Thursday 1st July 2021

If yesterday was about enjoying the new Warcraft patch cinematics and story, today was about getting my alts into the new zone and ready for the patch going forwards.

My intention here is two-fold.  One it is to keep my alts current.  That doesn’t mean having them raid ready, but it means having their gear at a level that means that, if for example, there’s a really good quest or event with a big gold drop or a chance of a mount, I can do it on all of them.

The second is that so I can take advantage of markets.  I’ve not done legendary crafting on my professions.  I only really realised a week or so ago, when I accidentally unlocked it.  It’s too late for 9.1. but I would like to grind the reps so I can get those recipes that are available at later levels.

9.1. has an alt friendly skip, that allows them to progress through to chapter 3 of the new storyline without having to do the content.  You lose a few rewards doing this, but with the chapters taking me 8 hours yesterday, then I figure it’s worth it to take advantage of the market.  Even on my low pop server, I did 20k on selling crystals.  That nearly paid back all my expenses I had in leveling up my professions.

However, it turns out that there’s still a quest chain that every character needs to do, whether they skip the story or not.  There’s a new rep in 9.1. called the Archivist’s Codex.  At higher reps, they sell recipes that allow some of your crafters to create higher ilevel legendaries.  Even if it’s too late for me to level up to make use of those recipes, I still want them.

So my aim now is to get all my alts unlocking this rep – which is done through a series of quests – and to slowly let them build it up.

The other problem I have is that the new weekly is so much more work than the old.  Up until 9.1, my Warcraft Wednesdays have consisted of getting two renown by doing the Souls quest and by doing the world boss.  I get anima from that and whilst not the 1000 anima for another renown, it built up so that every 4 weeks I could turn it in for an extra renown.

The problem is that with 9.1 the souls quest is gone and replaced with doing dailies in the maw.  If that was one set of dailies, that would work fine, but even after doing one of the new assaults, and three dailies, I’m still at only 40%

Perhaps I’m doing something wrong but it does feel like renown is going to be harder in this patch.  My alts aren’t desperate for it (although you want to get them to at least 44 renown so they can trade soul ash) but I still lack any sort of strategy.

I still have a few alts I need to bring over to the new zone, but I should get that done tomorrow.  And then I need to work out some form of plan going forwards.  I’m happy to put the time in now to set things up, but going forwards, I can’t play Warcraft every day, all day.

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