First off, sorry for the lack of a post yesterday. My brain was in weekend mode even though it was a Monday. I was scurrying around trying to get a pet dropped off at the vet, and when I finished I just came home and ate breakfast without thinking once about logging in and posting something. That is life I guess, but I am going to blame that I was off work for Veterans day. The other thing I don’t quite understand about my brain is the way it sometimes does the opposite of what I think it would. When I relinquished the blockade of Blizzard games I fully expected to return to World of Warcraft Classic. Instead I find myself dusting off my Warrior and running around in retail as Fury.
I think it largely started with the concept that there are a bunch of potential drops available through the Holiday event, including updated versions of several two handed weapons I have been chasing for years. This lead to a line of thinking that in order to do the events I needed to be 380 item level. In order to get to 380 item level I needed to do enough of Nazjatar to unlock the Benthic items. Then I remembered that these were trade-able and I purchased a full set on my demon hunter to trade over. This still left me a bit short, but I found level 400 artifacts on the Auction House for pretty cheap, which finally tipped me over so I could start grinding content for an achievement and mount I have already gotten.
Then at some point I realized that I really should be working on the second achievement which is get 200 Timewalking Badges in the nostalgic version of Alterac Valley. Doing this managed to complete a quest that gave me one decent two-hander, a version of the Ice Barbed Spear. However as to the achievement… getting 200 Timewalking Badges feels like a WAY bigger ask than doing every one of the nostalgic raid encounters. This involves a certain amount of grinding that I am not entirely certain I am willing to do considering that I am not even halfway there and have run four AV groups. I am wondering if badges earned on multiple characters counts, because there is a quest that gives you a large chunk at once that is completed only your first time.
Having one decent weapon lead me down another path… which is effectively the MMORPG version of “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”. I started running through the most recent raid content… of which there are exactly two available two handed weapons… and neither of which dropped. This gets into the problem that I have with the post Legion version of World of Warcraft, Weapons are just a pain in the arse to get. Had they thrown a weapon on the benthic vendor it would have gone so far to helping make this not suck. It still feels like Battle for Azeroth drops were designed around thinking we still had our Artifact Weapons. Today is reset however so here is hoping that I get one of the many two handed weapons from the nostalgic 15th Anniversary content so I can move on with my life.