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On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:38:14 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon
<gor...@panix.com> wrote:

>This buff came along at just the right time for me -- my 3rd alt was
>sitting at 16/20 secrets of the empire.
>
>I ran the first two wings of Throne of Thunder last night and was
>disappointed when I did not get any secrets from the first two bosses,
>but the next four all dropped one so hooray!

Congrats! None of my alts are really working on it, might start off on
one but tbh I doubt I'd finish it, was enough grind on one character!
Great idea to have these temporary buffs though, gives people who
might be getting bored some ideas on what to focus on, or motivation
to do stuff, like me with capping valor on the last buff :-)

On 19/06/2014 3:18 AM, Catriona R wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:38:14 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon
> <gor...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> This buff came along at just the right time for me -- my 3rd alt was
>> sitting at 16/20 secrets of the empire.
>>
>> I ran the first two wings of Throne of Thunder last night and was
>> disappointed when I did not get any secrets from the first two bosses,
>> but the next four all dropped one so hooray!
>
> Congrats! None of my alts are really working on it, might start off on
> one but tbh I doubt I'd finish it, was enough grind on one character!
> Great idea to have these temporary buffs though, gives people who
> might be getting bored some ideas on what to focus on, or motivation
> to do stuff, like me with capping valor on the last buff :-)

not having subbed for a while the emails have started again :-)
  	
"To become a legendary hero, one must first obtain a truly legendary 
cloak. Return free today with 7 days of game time, and the Black Prince 
will help you on your quest to earn yours. For a limited time, the Gaze 
of the Black Prince buff will give you a 100% increase to Black Prince 
reputation and increase the legendary quest item drop rate"


7 days will get you a legendary cloak?    Meh, I suspect not.
the drop rate of unobtainium has been buffed , double meh

Why not just leave it up until wod?

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:58:01 +0930, | || ||| ||||| || |
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>On 19/06/2014 3:18 AM, Catriona R wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:38:14 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon
>> <gor...@panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This buff came along at just the right time for me -- my 3rd alt was
>>> sitting at 16/20 secrets of the empire.
>>>
>>> I ran the first two wings of Throne of Thunder last night and was
>>> disappointed when I did not get any secrets from the first two bosses,
>>> but the next four all dropped one so hooray!
>>
>> Congrats! None of my alts are really working on it, might start off on
>> one but tbh I doubt I'd finish it, was enough grind on one character!
>> Great idea to have these temporary buffs though, gives people who
>> might be getting bored some ideas on what to focus on, or motivation
>> to do stuff, like me with capping valor on the last buff :-)
>
>not having subbed for a while the emails have started again :-)
>  	
>"To become a legendary hero, one must first obtain a truly legendary 
>cloak. Return free today with 7 days of game time, and the Black Prince 
>will help you on your quest to earn yours. For a limited time, the Gaze 
>of the Black Prince buff will give you a 100% increase to Black Prince 
>reputation and increase the legendary quest item drop rate"
>
>
>7 days will get you a legendary cloak?    Meh, I suspect not.
>the drop rate of unobtainium has been buffed , double meh
>
>Why not just leave it up until wod?

Would be nice if they did that, perhaps they intend to bring it back
at some point though. Only this buff and the valor one have been
datamined, wouldn't surprise me if they repeat both every few weeks
till 6.0 comes, to give people something at least slightly different
to think about. The valor one did get me back playing my main server,
which I hadn't really been on for a month or so before that, so it
worked for me! Not sure I'll do much with the Black Prince one though,
it's such a long grind if you didn't do it at the time.

I bet anyone just starting the 3k valor section is a bit annoyed
though, no benefit at all from this! Should've been longer to let
everyone get something out of it :-)

On 20/06/2014 9:39 PM, Catriona R wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:58:01 +0930, | || ||| ||||| || |
> <|||||||||||||||||||||> wrote:

>> 7 days will get you a legendary cloak?    Meh, I suspect not.
>> the drop rate of unobtainium has been buffed , double meh
>>
>> Why not just leave it up until wod?
>
> Would be nice if they did that, perhaps they intend to bring it back
> at some point though. Only this buff and the valor one have been
> datamined, wouldn't surprise me if they repeat both every few weeks
> till 6.0 comes, to give people something at least slightly different
> to think about. The valor one did get me back playing my main server,
> which I hadn't really been on for a month or so before that, so it
> worked for me! Not sure I'll do much with the Black Prince one though,
> it's such a long grind if you didn't do it at the time.
>
> I bet anyone just starting the 3k valor section is a bit annoyed
> though, no benefit at all from this! Should've been longer to let
> everyone get something out of it :-)
[ warning: ramble ahead ]

Yeah, there are many gates in the chain, most of which are closed by my 
play style.
I don't expect blizzard to do much to suit me, maybe there are a few 
million but it is almost all about the ~8 million regular payers.

   Finding things to do isn't a problem, choice is.

  I come back and move through old content, it is much like wandering 
through an old movie set, tattered facades with tumbleweeds blowing 
through it.  I don't mind that , feels like home :-)

I have 5 90s with a sixth working towards the wod prof upgrade at 60. 
Maxed profs on all, ~500 ilvl on most, one at 525-ish, one or two 450 
items can drag the average down a lot .
  I could do 5 or 6 things on each generally , plus another 3 or 4 
particular things like prof recipes, prof dailies.
  50 things to do, each with travel times and other time gates.
  Some things have changed and I don't commit a lot to memory about wow. 
I notice that there really isn't much direction to tie things together 
in-game or make decision any easier. After a week of running with 20 
wowhead pages on one monitor and wow on the other I catch up.
If you are immersed I suppose things remain familiar and choice is 
easier  but I am pretty much just pressing buttons at random.
[and I repeat, I don't expect the game to do much about that just for me ]

  In a few months what I have will see me through to 92-93, some to 95, 
then for a very short time I may be on a par with most gear.
  If I chose to grind a cape on one it would see me through to 100 but 
that brings up another point.
I like going into immersion, this bit of pixellated bling is important 
for a short time and a nice jolt of brain juice when I get it.
If you are kitted up to 97-100 wouldn't the earlier parts of the 
expansion be a bit of a cakewalk/grind with little reward and detract 
from the wonders of the much anticipated new expansion?


woops, another morning ramble without enough coffee,  just displacement 
activity putting off shovelling :-)

In <lns88m$snf$1...@reader1.panix.com> John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> writes:

> I ran the first two wings of Throne of Thunder last night and was
> disappointed when I did not get any secrets from the first two bosses,
> but the next four all dropped one so hooray!

After doing the Thunder Forge scenario and Nalak, I was ready to start
collecting runestones.  I got a total of six drops from 14 bosses.
Discounting the two bosses that are a guaranteed drop, that leaves four
drops from 12 bosses, or a 1-in-3 drop rate.

-- 
John Gordon         Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to
gor...@panix.com    watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'.