Random Thoughts Monday
Some random thoughts I’ve had while playing WoW lately:
Do you think Blizz underestimated the amount of work left to do on 3.1 when they decided to put it on the PTR? People always clamor for more content regardless of how quickly Blizz puts out new stuff, but just about everyone is ready for 3.1 to come along now. I can’t imagine that Blizz wouldn’t like to have it ready and out by now, despite their reputation for hanging on to projects until they are totally and completely ready.
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Shaman totems. What an absolute pain in the bohonkus. I can’t think of a more limited and frustrating class mechanic than totems (well, maybe soulshards, but I think totems are still worse). “You can get some more strength or spellpower… so long as you don’t leave this 20 yard circle.” Can you imagine Fortitude or Intellect working like that?
Two things Blizz needs to do to make totems workable: 1) Make totems center on the shaman instead of a particular spot on the ground. This would make the totems portable and help with having to recast so frequently. 2) Increase their duration. Making the totems portable would be a great help, but if they only last 30 or 60 seconds it would still be a frustrating system. Make them last 5 or 10 minutes - long enough to survive boss fights, but not so long that Shamans don’t ever have to think about them.
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Speaking of soulshards, I was perplexed by the recent changes Blizz made to them. The problems with shards are that they take up a large amount of inventory room (or an entire bag slot), are tiresome to acquire, and are absolutely essential for any raiding warlock. Blizz changed things so that shards are easier to acquire, but put a limit on the number locks can have, thereby increasing the need to acquire them. I’m not sure what the point of all of that was.
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Speaking of inventory (did you like that segue again there?), I have noticed lately that there are a few characters that I’m avoiding playing because I haven’t cleaned out their bags and bank lately. I know that I’ll need to clean out their bags before I can go quest, but the thought of doing that chore is keeping me from playing them. Am I the only one who does this? My warrior, particularly, is one of these. He still has the items from his last Kara run in his bags and I shudder to think of the clean up job I’m going to have to do when I finally play him again.
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I’ve been in the Outlands a good deal lately working on my Chef title. I had to do the old cooking dailies to get a couple of recipe drops for the Outland Gourmet, and I’ve also been doing the fishing daily to get the Captain Rumsey’s Lager recipe. It’s sorta strange being back in Shattrath now. It’s not quite as barren as IF and Org were right after the BC release, but it’s close. Thankfully, Blizz was nice and gave us a portal to Shat from Dalaran, so getting out there is super easy.
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The Horde needs a flight path at the Bulwark, already!
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I think the worst leveling stretch in the game now is 50 to 58. It seems to take as long from 50 to 58 as it does to go from 35 to 50. Is this just me again? There just don’t seem to be enough quests out there. And what really gets me is that we used to do it all the time before the quest XP was increased in 2.3, and it somehow seemed easier then. I guess the difference is that we used to run more dungeons to supplement the questing XP, but I don’t remember running that many??
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They put a limit on the number of soul shards that you can carry so that they didn’t eat up all your bag space.
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Yeah we do need a flight path at the Bulwark xD
An I got that “me dont wanna clean” syndrome… Really demotivates me thinking I gotta spend/waste 20 mins cleaning all of that stuff lol
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“Speaking of inventory (did you like that segue again there?), I have noticed lately that there are a few characters that I’m avoiding playing because I haven’t cleaned out their bags and bank lately. I know that I’ll need to clean out their bags before I can go quest, but the thought of doing that chore is keeping me from playing them. Am I the only one who does this? My warrior, particularly, is one of these. He still has the items from his last Kara run in his bags and I shudder to think of the clean up job I’m going to have to do when I finally play him again.”
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Yeah, I’ve been thinking about trying ArkInventory out. I know you like it, but I’ve always been partial to Bagnon, so I think I’m resisting the change somewhat. I’ll probably give it a try soon.
You didn’t need to go back to Outland to do those cooking quests (unless you really wanted to) … the recipes also have a chance to drop from the Northrend cooking dailies as well. My cook got both Stormchops and the Chocolate Cake that way.
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Actually, there are two recipes that only drop from the Outland quests. Broiled Bloodfin and Skullfish Soup both only drop from the Barrel of Fish offered as a reward from the Outland dailies.
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