It was an interesting week with the Warcraft Direct stream taking place just yesterday. I watched it live and had a chance to collect my thoughts. Before we get there though, I wanted to summarize our week so far.
- Mythic Rasha’nan Down: Last Call is now 4/8 Mythic. The first kill wasn’t always the cleanest and I had to miss out on it since I had a concert rehearsal that same night, but I’m delighted th at the squad was able get it down. Our biggest problem throughout the night was Enveloping Webs. We need to do a better job of avoiding those by sticking together and baiting them properly. There ends up being a few players who just get caught by it and we have to waste time clearing them out.
- The All In that Almost Didn’t Work: You can see this one in the clip below. I made a call here to get the raid to simply control the ads while we focused the boss. It almost didn’t work. The Hatchlings were coming in closer and I was hoping for more Frost Novas or Typhoons or other assorted knockbacks to control them better but that didn’t quite happen so I ended up bubbling myself and surviving through until the end. Next time, I’ll need to make the kill the Hatchlings then switch to boss.
- Mythic Silken Court Phase 3: The team managed to get into phase 3 and see a few of the earlier parts there. We’ve gotten a lot of that consistency going on in Court for the first phase, the first intermission, and the second phase. Still need to get a better handle on second intermissions. Our dispels worked a lot better when we switched to the Northern Sky dispel package over Liquid’s. Holiday season’s coming up soon and our attendance is going to be impacted.
Let’s discuss Warcraft Direct now and some quick thoughts.
- Warcraft 1 and 2 Remasters: That’s nice. Played them when I was a kid, but I don’t see myself replaying them again but it’s great for a newer generation of players to try it out and go back to where it all began.
- Hearthstone x StarCraft: Completely unexpected and I am here for it. Glad that it’s a miniset and not a full expansion for the Great Dark Beyond. I’m also surprised that Hearthstone announced all 3 expansions in the next year and we get to revisit Un’goro!
- Warcraft Rumble: Glad that it’s coming to PC as I could never get around to playing it on my phone often at all. It launches December 10th and it’ll give me something to do while waiting for queues to pop up.
- Mists of Pandaria Classic: Figured this one was going to happen sooner or later. I do like the new introduction cutscene. I’m not planning on playing this one, but again, I’m glad there’s a new generation of players who will get to pull weeds and pick turnips on their farm.
- Warcraft Classic Classic: Ah yes, new realms! Players can do the grind yet again with a new Hardcore realm.
- Undermined: I’m sold! A new Goblin raid with 8 bosses, a new dungeon, and we get our own kart! Any chance of a Siegecrafter 2.0?
- Player Housing: Never thought I’d see the day but it’s been under wraps and under development for over 3 years. Hopefully it delivers something that everyone can agree on. More on this in the future about player housing and what I’d like to see come out of it.