Yesterday did not really go as planned in so many different ways. It was of course the reset day for World of Warcraft which meant that we would be able to once again make progress in our covenant and also on the trail of crafting the first legendary. My plan was to get home and clear some Torghast to get the soul ash required to craft a rank 1 ilvl 190 legendary. Instead I had a fairly horrific run that mostly soured me on Torghast for the rest of the night. It is a very RNG based game mode like most Rogue-Lite games and the luck was not with me. I got to the final boss and had barely found anything that would give me significant power in order to defeat it. So I will make another attempt tonight once some time has passed.
Instead I spent a good chunk of the night messing around with the new systems that were unlocked. Namely I made some abominations! Right now I have the default one you get Chordy, which has an ability that runs off and finds something shiny for you to loot. Through additional questing I got the parts to build the abomination of my choosing and I went with Roseboil, which has the ability to throw out a seemingly decent heal. I am a little disappointed that I can’t mix and match parts, because that is ultimately what I envisioned in my head. However having a little undead pet friend seems pretty great nonetheless and right now it seems like you can choose between shiny finding, healing, tanking, one that is a vendor and one that is potentially a mount. The only customization seems to be in giving them items to hold… like mine has a Horde faction flag.
Another thing that happened yesterday is that I spend copious amounts of gold and resources to grind up my blacksmithing. This was prompted by the fact that the precursors required for the legendary plate items are complete nonsense right now, going for between 300k and 400k on the auction house. I wondered what it would take to power level my blacksmithing instead of paying that premium, and it turns out for about 150k I could purchase the materials to level all of the way to 100 as well as the enchanted materials that I could not craft that were required for the legendary item I was seeking. Since I have a lot of plate wearers this seemed like a reasonable choice because as soon as one of my enchanter friends can make the metal required I should be able to knock out precursors fairly reasonably.
In other news… Genshin Impact got a new character banner, this time for Zhongli. I had a few single pulls saved up and managed to luck out and get him. I had originally hoped to get another Razor which also has higher rates during this banner, but I will settle for a five star. I was not a huge fan of Childe so I wasn’t super pumped to keep making attempts to get him. Zhongli however seems like a pretty reasonable option given he does a lot of AOE Geo Damage and is I think only my second spear wielder total. I need to figure out a way to work this game back in my rotation because I would like to at least get far enough in the Battle Pass to unlock another weapon.
Hopefully tonight I have some better luck in Torghast and can finish off crafting my legendary. Right now I am leaning towards one that is beneficial to all three specs even though it is technically flagged as “Retribution”. I need to start setting foot into heroics so I can push up my item level a bit more. The raid opens in a few weeks and I am not sure if Facepull plans on going in… but I would like to at least have the option to join them. More than likely I would be focusing on Retribution given that it is easy to have a DPS show up than the commitment to always being there as a tank. They raid at a not great time slot for me so it would be really hard for me to lock down to always being there every week.