Meeting Minutes 11-30-2025

Sunday, November 30, 2025

5:00pm Eastern Time

Discord: Valar Guild/meeting_place

Before-Meeting

[4:33 PM]Thursday, November 27, 2025 4:33 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Ah goody, we get to talk to John de Lancie in the Runewood :)

[4:36 PM]Thursday, November 27, 2025 4:36 PMEönwë Valar: How'd a Tal'Darim Protoss get into World of Warcraft? :}

[4:36 PM]Thursday, November 27, 2025 4:36 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Don't underestimate Q :)

[5:33 PM]Thursday, November 27, 2025 5:33 PMAr-Pharazon-V: 10 unbound, getting there!

[6:04 PM]Thursday, November 27, 2025 6:04 PMEönwë Valar: Once you start doing heroic/mythic raids (if you're not already), and have 25+ Infinite Knowledge that'll shoot up pretty quickly.

[5:06 AM]Friday, November 28, 2025 5:06 AMEönwë Valar: I usually end up with 300-700 motes from a mythic raid, depending on the raid. At 36 IK that's worth 7-15-ish points.

[1:22 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 1:22 PMSandalf13: Brrrrr....13 Grad F this morning, snow yesterday...I may miss the meeting because I will be huddled under two or three blankets in a corner somewhere...he he.

[1:31 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 1:31 PMEönwë Valar: Huddle next to your computer. That puts off heat, heh.

[3:38 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 3:38 PMVarda: There are eyes peeking out from that pile of blankets!

[3:41 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 3:41 PMVarda: using Alt 0176 for the degree sign

[4:01 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:01 PMVarda: @Guild-friend @Bounder The Valar Guild meeting is beginning! Come on in!

[4:01 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:01 PMVarda: Aiya Eonwe! Glad you could be here. How does your time look?

Meeting Begins

[4:01 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:01 PMVarda: Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!

Membership

[4:02 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:02 PMSandalf13: Aiya all~! And a happy Thanksgiving weekend-end to everyone!

[4:04 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:04 PMVarda: Eonwe is being called away for a bit.

Web

[4:05 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:05 PMVarda: I hope to fix up that mess of the transcripts recently. Just grabbing raw data to work with. You are not forgotten.

Gaming

[4:06 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:06 PMVarda: I trust you've been gaming during some of this week. A number of games had special Black Friday sales and various events.

[4:07 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:07 PMArien Valar: hunting Mushan at present , a kind of pandaren bison, to finish of Master of wok

[4:09 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:09 PMVarda: Good luck with the hunting and cooking thereof!

World of Warcraft:

[4:09 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:09 PMVarda: This week's bonus event: Battle for Azeroth Timewalking.

[4:09 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:09 PMVarda: This week's PvP Brawl: Southshore vs Tarren Mill.

[4:10 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:10 PMVarda: The next expansion, Midnight, is set to launch March 2nd.

[4:10 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:10 PMVarda: Check out December's Trading Post.

[4:10 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:10 PMVarda: Check out this week's hotfixes.

Diablo Immortal:

Hearthstone:

[4:12 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:12 PMVarda: Hearthstone: 4:12 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:12 PMVarda: Battlegrounds Season 12 begins December 2nd, and they're going to be having some Developer streams December 1st and 2nd about it.

StarCraft 2:

[4:13 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:13 PMVarda: Eowyn, Fangorn, Varda, and Faramir gamed this past week.

Lord of the Rings Online:

[4:13 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:13 PMVarda: Today, Nov 30, is the last day of the Spring Festival.

[4:13 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:13 PMVarda: Black Steel Key Code: MASTEROFUNLOCKING

[4:14 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:14 PMVarda: Code EXPLOREOURWORLD extended through Dec 7 for a giveaway of many quest packs.

[4:14 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:14 PMVarda: I almost but not quite completed the kin members list for this past week, will post later.

[4:16 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:16 PMVarda: Elwing and Meriadoc came to our house for the Thanksgiving holidays and played lots of LotRO. And helped save us from part of the horror of left-overs, as Merry says.

[4:17 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:17 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Got a nasty cold, but nothing more interesting

[4:18 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:18 PMVarda: Tinwetari, LotRO Minstrel healer, sends you healing!

[4:18 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:18 PMVarda: I have to owl a message right quick...

[4:19 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:19 PMVarda: That is probably a pic of Sandalf. : )

[4:20 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:20 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Stallone does need subtitles sometimes...

Tolkien

[4:21 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:21 PMVarda: Apparently there was confusion about the date we would be putting up food images. It was going to be today, but will probably need postponed until next meeting.

[4:23 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:23 PMTreebeard: So JRRT can blow some smoke rings... like a little chimney

[4:24 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:24 PMArien Valar: i wonder whether he managed smoke ships sailing through smoke rings :O?

[4:24 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:24 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Aiya! And that would be impressive indeed...

[4:24 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:24 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Ian McKellen must have been pretty good at it!

[4:25 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:25 PMCelebrian WWM: I will tell him and Happy Thanksgiving!

[4:26 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:26 PMVarda: We also had a question from Earendil-(V) about who in Tolkien's world might have drunk coffee, if any?

[4:26 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:26 PMVarda: We know the Hobbits were based on people of the English countryside, so their drink of choice outside the pubs might have been tea.

[4:26 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:26 PMAr-Pharazon-V: People trying to stay awake, most likely :)

[4:27 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:27 PMEönwë Valar: I feel like coffee was mentioned somewhere, but I'm not 100% on that.

[4:27 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:27 PMVarda: Valinor could not be heavenly without coffee, however, and was in the West. : )

[4:27 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:27 PMSandalf13: I envision Boromir as needing a strong, two-cup dose of black coffee every morning...

[4:28 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:28 PMVarda: Sounds right. All seem in agreement that Man should have had coffee. : )

[4:28 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:28 PMEönwë Valar: If coffee wasn't brought from Valinor or brought west with the Elves on the Great March, I'm sure the Numenoreans brought it with them from their sailing around the world.

[4:28 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:28 PMAr-Pharazon-V: What about the dwarves? I can see them brewing some coffee in their mines and caves, to keep warm and alert.

[4:28 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:28 PMVarda: We know alcoholic drinks were present in most places.

[4:29 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:29 PMSandalf13: I think the Hobbits too. I have been in England many, many times, and they do have a strong coffee tradition there as well. I recall heading ito several coffee houses when last I visited London to see my daughter and her family.

[4:29 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:29 PMVarda: Aye on the Numenoreans. And they could have been gifted it by the elves, since they had trade early on.

[4:29 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:29 PMVarda: Sandalf, that's good news! Hobbits are back in the running.

[4:31 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:31 PMAr-Pharazon-V: I bet Butterbur made some good coffee.

[4:31 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:31 PMSandalf13: What good public house would serve not only beer, but coffee, tea, and other alcoholic beverages?

[4:32 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:32 PMEönwë Valar: Bah, never my copy of the Hobbit nearby when I need it.

[4:32 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:32 PMVarda: Do you suppose Dwarves might have been into some coffee? Strong stuff where the spoon remains upright when left in it?

[4:32 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:32 PMSandalf13: I often wonder if old Barliman had some local competition...Tolkien never tells us, but I assume there were other Inns in Bree as well.

[4:33 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:33 PMSandalf13: Now that would be a good start for some new fanfiction!

[4:33 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:33 PMAr-Pharazon-V: I did mention dwarves a bit earlier, so I agree with you there, Varda :)

[4:34 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:34 PMSandalf13: Here is a thought: Names for other Inns in Bree...here is one to start "The Sleeping Troll."

[4:34 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:34 PMVarda: Coffee beans could have come from trade with other countries

[4:35 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:35 PMSandalf13: Someplace down south, no doubt...perhaps southern Gondor? Near-Harad?

[4:35 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:35 PMVarda: ohh, seems as if Bilbo served the dwarves coffee. Double-checking

[4:35 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:35 PMEönwë Valar: It's mentioned in the Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party." One of the Dwarves asked for it, Bilbo set out a big jug. So it was part of Dwarf and Hobbit larders, which puts it pretty much available to everyone.

[4:35 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:35 PMAr-Pharazon-V: The Numenorean fortresses further south may have brought some up.

[4:37 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:37 PMVarda: Bilbo starts with offering tea. Balin requests beer.

[4:37 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:37 PMSandalf13: Given that the Elves in general were into herbs and plants, I suspect they would have early recognized the health benefits of caffeine, and coffe (and tea) is a major source of natural caffeine.

[4:39 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:39 PMVarda: More requests for drinks by the dwarves: Red wine, beer, ale, coffee

[4:40 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:40 PMSandalf13: Sounds as if the Dwarves were highly cultured, sophisticated, with a ready willingness to induulge in the finest beverages known to Elves, Men, Hobbits, and themselves. I think that the Ents were more than satisfied with their Ent-draughts, however.

[4:40 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:40 PMAr-Pharazon-V: More cultured than I, for sure, since beer and ale are pretty much the same thing for me

[4:41 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:41 PMSandalf13: Ale and beer? The difference is as strong as the hops you put into them.

[4:42 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:42 PMVarda: Thorin praises the wine and ale in his speechifying

[4:42 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:42 PMSandalf13: And of course the wine barrels that Bilbo used to float downstream away from Thranduil...

[4:42 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:42 PMArien Valar: I think the Ent droughts were different according to the purpose they were to fulfill, more earthy and nourishing when it was to satisfy hunger and reviving when it was to wake up or to refresh

[4:42 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:42 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Ahh, Dorwinion. Good stuff.

[4:43 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:43 PMArien Valar: so in a sense , they did serve as coffee :)

[4:45 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:45 PMSandalf13: And L:egolas tells Merry and Pippint that he would prefer to know where they found wine amongst the ruins of Isengard....

[4:45 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:45 PMAr-Pharazon-V: What about orcs? Something dark, roasted, smokey perhaps?

[4:46 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:46 PMArien Valar: i could imagine that the older , more "barbaric " people like the wainriders or the folk of Harad did have some sort of coffee , good coffee as well likely

[4:46 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:46 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Surely an orc hangover could use some coffee :)

[4:47 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:47 PMArien Valar: the woses i d think had more tea , and juices i d imagine , but probably were most skilfull in mixing up those

[4:47 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:47 PMSandalf13: Coffee requires a southern clime for proper growth and fruiting...so it had to be grown in the southern parts of Middle-earth. I wonder if southern Gondor was even far enough south to support a coffee habitat.

[4:48 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:48 PMVarda: Finally found your quote, Eonwe: "A big jug of coffee had just been set in the hearth..."

[4:48 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:48 PMVarda: I wonder if they rigged some form of greenhouses anywhere.

[4:49 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:49 PMAr-Pharazon-V: The idea of orcs drinking tea amuses me, even if it'd probably be smoked black tea.

[4:49 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:49 PMArien Valar: the Ent wives probably didn t need them but if they taught Hobbits and elves and harsher climates they would likely mention the need of shelter

[4:50 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:50 PMSandalf13: Then again, they grew pipe-weed in the southern Shire. Tobacco also does not fare well in northern, snowy climes...

[4:50 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:50 PMVarda: Seems as if Hobbits might have come up with some version, since they did the underground larders.

[4:51 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:51 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Obviously pipeweed is not tobacco. Tobacco's bad for your health, after all, and pipeweed's great!

[4:51 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:51 PMAr-Pharazon-V: That might.. explain some things.

[4:52 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:52 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Stunted growths and a tendency to run around on bare feet.

[4:52 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:52 PMEönwë Valar: Tolkien has said it's tobacco.

[4:52 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:52 PMEönwë Valar: Or a plant in the tobacco family.

[4:52 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:52 PMVarda: Pipeweed is definitely tobacco, according to JRRT.

[4:53 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:53 PMArien Valar: tobacco are dried leaves and if i remember the lotro quests in that farmer market right you had to plant the pipeweed first, then harvest the leaves and dry them before sorting and testing them

[4:53 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:53 PMVarda: Book "Flora of Middle-earth" got into the subject a bit.

[4:53 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:53 PMVarda: https://archive.bookstr.com/article/this-book-finally-explains-why-hobbits-drink-coffee/ Bookstr

[“The Lord of the Rings” may be the most fully-fleshed out fantasy series of all time. J.R.R. Tolkien’s attention to detail is famed. He constructed usable languages and maps to make the world as…

[4:53 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:53 PMVarda: "Judd uses the real-life origins of Tolkien’s flora to examine how the plants fit into Middle-Earth. When the book examines coffee, for example, Judd writes:

["(Tolkien) considered the presence of coffee in Middle-Earth as representing an independent, and earlier, introduction from the mountains of northeastern Africa — a plant brought into lands controlled by Gondor as a result of its trade with Haradwaith and Khand … Additionally, he may have thought that coffee (in contrast to the tomato) was more in keeping with the essentially English nature of the Shire."

[4:54 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:54 PMVarda: Unless direct from Tolkien, it's not canon of course, but gives us a way to look for it.

[4:55 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:55 PMVarda: I don't see coffee in the Letters index, but maybe elsewhere.

[4:57 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:57 PMVarda: Anyway, it appears we have answered Earendil-(V)'s question. : )

[4:57 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:57 PMVarda: Any other comments, requests, suggestions?

[4:59 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 4:59 PMEönwë Valar: Here's a suggestion: if your current temp is below 50F, go get a cup of coffee or tea :}

[5:00 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:00 PMVarda: Soooo many books spawned from researching Tolkien.

[5:00 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:00 PMArien Valar: I have to check british amazon for it

[5:00 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:00 PMSandalf13: And articles and stories, such as are in our Valar Guild larder....

[5:00 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:00 PMVarda: It has a long list of books on the various science disciplines for Middle-earth.

[5:02 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:02 PMVarda: Not saying to buy the books unless you want them. Just had an interesting quote on coffee, and image too.

[5:03 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:03 PMArien Valar: sounds interesting though , might be useful for rp or stories :)

[5:04 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:04 PMVarda: And there are more botony and such books listed on those sales pages.

[5:04 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:04 PMVarda: Some I have but egad some I don't. : )

[5:04 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:04 PMArien Valar: i see dream flowers grow ..

[5:04 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:04 PMVarda: the gavel brings the hammerpad a steaming cup of coffee

[5:04 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:04 PMVarda: they sit together, drink, and blow smoke rings

After-Meeting

[5:05 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:05 PMVarda: The light brought by Arien aids the dreamflowers!

[5:06 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:06 PMVarda: We might show an image of a cup of coffee next meeting, along with any other food images, if we like. : )

[5:06 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:06 PMArien Valar: well aye .. time is not pressing but the habits of an ageing woman .. you know yawn

[5:06 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:06 PMVarda: It's late where you are. What time is it?

[5:06 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:06 PMVarda: 5:06 pm here, Texas, east side anyway.

[5:07 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:07 PMVarda: That's plenty late enough to need to sleep!

[5:07 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:07 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Going to sleep before midnight? Hmm..

[5:08 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:08 PMVarda: I'll go finish my LotRO kin report.

[5:09 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:09 PMSandalf13: I'll to to COstco to catch up on the last Black Friday Weekend deals, if any remain to be had. Namarie for now, and sei gesund!

[5:10 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:10 PMAr-Pharazon-V: And thanks for the video, enjoyed it :)

[5:33 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 5:33 PMEönwë Valar: Time for me to be off. Take care all, good night, sleep well, have fun, and stay warm.

[6:31 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 6:31 PMVarda: Lord of the Rings gamers in kin this past week:

[6:31 PM]Sunday, November 30, 2025 6:31 PMVarda: We had a nice crowd for the Thanksgiving holidays on Peregrin, our main server. : )

[1:57 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 1:57 AMAr-Pharazon-V: For (non)flashgaming.. Okay, this was an odd week. Every single badge of the day was some sort of grindy idle or energy game, and half of them don't even seem to work in the current site revamp or browser update... at least for Firefox for me. I'm glad I already had the badges from the past. That said, I like to give you one of them every week, and this one's not bad if you put some time in it :)

[1:59 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 1:59 AMAr-Pharazon-V: One Among Zombies is an upgrade zombie survival game where you take on turn-based missions to take out zombies coming for you. They'll be easier to hit the closer they are to you, but you'll still need to survive longer than they do to win :)

[2:01 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:01 AMAr-Pharazon-V: The upgrades are the main thing! You get experience, materials for the workbench, skillpoints, quests - campaign, daily and weekly, up to you how many you like to complete - lots of ways to get stronger and make it through the campaign.

[2:02 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:02 AMAr-Pharazon-V: It does have an energy system though, so you'll have to spread out your progress over time if you choose to get into it!

[2:11 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:11 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Hearthstone: Level 58 on the reward track. Bunch of gold and a classic pack!

[2:15 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:15 AMAr-Pharazon-V: There were a few short events this week. A short questline called To Be a Champion, where you have to play a brawl, play 2 ranked games, and then win a ranked game. Get some packs and a Champion's Crest 2025 card back.

[2:16 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:16 AMAr-Pharazon-V: And a quest event, Vendor's Bargain Blowout, where you just have to play a bunch of matches, with ranked counting for one more and wins as well.

[2:18 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:18 AMAr-Pharazon-V: The rewards for this one-week event include random cosmetic rewards you don't have yet: a random card back, a random coin, a random "lite" hero skin, and a "full" hero skin with custom voice and animations. The latter usually comes with a card back when you purchase it from the shop, but the card back wasn't included in the reward, so I wonder how that works. Could I still get it, would I need to purchase the whole skin again, or does it show as purchased? Ah well, still some free cosmetics otherwise!

[2:19 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:19 AMAr-Pharazon-V: I got the Darion Mograine card back, the Kazakus Coin, the Trapper Maiev rogue skin, and the Queen Azshara mage skin.

[2:19 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:19 AMAr-Pharazon-V: It's a weird event, and I wouldn't mind it showing up on a yearly basis or so to get missing stuff. I suppose any missing card backs from the full skin could come back in the random card back rewards later :)

[2:21 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:21 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Between this and the "end times"/timeways expansion going on, I get a bit of a vibe of an incoming maintenance mode for the game, but it might just be coincidence or end of the year celebratory stuff. The game does still seem quite profitable after all.

[2:23 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:23 AMAr-Pharazon-V: The brawl is tied to the champion's quest, as you can choose one of a set of classic decks from previous years' Hearthstone champions, some more complicated than others, one for each class.

[2:23 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:23 AMAr-Pharazon-V: No, that's wrong. There's 2 priests and no death knight.

[2:24 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:24 AMAr-Pharazon-V: For learning different decktype ideas, it might be fun to try them all, but personally my eye was drawn to the druid deck, which revolves around summoning larger and larger Jade Golems. Those have always been fun to me :)

[2:27 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:27 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Warcraft Rumble: No new collection level, as expected. Only a few levels gotten.

[2:28 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:28 AMAr-Pharazon-V: New login reward track is already on the horizon, though it'll be a few weeks before it gets here.

[2:29 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:29 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Pilgrim's Bounty is almost done, and I'm almost done with the reward track. Only the 2 most expensive rewards remain at the bottom, a tome and an epic core, and between logins, daily challenges, and the remaining pvp matches, I should get enough tickets for one of them at least.

[2:31 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:31 AMAr-Pharazon-V: The new PvP season has also started, and I'm slowly going through that reward track again as well.

[2:32 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:32 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Other than that, it's the regular dungeons and arcane surges. Every bit helps!

[2:34 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:34 AMAr-Pharazon-V: 2 minis have reached their 200k track this week, the leader Anub'arak and the Goblin Sapper. Slow but steady progress. Once Pilgrim's Bounty is done I think I'll try the sigil campaign again, all these levels the last month or so must have helped!

[2:36 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:36 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Raiding continues! Another week of focusing on heroic difficulty Dimensius, the last boss, and while I have been there for a lot of learning (and mistakes, including my own) they actually managed to kill it tonight when I couldn't make it :stuck_out_tongue:

[2:38 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:38 AMAr-Pharazon-V: That's okay though! We've still got 3 months to go for me to be around for a kill, and get the achievement and possibly a mount reward as well. At least it's doable!

[2:40 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:40 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Weekly quest is timewalks, BfA style, which is relatively new. I've been to long ones and short ones... there's even one where you can skip every boss but the last, that's always fun.

[2:41 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:41 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Anniversary's also still ongoing, and I've logged all my alts for the achievement and gotten the last photo op locations. No feat of strength for getting them all, however. Still, it's nice to see them all checked off.

[2:41 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:41 AMAr-Pharazon-V: No luck on the missing cloth boots from Taerar, but it's not over yet!

[2:42 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:42 AMAr-Pharazon-V: This week was also Pilgrim's Bounty, with the big new thing being 4 cosmetic Bountiful Backpacks gotten through the random reward bags from the 5 daily quests for cooking recipes.

[2:42 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:42 AMAr-Pharazon-V: I got 3 of them: white, orange and purple, but green has alas eluded me. Just add it for the wishlist for next year I suppose!

[2:45 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:45 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Delves still go on! Now at 95 flickergates, which means I'll get to 100 in the next reset, getting me achievement and title. Doing 3 tier 11s each week should still be useful though, as I could use the valorstones and gilded crests to upgrade my gear. I'm now pushing those into my cat/damage gear, since that's what we had been lacking for Dimensius, but since it's already proven doable by our group, the pressure's off :) Always nice to get that little bit extra though.

[2:45 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:45 AMAr-Pharazon-V: I guess now we just see how high we can get before the next expansion.

[2:46 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:46 AMAr-Pharazon-V: It means I should also start looking into defeating the Nemesis for this delve season, which I haven't even tried yet. Maybe next week when I have no need for lower tier delves anymore.

[2:49 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:49 AMAr-Pharazon-V: And finally, legion remix! Calyaxa's slowly plowing through the Stormheim story. She's reached Unbound level 11, 15 or 16 infinite knowledge, and even received the Dustytooth Fel Snoother capybara pet for the Highmountain meta, though she only got that through reputation rewards and dungeons, having barely set foot in the zone otherwise.

[2:50 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:50 AMAr-Pharazon-V: She did go there for a legion assault for a Research assignment, though afterwards it turned out to be not about the legion asaults but about invasion points which I haven't even reached yet. Ah well, at least I got a Knowledge from it

[2:52 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:52 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Anyway, did the Stormheim trials for the Aegis, up to a little adventure in Helheim - with the next faction divergence making itself known, as I ran into Sylvanas in there - and am now heading to clear the entrance to the Halls of Valor from God-King Skovald and his demonic minions.

[2:54 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:54 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Calyaxa's also done 150 research assignments now, getting the final promotion and title, and while it does allow me to do more assignments at once, I'm actually taking it as a moment to stop doing researches for now, including all the dungeons that come with it, and focus fully on the stories for Stormheim, Highmountain and Val'sharah. After that I'll incorporate raiding into my schedule and start making some real power progress.

[2:54 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:54 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Still, she's now definitely strong enough to stand her ground against empowered and rare enemies, though the world bosses are still somewhat out of reach.

[2:55 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:55 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Almost at 666 ilevel as well, which seems quite fitting for my little hell bovine

[2:57 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 2:57 AMAr-Pharazon-V: And that's my report for the week!

[3:01 AM]Monday, December 1, 2025 3:01 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Ooh! Almost forgot. Purchased 2 new WoW novels this week: Crossroads and Blood Ties, leading into Midnight expansion.

[3:36 AM]Tuesday, December 2, 2025 3:36 AMEönwë Valar: Narloth got a Timeworn +40 keystone completed.

[3:37 AM]Tuesday, December 2, 2025 3:37 AMEönwë Valar: Just need a +49 for the achievement.

[3:38 AM]Tuesday, December 2, 2025 3:38 AMEönwë Valar: I'm at 950 Limits Unbound though, and that was a tough run, so I don't know how good a chance I'll really stand soloing a +49 unless some major power increases are coming with the catchup stuff.

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