Tag: WoW

I had no intentions of staying up for the launch of Legion last night – but baby had other ideas, and since I couldn’t get to sleep, I decided why not. I was already up with heartburn and other pregnancy related aches and pains and may as well get a little gaming in. It was probably one of the smoothest launches I’ve seen. Servers didn’t crash, or even buckle under the weight. I didn’t have any issues with lag, and my quests all worked. I knew I would be playing my priest, and I decided to start out on my favourite side – Horde.

I’m currently just a smidge shy of level 102. Gear rewards from quests is starting to upgrade the 700-715 that I’ve been wearing. Crafted gear is very nice. I also learned a few things, like pick the artifact that you’re going to use while leveling, first. This is something I neglected to do, even though I level as a shadow priest I picked the holy artifact. Needless to say I have had very few opportunities to use it. I hear that at level 102 you can choose a second artifact for your off spec, and I understand that there’s quite a grind that comes with leveling more than one artifact, but we’ll see how it goes and what I decide in the end. While my leveling is all done in shadow, I know that I’ll be playing holy for LFG / LFR.

I’m really pleased with the expansion so far. I love that the starter areas actually scale with your character, and you get to pick where you begin. Since I didn’t play much of the beta nor did I look into anything I have absolutely no idea if some areas are better than others.

The story throughout the zone I’m doing is fantastic. I love the cinematic, the voice overs, and I feel more involved than previous expansions. Whether or not I get bored a month into it – well, we’ll just have to wait and see. I’ve unlocked my class hall and have a follower from there and have started doing some of the class missions. How it all works I haven’t quite figured out, but it’s explained pretty well as you go along.

What are your thoughts? Are you playing? Enjoying? Wish things were different? Having fun with how things are? Let me know in comments, and as always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Midnight PDT is when we’ll see the launch of Legion here in my neck of the woods, and I’ve been debating whether or not I’ll stay up to play. Chances are, I’ll fall asleep – and if I happen to wake up I’ll nose around for a bit, but otherwise I’m going to enjoy a full night of sleep, and I’ll play sometime tomorrow. What plans have everyone else made? Let me know in comments, and happy gaming!

Compared to some of my friends, I don’t really have that many level 100 characters. I’ve got a total of 10, 5 across Area 52 (all horde) and 5 across Argent Dawn (all alliance). I have two duplicate classes, a paladin and a priest. Priest being my favourite out of the bunch. It wasn’t my intention to level up all my characters when invasions first came out, but that’s what ended up happening. A lot of my characters had already reached 91, and I was just not keen on grinding through WoD content again for the 6th time. A handful were lower level or even new characters (like my horde priest, that character is brand new). I did a LOT of invasions, and I have no inclination to level up any more through that method. It was a lot of boring grinding, a lot of traveling, and just not very “fun” – what it was, was fast. Because honestly leveling up through questing for the hundredth time is also a whole lot of not fun.

Now I’m working on my professions a bit, trying to max them out. Most of my 100s already have max professions, but the priest does not. Only one of my characters had max cooking / fishing / archaeology, and I’m not sure if I want to max it out on other characters as well. I’ll probably just do it on my alliance main / horde main, and then we’ll see.

I’m really excited about the expansion going live. I love the hype, and I love seeing so many of my friends getting involved in all of the little changes that are happening. Even if it doesn’t last, it’s been a pretty good experience so far.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

I almost forgot to post this today, the 24th – but I made it on time (It’s 11:41pm), so technically I’ve still blogged all the days of August. Yay!

That schedule I made for my priest, well. Completely out the window. I reached level 100 today without too many problems. Opened over 80 chests and lamented (again) over the fact that there are no 2h staffs, nor are there any off hands or shields. 699 is my character’s ilevel, which is nice but it would be much higher if I found a better off-hand that didn’t cost quite so much gold. I realize that I could participate in two battlegrounds and get a 710 pvp item, which I may attempt to do, but I normally have horrible luck with things like that, so we’ll have to see.

I do still have one single character not at level 100, a 91 death knight. Whether or not I’ll try to get them to 100 I haven’t decided. Honestly, I’m completely burnt out from doing invasions, so I may just take a bit of a break from that. I spent the rest of the evening working on unlocking my garrison and the introduction into WoD. It’s not required by any means, especially with Legion right around the corner, but the little treasures you collect sell for a nice amount, and I figured it would be fun busy work.

As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!