Shadowlands Season 3 Week 0

Patch release finally arrived. The only thing available this week is Zereth Mortis. Nice with new content, excited to see if it was optional like it was flagged.

Dominator

The character that is going for revered with Enlightened was the prio character this week.

Keys

Mists of Tirna Scithe +6 ***

Sanguine Depths +8 **

World/Other

Chapter 1-3 of the campaign.

Done World Quests and Patterns within Patterns for reputation.

Improved equipped iLevel [236 -> 238]

Stats

iLevel: 238

Legendary items: Seal of Righteous Fury (r3)

Score: 0

Raid prog: -

Professions: Herbalism (max) and Enchanting (max)

Valor total: 0

Stormlufser

Tested the skip to see how much rep I would miss out on (2100). Then just rounded out the valor to 750 so I could use it on something, which was ore in this case.

Keys

Sanguine Depths +2 **

Necrotic Wake +11 *

De Other Side +11 *

Necrotic Wake +16

World/Other

Chapter 1-3 skipped.

Did a lot of skinning in ZM to prepare for legendary crafting.

Stats

iLevel: 242 [no change]

Legendary items: Doom Winds [r6], Leggings of the Vesper Vortex [r6], Handguards of the Primal Tides [r1], Witch Doctor's Wolf Bones [r1], Deeptremor Signet [r1], Echoes of the Great Sundering [r3], Cloak of the Windspeaker [r4]

Score: 0 [no change]

Raid prog: - [no change]

Professions: Herbalism (max) and Skinning (max)

Valor total: 0 [no change]

Wutteät

Farmed reputation and did dungeons during the premade night.

The premade night did not go to well, with 3 depleted keys. Both the Halls of Atonement opener and Necrotic Wake first boss keeps having the same mistakes made in spite of a reminder every time. Start of season will have less of the high key problems, but if wanting to push keys need to figure out how to solve all the repeated mistakes.

Keys

Mists of Tirna Scithe +18

Halls of Atonement +18

Spires of Ascension +10 * [Havoc]

Plaguefall +17

World/Other

Chapter 1-3 of campaign.

World Quests and Patterns within Patterns for reputation.

Rounded out valor to get ore.

Stats

iLevel: 251

Legendary items: Scorched Soul Shackles (r6), Everburn (r6), Collective Anguish (r4), Darkglare Medallion (r1)

Score: 0

Raid prog: -

Professions: Leatherworking (max) and Enchanting (max)

Valor total: 0

Hollowfury

Entered the new area and did one dungeon during premade night.

Keys

Mists of Tirna Scithe +15

World/Other

Skipped chapter 1-3 of campaign.

Improved Equipped iLevel [242 -> 243].

Looted some ZM chests in the hope of getting the legendary upgrade thing.

Stats

iLevel: 243

Legendary items: Waistguard of the Crimson Rune (r6), Rage of the Frozen Champion (r1)

Score: 0

Raid prog: 0

Professions: Herbalism (max) and Mining (max)

Valor total: 0

Patch thoughts

Stuff learned

Patterns within Patterns resets every 3 days, not wed/sat. Will change to weekly in week 1.

WQs gives reputation, dailies do not.

The new leather can be skinned from some named mobs with what seems like 100% droprate.

The new cloth can be looted from some rares with 100% droprate.

If one needs rep, one should not skip chapter 1-3.

Progenitor Essentia I've gotten from Patterns within Patterns (3), chests (2) and skinning (1).

Verdict on release so far

Another shallow and tedious Timeless Isle clone which only positive is that it mostly seems optional. Beefing the open world new content with actual side quest hubs that goes into other things than cutscenes with important characters would be nice for example. Or a bit more interesting solo content which is not an output check.

Plans for next week

Keystones

New this season is that 8 is enough for option 3 in vault, so:

Wutteät 8x keys (1 high + 7 10s ideally, in groups I make)

Dominator 4x keys (doing whatever when others make the group)

Hollowfury 4x keys (pugging 2-6s, or doing whatever when others make the group)

Stormlufser 4x keys (pugging 2-6s)

Raid

I was not held to my word of filling in as tank, so

Stormlufser attending guild raid

World/other

Wutteät unlocking leatherworking rank 7s

Navarim unlocking tailor rank 7s

Stormlufser timewalking x5 (if the chest reward can give a set token)