Note - Things are moving fast. The below report was written before I knew that the invasion was going to fall on us about the time I finished writing this report. I'll follow up on the new developments already in progress in the next post.
[Written Monday morning]
Phase 1 of the infiltration of the Twilight Hammer was complete with the quest "Alert Our Leaders."
In Phase 2 players must fight off an attack of elementals ("Tablets of Fire") outside Orgimmar near the Zeppelin Tower. When the event starts players get a pet bar with three attacks. Different attacks must be used on different types of elementals.
"Tablets of Fire"
Then there is the boring and tedious "Subduing the Elements" where players have to kill twenty elementals in the city. It's a wack-a-mole event of chasing down little fire elementals and dousing them. The worst part is that even though there are plenty of elementals to go after, the longish cooldown between charges means there is some waiting around between kills.
"Show Me Your Papers" is king of cool, and it's actually the start of Phase 3. A crowd of cult followers have gathered outside Orgrimmar. Players make a proclamation outlawing the cult and then question five people, who are taken into custody. The funny part is that there are so many cultists parked outside Orgrimmar that the pvpers who like to use that area for their duels finally had to move somewhere else.
"Show Me Your Papers"
We then get to personally arrest five cultists in "Arrest the Infiltrators" and turn them over to authorities, followed by "Back Under Cover" for a simple go here and go there quest and finally "I Said The Words" where players disrupt rituals that the cultists have started doing in the city. For players at level 60 and higher, there is one more quest, "A Gathering in Outland." Thrall has moved to the Throne of Elements in Nagrand, and this is a simple go and say hi quest. Hmm, I thought Thrall was supposed to be going to Northrend? Ah well, Faction leaders seem to be in several places at once these days.
"Arrest the Infiltrators"
"I Said The Words"
The Wild family on the horde side is up to date on all the quests through Phase 3. I am going to try and get Java and Chaitee at least through the series on the Alliance side, but it may not happen. Just not enough time.
Phase 4 is going to be hell to get all my toons through. It hasn't started yet (as of Monday morning, anyway), but it is a timed event that will occur every 2-3 hours and each toon will have to participate in the event at least four times to get all the achievements as well as a rare Feat of Strength. More to follow when the event gets started. Update - The event started on Monday at high noon.
No Phase 5 has been announced. It's assumed that the next event after Phase 4 will the Shattering.
Reins of the Raven Lord Progress: Six Anzu kills. No mount. Wild has been killing Anzu on the first attempt, but things weren't so smooth on the sixth. First, Wild got careless and let an elite bird discover his stealth while padding to Anzu's chamber. Wild was immediately stunned and then attacked by a whole room full of mobs. Wild died. Then, against Anzu, Wild changed his strategy. Wild stayed with the first part of the plan - battle Anzu until he he goes into his un-hittable phase, change position away from Anzu, heal, and then kill the first pack of birds. Anzu comes out of his phase and has to run to Wild, so I can hammer him and buff Wild's armor while the bird was on his way. The past couple of kills I noticed that Anzu's health was way down at that point in the fight. Normally, when Anzu goes un-hitable the secnd time, Wild would again change position. But why bother? I should be able to kill him right where I stand. Wild healed and held his ground. The second wave of birds arrived. Wild got off one Hurricane on the birds, and then got stunned. Anzu shifted back into attack mode and, not having to run to Wild, immediately stunned me. Wild still hadn't killed all of the birds, and between Anzu and the birds Wild found himself stunned 75% of the time, and the other 25% of the time Wild could do litlle more than keep himself alive. When curses started landing in addition to the stuns, Wild died. On Wild's second attempt he went back to the original strategy and Anzu went down.
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