Meeting Minutes 11-02-2025

Sunday, November 2, 2025

5:00pm Eastern Time

Discord: Valar Guild/meeting_place

Before-Meeting

[3:31 AM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 3:31 AMEönwë Valar: Phar, you planning to get the new apron from the Trading Post for your Hell Bovine? :} (edited)Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:42 AM

[3:32 AM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 3:32 AMEönwë Valar: Aw, the turkey mount can't fly.

[6:17 AM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 6:17 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Not exactly necessary, since she's already using this but I tend to collect Trading Post tabards anyway.

[6:17 AM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 6:17 AMAr-Pharazon-V: The new one does have more detail, but I'm not sure if that's actually a good thing when I'm trying to mimic the hell bovine.

[6:18 AM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 6:18 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Variety's always nice, I suppose, I can switch between them

[4:04 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:04 PMEönwë Valar: Fair enough Phar... or Phair enough Far, heh.

[4:04 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:04 PMEönwë Valar: Ok, we'll have to make this a quick meeting.

[4:05 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:05 PMEönwë Valar: @Bounder Hear Ye! Here Ye! Meeting Beginning!

Meeting Begins

[4:06 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:06 PMEönwë Valar: Elen SIla Lumenn Omentielvo!

Membership

[4:06 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:06 PMEönwë Valar: Daylight Savings has ended in those places of the US that observe it.

[4:07 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:07 PMEönwë Valar: Varda and Fangorn are on the road.

[4:08 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:08 PMEönwë Valar: Arien was just here before the meeting, and Phar was in long before.

[4:09 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:09 PMEönwë Valar: We're making this meeting quick, so if anyone would like to say Hi and be counted for the attendance, say heya before the end.

[4:09 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:09 PMEönwë Valar: You already counted, but thanks, hehe.

[4:09 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:09 PMSandalf13: So...please tell me: is "heya" an alternate form of "aiya?"

[4:10 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:10 PMEönwë Valar: "Heya" is an alternate form of "Hey", which is an alternate form of "Hello," which is a greeting, so yes, you could say it's an alternate form of "Aiya" :}

[4:14 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:14 PMEönwë Valar: Any other Membership news?

Web

[4:16 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:16 PMEönwë Valar: Storms and thunder sound as lightning flashes in the distance

Gaming

World of Warcraft:

[4:17 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:17 PMEönwë Valar: This week's bonus event: Delves.

[4:17 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:17 PMEönwë Valar: Day of the Dead is going through November 3rd.

[4:17 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:17 PMEönwë Valar: November's Trading Post is out.

[4:18 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:18 PMEönwë Valar: As you would expect, it's Thanksgiving themed. GInat forks, spoons, and knives for weapons.

[4:18 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:18 PMEönwë Valar: A giant turkey to ride about, a set of simple clothing.

[4:20 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:20 PMEönwë Valar: Here's Ann aka "Nerdy Pally" wearing that simple clothing as she goes to explore ancient ruins. (Discord image)

[4:21 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:21 PMEönwë Valar: Phase 5 of the Midnight Alpha is in development.

[4:21 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:21 PMEönwë Valar: The Midnight Beta goes live November 11th, so if you want to try to get in, make sure you're signed up.

[4:21 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:21 PMEönwë Valar: Check out WoW Weekly for anything not mentioned above.

[4:22 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:22 PMEönwë Valar: Check out this week's hotfixes.

[4:22 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:22 PMEönwë Valar: Unfortunately, that doesn't include some important bugs that needed fixed, like making sure World Boss quests give the indicated loot, Artifact appearances are awarded properly, and the like.

Diablo IV:

Diablo Immortal:

Overwatch 2:

[4:24 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:24 PMEönwë Valar: Overwatch 2: A new Weekly Recall is out: Developer Horror Stories.

Hearthstone:

[4:24 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:24 PMEönwë Valar: Across the Timeways launches Tuesday with a rewards track refresh.

Lord of the Rings Online:

[4:25 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:25 PMEönwë Valar: Lord of the Rings Online:

[Wonder when level cap increases are coming to the Angmar and Mordor realms? Standing Stone put out the schedule.

[4:25 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:25 PMEönwë Valar: Any other Gaming News before we move on?

[4:26 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:26 PMSandalf13: I played Kongregate for a spell.

[4:27 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:27 PMSandalf13: Not as interesting as would interested experienced gamers.

[4:30 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:30 PMEönwë Valar: If you found it fun that's enough :}

[4:31 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:31 PMEönwë Valar: I play words games and woodoku in addition to World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online. There's plenty of a range to enjoy.

[4:33 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:33 PMSandalf13: If anyone is interested, here is an excellent rendition of Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens. Very appropriate for the recent Halloween...

[4:38 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:38 PMEönwë Valar: OK, if there's no more games, then on to...

Tolkien

[4:39 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:39 PMEönwë Valar: Got anything on Tolkien you want to touch on in Brief, Sandalf?

[4:39 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:39 PMSandalf13: Not really...it has been a busy week, and I have not had time to reflect on Tolkien since Monday last...

[4:40 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:40 PMEönwë Valar: In the spirit of Halloween just past, I thought I'd provide the links to the same scene, done by two different directors.

[4:40 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:40 PMEönwë Valar: I haven't had a chance to review the clips, so hopefully they're good quality.

[4:42 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:42 PMEönwë Valar: Sorry, thought I clicked favorite on that.

[4:42 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:42 PMEönwë Valar: But it's coming anyway, heh.

[4:42 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:42 PMEönwë Valar: So I give you... The Hunt of the Nazgul

After-Meeting

[4:50 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:50 PMEönwë Valar: Everyone is free to do what they need to to, as I too must be off shortly.

[4:50 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:50 PMSandalf13: Whew...that was quick. Hope you have a great week, and I hope that more of us gather here together next Sunday! Namarie!

[4:52 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 4:52 PMEönwë Valar: I'm sure there'll be more. Usually is rough with the Daylight Savings transition.

[11:18 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 11:18 PMAr-Pharazon-V: I've tried woodoku a few times, but not really getting the hang of it

[11:21 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 11:21 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Also, the US and Europe are synched up out of DST again, so that should be fine.

[11:22 PM]Sunday, November 2, 2025 11:22 PMAr-Pharazon-V: As for danse macabre... I can't let that go by without linking one of the most iconic attractions of the Netherlands' most famous amusement park:

[2:51 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 2:51 AMAr-Pharazon-V: To be fair I preferred the haunted castle version over this condensed ride they replaced it with, but it's still good!

[2:55 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 2:55 AMAr-Pharazon-V: For (non)flashgaming this week, a game with a badge I didn't have yet! Kongregate - Demented Shadows: Prologue

[2:56 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 2:56 AMAr-Pharazon-V: A game by the creator of the medieval cop franchise, but with vastly different graphics and taking place in space, your job is to solve a simple case concerning sabotage on a space ship.

[2:57 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 2:57 AMAr-Pharazon-V: The main character definitely seems related to the main character in the medcop series, though in a futuristic setting

[2:58 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 2:58 AMAr-Pharazon-V: So yep, walk around, find clues, talk to people, and solve the case! Pretty short, as it's a prologue, but it seems an entire series was never built, either on kongregate or elsewhere, but if it is, I can't find it

[3:54 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 3:54 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Hearthstone: Level 157 on the reward track. And with new expansion incoming, that's probably where it'll stay!

[3:55 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 3:55 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Got enough gold to buy a new skin, though, and went with Sylvanas Breezerunner, a fairy version of Sylvanas, for the hunter class.

[3:58 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 3:58 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Apart from being derived from her real surname Windrunner, I guess there are some vague connections between breezes and faeries, but it's nice to think of it as a reference to MLP's Breezies.

[4:00 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:00 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Third week of the quest event launching into the expansion, with the third quest being to just play a lot of cards. There's a boost to cards from the new expansion, and while I just realized I'd gotten a few free packs along the way, I just used the free cards we'd already gotten and brute forced my way through the rest

[4:01 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:01 AMAr-Pharazon-V: But other than a few packs this week, it also gave us the final reward, a paladin skin of Nozdormu the Timeless!

[4:02 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:02 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Brawl is a Pre-release Tavern Brawl, but it's basicallly just a heroic arena, but with expansion cards as rewards.

[4:02 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:02 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Next week's should be about recipes for the new expansion, though, so that'll be interesting.

[4:06 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:06 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Warcraft Rumble: No new collection level, but I'm only one point away from the next one, since the flood of levels is continuing.

[4:06 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:06 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Slowing down, though, since xp is now also going to minis on the 200k track.

[4:07 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:07 AMAr-Pharazon-V: With the renewed Hallow's End rewards, I easily got to complete the track, with about 20k tickets excess at this point. That helped with some experience tomes, as did finishing the pvp reward track.

[4:08 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:08 AMAr-Pharazon-V: There's a few more days on it, and then the next login reward track begins!

[4:10 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:10 AMAr-Pharazon-V: There were no upgrades to epic quality, though I did get Maiev's last talent after her upgrade last week. But minis that were leveled onto the 200k xp track were:

[4:11 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:11 AMAr-Pharazon-V: The leader Malfurion, the Bog Beast, Huntress, Prowler, Angry Chickens, Abomination, Skeleton Party, Living Bomb, the leaders Thalnos and Rivendare, the Swole Troll, Execute, Dark Iron Miner, Vultures and Warsong Raider.

[4:12 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:12 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Some very useful ones in there!

[4:13 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:13 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Bit more raiding, not much in the way of upgrades. We did get our first heroic King Salhadaar kill, which just leaves the final boss Dimensius!

[4:15 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:15 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Also got enough renown with the associated faction to get a new pet, Looker Gaz'Kreth Jr.

[4:15 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:15 AMAr-Pharazon-V: A little beholder guy which is supposedly the son of a named mob you kill in the raid (complete with Princess Bride reference in the quest), which makes me a little suspicious of its motives, but I'm sure it'll be fine.

[4:16 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:16 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Hallow's End event is now over. No key or new mount for me, but grats on the mount for Eonwe

[4:17 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:17 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Day of the Dead is also going on, with 15 new face appearances: 5 complete death masks, and 5 of the 2 parts, all in 5 color versions.

[4:18 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:18 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Just gold, no currency, so no excuse! It's hard to be that broke to not be able to afford them.

[4:19 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:19 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Weekly is delves, which I completed, but no upgrade. First 3 of the week I did on tier 11, getting me up to 4600 undercoins - a smidge under what I need for the last item - and the others I did on tier 1 again for speed. Flickergates are progressing well, and next week I'll be done with the coins, and will just be doing tier 11s for gilded crests and valorstones.

[4:20 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:20 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Which once again just means 3 a week.

[4:21 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:21 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Oh, and for Hallow's End, spent the last night farming about 200 treats from inns around the world to buy the 3 weapon appearances.

[4:22 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:22 AMAr-Pharazon-V: And finally Legion Remix! Not much progress on Calyaxa, since I was quite tired at the start of the weekend, but she did complete all the Azsuna achievements, as well as the base class campaign, getting her first 2 points in Limits Unbound.

[4:23 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:23 AMAr-Pharazon-V: She's also completed Eternus' questline, completing the official remix campaign, and getting the Sargerei Commander's Felscorned Regalia ensemble, and has gone over 600 ilevel.

[4:24 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:24 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Next week, sending her straight into Stormheim (which feels misspelled for some reason, but I think it's correct) where she'll be my first character to do the horde version of the zone's story.

[4:26 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:26 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Time to join Sylvanas on her first steps in her rampant war to conquer death itself which will surely have no ill effect on Azeroth in the next couple of expansions...

[4:28 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:28 AMAr-Pharazon-V: But as is becoming of a hell bovine, Calyaxa's fine with it as long as she can cause some mayhem with her halberd.

[4:32 AM]Monday, November 3, 2025 4:32 AMAr-Pharazon-V: And that's my report for the week!

[9:50 PM]Monday, November 3, 2025 9:50 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Heh, just had 2 flickergates in the same delve, right next to each other, and both summoning a shadow clone.

[Hallow's End event is now over. No key or new mount for me, but grats on the mount for Eonwe

[10:25 PM]Monday, November 3, 2025 10:25 PMEönwë Valar: Thanks :} Sorry you didn't get it. Missed a couple of days of running the HH so it was a nice surprise.

[10:42 PM]Monday, November 3, 2025 10:42 PMAr-Pharazon-V: There's always next year

[3:23 AM]Tuesday, November 4, 2025 3:23 AMEönwë Valar: Never really noticed before, but it's kinda funny to use Judgement while backing up and have your char do the beckon motion, like "Here's a hammer to the face. Now come get some."

[5:10 PM]Tuesday, November 4, 2025 5:10 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Welp, I just got loot from only 2 bosses in Vault of the Wardens since some lunatic DH ran ahead and killed everything before the rest of us even got to ride the elevator down.

[5:10 PM]Tuesday, November 4, 2025 5:10 PMAr-Pharazon-V: I can see why you prefer to solo this stuff.

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