A Peek Into the Classic Era Server

 It looks like my son will be playing the Wow Forever game version when it comes out, so I decided to look at my Classic Era characters to refresh myself on Vanilla play.

Stormwind! Yikes!

 

Note: except for a Warlock I created this morning, all of my Classic Era characters are Dead Refugees from the Hardcore server.  There was a window of time where you could re-start your deadie on Hardcore, or move them to an Era server.  The option may be back, not sure.

In any case, all I played in Hardcore were Paladins and Priests (Holy).   Usually the Priest was used as a banker to hold any and all valuables, resources, money for the likely Dead characters.  My level 7 Priest when I brought her up, had a full inventory, and no bank space.  But, 2 gold!

I took her out for a spin anyway to see how the game plays in advance of Forever.  I understand Forever has some fine tuning?  My small play time reminded me:

No mana.

No money.

No inventory space.

No bank space.

Do not try to fight more than one mob at a time.

Run, run. 

 

I created a Warlock this morning to see how my Forever main might play, and had mana issues like mad.  She faces that awful Stolen Tome quest for her Warlock trainer.  I have got to get the Forever version right in there to get that book while there are a million people around killing stuff when Forever goes live. As far as how well she fights, I think Warlock is a good choice.  Hits hard enough, plus pets.  That's all I need because I will not be fighting alone, right Mr. Big?

Meet Ms Mechagnome

 My Engineer continues to slog away in Mechagon because there are a couple of Rustbolt Resistance reputation items she wants.  Her efforts paid off unexpectedly when the Allied Race Mechagnome suddenly became available.  I was convinced you had to beat Operation Mechagon to get it, but no!

 What a setup!

I went with a Hunter from my class choices, and took Leatherworking/Skinning for Tradeskills so she will be self-sufficient.  She is beyond adorable.  Like a little doll.

 

Here she is enjoying the comforts of home.

 

The only other Allied race I want that I don't have is Vulpera :)

Blizzcon and Beyond

 

Welcome back!  You may have noticed I trashed the two posts I ‘wrote” about Blizzcon.  Now I’m two posts short for September’s 10. What to do?

 

Blizzcon

I really wasn’t feeling well. I now know I need to skip the first hour of the keynote/opening ceremonies.  There’s nothing I’m interested in presented in that hour.  I made it through by watching the comments along the right side of the screen.  They were silly and childish, apparently just what I needed to get through.   I won’t repeat comments per se, but there were a ton of:

Skip  Skip Skip

Turtle emojis, tomato emojis, poo emojis

L   (Lose) says my son

The audience!   That was the most unresponsive audience I have ever seen.  In my wisdom I thought “these are all Wow fans, they don’t want any of this”.    Then they get to the Wow portion and dead dead dead.   Aren’t these superfans in the audience?

I wanted quite a bit more about Midnight going bye bye (so done with it), and lots of teases/info about The Last Titan.   Practically zip given because they don’t want to spoil the plot.  There’s still a plot?

Ok there’s the big reveal that the powerful  Worldsoul of Azeroth is a big glowing ball with the blade of Sargeras near it. And Xala’tath is easily able to crank open the door to the chamber and is gleefully ready to take the Soul.   Can’t wait for that to play out. 

The big reveal of course was Wow Forever, the game breaker, the world shaker!  Classic+, Wow2, everything you ever wanted and didn’t know it.   I was hugely impressed they are ready to go, and it releases November 4, for the plebeians among us.

I feel like I’ve left Classic behind, then they come out with something so huge, gotta take a look.   Mr. Big and I are going to play. Using the same last name so we can find each other in the crowds.  

I’m reading the forums and Wow associated sites, and the overall reaction is hugely positive.  My spouse actually prefers the Classic era of gameplay.  He wants his wands back! 

The oddity of giving health potions to First Aid kind of bugs me.  It didn’t work out so well in Draenor, did it?   On the other hand, my main character doesn’t need to be an Alchemist at all, so that makes my main a Tailor character, with a Human Hunter to do Leatherworking and Skinning.

A much better write up than my little scrawls.

Winds Of Mysterious Fortune, Midnight Edition

From September 8-22, gain 20% extra xp and 50% added Reputation during the Winds of Mysterious Fortune.  Before I became a rep scrabbler, I shrugged off events that gave added reputation.  Now I'm like one of those cartoon characters with the popped out boing, boing eyes.

 https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24298587

 

There's MORE!  If you log in for five days anywhere in that time period you get 500 extra Traders's Tender for the Trading Post.   

Also, the event comes with the excellent Mysterious Satchels which often have useful armor, exp potions and other goodies.  If you're leveling a character  from 10-89 this can be huge for them.  

Crazy Coupon Lady

 Remember back in the day when coupon fiends would have half the store in their carts, but because of their coupons in hand, they only paid like $5.00 for it all?

 

I was never that person, but I was happy with my self if I saved $5.00 off an entire order with my carefully hoarded pile of coupons.

Enter the Community Coupons in World of Warcraft neighborhoods.  They just keep ratcheting things up that you can get.  There will be Halloween items out, likely at the next update in October.  The Vendor is in town, currently selling a mug and a crate for 100 gold each.  Atherne makes that in her sleep.  Snared.

 

There's a Santa Vendor too, no current stock.  But we know he's on the way, ho ho ho!

 Icy Veins has a list of upcoming Hallow's End Decor.  Some of these will be for coupons, of which I need a billion.  Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/news/wow-patch-12-1-5-brings-brewfest-and-hallows-end-decor-to-player-housing/ 

 

There are some Kobold inspired Endeavor Activities in the Ringing Deeps for Coupons.  I am not getting credit for Mining or Herbs. The number count doesn't change :(     I'll need to rely on regular Delve, dungeon and World Quest completions to get my Coupons for this Endeavor period unless they fix it.  Sad Panda.  I like as many sources as possible for earning Coupons.

I did find that there is credit (Coupons) for gathering wax, contributing to the Vat and getting a Sculpture made by a Kobold artist (daily) in the neighborhood itself. The Sculpture is only 5 wax, but its transparent and you don't get to keep it.  What were they thinking?

The Kobold Endeavor: A Workshop That Steals Your Candle

 I think that the dev team has been adding clever activities in the neighborhood. The Amani Endeavor had several daily quests that rewarded Community Coupons. My Coupon warchest expanded nicely while they were here.

Don't trust those Kobolds, though!

You find bits of Perturbed Earth in the neighborhood. Just as in the War Within, when you click on them an activity pops up.

 

You gather Home Grown Wax from these, then bring them into town, and put the wax in a large cauldron.

 

 

Talk to the little Kobold to start the Candlemaking workshop in two minutes.  Call on your neighbors to come out and do the workshop too! (Right)

 

 

Once it begins, go grab a pot, then stand near the cauldron and catch wax till your pot is filled.

 

Next, untangle a wick.  It's just like all of those maddening crossed lines puzzles.

 

Put the wick in your candle and pull!  Once successful, your candle floats up in the air, now called a Community Candle!   You and your neighborhood have the length of the endeavor to make 100 candles so you can get the Color Curious Candle which I am assuming is dyeable.  It's still 25 Coupons, though.

There are NO Coupons given at all for doing the Workshop.  Rotten little candle grabbers. 

 

Screenshot Saturday 9/5/26

 I was worried I'd accidentally sold her pants.  I've done it before!  And the boots! What adventurer has their toes sticking out of their boots!

 

 She is wearing Swampdredger Greaves and Steelbark Sabatons.  It used to be I'd pop to the Transmogrifier and change the appearance, but I only use it to get helmets off my head since the changes.

 

A couple of times now on the Coiled Isle I've found a little mask sitting against a wall or laying on the ground.   It's Ofi's Mask (who?) and he's yours to fight with for 30 minutes.  He's all vengeance and death dealing, and is somehow a charming little companion.  I guess I could see a little how Zul'Jan got attached to Malacrass.

 

 My Engineer finally leveled to 140 Kul Tiran Engineering and could make all of the recipes.  I love the steampunk design, and most things have moving parts.  The last time I built on, I gave her two rooms to display her things, as many of them are large and awesome and I wanted them to stay that way.

 

 

 The other room from my last upgrade that I added has a wall of windows I meant to have lots of plants displayed by.   

Then I added a sitting area.  A nice cozy spot in front of the fireplace. Lots of bookcases.  I went a little crazy on the green dye.  Last I knew the room needed a cozy bed so my hard working characters could just crawl in and snooze if the needed to.  This is one of my favorite rooms.