Monday, October 5, 2015

From Impossible to Inevitable?

From Impossible to Inevitable?

Last week Jocy was sure she would never be done with the Awakened Faction reputation grind that haunted her and had her counting fragmented apexis crystals in her sleep.

Still, she went resolutely to Tanaan, prepared to press forward, as daunting as it seemed. Jocy made visits to the Ruins of Kra'nak to get fragments from the rare elite there, with only one other player around to help, and that cost Tormmok a life - and earned her a pair of fragments. Twice Jocy reanimated ten dead soldiers in the Fangrila swamps to prod the Night Haunter into attacking, earning more fragments from the kills. Jocy - belatedly I have to admit - also discovered that helping to kill the elites in the Rumble in the Jungle sometimes drops fragments - even if you aren't on the quest! Hanging around the Rumble and helping out took time, but that's how Jocy got the last two fragments to gather in another 1500 rep.

As a bright day dawns on Saturday morning, Jocy can confidently (maybe) predict that next week she'll reach Revered with the Awakened and complete the Draenor Pathfinder achievement. Unless something goes wrong. Unless her math is off. Unless she forgets to pick up the Rumble in the Jungle quest. Unless . . .  Can one be both confident and panicky at the same time?

Here's the current status of Pathfinder:
Vol'Jin's: Revered (DONE)
Saberstalkers: Revered (DONE)
Master Treasure: 100! (DONE)
Awakened: Honored  -> 7500 -> 9000 toward Revered (need 12,000)

Obviously, Jocy needs 20 fragments to finish this. Rumble in the Jungle drops 5-7 fragments once a week. Doing only the Rumble each week, it could take Jocy four weeks to get enough fragments.
Jocy doesn't plan to take that route. What fun would that be? So here's her plan.

(1) Do the Rumble in the Jungle this week (5-7 fragments)

(2) Kill the Night Haunter. Jocy has had good luck finding and killing the elusive elite (1-3 fragments). I think I can kill the Haunter once a day.

(3)  If she gets the 10 fragments, Hurray! If still short of fragments (Boo!), she'll hang around the Rumble and horn in on someone else's Rumble and hope to get the rest.

(4) Failing the above, Jocy will give the Kra'nak elite a try, although it's one of the few elites that Jocy has trouble soloing, and I can't be sure it drops fragments if Jocy doesn't have the Kra'nak mission. Jocy's one kill of the elite was while on a mission, and Tormmok gave his life to the cause. Jocy had already burned her save me spells and was pretty low on health when the elite went down.

(5) Last resort, keep plugging away until Jocy gets those last fragments or another week arrives and Jocy gets another Rumble, which will then seal the deal. That's the "inevitable" part.

By the way, Tormmok is now past the halfway mark in leveling (5,030 toward 10,000) and has i654 gear and an i660 weapon. The max is i675. I'm not sure I'm counting levels properly, though. I never did spend much time learning the ins and outs of followers.

On another topic, Wild (remember him?) reached a long sought milestone. Wild is a fisherman, and has been working on earning the one hundred Nat Pagle marks needed to buy a new mount. Wild reached that goal Saturday night. It took more than 10,000 fishing casts - hours and hours of deadly boring monotony, I know, but thanks to Wild the Wild family now has the Crimson Water Spider mount, which can walk on water. Sorry, didn't get a pic, Blizz shut me down this morning before I thought to take one.

Jocy has her eye on another mount, the Reins of the Corrupted Dreadwing. Yes, another bird mount. I really want this bird. Jocy needs about 40,000 more apexis crystals to reach the 150,000 needed to acquire it from the Awakened faction. And no, there is no pic of Jocy astride it, since she doesn't have it, yet. Duh.

PS: I'm 58% through The Martian. It's as good as ya'll have been telling me. 

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