Dragonflight Season 1 Week 5: Azure Vaults (and KSM)

This week was in the sign of the Azure Vaults. At two points this week the entire group had Azure Vaults, and one time 4 had Azure Vaults but the one without didn't want to do his key.

Also got KSM!

This week had Fortified - Spiteful - Grievous as affixes. Spiteful was a bit slow and grievous a bit rough for healers, so not the best week, but not the worst.

It was Pet Battle Week. I had never even picked up the weekly for that... But that was "win 10 pvp pet battles" anyway, so not appealing. But during the event it's 100% bonus xp, which I had planned to take advantage of to get some pet leveling in.

Personal Progress

Keystones

Esmënet did a full pug rotation of 5/6s, and also did 9 SBG, 10 AV and 11 Temple with Lavawind.

Wutteät did a full 8-9 rotation, except Nokhud which was a 6 (did with Skrike) and a 10 (wrong key listed).

Gearing

Esmënet had a really stacked vault this week. Set gloves from LFR, a good m+ trinket and pvp shoulders. I went for the shoulders, as it would cut another 1,5 weeks off the pvp gearing grind.

Wutteät didn't have a stellar vault, but the cloak was a very minor iLevel upgrade and it didn't have mastery...

Dragonriding

Completed the last normal gold races, next week... Advanced races!

Pet Battles

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

# of pets: 541 [+30]

# of level 25 pets: 6 [+3]

PvP pet battle win/loss: 0-0

It was pet battle week, and I spent some more time than usual on pets just to see how fast it would be to get the ones I had started on to 25. I did it in small bursts, so didn't have a good idea of how long in actual time it took, but it felt short. Caught another 30 pets while leveling, and started to level another team. But the new team is a bit shoddy, so might start another where I look on abilities rather than just type...

I am still a complete noob, and the more I play the more I understand I don't understand. But I know what I don't understand, and learning between each leveling round and looking for specifics in guides has bumped my knowledge, on top of the numbers this week.

Professions

The major progress here was getting a spike in Alchemy and hitting the required centaur rep to learn the potion alchemy trinket on top of the phial trinket I already had. The other was that Serwaswathan is now able to craft an epic neck (albeit not the good one). I have a lot of sparks on all characters now, and soon I will be able to fill most slots I am missing stuff on. I guess I could also kit out alts fairly easy, if I ever get around to level those...

Mining (Esmënet): 100

Mining Process: 35

Metallurgy: 30

Herbalism (Esmënet): 100

Bountiful Harvests: 40

Botany: 50

Blacksmithing (Serwaswathan): 32

Armorsmithing: 20

Jewelcrafting (Serwaswathan): 35

Setting: 20

Skinning (Wutteät): 100

Tanning: 10

Harvesting: 30

Leatherworking (Wutteät): 58

Leatherworking Discipline: 15

Leather Armor Crafting : 35

Alchemy (Dominator): 93

Phial Mastery: 55

Potion Mastery: 15

Enchanting (Dominator): 60

Enchantment: 80

Cooking (Dominator): 74

Fishing (Dominator): 100

Tailoring (Navarim): 37

Garmentcrafting: 15

Inscription (Navarim): 25

Achiving: 0.

PvP

Had a better experience with Solo Shuffle again this week. There was a single leaver game (a feral who left in game 6 when at 0-5), but due to the change this reset everyone else got points and the druid got a bigger penalty for not bothering to try the final game. I regained a lot of rating, and there is a fairly big gap between games in the 900s and the 1100s. It's still mostly 3-3 or 4-2 games for everyone involved but one, but in the 900s I am never that one.

Raiding

Did not raid this week.

Social Progress

Gearing

Dom had a tough time choosing between a higher ilevel shoulders over a bigger upgrade chest, but ended up picking the shoulders. Which was good, because the world boss then dropped a chest! Dumped all the valor I had into the shield I got from RLP last reset, and upgraded alch trinket for a big overall iLevel boost.

Casual Content

Did not do casual social content this week.

Endgame Content

Did some keys on Esmënet with what I will designate the Lavawindmenet setup. My dps was all over the place during the four keys. My iLevel is decent, but talents, secondary stats, pets and various other stuff has not been properly set up to differentiate between open world content, bgs, arena, raid and keys. I just use the same stuff for everything, except trinkets and the odd other armor piece. Need to get organized to improve numbers.

Dom did some keys with the ex HoSG people, and some with Skrike. Both setups had ups and downs, and when I was approaching SL amounts of keys I was getting a bit tired of the game. Which didn't help with feeling a bit down in spite of getting KSM and generally getting to hang out...

Character Summaries

Dominator [Social Dungeon Tank Progress Character]

Human Paladin [Level 70]

Did the weekly open world content, pet battles, dragonriding, m+ and the unlocked expedition campaign quest. That quest was the least interesting campaign quest so far, and it didn't even give any rep for completing it...

Not entirely sure what to do with the sparks I have now. I already have the alchemy trinket, and I got a shield and weapon I have spent valor on. I have decent rings and neck, and not willing to spend gold on the lariat. Doing legs, boots, belt might be the best idea now? Just having them sit in the inventory is doing no good.

Character Stats

Guild: House of Small Gods

Main spec: Protection

Talents: BIEAwtJ2KpR8WbGzhz/jy2AP8USaikiodAtIJlWTSiERiEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0EJJpJQSUSRkElDoEA

Professions: Enchanting 60/100 [+4] - Alchemy 93/100 [+28] - Cooking 74/100 [+16] - Fishing 100/100.

iLevel/PvP iLevel: 398 [+7] / 405 [-]

m+ Score: 2016 [+240]

Valor spent/earned: 3250/4500 [+750]

Conquest spent/earned: 0/1035 [-]

Solo shuffle rating: -

Raid progress: -

Wutteät [Personal Dungeon Tank Progress Character]

Night Elf Demon Hunter [Level 70]

As a first time for the expansion, Wutteät did not do the open world rotation - only the feast and dragonspear. And "forced" myself to do all 8 dungeons, not all on 8-9 as intended, as Nokhud was a 6 and Life Pools was a 10. The last one because the keyholder had listed his key but someone else used theirs it seemed.

The increasing difficulty has started to reveal the Vengeance problem this time - lack of uptime on some cds. As long as defensives are up, it's fine. But at some key-to-gear ratio cheat is procced the moment defensives wear off. Doesn't help all my stuff is crit/mastery either...

This was one of those desert weeks on gear. Got the cloak from the vault - dragonspear, feast, accord and 8 dungeons yielded no upgrades. Just happens sometimes...

Character Stats

Guild: House of Small Gods

Main spec: Vengeance

Talents: BUkACnvaHJn8GSPD6tpaeczPTBAgIIJRSAEJCQDQ0iEJJJJJJtkISSSokkEAAAAA

Professions: Skinning 100/100 - Leatherworking 58/100 [-] - Fishing 51/100 [+51] - Cooking 39/100 [+39]

iLevel/PvP iLevel: 384 [+1] / 411 [-]

m+ Score: 1248 [+166]

Valor spent/earned: 0/4500 [+750]

Conquest spent/earned: 590/1370 [-]

Solo shuffle rating: 192 [-] (Vengeance)

Esmënet [Dungeon/PVP DPS Progress Character]

Dark Iron Dwarf Hunter [Level 70]

Esmënet did the usual open world stuff, shuffles and keys. Including being in keys I nagged people for, which is not normal (I tank when I make groups).

4 weeks behind Dom on gear and underperforming in keys my friends do, fine in pvp at the moment. PvE gearing and differentiating talents, pets and gear is next on the agenda for improvement.

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: 384 [+3] / 417 [+2]

m+ Score: 1204. [+226]

Valor spent/earned: 0/4500 [+750].

Conquest spent/earned: 3375/3550 [+550]

Solo Shuffle rating: 1076 [+110]

Raid Progress: 6/8 LFR Vault of the Incarnates. [-]

Rank log

Esmënet went up 11 ranks, more than expected, but the score increase was also a bit more than planned.

Dominator's rank remained unchanged, a first in this tracker. A lot of paladins got a lot of score this week.

Dropped 2 spots from last week, despite a larger score gain than when advancing two spots. Peculiar.

Random Weekly Thoughts

I played too much this week, instead of too much one day. Dropping Wutteät to 2 m+ vault options, and Esmënet to 2 pvp vault options and either a single key or play with friends for whatever number of keys. If Dom is played as much going forward, if not it the whole thing will solve itself.

Thundering sucks.

This blog has become too much of a spreadsheet again, I just can't help myself. I will see if I can come up with another format for a post next week.

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