Wildshard was in game Friday morning and his MM guild leader again weighed in with some additional status on the state of guild raiding. We were the only two in game from the guild. The GL said that after the Friday night raid leader decided to take a break from WoW, one of the non-guildie players on the Saturday raid offered to join the guild and take over as raid leader. That player then moved to Japan and has not been seen in game since. That may sound hard to believe, but that is what Wild was told. I've been to Japan. I think their time zone is like 17 hours later than PST, which would make a 6pm server time start 11am the next day for someone playing in Japan. Maybe he works nights? Or maybe he has to use the Asia servers over there, which is why he has disappeared? It doesn't get much stranger than this.
Anyway, the GL said that he has been talking to the Saturday raid leader about running a second raid during the week. That would be nice, but I'm not sure they will be able to fill it.
While Wild was talking with his GL, he got a whisper from one of the MM2 guildies that Wild raids with. Now that they know Wild is back they are anxious to get me raiding with them again. They now have two raid groups. The first is the Bd raid that Wild is already part of. They are running the Bastion of Twilight (BoT) on Thurs/Fri night. Another MM2 raid group runs Sun/Mon and is working on both BoT and Blackwing Descent (BWD). Wild plans to sign up for Bd's raid, and will consider adding the other raid depending on what they are currently doing. It's really starting to look like MM2 has their act together while MM is just treading water or worse.
I was also told that the next patch, 4.2, was coming on 28 Jun. I couldn't conform that, but if so that will bring a new raid called The Firelands. It will also dumb down the patch 4.1 raids, including BoT, Four Winds, and BWD. Those raids will get easier - maybe easy enough that Wild's two guilds can gain some progress. This is a normal process, now. As new raids are introduced, older raids are simplified so that more players can be successful and see more content. I don't care, I just want to play, so I like this process.
I also learned on my own why my authenticator isn't popping up on my home computer. Simply put, Blizzard changed how the authenticator works. I found it in a patch 4.2 note that no one at Blizzard bothered to mention in the trouble ticket I'd put in. If the computer is considered local, then the IP is considered safe and the authenticator is bypassed. Why? To save me the 5 seconds it takes to enter the code? I have the thing, and I want it active, even at home. I feel less safe without it. Right now there is no way to opt out of that change, but a lot of people are asking on the forum to offer an option that would keep it active. We'll see.
Sunday - With Patch 4.2, Valor Points (earned by doing Heroic dailies and downing raid bosses, and used to buy i359 gear and Tier 11 gear sets) will go away, merged with Justice Points. The good news about this is that all of the gear that required VPs will only require JPs after 4.2. Wild, despite his loathing of random daily dungeons, will have a huge incentive to run them, since he will be able to pretty quickly fill in his gear holes with Tier 11 gear using JPs. Wild figures that if he works at it he might have enough VP+JP points to buy two T11 pieces the day patch 4.2 drops. Wild doesn't have many VPs, but given they were going away it made it worth it to use what he could now. So Wild traded in his i346 relic for an i359 VP purchased relic, which he finally had enough of after his last raid prior to going on vacation.
Wild's biggest needs now are: Gloves, Pants, Ring, and Trinket (which are all i346). Wild will need nearly 4,000 VP+JPs to buy the two piece T11 set (gloves and pants). Wild has less than 800 total points after the relic buy.
The Wild Family also received a "feel good" bonus for our return. On the Happyface side of the family, every member received a Celestial Steed. This versatile mount can be used at level 20 and all the way to level 85, able to run and FLY as long as the toon has the appropriate riding skill. For example, JB can use hers to fly at max speed since she has paid for all her riding skills. Shevils, at level 21, can still ride the steed, but won't be able to fly since she hasn't reach the minimum level for that. Toons below level 20 will still get the steed, but it can't be used until level 20.
On the Wildshard side of the family, every member received a Winged Guardian. The guardian works just like the steed.
JB on her Celestial Steed
Bean on her Winged Guardian
Happy finally relinquished the gold he had accumulated this past month - handing it over to Wild so he could buy his repair npc equipped Mammoth mount. Now Wild can do gear repairs wherever he is without having to go find a repair npc.
Wild's Tundra Mammoth
Sorry to hear about Toby. Kind of scarey as my Taz is almost 11 as is Mulan. And Allie is a year older than that.
ReplyDeleteThanks, we knew what keeping five kittens (now all 11 yrs old) and a mother cat only 6 mos older than her kittens could mean. Toby is the second in that litter we've lost (Grady died in his sleep unexpectedly last year). Two more from that litter were adopted by friends and are still doing fine, so I guess we're not doing too bad.
ReplyDeleteWe've lost four pets in recent years (Taz the cat at 10yrs, and Chelsi the dog at 15yrs are the other 2). What is a little scary is that three of them died of cancer. We never knew what Grady died of.