- Finish Mage Quest. This was actually a serious let down and felt appallingly dull and tropy (Surprise! The good guy-turned-bad was mind-controlled!), but it was nice to revisit the Oculus.
- Obtain the Artifact Fishing Pole. This will warrant a separate post later, as the story of its acquisition was all the fun, pain, and heartbreak that was missing from the Mage quest line.
- Gear up! Strev is now rocking at item level (ilevel) 836, which is more than enough to get in at the ground floor anywhere. For scale, 850 is the current cap.
My guild has been looking for the team to get up to i820 for normal raids, which release on Tuesday, but that's destined for failure from a beat-the-boss standpoint, but should be decent for letting the team start to gel and see how everyone starts to work together. Heck, the LFR version that will release a week after requires 825 minimum and it will feature the usual crippled fight mechanics that will let a handful AFK through most of it.
As a side effect of my lust for the fishing pole, I have a massive stockpile of semi-fresh fish that I have no idea how to cook. Now that raids are finally kicking off, there will be a great demand for enchantments, feasts, potions, and all of the raw materials that go into making raider consumables. Up until now, demand has been lackluster at best. Tonight will be the last night to buy up under-priced raw materials for flipping tomorrow. Time to shine, starlight!
In other news, I dusted off Anyth and started her through Pandaland, this time as a Marksman hunter, on the basis that Icy-Veins says they outclass the other specializations. As a petless hunter, she gains a straight bonus to DPS and doesn't have to fiddle with pet aggro and control. I'm not sure I like it. I mean, if I'm doing petless RDPS, I may as well be playing Strev and at that point the only real tacit advantage that Anyth has is that she only feigns death twice a minute.
Still, tooling around the starter zone, I was surprised at how much detail I remembered from the quests and quest lines years later. I also noted with some amusement that mining a node of "Ghost Iron" gave more experience than 20 mob kills with rested bonus. They really want you to level by questing/dungeons. If I cared enough, there's expensive potions that will triple xp gain for an hour, but it seems like a ridiculous waste of resources at the current 20k price tag. Remember: each 10k spent is equivalent to $5 actual dollars, based on wow token prices. I've found thinking that way is usually enough to keep me from making stupid purchases, excepting for the fishing one I'll relay next time.
Finally, because I really, REALLY hate myself, I spent my 100 Boost I got when I bought Legion. If I care to repeat the process again, the boost tokens sell for a straight $60 in the cash shop. The lucky recipient was probably one of the least likely suspects: Onsunshine, my worgen druid. I figure that when I get sick of DPSing, I should have a good healer to fall back on and everyone appreciates a resto druid more than a mage for dungeon runs, raids, children's parties (Look, Mommy! A MOONkin!), and pretty much everything. The fact I totally suck at it will just have to be a bitten bullet.
The "Poof! You're 100!" was actually much, much cooler than I expected. On the character selection page, it forced me to pick a damage spec (balance or feral) for the upgrade. Ok. When the dust settled, it upgraded my skills (Herbs, Skinning, and First Aid) to 700 and replaced all of my gear with a pretty matching set of basic i640 greens.
The first and only time her gear will ever match.
I would find out later that every last thing that was previously worn or in my inventory was moved to my mailbox, but it was nice having uncluttered bags for once. After login, I was put in a training scenario on a skyship, where Admiral Someguy mansplained "how to feral", giving basic pointers on what skills to use when and then sample combat with a training dummy and a few of his less-popular men.
"That's it? COOL!"
Basically, with knowledge of how to use 4 cat skills, I was told to leave the ship when I was ready to start the Legion intro scenario. "Check out your spellbook for a complete listing of your skills." *click* "Oh, God."
All right, we're going to Strev it to hell and back. I'm GOING to play a resto in the upcoming scenario, regardless of not having any healing addons or any idea what my skills do, a hazy grasp on the whole transform into different animals, and gear that is all agility and no intellect. I should have said "balance". Live and learn. Rawr! After best guessing and playing with the training dummy for a couple of minutes, I descend into hell.
So, how did it go? Turns out I was the only healer in the scenario, therefore I was the best. Yes, someone at some point screamed "WTF? Don't we have ANY healers?" Yes, people died, but to my credit very rarely. Yes, there was suffering, but we survived and I FELT GREAT! This is going to be exciting.
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