So I've been running about 15 characters a day (level 50+) through the Valentine's Day daily, hoping to get that sick mount but nope, nothing yet. Almost done for this year. It's pretty rare, although I did see it drop for someone in a PUG I was in. That was cool.
I also did the Pandaria TW pretty easily, I know those dungeons very well now, and since I had 190+ characters, they clear things pretty well. Still, there's always an occasional blip.
Like, in White Tiger Temple, our tank aggroed everything outside halfway through -- then suddenly typed "Whoops, sorry, I gotta go" and quit; thanks dude, we all wiped. I hope it was a real emergency, because otherwise he could have just dropped after making sure nothing was aggroed and the new tank could have picked it up.
Had another run with the honey dungeon, where it was clear at least two people (including the tank) did not know the dungeon, they kept trying to run down the steps rather than knowing the entire second boss takes place standing at the top of the temple and you have to mortar the honey bombs on the mantids coming up for a few cycles before the general also comes up. And then they stood at the gate when the bombs were set and got blown up; and then they ran down the road and aggroed two packs instead of sidestepping them all (so I mounted and ran ahead to lead everyone the rest of the way after that)... and then they thought they could skip most of the packs in the field and sneak around to just aggro the boss... NO, because about 30 seconds in, Phase 2 hits and he runs to the middle of the field to shield himself, so then he aggroes EVERYTHING that is left including the new pack of non-elites rushing in. (We were high enough level / geared well enough that we wiped out everything anyway, but if it had been a lesser-geared party? Ouch.) I was kind of curious to see how LITTLE of the dungeon they knew, since we seemed geared well enough to compensate; yeah, no, they didn't know anything apparently.
My priest got a 200 socketed helm. My pally got a 200 level trinket that upped my DPS by 3.5% so... good? I just have my monk as far as L60 characters I can finish TW with.
I am currently doing daily runs on Sethekk to get the Raven Lord mount if possible. (It's quick and easy.) Also level another horde and alliance up in Shadowlands -- I have noticed you can still get 3-6K per chest you open in Mechagon in the 51-53 level range. in case someone need fast XP. I still have not decided which is more of a grind -- Threads of Fate leveling or just following the conventional questline starting with Bastion.
Anduin is getting the Arthas treatment by the looks of the nee patch trailer. I swear if we have to kill Anduin at some point, I will lose my shit. I also can totally see them trying to redeem Arthas in some way now.
Yeah, I'm honestly not really keen on messing with Anduin. I mean, even as a Hordey, I have watched Anduin grow up through these games and he is the one really pure/noble soul out there. I really don't want to drag him through the muck or do shitty things to him. Maybe Sylvannis might find some redemption here? I dunno, she's pretty far gone... but she's had a pretty long arc resulting from her untimely death. This is one of those things where if she could be reborn and find peace somewhere, that would be understandable and rather cool; they kind of need to wrap her arc up.
Also announced at Blizzcon is TBC Classic wow.
I saw that. i was gonna bring it up for the Classics crowd, I wonder how they are feeling about it. I mean -- is Blizzard going to keep progressing through, or just far enough to get the Draenei and the Belfs into the game...?