December Gaming Check In

 

Emerald Dream

Another post to help me keep track of my gaming.  I see it was approximately three months since my last post, maybe that'll be my new normal.  Then again, I'm playing World of Warcraft again, so maybe I'll feel compelled to write more.

So, after about a 10 month absense, I decided to resubscribe to World of Warcraft.  The main driver for me was that 10.2 (Guardian's of the Dream), the last major patch for Dragonflight was live.  It is also true that the announcement of the next three expansions starting with The War Within at Blizzcon made me feel more hopeful about World of Warcraft's future with Microsoft.

Going through the 10.1 (Zarlek Cavern) and 10.2 (Emerald Dream) content was pretty quick on Kanter and gave me normal flying which helped me get my Alchemy and Herbalism to max level (100).  Now that I have it, I'm not sure that I'll use it much but it isn't something I like to do with each expansion.

Once that was done, I wanted to get up to level 60 on Kantro, my warrior.  I was hoping to do it with the Necrolords Covenant in Maldraxxus but when I used Chromie time to set myself back there (it had moved me to Battle for Azeroth as the default) I didn't have any of the Covenant quests available.  It looks like with the Dragonflight expansion, they for some reason moved the Covenant quests to level 60 at which point it makes sense to be doing Dragonflight.  In any case, he was able to pretty quickly move from level 52 to level 60 in Shadowlands doing a few daily quests and has now moved on the Dragonflight.  Maybe I'll go back to try to see the other Covenant stories but it's doubtful.  Even though I've seen pretty much all the Battle for Azeroth stories, I'll probably use it to get to level 60 my characters in the 50s.  If I end up doing it before The War Within, which is doubtful.

I will probably get Kanter to level 11 renown with the Iskaara Tuskaar since I enjoy the fishing and cooking aspect but I'm not sure I'll extend when my subscription ends in January.

In other gaming, I've dabbled in different games on the Playstation 5, but nothing has stuck since I did Horizon Forbidden West and the expansion in the first half of the year.  I still have my daily Animal Crossing session (and out of my 162 hours on the Switch in my year end summary, 160 of them were playing Animal Crossing).  I'm doubtful how much I'll play in 2024 since I've now seen all the seasons having started in December 2022.

For any of you still reading my blog after all the gaps, I hope you have a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a good year of gaming in 2024.