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Venthyr Campaign

Posted by Peter (Devee) on February 1, 2021
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I finished the Venthyr Campaign last week. As you could guess, spoilers in this post.

The first part of the campaign involves trying to get the Harvesters to join Prince Renathal. We’re also trying to retrieve all the Medallions of the Harvesters. Mikanikos in Bastion crafts a Crown of the Harvester to house the medallions so that the Prince can harness all their power.

When I first saw Kael’thas chained in Sinfall, I was excited and hopeful that he’d play a part in the campaign. Obviously I ended up being right. I wasn’t sure at first, but this takes place the Sun King’s Salvation encounter in Castle Nathria. Through the Venthyr Campaign, we try to help him atone for his sins and we cleanse him of the sins piled upon him that were not his own.

Is that a dead version of the Swift White Hawkstrider? How cool!

Look at all that anima!

Remember to walk your Sun King twice a day.

While helping Kael’thas atone, we discover the the Tithelord in Revendreth has been siphoning anima to allies in Maldraxxus. We discover that he’s working with Kel’Thuzad, which doesn’t go over well with Kael’thas. (Arthas resurrected Kel’Thuzad using the Sunwell after invading Quel’Thalas during the Third War.) Kel’Thuzad even has the Medallion of Dominion, the final medallion.

Working with Baroness Draka and the necrolords, we defeat him and retrieve his medallion. That’s all the medallions besides the Medallion of Wrath, which belongs to the Stonewright, the Harvester of Wrath. She remains neutral between Prince Renathal’s rebellion and Sire Denathrius.

In the end, Prince Renathal decides that Revendreth will be lead by a court and not a Sire or Master. I wonder what this means, because he certainly seems like the leader – and it’s not like there wasn’t a Court of Harvesters under Sire Denathrius.

The Venthyr Campaign got me a lot more excited than the Kyrian Campaign, although I still enjoyed both. I’m looking forward to finding out more about Revendreth’s future. I suppose it’s no surprise that there’s a lot of action here given that the raid revolves around Revendreth as well. Also, I love those glasses on my DK!

Memories of Azeroth

Posted by Peter (Devee) on January 27, 2020
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Memories of Azeroth, the special raid celebrating the 15th anniversary of WoW, was quite different than the LFR version of Molten Core that was part of the 10th anniversary celebration. Having three wings instead of one long instance is huge in opening it up to more players, and I think that’s a good thing. Molten Core LFR was tuned too difficult in my opinion: casual players should be able to experience an anniversary celebration. The tuning on Memories of Azeroth felt very much in line with LFR. There were wipes, but groups could consistently finish it.

The idea behind the raid was pretty fantastic. Three wings, each featuring one of the first three expansions in World of Warcraft. As far as I know, this is the first time WoW has had a sort of boss rush too. In each wing, all three bosses had to be downed without wiping. However, you only see certain phases of the bosses and not all. Between bosses, all CDs are reset, and anyone who died is rezzed.

What seemed off to me was that some fights were so boring and easy that I never saw a wipe on them.

Memories of Fel / The Burning Crusade: Lady Vashj, Kael’thas, Archimonde. This was the easiest wing. I’m not sure I saw a wipe on Lady Vashj or Kael’thas. If so, I didn’t see many.

Memories of Frost / Wrath of the Lich King: Heigan, Anub’arak, The Lich King. This was the weirdest difficulty. Heigan should be incredibly simple. The “dance” of the fight is to simply stand in the one safe quadrant, moving with the group. The safe quadrant shifts in order. But there were wipes. Then there’s Anub’arak. Not only were there definitely no wipes, but there was no challenge at all. That fight is incredibly boring. And then we get to The Lich King, with many, many wipes to defile. Aw, the memories. Wiping is frustrating, but adding some challenge made it fun, and calling out defiles and teaching people was satisfying. Anub’arak was the worst part of this wing. It felt like a waste of time.

Memories of Fire / Cataclysm: Cho’gall, Nefarian, Ragnaros. This wing mirrored the last one pretty closely, except Cho’gall is much easier than Heigan. I’m not sure if we had wipes on him or not. But Nefarian… I don’t even think I saw any mechanics because it was so simple. However, the room filling with lava and later draining made a fun sort of timer so we could be in a DPS race with out past selves in an effort to do better than last time. Ragnaros was challenging for some people, and I don’t mind some wipes as people learn an encounter.

It was a nice stroll through past memories and it makes me long to see full versions of some of those fights. Complex, multi-phase fights felt gutted. I miss the rest of Arthas! Memories of Azeroth makes me with we had more timewalking raids – but broken into wings so I don’t have to do them in one go like Black Temple or Ulduar.

And for my trouble – an Obsidian Worldbreaker! Who wouldn’t love a Deathwing mount of their own? It’s pretty cool!

Into the Nether

Posted by Peter (Devee) on March 21, 2012
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(I have to be honest. I’m anxious to talk about TOR actually, but I want to put it off a little longer just so I can finish the first planet before I talk about it. So, WoW:)

Lately I’ve been questing in Netherstorm. I’m trying to use my time more wisely. Yes, there are a few things I still need from the Raid Finder, but those items won’t help me. However, there’s content out there I’ve still never seen. I should see it!

But first, look at this cute picture from Blade’s Edge Mountains:

Okay, anyways, back to Netherstorm.Even though I read all the quest text always, sometimes I feel like it’s hard to remember what a zone’s about. What’s Netherstorm about? The Burning Legion is present there. The Consortium and Protectorate are there learning, profiting, and fighting. (I had to double-check what factions of Ethereals were there despite just playing this weekend.)

There’s the village of Kirin’Var (I had to look that up) consisting of the spirits of former Kirin Tor, killed by Kael’thas and his followers. I finally got that nifty staff that summons an image of Archmage Vargoth.

There’s some really beautiful Blood Elf architecture here, too. Who wouldn’t want a huge tent set in a broken world half exposed to the nether?

These guys do, apparently!

Not only did I finish the zone, earning “Into the Nether”…

…but I, Devee the Seeker, also earned the “3000 Quests Completed” achievement! Now it’s off to Shadowmoon Valley. (I see you farmin’ primals in Shadowmoon Valley…)