I really like the fact we’ve got an Arathi Airship on the surface whose sole purpose is to just move three feet, shoot a pile of rocks, and then go back three feet. Seems like a real waste of resources.
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i just love that we can do those bonus objectives endlessly. How novel. How exciting.
I’m also just a grumpy mood. I should be at work. But I have to get my car fixed today. It temporarily stranded us at the grocery store last night - in the rain. We think it’s the battery, hopefully - but it could be the starter. I am pouting and refusing to deal with it for the moment. Until the anxiety meds kick in. This was not a budget item. And the money going for our anniversary (it’s new year’s eve) will now being going to the car.
meh.
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Flip side to this though is I do appreciate the fact Siren Isle is future proofed.
Spawning those bonus objectives is super cheap, and repeatable. This means when WoW moves on, the people coming in later that want those transmogs aren’t going to be forced to just farm the surface mobs and hoard that currency jealously, but will be able to just dump them into spawning the objective, dealing with the thing, and coming out the other side with a net-positive amount of currency to shell out for transmogs.
Right now its obnoxious because its THE content so everyone’s dumping into the bonus objectives. But there will come a time likely within a year where the Isle is a lot more sedate and laid back and not a cacophony of screaming NPCs announcing a bonus objective has gone live.
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One of the unique joys of WoW’s writing is that even the villains seem kind of in the dark about what their plan is. The last patch always has them scrambling to improv some kind of logic out of their strategy and act like that was the plan the whole time.
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True. I can see an upside to it. And honestly, last night it did not bother me that much. But I was basically doing the quest equivalent to doom scrolling. I don’t think I read one quest last night. But today… is different. I do know that I’m not giving up that rocket pack for awhile. I’m actually enjoying gliding around the island.
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Today is grumpy mood day. I left work last night with an actual plan for today. We even talked about the plan. I got in today and the plan went completely sideways because of a lack of communication.
And now one of our customers has sent a bribery pizza because we couldn’t do his job on Friday. So I guess we’re doing the job on Friday because we’re eating the pizza.
I’m sorry about your car 
Hopefully it gets fixed in the fastest but least expensive way.
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Not sure if it goes live after the quest is turned in, but you get a consumable of the rocket pack you can buy at base camp.
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Just noticed - the ring you get on Siren Isle actually shows on our character models. Ring Transmogs can’t be too far behind.
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What? Seriously?
Yeah, see, that’s what makes me think the Titans have misinterpreted what Beledar and the rest of these crystals are, as Azeroth is not a Light entity.
Why would her blood turn from a Light-infused mineral deposit into a Void-infused mineral deposit? Archaedas was still operating under Odyn’s rules for leaving behind information for the mortals while trying to let slip the truth discreetly, and I think that’s why he was able to slide in the truth of the Thraegar and why the Earthen were allowed to view them as heroes when they were, in truth, threats to the Titans’ plans for Azeroth.
Still got to do the 6th Disc, been running around getting all these abandoned toons into veteran gear for transmog runs >_> but the fact that the chunks of the World Soul’s essence were ‘calcified’ makes me go 
. There’s also a difference between fossilisation, which we saw from the Old God blood in Northrend, and calcification, which Archaedas specifically mentioned in the Discs quests. And calcification is, broadly speaking, the replacement of organic material with calcium-based minerals.
Does this imply that Azerite is some form of biological material, not just a mineral? Or is it that, being an entity of mineral/energy life, we’re trying to apply biological terms to an entity that is so entirely removed from such terms that we’re muddling the water needlessly?
And if Beledar is truly a calcified chunk of Azerite … what caused the injury that created this ‘clot’ of blood? If the Old Gods got their hands on Azerite, that would mean they’d have the power of re-creating the cosmos, of pure, unlimited potential, on their tendrils, and you cannot tell me that delving deep enough to scar Azeroth enough to draw up a mountain-sized chunk of the World Soul’s ‘blood’, would likely mean they’d reached their roots deep enough to begin actively corrupting Azeroth herself.
So what injured Azeroth so badly that this much Azerite could come forth? It couldn’t have been Amun’thul ripping Y’Shaarj out of what would become the Well of Eternity, that wasn’t nearly long enough and the shard is too far from the original Well’s location to make sense. And the Light/Void infusion is odd because, by all rights, any Old God or Void entity would have corrupted Beledar ASAP, so why is it filed with Light energy, and only cycled after Azeroth got stabbed with Gorribal by Sargeras at the end of the Legion expansion.
There’s more to this story we haven’t uncovered yet.
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Thank you! I hope things go well with your customer.
I’m just in the middle of a if-it-aint-one-thing-it’s-another phase. It started about 6 weeks ago with a 15 hour emergency vet visit for one of our kitties, Freyja. Which resulted in xrays, ultra sound, and several bladderstones. She is fine by the way. She got special food and they dissolved and she passed what was left the next weekend. And she has special $$$$ food whose side effect has been that she’s lost about a pound and half and her coat is shiney and feels a lot better. I so happy she’s better, she still needs to lose about another pound and half. Anyway…
New battery, it was a pita putting it in. I think I need new battery cables, but those can wait for bit. I HATE this adulting crap. I think I was meant to have a staff…
Sorry, just had to vent a little.
And I saw that the ring was suppose to be visable, I just never thought to look.
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Ooh, glad the kitty is better <3 My pets have cost me over $1500 this year, so I feel your pain. But everyone’s healthy.
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That’s where the timeline of the Hallowfell expedition gets frustrating, because it’s hard to determine if Beledar’s shifts are a natural thing or a recent development.
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What we do know is that the Void-shifts only started after the end of the Legion Expansion.
The Light stuff? We have no clue, and the Nerubians aren’t giving us much information on this point. Did it only become Light infused after the events of the Burning Crusade expansion, is this how Beledar has always been? Is this a Life and Light can be exchanged freely with no loss situation like Velen talks about? Or was there a Light Empire before the Black Empire?
Or am I just the walking talking Pepe Silvia meme at this point?
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My personal crackpot theory is Azeroth is not a Titan. Or rather, much in the same way Argus’ World Soul was tortured into becoming a Titan, so too was that supposed to be Azeroth’s fate. But she was too strong for the traditional methodology so the Titans had to back off - the “Prime” designation, same as Argus.
Here’s what we can confirm: The Old Gods, servants of the Void, existed on Azeroth before the arrival of the Titans and the “ordering” of the world. In the course of that ordering, the Titans did a lot of permanent damage to Azeroth. We’ve got the roots of a destroyed World Tree being watched over by Dark Trolls, vast repositories of blood - both Old God and Azeroth’s old - buried in the world.
Whatever the Titans ultimately were after, they weren’t gentle about it. At the end of Legion, we saw the Pantheon if not restored then brought to some semblance of activity once more. And now Azeroth is screaming out in agony, bringing forth visions of things that even the denizens observing it point out seemingly make no sense.
I think the Titans are back to their tinkering, probably on that mystery continent of the planet that we’re only just becoming aware of.
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Dalaran…one of the most major of lore cities crashes into a million pieces and we nearly lose Khadgar…
AND THEN I GO TO DORNOGAL AND ACT IN A PLAY WITH SOME ROCK DWARVES BECAUSE WHAT EVEN DOES IMPORTANT MEAN?
Honestly as Alliance, I feel like Robot Cat was peak.
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The War Within definitely has a very low stakes feel for the fact a lot of important NPCs are worried Azeroth may actually be dying.
Remember when Anduin was in the expansion?
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Was he?
If there’s a story here, I’ve misplaced the plot.
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What is this “plot” thing you speak of?
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… I hate that a certain fandom has ruined this word for me, but yes, rather interesting that neither Anduin nor Thrall were involved in the Siren Isle, the former due to the Light-aligned nature of the region and the latter because of the Elemental undercurrents of the Isle.
I do hope, after we leave Dornogal, we’re introduced to a whole slew of things that went sideways very fast after Dalaran got Ult’d by Xala’toesies, and how this has sent ripples across Azeroth.
Portal travel has been reduced to a handful of outposts without Dalaran to regulate and maintain the leylines used for said transportation, which has slowed transport of goods and information back to more mundane methods, and while the leadership of these nations can still use the Non-Dalaran versions cooked up by the Alliance and the Horde, supplies of time-sensitive materials are running out really damn quick becayse of our growing reliance on near-instant mgical transportation.
Magical knowledge has been completely lost. And I mean, thousands of years of magical knowledge irrevocably obliterated beyond any hope of recovery. This would be like if you pulled Wikipedia and erased it off the Way Back Machine in its entirety. You’ve lost the largest, most publicly accessible storehouse of actual, non-political, peer-reviewed, fact-checked knowledge in the world, and while other versions of that knowledge are still out there, they are fragmented, biased and held jealously by those that own it, and will not be released freely or without exploitive conditions. We have yet to see how badly Dalaran being destroyed is going to affect Azeroth, both on an individual level and a national one, going forwards.
Dalaran was neutral ground, and had the political weight to force both Alliance and Horde to play nice or risk being cut off from all that knowledge and magical know-how, and now it is gone. That’s a huge power vacuum in the political sphere of Azeroth, and we’re not at peace, we just have a cease-fire. Somebody is gonna do something stupid because “Muh pain is greater than yours!” and we no longer have Wise Old Dalaran to float overhead and smack everybody with a rolled up spell-scroll until we started using our words again.
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