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s large space without npcs to see or interact with it just looks embarrassingly empty perhaps the rise of wow classic will also bring about an interest in these little quirky places that help to make a world out of a game i used to collect pets on quintalan back in the day but the advent of pet battles kind of ruined it for me sure there was the wow pokemon aspect to it that i didn t like very much but it also meant that i couldn t simply collect pets just to collect them if i d have one out people would want to challenge me to a pet battle and that defeated the purpose the simple enjoyment of having a pet i m looking at you silvermoon city i even wrote about this phenomenon back in 2012 yikes posted by redbeard at 8 19 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lotro musings wow wow classic saturday october 19 2019 don t interrupt a warlock making a fashion statement after what felt like the upteenth time of running through tirisfal to reach the scarlet monastery az stands at l39 and nowhere near having enough money for a mount when she dings l40 still i ve decided to take a break from the rogue life and try something new so that i can appreciate more of what classic has to offer and in honor of the lack of summons for all of those sm runs i created a warlock compared to launch day northshire abbey was really quiet well except for all these kobolds and yes i got that cloak as my very first drop i d created a previous warlock a worgen named adelwulf back on ysera in cataclysm and leveled him via battlegrounds to say that cataclysm wasn t kind to warlocks in bgs is a bit of an understatement after being jealous of them in wrath i decided to create one just as they were nerfed heavily in cata yes that meant that the bg route was a real slog to get through and when i reached somewhere around l82 or so i gave it up i liked that ol wolfie but constantly being targeted at the beginning of warsong gulch became a bit much since adelwulf was born in a post cata world i never got to see the original class quests and being a worgen meant i never got to hang in northshire abbey and work my way through the mostly human oriented quests therefore i decided i was not going the gnome route that many of the warlocks i ve grouped with went but instead decided to create a human with a name in honor of the late mmo wildstar dominius since the enormous wave at launch has long since passed the crowd in northshire and elwynn forest has diminished but there was little trouble in grouping up when necessary such as with those ing murlocs east of crystal lake s more tame version i re discovered that without a voidwalker i was a bit of a sitting duck if more than one murloc decided to attack me so grouping up became imperative if i didn t want an endless series of corpse runs still for me the main attraction was to see the warlock class quests and they did not disappoint yes there are spoilers even after all this time because it s been since 2011 maybe that we saw these class quests in all their glory read more posted by redbeard at 10 16 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels the wow life warlock wow classic tuesday october 8 2019 coming soon to an overgrown wild near you in an announcement blizz said that dire maul would be released on october 15th ahead of the phase 2 i don t think we re in the we re bored levels of classic yet but considering that the player base is wanting pvp in the worst way this is likely a bone thrown to keep us preoccupied while the rest of phase 2 is being completed while i ve done a full blackrock depths clear in wrath i ve never done a full dire maul clear at level that ought to be fun my only question now is how are we going to distinguish dire maul from deadmines in lfg i guess dire maul will have to be dire because otherwise there s going to be a lot of disappointed l60s when they join a dm group to discover it s populated with l20 toons posted by redbeard at 5 40 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news wow classic sunday october 6 2019 doing this because i can i suppose being a stealthie means you can get yourself in trouble as in i shouldn t be in this zone and i m gonna die trouble i ve mentioned this before so it shouldn t be a surprise that i snuck into western plaguelands before i hit l30 or that i snuck into feralas and was chased by tauren guards around camp mojache sorry no pics there because i was too busy trying to stay alive or that i was running up to the cenarion sisters outside of shadowprey village in desolace and a troll guard from the village aggroed on me even though i could i thought barely see him still no pics but i could swim like 40 naga were after me or that i got waaay too close to the dragonkin in bough shadow because i forgot that it existed in ashenvale still there s that sort of getting in trouble and there s the getting in trouble you get from a superior back when i first started with az i reached dolanaar and met with the rogue trainer there jannok breezesong i thought him a slight bit loopy as if phoebe from friends were reincarnated as a male ne rogue but essentially harmless but after you reach l10 he gives you the quest called the apple falls in which he confesses his well obsession with a night elf named syurna in darnassus he recruits you to deliver a rose to her which doesn t sound like a big deal well trying to find syurna without using a mod such as questie proves challenging you can and i did spend a lot of time wandering around with the if i were in with rogues where would i hang out running through my head craftsman s terrace nope warrior s terrace nope some secret lower level in an inn nope some secret section of town close to the temple of the moon nope at about the point where i was thinking that maybe they were holed up in waaaay up in the northern section of darnassus far north of the cenarion enclave the little dot appeared just as i crossed the bridge the cenarion enclave are you kidding me but where i spotted a tree to the left with absolutely no guards nearby but a couple of people in a platform above i quickly climbed up the tree and discovered a poison vendor but no syurna i scampered down the path turned around and found the opening i sought leading down this is it i thought as i followed the curved passage downward damn they hid themselves well at the bottom of the passage it straightened out and i could see syurna in the distance and she was not pleased isn t this wonderful she purred as i approached you ve brought flowers for your own funeral oh shit even though i m now in the 30s when i drop by i still feel inadequate since i d never leveled an alliance rogue prior to cataclysm i wasn t certain what would happen next but it turns out that she had a job for me which involved pickpocketing a demon yes that became pretty standard and sure she may be an npc and just a trainer but you know that quest certainly colors my perception of syurna to this day i don t have a similar opinion of mathias shaw even though i really ought to and if you know that quest said demon is hanging out on the edge of a branch dangling out over the edge of teldrassil given my ineptitude at maintaining my balance in game and out of game really this was not quite an easy task eta fixed the word town posted by redbeard at 11 08 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels the wow life wow classic thursday october 3 2019 you just keep being you one of the things about wow classic is that in it like vanilla your reputation as a player matters if you act like an ass or a jerk you ll find yourself being shunned oh sure there s plenty of people on an individual server and there s on average nothing that keeps you from finding other people to group with that doesn t mean that word won t get around however guilds can spread word among members and outlets such as reddit can spread word about people who act like an ass and then there s just word of mouth i was waiting for the ship from menethil harbor to theramore when i saw a player jumping around and challenging people on the dock to a duel and yes he eventually dropped a duel invitation to azshandra currently sitting at l35 the toon in question was l56 warrior i immediately declined he could wipe the docks with my carcass with that level disparity the toon didn t care as he just went to the next person in line while we piled onto the ship for theramore it takes a real jerk to challenge someone significantly lower than yourself said someone out loud the toon ignored her and challenged an l46 pally just how old are you the pally responded and declined the duel and the toon came right back to me i declined again he could kick my ass all over the place i whispered the pally what s the point in that he s probably a kid came the whispered reply or maybe he came from archeage or something the ship to theramore docked and we disembarked the pally gave me a blessing of might which i thanked him hey if you re looking for a guild let me know he said we re a bunch who behaves like adults thanks for the offer i replied but i m going to stay independent for a while i ve been involved in some pretty spectacular guild breakups in wrath and cata so i m reluctant to get back in one sure np being guildless means that i get a lot of guild invites while that may sound like i m being barraged by random toons out there spamming people with invites it s not like that okay it is to an extent but not like what it was being guildless in wrath let me explain when i was guildless in wrath or in parts of cata the sheer number of guild invites at least 2 3 every session in late wrath forced me into turning on the auto reject for guild invites i don t have that issue now i do get the wowgold111 whatever chat channel invite on an average of once or twice a week but that s not that bad and i ve only had a handful of direct guild invites to reject as well but what i do get are people asking me to join their guild via whispers a lot of them are exactly what you d expect a slightly more polite version of a guild recruiter spamming guild invites i d say that all of the random invites took my polite no thanks for an answer which is a good thing because i d rather not have to block people the rest are guild invites that i d actually consider because they arose organically out of grouping up with people a successful 5 man instance random grouping out in the wild because people need assistance and other groups that came out of sheer serendipity would end with an exchange of friending and or a guild invite those are the ones that are hard to say no to because those came out of respect and appreciation for the accomplished task and yes i have been grouping up in mmos far more than i ve ever done since roughly 2015 or so classic has done that to me i think that part of it is that the people coming into classic are more open about requesting help in zone chat but it s also the knowledge that there is no lfg option in classic that forces people to group out in the open sure there will be the guild groups out there and the larger guilds won t have trouble getting people to join to fill out an instance but the smaller guilds will struggle and will need to go onto trade chat or zone chat to get slots filled for the most part however i ve yet to join a guild group to work on an instance but i ve discovered that the golden rule applies in classic far more than it did once lfg appeared in wrath as an example the other day i was holding my own in arathi highlands picking and choosing my quests enemies based on whether i was over under leveled against them someone in zone chat asked for help in taking out myzrael as the adds were a big problem i knew that i ordinarily too low a level to help out but i figured that i was just a meatbag in a fight like that and if i died no big deal so i said as much in chat and got an invite to the group the decision was made to ignore the adds and simply burn down myzrael as quickly as possible and one of the group volunteered to heal we started the quest myzrael spawned and declared her treachery bad move big lady and we beat her to shreds you can tell that this is wow classic as opposed to say tera because myzrael is clothed or at least more clothed than some other mmos afterwards we all went on our merry way and i eventually ended up working on the witherbark troll quest i found a mage there on the same quest and we agreed to team up to finish the quest more quickly to get the shadow hunter trinket as part of the quest we eventually made our way into the cave and we accidentally pulled an extra shadow hunter at the same time a headhunter wandered into the fight things looked grim for us when another player appeared and helped us beat off the trolls who was the other player the player i helped earlier with myzrael this doesn t mean that there aren t bad pugs out there and i ve been in 5 man groups that got frustrating because there were issues with hunters rolling need on everything people wanting to go without waiting on the casters to drink etc but for the most part i ve found those to be far more the exception rather than the rule in classic i think that it s the knowledge that people are by and large working together has made classic more enjoyable than i expected my main desire with classic was to see the zones and quests as they were originally meant to be but i ve discovered that the community that people loved to talk about back in the day actually is present i consider that a bonus but something that ll keep me playing longer than i expected and to a lesser extent bc and early wrath once the dungeon finder dropped all bets were off i m paraphrasing here and likely editing the language the guild invites were very much a wow thing as in lotro the mini reds and i have our own guild and with other mmos swtor eso aoc etc i never got hit up for guild invites i d say the most often i d ever see as far as guild invites goes was in the early days of swtor but even then that was a rare event do unto others as you would have them do unto you or in it s internet equivalent don t be a dick having two rogues provide interrupts on a regular basis helped a lot too posted by redbeard at 9 32 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings pugs wow classic newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred and other junk we have to talk about 4 days ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 2 weeks ago twisted nether blogcast moving to youtube episodes 346 348 4 months ago battle 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