Atheren's World of Warcraft Goals for November 2024

 My October goals were met and surpassed.  I sent my main character, Atherne the Druid through every area, did every quest, got every exploration, did all the delves and dungeons.

I now have 6 level 80s.  I'm using the camp fire group to select the set of characters I level, and work left to right.

In the first group I had two Feral Druids with Alchemy, one Retribution Paladin with Blacksmithing/ Mining, and a Fire Mage with Tailoring and Enchanting.  Once they were at level 80 and had completed all quests and delves and quest related dungeons on the Isle of Dorn, off to the Ringing Deeps.  I also start working on their Tradeskills in earnest at level 80.  Having two alchemists to provide Health potions for my other characters in the Warband bank has been great.  

The second set of characters are a Rogue with Leatherworking and Skinning, a Destruction Warlock with Inscription and Herbalism, an Arms Warrior with Engineering and Mining, and a Holy Priest with Jewelcrafting and Mining.

I'm really enjoying the leveling process, picking characters to be my next group.  This group is all Blackwater Raiders characters because they were the highest level crafters for their particular skillset.  For the next round I'll be having a mix of classes from the Guild Realms (Blackwater Raiders, Earthen Ring, Proudmoore) to try out all the classes on the new content.   

I used to have leveling characters "prove themselves" by sending them into dungeons, but the meter of success is now Delves, to see how they fare in them.  

November goals are easy:

Continue leveling characters.

Work on Tradeskills.

Move all level 80 characters through each area: Ringing Deeps, Hallowfall, and Azj-kahet doing all content in each.  

Work on gearing up.

I almost forgot I was able to create an Earthen character. She's a Retribution Paladin, who I cleverly sent to the Earthen Ring Server. Home Sweet Home, right?

Hallowfall and Backtracking to the Deeps

 I made it to Hallowfall and took the obligatory "isn't it pretty" picture of the giant crystal and the very cool airships.  The area is pretty, but so far I'm not engaged in the quests given.  In theory that changes.

 

I could not stop thinking of the Ringing Deeps.

It was driving me nuts that I had none of the story achievements for the Ringing Deeps even though I had done every quest, and had also gone back to the surface and completed the Isle of Dorn.  There was a suggestion on a forum to try turning on trivial quests, as perhaps I'd out leveled the ones I needed.  Nothing.

As it turned out, I had simply not done a quest that I thought was a delve or dungeon, waiting to do it at a calm time for the dogs.  It's all about the dogs.

New Candle, New Hope was an instance, but not a delve at all.  Once that was complete, a whole series of quests opened up.  There was another sliding tile puzzle. and I did the first level of it easily, but couldn't get the second stage.

Luckily since it was part of a quest series you could bypass it.

Then, there was a climbing puzzle  reminiscent of one in Battle for Azeroth, without flames and a burning building and a cat.

A character named Granny Scribbles tells a series of brave kobold stories.  I think you're supposed to start feeling warm towards the kobolds, who have clearly been misunderstood.

 

The previously hard to find Janky has you stealing wax from bees.  Why are there always bees?

I've improved in flying out of necessity, but my landings can be rough.  I still hate that you run out of vigor (?) and just plunk down to the ground.  They should include the sound of the air going out of a balloon with that.

Soonish, back to Hallowfall to see if it lives up to its reputation.