Welcome to another Thursday update for the Wreck List, the World of Warcraft guild for Kossacks, family and friends. We're playing Horde-side on the Garrosh server.
As always, if you're not a fan of meta, community, World of Warcraft, or anything not having to do with your Big Serious Issue that Everyone Should Always Seriously Discuss, Seriously, then I humbly suggest that you've found yourself in the wrong diary and should make liberal use of your browser's Back button.
Today, below the fold, we have Otoño's discussion of how we've solved the "who has to level secondary skills?" issue, Caelesta's enchanting offer, and some random crap from yours truly.
Here's Otoño (Eddie in ME) with this week's skills discussion:
We're a fishing guild. Normally guilds have a handful of designated people who do all the fishing for everyone, as well as the cooking. We seem to, well, not do that. Our guild is at least 25% Fisherman Fisherwoman Fisherperson Angler. (Blech. So PC.) At least once a night someone is being congratulated for a new Fishing achievement, with some cooking ones rolled in, too. To those who have never fished, it begins to take like 3-5 minutes just to gain one fishing level at higher levels. So there's a LOT of work involved.
We're a crafting guild. Thanks to our wonderful socialist tendencies, our guild vault has been repeatedly filled with goodies for our crafters. Enchanting is a profession that takes tons of money and time to learn, under most circumstances. Not so for Caelesta, who has managed to reach the Classic cap of 300 while only at level 47. She can't level Enchanting again until she's 60. And when she gets there, another pile of enchanting materials is awaiting her! She's just one example of a crafter who has capped her profession. (And she capped Fishing. And Cooking. Fear her.) So when we get to Northrend, we'll be ready.
And soon, it will be time for truly experiencing the content. Many characters are in their 40s and 50s now. When everyone starts hitting Outland, we'll have quite a few players lumped together in the same level group, which means we can head into dungeons together. No more big guy powerleveling, now it's time for the real deal. From Outland up to Northrend, we'll be raiding together and clearing content. New players will get to experience true dungeon raiding for the first time, and old players will enjoy the camaraderie of running with their guild instead of a pickup group.
We have picked up a few experienced raiders, as well. Thanks to Aliza, Beertank, and Aislan/Zarafet (and I'm sure I've missed others), we'll have a few pros at the front leading our raids, and training our members. The goal is simple: shift away from the "work" of learning a raid as quickly as possible, so we can hang out on voice chat and just joke and have fun.
When next I write one of these, it will likely be to congratulate our first Level 80s -- stay tuned.
Just dinged 70 this week - here's hoping.
Caelesta chimes in with:
Yes, fear me :-P actually I'm only at 290 but mostly just for lack of things to enchant (would somebody please ask me to enchant something? I feel bad wasting shards and greater essences spamming enchants on myself, and I've basically outleveled the last dust-only recipe, so I need some gear to enchant. And I believe I can still do it if it's already soulbound, so that's not an excuse.)
The ones that will give me skillups are:
Chest - Major Mana
Shield - Vitality
Boots - Spirit
Gloves - Greater Agility
Cloak - Greater Resistance
Bracer - Greater Intellect
Gloves- Minor Haste
But I'm more than happy to do the lower level enchants too - I have mats for most anything, and I've been offering pretty regularly, but so far the only person who's taken me up on it is Baast.
Yeah, I could use a couple enchants - Mana and Spirit are great for Death Knights, right? :)
As far as random crap from Moody goes, I caught a report in Rolling Stone about a rising trend in the nation...costumed superheroes. Yeah, nothing to do with WoW, but that was so Whiskey Tango Foxtrot I had to mention it.
These guys aren't like the chubby guy with the Twinkie gun who told us to listen to the police when I was little - they are actually going out at night, confronting criminals, getting shot and stabbed, helping with natural disasters, the whole nine yards.
There are even, apparently, outfitters for superheroes springing up who will provide armor, weapons, and crimefighting gadgets.
Of course, this could be an elaborate hoax...but then again what couldn't be?
And, you know, it'd be a lot easier to set up a Horde. I just need to find some orcs.
See y'all in the World. For the Horde!!