After my holiday playtime was over, I surprised myself by going for putting in another month. Even if I had "done" all the things that had much meaning in the patch.
Most of the playtime has gone into Esmënet the Hunter, with some side content on Wutteät the Demon Hunter and Esmëralda the Mage.
m+
Esmënet ended up with KSM some weeks ago, after finally bothering to up my score in some dungeons I barely do. This was mostly done through pugging.
But one of the things that made me do another month was that my "primary" guild, Epiphany, is trying out a bunch of new things with the new officer setup. One of those things is a guild m+ night every week. I think that was the best thing Friends With Benefits did when I was there, so I thought I'd check out how it would end up here. Been part of 2 of those nights so far, with a mixed experience. It's been nice to play with the same bunch for a couple of hours, but the gap between people's interests and abilities and whatnot creates some friction just like in raids. I'll sign up for these as much as I can, and will prolly do as little pug m+ as I can until next patch.
I have somehow managed to not take a single screenshot from guild m+... Me and forgetting to take pics, name a more iconic combo :)
Raids
Esmënet and Esmëralda has both raided. Multiple times with the Exiles socials as the barrier to entry isn't really there. I asked if I could do current content raids with Epiphany until end of patch on Esmënet, so for now both characters has a night each a week. Both characters needs a trinket still, since I didn't raid for 2 months and the trinkets comes from the last 2 bosses, so never really farmed for gear.
Right now the Exiles raid is a little over an hours for reclears mostly, while Epiphany had to relearn Ansurek after the raid team shatter a couple of months ago. In general the Epiphany raid times are way less hassle (2 hours ish) but there's more demands, while the Exiles raid times are more of a hassle, more erratic on how much gets done but can just come if you are reasonably geared. Which is the reason I have ended up in more Exiles raids than Epiphany raids this season.
Professions
Done a bunch of profession stuff, but have focused on Leatherworking and Skinning, since Wutteät could craft stuff with the Enchanted Runed Crests for 619 gear you get from rep and Esmënet wanted stuff crafted with Enchanted Gilded Crests for 636 gear. Try to log in every day and do work orders and 10-15 minutes of skinning for the knowledge point drops, and starting to be able to craft the most important stuff at max rank. Hoping to be able to craft both mail and leather versions of boots, belt and wrists at max rank before season 2 starts.
Have also gathered a bunch of herbs and meat to prepare for consumable creation for season 2.
Current feelings about the game
Tired of delves and m+ dungeons still, think the design in current stuff is annoying and/or dull.
Raid is ok, but I've done it too much at this point.
I like the profession system still, but how knowledge points works at the moment is predatory when it comes to farming me for daily logins.
The fact that I don't have WoW commitments makes it a relief that I can log off for 2 weeks without anyone getting pissed off, but it also means all attempts at doing harder stuff is way more annoying.
For next time
Take screenshots of guild m+ nights.
"Finish" gearing Esmënet (All slots 626+).
Disenchant all the crappy warbound gear stuff in the warband bank.
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