{"id":26,"date":"2008-09-16T12:52:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-09-16T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T12:52:51","slug":"goals-with-deadlines-looming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/goals-with-deadlines-looming\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals, with Deadlines looming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft is coming out November 13th &#8211; a bit less than 2 months.  With it comes another 10 levels added to the level cap, and something like 10 new zones and stuff to do.  Siege warfare, with big weapons.  Et cetera.<br \/>\nHot on its heels, Lord of the Rings Online is releasing it&#8217;s first expansion, The Mines of Moria, on november 18th. That expansion <strong><em>also<\/em><\/strong> adds 10 levels to the level-cap, a ton of new areas to explore, and a metric ton of new content for the &#8216;other&#8217; heroes of Middle-Earth &#8212; things that, per usual, surround the events of the second &#8216;book&#8217; of the Fellowship of the Ring, without directly focusing that.<br \/>\nSo. Two Months left before the current content in both games becomes&#8230; well, not obsolete, but merely a bump  in the road that leads to the <em>new<\/em> end-game.<br \/>\nTwo months to tie up some loose ends.  What loose ends? Well, let&#8217;s look at a list or two:<br \/>\n<b>WoW<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Titles for your character in WoW (unlike most games) are INCREDIBLY rare and hard to come by.   Grezzk needs to run two more &#8220;hardcore-difficulty&#8221; dungeons and defeat one of the easier 25-man raid bosses to become a &#8220;Champion of the Naruu&#8221;.  I would dearly, dearly like to do that.\n<li>Grezzk is also capable of improving his reputation with the &#8220;Netherwing Dragons&#8221; faction to the point where one of the Dragons actually volunteers to be his mount.  This is an entirely soloable effort, and simply requires that I put in the time necessary to do the daily Netherwing quests for a couple weeks&#8230; and then I&#8217;d have a FLYING DRAGON to ride around on.\n<li>I&#8217;d really like to get enough gold together to get the maxed-out riding skill for Syncerus, which would then let me start\/finish the questline that would give him the &#8216;epic&#8217; druid flight-form.  This requires more than a little grinding of daily quests &#8212; about the same amount as what I need to do on Grezzk to get the dragon.  With that said, there&#8217;s no reason I can&#8217;t do this particular goal AFTER Wrath comes out.\n<li>There&#8217;s no gear or anything I really need for either of my main characters &#8212; Grezzk is pretty much geared to the nines until he&#8217;s close to level 80, and Syn&#8217;s stuff will be replaced relatively quickly by questing in the new zones.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>LotRO<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Finish the Books.<\/strong> There are epic questlines in LotRO called &#8216;books.&#8217;  Basically, these are the story arcs in the game that specifically hover around the storyline of the actually Fellowship of the Ring story, either directly or obliquely&#8230; regardless, they bring you in contact with the main characters of the books a lot.  There were eight &#8220;Book&#8221; story arcs in the basic LotRO release (with books 7 and 8 pretty much aimed at level 50 characters), and since then they have released&#8230; six more Books, all designed for level 50 characters.  Kate and I have finished books 1 to 8 on our main characters, and we want to finish the other six books before the expansion comes out.  If <s>we<\/s> I don&#8217;t manage to do anything else before Mines of Moria comes out, I&#8217;ll be quite happy.\n<li>Kill that Balrog. I&#8217;ve written about him before. We&#8217;re close to figuring out how to beat him, and I&#8217;d like to do that before the level cap rises and he&#8217;s not as much of a challenge.\n<li>Again, I don&#8217;t really have any gear I feel I must have before the expansion comes out.  What I have now is working for me really well, and will no doubt be replaced as we venture ever closer to Mordor.\n<li>Just for Kate, I&#8217;ll add that we need to get her character&#8217;s reputation with one of the factions up high enough for her to actually make use of a very nice item that she accidentally bought LONG before she has high enough rep to USE it.\n<li>I&#8217;d like to get one more character to 50 before MoM comes out. I don&#8217;t know if that will happen, but I think it will for Kate, especially if she works on Tirathien while I&#8217;m doing my dailies in WoW.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;ll note that I really only have about a month and a half to do this, not two months, because NaNoWriMo starts November 1st, and MIGHT cut into my play time a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft is coming out November 13th &#8211; a bit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}