Monday Random Thoughts Part Two

- Now that I got the missions complaining out of my head on to other, actual, random stuff.

- I might not have a new 100 for this week, but I do have another 99.

- Two of my 92s, which is where I would bring people in during the entry phase before I stop, are now 93.

- I did enter a new character this weekend and figured I would go until rested wore off.

- It made it to 95.

- So the only classes I have yet to step foot on draenor with thus far are my lock, paladin and monk.

- I am guessing next week I will have another 100.

- The 99 for sure will get there.

- Can't believe I have leveled 2 characters from 92 to 93 just from doing missions and the mine.

- Even more so that I stopped doing the mine during weekdays completely.

- Just do not have the time for that with as many alts as I have.

- It takes longer to do the mine than to do everything else at my garrison combined, so to conserve time I stopped mining during weekdays when I have less play time.

- So let me get this straight.

- I am the commander of all forces here on draenor according tot he narrative correct?

- I have many, some famous, followers that do whatever I tell them to do whenever I tell them to do it right?

- So how come I need to mine my own ore and pick my own herbs every day?

- It makes no sense.

- I think part of assigning a worker to the mine or garden should mean they do the work for you.

- Would really save a ton of time.

- Just does not seem right for the commander of all of azeroths forces on draenor to be mining his own ore.

- Don't I have people for this sort of stuff.

- Have you been to the outhouse?

- Go there.

- Not only for the achievement but because every time you go there you get a buff that increases your movement speed.

- Because you are feeling lighter of course. ;)

- I don't like Talador much, am I alone with that feeling?

- I love spires.

- Bet that means many people hate it.

- Usually the zones I like the many people hate.

- Loved dread wastes in mists, people hated it.

- Loved uldum in cataclysm but many people disliked it.

- Loved the basin in wrath but, oh wait, everyone loved the basin.

- Well, wrath is a different story, a special case.

- And I didn't say every zone I liked people disliked, I just said usually it seems that way.

- I hate the peaks and mountains and the getting lost and having to go around stuff in spires, I'll give you that.

- But I love the story, the setting, the flow, the elite mob quests, the flavor, it just feels like a very complete zone to me.

- Add to the fact it offers the best base experience for kills, quests, and everything else, and that is even without taking the building for the 20 percent experience boost.

- Why is it that you get more experience questing in spires than you do in nagrand?

- You get more quest experience from completing a quest in spires than you do in nagrand?

- I know the change in experience needed from level to level does not hugely increases each level like it used to, but you would still think that at worst a quest in the top zone would give you the same experience as a quest in the previous zone.

- I bet they nerf spires experience instead of increasing nagrands.

- Personally I believe they need to increase nagrands.

- I love it for the gear it gives, can get to the 610 heroic level just from questing there with some luck, but for experience, I now stay in spires until I finish the zone.

- They need to increase the apexis crystal cap.

- I can think of two reasons why they should do this.

- One reason that works for everyone that plays, and one for weirdos like me.

- The reason for everyone is simple.

- The last, most expensive piece, cost 20,000, with a cap of 20,000 that could lead to some unnecessary decisions that should not need to be made.

- Lets say you have 19700, do you do the daily and waste 500 because it will be wasted over the cap, or do you grind 300 to get the 20,000 piece.

- Or maybe it would be like valor, and if you are at 19700 even if you do the daily it will not let you turn it in because it would put you over the cap.

- Valor was like that.

- If you were 10 away from the cap and killed a rare on the isle of thunder which dropped 15, you could not pick it up because it would put you over the cap.

- So there is one reason, that effects everyone, that I think should be more than enough reason to have the apexis cap increased.

- Now to weirdos like me.

- The most expensive piece would cost 36500 to completely upgrade.

- I hate wasting things.

- I would rather collect all 36500 and buy the piece and upgrades all at once than buy one piece at a time and upgrade it little by little.

- So I would not be adverse to making the cap 40000 instead of 20000.

- But I am weird that way and accept that.

- Either way, for everyone, if the highest piece cost 20000 the cap should be more than 20000.

- Please blizzard?

- Did you noticed part of their stealth patching, and nerfing, of some things, that the armor pieces for your followers now stack.

- Well, some do and some don't, for some odd reason.

- I have two stacks of upgrade armor by 3.

- One of 6 and one of 3.

- They two will not stack together however even if they both are the same piece with the exact same wording.

- Wonder why that is.

- Maybe one is from missions and one is from salvage boxes?

- Only thing I can think of that makes them different.

- Nice quality of life change.

- Saved so much space on some of my characters.

- I only use armor on epic characters.

- Maybe I should stop waiting.

- Will need to reevaluate my decision on that some time.

- So for some of my 100s with no epics yet, that means I have a lot of armor stacked up.

- Ever notice you get one or the other.

- Or maybe it is just my bad luck.

- One character has 8 upgrade to a 615 weapon pieces and no weapon upgrade by X otherwise.

- Another character has 15 upgrade by X weapon ones and no base weapon pieces.

- Maybe next quality of life change is to make the follower upgrade pieces account bound?

- How awesome would that be?

- That would be on a really high level of completely awesome if you ask me.

- Which is why I don't expect it to ever happen.

- I managed to get the achievement [Savage Friends] this weekend.

- The one for three exalted draenor reputations.

- And oddly enough, I do not have three exalted draenor reputations.

- I only have two.

- I think, completely guessing here, that is it counting the skyguard from BC as one of my exalted reputations for draenor.

- Maybe they are one in the same.

- I mean the pet you can buy from them this expansion is the same pet as the one you can buy from them in BC.

- Either way, I have some sad news to break to everyone.

- The trading post level 3 bonus of 20 percent increased reputation gains is not account wide like we expected.

- A quest that offered me 250 reputation gain still only gives 250 reputation on an alt.

- Sad face.

- It would make sense to have that one account bound.

- Grind the reputations on your main, get a 20 percent boost to them on your alts.

- Makes perfect sense to me, but it does not work that way.

- Do you think it is a bug or intended?

- I am thinking intended because that was the only level 3 building bonus that was account wide.

- Maybe it was not intended to be.

- I would not complain if they did fix it to be account wide however.

- My main now has 22 epic level 100 followers, so many that I am deactivating ones that have duplicate abilities so I can level more followers.

- Need to have them all epic and 100 you know.

- Obsessive much?

- Yes, yes I am.

- Got a follower mission for 645 boots yesterday, awesome right?

- Got 661s this week from the raid.

- Just my luck right?

- There are a few slots a 645 would be an upgrade for and I don't get those.

- A guild mate seems to get exactly what he needs, every time.

- I would love to see what it is like to be a lucky person for once.

- But over all I have not had horrible luck so far this expansion, better than I normally do if anything.

- But nothing like some people.

- A guild mate came to warlords late and just got to 100 this week and went dungeon spamming.

- Two dungeons he got loot off every single boss, all either warforged or with a gem slot, and get this, he got a 665 drop from trash in each one as well.

- And both 665s were things he did not get loot from off the bosses.

- Then he kills the world boss and wins not one but two pieces.

- So, just hits 100 and 2 days later he is completely decked out with an item level higher than mine.

- I wonder when blizzard is going to start selling luck potions.

- I would buy them, because I want that sort of luck.

- I work my ass off grinding, doing professions, running dungeons, get nothing.

- Think along to grind all those mobs for exalted and not even one 665 drop.

- Blizzard really needs to add something into the game that actually rewards effort and stop letting everything be based on luck.

- I would really like that.

- May your luck be better than mine.

- Have a great day.