Sunday, May 4, 2025
5:00pm Eastern Time
Discord: Valar Guild/meeting_place
Attending: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
Topic 1: Valar Guild Anniversary theme suggestions are being taken. Please add to the suggestion list on Discord.
Topic 2: Gandalf tried to be where he needed to be, when he needed to be. Did he ever miss that goal?
[April 30, 2025
[5:45 PM]Eönwë Valar: Oh, suppose I'll mention that between the Delver's Bounty and my vault, I got my full 4-piece in hero gear this week.
[5:45 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Grats!
[5:58 PM]Eönwë Valar: Thanks.
[9:00 PM]Eönwë Valar: Just.... wow.. Not WoW. wow. WoW is trying to improve its UI.
[9:02 PM]Eönwë Valar: Only a few minutes in, and the idea of building in a literal single-button rotation... just wow.
[9:03 PM]Eönwë Valar: Not in a good way, to be clear.
[9:06 PM]Eönwë Valar: I've never really cared too much about DPS/HPS meters, but I would've chosen those for built-in functionality over a single-button rotation cycler.
[9:09 PM]Eönwë Valar: Coordinates on maps/ui would be great too, so I don't have to have a macro for it.
[May 1, 2025
[8:34 PM]Eönwë Valar: My Mariposa (Butterfly Huntress) went from 47 to 60 pretty darn fast in this levelling event, but my Turtle Hermit (Hunter, his pet should be pretty obvious from the nickname) is dragging from 77 just to 79.
[8:35 PM]Sandalf13: How apt...the Spanish word for butterfly is, of course, una Mariposa...
[8:41 PM]Eönwë Valar: That's why I call her that :}
[8:43 PM]Eönwë Valar: Just like the Lightforged Draenei I made back in MoP Remix is my Murloc Mama, because her transmog includes a baby murloc in a papoose on her back.
[8:53 PM]Sandalf13: You are indeed an etymological wizard.
[8:54 PM]Sandalf13: Perhaps your name should "Etymalf"
[8:55 PM]Sandalf13: Etymolalf?
[8:55 PM]Sandalf13: I think the first one rolls off the tongue a bit easier...
[8:57 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehe
[10:25 PM]Eönwë Valar: Oh lord, more faction conflict.
[10:26 PM]Eönwë Valar: And wow (WoW, even): Red Judgement.
[10:27 PM]Eönwë Valar: World of Warcraft - Legacy of Arathor
[10:27 PM]Eönwë Valar: Image
[May 2, 2025
[12:15 AM]Eönwë Valar: Turtle Hermit crawled across the finish line and is now lvl 80. Ought to make gathering herbs and skins faster when I need them.
[4:27 AM]Eönwë Valar: Oh yeah. That's why I hated the racing quests in Dragonflight: camera angle made it extremely difficult to see the track ahead and too many races got close to the ground.
[12:27 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Turtle Hermit? Is that a master Roshi reference?
[3:24 PM]Eönwë Valar: Yes :} Though he's a Void Elf Hunter that hangs out with a turtle :}
[5:20 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Ok, breakpoint is found I think: Brann just hit 65, and the xp from curiosities grows
[5:34 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Oh, that's also the point where his xp per level goes up to 250k rather than... 187500 or something?
[5:35 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: So it makes sense!
[5:38 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Yes. A bit of math tells me the curiosities are 1.25%, 2.5% and 5% of your level in both cases.
[5:39 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Mystery solved!
[9:03 PM]Eönwë Valar: Yay :}
[9:04 PM]Eönwë Valar: Image: Burns says, "Excellent"
[9:04 PM]Eönwë Valar: And just because...
[9:05 PM]Eönwë Valar:
[@Ar-Pharazon-V
[Mystery solved!
[Image: Daffy says, "I'm on the case."
[9:05 PM]Sandalf13: Yes...Daffy is on the case, but he seems to be getting nowhere with it...
[9:22 PM]Eönwë Valar: If I could find this on the talent tree for my Outlaw Rogue, I'd get it: YouTube - My name is nobody - Terence Hill Epic Fight
[May 3, 2025
[6:05 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Wow, who knew that the most wholesome Children's Week quest I can remember would involve a little spider...
[8:15 PM]Eönwë Valar: And goblins.
[11:23 PM]Eönwë Valar: Well, I've got my 500 mount achievement already, there's not another higher one, and the two mounts this month aren't must-haves for me. So, I'll get me the turtle shell instead.
[11:31 PM]Eönwë Valar: With Pirate Day and all I have no idea how they don't have one of these masks in WoW yet:
[11:32 PM]Eönwë Valar: gif - The Dread Pirate Robert
[11:32 PM]Eönwë Valar: My Outlaw Rogue needs that, or gif - Zorro
[11:48 PM]Eönwë Valar: Interesting how Hunters seem to hold their bows in their left hand in the transmog window... except for their artifact bows which get held in their right hand.
[11:49 PM]Eönwë Valar: At least one specific one anyway: the gold feather version of Thas'Dorah.
[May 4, 2025
[12:16 AM]Eönwë Valar: World of Warcraft - Calauros - Character (Lothar) ❮Valar Guild❯ - 80 Void Elf {spec} {class}, {0} ilvl
[12:16 AM]Eönwë Valar: There's the Turtle Hermit in Red.
[12:17 AM]Eönwë Valar: And here's La Mariposa with a flower bow: World of Warcraft - Character - Calauras (Lothar) ❮Valar Guild❯ - 67 Void Elf {spec} {class}, {0} ilvl
[12:18 AM]Eönwë Valar: Although that's not a good angle.
[12:29 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: The mask the turtle hermit is wearing comes pretty close, or do you specifically want black one?
[12:45 AM]Eönwë Valar: Specifically black one. Was thinking about it since they've got all the TMNT colors on the trading post, heh.
[12:46 AM]Eönwë Valar: And got a better screenshot of La Mariposa in the screenshots channel now :}
[12:46 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Hmm, the bow fits nicely!
[12:46 AM]Eönwë Valar: Aye.
[12:47 AM]Eönwë Valar: Worth going after the noblegarden transmogs for once, heh.
[12:48 AM]Eönwë Valar: *Worth it for me
[12:52 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Hmm, I should try the noblegarden mogs - got all 5 new weapons - on Calvirona. She's supposed to be flower-themed... but I ended up giving her a character-screen gear upgrade by mistake, apparently?
[12:53 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Or... maybe that was part of the Timerunning wrap-up.
[12:54 AM]Eönwë Valar: Either one's possible. Don't usually bother with the gear update due to how quickly the lower levels go anyway.
[12:54 AM]Eönwë Valar: But I've done it on a few chars, at least one accidentally somehow, heh.
[12:55 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I always try to skip them because of the mog
[12:55 AM]Eönwë Valar: :}
[12:55 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: My other timerunner appears to have his missing slots filled in by the gear upgrade. Weird.
[12:57 AM]Eönwë Valar: My main is closing in on 6 million gold. Only time I balk at transmog costs is on my main, heh. For my levellers I just get annoyed at having to hit the button so much so I usually end up letting it go for a few levels in between.
[12:57 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Which are also mogged. I must've forgotten to do the same to 'virona after the event ended.
[12:58 AM]Eönwë Valar: Easy to forget.
[12:59 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Well, time to yak her up then!
[1:01 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Ah, good, her set's saved still... and the weapon she's using is actually the red version of the polearm that came with noblegarden. And white fits her better, yay!
[1:01 AM]Eönwë Valar: :}
[1:06 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Quick picture in the screenshots channel!
[1:06 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: (since her armory will probably take a week to update)
[1:01 AM]Eönwë Valar: :}
[1:06 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Quick picture in the screenshots channel!
[1:06 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: (since her armory will probably take a week to update)
[1:08 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And a lovely battle pose in the character screen as well
[1:11 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: That adorable snarl...
[1:13 AM]Eönwë Valar: :}
[3:59 PM]Varda: Aiya : )
[4:01 PM]Varda: @Bounder @Guild-friend Valar Guild meeting time! Come say hi in meeting_place.
[4:02 PM]Eönwë Valar: Heya. Sorta here.
[4:03 PM]Varda: hehe
[4:03 PM]Varda: Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
[4:03 PM]Varda: Membership:
[4:03 PM]Varda: May the Fourth be with you.
[4:03 PM]Varda: Hello to Eonwe : )
[4:04 PM]Varda: Web News:
[4:04 PM]Varda: Nothing this past week for the Tolkien Site.
[4:04 PM]Varda: Gaming:
[4:05 PM]Arien Valar: Aiya all :)]
[4:05 PM]Varda: Aiya Sunshine : )
[4:05 PM]Varda: Did you have any gaming news, Arien? : )
[4:06 PM]Arien Valar: Nothing beyond the usual and before i forget it ..
[4:06 PM]Arien Valar: May the fourth be with you
[4:07 PM]Varda: Yay Fourth!
[4:08 PM]Arien Valar: or May the juice be with you *cough but brilliant film that if you want rto laugh heartily :)#
[4:08 PM]Varda: heh : )
[4:08 PM]Varda: Thanks to Eonwe, here are some other reports:
[4:08 PM]Varda: World of Warcraft:
[4:09 PM]Varda: This week's bonus event: Battlegrounds.
[4:09 PM]Varda: This week's PvP Brawl: Comp Stomp.
[4:09 PM]Varda: The Darkmoon Faire is this week.
[4:09 PM]Varda: Phase 4 of WoW Classic 20th Anniversary Edition is live.
[4:10 PM]Varda: See May's Trading Post.
[4:10 PM]Varda: Big eyes on those pups.
[4:10 PM]Varda: Looks like the Legacy of Arathor update is stirring the faction animosity again, amongst other things. Check out
the info [4:11 PM]Varda: If Add-ons are your thing (or even if they're not), you may be interested to see this
WoWcast [4:11 PM]Varda: Egad! Photos : )
[4:12 PM]Varda: Check out WoW Weekly for anything not mentioned above.
[4:12 PM]Arien Valar: i ve done the intro to the new faction out of curiosity its a quick way to gear up but very hectic .. a bit like the big hunt events with the centaurs but worse :_))
[4:12 PM]Varda: Keeps you busy, anyway, right? : )
[4:12 PM]Varda: WoW Weekly: Legacy of Arathor, WoWCast, and more.
[4:13 PM]Varda: Hearthstone:
[4:13 PM]Varda: New mini-set incoming: Embers of the World-Tree.
[4:13 PM]Varda: Warcraft Rumble:
[4:14 PM]Varda: Check out the Season 14 patch notes.
[4:14 PM]Varda: Diablo 4:
[4:14 PM]Varda: A new tale is out: A New Tale: “All Who Lie”
[4:15 PM]Varda: (That one takes age verification.)
[4:15 PM]Varda: Check out the recent patch notes.
[4:15 PM]Varda: Diablo IV Patch Notes
[4:15 PM]Varda: (So does that one.) [4:15 PM]Varda: Diablo Immortal:
[4:16 PM]Varda: Check out the recent bug fixes.
[4:16 PM]Varda: Diablo Immortal Bug Fixes and Patch Notes for All Platforms
[4:16 PM]Varda: (and that one. For bug fixes? heh) [4:16 PM]Varda: Overwatch 2:
[4:17 PM]Varda: A new Director's Take is out: Past, Present, And Future of Stadium.
[4:17 PM]Varda: A new blog is also out: The Art And Style Of Dokiwatch.
[4:17 PM]Varda: A crossover with Gundam Wing is going. [4:18 PM]Varda: Starcraft 2:
[4:18 PM]Varda: The usual suspects that I know of: Eowyn, Fangorn, Floppa, and Faramir. [4:19 PM]Varda: Lord of the Rings Online:
[4:19 PM]Varda: The Hard Tack Crafting event continues through May 7.
[4:19 PM]Varda: Guide
[4:19 PM]Varda: The 18th Anniversary of LotRO event continues through May 12.
[4:20 PM]Varda: Guide
[4:20 PM]Varda: Codes (for free stuff):
[4:20 PM]Varda: GREENBEAMS for 25 green dwarf-candles, through May 8
[4:20 PM]Varda: THANKYOU2025 for multiple nice things, through May 18
[4:21 PM]Varda: LotRO kinmates in the last 13 days, since I was on the road last meeting: Peregrin branch (US RP-encouraged):needs update Glamdring branch (US normal): Treebeard branch (temp VIP slow-level): Angmar branch (temp US VIP "Veil of the Nine"): Mordor branch (temp EU VIP "Veil of the Nine"): [4:21 PM]Varda: Anything to add on gaming or membership?
[4:22 PM]Varda: Pallando messaged:
[4:22 PM]Debes: I have eve news but it'll be a few minutes before I can write it up (almost to the hotel). Will drop it in after meeting probably. Short version is the drifters are escalating the war on the 6th (details unknown) and there's a new expansion on the 27th, legion.
[4:23 PM]Varda: Sounds interesting!
[4:23 PM]Varda: On to
[4:23 PM]Varda: Topic: Gandalf tried to be where he needed to be, when he needed to be. Did he ever miss that goal?
[4:24 PM]Varda: (oh - and be sure to suggest an anniversary theme for our Guild annivsary that needs to be done in October. Helps a lot to have stuff ready ahead as it sneaks right up!)
[4:25 PM]Varda: On the left of the chat screen under meeting_place, see the Anniversary Themes 2025 and feel free to add something(s) anytime!
[4:25 PM]Varda: And back to the
[4:25 PM]Varda: Topic: Gandalf tried to be where he needed to be, when he needed to be. Did he ever miss that goal?
[4:26 PM]Arien Valar: everything all right on your end, Varda?
[4:26 PM]Varda: Aye, thanks. : )
[4:26 PM]Varda: I'm very happy to be back home again and all is well. : )
[4:27 PM]Varda: Thank you so much to all for keeping things hopping around here!
[4:27 PM]Arien Valar: cool .. i just saw you typing and stopping after a couple of words and so hehe
[4:27 PM]Arien Valar: i was wondering
[4:27 PM]Varda: heh, well, hello from Treebeard and Sauron who just stopped by the computer and said hi. : )
[4:28 PM]Arien Valar: aiya Fangorn and Sauron
[4:28 PM]Varda: Try not stopping a sec for either of those two!
[4:29 PM]Arien Valar: Gandalf did not turn up at Frodo ;s birthday
[4:29 PM]Varda: That would worry Frodo.
[4:29 PM]Arien Valar: and not in Bree either
[4:29 PM]Varda: Prancing Pony: too late to join up with Frodo's party, but he had a contingency plan of Aragorn meeting them.
[4:30 PM]Varda: He must have known there would be times he might not be "on time" and thought ahead! Makes it look more "on time".
[4:30 PM]Varda: Weathertop: too early. But they saw the lighting on the top of the mountain and Aragorn knew to be cautious.
[4:31 PM]Varda: Plus he left a "note" with his initial and the date.
[4:31 PM]Varda: (You can find that in LotRO, by the way.)
[4:31 PM]Arien Valar: i know
[4:31 PM]Varda: (sneaky ad placement)
[4:32 PM]Arien Valar: i wanted to mention that but you were too fast
[4:32 PM]Varda: oh, sorry.
[4:33 PM]Arien Valar: its okay there are some nice book references in game indeed while introducing very tolkienesque new storylines
[4:35 PM]Varda: Did you have another to mention on the topic?
[4:36 PM]Arien Valar: hmm let me think .... nope just on the other end when Gandalf did turn up right in time but unexpected
[4:36 PM]Arien Valar: I mean in Fangorn on the hill where Merry and Pippin met Treeberd
[4:37 PM]Varda: Good one : )
[4:37 PM]Varda: Saruman delayed Gandalf by keeping him prisoner atop Orthanc.
[4:37 PM]Varda: I wonder if he would have picked up Shadowfax without that interference?
[4:38 PM]Arien Valar: he seemed to have different steeds in the movies but in the book shadowfax is the only of his mounts mentioned so maybe , maybe not
[4:39 PM]Arien Valar: but Shadowfax suited his needs most with his speed
[4:39 PM]Varda: Aye
[4:40 PM]Varda: The Balrog killed Gandalf the Grey's body, more or less, so that he was unavailable for the next part of the Fellowship's journey, during which the Fellowship fractured.
[4:40 PM]Varda: He did reappear as the more leaderly and fighting type Gandalf the White, since the wizard group had also fractured.
[4:40 PM]Varda: But did he really miss the goals? Even if he thought he was?
[4:41 PM]Arien Valar: nope i dare say
[4:41 PM]Arien Valar: well he didn t save Saruman in the end
[4:41 PM]Arien Valar: although he offered redemption
[4:42 PM]Arien Valar: or forgiveness at least
[4:43 PM]Arien Valar: he could not save Theoden on the battlefield ..... but then Faramir would have died
[4:43 PM]Varda: The other person needs to cooperate for redemption. One can only advise for that. Can be tough to see, as it was for Gandalf with Saruman.
[4:44 PM]Varda: Aye, the choices were hard. Denethor made that one more complicated than it should have been, but then we had Eomer-King, just the kind of king of Rohan that Aragorn needed in the mop-up.
[4:45 PM]Arien Valar: aye
[4:45 PM]Varda: Gandalf mostly handled the timing problems with
[4:45 PM]Varda: contingency plans, Valarite help, and the Valar worked with him to increase the ability of the Free People to take care of themselves.
[4:46 PM]Varda: But the Free People had to step up for themselves, to understand and use the lessons. Enough did, huzzah!
[4:48 PM]Arien Valar: indeed
[4:51 PM]Varda: We seem to be done for now, if you need to get some rest (or another couple of quests). : )
[4:51 PM]Varda: gavel runs up, watching the sundial
[4:52 PM]Varda: trips over the hammerpad, which was masquerading as a sundial
[4:52 PM]Varda: (thonk)
Thus ends this week's meeting. Come back and see us next week! [4:52 PM]Varda: After-meeting!
[4:52 PM]Arien Valar: sneaky gavel
[4:52 PM]Varda: Free for Pallando to tell game stuff or more chat on anything!
[4:52 PM]Varda: hehe
[4:53 PM]Arien Valar: i ll take some rest after my exercises .. i started at 7 am this morning at work yawn
[4:53 PM]Varda: Sounds like a plan. : )
[4:54 PM]Arien Valar: and you bang around a bit it sure looks amazing
[4:55 PM]Arien Valar: but Namarie for now
[4:58 PM]Sandalf13: aiya All! Got to move dirt while the sun shines...also plant some hardy flowers, and rake the veggie beds to remove the little stones that come up with frost heave...80 Grad F today! Whew! A Cold rain blows in tonight, followed by snow...so got to get the work done while I can...sorry I am so late.
[5:02 PM]Varda: Aiya Sandalf : )
[5:03 PM]Varda: No worries. Text remains much better than talking, so you don't miss out completely. : )
[5:06 PM]Varda: May the Fourth be with you, Sandalf. : )
More LotRO:
[5:20 PM]Varda: 3:47 PM]Cordovan: The Curator is back!
Available through May 11th.
[5:21 PM]Varda: Also from +Cordovan:
[5:21 PM]Varda: "We have decided to shift out the date for the opening of Sting and the release of Update 44.1 to Wednesday, May 14th. Additionally, the new announced extension of the Anniversary Event is being extended a week further, and will now run until 3:00 AM Eastern on May 27th."
[6:01 PM]Spidey (Ungwetari/Shelob): Good morning! Anyone still alive in here? Emote: brioLove
[6:20 PM]Spidey (Ungwetari/Shelob): crickets
[6:20 PM]Spidey (Ungwetari/Shelob): Oh yum! noms
[6:42 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Aiya, reading up!
[6:47 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Hmm, new Hearthstone mini-set, eh... hope they fix the shop soon then, it's bugged here, at least in the Benelux.
[6:52 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: A wizard arrives precisely when he wants to... otherwise he makes backup plans?
[6:54 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And funny how you can keep removing stones from your flowerbed, or in my case the tulip greenhouse at work, and yet they never seem to run out.
[7:03 PM]Varda: heh, a use for crickets. : ) Hi Shelob
[7:03 PM]Varda: Hiya Phar
[7:04 PM]Varda: back later, I hope!
[7:04 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Aiya
[8:55 PM]Sandalf13: Am traveling to Boise, ID for business. I was going to leave Tuesday, but that day is supposed to be the snowiest day across southern Wyoming, so I am leaving a day early, tomorrow...will hit some rain and a few snow showers, but better traveling than Tuesday! If everyone is gone, I will check in again later.
[9:51 PM]Xavier: Thank you for the meeting
[May 5, 2025
[12:42 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Good luck with the travel! [1:13 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Personal gaming report:
[1:13 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: For (non)flashgaming, an action/arena game for a change!
[1:20 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Kongregate - Cubito Mayhem" is a defensive shooter, and as simplistic yet engaging as a game like that can get.
[1:21 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: You're a little cube flying around in a rectangled arena, fighting enemies that spawn around the place.
[1:21 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Every few enemies you kill, your bullet power goes up, the enemies get tougher, and you get a health back. After level 6, all your health returns per level.
[1:22 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Try to get as far as you can! Strafing around the arena's edge has its advantages, but enemies can still spawn in front and behind you, so be careful Oh, and shooting enemy bullets is important too!
[1:24 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Blizzard gaming:
[1:53 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Bit more raiding, one-shotting the fourth boss on heroic and working on the fifth.
[1:53 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And a bit of gear upgrade along the way.
[1:55 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: My Gallagio renown has buggedly reset to 0, while for most people it was supposed to be set to 8 or 9 after something went wrong with it in the recent past... but renown gain comes quick, so while I may have lost the dps/healing buff for now, I'm sure it'll catch up again if they don't fix it immediately.
[2:00 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: The weekly this week is battlegrounds. Sometimes a pain, but this time it lines up with the Comp Stomp brawl, which makes it really easy, since the AI team in the brawl is quite easily defeated. Among the 4 I fought, we grabbed a 1600 to 0 victory at one point, and in another we, by arrangement, waited for the AI to get a 500 point advantage first only to blitz right over them afterwards and get people an achievement for overcoming that
[2:02 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Children's Week was happening this week, with a new quest series in Dornogal. Rather than getting one orphan under your care and getting them places in a semi-linear fashion, in this one you get to escort 4 of them around - a kobold, an arathi, a nerubian and a goblin child - and bring them places in a set order. They're still nice stories though
[2:05 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: It comes with 3 new pets as well, to be gotten over the years, although there's now a system where doing one of the children's week quest series in any expansion they're available will get you a new token, which you can exchange for any of the pets from this expansion's Children's Week as well as the older ones, and some other rewards like cosmetic weapon sets themed after stormwind and orgrimmar guard toys, such as wooden axes and swords.
[2:05 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: So there's multiple ways to get multiple rewards if you don't want to wait
[2:06 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: In any case, the pet I chose was Argos, a grey baby lynx. Since I haven't done much pet gathering in this expansion so far, it's my first lynx, and very cute!
[2:08 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Got a new mount too! I have been camping a boss each week in Uldum for the different invasions there, and got the Rotfeaster vulture mount from the same-named vulture boss.
[2:09 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: All that's left there is Ishak, the dragon boss with an up to 3 hour spawntime. Since he can technically be killed every week rather than just the Black Empire invasion, I'm pondering whether I'll put myself through it at that frequency... he might even be killable every day, but that's a bit too much for me.
[2:10 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I may just leave him for later altogether and find a new mount target to kill on a weekly basis.
[2:11 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Still doing some other weekly events, mostly for gold, but the Awakening the Machine event got me the Machine-Warden's Tabard, completing the 3piece set from that place. The tabard is looking more detailed than most, and worth getting in my opinion!
[2:13 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And finally delves! Shifted up to tier 10 difficulty delves, maxing out nearly all the curios for this season, and getting Brann to level 65. Also got the True Speed Goblin-Thruster cloak appearance. A few more ilevels until I'll start going for 11, at which point I can start checking off each delve for the achievement.
[2:14 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Stage 8 completed in the delve journey as well, which means 2 more to go until the warband campsite image unlock!
[2:17 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: While the journey and the difficulty are reaching their endgame, I'll probably need to calculate how many undercoins I need to get still for the remaining transmogs and toys from the vendor. If any continue to randomly drop, it's probably best to wait with buying anything until I have the total. Then again, you only seem to get things that you don't have yet, so maybe it doesn't matter.
[2:18 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And while I've been focusing on non-nerubian delves to get pets other than the nerubian pet, I got a third one of those while in a goblin-infested kobold delve... so I'm wondering if pets are somehow shared now, and it doesn't matter which one I do.
[2:20 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And that's my report for the week!
[2:20 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Namarie
[2:22 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Oh, belated member news: My birthday is in a few days, and as a gift to myself - and midlife-indulgence, since I'll be 40 - I went skydiving this week! Something off the ol' bucketlist
[2:22 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Amazing view, amazing fall, would recommend But then I've always loved heights.
[2:22 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Alright, namarie
@Ar-Pharazon-V
While the journey and the difficulty are reaching their endgame, I'll probably need to calculate how many undercoins I need to get still for the remaining transmogs and toys from the vendor. If any continue to randomly drop, it's probably best to wait with buying anything until I have the total. Then again, you only seem to get things that you don't have yet, so maybe it doesn't matter.
[3:46 AM]Eönwë Valar: Just from doing 3 11s and 5 9s a week, I end up in the ballpark of 2k undercoins pretty easily.
[3:47 AM]Eönwë Valar: Happy Birthday and congrats on the skydiving.
[6:16 PM]Varda: Happy flying birthday!
[6:36 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Thanks both
[May 6, 2025
[4:00 PM]Eönwë Valar: Well, no new hero gear from my vault. Guess I get a socket instead.
[4:01 PM]Sandalf13: Happy Birthday, Ar! You are a braver man than I am to try skydiving...my son did it once, I have never even given it a thought of trying. I think I prefer to ride a horse.
[4:01 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Horses are more bumpy And thanks!
[4:01 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Birthday's today, in fact!
[4:02 PM]Sandalf13: Get out there and enjoy! Have a wonderful day!
[4:02 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Thanks, but it's only for one more hour
[4:03 PM]Sandalf13: Well...maybe there is a 24 hour bar nearby where you can grab a quick toast to yourself before the day is over...I am in Boise, ID, right on the Idaho-Oregon border. Only another 450 miles to the Pacific, but I will do my work here today and start to head home tomorrow after my last appointment of the day.
[4:03 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Alright, good travels
[4:04 PM]Sandalf13: Thanks! Hope to talk with you again soon, and once again, Happy Birthday! It is a "big" one.
[4:04 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Thank you!
[May 7, 2025
[5:23 AM]Eönwë Valar: Well, nothing from the vault, nothing from the bounty map. No new gear for me this week.
[5:58 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: For me, my third heroic tier piece from the vault.
[5:58 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Now 1 ilevel below tier 11 recommended
[6:00 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Tier 10 going quite smoothly in just feral spec. Last season I really needed guardian at this point. So I guess they got the scaling better this time!
[6:44 PM]Eönwë Valar: Aye.
[6:46 PM]Eönwë Valar: Although Underpin's visit to a delve can still get you good in T11 if you don't have the space to work with. The AoE on those bombs was pretty big and I was stuck swimming, heh.
[6:46 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Ah, ouch I had little trouble with him in 10, but I probably didn't have space problems.
[6:47 PM]Eönwë Valar: Should've picked a better place to summon him, but I thought I had enough space.
[6:48 PM]Eönwë Valar: *up until the bombs went to detonate after I'd thought I'd kicked them far enough away.
[6:48 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Hah
[8:37 PM]Eönwë Valar: I think Undermine is my least liked zone so far in WW. Siren Isle wasn't exciting but it wasn't bad. The other zones are at least ok. Undermine I tend to dread having to go to. For any reason.
[May 8, 2025
[12:13 AM]Eönwë Valar: My Mariposa made it to 70, so now has a red transmog (Screenshot in the Screenshots channel). Didn't have any good red gloves, but the blue somehow works.
[4:39 AM]Eönwë Valar: Don't know if it's been said anywhere yet, but I hope the Horrific Visions and the masks count like Delves in the Great Vault.
[12:01 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Seems likely as a world activity, yes.
[12:03 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And I haven't even explored the right side of Undermine.
[12:03 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Map is half empty
[6:01 PM]Eönwë Valar: hehe
[May 9, 2025
[3:50 AM]Eönwë Valar: Well, apparently I'm going to be able to get my Ret Pally's Best-in-slot weapon and trinkets from these cartel chips (the weapon, ironically named, "Best-In-Slots")
[3:53 AM]Eönwë Valar: While technically it would offer what's considered my best-in-slot ring too, the On-Equip seems to be geared toward a group, so not worth it to me.
[4:02 AM]Eönwë Valar: Oh, got another 80 in my Holy Paladin Jewelcrafter.
[4:06 AM]Eönwë Valar: Best use for the Nightfall stuff is to throw levelling alts at it, imo.
[6:02 AM]Eönwë Valar: At least during the bonus exp event.
[11:28 PM]Eönwë Valar: Demon Hunter now lvl 80.
[11:34 PM]Eönwë Valar: Looks like the following was announced at PAX East by Blizzard (Read on MMO-Champion): Legion Remix
[The team is going to do do Legion Remix next!
[Legion has a lot of content, so the team is currently working on figuring out how it will work. More info is coming later, with lots of details about the systems.
[Legion Remix will have Mythic Keystones.
[Legion Remix will also have an increased difficulty world tier called Shattered Timeline.
[11:34 PM]Eönwë Valar: So yay, and maybe I'll somehow get a Mythic +15 to snag my green flame Ashbringer during that. Bonus points if I get to solo it, heh.
[May 10, 2025
[12:26 AM]Eönwë Valar: Hmm, I've got a Blood Elf Paladin I started during MoP Remix I might level up as Prot, but I'll have to find her a better transmog than murloc pajamas if I do.
[3:23 AM]Eönwë Valar: Hmm, I was going to take a few screenshots of this char in the Stormwind Library, then remembered they wouldn't look kindly on a Blood Elf wandering in, heh.
[3:56 AM]Eönwë Valar: Playing around with character customization: I think Worgen should be able to choose hair styles in human form that match their worgen form. If I have twin-tails as a worgen, the human version should have hair similarly done.
[3:57 AM]Eönwë Valar: Oh, looks like It's not just the Stormwindians and Kul Tirans that get pointy ears. Forgot they gave them to Gilneans too.
[2:05 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Half elf Gilneans, yay!
[@Eönwë Valar
[Hmm, I've got a Blood Elf Paladin I started during MoP Remix I might level up as Prot, but I'll have to find her a better transmog than murloc pajamas if I do.
[2:06 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: As for blood elf protection paladin mog... World of Warcraft - Calclypsia (Argent Dawn) ❮Innovation❯ - 10 Blood Elf Protection Paladin, 2 ilvl gooold!
[2:06 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And I know you have that artifact
[2:09 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Do I link my low level alts too often? Nahh...
[2:18 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I feel like a proud parent constantly showing baby pictures to everyone's annoyance.
[2:18 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: "Look, I made this!"
[3:10 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Alright, got myself to 658 - and outgrew Runed crests in the process - so to 11 we go
[3:13 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: YouTube - Spinal Tap - "These go to eleven...."
[6:51 PM]Eönwë Valar: Hehe
[6:51 PM]Eönwë Valar: Just in time for them to up the hero upgrade track, heh.
[6:51 PM]Eönwë Valar: by two more spots.
[6:53 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: They are? Hadn't heard of that.
[6:53 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: But I do like that right at the time I need gilded, I will start getting more of them from delves
[6:56 PM]Eönwë Valar: Yeah, Hero and mythic are going from 6 upgrades to 8.
[6:56 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: To be honest, though, I haven't really kept up with such patch notes and system changes... just figure I'll notice it in-game. But it's nice to know.
[6:57 PM]Eönwë Valar: The cap coming off will be nice too.
[6:58 PM]Eönwë Valar: And valorstones tranferrable to other chars so I quit wasting them when I cap out.
[6:59 PM]Eönwë Valar: Bah, I was going to give screenshots of the transmogs I've been waffling between, but they're not showing right...
[6:59 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Aw.
[7:00 PM]Eönwë Valar: And apparently I threw a pair of leather boots onto a plate wearer.
[7:01 PM]Eönwë Valar: In my defense, it was a 167 item level difference.
[7:01 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Hah.
[7:01 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: But still less armor, I'm betting
[7:03 PM]Eönwë Valar: Probably, heh.
[7:03 PM]Eönwë Valar: And apparently I don't have any heirloom boots.
[7:04 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Good reason to buy some!
[7:06 PM]Eönwë Valar: Do they even have heirloom boots?
[7:06 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I... have a feeling that they do, but now I'm not sure.
[7:07 PM]Eönwë Valar: I have 39/47 heirlooms. What I see greyed out look like mostly trinkets.
[7:07 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Looks like you're right. No boots.
[7:07 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Maybe you can get green boots from the AH?
[7:07 PM]Eönwë Valar: Trying to see if a dfaily anywhere around here will award me boots.
[7:08 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Could work.
[7:13 PM]Eönwë Valar: Bah, belts, shoulders, pants.
[7:15 PM]Eönwë Valar: And I could've sworn there was an heirloom shield too, and I was wrong about that.
[7:16 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Wowhead - Heirloom Shields - "A complete searchable and filterable list of all Heirloom Shields in World of Warcraft: The War Within. Always up to date with the latest patch (11.1.5).
[7:17 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Did these make it into game, actually?
[7:19 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: at least some of them, at least
[7:21 PM]Eönwë Valar: I could've sworn they did. Let me re-examine my filters and make sure none are buried in an obscur way.,
[7:21 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Check offhand slots.
[7:22 PM]Eönwë Valar: Ahah! Somehow the heirlooms was set to only look for "Ret Paladin" stuff and not "Paladin" stuff.
[7:22 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Ah
[7:30 PM]Eönwë Valar: Ok, boot situation remedied... and picked up a bunch of plate and mail transmogs from the vendor while I was at it, heh.
[7:31 PM]Eönwë Valar: Shirt still not showing right for some reason though.
[7:33 PM]Eönwë Valar: Well, I was going to do this with in-game screenshots, but it doesn't seem that's going to work.
[7:33 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Aw.
[7:34 PM]Eönwë Valar: Will come back to it, must afk for a bit.
[9:35 PM]Eönwë Valar: Back, and I'm beginning to think there's some sort of lag with transmogging, at least shirts. Just came back to her wearing a shirt I'd briefly switched to then switched back.
[9:35 PM]Eönwë Valar: But the transmog said it was the original.
[9:36 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Strange. Sounds like it.
[9:37 PM]Eönwë Valar: I'm looking at her, and looking at her equipment menu, and it shows the correct transmog there and the incorrect transmog on her. Last I checked Blood Elves don't have dual forms for clothing, as (jokingly) apropos as that might've been.
[9:43 PM]Eönwë Valar: Bah, and the website isn't showing the right transmog either.
[9:44 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Yeah, the website is usually late. Can be minutes, can be days.
[9:44 PM]Eönwë Valar: Right level, wrong transmog.
[9:46 PM]Eönwë Valar: Lol.....
[9:47 PM]Eönwë Valar: I close WoW, reload, and pull up to the character screen... and she's showing the transmog I switched out of hours ago.
[9:47 PM]Eönwë Valar: I log in, and she's got the right shirt but the sleeves are gone again.
[9:48 PM]Eönwë Valar: There's a joke here. I know there is. I just don't know if I want to make it :}
[9:49 PM]Eönwë Valar: Oops, logged out then back in, and back to the wrong shirt :}
[9:50 PM]Eönwë Valar: All I'll say is that my main never has this much trouble picking his clothes :}
[9:51 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Ah, now I get it
[9:53 PM]Eönwë Valar: Ok, so time to get creative.
[10:01 PM]Eönwë Valar: ok.
[10:02 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Well, namarie, see you at the meeting tomorrow, though I don't know what time
[10:06 PM]Eönwë Valar: Sleep well. Screenshots in Screenshots channel :} (edited)
[10:07 PM]Eönwë Valar: Just got the campsite since that was easier.
[10:07 PM]Eönwë Valar: Found the new glasses transmogs last night, so now she's got those.
[10:08 PM]Eönwë Valar: The melee lady is the nerd and the butterfly collector is the cool girl, heh.
[10:10 PM]Eönwë Valar: Need Night Elf and/or Void Elf Pallies with Legion Remix, heh.
[10:19 PM]Eönwë Valar: Wow, either something's loading incorrectly or I've forgotten Void Elves only get 1 tab of customization options.
[10:40 PM]Eönwë Valar: Hmm, tough Choosing between Truthguard sword form and mace form.
[10:40 PM]Eönwë Valar: I'll go sword for now.
[10:43 PM]Eönwë Valar: Too bad I didn't have the time to get the mage tower appearances for Truthguard and Silver Hand... although if Legion remix gives a chance it might be worth it to try then.
[10:45 PM]Eönwë Valar: As long as they don't screw up and get the crazy idea to not have something like the cloak from MoP Remix, at least.
[11:08 PM]Eönwë Valar: Lol, well that was funny. Two guys in a group together who cast a powerful group heal... that only heals others. They can't kill me and I can't kill them together, so we could've kept doing that forever if I couldn't break them up, heh. (edited)
[11:27 PM]Eönwë Valar: Hmm, maybe I'll put her in Red Judgement when it comes out. She's a Blood Elf and I've got my Blood Elf Pally dude in Red Lightbringer.
[May 11, 2025
[12:20 AM]Eönwë Valar: OK, have to ask now: Where did you get "Paladin's Cuffs" and "Paladin's Greaves" Phar? I guess from starting gear?
[1:17 AM]Eönwë Valar: Heh, was going to get my Dwarf Prot Paladin to 80, but he's already there. (edited)
[1:21 AM]Eönwë Valar: Well, looks like except for those two chars made during MoP Remix, I've done levelled all the chars I care to budge up to 80.
[3:05 AM]Eönwë Valar: And there we go. 6 million gold.
[3:06 AM]Eönwë Valar: 3,999,999 more to go.
Eönwë Valar
Well, looks like except for those two chars made during MoP Remix, I've done levelled all the chars I care to budge up to 80.
[4:53 AM]Eönwë Valar: Oops, found two: My guild Warrior and Shaman, heh.
[5:30 AM]Eönwë Valar: yay, got the Void-Scarred Lynx mount from the Nightfall stuff.
[5:56 AM]Eönwë Valar: Wow, apparently I started but never finished the Bronzebeard heritage armor questline.
[6:02 AM]Eönwë Valar: Or maybe I did it on my other Dwarf but only started on this one.
[6:12 AM]Eönwë Valar: Yep, did it, and just remembered what a long trek it was too.
Hearthstone:
Warcraft Rumble:
Diablo IV:
Diablo Immortal:
Overwatch 2:
StarCraft II:
Lord of the Rings Online:
EVE Online:
Tolkien
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