude the more i ve seen these sunfury elves in action the more disgusted i am with them have they all been duped do they honestly feel that they are on the side of justice do they simply not care and just want power any way they can get it if it s that last one they re likely going to end up allying with someone who can claim they provide it and i m afraid i know who that is elves and draenei these two should have been allies from the start but illidan and the legion and truth be told us humans kind of messed up a bit too got in the way i m rambling at this point so i ought to finish up and go to bed soon i ve a long patrol tomorrow that takes me near illidan s stronghold nicknamed the black temple be well and give everyone my love linna again mistress evelyn s grammar lessons came in handy eta corrected a grammar issue card if you are reading this you saw my hidden message and guessed how to bring this out i am being stalked i don t have any proof of it yet but i have this uneasy feeling that my movements are being closely watched and someone is waiting to strike it is not simply paranoia at work out here although at first i thought it was the case but i know that someone is after me for my knowledge a short time ago i discovered something that could potentially tip the balance of this whole campaign in our favor and i ve been keeping this secret ever since about a week or two later i started noticing small things around like evidence that my bags had been sifted through or that my gear wasn t put back exactly the same way i usually do and as a test i deliberately moved something in my pack to another location and when i returned from patrol i found that thing in not the same place as of now i can t go to my commander without divulging the secret i m sworn to keep if you don t hear from me after 2 months something likely has happened i don t think whomever is tailing me will kill me as they likely want to get information out of me but if you don t hear from me i need you this is more important than me or my life when i took the oaths to become a knight i swore to uphold certain things and this is one of them i need you to do two things first contact a broken in shadowmoon valley named olum and tell him the light provides he will know what to do the other thing is to contact zarlie she will have knowledge of where i have been and if olum can t be found you should be able to piece things together with what she knows i believe in you sis you can do this so give naxxramas the middle finger and get out here there s a job that needs finishing and a songshine s word is always good linna posted by redbeard at 11 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fiction letters from outland tbc classic tuesday may 24 2022 someone picked at a scab i saw this video today about what s going away when wrath classic drops and i was sufficiently annoyed at his flippant if you re one of the 4 or 5 people on your server who doesn t have an amani warbear that i felt it merited a response if you ve got hyjal bt gear then yes zul aman is a pretty chill raid even if you re in ssc tk gear you should be fine but if you re in a raid with primarily phase 1 gear or quest greens pre bis ignore what wille is saying it s a raid that is highly dependent on gear checks and having the right composition such as having a priest to do periodic mass dispels on the raid during the vol jin fight that if you don t have those you re not going to finish the raid and god forbid if your raid is caught in between about 6 other za raids not to mention the other progression raids of other major guilds so most of the personnel for the critical slots tanks healers the aforementioned priest shamans are already either locked or are busy and those roles are ones that i have no desire to pug i ve been in enough pugs that i know that those roles are ones i want people i can trust with and a random pug assuming you can even put one together right now on the server isn t where you re gonna typically find them i suppose that the entire tone which is a breezy oh this is some box you can check off before wrath drops but everybody will have this anyway really ticked me off probably a good deal of it was because i m not going to get the hand of a dal title because i never got a kael thas kill in phase 2 i never show my champion of the na aru title anyway and i d certainly never bother showing a hand of a dal title if i got it but the fact that i did get it would mean something to me and here was yet another reminder that one of the few personal goals i had in this expac to raid up until illidan was downed in black temple was not going to get completed just kind of set me off i guess what drives my obsession about this is something i remembered back in original wrath remember the blog i sheep things oh my kurenai i certainly do and i 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