For Whom the Bell Trolls
Well, when I originally dated this post, it was immediately following an uber-successful Tuesday night ZG run, where early and late shift Wonder-Twin-powers-activated Aspect Pwnage and took down all 5 bosses necessary to get to Hakkar in one evening. The sad thing is, everybody that was there had plans and other runs scheduled for Wednesday night, so the Blood God sat on his dais unharmed, again. (I'm really developing quite a chip on my shoulder regarding this dude).
Five Aspect priests cleared in roughly 4 hours (with all save Thekal the Tiger one-shot, mind you) will do wonders for your rep. All the way through Revered, as I see trash mobs fall by the wayside and "+4 Zandalar Tribe" pop up in Scrolling Combat Text, it just makes a person want to give Blizzard a big, metaphorical wet kiss. I'm certainly glad that they changed the boss-kill/turn-in as the only way to get rep on the newer factions. That was incredibly gimp. I've still got many miles to go before I sleep when it comes to Argent Dawn. As the ZG rep piled up, I began to edge closer and closer to Exalted. I think Mewgai had passed me, back when there were half a dozen of us trying to get Revered so we had the advantage on the rep-tied drops. I suppose it flies in the face of logic to wonder why we /roll on T1 drops and yet have a preference system to the Primals/Ancient Qiraji pieces, but there requires a lot of work to get to make the most of your efforts to those, and it hardly does any good to give the Revered Primal item to somebody that just dinged Friedly when somebody else could already put it to use.
When it was all said and done, that weekend following the awesome Tuesday clear, I was within distance of Exalted, and on Sunday morning, thanks to the extreme generosity of quite a few Pods who were more than happy to offer up coins to finish sets, and about half a dozen Bijous, I finally broke 21,000. Yub nub, mo fugga.
To be entirely honest, it feels like Revered went quicker than Honored did, but that's just not possible. The numbers don't lie when it comes down to the fact that with only one exception when I got stuck at Mel's one evening and had to miss a Thursday night run, helping her write a paper, I managed to attend every scheduled ZG run since dinging 60, the first week of June. Yeah. Holy crap. There was much denial of sleep, post-MC some evenings, just working up a Venoxis strike force. Tuesday nights, Sunday mornings. It adds up after a while. It also goes to show that our loot system or lack therof really does work. I mentioned in a previous column that I've probably won more ZG drops than anybody else in the guild. That said, I've also been more than anyone else, so the reward-to-effort has been in balance. The more a person shows up, the more they're exposed to particular drops. I didn't get Bloodlord's Defender the first time it dropped. (I'd gotten Thekal's Grasp the night before). I won it the second time. If you show up enough, you'll see it drop. Bottom line.
Zarjani was a direct benificiary of our rep-based roll requirement the other night in AQ20, as well. Being the robotic rep-cruncher that he is, he'd managed to get himself halfway to Revered having only gone into AQ10 about 3-4 times. Holy smokes, Batman! Kurinnaxx dropped his Drape that yields the Cloak of the Gathering Storm, and since Z was Honored and closest to Reverd, it was his. Enter the Machine. About half a dozen of us spent all day in Silithus with him Sunday, plowing through Combat and Tactical missions. (I think he got 9 out of the way Sunday itself. I know that I did 7, and one entire hive clear, I didn't have the dossier for that one, but was along for the cameraderie). This week, dude churned out everything he had to hit Revered, bought his idols from the AH and not only got his cloak, but also had enough badges to pick up his Earthcalm Orb, too. Well done, sir. It's always great to see effort like that rewarded. People look at the CC rep items and then curse Blizzard because they think that it's not possisble to get purple stuff like that without 20 man groups in AQ left and right, but I'm pleased to see firsthand that a dedicated 5 man group can, indeed knock that over the fence. Now I've got to get Exalted there and be able to Dual Wield the Sickle of Unyielding Strength and Bloodlord's Defender. +Def hotness, to be sure.
In other news, the BG bug has bitten Amperage. The reports that there'll be a 1.13 patch before the expansion, and it's going to be chock full o' non-Outland/BE/Draenei goodness were confirmed by Blizzard this week, and the 41 point talents are going to be available pre-TBC. This means that Echuta will be getting all of the hot Rage-reducing talents, and that uber sweet Devastate ability at the bottom of the Protection tree. The BG tie-in is that the rep/Honor system as we know it will be gone. Thank God. I don't mind the BG rep, except for the fact that AB and WSG take so damned long to slog through. AV goes quickly if Amp's rep bar with Frostwolf is any indication. I went for my first AV the moment I dinged 51, stuck around for a win to get my Wand of Biting Cold, and took advantage of last weekend's AV holiday to crank out enough honor to get out of Rank 1, 2, and 34% thru 3. I'm already 2k into Honored with FW, and would love to have Revered by this week. The direct benefit of going ahead and doing your homework and earning the rep before the patch is that you'll be accumulating honor like money in the new system. The BG rep items will still be available, but you've gotta cash in these points and Honor tokens to get them. With the PvP set items having been the most elusive, then it stands to reason that you can get that stuff faster if you save your points for those. Get the BG rep that you can, buy that stuff, and then be done with it, using your Honor points for the defunct rank rewards.
Five Aspect priests cleared in roughly 4 hours (with all save Thekal the Tiger one-shot, mind you) will do wonders for your rep. All the way through Revered, as I see trash mobs fall by the wayside and "+4 Zandalar Tribe" pop up in Scrolling Combat Text, it just makes a person want to give Blizzard a big, metaphorical wet kiss. I'm certainly glad that they changed the boss-kill/turn-in as the only way to get rep on the newer factions. That was incredibly gimp. I've still got many miles to go before I sleep when it comes to Argent Dawn. As the ZG rep piled up, I began to edge closer and closer to Exalted. I think Mewgai had passed me, back when there were half a dozen of us trying to get Revered so we had the advantage on the rep-tied drops. I suppose it flies in the face of logic to wonder why we /roll on T1 drops and yet have a preference system to the Primals/Ancient Qiraji pieces, but there requires a lot of work to get to make the most of your efforts to those, and it hardly does any good to give the Revered Primal item to somebody that just dinged Friedly when somebody else could already put it to use.
When it was all said and done, that weekend following the awesome Tuesday clear, I was within distance of Exalted, and on Sunday morning, thanks to the extreme generosity of quite a few Pods who were more than happy to offer up coins to finish sets, and about half a dozen Bijous, I finally broke 21,000. Yub nub, mo fugga.
To be entirely honest, it feels like Revered went quicker than Honored did, but that's just not possible. The numbers don't lie when it comes down to the fact that with only one exception when I got stuck at Mel's one evening and had to miss a Thursday night run, helping her write a paper, I managed to attend every scheduled ZG run since dinging 60, the first week of June. Yeah. Holy crap. There was much denial of sleep, post-MC some evenings, just working up a Venoxis strike force. Tuesday nights, Sunday mornings. It adds up after a while. It also goes to show that our loot system or lack therof really does work. I mentioned in a previous column that I've probably won more ZG drops than anybody else in the guild. That said, I've also been more than anyone else, so the reward-to-effort has been in balance. The more a person shows up, the more they're exposed to particular drops. I didn't get Bloodlord's Defender the first time it dropped. (I'd gotten Thekal's Grasp the night before). I won it the second time. If you show up enough, you'll see it drop. Bottom line.
Zarjani was a direct benificiary of our rep-based roll requirement the other night in AQ20, as well. Being the robotic rep-cruncher that he is, he'd managed to get himself halfway to Revered having only gone into AQ10 about 3-4 times. Holy smokes, Batman! Kurinnaxx dropped his Drape that yields the Cloak of the Gathering Storm, and since Z was Honored and closest to Reverd, it was his. Enter the Machine. About half a dozen of us spent all day in Silithus with him Sunday, plowing through Combat and Tactical missions. (I think he got 9 out of the way Sunday itself. I know that I did 7, and one entire hive clear, I didn't have the dossier for that one, but was along for the cameraderie). This week, dude churned out everything he had to hit Revered, bought his idols from the AH and not only got his cloak, but also had enough badges to pick up his Earthcalm Orb, too. Well done, sir. It's always great to see effort like that rewarded. People look at the CC rep items and then curse Blizzard because they think that it's not possisble to get purple stuff like that without 20 man groups in AQ left and right, but I'm pleased to see firsthand that a dedicated 5 man group can, indeed knock that over the fence. Now I've got to get Exalted there and be able to Dual Wield the Sickle of Unyielding Strength and Bloodlord's Defender. +Def hotness, to be sure.
In other news, the BG bug has bitten Amperage. The reports that there'll be a 1.13 patch before the expansion, and it's going to be chock full o' non-Outland/BE/Draenei goodness were confirmed by Blizzard this week, and the 41 point talents are going to be available pre-TBC. This means that Echuta will be getting all of the hot Rage-reducing talents, and that uber sweet Devastate ability at the bottom of the Protection tree. The BG tie-in is that the rep/Honor system as we know it will be gone. Thank God. I don't mind the BG rep, except for the fact that AB and WSG take so damned long to slog through. AV goes quickly if Amp's rep bar with Frostwolf is any indication. I went for my first AV the moment I dinged 51, stuck around for a win to get my Wand of Biting Cold, and took advantage of last weekend's AV holiday to crank out enough honor to get out of Rank 1, 2, and 34% thru 3. I'm already 2k into Honored with FW, and would love to have Revered by this week. The direct benefit of going ahead and doing your homework and earning the rep before the patch is that you'll be accumulating honor like money in the new system. The BG rep items will still be available, but you've gotta cash in these points and Honor tokens to get them. With the PvP set items having been the most elusive, then it stands to reason that you can get that stuff faster if you save your points for those. Get the BG rep that you can, buy that stuff, and then be done with it, using your Honor points for the defunct rank rewards.
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