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[2238 of 3346] Mechagon spare parts farming

 Over the last few days I've been working on my gear, including doing the occasional sim and spending a bit of time working out what the best talents/ gear/ corruption / azerite essences and so on are. One of the things I've needed to do is to is get rank three in each of my four essences that I'm using for Mythic+ - Blood of the Enemy, Purification Protocol, Breath of the Dying and Essence of the Focusing Iris.

In order to get rank 3 Purification protocol, I ended up having to farm 20 S.P.A.R.E. Crate's, which meant joining a Mechagon "spare parts" farming group. I'd never seen the need to do this before but I'm glad that I did. The whole thing was super-efficient, with me just spamming AOE for an hour while others tagged and pulled mobs to the group. Importantly, they use the weather control tower nearby to change the weather to "raining" so that the mobs also have much lower HP, something I didn't think about doing before.

I ended up with an enormous quantity of the recycling components (e.g. Hardened Spring). I originally planned on selling these for around 12g per item on the AH (which is an insanely good price) but then realized that they were needed to unlock several of the sub-achievements on Mechagon. As a result, I turned in probably thirty recycling crates and picked up a bunch of music scrolls and paint colors and the like. I definitely need to come back here again to finish up all of these half-finished achievements.

More generally, I wish I'd taken the time to learn all of these systems earlier. There is so much to the game that I feel I've been missing, like how all of the different corruption and essence systems work, how to use titan residium properly, how the rare spawns in mechagon work and so on. In my quest for "efficiency", I'd ignored learning about a lot of these systems, assuming I'd just learn them later when it was older content if I needed to but I see now that that was a mistake. Not only was I missing out on having much better gear (which makes EVERYTHING simpler), but I was missing out on a lot of the fun of the game - doing current content with other people.

Anyway, my current primary goal is to gear up to the point that I can finish the missing M15 keys I need for the mount that is going away in the pre-patch. I'd also like to hit rank 8 in the brawler's guild since I'm already halfway there anyway and it would be nice to get the feat of strength before it goes away (I already have the Bruce mount, which was a really fun questline).


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