The Kalimdor Cup was fun! When do we get the Eastern Kingdoms version?

I enjoyed the Kalimdor Cup! It was fun to fly through those old familiar zones at breathtaking Dragonriding speeds — even a 310% riding speed regular flying mount feels so slow now.

It wasn’t as hard as I’d somehow been expecting to get Gold in the Normal races. I was able to get Gold on the first try in several of them. There were some where it took me a few tries even to get Silver, though, and for those races, I then went for Bronze in the Advanced race so that I’d have gotten 3 Riders of Azeroth Badges from each race I tried.

Kaelinda did all the races, and by doing Bronze in Advanced for a couple of courses in which she’d easily gotten Gold in Normal, she got 50 badges, which, combined with the 10 badges from the breadcrumb quest, was enough to buy three pieces of the Drake Rider’s Silks set: cap, shoulders, and chestpiece.

Kamalisaura, my level 60 Evoker, went next. She did enough to get 10 badges, which, with the 10 from the quest, gave her 20. She bought the belt, since shoulders and belt are the only pieces that show in Dracthyr form.

Next, it was Kerisa’s turn. She also did just enough to get 10 badges, and purchased the pants.

Then I decided to take out Keija, my level 61 Warrior, since she could use the XP from the quest. With her, I did enough races beyond the three for the quest to get 30 badges, so that with the 10 from the quest, she could finish off the Drake Rider’s Silks set by getting the gloves and boots.

Along the way, I noticed that Keija was getting XP from the first time she tried each race. After turning in the quest and making her purchases, she went out and did all the rest of the races. I did a couple of tests and found that she got about 2% XP for her first try at each version of the course, but I didn’t bother with going back around to do all the courses on all the difficulty levels. I called the XP from doing each course once (or sometimes twice) good enough.

I look forward to being able to do the Dragonriding Races Nostalgia Tour through Eastern Kingdoms and Outland, as well!

Sunday on the Promenade 192: Seven Years of Sunday Mogs

So much pretty stuff to share for the anniversary edition!
With how busy and sleep-deprived I always get in the last couple of weeks before Fall semester begins, I’ve been saving up some of these outfits for a few weeks so that I’d be sure to have a post for this Sunday.

Autumn’s Brilliance II

Crown of Autumnal Flora, Mantle of Sunless Kindling (LFR), Foliage of the Autumn Blaze (LFR), Lo’ap’s Tunic of Muck Diving, Bands of the Autumn Blaze (N) + Hidden Gloves, Garland of the Autumn Blaze (LFR), Pants of the Autumn Blaze (LFR), Hidden Boots, The Lifebinder
This set is just so pretty. Now that I’ve got the cloak, it is as complete as I need it to be!

Autumn Blaze


Crown of Autumnal Flora, Mantle of Sunless Kindling (N), Foliage of the Autumn Blaze (N), Raging Spirit Harness, Bands of the Autumn Blaze (N) + Hidden Gloves, Garland of the Autumn Blaze (N), Pants of the Autumn Blaze (N), Hidden Boots, Spire of Coagulated Globules (H)
After obtaining the Autumn Blaze items at ilevel 402, with the LFR coloration, upgrading them to ilevel 415 using Flightstones and Drake’s Crests transformed them into the Normal coloration. Fortunately, the Burning Crusade chestpiece style I used with the LFR version also has a color that coordinates nicely with the Normal version!
You may or may not remember Kessina, Kerisa’s daughter, who first appeared wearing outfit Druid #91.

Mystical Phoenix Warrior Princess


Nightvale Cowl, Fireplume Plumage, Ragged Azsharan Sail Fragment, Crumbling Ceremonial Vestments, Cloud Coalescing Handwraps, Fireplume Insignia, Fireplume Coverts, Underlight Conjurer’s Treads (N), Draconium Sword, Symbol of Transgression
This ensemble is a cloth iteration of an outfit that my Monk had been wearing for several weeks (see Monk #78).
As I looked for accessory pieces for this variation of the ensemble, it got kind of over the top and silly — but I like it!
This appearance is an “Alliance-AU” High Elf Kaelinda using the customization options available to Void Elves. Void Elves are due for a round of customization updates, I think, particularly in the area of earrings and other jewelry, to bring them up to par with the options Blood Elves have!

Glacial Mimic




Midrealm Hat/Crown of Eternal Winter, Glacial Epaulets, Flowing Sapphiron Drape, Glacial Robe, Tempest’s Touch, Dreadwing Skin Belt, Glacial Slippers, Ebonchill (upgraded, tint 1)
The “Secrets of Naxxramas” in Patch 10.1.5 added a new “Sapphiron’s Bane” set to the Appearances collection Set list; it shows up just above the Anh’Qiraj set. After doing a bunch of tricksy stuff, this gear, which recreates the appearance of Classic Naxxramas crafted frost resist gear, can be crafted. Doing all that was much more than I wanted to bother with, and besides, I was able to assemble an almost complete lookalike of that set with items I already had. The only item I bought on the AH for this outfit was the shoulders.
This appearance is an attempt at making “Void Elf” Kaelyla with the customization options available to Blood Elves. The blue skin is, of course, unavailable; I thought about using the reddest Blood Elf skin tone, but Kaelyla doesn’t use the bluest Void Elf skin tone, so I chose one of the palest two tones, instead.

Ember Court Soiree


Crown of Infinite Prosperity, Mantle of Crimson Blades, Court Inquisitor’s Robes, Ember Court Soiree Gloves, Endowed Sash, Kavan’s Forsaken Treads, Ebonchill (default, tint 4), Stylish Black Parasol
I hadn’t done an Ember Court for months, but I arranged one just so I could take pictures of this outfit in its proper environment.

Queen’s Conservatory Ball


Crown of Everlasting Fortune, Faewoven Amice, Faewoven Raiment, Queen’s Conservatory Ball Gloves, Cobalt Watcher’s Cord, Azure Valdrakken Boots, Ebonchill (default, tint 1), Sparkle Wings
Would a ball at the Queen’s Conservatory disturb the slumber of the resting spirits with its clamor, or accelerate their regeneration with its merry energy?

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This series of posts began because I set myself a goal to document new Transmogrification outfits in a more timely fashion. As soon as I create a new outfit, I write it up in a draft post. As the weekend approaches, I start working on taking fashion screenshots, processing them, and updating “Things my [Class] Wears” posts. On Sunday — though not every Sunday — I publish the collection of my recent efforts. Then I begin the next “Sunday on the Promenade” draft post.

Occasionally, I have ideas for themed Transmogrification collections that take several months to completely assemble. Thus, some of these outfits might get re-posted at a later date as part of such a themed Transmogrification collection.

September 5 is… *not* too soon, actually

At first, when the Patch 10.1.7 release date was announced as September 5, I thought oh, that’s so soon!
Then as I was finishing up my play session last night, I realized hey, I’m pretty much DONE with Time Rifts!
I reached the Soridormi reputation level to get the Bronze accessory set. I’ve either gotten as drops (using an Encapsulated Destiny) or have enough Paracausal Flakes accumulated to get the stuff that interests me; I don’t want everything. Between drops and Dilated Time Capsules from the first Time Rift run each week, I completed the Anachronistic set this week. I’ll need to run another Time Rift next week to get just one more Dilated Time Capsule to get the Chronospire staff, which is an upgrade, and then there will be nothing more I want.
That’s rather nice, actually, as it gives me some breathing room for the beginning of the semester.
I guess I’m not quite done with Patch 10.1.5, because there IS the Kalimdor Cup starting next week. I’ve already decided, however, that while I can run each of the 16 Kalimdor Dragonriding races once, for fun, to see where they go, I can’t afford to spend the time to learn the courses well enough to get Gold times even in the regular race mode, let alone advanced or reverse. So I won’t be able to collect the associated Mog set, and y’know what, I can live with that.
And then after Labor Day, I can start doing Dreamsurges to collect the Dreambound set. Though proper previews of Dreambound gear haven’t shown up on Wowhead yet, it shares icons with the other 10.1.x gear, so it is highly likely to be the Green Dragonflight recolor for that gear set.

Eversong Elf Mages: Who’s Who

I have one Blood Elf Mage toon and one Void Elf Mage toon, by which I mean a unique avatar data file on Blizzard’s servers. Thanks to the Barbershop, I have, over time, created several Eversong Elf Mage characters, by which I mean a combination of visage, personality, and RP story. These characters are distinct individuals in RP space — not manifestations of dissociative identity disorder (such as exhibited by Shallan in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series) — and I could (and maybe someday will) draw a picture of them all doing something together.

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Character Name
[pictures: usual appearance first, then common variations; home-faction visages first, followed by opposite-faction visages]
skin tone, face, default hair style, hair color, eye color, earrings
Brief character description.

Since Void Elves received natural hair color and skin tone customization options, I’ve also imagined how each character could be represented using either type of Eversong Elf. Blood Elf customization values are labeled as “H” (Horde); Void Elf customization values are labeled as “A” (Alliance).

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Kaelinda

H:3,8,8,4/3/5,5/10,9
A:9,16,7,10,5,4
First Blood Elf Mage.

Kaelyla

A:3,8,8,6/5,5,4
H:2,8,20,12,10,14
First Void Elf Mage. BFFs with Kaelinda since their adolescence.

Kaelydia

H:5,2,15,2/1,1,11
A:11,10,4,9,3,5
First alternate character to appear, when the golden eyes for Blood Elves were initially introduced as a face customization option. Older sister of Kaelinda’s boyfriend. Married to a Draenei.

Khrysanthemina

A:19,9,3/6,7/8,7,5
H:13,1,17/11,13/16,11,3
This Void Elf alternate character appeared as soon as natural skin tones became available to Void Elves because some purple outfits just want to have purple hair to go with them; many, many years ago I read a webcomic that featured a character with brown skin and purple hair. Younger sister of Kaelyla’s husband.

Kaelyla-AU

H:11,8,20,6,5,14
A:17,16,8,11,5,4
This is what Kaelyla looked like before she got transformed into a Void Elf; it could also represent an alternate timeway in which she never got involved with Magister Umbric’s group.

Kateleina

H:12,7,19,15,4,10
A:18,15,10,11,7,3
A staunch Sunreaver who was a natural fit for the Necrolords when she Maw-Walked in the Shadowlands.

Kaelyra

A:7,11,1,12,3,1
H:1,3,13,7,9,1
A Quel’dorei who never left the Alliance. Champion of the Kyrian during her time Maw-Walking in the Shadowlands.

Kelonara

A:21,2,4,15,9,2
H:15,9,4,1,12,2
This character appeared when the Dark Ranger customization was introduced; she typically models Venthyr or San’layn-themed Mogs.

Kaelinda’s Mother

H:9,8,7,10,7,5
A:15,16,9,14,3,1
Like Jacob Marley, she is canonically “dead as a doornail”, having perished during Arthas’s rampage toward the Sunwell. Thus, she can only appear in outfits and locations that are plausibly flashbacks (or an alternate timeway); at the time of this post, she has only been seen twice (Blood Elf Mage #127, 151). Due to these limitations, I suspect that another honey/butter blonde Eversong Elf Mage may eventually appear.

Sunday on the Promenade 191

A few little things using this month’s Trading Post offerings, plus a few other little things.

de Vil

Battered Jungle Hat, Wanderer’s Crimson Cloak, Lovely Black Dress, Ember Court Soiree Gloves, Lava-Starched Britches, Diamond-Tipped Cane
If she doesn’t scare you…
Wearing this outfit, I wish that female Worgen had a snout customization option to choose between the newer, friendlier face and the original side-growl face.

Blood Cursed


Crown of Eternal Memorial, Mantle of Crimson Blades, Bloodhunter Harness, Rotting Handwraps, Vibrant Wildercloth Girdle, Vibrant Wildercloth Slacks, Sandals of the Blackest Night (H), Void-Warped Oshu’gun Staff
Looking like a Nazmir Blood Troll is totally not my thing, but I thought maybe I could do something with just the chestpiece from the August 2023 Trading Post completion reward set and the Dark Ranger visage customization. This is now the fourth time I’ve used the Dark Ranger appearance (see Void Elf Mage #68, 69, 91), so I think she needs her own identity & name now… starting with Velonara, change the first letter to my signature “K” and we get Kelonara. That’ll do.

Bloodied Hooves


Ancestral Chieftain’s Headdress, Bloodhunter Hornmantle, Ancestral Bloodhoof Totem, Bloodhunter Harness, Bloodhunter Handguards, Ancestral Chieftain’s Greatbelt, Bloodhunter Subligar, Bloodhunter Footwraps, Hozen Warrior Spear
This mashup of sets had to be done the moment I thought of it, and my Blood Champion Warrior was naturally the one most suited to wearing it.

Jade Arcus


Waveborne Diplomat’s Cavalier Hat, Demonic Gladiator’s Ironskin Spaulders, Waveborne Diplomat’s Cape, Grandmaster’s Tunic, Serene Yellow Belt, Grandmaster’s Legguards, Staccato Boots, Jade Arcus
Kate wanted a new outfit, and she wanted to go Brewmaster again so she could use this Trial of Style weapon which is such a lovely shade of the Monk class colour. Then of course these shoulders had to go with it, and she just couldn’t resist this hat with its gorgeous sweeping feathers in such a perfectly coordinating colour…

Very Much Alive Conniver

Wicked Witch’s Hat, Soulbreaker’s Burnished Mantle, Phylactery of the Dead Conniver, Nathrezim Acolyte’s Robes, Warlock’s Mitts, Soulbreaker’s Burnished Sash, Stormbender Rod
After finishing the Balance of Power questline, I spent another week or two in the Broken Isles farming Heroic Cathedral of Eternal Night — which I think I only ran once, with Kamalia, while Legion was current — for this robe. Kaelyla was trying out options for an outfit built around this shoulders, backpiece, and robe combo in the Dressing Room when Keshara knocked on the door and said — Hey, that’s MY outfit.

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This series of posts began because I set myself a goal to document new Transmogrification outfits in a more timely fashion. As soon as I create a new outfit, I write it up in a draft post. As the weekend approaches, I start working on taking fashion screenshots, processing them, and updating “Things my [Class] Wears” posts. On Sunday — though not every Sunday — I publish the collection of my recent efforts. Then I begin the next “Sunday on the Promenade” draft post.

Occasionally, I have ideas for themed Transmogrification collections that take several months to completely assemble. Thus, some of these outfits might get re-posted at a later date as part of such a themed Transmogrification collection.

Things my Blood Elf Mage Wears, part 19 (outfits 181 – 190)

A collection of Transmogrification Kits actually worn in-game by my Blood Elf Mage. Outfits are listed from most recent to least recent. Items that are no longer obtainable are marked with an asterisk (*).

183) Ember Court Soiree


Crown of Infinite Prosperity, Mantle of Crimson Blades, Court Inquisitor’s Robes, Ember Court Soiree Gloves, Endowed Sash, Kavan’s Forsaken Treads, Ebonchill (default, tint 4), Stylish Black Parasol
I hadn’t done an Ember Court for months, but I arranged one just so I could take pictures of this outfit in its proper environment.

182) Glacial Mimic




Midrealm Hat/Crown of Eternal Winter, Glacial Epaulets, Flowing Sapphiron Drape, Glacial Robe, Tempest’s Touch, Dreadwing Skin Belt, Glacial Slippers, Ebonchill (upgraded, tint 1)
The “Secrets of Naxxramas” in Patch 10.1.5 added a new “Sapphiron’s Bane” set to the Appearances collection Set list; it shows up just above the Anh’Qiraj set. After doing a bunch of tricksy stuff, this gear, which recreates the appearance of Classic Naxxramas crafted frost resist gear, can be crafted. Doing all that was much more than I wanted to bother with, and besides, I was able to assemble an almost complete lookalike of that set with items I already had. The only item I bought on the AH for this outfit was the shoulders.
This appearance is an attempt at making “Void Elf” Kaelyla with the customization options available to Blood Elves. The blue skin is, of course, unavailable; I thought about using the reddest Blood Elf skin tone, but Kaelyla doesn’t use the bluest Void Elf skin tone, so I chose one of the palest two tones, instead.

181) Blood Cursed


Crown of Eternal Memorial, Mantle of Crimson Blades, Bloodhunter Harness, Rotting Handwraps, Vibrant Wildercloth Girdle, Vibrant Wildercloth Slacks, Sandals of the Blackest Night (H), Void-Warped Oshu’gun Staff
Looking like a Nazmir Blood Troll is totally not my thing, but I thought maybe I could do something with just the chestpiece from the August 2023 Trading Post completion reward set and the Dark Ranger visage customization. This is now the fourth time I’ve used the Dark Ranger appearance (see Void Elf Mage #68, 69, 91), so I think she needs her own identity & name now… starting with Velonara, change the first letter to my signature “K” and we get Kelonara. That’ll do.

toasting marshmallows at the Trading Post

Whenever I’m in the grocery store with my kids and we go down the baking goods aisle, the kids beg for the big marshmallows, and I tell them No. I keep thinking in the back of my mind about getting some, though, and then seeing how they do with the marshmallow test. You know the one? Here’s a marshmallow. You can have this one now, but if you can wait for five minutes without touching it, you can have two marshmallows.

That’s kind of what it almost feels like Blizzard is doing with their new cash shop Mog items and the Trading Post. First, the the Medivh-inspired Guardian items, now two additional colors of the corsage and the Solemn Watchman set. Get them NOW for real money, or wait an uncertain number of months to get them at the Trading Post for Tender. If you wait for the sets to show up on the Trading Post, the items from the sets will be sold as individual pieces (and therefore will probably not all be available in the same month).

Except there isn’t any bonus incentive reward for waiting, because what they really want is for you go for the instant gratification and spend the real money NOW — hence the extra sweetening of “oh and have 200 in-game Tender, too” with the corsage set.

I’m almost tempted to just buy the corsage set, since it’s only $5, I do want both colors, and 200 additional Tender would be nice for saving up for the Class stuff coming down the pipe. I’ve already given Blizzard enough extra $$$ this year, though, what with RAFing myself to get the Renowned Explorer’s gear, and impulse purchasing the Fireplume and Waveborne Diplomat’s sets. I feel like I’ve used Fireplume items often enough already to have gotten my money’s worth for that set, but I haven’t used Waveborne Diplomat items quite enough yet. And anyhow, I don’t really want to get into exchanging real money for Tender. Philosophically, I think I’d prefer to stick with getting Tender just from in-game activities. So I can wait for the corsages to appear at the Trading Post late this year or early next year. As for the Solemn Watchman set, well, I am not feeling inspired by that set at all, so I might not buy it even when it does start to show up at the Trading Post.

Playing Class Favorites at the Trading Post

Coming this fall to the Trading Post: Class-specific armor and weapon sets!

The catch, though, is that the armor sets are 450 Tender each, and the weapon sets are 500 Tender each, and one can only gain 1000 Tender each month. So, one armor set and one weapon set with 50 to bank for the next month, two armor sets with 100 to bank for the next month, or two weapon sets with nothing left over to bank for the next month.

Let’s take a look at the offerings. What do I want to get NAO, what do I want to hope comes around again next fall, and what’s a no-thanks?

Overall, stylistically a lot of the armor sets have resonances with previous favorite armor sets, and a lot of the weapon sets have resonances with Artifact weapon designs.

September
Paladin: armor set coloration is definitely chosen to coordinate with the Classic Judgment set, while the weapon set coloration is very Draenei (or the Burning Crusade recolor of the Judgment set); I’d go for both if my Paladin were a higher priority character in my roster, but since I want to save Tender for other stuff in later months, they will have to be a pass for now.
Priest: armor set is a definite NOPE since I don’t lean Shadow/Void aesthetic at all, from the weapon set the mace and book are nice but the staff is a nope; armor set is a hard pass, weapon set is a maybe later.
Rogue: armor set is a maybe later, cuz those shoulders would definitely look cool on my Pirate Ninja Tauren Outlaw; weapon set is a nope cuz my Rogues go for sleek instead of spikes on their blades.

October
Death Knight: nope, nope; the shoulders on the armor set are maybe okay but the rest is still outside how far I’m willing to go even when I do lean into the DK aesthetic for a DK Mog.
Demon Hunter: nope, nope; just not my aesthetic at all
Druid: armor set is a maybe later; weapon set is a YES PLEASE. Well, actually, I think the dagger looks kinda silly with the vines and leaves wrapped around it, but the two staves look awesome.

November
Warlock: nope, nope; just not my thing even when I do lean into the Warlock aesthetic for a Warlock Mog.
Monk: armor set is a maybe later; weapon set is a YES PLEASE. So pretty that I must have even though my Monk is a lower priority character on my roster right now. I love that the Brewmaster staff has both a teapot and a keg!
Warrior: like the Paladin armor set, the Warrior armor set is a maybe later; from the weapon set, I like the shield and the 1H sword but the 2H sword is not my jam, and it is also a maybe later.

December
Evoker: actually, I rather like both of these sets, but since I am not grooving with my Evoker — I do like to get each new class to the max level for the expansion in which it is introduced during that expansion, but that will probably not happen for my Evoker until the end-of-expansion lull — I would rather spend my Tenders on the other sets available this month.
Hunter: like the Evoker, these are both decent sets but I have to tag them as maybe later due to them sharing the month with two of my Big Three classes.
Mage: YES, YES; I think I might even have to wear the hat of this set to get the full three floating orbs look (a la Kael’thas), I’m not actually all that keen on the sword from the weapon set but the staff and off-hand are great.
Shaman: YES, YES; I can totally see Kamalia wearing that armor, and I really just want the shield from the weapon set because it has a great Shu’halo sort of look.

So, I’ll need to have 500 Tender to spend in October and 500 Tender to spend in November and somehow still have 1900 Tender available to spend by the end of December. Oh, and let’s not forget about the Medivh-inspired Guardian items that will be coming to the Trading Post in the autumn months, as well! That whole set will cost 975 Tender. I’ve been spending most of my Tender each month and putting an item on Freeze to purchase the next month — and there’s at least one purchase that I wouldn’t have made if these class sets had been officially announced earlier. I am going to have to be more picky with my spending for the rest of the year.

Sunday on the Promenade 190

This week’s Sunday Mog Show continues the trend of the past few installments with my newest characters and my highest level characters having all the fun.

Shady Customer




Battered Jungle Hat/Onyx Glare-Reducers, Treasure Nabbin’ Bag, Shifty Merchant’s Tunic, Black Mageweave Gloves, Clutch of Andros, Frontline Necromancer’s Leggings, Archaeologist’s Quarry Boots, Widow Blade, Fire Runed Grimoire
Since Kaelyla is spending most of her time at the Valdrakken Black Market Auction House these days, she wanted an outfit that would let her fit in a little better with the rest of the clientele there.

Stylin’ Purple

Stylin’ Purple Hat, Wanderer’s Rosy Cloak, Lovely Purple Dress, Leggings of the Fang, Shadow Hold Dagger
The knockout combo of this version of this hat style, which is only available in leather, and this color of the Lovely Dress just had to happen.

Bloodfire

Jewel of the Firelord, Shoulders of Mercy Killing (25H), Watcher’s Tunic, Shadewarped Sash, Plaguebringer’s Stained Pants (25H), Bloodfire Greatstaff
A variation on an outfit originally created for my Blood Elf Warlock (see Warlock #35) with which I was particularly well-pleased.

Windchaser

Fen Spirit Headdress, Fen Spirit Mantle, Windchaser Robes, Zodiac Gloves*, Arachnidian Girdle, Mage’s Trousers, Ogre Mage Staff
My Vulpera Mage was first to wear this outfit, but I always imagined that if Tauren could ever be Mages, it would be perfect for my Tauren Mage.

Shadowflame



Wanderer’s Carrot Scarf, Fireplume Plumage, Wanderer’s Carrot Cloak, Vestments of the Shifting Sands, Rich Purple Silk Shirt, Gloves of the Hypnotic Flame, Soothsayer’s Kilt, Silent Slippers of Meditation, Alysra’s Razor (H), Enthralled Sphere
Some may find this color combination clashing. I think it’s rather pretty.
The gloves are not only a perfect match for the color scheme concept but also have a delightfully RP-appropriate name!
This is what Kaelinda had been wearing for the past week or so, until I got to the end of the Balance of Power questline and decided that she really ought to be properly dressed for the occasion.

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This series of posts began because I set myself a goal to document new Transmogrification outfits in a more timely fashion. As soon as I create a new outfit, I write it up in a draft post. As the weekend approaches, I start working on taking fashion screenshots, processing them, and updating “Things my [Class] Wears” posts. On Sunday — though not every Sunday — I publish the collection of my recent efforts. Then I begin the next “Sunday on the Promenade” draft post.

Occasionally, I have ideas for themed Transmogrification collections that take several months to completely assemble. Thus, some of these outfits might get re-posted at a later date as part of such a themed Transmogrification collection.

Balance of Power: Magna Unleashed

After I finally got all that lingering Shadowlands stuff cleared out of Kaelinda’s quest log, I suppose it started looking a bit too empty. So, for the past several weeks, I have been working very casually on the Balance of Power questline from Legion.

Although I completed the questing and reputation pre-requisites for Balance of Power during Legion itself and Kalec came to the Hall of the Guardian to offer me the first quest, I didn’t bother with it during Legion because Mythic Dungeons. Now, three expansions later, those aren’t a problem. Besides, I didn’t like the Balance of Power appearance for my main spec Artifact, Felo’melorn, at all, and I wasn’t terribly fond of the Balance of Power appearance for Ebonchill, either. I did kind of like the Balance of Power appearance for Aluneth, though. It seems kind of Titan-ish, and with Dragonflight lore having such a strong Titan component, now seemed like a good time to pick it up.

Moonfall Pilgrimage





Lost Crown of the Arcane, Hateful Gladiator’s Silk Amice, Hateful Gladiator’s Silk Raiment, Abandoned Zandalari Firecord (LFR), Treads of the Survivor, Aluneth (Balance of Power, first tint)
The final stage of the Balance of Power questline takes place at the Lunar Crucible in the Moon Guard stronghold.
Syrana Starweaver of the Moon Guard is wearing the Pauldrons of Revered Mortality and the Flowing Vestments of Ascent, from the Alliance version of Trial of the Crusader, modified with the sleeves from the Alliance version of the Vindictive Combatant’s Silk Tunic. Taking a cue from the shoulders worn by the Moonfall Defenders, which are from the Priest version of the Wrath PvP Hateful Gladiator’s set, I did my best to imitate her within the limitation of being Horde.