New year, same me struggling to write a blog post. But hey, I did it eventually!
But I started the year right with 10000 Honorable Kills achievement on the 1st January! I’m almost prestige 13 now and I had to take a break from PvP because I was starting to hate it. I do all the Warden’s Towers world quests + 2 free-for-all PvP WQs (unless Black Rook Hold is up because I hate that one) every day and with my limited time to play WoW, it’s all I do in game some days. I can’t wait to get to level 18 for the title and then not do any PvP anymore. Ever. Or until I start to miss it which is eventually going to happen, let’s be honest, Ann..
All those WQs and honor leveling give me a lot of artifact power so I fillled up 75 traits on my creepy staff Aluneth and unlocked all the power of the Netherlight Crucible. I was in no rush to do it but the last thingy on he Netherlight Crucible was Everywhere At Once (Increases the window to activate Displacement by 5 sec, and reduces the cooldown of Displacement by 10 sec.) which is actually pretty good! I should read my abilities more often.
Darkmoon Faire is this week so I took advantage of the reputation buff and finished Fisherfriend of the Isles. That was a lot of fishing. A LOT of fishing. And I still need to do MORE fishing to max out Underlight Angler, the fishing pole. Getting that thing to full is harder than getting my artifact weapon to full. Fortunately, I still enjoy fishing 🙂 It just takes longer than I would like.
I got PetTracker addon which shows you which pets you are missing on the map, caught some and got So. Many. Pets. achievement. I also found a guide for Celestial Tournament and I’m leveling the pets which the guide uses. The Tournament has been on my list for a long time now and I want to finally get to it. That should be fun. Or terrible, terrible frustration. We’ll see.
The lovely Laytis took me to LFR Antorus because I was too scared to go there on my own and I got very lucky and this thing dropped for me:
It has cute paws but it’s very ugly overall. And I even had fun in the LFR! I didn’t mess up much and most of the fights were good.
I felt very melancholic on New Year’s Eve so I went to Varian’s grave for the first time ever. I was avoiding the place because I knew it would make me sad and I didn’t want to be sad but I finally found the courage. So 2018 came as I was crying my eyes out and mourning my king in a fictional story in a video game. That’s my life, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
AnnInWonderland In Azeroth 
Congratulations are in order 🙂
Yeah, I personally think that mount is ugly, but it kinda looks good on a warlock or demon hunter. I dont know why there isnt a version of it with fel green paws, would be cool too. And I hope Blizzard does those kinds of effects on more mounts.
And about Varian… I can relate. I can honestly tell you that the end cinematic for the Icecrown Citadel raid always makes me tear up. I really liked the Lich King as villain, but what makes me sad is the death of Arthas. I was young and played Warcraft 3 and its expansion over and over, and I witnessed the fall of Arthas, going from a hero in shining armor, loyal disciple of Uther, into someone selling his soul to save his own people and turning into a monster instead.
And for years I kept believing that deep down, even if it was just a small bit, Arthas was still in there. So that cinematic is something truly special to me.
Would many people consider it silly, feeling emotional over a cinematic? Maybe. I dont. Playing a rich storyline in a video game, like WoW, is like living in a book of tales. And the fact that WoW can get this response from us proves why it is the greatest game in the world 🙂
(Im sorry for the long comment, I get carried away sometimes)
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Thanks for the congratulations and commenting 🙂
Looking back at the story of Wrath and how I’ve been handling Varian’s death, I’m so glad I didn’t play back in Wrath! I would be so heartbroken about Arthas. His story is so tragic. And how Jaina got caught into it.. It’s the worst.
Since I was a kid, I was always emotional about stories, both in books and movies, so when I discovered gaming, I knew I would get hit right into feels many, many times. And WoW can do that very well 🙂
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Yeah, in the RTS games you play as Arthas and his army during the purge of Stratholme, and I remember how I felt back then. For so many parts of the campaign, you’d see how they interacted and made such a cute couple.
Jaina was also one of the reasons Kael’Thas hated Arthas for (Nobbel87 has some pretty cool videos about this).
The Lich King on ICC raid can drop a special locket. I dont want to spoil what it will trigger, but it’s related to Jaina and it’s worth it ^^
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Nice to see your posting. I’m too scared to PvP so it’s good to see brave people out there. Good thinking on the DMF rep buff for the fishing, wished I’d thought of that!
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Happy New Year 🙂 N’aww, I understand completely about Varian /hugs.
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I still haven’t gone to Varian’s grave. I understand 😥
Awwwww glad to know someone else loves Fishing as well! You’re way ahead than me, though, congrats!
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