Morning Friends! Last night had a relatively simple mission. Up until that point I had managed to clear all three layers of Soulforges in Torghast and the first and second layers of Upper Reaches. As you might be able to guess the goal was to get through the third layer of Upper Reaches so that I could go into this next reset period knowing I had achieved as much Soul Ash as was possible for the content available. This will put me 440 Soul Ash away from crafting my first Legendary, which I will have to spend copious amounts of gold on the Auction House in order to craft next week. I am nowhere near the point with my blacksmithing as to be able to craft the precursor items needed.
Ultimately the question then is what the hell legendary should I go after? Right now I am leaning towards Relentless Inquisitor on my legs because in theory that benefits both Protection and Retribution given that I am spending time in both specs. I also managed to get the associated Memory last night for clearing layer 3 of Upper Reaches. Unfortunately Shadowghast legs are currently going for 250k gold on my server and I am hoping that maybe once Legendaries are actually a thing folks will be crafting enough of these to start some downwards pressure on that price tag. If not I guess there is always the route of me grinding my blacksmithing up… I should really do the calculation of the cost of just buying ore in order to finish leveling versus buying a finished item.
I’ve been spending a surprising amount of time pugging dungeon runs as Retribution, which is in part why I want to protect my viability with that spec. I enjoy tanking for friends, but I just haven’t had the energy to put myself out there as a pug tank as late. I spent almost ALL of my time in overworld zones in prot spec, just because it is easier to gather up all of the things and slowly burn them down rather than play the game of kill it before it kills me. I’ve largely been doing normals but I really should transition over to heroics at some point soon. There are a bunch of slots that I have failed to get any upgrades for, but across the board I have pushed my level across the threshold for heroics and had quite a bit of fun doing so.
Since I had essentially reached the point where I couldn’t make much in the way of progress on my main… I opted to start working on my Demon Hunter last night. I’ve gotten through the Maw intro quest and am now starting Bastion. The positive there however is that there are a lot of animals in bastion and I can grind up some leatherworking as I take a much more casual pace on this character. I opted to just go for the Main Story Quest route as opposed to the Threads of Fate route because I am seeing folks report that it is still a faster option. In theory once you get close to 60, you can just turn on threads of fate to complete the storyline and then grind out the last little bit to ding. That might be the best of both worlds and pattern the sort of leveling style that took place in previous expansions with alts.
In spite of everything I wrote yesterday, I am still more or less enjoying myself. The jury is still out where this expansion ranks in the hierarchy of expansions but for now I am interested to see what week two brings us.