The latest WowCast features Holly Longdale, Leah Hwang and Bret Cocking talking about what's in store for Wow's 20th Anniversary celebrations, and how they came up with the ideas for events and rewards.
It's about 12 minutes long. It's fun to see how the people think, who make this game we enjoy.
The details are also available for you to read at your leisure:
As part of World of Warcraft's 20th Anniversary, Dracthyr will have these classes available to them:
Hunter
Rogue
Priest
Mage
Warrior
Warlock
I confess (again probably because I did not do this expansion) that I had no idea that Dracthyr have a "Visage" option so that they can look humanoid. It sounds like the dual form available for Worgen. I have never used a human form for my Worgen characters and I wouldn't find any appeal in it for Dracthyr either.
That said, I'd make a Hunter Dracthyr in a flash. I'll just kill off my Dracthyr in waiting and make a new one that is a Hunter when they're available.
Read more here: https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24129657/the-dracthyr-spread-their-wings-to-new-classes
I do Darkmoon Faire each month with my five main crafters at least. Those few extra crafting points really help advance in crafting.
I'm finding the War Within's crafting system to be very different and hard to advance in. Does it seem to you that my Alchemist could have made 45 Health potions and be sitting at 10/100 in Alchemy? She got three juicy points by going to Darkmoon Faire this week, though, so she can do anything.
Look at these things she could make. Some require you to destroy your hard won potions! And one wants you to destroy via experimentation 20 Herbs. Yikes.
Although I can craft Algari Healing Potions on the fly, note some of these require an Alchemists Lab Bench. Back to Legion and that annoying requirement. Yes, this likely was all put in place in Dragonflight, which I skipped.
All of that isn't even the long road of the title. In order for my main crafters to learn Khaz Algar tradeskills, they need to go to Khaz Algar. Your character will need to go around the city of Dalaran preparing for the city to be moved. They will need to fight off attackers and try to get civilians to safety during the attack on the city. When you get to the beach in Khaz Algar, you've got Nerubians to fight and citizens to help. When you get to Dornogal, there are more Nerubians to fight, then you do some city cleanup, you bad outsider dog.
Dornogal is not a friendly city to navigate. The trainers are spread all over, up this way, and down that way. By the time you get to Darkmoon Faire, it's a relief.
I've done these steps with my four campfire characters, and those have Alchemy, Tailoring/Enchanting and Blacksmithing covered. I still need a Leatherworker, Engineer, Inscriptionist, Jewelcrafter to learn the new level of crafts, so four more times through the above so they can go to the Faire. Next month it will be simpler.
I'm looking at these characters as being able to provide high level crafted goods for the entire Warband character list, via the Warband Bank. As it was, I had Atherne put Health Potions for the next three in line in the Warband Bank to help them in the upcoming fights. My Proudmoore Alchemist has been working on Dragonflight Alchemy and could provide level 70 potions for everyone. Also, my Proudmoore Engineer can't make Thermal Anvils yet for the Blacksmithing quest at the Faire, so I just moved one into the Warband Bank for use by Proudmoore's Blacksmith. It is so handy!
Somewhere out there, there are fans of kobolds. Those rat like, candle carrying little miseries who assault you when you first enter the game in Elwynn Forest.
For sure, someone on the dev staff loves them, because kobolds have been given a lavish life under the surface of the planet.
Here are the Lost Mines, where you collect candles, kill kobolds, and admire the warm toasty underground candlelit world.
Those wily kobolds have been holding out on us even more. In a place called The Warrens, the kobolds live in candle laden luxury.
I've taken a small break with Atherne for Darkmoon Faire and am sending in my Proudmoore Blacksmith, a Reddit poster showed you could get extra Herbalism and Mining Khaz Algar knowledge at Darkmoon.
It's true for Herbalism and also for Alchemy. Maybe the other professions as well? Perhaps I'll send one of each profession through to Dornogal this week.
Not much time to play on Saturday (I'm ahead in my posts) so I thought to try The Waterworks Delve. I went with Tier 2, thinking I was ready to advance. The Delve does say you can do it at any level.
I'll say upfront that I now know I'm a Tier 1 person for Delving. Yup, stay low as you can go, I say.
Atherne is level 75 and Ilvl 474 going in, which seemed respectable.
I died three times to an early Elite who I didn't realize was Elite the first time around, till I'd engaged in the fight. Always a mistake.
I calmed down and got him though, by a hair.
When I encountered another of these in a big room, I waited till he'd wandered out of the way to make my moves. He never saw me 😀
Flame Traps in the Delve!
There was a room with more than just a pot of treasure. I felt I earned it!
The Final Boss is Waxface. I could smell defeat! I took several screenshots during the fight just to show I did make progress on the guy.
Thanks to a lot of dodging and weaving and whapping, not to mention I am now a Brann's Healing Pots Addict, I got that guy down. Yay!
Outside the Delve, there's a Mystery Box! When opened, a messenger of the Harbinger gives a warning! Stay out of Delves? Pfft! Tier One or Bust!
Brann, always a dwarf with a good attitude, sees only more treasures, and a Mystery to be solved. That's my guy.
We help an Earthen named Batzvara as she assists Inert Earthen who have shut down inexplicably to find a peaceful end. She doesn't seem concerned that so many Earthen have just chosen to shut down, nor does she have a reaction to how they look.
Clearly these constructs did not just shut down because they were at the end of their time. They were fighting and were terrified.
A particular friend of hers, Ausgazur not only shut down, he was robbed of his gems. They had a fun, still warm waxy trail leading down to the river that seemed intriguing, but it just died there, with no more trail. Tsk. Notice he isn't "inert", though? Hmmm....
You get to spend time in the outer area of the Waterworks looking for those gems and bombing kobold tunnels.
It's packed with kobolds of various ilks. One is Glintwick the Gem Grabber. She's kind of adorable.
Also here, what looks like a Treasure Chest, is the Water Pipe Puzzle I'd seen pictures of. It's a sliding tile puzzle, not something I excel at.
Scooting around getting herbs, I found a quest called An Opportunity to Relax. I almost didn't take it because it seemed so shady-give pamphlets to tired workers at Gundargaz. I'm thinking ha! They recruit these poor tired Earthen with these pamphlets, lure them out of the city, then turn them into the Inerts to weaken the numbers of working Earthen, forcing the Ringing Deeps into certain ruin. No idea as of this writing if any of that is true. Devs probably don't read as many mysteries as I do, so it's probably something else that's going on.
It seems odd to me that kobolds are down here in the middle of the earth. They are a bit bulkier, a bit meaner looking than their surface relatives. There is a subplot about a kobold who is The Candle King (haven't met him yet), and some kobolds who are in rebellion against them. See? Plots inside of plots.
Someone besides me doesn't like mushrooms, because they keep showing up and are pretty terrifying.
Then there's this cutie just hanging around by a river.
My goals are small. Getting in any gaming time is rare. I've adopted a puppy who is the sweetest pup ever, yet, she is capable of eating your chair while you sit in it, and if you are at the keyboard you can't catch other puppy behaviors fast enough.
The game I have been playing since I got her a month or so ago is Fallout Shelter. I can play it on my ipad (s) (I have two), putzing with an older Vault and a new Vault.
I've watch the Fallout TV show six times now, and that you can get six of the characters from the show to live in your Vault is highly appealing.
I pulled out my totally not game friendly laptop last night and played a bit of Cataclysm Classic. Except for getting pounded in Hyjal because I hadn't re-set my Talents, I had a nice time of it and no furniture was eaten.
It has always been my opinion that World of Warcraft has been popular for so many years because you could play it on anything you'd care to call a computer. Cataclysm Classic looks great on my grubby little laptop.
Blah blah now, more pictures later.
Update…and I turn my chair around from writing that tiny bit and she’s peed on the floor behind my chair. Eep.
Killed off dozens of characters lately and need some new ideas for their replacements? Here you go! I've been using this quite a bit. ...
