I made it through the main quest lines of Stormheim over the weekend. It actually seemed to go by pretty quickly, with a diversion into hell for a bit.
The management explaining how we were not leaving
Finishing the main quest lines got me the achievement which I assume will count towards unlocking flying in the Broken Isles at some future date.
Another off the list
That wrapped up my initial clockwise run through the initial four zones of WoW Legion.
Starting at 7 and working my way around the clock
That still leaves me with Suramar and the Broken Shore to tackle… I guess… and whatever else the expansion offers at level 110. But, while I have been enjoying the quest lines and such, I haven’t been feeling any real drive to finish them up. I could have finished up Stormheim a couple weeks back had I a mind to do so. I was finishing up Highmountain about three weeks back.
I was even starting to fall off when it game to those last couple of shipyard missions from the Draenor garrison. I let almost all of last week go by without even logging in to do that or collect hexweave for bags. Again, I got back to it over the weekend, and even got two of the final three achievements I was shooting for.
Earned me the title “Captain”
Meanwhile, I still have a pile of level 100 characters that haven’t really done much of anything. Vikund is 110, but there are five more characters sitting around PLUS there is that level 100 boost that I have yet to use. I have not dove into Legion the way I did into Warlords of Draenor, though the design of Legion seems to be as much to blame as anything when it comes to alts.
That level 100 boost badge just sits there
So, I started down the path that I often follow when the main thread of the game isn’t holding me. I started looking for something from past releases that I missed which I could go back and work on for a bit. I ran down the now very long list of faction reputations in my character sheet, looking for somebody I could bump up to exalted.
Deep down I found that I still had a number of factions still available for work from the Burning Crusade era. Honor Hold was deep into revered, so I decided to start with that. I think I had been working on that previously, then lost interest and went elsewhere. To get that running meant heading to Outland to run Shattered Halls. Being just a five person instance, that went pretty quickly. I did not get a ton of faction from it, but enough that I only need a couple more runs to hit revered.
That having gone quickly, I looked at what else was on the list and came upon the Violet Eye faction, which was barely into friendly territory. I had to go look that faction up and found that to boost it you had to go run through Karazhan. Over at WoW Head the comments said that a full run through the old raid instance was worth about 10K faction for a full clear, which sounded good. It wouldn’t take that many runs to boost up the Violet Eye then.
Of course the trick is that you have to actually find your way through Karazhan to do this.
I never went to Karazhan back in the day, and can only recall going there once… maybe during Cataclysm… and getting pretty thoroughly lost. (We also tried to go visit at one point in the distant past, but found you needed a key back then.) Or, not lost, because I always ended up back at the front door, but unable to move find my way beyond the first couple of areas.
If you have been there, you know that Karazhan is a large, sprawling raid instance, the sort of “just got carried away” thing that Blizzard just doesn’t do much anymore.
Anyway, with nothing else on my list to do and no ops running in New Eden, I headed to Karazhan to start exploring.
The last time I went there were no in-instance maps, which probably explains my lack of progress. There are now maps in the instance, and while they don’t exactly hold you by the hand and direct you forward, you at least get a hint as to where connections to other areas might be as well as getting the various bosses marked on the map.
Found Moroes in the Banquet Hall
And so I have managed to stumble through the place, exploring, killing large groups of mobs for faction, collecting items for transmog (Maybe something from Burning Crusade looks good?), and occasionally getting a surprise drop.
A pet! I didn’t even know about that.
So that has given me something to do, though because it is a raid I cannot log in and run through every night. The lockout timer keeps me away for a few days. I’ll be finished with Honor Hold rep much more quickly.
However, I did wonder if I was going be able to finish my Violet Eye faction run. A change is coming next week, one that features Karazhan.
Recycling content is generally good
In the past changes to old instances, such as Onyxia, have meant that the old versions have gone away. The patch notes I have seen for the public test realm seem to indicate that this will not be the case with Karazhan, the the update will just add an additional instance that will take place within the old raid zone. But it isn’t clear to me how that will affect just walking in the front door of the place once 7.1 hits.
Anyway, I will have at least one more chance to run through it this weekend based on my current timer. And while I wait for the timer to run down, Hallow’s End is upon us again so I can take the daily run at trying to get the mount drop. Maybe this year I will get lucky!
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