I got into the PTR on Friday evening, to learn more about what to expect with the upcoming Patch 4.2 and how this would effect me.
\nI started with copying Benie to it, and naming him Benietest (since you can’t use the same name on different servers). I joined the server ‘Anasterian’, since I liked the name, and got in.
\nImmediately I noticed that my talents got reset. I’m hoping that’s just due to the PTR. If not, then it’s what I can expect when the patch goes Live, and I need to take some screenshots before it does. I also noticed the Visionary buff I get when I use Arcane Shot, was active. At first it didn’t bug me. I thought it was normal for the PTR. I also popped up at the exact same spot I logged off after being disgusted I couldn’t help my Druid due to phasing.<\/p>\n
So I used my “second account” (actually it was my primary) to log on Benie there and use him to get my talent trees back to the way they were. Also, I had to use Benie to set my GUI back, due to some unknown reason, which was copy pasting my settings outside of the game, failed to work.
\nOnce I got everything set up I checked everything else. Since I’m not using my addons since I don’t know how “well” they would work in the PTR, I had to do everything manually. Saw I still had everything I did before, and flew to SW. Having the bubble the Visionary buff does made it hard to see in first person view.<\/p>\n
The reason to go to SW was to check up on this thing I thought was going to be soloable of helping the Blue Dragonflight crown Malygos’ successor, due to the PTR patch notes saying “a hero” is needed (which should mean a single person). Instead… it’s all focused on that stupid legendary [Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest] staff that only well-geared raiders and high-leveled guilds can get their hands on. Meh… I wanted to save Azeroth again, by myself.
\nBut thanks to Wowhead I already know who is the successor. It’s Kalecgos (who’s currently the Ambassador for the blues at Wyrmrest), and I’m glad he was chosen. I like him. He will make a fine leader for the blues. But the thing is… why did the blues take so long to do this? Was it because Azeroth’s “two moons” weren’t in alignment back then? Must’ve been.
\nAnother thing. Since Kalecgos is the new Blue Dragon aspect, then why is he still the Ambassador for them in the PTR? This makes no sense. But of course, explain Alexstrasza managing to have clones of herself in dragon form. The Wrathgate, and in Twilight Highlands. Yet she remains in her Draenei female form at Wyrmrest.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I did this new quest chain of assisting Thrall and the Dragon Aspects (and other notable figures in Azeroth’s history) to heal the World Tree in Mount Hyjal. That to me was good enough, since I feel I deserve the honor of being there for repairing the World Pillar in Deepholm (yet Thrall never acknowledged this). Unfortunately it goes bad when the Twilight’s Hammer steps in and “kills” Thrall by splitting him up four ways and sending them to the four elemental planes.<\/p>\n
I did the quest last night, and I wasn’t too impressed by what I went through. It did get crazy at times, but the overall questing felt stale, repetitive, and rushed. It felt like a Mass Effect 2 DLC. It was that bad.
\nYou get teleported by Aggra, Thrall’s secret girlfriend, to each one of the four elemental planes: Skywall, Vashj’ir, Deepholm, and of course the Firelands.
\nYour task is to kill enough neutral elementals, elite or non, to break Thrall free from each of these planes. You actually have to kill 20 each, for a total of 80.<\/p>\n
As you’re killing, you hear Thrall talking (or having a vision) of his past and future. What really got me is the one in Vashj’ir, where he’s seen talking to the King of Stormwind in hopes to stop this senseless war of the Horde and Alliance. Now I know for sure that Thrall wasn’t a true Horde, and he wanted the same thing that I still do.. for this war to stop.<\/p>\n
So anyway, back to the “wtf?!” parts. After saving Thrall’s rage side in the Firelands, I see Aggra crying for no reason, even as I see Thrall’s four sides coming back as one. He never thanks me for helping him until I step through this portal back to Hyjal.
\nNow we’re at.. a wedding, where Thrall and Aggra get married, and then he thanks me and gives me a reward, which is a replacement cape, and then…. that’s it. They seem to suddenly forget why they were even there in the first place. Um… hello? What about healing the World Tree?! They can’t be interacted with at this point.<\/p>\n
Also, why were all the elementals (including the Elites) neutral to you, including the ones that Aggra claimed to be working for the Twilight’s Hammer in Deepholm?
\nAnother thing, on the final one in the Firelands, it seemed it didn’t matter if another player stole your kill. All you had to do was tap the guy and you still got credit.
\nSomeone please tell me this will NOT be the finished product…<\/p>\n
And that’s just what I think about it. Blizzard could’ve done alot better than this. And I pray they will. I do not want to see this hitting the live servers. Not yet.<\/p>\n
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\nAlso, about the buff I mentioned that was stuck, I finally found the source. It’s a trinket I had since after doing the “Put It On” quest in Vashj’ir. It’s called the [Severed Visionary Tentacle]. The buff boosts Spell Power. Now… I shouldn’t even be having this thing equipped in the first place. It’s made for Shamans… not Hunters. I guess I got it for the Hit Rating. But when I took it off, the buff went away and hasn’t come back since. And also, my gear score went up three points to 320, up from 317, just from removing that thing.<\/p>\n
(I actually should have my gear score at 355, but…)<\/p>\n
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\nAnd yesterday (the 12th), I finally started doing the Mount Hyjal dailies, to get into the Firelands.. just to do more dailies. You get these badges. You get a total of 12 on the first day, 16 on the second day, and finally the 20 you need to call for reinforcements on the third day. You get four badges every day, by doing three dailies.
\nBy doing these, will not only help Blizzard test these, but test my own char if he can handle them, since he’ll be going through the same thing once the patch goes live.<\/p>\n
Something still makes me want to rage about this. After I did the first three, the NPC’s were all like “Please help us!”, and I’m “Of course I’ll help, just give me MORE FUCKING QUESTS!!”. And these.. badges. Why.. am I having to work for them that I will just hand them to another NPC, right next to the daily quest NPC?! Why doesn’t she just GIVE them to you?? Why am I doing THEIR work??<\/p>\n
The bad thing about this, is you got to do most of the standard quests in Mount Hyjal leading up to healing the mountain. If I did these on live (which I would have to), I would not be able to help my future chars with these quests… even though my Druid didn’t really need help except for that one boss. He’s already done with Hyjal.<\/p>\n
Still, phasing is keeping me from thinking of moving other chars from my primary to secondary account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I got into the PTR on Friday evening, to learn more about what to expect with the upcoming Patch 4.2 and how this would effect me. I started with copying Benie to it, and naming him Benietest (since you can’t … Continue reading