Sunday, April 13, 2025
5:00pm Eastern Time
Discord: Valar Guild/meeting_place
Attending: Arien (presided for the beginning), Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Pallando (After-meeting)
Topic: name game
[(Times are in Arizona, USA time.)
[April 7, 2025
[7:55 PM]Sandalf13: Special Note! While doing some research on the extinct Baluchitheres, I came across this extremely interesting picture. What floored me, however, was that apparently a bunch of Tolkien enthusiasts got there before me, and had lots of things to say about the creature. It certainly dwarfs (no pun intended) an elephant! Reddit - The Beast of Baluchistan
[7:59 PM]Sandalf13:
[Image: size comparison with an elephant and a human]
[8:20 PM]Varda: Yay Tolkien fans. : ) And what do you want to bet someone decides to de-extinct that next? Hello, Jurassic Park.
[10:10 PM]Eönwë Valar: I assume we've heard about the dire-wolves then. Guess it's better than wargs.
[April 8, 2025
[12:19 AM]Eönwë Valar: {Note: LotRO} Got my home at 2 Twinfall Path again. I think it might even be the same neighborhood because I'd logged out in my neighborhood. I've just been chilling in there waiting for housing to open.
[12:19 AM]Eönwë Valar: Tum Laden neighborhood in Falathlorn.
[1:01 AM]Eönwë Valar: You know, it looks like my last complaint/concern has just been resolved. I was curious about my upkeep, so I checked it on my Housing tab, and it shows no upkeep amount. Looked odd. I clicked on maintenance, and it shows me my lockout is in august. So, it looks like all that silver I spent on upkeep carried over with me.
[1:01 AM]Eönwë Valar: But I still think it's weird that the Houses window shows no upkeep for my house, but upkeep for the kin house.
[1:11 AM]Eönwë Valar: My High Elf Visitor just walked into my wall.
[4:58 PM]Eönwë Valar: {Note: WoW} Oooh, tough call from the vault this week: I could get a trinket that's better for Ret than one of my current ones, or a new weapon that gives me back my strength..
[4:59 PM]Eönwë Valar: Current weapon ""Befouler's Syringe" or Potential new weapon "Machine Gob's Iron Grin"
[8:02 PM]Eönwë Valar: Anyone else in WoW feel like mining or other gathering professions are slower today?
[9:52 PM]Eönwë Valar: Very difficult to punt the bombs with Underpin standing right on top of them.
[10:05 PM]Eönwë Valar: Well, finally got him on T?
[10:05 PM]Eönwë Valar: 654 ilvl.
[10:06 PM]Eönwë Valar: Not a fan of that fight.
[April 9, 2025
[5:08 PM]Varda: https://www.lotro.com/news/lotro-server-update-en
[5:10 PM]Varda: Two new 64-bit servers. April 9 EU server Grond . Sting US server a few weeks later.
[5:10 PM]Varda: Free character transfers from both 32-bit and other 64-bit EU worlds to Grond (EU) will become available at 3:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT). All housing will be open for immediate claiming when the server goes live for VIPs at 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT).
[5:11 PM]Varda: Sting (US) will launch in the following weeks. Exact dates for Sting (US) will be announced soon.
[ @Varda
[Two new 64-bit servers. April 9 EU server Grond . Sting US server a few weeks later.
[5:59 PM]Eönwë Valar: YouTube - Grond - The battering ram Strikes
[ @Varda
[Sting (US) will launch in the following weeks. Exact dates for Sting (US) will be announced soon.
[6:00 PM]Eönwë Valar: YouTube - Bilbo's First Kill and the Naming of Sting | The Hobbit 1977
[7:51 PM]Varda: The Illustrated Channel. Love it. : )
[8:19 PM]Eönwë Valar: :}
[April 13, 2025
[2:01 PM]Arien Valar: aiya is anyone here?
[2:01 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Aiya!
[2:02 PM]Arien Valar: so it looks like its just the two of us ^
[2:03 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I spy a few regular names on the side, I'm sure they'll chime in eventually
[2:03 PM]Arien Valar: do you mind having just a short meeting today ? i am not early work tomorrow but quite tired
[2:03 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Do you know how to do Varda's bouncer thing?
[2:03 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Ah, sure.
[2:04 PM]Arien Valar: and unfortunately i dont know hat , no
[2:05 PM]Arien Valar: I am just a gamer with basic computer knowledge and no techno wizz
[2:05 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Heh, sounds familiar. The only reason I'm considered the tech wiz among my family is because my parents know even less!
[2:06 PM]Arien Valar: hehe
[2:07 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: (also, I know how to look stuff up!)
[2:08 PM]Arien Valar: so ... Elen sila lumenn omentielvo ! A star shines upon the hour of our meeting
[2:08 PM]Arien Valar: Membership news:
[2:08 PM]Arien Valar: Varda is travelling with Fangorn to meet Eowyn {Note: Sauron is house-sitting, just to add to the weirdness.}
[2:08 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: There's a Tolkien novel for you.
[2:09 PM]Arien Valar: that would be interesting aye
[2:09 PM]Eönwë Valar: Heya.
[2:09 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Aiya!
[2:09 PM]Arien Valar: oho rthere is eonwe ..
[2:09 PM]Arien Valar: aiya Eonwe
[2:10 PM]Arien Valar: are you able to take the gavel ?
[2:11 PM]Arien Valar: I ll keep the gavel for the moment then hehee
[2:11 PM]Arien Valar: in other member ship news :
[2:12 PM]Arien Valar: we are here and we have side lukers
[2:12 PM]Eönwë Valar: Sorry, yes. I can take the gavel.
[2:13 PM]Arien Valar: ok great .. gavel imagines it is a pogo stick and boings to eonwe
[2:13 PM]Eönwë Valar: Little bit of rl distractions but I can take it now.
[2:14 PM]Eönwë Valar: Don't expect a much longer meeting than the one Arien was going to have though, heh.
[2:15 PM]Eönwë Valar: Ok, So I see Phar, Arien, and me. Anyone else here, say Valinor for the roll to make this easy.
[2:16 PM]Eönwë Valar: Looks like Arien covered the Membership news I would've had. Any other Membership news?
[2:18 PM]Eönwë Valar: OK, then on to Web:
[2:18 PM]Eönwë Valar: Nothing, yet.
[2:19 PM]Eönwë Valar: Gaming:
[2:20 PM]Eönwë Valar: World of Warcraft:
[This week's bonus event: Arena Skirmishes.
[This week's PvP Brawl: Deep Six.
[2:20 PM]Eönwë Valar: Update 11.1.5 is coming April 22nd, but that's not when all the good stuff is coming. See the link for the breakdown on when parts you'll think are fun are coming. --- Link
[2:20 PM]Eönwë Valar: Season of Discovery Phase 8's Scarlet Enclave raid is live.
[2:21 PM]Eönwë Valar: Check out WoW Weekly for anything not mentioned above.
[2:21 PM]Eönwë Valar: Check out this week's hotfixes .
[Blizzard is teasing a new expansion for 2026. Check out more of what's coming with this --- roadmap.
[2:22 PM]Eönwë Valar: Diablo Immortal:
[Check out the latest bug fixes and patch notes.
[2:22 PM]Eönwë Valar: Overwatch 2:
[A new Director's Take is out: Season 16 On the Horizon.
[2:22 PM]Eönwë Valar: Lord of the Rings Online:
[2:23 PM]Eönwë Valar: Update 43.4 came out this week. Link
[2:23 PM]Eönwë Valar: Two new 64-bit servers are coming: Grond(EU) out this week (April 9) and Sting(US) out soon. Link
[2:23 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: New D4 expansion, eh? I should probably spend some more time completing the story for this one...
[2:23 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehe
[2:24 PM]Arien Valar: comment to the Lotro news and the launch of the two new 64 bit servers
[2:24 PM]Eönwë Valar: Any other gaming news?
[2:24 PM]Eönwë Valar: Go ahead.
[2:25 PM]Arien Valar: its just too crowded especially on Peregrin .. and its starting to lag there
[2:25 PM]Arien Valar: so i guess they are just splitting the load
[2:25 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: (they're certainly not being stingy with the new servers!)
[2:26 PM]Arien Valar: my two cents on that for what it is worth
[2:26 PM]Arien Valar: carry on Eonwe
[2:26 PM]Eönwë Valar:
[Image: Frodo's view of Sam's saying "Share the load" of the One Ring.]
[2:27 PM]Eönwë Valar: Started thinking about that scene, heh.
[2:28 PM]Arien Valar: WoW gaming: oh and I had a bug with a high tear token in Cata classic which i cant swap for the real armor .. put in a ticket but the gms cant do anything about it , apparently just the devs so i put a post on the us customer service forum but couldnt see an answer there yet
[2:28 PM]Eönwë Valar: I haven't actually gone out into the world on either server, so I can't judge the lag on them, but if it's getting that bad, I guess that means their 32-bit servers are not long for this world.
[2:29 PM]Arien Valar: funny thing is that i can t remember looting it .... so why it landed in my bag in the first place i do not know
[2:29 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehe
[2:30 PM]Eönwë Valar: I have the opposite problem: my Wave Scrambler 2000's that I know I have in my bags keep disappearing.
[2:30 PM]Eönwë Valar: I know I'm not using them, I know i'm not destroying them, and they can't be sold.
[2:30 PM]Arien Valar: weird ...
[2:31 PM]Arien Valar: anyways we ' ll see what comes of it )
[2:31 PM]Eönwë Valar: Aye. Good luck :}
[2:31 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: been pickpocketed by any rogues lately?
[2:31 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehehe.
[2:31 PM]Eönwë Valar: That would at least be an explanation, heh.
[2:32 PM]Eönwë Valar: Ok, if there's no other gaming news....
[2:33 PM]Arien Valar: i thought that doesn t work on retail anymore ? at least with npcs .. I remember with my little rouge pickpocketing the tarren mills guards but after that , Blizzard made it impossile pickpocketing npcs
[2:33 PM]Arien Valar: that was a loooong time ago
[2:34 PM]Eönwë Valar: I don't know, but they wouldn't be taking from my inventory anyway. I took Phar's comment as a joke :}
[2:34 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Considering you need to pickpocket your way to exalted with Ravenholdt, it's still in the game in some form, but that might just be enemies.
[2:34 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And yes, it was
[2:34 PM]Eönwë Valar: Rogues can still pickpocket, yes.
[2:34 PM]Eönwë Valar: Humanoid mobs, not much else.
[2:35 PM]Arien Valar: aye
[2:35 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I recall some addon where rogues would emote taking some silver from your pockets.
[2:35 PM]Eönwë Valar: And now you make me want to check my Ravenholdt rep.
[2:35 PM]Arien Valar: sorry ^^
[2:36 PM]Eönwë Valar: I can't imagine it's very high. I think I left off at Honored.
[2:36 PM]Eönwë Valar: But it could be Friendly still.
[2:36 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: gasp you're not insane in the membrane?
[2:36 PM]Eönwë Valar: Now I didn't say that, lol.
[2:37 PM]Arien Valar: pats Eonwe
[2:37 PM]Eönwë Valar: Seriously, no. I've still not exalted all the old Goblin reps either.
[2:37 PM]Eönwë Valar: I think maybe one is in Revered, if that.
[2:38 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I suppose you'll have something to do if you're ever bored
[2:40 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehe
[2:40 PM]Eönwë Valar: That's what old raids are for :}
[2:40 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: hehe
[2:42 PM]Eönwë Valar: Think I have one in Shadowlands I still haven't done. Maybe.
[2:42 PM]Eönwë Valar: I did the one with the Sylvannas fight a couple of weeks ago while I was trying to clear out some quests and inventory clutter.
[2:43 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Missing the one with the Jailer?
[2:43 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I rather liked that place.
[2:44 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: That said, I still haven't unlocked the zone itself... the mount item from Jailer is still sitting in my bags until I unlock the npc to deliver it to!
[2:44 PM]Eönwë Valar: I don't remember if I ever did that one or not. I feel like I did, but as I generally didn't enjoy Shadowlands it's possible I skipped it.l
[2:45 PM]Eönwë Valar: I feel like I saw some of the cinematics, but I could've caught those on youtube as well.
[2:46 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: wears Shadowlands Enthusiast title with pride
[2:46 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehe
[2:47 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: To be fair, most of my love of SL comes from Ardenweald
[2:47 PM]Eönwë Valar: If I'm lucky they'll make Void Elf or Night Elf Paladins ahead of Legion Remix :}
[2:48 PM]Eönwë Valar: Yeah, none of the four factions really hit the spot for me.
[2:49 PM]Eönwë Valar: And overall the expansion left me with a feeling of meh.
[2:51 PM]Eönwë Valar: Their backpedaling from solo-and-small-group-friendly content like Horrific Visions by turning it into Torghast likely didn't help.
[2:52 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I'm not sure if I liked visions over Torghast. It just became so predictable.
[2:52 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: ...Also, didn't that kinda carry over into Delves?
[2:53 PM]Eönwë Valar: Visions were proto-Delves. They weren't perfect, but they were moving in the right direction. Then they took a leap back with Torghast because they didn't want to reward people for small group content in ways that would actually progress their character. (edited)
[2:55 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Myeah, ok. Delves remind me more of Torghast rather than Visions, but I wasn't really thinking about the reward system.
[2:55 PM]Eönwë Valar: Torghast was... 18 floors I think... of mind-numbery.
[2:56 PM]Eönwë Valar: I dread considering going back for the achievements I missed.
[2:56 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: :)
[2:56 PM]Eönwë Valar: I even did that recently. Kept wishing I could go faster.. and hating having to cross the chains.
[2:57 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Didn't those get teleports at some point?
[2:57 PM]Eönwë Valar: Yeah, still hated it :}
[2:59 PM]Eönwë Valar: But Delves are better than Visions or Torghast. We'll see how the revisited Visions are, but Delves are a step forward from Visions, imo.
[2:59 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Certainly more variety in environments and powers.
[3:00 PM]Eönwë Valar: War Within at least gets a + for Delves.
[3:00 PM]Eönwë Valar: Other things too, but Delves are a positive.
[3:00 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Did Dragonflight have something like that? There's so much about that expansion that I just haven't touched yet.
[3:00 PM]Eönwë Valar: No.
[3:01 PM]Eönwë Valar: Dragonflight skipped anything of the sort.
[3:02 PM]Arien Valar: Dragonflight had those underground vave thingies
[3:02 PM]Eönwë Valar: Dragonflight wasn't bad, but it wasn't exciting either. Coming off of Shadowlands, I was considering that being it for WoW for me.
[3:03 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And then you started delving deeply and greedily.
[3:03 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehehe
[3:03 PM]Eönwë Valar: Well it helped.
[3:04 PM]Arien Valar: Balrog sneaks on US Server
[3:05 PM]Eönwë Valar: Some of the story makes me interested enough to see what the World Soul Saga is going to do, other of it just seems the standard modern storytelling motif. So we'll see how it goes.
[3:07 PM]Eönwë Valar: Anyway, we should get to Tolkien so that Arien can get some rest sometime soon :}
[3:07 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Sure
[3:07 PM]Arien Valar: Somehow it all got a bit oo complicated for me although i did make into Undermine but .. i heartily agree with Eonwe
[3:08 PM]Eönwë Valar: :}
[3:08 PM]Eönwë Valar: Tolkien:
[3:08 PM]Eönwë Valar: So game or topic?
[3:09 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Game might be nice, unless you have a topic you don't mind Varda missing out on
[3:09 PM]Arien Valar: YouTube - Clamavi De Profundis - I Sit Beside the Fire and Think
[3:10 PM]Eönwë Valar: I'd probably pick something small and maybe leaning towards non-serious that could accidentally lead down rabbit-holes we don't expect, heh.
[3:10 PM]Eönwë Valar: Probably a bad idea for a quick Tolkien time, hehe.
[3:11 PM]Arien Valar: well the master of digression isn t here
[3:11 PM]Arien Valar: eh diversion i mean
[3:11 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Oh I think we can divert a bit
[3:11 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehehe
[3:12 PM]Eönwë Valar: Up to you but I'm setting the gavel-bang to be by 5:30 :} I've places I must go too :}
[3:12 PM]Arien Valar: uhu ....
[3:12 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: places to go, orcs to slay...}
[3:13 PM]Eönwë Valar: {Image of the red and blue pills in the Matrix}
[3:15 PM]Eönwë Valar: Phar said game, so no objection? :}
[3:15 PM]Eönwë Valar: OK, guess not, so Let's spin the Wheel of Tolkien and see what game we get!
[3:16 PM]Eönwë Valar: {Image of the Animaniacs spinning the Wheel of Morality}
[3:16 PM]Arien Valar: deer i say
[3:16 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Exactly the image I had in mind, Eonwe
[3:16 PM]Eönwë Valar: :}
[3:16 PM]Eönwë Valar: What was that, Arien?
[3:16 PM]Arien Valar: we can go for fowl of course if you chose if u dont like deer
[3:17 PM]Eönwë Valar: Hah, gotcha :}
[3:17 PM]Arien Valar:
[3:17 PM]Eönwë Valar: And the game for tonight is drumroll:
[3:18 PM]Eönwë Valar: Name game. I start, next name must begin with the last letter of the previous name.
[3:18 PM]Eönwë Valar: Order = Eonwe, Phar, Arien.
[3:19 PM]Eönwë Valar: First name is:
[3:19 PM]Eönwë Valar: Rhosgobel.
[3:19 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Lindon.
[3:19 PM]Arien Valar: Numenor
[3:19 PM]Eönwë Valar: Romenna
[3:19 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Arnor
[3:20 PM]Arien Valar: Rivendell
[3:20 PM]Eönwë Valar: Lomelindë (new name doesn't have to have the umlauted e, just regular e, but extra kudos if you have one)
[3:21 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Hmm, I spy a challenge...
[3:22 PM]Eönwë Valar: Don't think you're going to come up with one, so don't worry about it too much.
[3:22 PM]Arien Valar: Eriador is the only i can think of .. but that ends in R again
[3:22 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Which I fail, so I'll pass it on. Eonwe.
[3:22 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Or are we locations only?
[3:22 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: *Eonwë
[3:23 PM]Eönwë Valar: No, any name. I might narrow it down next time we play though.
[3:23 PM]Eönwë Valar: Ok, so Arien's working from Eonwë.
[3:23 PM]Eönwë Valar: Gonna stay with Eriador since it works? :}
[3:24 PM]Arien Valar: aye
[3:24 PM]Eönwë Valar: OK.
[3:24 PM]Eönwë Valar: Rhovanion
[3:25 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Nimrodel
[3:25 PM]Arien Valar: Leod
[3:26 PM]Eönwë Valar: Last Round.
[3:27 PM]Eönwë Valar: Dorwinion
[3:28 PM]Arien Valar: YouTube - Sentamusic - Niënna. {Note: Varda tried but it said "Video Unavailable". Try searching for another version of it from this info, as it does show.}
[3:28 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Nob
[3:28 PM]Arien Valar: Beorn
[3:28 PM]Eönwë Valar: And bravo, we made it through :}
[3:28 PM]Eönwë Valar: And that's actually one of my favorite songs, hehe.
[3:29 PM]Arien Valar: :)
[3:29 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I just wanted to come up with something that didn't end in n, r or l for a change
[3:29 PM]Eönwë Valar: :}
[3:30 PM]Eönwë Valar: Aye. always fun when we can steer it into other letters :}
[3:31 PM]Eönwë Valar: Alot of Elven words end like that, but dragging it into Hobbit (and some Dwarf) names can break the cycle :}
[3:31 PM]Arien Valar: indeed
[3:32 PM]Eönwë Valar: And some Rohirric names too.
[3:32 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Took me a while to remember Nob as well. I kept thinking Nog, but I have been watching Deep Space Nine videos lately.
[3:32 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehe
[3:33 PM]Eönwë Valar: Bangs Gavel
[3:33 PM]Arien Valar: i ll say .... Irmo
Thus ends this week's meeting. Come back and see us next week!
[3:33 PM]Eönwë Valar: It's now Aftermeeting. Thanks for coming, for chatting, for playing the game :}
[3:34 PM]Arien Valar: thanks for steering the game and handling the gavel
[3:34 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Yes, thank you
[3:34 PM]Eönwë Valar: For attending our meeting all contestants get a chance to sleep and/or go about their day :}
[3:35 PM]Arien Valar: Namarie for now !
[3:35 PM]Eönwë Valar: :}
[3:35 PM]Eönwë Valar: Sleep well Arien :}
[3:35 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: namarie!
[3:35 PM]Eönwë Valar: Take care all, good night, sleep well, and have fun :}
[5:12 PM]Pallando-Valar: Hi, sorry, busy, next event starts Tuesday in Eve. Link. also you have 1 day to grab 5 days of free omega Link.
[9:15 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Personal gaming report:
[9:15 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: For (non)flashgaming, here's "Sort the Court!" on Kongregate
[9:17 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: A strategy/interactive fiction game where you play a king or queen and people keep asking you yes or no questions and petitions. You need to balance and grow your population, happiness and gold by carving your own path through these questions, unlocking mini story arcs as you go.
[9:17 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Or just fail miserably and run out of people in a week or so
[9:18 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: The consequences are quite intuitive, though, so that shouldn't happen unless you intentionally make it happen!
[9:27 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Blizzard gaming:
[9:29 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Hearthstone:
[Level 50 on the reward track now. That got me a random legendary from the new set, which happened to be another wild god, Agamaggan the boar, for the warlock class.
[9:30 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Completed the quest event, with the third main quest being about hero powers, with imbued hero powers counting twice. I did make a deck for imbued hero power, but I ended up mostly completing the quest in normal gameplay. Always nice when you don't have to make an extra effort
[9:33 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Final reward is a new rogue skin, Woodland Valeera, featuring the iconic blood elf rogue in a green outfit, hanging out with woodland creatures back in Quel'thalas. Very sweet! And I don't mean that as "cool", just sweet
[9:39 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I also got the achievement for total levels gained on reward tracks, to 2200 now. Reward I chose was Ten Storm Thrall for shaman, the only class who I hadn't picked a skin for from this reward line yet.
[9:40 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Brawl is Party Portals! 2 identical decks opposing each other, using Medivh the mage and his many different types of portals that summon random minions. That's still a lot of randomness, and much luck is needed!
[9:41 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Warcraft Rumble:
[No new collection levels, slow week.
[9:42 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: 2 new events up, but neither really require any change in play. There's a log-in event giving increased rewards for every day you log in, which should give some big tomes and gold near the end at least, and a blingtron event focusing solely on the shop. I never get very far in that one, but at least I can get a few grid reset buttons out of it.
[9:44 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: The Arthas event is also still going, as it got extended by almost a week. I indeed managed to pass the last challenge by resurrecting 500 allied minis with Arthas, though I hadn't noticed there's a 1000 achievement after that That, I won't make. But no matter, I've got almost 10k tickets spare to convert into arc energy anyway.
[9:44 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: The extension has kept Arthas in the dungeon rotation a while longer, though, which was nice.
[9:46 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Speaking of the dungeon, I completed Malfurion this week through level 22, which means the Cenarion family is my first to max out their army slots from the dungeon
[9:47 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Spent the rest of the cenarion week doing a few Arthas fights instead, getting him from 5 to 14.
[9:49 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And in the horde week, I got my last horde leader Orgrim Doomhammer up to level 22, which means he's just that one out from being maxed out himself. If I manage that, it'll be the first week in which I'm at all level 23s, the repeatable level which gives gold once a week, per leader I think. That should help me out in the shopping grid in the future, if I can manage to get them through level 23!
[9:51 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Another funny dungeon interaction, by the way... in the Stomper Kreeg fight, where the enemy minions get drunk and turn on each other at half health, capturing one with Doomhammer's Mak'gora ability keeps the trigger active, meaning that even converted minis will still fight anyone around them, usually your own minis. (edited)
[9:51 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Luckily, your minis still fight back
[9:53 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Quality wise, no new quality upgrades - I only have so few still left to get to rare, after all - but I did get talents for all 4 rares that were still missing their second talents. That means they're caught up again!
[9:55 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I suspect I'll be running out of upgrades soon enough, since epic takes a lot longer. That might shorten the reports a bit
[9:55 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: WoW:
[9:57 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: More raiding on normal and heroic, a bit more heroic this time since we used the shortcut to get to the One-armed Bandit bossfight, skipping about half the raid, on normal. Usually a sign we're getting stuff on farm
[9:59 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Weekly is arena skirmishes. My win rate as feral is still quite low, but the fights are short enough when we lose. So I can live with it. Me and another feral lost a 2v1 against a guardian/tank druid, though, which makes me wonder what I was doing wrong when I arena'd as guardian
[10:00 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Got to honor level 138 along the way, which is also nice to have.
[10:01 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And finally, delves! Been doing more tier 9, which is going more smoothly after a few ilevel upgrades. Got a heroic raid piece or two and put some valorstones and crests into gear upgrades, and that helps. Not enough for tier 10 yet though.
[10:01 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Well, it might be, but it's not enough for the recommended ilevel anyway
[10:02 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Got Brann from 59 to 61, at which point the curiosities still give the lower amount of xp to him. No idea when the difference kicks in, then. Might even be 70, or there might be another condition I'm missing. Regardless, they still help.
[10:03 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Got to the next level on the delve journey, too, unlocking the purchase of keys, rather than a cosmetic for the mount. That'll be next time!
[10:04 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And that's my report for the week
[10:04 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: namarie!
[April 14, 2025
[1:24 AM]Arien Valar: Thank you both, Pallando and Ar Pharazon Interesting and busy indeed Good luck in your adventures!
[5:16 PM]Eönwë Valar: Out of curiosity, have you tried a T10 yet, Phar, or are you just playing it safe?
[April 15, 2025
[12:59 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Playing it safe, so I can still easily feral it rather than being forced to go guardian. I'm sure I'll get to 10 and 11 through heroic raidgear.
[1:45 PM]Eönwë Valar: Just curious, because I imagine your ilvl can't be much worse than mine since you raid, and your Brann hasn't been that far behind mine (maybe 9 levels I think?), and I've been doing well so I imagine you'd do ok in a T10 by now.
[1:46 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Oh, probably. But there's still plenty of time in the season, and I like the idea of taking it slowly this time
[1:47 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: 647 ilevel right now.
[2:04 PM]Eönwë Valar: Fair enough :}
[2:05 PM]Eönwë Valar: Tried Underpin in his lair yet?
[2:29 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Not yet. When the time comes, ? should be fine.
[3:54 PM]Eönwë Valar: Yeah. Personally I'd say the fight leaned more towards annoying than tough on ?, but we'll see what you think when you do it :}
[April 19, 2025]
[3:47 AM]Eönwë Valar: 658 ilvl, and fighting Zek'vir on ?? feels as rough as at 626 ilvl.
[3:54 AM]Eönwë Valar: Yep, not making any more headway than I did at my best at 626 ilvl.
[3:57 AM]Eönwë Valar: The mech drop is great until it happens right when you need to interrupt the heal.
[3:57 AM]Eönwë Valar: The footballs don't drop enough.