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Friday 13 September 2013

I Was Not Prepared!

Patch 5.4 is the first time that I've been up to date enough with content that I was able to experience it from the off. I'd checked it out on the PTR, leveled my engineering, completed all of the LFRs available, and thought about what pets I'd need for the Celestial Tournament  - but... I wasn't prepared for the excitement, wonder and simultaneous panic I'd feel!


Wednesday day-time I was at work which was a bit crappy as I'd miss the initial moments that the patch went live but I figured that by the time I'd get online in the evening things would have quietened down. Throughout the day the boyf was updating me that he'd killed so-and-so, got his legendary cloak etc. It all sounded pretty fun.

I got home, ate and logged into the game. I avoided reading any blog posts about the Timeless Isle so it was a complete surprise (though I had briefly been there on the PTR). When I got there is was packed full of people and there was hardly anything alive - but lots of animals corpses (perfect for skinners). I explored the isle and did a few of the starter quests and spent the majority of my time wondering around.

The biggest thing to hold me back was not the lack of mobs to kill, or the crazy amount of people there but was in fact my own indecisiveness. I couldn't decided if I wanted to quest, find all the chests, pet battle or a mixture!

In the end I opted for a mixture that favoured questing and obtaining the noodle carts. I didn't even have a go at the Celestial Pet Tournament but lets just say Little Tommy Newcomer was such a pain I gave up - there was much better things to be doing with my time.

Last night was very much the same - running around, exploring, killing, collecting and a bit of LFR on my mage. Tonight it's Friday Fun-Run time and then I have the weekend to really knuckle down with the new content.

On my travels I noticed a few cool features that have been added to the game:
  • Coalesced Realms - I noticed this pretty early on and tweeted a picture last night. To be honest I'm still not 100% clear what it's all about but it's not virtual realms... However, it is something related to VRs. From what people have said its a way to indicate people that are in a CRZ with you - hence you can /w or group with them.
 
  • Dungeon Journal Loot Filters - I hopped into LFR and found that a filter has been added to the loot section of the Dungeon Journal! This is fab and rather than serching through the loot tables I was presented with the class-specific gear. [It is possible this was already in-game?? but if it was it wasn't default... was it?]
 
  • Multiple LFR Queue - the ability to queue for mutliple LFRs is one that I've hoped for ever since I started running them. It's such a pain to sit in a queue for ages on your own when you know that other people must be running LFR. Generally, I'm happy to run whatever part has the shortest queue so it's awesome for me.
Oh and how could I forget that I got the schematic for Jard's Peculiar Energy Source on my engineer which unlocked a load of items I can now craft...
 
 

8 comments:

  1. The gear filter has been in game already ;) <3
    I love that multiple lfr que !! :P

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    1. A guildie told me the filter was already there but two others reckon there was only a filter in Atlas Loot. Either way I'm glad it's there / I now know it is!!

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  2. Yeah, my problem on the Timeless Isle is trying to pick what to do next. I keep running around getting sidetracked chests and interesting caves. I sure do love all the gear for my badly dressed alts that I've been collecting!

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    1. There's just soooo much to do - but I love it. I'd rather I was in a flap over what to do than be bored :)
      Yeah I'm getting a lot of gear tokens for alts that will (hopefully) hit level 90 one day and when they do they will look pimp!

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  3. Can you believe I STILL haven't completed the Celestial Tournament yet? I just haven't got time to sit still and do it! And not to mention I MAY not have enough pets.... :P Though youd' think 90 25s would be enough...

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    1. I still haven't either :( I've got just over 30 level 25s now but I have no where near enough of some families to follow my own theoretical guide - bit of fail on my behalf for not writing said guide sooner. But now the Isle's live I don't have time to level any more pets... But I MUST take part in the Tournament!!

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  4. I battled Little Tommy Newcomer but haven't had time for the tourney yet. Maybe next weekend I will give it a go :) Today I was too busy chasing down rares and collecting coins and gear!

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    1. I really want to kick Tommy's little butt!! I'm hoping to have a try at the Tournament today, even if I lose terribly!

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