Well Mists went live on servers last night. As a follow up to the post I made yesterday, some of which was a very detailed plan of action, I thought I’d post what actually happened. This was my experience, so it’s highly personal, everyone’s experience was different I’m sure.
My Mists launch started with the digital launch event, so we’ll start there.
I’ve always been rubbish at waiting for things. I’m impatient and I want it now not later. So waiting for the clock to strike midnight on the server is getting increasingly difficult. However, there is nothing to do but wait, and plot future actions, and then wait some more. Waiting is insanity inducing as you get crazy, or at least I do. The closer it gets to the deadline the harder it is to concentrate on anything, and then the crazier you get as doing nothing makes the time pass even slower.
Between waiting for The Avengers last Monday and Mists this Monday I’m getting familiar with this type of craziness.
I meant to write this yesterday but was too caught up with The Avengers. I really do seriously love that movie. Anyway, I’ve only done the scenario once from the Alliance perspective. I really should do it again but my pugging aversion has grown. So I’m using the excuse that it’ll still be available at 90 to avoid queuing for it.
This scenario is the first of it’s kind, the first example of a new feature to be released. It’s also doubling as the in game launch event for Mists of Pandaria, so a lot is riding on one little instance.
I watched The Avengers again this afternoon. I know I said that I wasn’t going to but I love this film so I kinda couldn’t help it. I wrote an overview of my impressions of the film in the last post so this is just about those standout moments.
It’s a top 15, I couldn’t whittle it down anymore. Some are related and some probably should be separate points, but 15 seems like a lot as it is. Expanding it to a lot more than that would be a pretty non-memorable memorable list. It’s in the order that it happened in the movie, as putting them in order of best to least best is kinda impossible.
I interrupt your regularly scheduled warcraft posts for the most awesome, epic film – The Avengers. It was released on dvd yesterday in the UK. I’d ordered it from Amazon with guaranteed delivery for yesterday. I waited in all day for the postman and we didn’t get a delivery yesterday, not even of junk mail. It will probably be delivered today but I didn’t want to wait so I went to the store to buy it. Surprisingly it was on sale for a little less at the store than it had been online. However, predictably they’d sold out. I had a premonition that that would be the case when I walked in, I got to the dvd aisle and just laughed. I drove to the next store and bought it there, for more money but I finally had a copy! Nothing would stand in my way of watching it now. I’d seen it at the movies for my birthday and I’d been waiting for the dvd release ever since.
Did I watch it as soon as I got home? No because as I drove up we had a delivery of wood so I had to put that away in the wood shed. I then had to cook dinner as I was hungry, which is the best reason for cooking dinner. Then I checked my phone and saw that Theramore’s Fall had been released (a post about that later) so I logged on to run it with a couple of friends. It didn’t take long but then my friends wanted to run a dungeon. As I love playing with my friends, and the movie was still going to be there later, I agreed. One dungeon turned into two but a good time was had by all.
I then watched the movie.
It might even be a year now since I decided that the standard ui just wasn’t cutting it for me. It’s been a while anyway and when 5.0.4 came out, and I had to reinstall my addons, I decided to roll out my custom ui to all my characters. When I’d set it up I’d done so on my main, my paladin, and hadn’t prepared to roll it out any further. So when I did try and put it on my priest, it messed a few things up with some differing placements, as it was pulling from the same variable sheet.
Anyway, I thought I’d post what my ui looks like, and what addons I use for it. That way if anyone is interested then it might help someone.
I decided I needed to check up on my blogroll today so I went for a read through posts that I’d missed. Confessions of an Altoholic had one updated entry that I found really interesting. It talked a bit about impressions of 5.0.4 and then wondered about fourth specs for classes. In 5.0.4 druids got a fourth spec, they are the only class in the game with one. In practical terms they’ve always had one but bear and kitty shared the feral tree.
Now I’ve read blue posts on the forums, where people have suggested potential fourth specs for classes, that say that they aren’t interested in implementing them. I think one blue post, quite correctly, pointed out that it would be like introducing lots of new classes. It’s hard enough to balance one new class, let alone a lot of them. However, let’s play let’s pretend and think about what these fourth specs could be.
This was another attempt of mine to make a new prot set, for the start of level 90 at least. I actually like this one a lot and I’m collecting the pieces to put it together. I started with the sword and I worked the rest of the set up from that.
I hope someone out there likes it as much as I do. Oh and this is only for paladins as some of the pieces are class restricted.
Over at Blog Azeroth this was suggested as a good topic. I agree I think that it makes for an interesting post, that the questions reveal a little something about the player, or blogger in this instance. However, the questions don’t really lend themselves to a full post each in my mind, so I’m going to include them all on this one.
I’m still working up posts about those different things I mentioned I’d be writing about. In truth I thought I’d have a warrior post by now but part of me is rebelling playing it until Mists. I don’t know if that’s because when I see that avatar I hate it, as I’ve spent an expansion loathing my warrior. More likely though it’s because Mists drops in three weeks, so playing and getting gear now is completely irrelevant. I don’t like doing pointless things so I’ll be waiting three weeks. Anyway on to the questions.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about LFR and it’s place on the gearing ladder. Some progression raiders are unhappy that they feel forced to run LFR to remain competitive. The solution that they presented for this is for LFR to share a lockout with the regular raid. The blues have responded by trying to make LFR less attractive to run, without removing the possibility to run. LFR and lockouts are a contentious issue as everyone has their own opinion.
In addition to LFR problems lockouts have a problem of their own. It’s been a whole expansion now. since flexible lockouts were introduced. so I don’t hold out much hope of them fixing them. They are bugged or certainly don’t seem to work in the spirit that I thought they were intended.