Snowed In
Good morning everyone, hopefully you are staying warm out there. Here in the central part of the country we had a mass of ice and snow dropped on us. Generally my point of reference is when two school districts on opposite corners of town call schools the next day, I decide I am going to stay home. Since this happened I put in a day of vacation for today and slept in. Apparently my absence was noticed, since I have already received tweets saying that a snowstorm was no excuse for not posting.
I think we probably got an inch or two of ice last night and then over night that got covered up by three to four inches of snow. Which to the northerners probably doesn’t sound like much, but here in Oklahoma we get glaze ice that is nearly impossible to drive on. Additionally we really do not have the infrastructure to remove large volumes of ice and snow… since we only go through this at most once a year. Over the last three years we have had really mild winters that never really produced much in the way of an ice storm. While this is nothing like the 2007 or 2011 storms, it is far more significant than anything we have seen in years.
Hot Coffee and LFR
As a result I am snuggled up on the sofa with my fuzzy pants and my fuzzy blanket and a thermal shirt blogging away on my laptop. I just finished off hot oatmeal and some hot coffee, and the only thing of any substance I really have planned today is to play some World of Warcraft. I have five 90s in various states of gear and the easiest way to get upgrades for them is through the LFR system. As much as I have railed against pugging in the past, something odd happens if I pug as DPS. I simply stop caring much about the success or failure of the group. As a DPS I can compartmentalize things and focus only on what I am doing and stop caring that the group is burning down around my shoulders.
As a Tank or a Healer… I simply cannot do this. I have to care about the group and how stupid they might be acting. My job relies on them doing their jobs. When playing one of those group roles I simply cannot stomach pugging or lfr, it ends up stressing me out way too much. However apparently as a DPS I have the patience of a saint. I keep plugging forward towards the goal and right click reporting anyone who is too abusive. It all seems simple and pure, and in an odd sense relaxing. It’s like I have reached into my brain and flipping me into DPS empties me of “fucks to give”. That is not to say that I don’t care about me keeping up my end of the bargain, but I simply don’t care as much about others not doing so.
So my intent today is to run as many LFR instances as I can this week to try and get my tribe of alts gear. The hardest thing seems to be weapons, and as a nice side benefit from these runs my blacksmith seems to be getting quite a few motes which will help him upgrade the weapons of those who have not gotten their turn at the LFR treadmill. That is still one of my biggest frustrations that I hope they will address in WoD. Crafting resources like Spirits of Harmory should be bind on account. I like the feeling of all of my characters working towards a bigger goal, its like I have my own little imaginary guild. Anything that adds to this feeling is a positive for me, since you have earned the item on one character already.
Trove Patch
I am sure at some point today I will be hopping into trove. Yesterday they seem to have had another patch. I am really impressed at the speed at which they do updates. This one seems to be mostly a patch full of tweaks but one of the more interesting points is that the block destroyer is no longer an item and no longer works in adventure mode. This could have some odd ramifications since I know I used it in adventure mode quite a lot. Another needed note is that they reduced the quantity of treasure chest spawns in the desert and frost biomes. Normally nerfs like this meet a groan, but this one was really needed. There were times I could see 6 treasure chests on screen at a single time.
I wasted so much time chasing these down because seriously… you cannot bypass a treasure chest. I figure at some point over the next few days I will be making a new video as I am sure the server has reset again and I will have to collect more weapons and gear. If there is anything you would like to see me cover let me know. I am not above having a purpose for my videos even though they are mostly just me roaming aimlessly around the wasteland. I hope you all are safe and happy and warm, and that if you did get the snow and ice I did, you also had the presence of mind to take a vacation day.