Flashback: McTacky's Trade

"What a tacky necklace!"

"You are wearing a tacky pendant!"

"That ring is so tacky!"

McTacky Jewellers.
THE name in quality adornments in Silvermoon for over 300 years.
When you see a piece of jewellery, the first name you think of is Tacky!

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Many years ago...
Blood Knight Aloysius McTacky wasn't yet a Master Blood Knight when he first laid eyes upon the pile of Azure Moonstone and realised what they could do. McTacky was a jewelcrafter, like his ancestors. These precious stones were from another world, the destroyed world of Draenor, now known as Outland. A place McTacky had yet to visit.

"I say we make Azure Moonstone Ring from these gems," said McTacky's Father, the now owner of the family business, "they will sell for far more than mere Wicked Moonstone Ring. Praise be to Prince Kael'thas!"

"I'm am not so certain," disagreed McTacky.

"Whereas I am certain. Shadow Oil is difficult to obtain these days. All Lesser Moonstone is good for is Amulet of the Moon. I am certain these Azure Moonstone will be able far more profitable and higher quality," said McTacky's Father, "bless Prince Kael'thas and his expedition for enriching the lives of all sin'dorei. You will do well to finish your training and aid the Prince in Outland!"

"I need to get back to the barracks before curfew," said McTacky, taking his leave, pocketing a Azure Moonstone on his way out.

Blood Knight Aloysius McTacky was thinking outside the box here. He was thinking beyond simple enchanted jewellery and trinkets, those had existed forever. It was the naaru, M'uru, who McTacky had encountered way back when he had become an Initiate. The Blood Elves of Silvermoon drew their magical energies from that huge living crystal in the absence of the sunwell. This Azure Moonstone could also have surprising power within them.

McTacky didn't return to his barracks has he had claimed, instead made a detour to the Silvermoon Inn and sat at a table. He opened his jewellers kit and took out his Loupe.

"Would you like something?" asked an Bartender.

"Just some water right now," said McTacky, trying to concentrate.

The Bartender sighed and used their mage powers to conjure some Conjured Water and placed it on the table before moving on.

There was power within, but the shape was wrong! If this gem was cut a certain way it would amply and release the power. Different shapes would release the energy in different ways. his could take some time.

"I will have some Dalaran Noir, bartender" said McTacky. This would be a late night.

"I have a name. I am Firehybrid, I just made Adept Bartender level!" said the Bartender.

McTacky wasn't paying attention to the Bartender. He was staring into the Blue Gem, seeing the potential inside. He didn't see the gem itself, but what it would become. He just had to cut away the pieces he didn't need. Lustrous, Solid, Sparkling and Stormy shapes perhaps?

Healing Performance

Went to the guild Flex Run of SoO Wing 1 & 4 last night with 16-19 people. We did Wing 4 first then Wing 1. My average HPS seems to be 57k, consistently half of what the Shaman who was topping the charts was doing.

I may have improved, but I still have a-ways to go.

With upgrades last night, I hit 542 item level. This coming week I should be able to finish off my cloak. We'll see if this is a gear situation or a play style one next week.

Since I hit the Flex target item level, I decided to reforge to the first Paladin soft Haste Cap (25.03% haste) for a third additional tick of Eternal Flame Icon Eternal Flame. I'll try for the next Haste Cap (30% haste) when I hit 553, by normal item level target.

SoO Flex Wing 4:
Siegecrafter Blackfuse

Paragons of the Klaxxi







Garrosh Attempt 1







Garrosh Attempt 2







SoO Flex Wing 1:
Immerseus






Fallen Protectors






Norushen
(forgot to screenshot)

Sha of Pride

Red Vs Blue

I have a decision to make between by Blood Knight and Lightbringer sets:

 

Red for Holy (Heal) & Blue for Ret (DPS)

VS

 

Blue for Holy (Heal) & Red for Ret (DPS)

Either leave a comment or vote in the poll.

 

My day in Raid Finder

During my last Countdown to Warlords of Draenor post, I mentioned trying to make an effort to do Raid Finder more to try to reach some of my important objectives:

● Get Holy Item Level to over 553 (539/553)
● Get Ret Item Level to over 553 (512/553)
● Finish Legendary Cloak quests (Titan Runestone: 8/12)

To that end I spent the day in Wings 3 & 4 of LFR ToT and then Wings 1, 2, 3 & 4 of LFR SoO while healing on McTacky.

Of the list of 19 Boss I killed yesterday, I hadn't done 7 before in Raid Finder, just in Flex. Jerks and rude people everywhere in these groups who I could just thankfully ignore.

While there, I was experimenting trying to get my HPS (heals per second) higher, there were people in there doing three times what I was doing.

Usually I just Beacon of Light a Tank, then spam Holy Light, Holy Shock, Holy Prism and Eternal Flame on the raid members with lower health precent. I usually finish fights with most of my mana.

During these runs I tried maintaining the Eternal Flame HoT on both Tanks, stood in melee range to use Crusader Strike to build up Holy Power so I could Eternal Flame & Light of Dawn more often and on more people. Used Divine Light on the Beacon of Light Tank for more Holy Power as well as use Holy Radiance far more often. Still used Holy Shock on cooldown on raid members as before. I was actually using most of my mana in fights.

 Before

After:

This isn't proof since the two fights are different, but I did move up two rankings and increased HPS significantly. I need to do more healing to know for certain.

The biggest problem was after Kalaxxi both tanks left and we were waiting for new tanks for 30 minutes. Then when we got new tanks, one of them left right away. About 1 am I called it quits and went to bed.

I obtained 3 Titan Runestone in all from the 12 boss that drop them (the two guaranteed drops & one luck drop). So just one left now, a better position than I started in.

No loot dropped. In his Holy set, McTacky's shoulder and chest are 500ish item level each and a 522 neck, so the LFR items would have been a step up. (Note to self - Save rerolls on Chest & Shoulder in Flex).

Avengers of Hyjal Exalted

65th Exalted Faction is the Avengers of Hyjal

 

Yes this post is 10 days late. I'll upload a bunch of screenshot from the adventures later, but it involved going to Firelands and killing bosses again and again until the rep hit Exalted. Big thanks for Azadelta, Owl and Lushen letting me tag along their mount runs in Firelands.

Guild Drama?

I just can't complain enough about the Frostwolves!

I mean first of all they are always too friendly! They help me get mats for my Legendaries, they run old instances with my alts, get me hard raid achievements. They have to have a hidden agenda! No one is this kind and pleasant!

Then they take my low Heals Per Second into Flex raids and let me have loot. If they are foolish enough to let people like me raid, what are they really up to?

The lack of any drama ever is so suspicious. I'd say scandalous. Is there a coverup? Is it a conspiracy?

I don't have the answers, so I'll put up with these perfectly pleasant and delightful people for now and undercover the truth!

PS: I love you all!

Countdown to Warlords of Draenor (17 week update/36 weeks to go)

Announced today was the collectors edition. Said to come out "on or before" 20th of December. This isn't a release date, but if it was, that means I have 40 weeks to do stuff and this series 'Countdown to Warlords of Draenor' has been very premature. If it is the case I might drop to monthly updates instead of fortnightly.

Edit: Date announced for November 13. 34 Weeks after this post was made.

This fortnight I finished off Shadowmourne questline and my Avenger of Hyjal Rep. Two slow burning projects now over, thanks to Azadelta, Owl and Lushen. Still collecting Titan Runestones for the Legendary Cloak quests. Item level only went up a single point this fortnight, but still edging closer to the finish line! I should do LFR more to finish up my cloak quest and obtain better armour for both my Holy and Ret sets.

Important Stuff to do:
● Get Holy Item Level to over 553 (538 539/553)
● Get Ret Item Level to over 553 (512/550)
● Finish Legendary Cloak questline (Titan Runestone: 3 8/12)
● Proving Grounds: Proving Yourself: Gold Healer
● Proving Grounds: Proving Yourself: Bronze Damage

Old Raid Stuff to do:
● Finish Shadowmourn questline (Shadowfrost Shards: 30/50) (Done)
● Glory of the Cataclysm Hero (14/28)
● Glory of the Cataclysm Raider (20/24)
● Get all Raid Reps (0 1/2) Avengers of Hyjal (Done); Shado-Pan Assault (Honored)
● Get all Burning Crusade Raid Pet Drops (5/10)

Misc Stuff to do:
● Get all Pristine Archaeology (23/28)
● Do [The Longest Day] Achievement
● Get all Argent Tournament Mounts (10/15) (600 Tokens)
● Nat Pagle Friendship to Best Friends (6/64 hand-ins done)

Jewelcrafting Recipe Collection:
● 7 Burning Crusade Recipes - 1 Aldor, 5 Sunwell, 1 Dungeon Drop
● 18 Cataclysm Recipes - 2 World Drop; 16 Vendor (73 Cata Tokens)
- 10 7 Epics = 28 Tokens; 9 Rings/Necks = 45 Tokens
● 2 Pandaria Recipes - (from Serpent's Heart or Ancient Guo-Lai Cache).

Long Road to Shadowmourne... (Part 5)

 

 

 

 

Three months ago I started the quest The Splintered Throne where I had to collect 50 Shadowfrost Shards as covered in my post Long Road to Shadowmourne... (Part 4).

Each week I'd run Icecrown 25 Heroic with Azadelta, Lushen, and Owl. Some weeks I'd get 9 Shadowfrost Shards, one week I'd get just 1 Shadowfrost Shard. The quest itself needed no real skills, it just took time and having a group of friends willing to drag me though Icecrown Citadel.

Then at last the quest was complete. I handed it in to Highlord Darion Mograine.The next quest was called Empowerment.

Empowerment is one of those quests where you stand around watching a scene play out. In this case Highlord Mograine used the Soul Forge near him to turn Shadow's Edge into Shadowmourne.

Then when I hit Complete Quest I had Shadowmourne!

Next time I'll get into the various other toys you get for getting Shadowmourne, including the Tabard of the Lightbringer you can see in this screenshot.