Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition

The great push is on by Blizzard to pre-purchase the coming expansion, Battle for Azeroth. We've been battling for and against Azeroth for years. Now every login blares out UPGRADE! UPGRADE Now!

Okay, so when will the expansion be released? Sorry, can't tell ya. Won't tell ya. Just buy it!

This morning I noticed a change in the carousel of characters. The character list now has 13 spots instead of 12. Is that new? "Create New Character" is proudly shown now. Well. sort of. They haven't adjusted the sizing yet so the empty character slot isn't shown. I checked to see if the New Character option was active and it appears that it is.

So much for the Advertising. Sista has a few things to get done.

Sista made a gathering run over the weekend. Bag prices are high and she needed to farm more materials. She was thin on frosteweave cloth and infinite dust. Her target was Naxramas.
 The take from ten runs into Nax brought Sista 67 pieces of gear and 253 infinite dust. There were enough mats to craft 17 frostweave bags. At an average of 410 gold per sale, the guild bank could make as much as 6,000 gold.

Soon after Sista departed Naxramas to count her gold, a shadow came forth and made her own entrance into Naxramas. Sista wasn't fooled. The week before Sista had seen activity around the raid. Now the shadow was back. That person was Atkar, testing her ability to farm the raid. She did one run to confirm she could do the work.

Caught in the act, Atkar waited to see what Sista would do.
Sista didn't have to think twice. If she told Tiphaine about Atkar, Tiphaine might feel obligated to do something about it. Sista decided that Tiphaine would be happier not knowing. She didn't know if she could trust the damaged warrior, but didn't say no when Atkar offered her help.

"This will be just between us," Sista told Atkar. "I have special methods to increase the take of the mats I need. You will not have that advantage, but I want to see what you can do."

Atkar made her own ten trips into Nax, and the two compared notes. Atkar collected 56 pieces of gear. All were soulbound and Sista could not break them. But Atkar has an enchanter back at her garrison and shattered the gear for the mats. Overall, Sista's take was much larger than Atkar's, but the additional cloth and dust was a big help. 

Summary    Gear    Dust    Bags
Sista            67    253    17
Atkar           56    111    6
Overall        123    364    23 - A very nice haul.

Just before the two went their separate ways, Sista raised a hand and called out to Atkar.
 Atkar turned, her face a blank slate.
Sista nodded to her. "Thank you."

Later . . . .

Tiphaine may have trouble getting any work done. There is this crazy thing called the Super Bowl (or is it Supper Bowl?). Anyway, nobody seems to be around.

Late Sunday night Tiphaine couldn't sleep and went back to work in and around Skyhorn. She was enjoying killing the witches and forgot to watch out for the very large elite that is always on patrol. Tiphaine kicked herself for lack of awareness because that is where she died. Sigh. She hates it when she dies stupidly.

She made up for it by doing more grinding and graduating to Level 107.