My Week In World of Warcraft

 Can't think of a post today?  Memes to the rescue.

 

I have all those lowbie characters, and I'd like them to go through each dungeon. Dungeon finder, though, never seems to be able to get a party together for anything lower than Blackrock Caverns. 

 

 

 

Although they haven't really fleshed out Ula'tek yet, I imagine he came from an odd family.

 

Pets for your house and yard were introduced this week.  I've started with the dog Luma from Eversong Woods and a blue robot named Chilly 9000 or something for the Mechagon Room.   You can have them sit in one place or wander a small area.   Once I had them, it seemed cruel to place them in one spot like a piece of furniture.

I've reached level 9, finally and was able to add four rooms if you count the right stairwell room which is now a storage area for the kitchen.  It looks much better than you'd think!

 

Artificially Yours

 

I follow a fair few authors on Facebook, and many are concerned about AI harvesting their work and spitting it out for someone else, and some teach and wonder how to deal with the onslaught of papers turned in written by a few lines of code somewhere instead of by their erstwhile students.

In my mind, that's all it is, lines of code giving back answers to queries in the mode that most suits the question.  I don't give it much thought.  I know it's more complex than that, of course I do.

When it comes to the point where we have what seems like a person behind the lines of code struggling to get out, I will pay more attention.

 

That said, I have my weaknesses!  I've noticed new Search Tools on Google search including Create Images.   I love to illustrate what I write with pictures.  If I could only draw!  And right there, on my trusted search tool is an offer to illustrate somewhat to my liking all the silly stuff in my head.  Boink!  I have not tried it.  One of my sisters will try it and send everyone their pictures.  

 

 The other AI output I find amusing is the AI Overview for my blogs.  AI had lots to say about The Last Chapter blog that made it sound pretty great, frankly.  It now has a new take on the Salaryn's Sword blog and its content every day.   AI has nothing better to do with it's time, does it?   In any case, it mentions the Pointy Sword Awards now and then, as if it were hot news that it will be revived.  

Here's today's result:

 

 

Coiled on the Isle

 Day two, and I'm still enjoying the new Coiled Isle area.  I think it's better designed than these little offshoot adventuring areas usually are. There's not so much pure grind, more story, more sense of wonder.  Plenty of ugly things, though, and way too many snakes.

Extra good news: there are many quests that offer decor awards, and also Item Level 256 and even 259 armor and weapons. 

 

 

 

The Curse of Ula'Tek and New Housing Stuff

 I've been reading forums and the Houses of Warcraft Facebook pages, getting excited about all the housing things.  

With the advent of Blueprints, I saw someone say that it was default that someone could walk by your house and grab your Blueprints.  I don't think anyone would want mine but I'm protective of my loot.  I went there first when the game finally came up at five.  It is not set to let anyone get your blueprint, but you can make that available. 

Then there's this big hooha about people selling Blueprints on their Patreon pages.  Here I thought it was all hugs and kisses and shares.  This will be interesting to watch.

You can't move your front entry anywhere as planned right now, bugged.

The Amani are the Endeavor everywhere.  They have some fun stuff, though among the initial things you can buy are a fence post and bit of fencing. zzzzzzzzz.

 There are five actual quests (!) and a scenario fighting fight waves of bad guys in the neighborhood.  There's a nice lamp as a reward. 

 

There's a brand new "Westfall Vendor" that has a load of fun stuff sort of farm related.  I want pretty much everything, but it uses Community Coupons rather than gold.  I just bought a cluster of pumpkins and a row of corn for my kitchen garden (indoor). Dyeable!  I need to be a fiend and do all I can to get Community Coupons.

Also, though, Ula'tek and Zul'jan.

 

I've like the Zul'aman story the best of the Midnight areas, and this continues the sibling rivalry story.  It's all one way, though, as Zul'jarra is willing to forgive her brother anything and bring home back home. 

Liadren tries to get reinforcements from Silvermoon, but no dice, so she stolidly comes back to stand by Zul'jarra.

There's so much to do, so much going on. I just wanted to pop this post out and I have to run back to play some more.   I'll see all my typos later and come back and fix them, never fear.   Snakes must dieeeee!

Atheren 

Curses! Ula'tek Arrives 8/11/26

 

Tomorrow the long awaited patch 12.1 The Curse of Ula'tek arrives.  It's likely he will be a raid boss, so I won't personally be seeing him.

I will be exploring the Coiled Isle, though snake infested places aren't my favorite. 

The real excitement is in new housing items, the blueprint system for saving rooms or your whole house and sharing them, and the ability to pick out pets.

I have selected a specific dog and a cat to add to my house, if you get to choose from any on  your pets list.  If they work out well I have a room I call the Mechagon Room that could have a little robot tooling around.

I'm looking forward to new Endeavors and Arcantina Quests (now that I've done some) .

It will be a busy week.

I'm discontinuing my Secret World Legends adventure series. Not the game itself, dang it my husband got to Egypt, and I'd like to get there too.   I'm at 19 posts for the month, this post makes 20!  I am going to get my 100 posts for the year, I just know it.   Thanks for stopping by to read those posts if you did so.  You can play the free to play game at Funcom's site  https://www.secretworldlegends.com/   or on Steam.  Show those zombies you're the boss. Watch your back!

Secret World Legends Getting Pounded Into The Ground

 It's a good thing I upgraded my weapons and finally looked at my Abilities Tab.  A little tinkering here, a little tinkering there.  I'm standing in a circle of zombies and don't do a thing.  I've got one effective ability now it seems. 

Even so, tonights missions required working through pack after pack of zombies. 

Occult Relic Piece One   A pack of zombies and a Phoenician jump out.  Almost died.

 

 

In the park, a riddle.

 

Lovely Lover's Lake

 

Here things get wonky.  You're supposed to pick up a book, and there on a nearby bench is Stranger than Fiction. 

 This sends you to a lighthouse.  Way through the town, off on a tiny path through pack after pack of zombies. To the lighthouse.  Once you get there the mission changes and wants you to head 300+ meters back in the other direction with out going in the lighthouse.  That's just crazy.

 

Because there's a famous horror writer at the very top who writes, drinks, and shoots zombies.

 

I have been just doing the main mission stuff, but I think I'll slow down and do all the missions so I get rewards and xp.   

In Between Times

 

I play a little on my laptop in the mornings while I drink my coffee.  This morning, with Darkmoon Faire all done for a month, and the Curse of Ula'tek prologue complete, I found myself feeling at loose ends. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do.  I like my goals.

I spent a little time sending characters new to Midnight out into Eversong Woods to do world quests that gave armor upgrades.  Always a pleasant way to spend a little time waking up.

The prologue featured the woe of Zul'Jan, that rotten little troll, trying to find Ula'tek to use as a weapon, and getting someone killed as he tends to do.  He's allied himself with an evil entity, because that differentiates him from his sister, and hopefully results in his becoming more powerful than anyone.  That strategy works every time!

Somehow Zul'Jan accepts my character as his respected ally, which makes his getting into the knapsack with evil even more problematic.  I feel guilty he thinks I'm his friend.  I want to stop him before he causes more harm.  Please don't let me be dragged along as he falls deeper into the abyss.