Sunday 23rd May 2021

For what’s been a pretty productive week, I’ve played an awful lot of Warcraft.

As we killed Sire Denathrius on heroic last week after many months of trying, this week we had a fun bit of progression.  We dialed it down to normal difficulty and then went about doing all the bonus achievements for the Glory achievement.

Every Warcraft has had these bonus achievements since as far back as I can remember.  They basically involve killing the boss but doing something extra, or different.  Typically, this will make it a bit harder.  So it could be that you have to take a boss to a certain spot during the fight or if there are a number of adds to kill, you have to do them in a certain non-logical order.

Best of all, these Glory achievements typically come with a mount.

With old raids I’ve tried to solo a lot of them, but even with the benefit of being able to almost one shot the boss, some of these mechanics are tricky enough that I’ve still not done them.  So you could imagine how we’d fair against current content.

One of the achievements requires you to have a battle pet from the Mists of Pandaria expansion, and whilst it looked like you only needed one for the entire raid group, I wasn’t sure.  So fresh off my battle pet leveling spree, I decided to try and get it.

It has a rare drop chance.  Something like 4%.  But I’ve been lucky this week with my mount drop so perhaps my luck would continue.  Plus whilst you can only run the Throne of Thunder raid once per character a week… I have an army of alts!

And so I did it on 14 on them!  Because it’s a later boss, I used LFR to queue up and do it (something my fellow guildees didn’t know you could do!).  I never got it because … I’d used up my luck and it was only a 4% chance, but it turned out someone already had one and having more than one actually causes problems with the achievement.

I reckoned this would take us ages to do.  I fully expected a full raid clear would take the best part of several weeks due to tricky mechanics.  As it turned out, we sailed through them all in a single session.  Even on an alt run we usually only get 4 or 5 bosses down.

So the net result was a bunch of achievements, as well as (most importantly) a new bat mount.

It was a fun evening, and after months of trying to down bosses (especially Denathrius), it was nice to just cut through them.

Effectively, that now ends raiding for 9.0.  We’ve completed the raid content, and the guild doesn’t try mythic.  So now, some people will step back, whilst others will level alts.

The question I have is whether I want to just continue to raid on my alliance main for the fun of it, or whether I really should level up that Alliance Death Knight.

I suspect there will be less World of Warcraft next week.  We’re doing the final Torghast level on Tuesday afternoon but other than that and renown, I suspect it’ll be less hectic.

Obviously I’ll play as I take breaks from writing but I think my focus is likely to be my Horde alts.  I still have 3 to finish leveling, and a bunch of professions to max.  I really need to put some focus into that.

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