Warning: This post is somewhat spoiler-filled, due to describing quests in Cataclysm.
One of the things that happens when people start raiding is that they have to learn situational awareness (being able to move at the right time & pay attention to your surroundings).
One of the Deepholm quests helps teach situational awareness. During this quest, you fight a dragon called “Aeosera”. This is one of those things where paying attention is going to matter. Instead of just allowing you to stand & nuke at the dragon, you have to jump out of the way so that the dragon’s fire breath doesn’t kill you.
So, to engage the fight, you jump up onto some rocks, and go higher up in the air. During the fight, you jump from rock to rock while trying your best to DPS along the way. It’s pretty challenging, but it seems to be doing something that quests haven’t been doing much of before – requiring you to pay attention to what is going on, and not just mindlessly slay mobs as you go along. So, getting exposed to mechanics requiring us to pay attention is something we can learn out on our own soloing around. To complete the quest, you have to actually use some situational awareness skills, OR you can get roasted as you fall to your death. Sounds like fun!
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Goodbye Idols, and good riddance!
I interrupt this dead time in Lissanna postings while she is traveling with news from MMO-Champion concerning the latest Beta Build (this post is written by Post written by Lavata/Malchome).
As the title indicates Idols are now removed from the game, they have been merged with Relics, Totems and Librams of the Death Knight, Shaman and Paladin classes under a general heading of Relics. They now have normal itemization and fill the role of stat stick like Wands for the caster classes and ranged weapons for melee or the normal weapons slots for hunters.
I have to say this convergence is long over due. I remember running the first boss of Shadow Labs over 70-80 times for Lissanna trying to get a stupid Idol that never did drop….. I hate random loot sometimes, well most of the time but that is what my blog is for and not a topic for here.
Please return to your normal weekend blog reading activities. Had this been a true emergency I would have used more inflammatory language and most likely bold text and colors.