The ongoing discussions and updates about WoW Classic Season of Discovery have made it clear that the “discovery” aspect is in there for Blizz as well. People from the company have said as much on social media and in the forums over the last week.
WoW Classic – Season of Discovery
Our group is mostly focused on trying to… well… sort out a group that will be able to take on the Deadmines at some point. And that has been a bit of a challenge because… it always is.
There is always a point when we start out where we are sifting through the possibilities of who should be tank, who should be healer, which classes will work out for that, and, since Wrath Classic, what two classes can Potshot effectively play together since he is dual boxing to give us a group of five.
This time it is just a bit more challenging because the point of Season of Discovery is a shake up in the classes, something Blizzard itself pushes quite regularly.
Mage, shaman, warlock, rogue…
So there is a desire to embrace this new class meta and run with it, but also the uncertainty of what it will actually take to get a viable group out of this for people at our rather limited skill level.
We have spent the last couple of weeks rolling up new characters to try them out to see how the runes they get, if they can be found, affect the class.
I have had the most luck so far with the priest, which I am currently considering being my group character. And by “most” luck, I mean he has found the most runes so far, which still isn’t a lot.
Radon has Runes
I actually ended up with two of those runes because, after having done most of the quests around Dun Morough outside of Ironforge, I ran him over to Elwynn Forest to do some of those quests and ended up getting two of the runes as drops from kobold miners in the Fargodeep Mines. I take more than candle it seems.
Say the line!
The trick with the priest runes is that, in order to learn them, you have to get two meditation auras on you, Meditation of the Light, which you can only get directly as a human or dwarf, and Meditation of Elune, which you can only get directly as a night elf.
In order to get the one you are missing you have to find a priest of the race you need and /kneel before them and have them /pray over you, at which point the meditation will be passed to you. So I had to run around Stormwind trying to find a night elf priest who could share the meditation I needed.
Eventually I found a human priest who had both meditations, plus the two Horde blessings, which their priests need, so I got the full load. They had me return the favor to refresh their meditations, as they last for four hours but you can restart the timer with a rebless.
Not wanting to be stuck out again I persuaded Potshot to run a priest he had rolled up over to Stormwind where I hit him with all four meditations, so he is our meditation recharge point.
Later on I read that this stops being a problem at level 17, because at that point you get a quest that lets you get the other meditation you need. So basically it is a punishment for being low level. Another one.
All that done however, the priest runes are pretty nice. Void Plague is a good DOT and Homunculi turns your priest into a light pet class… though your little friends are pretty aggressive. I was standing out in Elwynn and after a fight they went after every critter in sight, just for good measure.
So the priest could be my character. We’ll see what everybody ends up bringing, and if not the priest, I have a couple others not too far behind. Our tentative plan is to get past level 10 and meet up in Elwynn Forest for a run at Hogger… if he isn’t constantly camped… and then into Westfall for the run up to the Deadmines.
Ragefire Chasm isn’t in the cards this time. Not yet.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 