World Of Warcraft

Leather and fur are far too valuable to trade in for garrison resources. On the bright side, they made it possible to purchase goods in any desired quantity. So nice.

The new vendor is how you get the 680 patterns and the cooldownless version of the daily cd apparently.

I guess I haven't looked for the new vendor yet.

That feeling when you try to log in to do garrison missions in the morning and realms are down for an hour maintenance. /sigh

edited 25th Feb '15 6:41:59 AM by Fighteer

I logged in 5 minutes before having to go for work.

Thank god for the Master Plan addon that let me rush through all 4 characters of mine with garrisons

Yeah, I logged in literally as realms were shutting down. Got booted mid-load screen.

That sucks :(

Oh! by the way I can confirm you get one free level 25 pet for each level 3 garrison you have :)

Suggested ones are the stitches one, the anubis from AQ 40, and the unborn valkyr

I've used all of my level ups. So nice. Also, I can confirm the slight nerf to the daily pet battle difficulty — and one of the random daily quests you can get is apparently another pet battle, and a fairly easy one at that.

Potion of Accelerated Learning is still available, just from a different vendor (Sergeant Grimjaw for Horde now).

Where is the trader everyone keeps talking about? All I see is Harrison Jones/Saurfang. Is the trader somewhere else?

It will show up in your profession hut but only one trader per day will show, right now only the leatherworker hut has a trader in it.

Also apparently the trader is not guaranteed to show.

Warcraft. Now with more diablo-like RNG because reasons.

After finishing the storyline in Shadowmoon Valley, did anybody else start to like the hozen more than the podlings?

Hozen are pretty chill.

it's not every day you get to smack down a monkey called Dook Ookem.

That's right.

The Hozen were awesome, I wouldn't mind them being a horde staple as they were quite funny.

The alliance equivalent, Jinyu, were pretty awesome too.

Never liked either.

The hozen were a wasted opportunity. They are just chaotic evil assholes that veer away from every depiction of monkeys in asian mythology. Could have been a great shoutout to the warrior monkeys in the Ramayana or Sun Wukong, and the Monkey King is only similar to Sun Wukong in appearance.

The Podlings are just typical comedy mooks with an underdeveloped and seemingly abandoned theme, all too common in warcraft to bring a quick chuckle and then promptly forget about them. Like murlocs, or kobolds.

edited 26th Feb '15 9:44:55 AM by Aszur

The hozen aren't evil. The podlings are, though.

Uh. They kill wantonly and are driving the Jinyu to extinction. They may not be evil in the sense they do not do it with a methodical purpose but they are far from good or useful for anything else that is not fighting and killing.

The value of that for storytelling is a mook, an enemy, or comedic relief.

Hence why I classify them as "Chaotic Evil". No purpose other than chaotic destruction for its own sake.

The Podlings are basically not as sentient as them as they are forces of the Primals, so it is questionable how much they can actually be anything else other than miniature cannibals that serve the Botani and their primal gods..

edited 26th Feb '15 9:47:58 AM by Aszur

I'd point out defining them as just "the hozen" is a misnomer. Mountain Hozen are not forest hozen are not plains hozen/

Mountain Hozen, insanely hostile and malicious. Forest Hozen. somewhat malicious, but can be friendly to the right people.

Plains Hozen, generally just friendly if somewhat derpy farmhands

also, iirc, podlinhgs are the genetic ancestors of the sporelings.

edited 26th Feb '15 10:16:35 AM by Midgetsnowman

So I checked AH for some hides.

Just what kind of a bastard would dump twenty six thousands 1-item stacks on it?

Ah, AH trolls, never stop. You so crazy.

What I find more interesting about the hozen is why their perpetual malice (for some kinds, anyway) doesn't invoke the Sha on a daily basis.

The Sha don't speak "ook them in the dooker".

I heard that's why they changed the backstory for the Jade Witch's husband.

Probably because the Hozen are not inherently malicious. If the Sha react to emotions, there are no emotions of "pride", or "despair" in more primal, animalistic-like creatures like the hozen.