Dragonflight Season 1 Week 3

Dragonflight dungeon event! Another test to see if you are still on santa's list.

Affix set was Fortified-Sanguine-Volcanic, a better affix set than the previous two weeks in my eyes. Except for maybe Life Pools...

Personal Progress

Keystones

Wutteät pugged all 8 of the dungeons on 5/6, and got a couple hundred score. With the affix set this week this was very easy, with no pugs really managing to make anything hard.

Esmënet did all keys on +2/+3. Will pick conquest piece anyway, so just going for fast baseline score.

Gearing

Wutteät decided to luck out again, got a set item second week in a row, and got a really nice tank trinket from the dungeon event cache.

Esmënet had 6 options, which was nice. Had a hard time to choose between the pvp options but decided on the belt. Got a neck with verse from the event cache, which wasn't ideal, but an ilevel boost.

Dragonriding

I screenshotted getting the gold, but it seems it had chat. I just like doing the races, but keep forgetting to properly screenshot the moments...

Pet Battles

Questline: On the quests "Tamers: Eastern Kingdom" & "Tamers: Kalimdor". [No progress]

# of pets: 503 [+3]

# of level 25 pets: 3

PvP pet battle win/loss: 0-0

Picked up some pets and leveled my current team a bit. The battle pet event begins on january 11th, so will just faff a bit with pets until then, and then try to do some proper leveling for some pets at least that reset.

Professions

Will change to having a list of which character has what, and track knowledge too.

Mining (Esmënet): 90

Mining Process: 35

Metallurgy: 5

Herbalism (Esmënet): 95

Bountiful Harvests: 35

Botany: 30

Blacksmithing (Serwaswathan): 32

Armorsmithing: 10

Jewelcrafting (Serwaswathan): 33

Setting: 5

Skinning (Wutteät): 100

Tanning: 10

Harvesting: 25

Leatherworking (Wutteät): 58

Leatherworking Discipline: 15

Leather Armor Crafting : 20

Alchemy (Dominator): 46

Phial Mastery: 40

Enchanting (Dominator): 56

Enchantment: 60

Cooking (Dominator): 58

Fishing (Dominator): 100

Tailoring (Navarim): 37

Garmentcrafting: 10

Inscription (Navarim): 1

No specializations.

The only profession I have not started yet, it as far as I can tell, Engineering. And archeology, if that is still a thing.

PvP

Esmënet did 9 Solo Shuffle matches, with 26 wins out of 54 rounds for a net loss of 8 rating. It's still pretty fun.

There are some things that seems to permeate the format however. Every game people test all the other people, and if someone weak is found they get picked on. A fairly large chunk of the games has had one player that lost all 6 rounds (Ive done that twice now for example). If that character is a dps, all the other dps wins 4 rounds and the healers 3 each. If its a dps, one healer wins 6 rounds and all the dps wins 3. Games then turn into just don't play way worse than usual, while the more toxic pvpers then insult whomever is getting stomped. Sometimes the one getting stomped turns toxic in a funny way, like a healer that lost all 6 games but decided all the dps sucked so he couldn't win and said a bunch of things he will prolly get banned for...

One weird thing I found out is that shuffles counts for earning the pvp mount, and that you need 50 wins to get it. I am not farming for the mount, but it will be kinda fun to track how much I play and how "well" I am doing.

Even Wutteät stepped into the shuffle this week. It was a weekly quest to get through 12 shuffle rounds, and I wanted to get something to replace blue boots and neck so did that. Not sure how I won two rounds along the way... Might try out havoc if shuffle keeps being fun and Esmënet ends up being "done" at some point.

Social Progress

Gearing

Dom got a weapon from the vault, which made up for last week lack of luck on it's own. The event cache yielded a ring, with an added effect that is...not best for paladin. But iLevel is iLevel.

Casual playmates

I was not at home when the fun runs happened this week :(

Hamsterwheel playmates

Played with different hamsterwheel groups this week. The old HoSG group, and "new" community ones, with the community one having a different comp every time it happened.

Struggled to get keys for different dungeons, but tuesday provided finally. Only Nokhud at 10+ was not had, means easy score next fortified week I suppose.

Character Summaries

Dominator [Social Dungeon Tank Progress Character]

Human Paladin [Level 70]

Dom did citadel, dragonspear, community feast and accord of the open world content, 17 keystones, some light pvp and some light crafting (including darkmoon faire) this week. And did the pet battle and dragonriding race progress bits.

Had some drops, upgraded the weapon I got in the weekly vault with valor, made an alchemy trinket and ended up having a nice ilevel increase, but still remain behind most of those I play with it would seem.

Current project is working on alchemy knowledge and get another 2 11+ keys done, so I can bump up my alchemy trinket. And if a shield drop keeps eluding me, put in a work order for one.

Character Stats

Guild: House of Small Gods

Main spec: Protection

Talents: BIEAwtJ2KpR8WbGzhz/jy2AP8USaikiodAtIJlWTSiERiEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0EJJpJQSUSRkElDoEA

Professions: Enchanting 56/100 [+8] - Alchemy 46/100 [+10] - Cooking 58/100 [+3] - Fishing 100/100.

iLevel/PvP iLevel: 388 [+8] / 405 [+25]

m+ Score: 1575 [+225]

Valor spent/earned: 1500/3000 [+750]

Conquest spent/earned: 0/1035 [+1035]

Solo shuffle rating: -

Raid progress: -

Wutteät [Personal Dungeon Tank Progress Character]

Night Elf Demon Hunter [Level 70]

Wutteät turned a bit into a multicontent character too. Doing both a bunch of pvp (brawl and epic bgs) and a full set of +5/+6 keys. Also did the usual citadel, community feast, dragonspear and accord stuff. Even did my first Grand Hunt, mostly by accident.

Did a tiny bit of profession stuff, including a work order from Esmënet for a hat. Everything is slow, but the curiosity of where it will end up is still there.

Character Stats

Guild: House of Small Gods

Main spec: Vengeance

Talents: BUkACnvaHJn8GSPD6tpaeczPTBAgIIJRSAEJCQDQ0iEJJJJJJtkISSSokkEAAAAA

Professions: Skinning 100/100 - Leatherworking 58/100 [+7]

iLevel/PvP iLevel: 380 [+6] / 411 [+27]

m+ Score: 988 [+271]

Valor spent/earned: 0/3000 [+750]

Conquest spent/earned: 590/1370 [+1370]

Solo shuffle rating: 192 [+192] (Vengeance)

Esmënet [Dungeon/PVP DPS Progress Character]

Dark Iron Dwarf Hunter [Level 70]

Esmënet continued to be the multicontent character, albeit without bothering with redoing the LFR wing.

Currently catching up on the two other characters, due to a bit of luck with drops. And being able to buy conquest pieces that would help both pve and pvp, on top of having Wutteät to craft some stuff for the blue items left. If I can swap the trinkets, Esmë will overtake Wutteät and maybe Dom as well.

Solo shuffle rating went down, and did not bother to spend 650 conquest on some small item. Mining and herbing while in shuffle queue is the way forward, like it was from TBC through Warlords. I'm really in that zone again.

Character Stats

Guild: House of Small Gods

Main spec: Beast Mastery

Talents: B0PAIlFMjeNhnEouGfV8Ij2uS5ACaJAIEAAAAAAAAAAAaEpIhWEJSiE5AhWCRIJEJJhGJRA

Professions: Herbalism 95/100 [+21] - Mining 90/100 [+20].

iLevel/PVP iLevel: 378 [+11] / 414 [+1]

m+ Score: 761. [+189]

Valor spent/earned: 0/3000 [+800].

Conquest spent/earned: 1800/2450 [+550]

Solo Shuffle rating: 1065 [-8]

Raid Progress: 3/8 LFR Vault of the Incarnates. [-]

Rank log

Esmënet dropped 9 spots, closing in on dropping out of top 100 on a small server... Closing in on my old FM guildie Artulla, sometimes weird to spot people out of nowhere I have not talked with for 5 years or something.

Wutteät dropped 4 spots, which was less than I thought I would with my pacing currently. But as can be seen on the rankings, the spec just isn't popular at the moment and the ones that play aren't in a rush either.

Dominator dropped 3 spots, less than anticipated again. The first week the groups Dom was in managed to do most keys as we had them, but the last two most keys we got were CoS and RLP, so it was harder to get easy score spread out. Or get a high SBG for free score. Prot Paladin also don't seem very popular like with Vengeance DHs, it would be different if I were a Protection Warrior I bet.

Random Weekly Thoughts

This was week 5 of the expansion, and it seems that's when people started to normalize this time. Most of my bnet friends list that has been online has played WoW, and now it's spread over different games again. And discord people are listed as doing other stuff, too. Next question is when people go for a break.

Another thing that has become clear is that a bunch of things are "broken". Like crafting; if you dont pick the rods and wands spec as one of the first two it seems horrible to skill up. Or instances; SBG is already way easier than Azure Vaults, but the timer difference is just insane - you could give Vaults 3 more mins and SBG 3 less mins and it would still be unfair. Assuming they will not do much with the dungeons, but hope they adjust professions at least in a later patch. This is the bad part about having dungeons for a season - they need fixing, and when they are fixed they will be replaced with another set of dungeons that will then need fixing.