I trust everyone had a restful holiday. I’ve been tied up and busy over the past month and change. Between housing that’s come out, Battlefield 6, and other obligations, I took a bit of a step back from posting. With things settling down, I can get back to some degree of regularity. The list of things I want to touch on is growing astronomically.
With housing, I went nuts on it during the first two weeks, just collecting and unlocking as much decor as I could. But since I never really did a bunch of the Horde stuff in BfA or in Warlords for Draenor, I went through those to try to unlock everything that was gated behind some of those quests. I did manage to finish most of the Remix housing decor items. The last few things I need are from leveling the various Class Hall features or recruiting 20 people. I have a few remaining classes on Legion (Druid and Warlock), but the rest of the classes have been shipped over to retail servers.
On the beta side of things, I haven’t spent as much time there as I wanted to. The UI stuff is still in flux and it’s challenging to play until I find something that works best for me. It’s slowly getting there with all of these beta UI packages being released. A few of the players in the guild have been giving Quazii’s a shot, and it looks promising. For players like me with multiple alts, Hekili’s removal means another assisted highlight solution. I did run into this one on the ol’ WoWUI subreddit called Cooldown Manager Centered.
How have things been going in the raid?
- Death Jesters: We’re in our offseason. Everyone on the team has received their mounts and we’re underway in selling mounts. End of tier exit interviews have been conducted and we went over our raider surveys with everyone.
- Last Call: Not as rosy. Our roster depth has plummeted, and we have exactly 21 players left. We don’t have any Mages. Our Holy Priest has disappeared. It’s going to be a tough stretch in getting Dimensius down. After 300+ pulls, we’ve only seen phase 3 once with a small handful of players alive. We went through something like six straight weeks where we did not have a consistent 20 players in the lineup, so every week I had to make adjustments, and that didn’t lead to the continuity or consistency that this fight demands. Doesn’t help that this stretch of the season also coincided with the holidays. Prepatch comes out in about a week, and I fear we won’t be able to get it down by then. We have around 9 hours of raid time left. It’s growing weary since we keep failing to make simple mistakes of brainfarts on phase 1, which prevents us from making meaningful progression later. This fight has exposed my ability (or inability) to make adjustments when it comes to cooldown usage assignments. We’re going to try to save a few two-minute CDs for the Pargoth platform and use the gateway for that first crossover (instead of the second). We’re recruiting for healers, a tank (for Midnight), a Mage, and other non-Hunter DPS. Here’s our application form.
Aside from that, most of my remaining time has been spent playing Battlefield 6, Two Point Museum, and Hearthstone. I’m almost done with the battle passes in both games. I’ve also just about finished the Diablo 4 season journey. I took my Paladin up to Paragon 250 and cleared a few Pit 100s, which usually marks the time where I can comfortably wrap up the season there.