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[2,701 of 3,900] Twisting Corridors: Layer 8

  Holy fucking shit THAT took a lot of effort.   We 4-manned all eight layers of twisting corridors over the last four days. Everything was fairly easy up to layer six. Layer seven took three attempts, wiping on the boss and floor 17. The bosses are stupidly tuned. The only reason we managed to kill layer 8's boss is that we spammed fifteen smoke bombs so none of his stuff could harm us. Along the way, I picked up the missing companions for the achievement as well. In terms of strategy, we had a druid tank, a rogue and a druid DPS along with myself. The biggest issue early on was me pulling aggro from the tank on large pulls - I was doing a sustained 300K DPS on large pulls. The other main issue were traps and just general inattention. The runs are grueling. It takes two hours per layer, so at least sixteen hours if you never wipe. If you wipe, plan for 20+. I'm honestly done with playing wow for a day or two after all this :)

[2,693 of 3,900] Alts and The Maw

Sunday morning and the first thing I worked on was the [Exile's reach] achievement with a Tauren warrior. The new zone is well done and the pacing is just right - not too short nor too long. Next, I started on my Highmountain Tauren's quest from level 10 to level 50. Actually, scratch that - I want to quest in Legion since there is an achievement for getting the various Legion halls completed. I'm going to make a warrior to do that. [An Epic Campaign] requires five different class halls to be completed. I think I already have a start on the mage, hunter and priest class halls. I'm going to make a Vulpera Warrior and work on the Legion timewalking, with an aim of completing the class hall for Warrior (and getting to level 50). The new timewalking levelling system is a good idea, albeit a little confusing. I'm supposed to get an artifact weapon as a central plot point but it's a "legacy item" and so has no buffs? Should I bother using it at all? Heirloom...

[2,686 of 3,896] Priority Mail and misc. quests

Monday morning and I'm off to Zandalar to work on How to Train Your Direhorn - something I had worked on before but not finished. I'm on the Torcali's Blessing stage and had to throw a toy for the Direhorn today. Such is the life of a Mawwalker. I hunted for the two dinosaurs for [Life Finds a Way... to Die!] but they weren't up (again) so I decided to complete a digsite to get to 832 of 950 in Archeology. I end up having to file a bug report for [To All the Squirrels I Set Sail to See] because the Crested Gekkota doesn't seem to count for the achievement when /love'ed. I then tried farming Bloodraged Pterrordax for the Pterrordax egg. I HATE farming mobs so I forced myself to do 100 and then decided to come back another day. The odds are that I'll get the egg after 2,500 kills although obviously it could take longer. Monday evening and I'm back killing another 150 Pterrordaxes. Oddly, I've noted that the whole place is full of level 11 to 19 players...