Now it's for real

WoW 5.4 is out. And with it, I got...

A proper LEGENDARY Pandaria cloak, obtained in the course of Mists expansion !

Well, it's no longer as legendary as legendaries were, as everyone can get one, with enough persistency (and luck!).

Anyway...

I restarted playing for 5.4, going to the timeless island, a recreation of the GW2 events, with jumping puzzles (basic ones :P), treasure chests, a few world bosses, a bunch of rares... and something new: same-faction-PVP !!! 

On the raiding side, we started, slowly, to go for Orgrimmar's Siege to kill Garrosh. Unfortunately, progress is slow in Normal-25, still 0/14 after 1 week :(

There's flex raiding, but I'm mostly kept out of pre-made groups, so... .|. it.

As to PVP, my old Saviory Deviate Delight pal, Strings, keeps playing, so we do some nice 2v2 Arenas and Bgs.  Again, Rated battlegrounds are premade, so... I'm left out :|

Legendary ? Not really

Back to WoW, for the Assault on Orgrimmar, after Blizzard releases Pandaria patch 5.4 and last.

Chapter IV: Celestial Blessings , the legendary achievement, pre-5.4, is done (on warlock, ofc).

I got a nice a upgraded 608 iLvl legendary cloak, or so I thought.  Actually, it's not a legendary, but rumor says it will be, after the last chapter is complete.

I'm still saving my legendary Sha gem and primal, as in 5.4 I want to be raiding, if I can, with Haunted Heavens. Will I have the patience ? Time will tell...

Hopefully, the new "flex" raiding will provided means for me to raid with my portuguese guild, Turno da Noite, in a more re"flex"ing atmosphere.

As to my alting, my epic task has actually been very fast, all my chars should be 90 by the time 5.4 ends. Hopefully 5.4 will add "speedy leveling" for the 85-90 bracket.


On the GW2 front, I stopped playing and hunting my legendary. I started taking care of too many achievements, ended up loosing interest as the Living Story in GW2 goes on too fast, and they cancel playable content after each Living Story ends. That's not for me, that's for people which anxiously await every patch and start playing from day 1 for 8 hours. Forget it !

I miss only 1 puzzle to finish the GW2 puzzling section, but it's a PVP one, so I might have to wait to do it with a friend or so.


On the LOTRO front, it was a breeze to reach cap level 85. I visited all zones, and rebuilt a bit of the burnt town, Hytbold. However, the amount of days/dailies we need to do in order to fully rebuilt is simply too much. Developpers must be crazy. 
I'm now doing Wildermore quests. Finally, I have companions to kill Warbands. In the other areas, no one kills Warbands, and the dumb ring I need to get in order to upgrade it and get a decent blue item, can't be farmed without a fellowship. So the 2000 store coins I spent power leveling my reputation for the four areas were !"#$%& useless :|
The nice part, is to finally be able to be part of a 5-10 person group that roam throuh Wildermore on mounts attacking warbands and farming coins or whatever they do it for, over and over. 

It's a totally new experience, this mounted combat thingie in LOTRO.

On my 2nd legendary

Three years ago, maybe more, the Eye of Sulfuras dropped on my warlock inside Molten Core. 

But... warlocks can't use a 2H mace.

However, paladins can... so I bought all the required mats, and waited for it to drop on Moonprince, my Warlord of the Free.

Tonight, it did.

A nice guildie, Brodock from Silvermon, crafted me the Sulfuron Hammer in the black anvil inside Blackrock Depts and then, it was just a matter or combining it with the Eye of Sulfuras.
And here I am, a proud owner of The Hand of Ragnaros !

On green fire !

There's nothing like an epic fight. The Warlock class quest IS an epic fight, you get to use most of your warlock abilities, in a raid-like solo fight, that will kill you over and over, unless you know what to do when and how to do it. In 10 years of WoW, the only thing that slightly resembled this fight was, for me, the Sindragosa Heroic raid.

I did it, with a iLvl 506, with BoK and food. Without them, I got Kanrethad to 10% and then decided that I could do it but it would cost another pack of hours.. and I didn't want to wait! 

So I got the 4% stat buff (that btw, was eaten by the Felhunters, as well as my spell+stamina personal buff, a few mins later !!!) and that allowed me to kill Kanrethad 16 sec before the 7 minute Curse of Doom expired, and before the third wave of Fel Imps was summoned.

Netcownt is now a master of Green Fire.

The fight

Tradução a quanto obrigas

WoW report !

Transferi a maior parte dos meus chars para o Aggra, aproveitando a vaga de migrações livres até fim de Maio.

Mantive o cliente em Inglês, mas não resisto a mostrar este item, tal como aparece no cliente português.

Hilariante !!

Guildless wars

For the last months I've been busy. But I kept playing a bit. I neglected LOTRO and WoW 5.2. But I kept playing GW2 a bit. That enabled me to reach World Completion last month and to look at other GW activities, from crafting to puzzling to structured pvp to WvW to...achievements and to......building a legendary ! I've been virtually guildless and finding a funny thing: I don't NEED a guild in Guild Wars 2 !! Yes it gives some karma buffs yes there are some guild only puzzles now but...no need, much less in pvp. And if you want to be in multiple guilds you can ! You represent one and that's it. All in all GW2 is a nice way to avoid the discipline in WoW, the timetables, the 3hr raids, the pvp chat anger, etc. Now...let's create a legendary weapon, shall we ?

WoW break under way until patch 5.2.

Real Life kicked in.