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[WoW] Shadowlands: 9.1.5 on the PTR
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Sludgefist during progression is /chefskiss and it's still a fun fight even when everyone over-gears it. And Sire Denathrius is a fantastic final boss. One of the best they have ever made.
The only other must-see content I would say is Taza'vesh. Go in there on like an M0 or something. Both halves of it are absolutely brilliant. It's an A+ dungeon.
There's a fun toy from the Maldraxxus campaign questline that lets you transform into a Necrolord cultist, and it even has some customization appearances that you can collect (very minor ones, do not overhype it), but it's a fun thing to have.
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Hoping to get close to 50 tonight on my demo warlock want to play with implosions. Before the 50% goes away.
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It is fun, it will be missed
If anyone's planning to play alliance again and isn't sure where, I'm an officer in Knights of Arcadia in Dark Iron which has had a max of like four people online in the past few weeks so feel free to throw an app in there and let me know you're from here.
After fully skipping shadowlands it has been nice just blazing through the story so far. Hit Revendreth on my pally just doing campaign quests and 60 already thanks to the xp boosts.
- starting tomorrow xp per level goes down a lot, especially in the 50-60 range.
- while the winds of wisdom big goes away it should still be faster
- you can no longer pick the SL Threads Of Fate leveling (something available to alts once you have a main that's done a bunch of covenant stuff in SL where dailies unlock right away and you don't have to follow the linear story, but also a lot faster one patch cycle after it was introduced).
- characters that are already on threads of fate get grandfathered in. Meaning looking at 1-2 hours to go 50-60.
Ohshit, you're KoA? I'm in Disciples of Divx! We get around 2-4 people max during interesting times.
I'm still on the fence about starting an Evoker since that place is going to be packed with peanuts on launch day and I'm sure it's going to be laggy. Might just work on the elemental storms.
When Shadowlands released, I did a Faction switch on my character, so now it acts like I have never stepped foot into any BFA content. This is where I run into a problem:
- Multiple guides tell me to go to the ship with Nathanos and ask the captain to sail to Drustvar, but unfortunately that option is not available to me.
- Then, someone said something about a portal to Drustvar next to Ysera, but I can't seem to find Ysera anywhere in Zuldazar...
- Theeennn someone suggested to take a port from the "Heart of the Forest" to Drustvar, but apparently that's for Night Fae only (the only covenant I never joined)?
So I'm wondering if someone can help me out here, just how in the heck does a "fresh toon" get to Drustvar so I can get the explorer achievement? I attempted to start doing some of the BFA quests to unlock Drustvar, but after fiddlefarting around in Nazjatar for a few hours now, I don't have any idea if I'm any closer to unlocking Drustvar, and not sure if I'm even doing the correct quests which work toward unlocking Drustvar.Heeeey! Yeah I'm Dohaeris, or more likely Dohadin right now on my paladin. Or Dohvaker on my soon to be evoker heh. Guild chat's been so dead I've been tempted to jump to another one but I appreciate all the leveled up guild perks. I assume more people will show at some point with this xpac looking pretty good.
I had a list of all my Dark Iron characters but I'm going to main my paladin, Phender, first. The PAA chat channel and PAALFG are still around but people barely talk in them. Feel free to hit me up. It's always nice to hang out with some PAA people!
IIRC you have to do part of the War campaign to unlock expeditions into enemy territory. So you might have to do some questing like unlocking the mission table and stuff.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Problem is I'm not 100% sure which are the War Campaign quests. I attempted to use wowhead to find the answer, but was unsuccessful.
I think I'll give that a shot! Thank you.
They should be noted with orange exclamation points. You might have to do other stuff first but anything with an orange ! will be the main war campaign.
There are heirloom toys that unlock all travel points. I vaguely recall that you can just buy them and use them and it will give you the Explorer achieves.
The way the campaign works, from a high level, is that you will be given the option of three landing points in the opposite faction's zones. Pick a landing, go there, do a bunch of sub-quests to unlock a basecamp and landing point. Rinse and repeat 3 times to unlock all 3 zone landings. Then, after you have unlocked each landing point / base camps in enemy territory, you can talk to Admiral Tattersail and she will have a dialog option to set sail for your location.
The quests are pretty quick, and if you're 60, you can blow through them very fast.
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For some silly reason, they level-gated the war campaign in Chromie time to I think level 35. That number might be changing today with prepatch v2. But prior to today, you could not even begin accepting quests from Nathanos until 35. I'm not sure what level your horde is, but this might be part of the problem.
However! The war campaign foothold quests are ah-maz-zing XP. Some of the best I've seen, honestly. If you're wanting to breeze through some levels, there basically isn't a better option than the BfA faction war campaigns. They are jam packed with sub-quests that are always in the same area and they seem to come in bundles of 3 or 4 per set. There's always a "Kill 10/15 dudes quest," a "Collect X number of drops quest," a "Click X number of ground interactibles," and generally also a "Kill a named dude" quest. And usually most foothold quest chains involves doing this 2-3 times per foothold. It's extremely fast and efficient questing.
BfA might have sucked for story and Azerite, but they absolutely nailed the open world questing. BfA is pretty much the absolute height of WoW questing in my opinion.
You can only purchase the ones for zones you have earned the Explorer achievement for. I am unable to purchase the ones for BFA and Pandaria due to that restriction. Drustvar is the last zone I need to unlock the achievement so I can buy the heirloom.
Yeah, I'll have to just slog through all the "orange exclamation" quests then. Painful to do as a 60, maybe I'll level an alt there in the future...
Soar is super fun! Not sure I'm jiving with Evoker yet but I haven't spent any talent points.
WoW devs: "Dragonriding has momentum. You can't just go rocketing straight up from a standstill like old school flying."
Cinematic showing Dragonriding: Dragon goes rocketing straight up from a standstill.
I hate to be That Guy but Dragonriding has a button that rockets you straight up. You just can't VTOL your way up and down with impunity.
I am kind of happy I can skip going to shadowlands to level now but I am curious those that were forced to go can i just away from it?
Oh, definitely. It was my "make the entire party healthy" button for when I briefly ran M+.
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I took my mage from 54 to 59 and my warrior from 55 to 59 doing the same. my blood elf priest went from 53 to 55 but there was no elites at that time, that was about 20 minutes though
I had my Shammy parked in Revendreth at 53 - some questing and finishing the Hands of Fate q there- 57. Then I went to Bastion, an hour later I was 60 .
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Well, there are 12,000 Evokers in queue right now.
Hey at least 34 of them are in the heals queue.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat