This week, patch 10.5 was released, with a super nice evoker perservation change. Temporal anomaly is now faster, and applies echos right away. But the cooldown is increased and it has a smaller absorb after 5 targets. It is a little nerf, but a super nice quality of life change, since it was a bit clunky to use before. It was a dream to use in the raid, and I am even concidering using it in dungeons too.
Short on screenshots this week, for reasons.
The affixes were Fortified - Bolstering - Storming. Sometimes mobs hit like a truck, but it was more annoying and a bit time consuming rather than hard.
It was Legion Timewalking week. Not a big fan of the Vault there either, but the others are fairly fun. No Violet Holds were had, perhaps it's not a timewalking dungeon? Which would be great. Scaling on the easy side still, but it's alright. Better than the Pit of Saron malarky a few years back.
The set item creator catalyst thingie opened this week. Dom had 0 pieces, Wutte 2 pieces and Esmënet 1 piece before this week, so only Esmënet got immediate benefit from it. The plus side this time is that the quest is account wide, and that it's a complete things I already complete kind of deal. If you have two alts all you need to do right now is to do world boss on main and both alts to finish the quest and get a charge on every character. So it's all smooth sailing from here. Even if it unlocked a little late...
Character Summaries
Dominator [Social Dungeon Tank Progress Character]
Human Paladin [Level 70]
Weekly activities:
4 m+ dungeons (+16s)
Legion Timewalking Dungeons (x5)
World Boss/Accord/World Quests/Profession Quests
Epic BG weekly quest (Took 3 bgs to finish)
Garden of Secrets campaign quest (Which was interesting, if a bit heavy on click things)
Character Stats
Guild: House of Small Gods
Main spec: Protection
Talents: BIEAwtJ2KpR8WbGzhz/jy2AP8USaikiodAtIJlWTSiERiEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0EJJpJQSUSRkElDoEA
Professions: Enchanting 60/100 [-] (Enchantment: 100 - Insight of the Blue: 20) - Alchemy 93/100 [-] (Phial Mastery: 55 - Potion Mastery: 40) - Cooking 77/100 [+3] - Fishing 100/100.
iLevel/PvP iLevel: 402 [+2] / 405 [-]
m+ Score: 2192 [+62]
Valor spent/earned: 4000/6000 [+750]
Conquest spent/earned: 0/1320 [+285]
Solo shuffle rating: -
Raid progress: -
Wutteät [Personal Dungeon Tank Progress Character]
Night Elf Demon Hunter [Level 70]
Weekly activities:
All 8 m+ dungeons (+10s except Nokhud +9)
Accord/World Boss/Profession quests
Legion Timewalking Dungeons (x5)
Epic BGs for weekly (x3)
Character Stats
Guild: House of Small Gods
Main spec: Vengeance
Talents: BUkACnvaHJn8GSPD6tpaeczPTBAgIIJRSAEJCQDQ0iEJJJJJJtkISSSokkEAAAAA
Professions: Skinning 100/100 (Tanning: 10 - Harvesting: 40) - Leatherworking 61/100 [+3] (Leatherworking Discipline: 20 - Leather Armor Crafting: 50) - Fishing 51/100 [-] - Cooking 39/100 [-]
iLevel/PvP iLevel: 388 [+2] (2 set) / 411 [-]
m+ Score: 1507 [+209]
Valor spent/earned: 0/6000 [+750]
Conquest spent/earned: 590/1545 [+175]
Solo shuffle rating: 192 [-] (Vengeance)
Esmënet [Dungeon/PVP DPS Progress Character]
Dark Iron Dwarf Hunter [Level 70]
Weekly activitites:
4 m+ Dungeons (+8s and +9s)
World Boss/Accord/Communal Feast/World Quests/Profession Quests
Solo Shuffles (x10 fully completed ones)
Legion Timewalking Dungeons (x5)
Character Stats
Guild: House of Small Gods
Main spec: Beast Mastery
Talents: B0PAIlFMjeNhnEouGfV8Ij2uS5ACaJAIEAAAAAAAAAAAaEpIhWEJSiE5AhWCRIJEJJhGJRA
Professions: Herbalism 100/100 (Bountiful Harvests: 40 - Botany: 55 - Mastering the Elements: 40) - Mining 100/100 (Mining Process: 35 - Metallurgy: 40 - Mastering the Elements: 50) - Fishing 22/100 [+23] - Cooking 35/100 [+35]
iLevel/PVP iLevel: 387 [+1] / 419 [+1] (2 set)
m+ Score: 1322 [+107]
Valor spent/earned: 0/5500 [+800]
Conquest spent/earned: 4425/4650 [+550]
Solo Shuffle rating: 1104 [+154]
Raid Progress: 8/8 LFR Vault of the Incarnates [-]
Rank Log
Esmënet: 92 [-1] (Doing only 4 dungeons does this)
Wutteät: 22 [+4] (Doing 8 dungeons does this)
Dominator: 8 [-1] (Doing only 4 dungeons does this)
Random Weekly Thought
While playing the game without looking at guides is... freeing, it does come with some negative sides. Especially the profession side of things. There are so many pitfalls when it comes to skilling up crafting... They adjusted it to be less punishing for choices made, but it's still very costly to skill up without knowing the least costly choices.
This is the only true goal of the season. Reach 100 skill in the crafts. There's a lot of "dead" knowledges, so maxing that out is less important.
Rep Tracker
Dragonscale Expedition: 16 [0]
Maruuk Centaur: 15 [+1]
Iskaara Tuskarr: 17 [+1]
Valdrakken Accord: 20 [+3]
Was gonna do some opinion piece and then character summaries for something different, but instead there will just be characters.
The affix set was Tyrannical - Sanguine - Explosives. A non-pug week, which the amount of keys I done reflects :) Interest has also waned a bit, a potent combo to moderate playtime.
The weekly was world quests. Still feels oddly useful this time around, especially for alts who gets 2 renown just for handing the damned weekly in.
Character Summaries
Dominator [Social Dungeon Tank Progress Character]
Human Paladin [Level 70]
Dom did exactly 8 dungeons (I think), dragonspear, soup, world boss, weekly event and a tiny bit of profession stuff that led to knowledge but not skills.
A calmer week was nice, but can kinda tell stagnation is approaching unless putting in the hours soon.
Character Stats
Guild: House of Small Gods
Main spec: Protection
Talents: BIEAwtJ2KpR8WbGzhz/jy2AP8USaikiodAtIJlWTSiERiEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0EJJpJQSUSRkElDoEA
Professions: Enchanting 60/100 [-] (Enchantment: 100 - Insight of the Blue: 15) - Alchemy 93/100 [-] (Phial Mastery: 55 - Potion Mastery: 30) - Cooking 74/100 [-] - Fishing 100/100.
iLevel/PvP iLevel: 400 [+2] / 405 [-]
m+ Score: 2129 [+113]
Valor spent/earned: 4000/5250 [+750]
Conquest spent/earned: 0/1035 [-]
Solo shuffle rating: -
Raid progress: -
Wutteät [Personal Dungeon Tank Progress Character]
Night Elf Demon Hunter [Level 70]
Wutteät did even less than Dominator, clocking in with 4 whole keys done, weekly event, world boss and the profession weekly quests.
Had my first vault that had no upgrades - it was slots where I have tier pieces and a trinket. The trinket is pretty good, but would need valor to upgrade over the ones I've gotten from elsewhere. Crafted a neck and a belt to actually get SOME form of upgrade this week.
Character Stats
Guild: House of Small Gods
Main spec: Vengeance
Talents: BUkACnvaHJn8GSPD6tpaeczPTBAgIIJRSAEJCQDQ0iEJJJJJJtkISSSokkEAAAAA
Professions: Skinning 100/100 (Tanning: 10 - Harvesting: 35) - Leatherworking 61/100 [+3] (Leatherworking Discipline: 15 - Leather Armor Crafting: 50) - Fishing 51/100 [-] - Cooking 39/100 [-]
iLevel/PvP iLevel: 386 [+2] / 411 [-]
m+ Score: 1298 [+50]
Valor spent/earned: 0/5250 [+750]
Conquest spent/earned: 590/1370 [-]
Solo shuffle rating: 192 [-] (Vengeance)
Esmënet [Dungeon/PVP DPS Progress Character]
Dark Iron Dwarf Hunter [Level 70]
Esmënet saw reduced activity as my interest has dwinded, and Dom takes up a lot of my playtime. Only did some of the open world content and only one m+. I did however clear the last wing of LFR (which took a while!) and filled up the pvp vault, as I now stuck under 1000 rating as there is a healer every game that get picked on for a 3-3 score. It's easy vault filling, but isn't doing anything for my score or mmr.
Character Stats
Guild: House of Small Gods
Main spec: Beast Mastery
Talents: B0PAIlFMjeNhnEouGfV8Ij2uS5ACaJAIEAAAAAAAAAAAaEpIhWEJSiE5AhWCRIJEJJhGJRA
Professions: Herbalism 100/100 - Mining 100/100 - Fishing 22/100 [+22] - Cooking 35/100 [+35].
iLevel/PVP iLevel: 386 [+2] / 418 [+1]
m+ Score: 1215. [+11]
Valor spent/earned: 0/4700 [+200].
Conquest spent/earned: 3900/4100 [+550]
Solo Shuffle rating: 950 [-126]
Raid Progress: 8/8 LFR Vault of the Incarnates. [+2]
Rank Log
Getting only 50 score made Wutteät drop 2 spots, who would have thought?
Getting only 11 score made Esmënet drop only 15 spots? Sort of dissapointing...
113 score got Dominator a 2 spot advance. Rank 5 to 14 is VERY even, so I assume the pally rankings change every hour. If I played like 10+ dungeons a week with the ex-HoSG crew I would prolly be at my personal cap. But the long chain of everyone wanting to do stuff on the same day doesn't happen anymore, it would seem.
Random Weekly Thoughts
Thundering still sucks.
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