January 17, 2021 Sunday Meeting
5:00
P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Discord:
Valar Guild/meeting_place
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Transcript work by Varda.
[times are Central Time from Varda's Discord. Add one hour for
Eastern.]
["slight smile" is the same as we are used to using as a regular
smiley]
Attending (and
spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian,
Eonwe (Before and After-meetings), Irmo, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Contents:
Before-meeting
Meeting begins
Membership news:
Web:
Membership page 2021 starting up.
Gaming:
General reports: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic from Varda: plot
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by
Ar-Pharazon.
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Before-meeting
Eonwë Valar01/13/2021
Looks like Renown 22 is the end of the Bastion Campaign.
Eonwë Valar01/13/2021
Also, looks like the LotRO launcher now has a "Remember me for 8
hours" checkbox, which helps if you're going to be flipping between
servers alot.
[3:13 AM]
Or looks like it should anyway.
Eonwë Valar01/13/2021
Well, now I'm exalted with Bastion.
Eonwë Valar01/13/2021
Time to eye making my legendary
Eonwë Valar01/14/2021
Well, now I have a legendary. Time to take it for a spin.
January 17, 2021
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 12:02 AM
Cleared Twisting Corridors Layer 3. That was a bit of a tough one.
VardaYesterday at 4:01 PM
Aiya!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:01 PM
Aiya!
IrmoYesterday at 4:01 PM
Heya heya heya!
VardaYesterday at 4:02 PM
Hiya Phar and Irmo : )
[4:02 PM]
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Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
[4:02 PM]
Membership:
[4:03 PM]
Good to see you and hear from you!
[4:03 PM]
@Bounder Time for fun chat with your friends in the Valar!
[4:03 PM]
Almost forgot, heh.
Pallando-ValarYesterday at 4:03 PM
Aiya
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:03 PM
I'll go on bnet and poke Arien.
CelebrianYesterday at 4:03 PM
Aiya
VardaYesterday at 4:03 PM
Aiya Pallando and Celebrian!
[4:04 PM]
Thanks
IrmoYesterday at 4:04 PM
Greetings Pallando and Celebrian
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:04 PM
Arien poked.
VardaYesterday at 4:04 PM
Yay
IrmoYesterday at 4:04 PM
Sorry to say I am just here for 2 minutes: hell of a work day
tomorrow, staring early
VardaYesterday at 4:05 PM
Thank you for popping in! : )
[4:05 PM]
And it was good to see Celeborn is back.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:05 PM
Also, Aiya all who said hi after I did
VardaYesterday at 4:05 PM
Rest fast, Irmo!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:06 PM
Namarie, Irmo
IrmoYesterday at 4:06 PM
Yeah, I am thrilled that Celeborn is back on Lotro ( I met hin in
DaoC 17 tears ago; we have held contact through Disocrd all the time
though)
VardaYesterday at 4:07 PM
That's great! Maybe he'll be able to pop in here now and then too!
IrmoYesterday at 4:07 PM
Namarie enlightened ones
VardaYesterday at 4:07 PM
Don't let us hold you back from making dreams for everyone. : )
[4:07 PM]
Namarie!
[4:08 PM]
Any other Membership news?
[4:08 PM]
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Web:
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:09 PM
Well, we finally had snow yesterday?
[4:09 PM]
Twasn't much, but it was there!
VardaYesterday at 4:09 PM
Started in on the 2021 Membership page. That might also go under
Membership?
[4:09 PM]
Nice!
[4:09 PM]
There was sleet just north of us last Monday.
[4:09 PM]
It stayed a short time in the shade.
[4:10 PM]
Not exactly blizzards, and I am happy about that!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:10 PM
hehe
VardaYesterday at 4:10 PM
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Gaming:
[4:11 PM]
We all seem to enjoy gaming more than anything else we do in the
guild. That works, since that is our origin!
[4:12 PM]
The Tolkien helps bring us together with a somewhat simiilar
mindset, such as liking the written word in spades and enjoying that
kind of story.
[4:12 PM]
So, here's Eonwe's gaming news. Please feel free to add to it!
[4:12 PM]
World of WarCraft:
[4:12 PM]
This week's bonus event: World Quests.
[4:12 PM]
In Torghast, Beasts of Prodigum are appearing through Monday,
January 18th.
[4:12 PM]
(tomorrow!)
[4:13 PM]
Check out this week's hotfixes:
[4:13 PM]
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23580183/hotfixes-january-15-2021
World of Warcraft
Hotfixes: January 15, 2021 - WoW
Here you will find a list of hotfixes that
address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and
WoW Classic.
[4:13 PM]
Any other WoW comments?
[4:14 PM]
Overwatch:
[4:14 PM]
Blizzard put up a new lore blurb: [CORRESPONDENCE] Post For Toshiro
Yamagami.
[4:14 PM]
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/23608156/correspondence-post-for-toshiro-yamagami/
Overwatch
[CORRESPONDENCE] Post for Toshiro Yamagami
As winter leads to spring, let me write a letter of lightness.
Perhaps it will grant us both a little peace, even as I turn my
blade to keeping the peace here from shattering altogether. -Asa
[4:14 PM]
There's also an event going. Check out the announcement: Unleash The
Storm In The Kanezaka Challenge!
[4:15 PM]
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/23595157/unleash-the-storm-in-the-kanezaka-challenge/
Overwatch
Unleash the storm in the Kanezaka Challenge!
Conquer the competition on the newest team Deathmatch map, Kanezaka!
Plus, earn rich new rewards—including the Kyōgisha Hanzo skin—by
winning games and watching Overwatch on Twitch.
[4:15 PM]
Any other Overwatch comments?
Lord of the Rings Online:
[4:15 PM]
Check out some upcoming changes:
[4:16 PM]
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?685462-Upcoming-Changes-in-Update-28-3-Scrolls-of-Empowerment-and-Small-Reputation-Accelerator-Tomes
Upcoming Changes in Update 28.3: Scrolls of
Empowerment and Small ...
To improve relevant level-appropriate rewards and
reduce reliance on continuously grinding lower level content, we
will be making the following changes to barter and quest acquisition
of Scrolls of Empowerment in Update 28.3,
currently expected to be released next week.
1. We are adding additional Scrolls of
Empowerment rewards to the War ...
[4:17 PM]
Hmm. Not sure I'm so thrilled by that.
Arien ValarYesterday at 4:17 PM
aiya all
VardaYesterday at 4:17 PM
Aiya Sunshine!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:17 PM
Aiya!
VardaYesterday at 4:17 PM
Landroval server:
Arien
Celeborn
Dis
Eonwe
Eowyn
Finglas/Leaflock
Frodo
Irmo
Lenwe
Miriel
Nar
Varda
Ithil server:
Dis
Eonwe
Varda
Anor server:
Arien
Varda
[4:18 PM]
That shows Landroval is definitely still our main branch. : )
[4:18 PM]
Other games I see members playing on the side of our chat:
[4:19 PM]
The Elder Scrolls Online, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cities: Skylines,
Among Us, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, and Path of Exile.
[4:19 PM]
Any other gaming news?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:20 PM
I started a new Storm hero, WoW progress, and other things... but
for that and more, wait for the aftermeeting
VardaYesterday at 4:21 PM
Sounds like you're having fun! Good deal.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:21 PM
Definitely!
VardaYesterday at 4:22 PM
If you've seen any of our Valarites active, it would be nice to
hear. That would help the new Membership 2021 page for the active
list.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:22 PM
Fladrif last online 2 days!
VardaYesterday at 4:22 PM
Arien's seen Helm. Still hoping he can drop off a message here when
it's in his own daytime. : )
[4:22 PM]
Yay Ent!
[4:23 PM]
Fladrif is welcome to leave a message too, if he likes!
[4:23 PM]
On to
[4:23 PM]
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Tolkien!
[4:24 PM]
What was the main plot for Lord of the Rings?
: )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:24 PM
Hobbit tries to sneak to enemy territory with a magic ring in the
middle of a raging war in order to save the day.
VardaYesterday at 4:25 PM
How would that save the day?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:25 PM
Ring is linked to the big bad's foundation of power, and destroying
it would take the wind out of the enemy armies' sails.
VardaYesterday at 4:26 PM
poof!
[4:26 PM]
And what might a B plot be that goes along with the destruction of
the Ring vs the Big Bad?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:27 PM
Well, there's the abovementioned war.
[4:28 PM]
Orcs vs humans and elves and dwarves in a variety of places.
VardaYesterday at 4:28 PM
Do we follow anyone involved in that war? A plot arc a person
follows?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:28 PM
And the biggest resistance is by this annoyingly mobile group of
heroes led by the long-lost heir.
VardaYesterday at 4:28 PM
hehe
[4:30 PM]
So the mobility keeps them from being squashed?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:30 PM
Let's have our ally Saruman attack Rohan! Wait, there's those
heroes... fine, let's go for Minas Tirith! Hey, who's on that
boat...
[4:30 PM]
Fine, poor all my armies out of Mordor and try again! ...Oi, who's
that outside my gate?
[4:30 PM]
*pour
VardaYesterday at 4:30 PM
Over there! No, over there! Decoys are Us. Even Merry and Pippin
pulled that.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:30 PM
heh, yes
VardaYesterday at 4:33 PM
Is that all of the plots we can pull out of that massive set of
books, gang?
Arien ValarYesterday at 4:33 PM
tough luck when the ally turns traitor ... eh?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:33 PM
welll... eyes Aragorn and Arwen is this a kissing book?
Arien ValarYesterday at 4:34 PM
double traitor in fact first the noble cause he aught to serve and
the the Master he feigned to serve
[4:34 PM]
.. err make that ought
VardaYesterday at 4:34 PM
And all along trying only to serve himself.
Arien ValarYesterday at 4:34 PM
indeed
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:36 PM
Even the Valar ended up acting against him through the resurrection
of Gandalf.
[4:36 PM]
And those two hobbits and their tree friends... what a pain!
Arien ValarYesterday at 4:38 PM
oh yes and lets not forget those that in the tfown ruled by one
thaught to be cowered into fear and sending the one who openly
resisted any corruption attempts into what seemed certain death ...
[4:41 PM]
btw side note: somebody stuffing the vast majority of his power into
an object .. seems familiar somehow
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:42 PM
It was a big object, for Morgoth...
VardaYesterday at 4:43 PM
Morgoth's Ring
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:43 PM
Indeed
Arien ValarYesterday at 4:43 PM
i thought Sauron's ring?
VardaYesterday at 4:44 PM
Pardon, Sauron's Ring for the LotR, right.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:44 PM
Very true
Arien ValarYesterday at 4:44 PM
Did Morgoth have a ring too?
VardaYesterday at 4:44 PM
The entire planet, yes.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:44 PM
He did. One of the HoME books was named for it.
[4:44 PM]
And yes, it was Arda itself
VardaYesterday at 4:45 PM
But right, our chat scope was LotR.
[4:46 PM]
The smallest characters had some of the hugest impacts.
[4:46 PM]
The Fellowship was a small group that kept becoming smaller, so the
idea includes groups as well as single characters.
[4:47 PM]
The party splitting added to the handy decoy work.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:47 PM
Never split the party...
Arien ValarYesterday at 4:47 PM
indeed
VardaYesterday at 4:53 PM
Guess it's time to cut folks loose!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:53 PM
Like Maedhros!
VardaYesterday at 4:54 PM
Well, maybe with less pain there.
[4:54 PM]
nine gavels bounce side by side up to the hammerpad
[4:54 PM]
the hammerpad uses the shiny table surface to appear to be nine
hammerpads
[4:55 PM]
thump x9
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:55 PM
A symphony!
Varda01/17/2021
the chair scoops up the gavels and puts them back on the shelf
[4:55 PM]
"Aule, repairs needed to the table over here!
[4:56 PM]
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After-meeting!
[4:56 PM]
Free chat. : )
Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMuw4I9dS4
Let the hammerpads ring!
YouTube
Animaniacs101
Animaniacs - Let the Anvils Ring
Varda01/17/2021
: )
Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
Let's start the Personal Gaming Report while I'm world-questing.
Arien Valar01/17/2021
time to go to bed for me work tomorrow .. still getting used
to the thought hehe
Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
Namarie
Arien Valar01/17/2021
completely mixes up my thought of what day it is grin
Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
hehe
Arien Valar01/17/2021
Namarie
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Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
Anyway, flashgaming is a mess.
[6:13 PM]
Flash has officially ended, and the replacement Supernova doesn't
work all that well on Kongregate; a lot of games don't work with it,
the games that do work with apparently don't track badges anymore
because it has to open in a new window, and some of them are lacking
features like the Pixelo puzzle game I used to do daily for years,
but which can't connect/download new daily puzzles anymore.
[6:14 PM]
I'm sure I'll do reasonably fine on Kongpanions still, since I have
most of the badges already... but actually getting badges... and
actually linking you games that work...
[6:14 PM]
is probably going to be a rare thing from now on.
[6:19 PM]
That said! Still found 2 games that work somewhat among the badges
this week.
[6:23 PM]
https://www.kongregate.com/games/TawStudio/jelly-escape
is the first one! A fun platformer with a jelly trying to escape,
moving through vertical mazes. Try to minimize your deaths in each
level, get all the energy bits to unlock special levels, and
complete the game! Oh, and unlock skins for your jelly
Kongregate
Jelly Escape
How quickly can you escape? Are you able to do
tight moves? Now it#39s up to you helping it escape! Run through
great challenging levels, discovering lots of n...
https://www.kongregate.com/games/camaleonyco/moby-dick-the-video-game
is the second game. Play the eponymous whale, maintaining your
health, hunger and air stats, while growing stronger with each kill
as you take on bigger and bigger dangers, starting with small boats.
Kongregate
Moby Dick - The Video Game
(loosely) Based on the classic novel, this is a
game about surviving.
Take the control of this deadly Leviathan and
bring the terror to the Seven Seas, sinkin...
[6:24 PM]
Also achievements to unlock!
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Eonwë Valar01/17/2021
Salutations to anyone still here.
Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
Aiya
Eonwë Valar01/17/2021
How goes it?
Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
Good, started doing world quests this week, trying to do all the
ones I haven't done yet... which can mean up to 25 or so a day
[7:18 PM]
I'm already at 91 different WQs... after 5 days.
Eonwë Valar01/17/2021
I find many of the world quests this expansion so far a bit tedious.
Part of it might be how long it takes to get to them.(edited)
Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
Yeah, that seems mostly the case in Bastion and Revendreth. Former
with long distances from the flightpoints and latter with everything
just being a maze of streets.
Eonwë Valar01/17/2021
Part might be the ones that reward anima don't feel terribly
rewarding for the time invested.
Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
Myeah, I know, but it's still one of the best sources of anima...
[7:20 PM]
Still, many of them are just fun to do. There's some really original
stuff.
[7:20 PM]
Now on my way to my second parasol WQ, I think achievement needs 10?
Eonwë Valar01/17/2021
Aye.
[7:21 PM]
A couple of the world quests are amusing. Don't know if I'd call any
of them "exciting".
Ar-Pharazon-V01/17/2021
hehe
Eonwë Valar01/17/2021
A couple have a certain charm.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:22 PM
flappy bird..
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:22 PM
The parasol in Revendreth, the Flight training in Bastion.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:22 PM
I was a moth in Ardenweald just now, spreading spores
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:23 PM
That one isn't too bad.
[7:23 PM]
I feel like certain quests aren't quite working like they should.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:24 PM
Oh, Maldraxxus has one where you get go around as a shroom person.
[7:24 PM]
The ones where you take on different forms are some of my favorites.
Must be my druidy nature
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:24 PM
The one in Bastion with the Larion Staff that you have to charge up
then release for example. There's some charges that sit out there in
the open without fighting anything, but most of the time you can't
actually collect them unless you killed one of those cloud serpents
next to it.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:25 PM
Ah, yes, that seems odd.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:25 PM
I've successfully collect one by itself once out of the several
times I've done that quest.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:26 PM
I think I did it once, not sure i remember those charges...
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:27 PM
The podling one in Maldraxxus, would be more entertaining if I could
just fly straight to it.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:28 PM
Yes, well, okay.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:28 PM
The racing one in Revendreth is nice for a change of pace.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:28 PM
Not seen that one yet
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:29 PM
Dark Legacy made a comic recently about the annoyance of some of the
multi-step world quests that was pretty good. Let me see if I can
give you a link...
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:30 PM
I've seen it
[7:30 PM]
But feel free to link for transcript.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:31 PM
https://www.darklegacycomics.com/754
This one is fine, but language warning if you go digging through
others.
VardaYesterday at 7:32 PM
Aiya
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:32 PM
And while some things might not thrill me, I can kinda get this one
too, hehehe https://www.darklegacycomics.com/756
[7:32 PM]
Heya Varda
[7:33 PM]
And this one is pretty spot on: https://www.darklegacycomics.com/757
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:33 PM
looks at 4 different tokens from 5 different world quests added in
last... 20 minutes or so
[7:33 PM]
yeeaaah, pretty much
[7:34 PM]
No, sorry, one was from a rare along the way
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:34 PM
Ugh, That's another thing that's annoying. I'm collecting all this
junk in my bags for a feature I can't say I'm crazy about but may
end up dabbling in and I don't want to have to hunt the junk down at
a later time. That's annoying.
[7:34 PM]
hehe
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:35 PM
Not sure about that one?
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:35 PM
Path of Ascension is what it's called for Bastion. Don't know if
there's an equivalent for the other convenants.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:36 PM
Ah.
[7:36 PM]
Yeah, we've got a garden in Ardenweald. Decided to postpone
activating it for a bit.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:36 PM
Essentially, you take control of an NPC and fight another NPC, but
first you have to get a copy of the enemy, and collect junk that
gets "crafted" it junk your NPC can use as some sort of ability
during the fight.
[7:37 PM]
Yeah, wishing I put this one off, heh.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:37 PM
(and that's token nr 6)
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:37 PM
Lost 7 slots in my bags to this.
[7:37 PM]
That's alot of room to lose when you go running old content that
still drops loot from mobs.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:38 PM
Yup.
[7:38 PM]
Glad I was done with the Legion N'Zoth assault stuff though, got rid
of a lot of key bits.
[7:39 PM]
You know, the six tokens for each race you can use to open a chest.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:39 PM
Yeah, that's a serious pain too.
[7:39 PM]
They don't want to give us more space, but they do want to fill up
what little space we have.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:39 PM
hehe
[7:39 PM]
Well, time to deliver the stuff.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:40 PM
A lorebook for all these books they give us to read would be nice.
[7:40 PM]
Making all this junk that should be toys into toys would help.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:40 PM
hah
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:41 PM
I don't know who got it into their head that the Anti-Doom Broom
from the Shadowlands pre-event shouldn't be a toy, but that's just
crazy, to put it nicely.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:42 PM
Maybe it'll be added in a later patch.
[7:42 PM]
Some of them do.
[7:43 PM]
If they're afraid for completionists, just make it so it doesn't
show up until you have it.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:45 PM
They never have been before.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:45 PM
They've done it with some appearances.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:46 PM
I mean they've never been afraid before of putting in stuff that
can't be got later.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:47 PM
Yes, but putting it in a collection that has people poking around to
get their missing stuff is a different matter.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:47 PM
The bat pet for Legion, Argent Dawn Tabard/Tabard of the Protector
(This past pre-event would've been a good time to bring it back if
they were concerned).
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:47 PM
I don't think they've done it with toys though.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:48 PM
The Arcanite Ripper/bat pet from Scourge Invasion 2.0.(edited)
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:48 PM
True.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:49 PM
I feel like there's been at least one toy, but I'm going to have to
research to be sure.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:49 PM
Ugh, saving Anaris Windwood's soul from the Maw.... after the novel
she's in, I'd almost prefer to leave her behind.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:49 PM
But either way, they haven't balked at it in the past, but as you
said, they could simply not show it in the collection if you didn't
get it, like with appearances.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:50 PM
She deserves a spot in Revendreth, at the least.
[7:50 PM]
nods
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:50 PM
I rescued Croman the other day, hehehe.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:50 PM
Ferryn, now, he deserves the rescue.
[7:50 PM]
What, from the Maw?
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:51 PM
From Torghast. I've completely forgotten if it was Twisted Corridors
or normal Torghast.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:51 PM
Huh.
[7:51 PM]
Didn't realize he was dead.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:51 PM
He didn't look dead :}
[7:51 PM]
I suspect he came with us.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:51 PM
Ah.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:51 PM
Just not one of the ones anyone cared about.
[7:52 PM]
I can see Bolvar: "You rescued Jaina! That's Awesome!!!> Oh, and
you rescued Croman. That's..... neat."
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:52 PM
Ilthalaine First questgiver in Teldrassil. I actually visited
his quests with some alts recently.
[7:52 PM]
hehe
[7:52 PM]
Well, Ysera sent me to get these specific night elves as part of the
Night Fae stuff.
[7:53 PM]
Though it's not part of the covenant campaign proper, so maybe other
covenants have equivalents.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:54 PM
Bastion doesn't seem to care about any specific group. So far
they've just been "Go in there and get us some souls. We're not too
picky since they're not going to be real people anyway. We're just
going to put their shattered remains to use in defeating the Jailer,
which is technically better than him using them against us."
[7:55 PM]
To be fair though, the souls seem to think anything's better than
remaining in the Maw when I grab them, so there's that.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:55 PM
Hmm yes.
[7:56 PM]
The specific ones Ysera has you grab actually have specific
locations they move to in the sanctum.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:56 PM
Ah.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:56 PM
the anonymous ones... haven't done those yet.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:56 PM
Trying to think if there's a Bastion equivalent.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:57 PM
This one requires a certain campaign progress and a specific calling
to gather 150 embers.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:57 PM
Well, I saved Mechanikos and he helped out around the place
afterwards. I guess empowering the Crest of Ascension might be the
most analogous though.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:58 PM
Maybe?
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:58 PM
Had to go to each of the three zones for a different item to do so.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:58 PM
Rescuing nelves from the Maw seems to really be a Night Fae thing
though.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 7:59 PM
But I just did a calling yesterday to collect 150 soul embers from
Torghast. Glad I could do it in Twisting Corridors and kill two
birds with one stone.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:59 PM
Yeah, I think that's the same Calling.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 8:00 PM
I did save some people of Bastion from the Maw who became my Mission
Table guys, but I wasn't sent in specifically for them after maybe
the first, if even that.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 8:01 PM
Nah, these are just flavor.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 8:01 PM
From Torghast, more specifically.
[8:01 PM]
Empowering the Seal of Ascension is probably the most analogous
then, if you keep getting sent after different people.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 8:01 PM
nods these were actually from the Maw.
[8:02 PM]
Tremaculum, I think.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 8:02 PM
As part of your Covenant Campaign.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 8:02 PM
Not particularly, a sort of side-unlock.
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 8:02 PM
OK.
[8:03 PM]
Can't think of a proper corollary in Bastion then.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 8:03 PM
's fine, they're all unique
[8:07 PM]
Right, finishing up with Blizzard Gaming:
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 8:08 PM
Heh, sorry I sidetracked you.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 8:08 PM
Nah, is fine, wanted to finish all my WoW stuff for today first
anyway.
[8:08 PM]
World quests kept me quite busy
[8:09 PM]
Heroes of the Storm:
2 levels gained, from 441 to 443!
[8:09 PM]
Got Li Li to 15, which is my goal for all the heroes, as that's when
they go gold.
[8:09 PM]
So I needed to replace her with another Warcraft healer/support, and
chose Tyrande
[8:10 PM]
Checked out some specs online and decided to go with a Sentinel
build.
[8:10 PM]
Since healing vs the AI isn't usually that spec-requiring.
[8:11 PM]
I'll need some practice aiming though.... but otherwise the basic
gameplay is okay.
[8:11 PM]
I wasn't too big a fan of Li Li's playstyle, so I hope this is an
improvement
[8:11 PM]
Anyway, got Tyrande to 2 as the second level gained
[8:14 PM]
Hearthstone:
Had a bit less time for the game, so only got the reward track to
46.
[8:15 PM]
Brawl was the chess-brawl: get a deck with the Karazhan chess
pieces, but you can add 6 cards to your deck to support the chess
gameplay.
[8:16 PM]
Got a few rogue cards that apply poison to other cards of your
choice, so it's easy to get control of the chessboard that way
WoW:
[8:17 PM]
Raiding continued, we're farming normal and taking some stabs at
heroic difficulty. 3 bosses down so far in that one.
[8:18 PM]
Completed the Sojourner achievements, and finally had time to start
world quests, conveniently on wednesday
[8:19 PM]
With the world quest weekly in hand for extra rep and an anima
reward, I dove into them headfirst, getting all the world quests
that I hadn't done before (obviously all of them, on day 1) or which
provided an appearance or conduit.
[8:20 PM]
Ending up with 91 different ones completed, and several duplicates
for rewards. So quite busy!
[8:20 PM]
Also doing callings along the way, which together with raiding has
gotten my renown up to 13.
[8:20 PM]
In other words... 3 covenant chapters unlocked ahead of where I am
now.... so got my work ahead of me.
[8:21 PM]
I did do a bit of questing for the campaign, though, helping
Bwonsamdi solve the mystery of loa wildseeds going missing.
[8:22 PM]
Got 3 new legendary powers! One from the quest to get a reward from
the Great Vault for the first time, one from an event in the Maw,
and one from the Ardenweald worldboss.
[8:23 PM]
So basically the most miscellaneous sources are taken care of
[8:24 PM]
Along the world questing, also got the Flapping Frenzy achievement.
Took me half an hour of frustration and trying, but got it done
[8:24 PM]
The other flight school achievement will have to wait, since the
clouds/flowers to land on aren't working for me. Apparently next
time the world quest is up I'll need to do the paragon version
first.
[8:25 PM]
Got 2 night fae soulshapes! One from a rare that gave me the
wolfhawk, and the other took some more work.
[8:25 PM]
There's a mob that needs to be summoned at a certain spot, using a
horn located at various possible locations in Ardenweald.
[8:26 PM]
Hunted the known locations for a while one night this week, stumbled
on the horn, summoned the mob, hearthed to near the spawnplace, and
ended up with my Runestag soulshape
[8:27 PM]
Prettiest one so far, I must say. The carvings on the normal
runestags are visible in the soulshape, making it look quite a bit
more decorated than the others I had. Also a bit darker blue, I
think.
[8:27 PM]
Lessee, what else...
[8:27 PM]
new toy: Night Fae hearthstone, purchaseable at renown 11
[8:28 PM]
Also new pet, Bloodlouse Larva, coming from an egg I found during a
Maldraxxus worldquest.
[8:29 PM]
And finally a new mount! Hulking Deathroc from Maldraxxus. There are
quests there to fill a pool with mixed goo, and one of the possible
rares, Violet Mistake, can drop the mount. I was lucky to get it on
only my second kill, while doing the world quest there
[8:30 PM]
And that's my report for this week! Tune in next week for more world
quests, heroic raiding, and hopefully some campaign questing
[8:31 PM]
Might even rescue Jaina!
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 8:35 PM
Congrats :}
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 8:35 PM
Thanks!
[8:37 PM]
Namarie!
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 8:38 PM
Sleep well :}
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 8:38 PM
You too
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 8:38 PM
Thanks :}
VardaYesterday at 9:25 PM
Namarie
Eonwë ValarYesterday at 9:59 PM
Time for me to be off. Take care all, good night, sleep well, and
have fun :}
VardaYesterday at 10:10 PM
Namarie
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