Sunday (21 Jul) - Molten Core Attunement

Sunday (21 Jul)  - Molten Core Attunement
[Continuing the look back]

On 19 December, 2005, Wild completed the attunement quest for access to the Molten Core via a teleport window that eliminates having to cross through BRD while fighting mobs to get to the other entrance. Here is how Wild described it:

"Once you are attuned, you can teleport directly to (or at least close to) the MC entrance to save all that time. The teleport is a window you jump through opened by the npc I had just turned my quest in to. When you complete the quest the npc tells you about the open window, and actually opens it for you when you complete the quest. The urge to jump through that window is strong - this is a major quest accomplishment and you want to make sure you do everything right. Wild had already made one mistake by not turning the quest in before.

The catch? You know there's a catch. The catch is that the window only works if you are part of a raid. Only raid groups are allowed in MC, so the npc won't teleport you if you are not in a raid. Ok, so what? Well, if you jump through that window and aren't teleported, you simply jump to the other side of the window - which happens to be a very long fall to the lava below. Very funny. And very fatal.

So, nya nya nya! to you vets, Wild did NOT fall for it. Wild completed the quest, got a very lovely blast of bright lights announcing to everyone standing around that Wild had been Attuned, and turned down the chance to jump through that window.

Everyone in the area cheered and clapped. What a great feeling! Later, Wild wondered if they cheered because he got attuned or because he did it without jumping to his death afterwards. Probably both.

There's a follow up to this story. Wild noticed that there were now some guildies among the folks standing around. And more of them were showing up. A new MC raid was starting with the coop. Wild started to make his way out of there when Jo came up behind him and gave him a big hug and a kiss. Drats, caught in the act! Wild just hugged and danced with his guildies, and then wished everyone a good MC run. One day that could be Wild entering MC."

Wild eventually made it to level 58 on 3 January, 2006 during a BRD run. Wild had some UI (user interface) issues, which was quite common back then. Some of the third party UIs Wild had completely forgotten about, like CTRA (raid assist), Castparty (for healing), and Discord Action Bars. Wild was obsessed with healing addons and was constantly testing and changing them around. Castparty was interfering with CTRA so Wild was off looking for a new one, and he started using Benecast. Back then healing spells had "ranks" in which different levels of the same spell could be used. Healing addons were used to automatically choose the right level of spell. Spell "ranks" are now long gone, thankfully.

Wild made level 59 on 12 January, 2006, taking nine days to get there from level 58. About time Wild started speeding things up.

On Sunday, 15 January, 2006, Wild was in Winterspring. He was 9% of the way to level 60. At 4:30am on 16 January, Wild hit level 60, four days after hitting level 59.

"Postscript: I began playing WoW on 21 Feb, 2005. So it took Wildshard "just" 10 months and 27 days to make level 60. Hehe. Lol! Jump in the air!! /dance !!!! Too bad not a single friend and not a single guild member were online when I did it. But that's ok. Lots of celebrating throughout the day as folks came online and a personal congrats on the guild message board from the GL.

I kept meaning to go take a nap, but I stayed online all day."