Kurn’s Sunday (Monday) Brain Dump 20

Kurn / / dungeons, facepalm, ramblings

Just one topic today.

I’m done with Timewalking. I’m DONE. I was excited for Wrath Timewalking! I was pysched! And then… I hated basically every single person I grouped with. Suicidal tanks. Inconsiderate warlocks. GO GO GO people.

People who, by my guess, weren’t even alive when Wrath came out the first time.

I’ve come to accept that running these dungeons now, some 15+ years on, is not a good idea for me. The rewards are nice! But not enough to deal with actual assholes. People who don’t know mechanics. People who know about mechanics and don’t care! People who leave others behind, time and again.

I legitimately like a lot of the Wrath dungeons. And this run… soured me. I’m too old for this shit. Too old to play with kids who weren’t out of diapers when I was running Heroic Nexus for my epic mace (pre-raid BiS!). Too old to constantly be chasing the idiot tank. This game moves ever-further from what I want out of the game. This was an event I really thought could be different, would be different. And yet. That’s it. I’m done.

It really didn’t help that I spent a chunk of the weekend watching mostly Liquid and a bit of Echo and their race to world first. Seeing talented players executing difficult strategies, then being faced with these bozos.

One could be forgiven for thinking it’s an entirely different game.

Yet, I continue, as I make money, play Hardcore Classic with my brother, and do stuff I find enjoyable. But this ain’t it. Not anymore.

Kurn’s Sunday (Monday) Brain Dump 19

Kurn / / blogging, patches, professions, ramblings

Don’t have much time to write today, it’s been a long one for me. Eesh.

Topic 1: Hardcore.

I wanted to share that I died on hardcore at 36.

Here’s the short:

And here’s the whole thing:

Basically, I was dumb.

I will probably reroll again. But not right now. Why?

Topic 2: Patch 12.1.0

Because it’s time to make money again! Season 2 starts tomorrow and I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to pull in somewhere around 40-50k tomorrow alone.

I’m also aiming to get characters actually levelled up in this patch. I’ve got Kurn, Madrana, my mage and my druid all at 90. Next up is my shaman, then my grandbaby paladin, I think. Maybe. I dunno.

And it’s gonna be about time to really start outfitting everyone with decent profession gear, too.

Topic 3: BlizzCon

Is it really less than a month ’till BlizzCon? Huh, September 12-13. I guess so. Looking forward to learning more about Classic Plus and such things. Is digital attendance free? I can’t seem to figure that out.

What are you up to this week?

Kurn’s Sunday (Monday) Brain Dump 18

Kurn / / blogging, classic, ramblings

Well, I got to playing a bit of Hardcore this week. I managed to escape two moments where I was surely going to die within about five minutes of one another.

And I made a short of the big moment where I was about to eat it.

And then, last night, I did more stuff, including dinging 36.

I’m mostly doing the hardcore stuff because I’m bored on retail. I know the patch comes out like tomorrow, so that’s good, but I do enjoy the immersion of hardcore. And the challenge of it. I just hadn’t touched it in something like ohhhhhhhhhhh two years! hahaha! So I’ll probably do more of that while I attempt to make all the monies in retail.

Have you tried hardcore? What’s your highest level and what class was it? 36 pally is definitely mine. My brother got a mage to 51 and died and was very, very sad (and mad) about it.

If you haven’t tried hardcore, is there any particular reason why not? I’d be interested to know.

Kurn’s Sunday (Monday) Brain Dump 17

Kurn / / blogging, dungeons, healing, ramblings

Not too much to talk about this week. Spent all of Monday out with my littlest nephew and am absolutely wiped out.

But, over the weekend, I did do 5 BC Timewalking dungeons on Madrana, so you might enjoy looking at that! I had one tank I thought of as “good”, one was “okay” and the others were, IMHO, bad.

What BC dungeons do you like?

Kurn’s Sunday Brain Dump 16

Kurn / / blogging, classic instances, dungeons, healing, ramblings

Not too much to say, just posted a couple of videos this week, both showing me healing Classic Timewalking Dungeons.

And then I ran the remaining four dungeons yesterday, and I also discuss tanks in general, dungeons in general, and of course probably use the phrase “back in my day” a dozen times or so…

That’s it for this week. What are you up to? Did you do any Classic timewalking? What do you think about running a dungeon solely to complete it, versus running it because you enjoy it or running it to get a specific piece of gear? I’d be interested to know.

Kurn’s Sunday (Monday) Brain Dump 15

Kurn / / blogging, guild, ramblings

Hiiiiiiii. Been busy this week.

Topic 1:

I started a rogue. Warning, the first “episode” has zero audio from me. You probably want to start with Episode 2.

Topic 2:

I keep meaning to download my achievements but I am so enamoured with pickpocketing that I haven’t bothered… It’s a lot of fun, I don’t know why all rogues don’t spend all their time pickpocketing, honestly.

Topic 3:

Relatedly, I’ve been trying to farm up a Disgusting Oozeling. No luck yet, but I’m in a level range (28) where oozes drop the Oozing Bag, which is where the Disgusting Oozeling drops from. Have you ever gotten one to drop?

Bonus Topic:

The Guild is doing a reunion movie! They launched their Kickstarter on Monday the 20th and reached their first goal of 1.5 million USD in under three and a half hours. Stretch goals now! If you’ve never watched The Guild, go watch it now!

And if you have watched it, go fund their Kickstarter now!

Were you a fan of The Guild?

Kurn’s Sunday (Monday) Brain Dump 14

Kurn / / blogging, gold, professions, ramblings

Well, it wasn’t entirely a boring week for me in WoW… I did stuff. And things!

Topic 1:

I livestreamed on YouTube for the first time in quite a while. I did about an hour of Scarlet Monestary runs for fun and profit and then healed on my pally.

It was interesting! I may do more healing in a livestream capacity this week, too.

Topic 2:

This expansion is going very differently than basically any other expansion. Kurn was first to level cap, which is the natural state of things, but then instead of Madrana (the paladin) or Beldinn (the shaman and farmer extraordinaire), my mage was second to 90. And then, this weekend, instead of either of the others dinging max level as the third 90, it was my druid. So weird. To be fair, the druid was 87, just like the shaman, but it’s just so much easier to farm herbs on the druid. And boy, did I farm. Not just herbs, though…

Topic 3:

And that brings me to what I really wanted to discuss here: pattern farming.

There I was, on the paladin, just minding my own business and doing a couple things here and there and I started finding these little things called Coalesced Light. Now, I’d seen these things before on Kurn, but hadn’t done the weekly quest with them for months.

And so Madrana was there, gathering them up all merrily… and gets a pattern. A tailoring pattern.

Like a good tailoring pattern.

And so I swapped to the druid to farm them A LOT, as well as gathering herbs. I got like one pattern and it wasn’t all that good. In fact, it was so cheap that I got my blacksmith to learn it.

Does ANYONE know how these work??? Is it like 1 pattern per toon per week?? 2 patterns per account per week? Or are all the patterns just that shitty in terms of drop rates? My elbow hurts from farming so much. And I didn’t even get the pattern I need on Madrana!

Any thoughts here? Would be super appreciated.

Thanks, gang!

Kurn’s Sunday Brain Dump 13

Kurn / / achievements, blogging, classic instances, classic loot, general, ramblings

I am, unfortunately, working this weekend, so this may be shortish. I’m not American, so working on July 4th didn’t bug me, but oof, I don’t like working weekends. Alas, it’s the nature of the career I’m in, so occasional weekend shifts are just something to expect and then deal with.

Topic 1:

I never have enough Azeroot, but that’s largely because I don’t farm anywhere near as much as I used to. So last night, I thought hey, let’s do a quick lap or two around Harandar on the druid. Maybe level him up to 88 since he’s so close, and get some more herbs.

Well, I ended up getting mostly Tranquility Bloom and Sanguithorn, but the fun thing I did was kill Annulus the Worldshaker. He had like 3.5 million health. But I saw him and I thought… well, I’m a tank, aren’t I? Let’s see how OP druids really are. (I mean, I’m sure I could have survived on a paladin, but probably not a warrior, so let’s see how the druid does.) So here’s a screenshot of my stats about halfway through the fight, which definitely took more than ten minutes.

So yeah, level 87, 143 ilvl, lots of cooldowns, and maybe halfway through the fight. Honestly, it wasn’t difficult, it was just long.

It went on so long that rarescanner or whatever it is alerted me about him again. I had been fighting him the whole time! 😂

Also, fun fact, he casts some sort of “sludge”, I think it is, at you, but it’s a movement speed debuff. It shouldn’t bother you too much if you don’t interrupt it. He does cast a couple of earthquake things, but you have plenty of time to get out of them if you are, you know, paying attention.

So that was fun. I like doing stupid things on my various toons.

Topic 2:

Still farming instances for transmog, still selling a few items every week. Certainly enough to make it worthwhile, even though I’m disenchanting so much. Actually, since Greater Eternal Essences are hovering anywhere between 18-24g each, it’s actually more worthwhile these days.

Topic 3:

The goal for this week is to use the WoW API to download my achievements and review them. The UI is crap for that, even the armory site is pretty gross in terms of the interface. So I’m gonna download them and present them in a way that doesn’t suck (locally on my own computer) and then see what I can do with them. What achievements are worthy of a Storytime with Kurn video? What achievements am I missing? What achievements do I want to … achieve?

What about you, folks? What are you up to in WoW this week?

Kurn’s Sunday Brain Dump 12

Kurn / / blogging, classic loot, ramblings

I had intended to post last Sunday. And then I had intended to post on Monday. And then I intended to post Tuesday.

And now it’s Sunday. Hi!

Before we get into my various thoughts, I went exploring in Uldaman for transmog-related shits and giggles.

Topic 1:

So I finally got around to doing some of Val and Naigtal. I had actually tried Naigtal first and then did not realize the portals changed around every week, so then I did chunks of Val. Now, I gotta say, Kurn is not super well geared. It’s not like he’s sitting around 200 ilvl or anything, but I think he was high 240s/low 250s. I think he’s now… ah, yes, 262. So that’s good. But it’s not the “recommended” ilvl for the “heroic tier” of the world.

So I scoffed at that and went out and yes, I did get my ass handed to me on occasion. But it was somewhat refreshing. I actually had to be careful. No charging in and AOEing All The Things. I used camo, recuperate, health potions, aspect of the turtle. It was good stuff. Got some hero crests, upgraded some things. I also love the blizzard in Val and god I wish it were snowing here in Montreal right now. It’s HOT and it’s only gonna get hotter and I hate it.

Topic 2:

My mage is my other 90 at the moment and for him, he is ilvl 210. So it was normal mode for him. I LAUGHED at how easy it felt compared to poking around on heroic mode. LAUGHED. Didn’t die at all. Also did not get a ton of gear and crests that were helpful, but that’s okay.

Do I like either of the zones? Meh.

Will I poke around at them every so often? Probably.

Topic 3:

I’ve been running the Old Scarlet Monastery for a couple weeks now, building up a… well, healthy is probably not the right word for it… perhaps unhealthy amount of items (mostly green, some blue) and recipes. And it’s finally starting to pay off. I collected like 70k from my normal bank toon on my own realm today! And I’ve had people buying stuff across a couple other realms. It’s been working out nicely. This is, of course, thanks to the inspiration from the guy who does the Bofades and Soktratez channels on YouTube. So thanks to him, whose name we don’t actually know. 😂

Bonus:

I’ve been off work since St. Jean Baptiste (June 24) and I go back on the 2nd of July, after Canada Day, so it’s been a nice respite from the daily grind. I took my nephew out on Saturday and we had awesome shenanigans, and I’ll do the same for his younger brother in a month or so. I am, how you say, le tired. I walked like 9km, all told! I do not walk a lot, so that was quite the shock to my system. 😅 But yeah, I haven’t gone anywhere. Tomorrow, I’m going to some gardens in the city with my partner, so that’ll be nice. I don’t think I’ve ever gone to this particular place before. Just gotta make sure to coat myself in sunscreen, lest I burn myself instantly upon the sun touching my skin. :) What about you folks? Doing anything interesting during the summer?

Kurn’s Sunday Brain Dump 11

Kurn / / blogging, general, gold, ramblings

Shockingly, I am posting this on a Sunday! Will wonders never cease?

I can’t believe it’s Sunday already and I have to go back to work tomorrow. We built the world wrong, gang. SIGH.

Topic 1:

I need a challenge of sorts to do. Please give me one.

I probably won’t continue with my Whelplocked challenge because it’s basically boring, which is something I’m realizing now. Did Kurn get the whelp or not? And how long does someone have to watch to see if Kurn got the whelp? Boring. So give me a challenge! Or many challenges and I’ll pick one! Please? Pretty please? I’ve got 7 days left on my current token, so I’m looking for something to do. (And I’m intrigued by “heroic” world stuff, but not sure if that’ll be enough to keep me interested.)

Topic 2:

Speaking of challenges, I started watching this guy doing two challenges simultaneously. He is trying to get 1 million gold (in cash) on a toon solely from what he gets out of Scarlet Monestary (on Sokratez) and 1 million gold (in cash) on a toon solely from what he gets out of Zul’Farrak (on Bofades). He’s about 11% of the way there on Bofades (the Troll druid) and maybe 8% (?) of the way there on Sokratez (the Worgen druid), but Sokratez has looted some sweet drops, so that challenge could be over any day now, if one of those sweet drops sells. Anyway, it’s SUPER interesting, so go check it out. Episodes out almost every day, each is about 10 minutes long.

For funsies, I’ve started running old-school SM armory and cath and have gotten some decent drops too. Nothing amazing, but hopefully some of this stuff will sell. I’ve got alts on other servers to help with that, too.

Topic 3: 

Anything you want me to talk about for Storytime? Perhaps one of these would be interesting to tell:

– The history of me and Majik

– The Night Kurn Drank Red Haterade

– Why I rolled Madrana (holy paladin)

Let me know!