Dreadmist & Felsoul Raiment

This is the Classic Dungeon set for Warlocks, originally obtained and upgraded through a lengthy, arduous questchain, but now readily (though grindily) obtained from the Darkmoon Faire. The higher-resolution Warlock class set obtained from the Warlords of Draenor Garrison Salvage Yard is inspired by the Classic set.

Replica Dreadmist Raiment, Replica Deathmist Raiment, Felsoul Regalia

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Dreadmist Raiment

Dreadmist Raiment



Replica Dreadmist Raiment

Astralaan Arcanist

Junior Technician 3rd Grade Goggles, Tattered Dreadmist Mantle, Astralaan Robe, Arcanist Belt, Widow’s Clutches, Ruby Slippers , Cloak of Azure Lights, Formal White Shirt, Staff of Twin Worlds

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Deathmist Raiment

Cold is the Void

Replica Deathmist Mantle Robe & Bracers with Replica Virtuous Belt, Royal Gloves, Conspirator’s Slippers, and Frostscythe of Lord Ahune

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Felsoul Regalia

Felsoul Regalia



Felsoul Regalia

Harvester of Demons

Horns of the Left Hand Path, Felsoul Shoulderpads, Vicious Gladiator’s Felweave Raiment, Felsoul Cord, Ruthless Gladiator’s Felweave Handguards, Spirit Tender’s Slippers, Black Swashbuckler’s Shirt, Ulthalesh (upgraded, tint 2)

Undying Exemplar

Horns of the Left Hand Path, Felsoul Shoulderpads, Green Woolen Vest (or any sleeveless tunic), Ruthless Gladiator’s Cord of Accuracy, Shrouded Cloth Pants, Ruthless Gladiator’s Felweave Handguards, Eelskin Flippers (LFR), Dune Shroud, Master Builder’s Shirt, Colors of the Undying Army, Boneclutched Stave

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Crimson Acolyte Regalia

Why the Priest Tier set from Icecrown Citadel in Wrath of the Lich King is called “Crimson Acolyte” when none of the pieces in any of the recolors are crimson, I don’t know. The 25-Heroic coloration received a high-resolution update in Warlords of Draenor as the Communal set available from the Garrison Salvage Yard.

Normal 10, Heroic 10/Normal 25, Heroic 25, Communal Regalia

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Normal 10

Occultist of the Green Flame

Bloodstained Surgeon’s Shoulderguards, Robe of the Thousand Needles, Cord of the Patronizing Practicioner, Nemesis Gloves, Apprentice Boots, Shimmershell Cape, Scepter of Sargeras (default, original tint)

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Heroic 10/Normal 25

Candle in a Tempest

Stiffened Corpse Shoulderpads, Robe of the Moccasin, Belt of False Promises, Black Mageweave Gloves, Mok’Morokk’s Beat Stick

Headmistress

Elder’s Hat, Stiffened Corpse Shoulderpads, Masquerade Gown, Vestal’s Irrepressible Girdle, Exiled Dabbler’s Gloves, Footfalls of Memories, Shadowvine Cloak of Infusion, Greater Magic Wand, Igniter Rod

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Heroic 25

Frostshear

Iceshear Mantle, Sanguine Silk Robes (25H), Lingering Illness (25H), Suspicious Slippers, Kamui’s Crystalline Staff of Wizardry (N)

Blessed Waters

Khadgar’s Shoulderpads of Conquest, Sanguine Silk Robes (25H), Mindfire Waistband, Saltarello Shoes, Seafury Tamer, Chalice of Benedictus

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Communal Regalia

Communal Regalia



Communal Regalia

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Daughters of the Sea

A collection of cloth outfits featuring various nautically-themed hats:
the Classic pirate hat, Battle for Azeroth‘s felted and barnacled tricorne hats,

First Mate Hat, Red Tricorne Hat, Blue Tricorne Hat, Grey Tricorne Hat, Shirakess Headdress, Deeptide Cover

and the faction-color-coded bicorne hats available from the Warlords of Draenor Garrison Shipyard

Fleet Commander’s Hat (A), Captain’s Hat (A), Plundered Crimson Captain’s Hat
Fleet Commander’s Hat (H), Captain’s Hat (H), Plundered Blue Captain’s Hat
The “Plundered” hats, obtained from Battle for Azeroth‘s Island Expeditions, are wearable by both factions.

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First Mate Hat

Pirate Queen

First Mate Hat, Exquisite Sunderseer Mantle, Corsair’s Overshirt, Captain Sanders’ Sash/Apothecary’s Waistband, Crimson Silk Pantaloons, Soulcloth Gloves, Buccaneer’s Boots, Torch of Austen, Mok’Morokk’s Grog Bottle

Hai Hai Birdie

First Mate Hat, Buccaneer’s Vest, Captain Sanders’s Sash, Vileweave Leggings, Exiled Dabbler’s Gloves, Buccaneer’s Boots, Stagheart Staff

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Felted Tricorne Hats

Blackwater Buccaneer


Red Tricorne Hat, Black Swashbuckler’s Shirt, Captain Sanders’ Sash, Seafarer’s Pantaloons, Buccaneer’s Boots, Freeport Falchion, Mok’Morokk’s Grog Bottle

Pupellyverbos Port




Red Tricorne Hat/Plundered Crimson Captain’s Hat/First Mate Hat, Curtainfire Mantle, Cloak of the Shadowed Sun, Sinfall Venthyr Vestments, Hexweave Gloves, Gem-Inlaid Velvet Cinch, Leggings of Mischief, Buccaneer’s Boots, Freeport Falchion + Deep Core Lantern
Yo ho ho and a bottle of…

Storm’s Call


Blue Tricorne Hat, Frosted Talonfeather Mantle, Robes of Celestial Adornment (LFR), Blue Workman’s Shirt, Storm’s Wake Tabard, Oiled Rigger’s Handwraps (LFR), Marrow’s Sash, Squallshaper Treads, Moonwood Bramblespire

Duskhaven Lupin


Blue Tricorne Hat, Duskhaven Dress, Duskhaven Boots, Lupine Longstaff

Drowned Highborne Navigator


Blue Tricorne Hat, Karabor Sage Robe, Knight-Captain’s Waistcord (H), Goliath Wraps of Hridmogir, Volatile Walkers (LFR), Gild’s Crewneck, Wavebinder’s Rod, Deeptide Scroll

Port Authority

Grey Tricorne Hat, Bloodbough Mantle, Nobleman’s Coat, Standard Issue Airborne Belt, Nobleman’s Pantaloons, Archaeologist’s Quarry Boots*, Nola’s Shawl, Hacksaw Skinning Knife, Crow’s Nest Spotlight

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Nazjatar Barnacled Hats

Shirakess Lieutenant

Shirakess Raiment with Freeport Falchion and Tortollan Traveling Lantern
This is the Benthic cloth armor set from Nazjatar. The name of it makes me think that the coat ought to have a second set of sleeves hanging limp below the normal sleeve location, as if it had actually been something worn by a Naga woman.

Tide Witch



Shirakess Headdress, Charlotte’s Chastizing Pauldrons, Squallshaper Vestments, Frost-Touched Cord, Sirensong Handwraps, Sirensong Slippers, Ebonchill (PvP, default tint)

Helya Couldn’t Hold Me

Shirakess Headress & Mantle, Ivycloth Tunic, Belt of Unsolvable Problems, Rowdy Reveler’s Legwraps, Gloves & Sandals of the Chosen Dead, Scar-Shell’s Scintillating Staff

Deep Tides

Deeptide set with Stagheart Staff
This is the Nazjatar zone drop recolor of the Benthic cloth set. I love how this hat is a combination of a wizard hat and a tricorne!

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Shipyard Bicorne Hats

Commodore of the Cavalry

Fleet Commander’s Hat (A), Enumerated Shoulderpads, Sorcerer Drape, Laughing Skull Waistguard, Astralaan Pants, Coldwraith Handwraps + Sorcerer Bracelets, Saltarello Shoes, Brilliant Hexweave Cloak (2-655), White Tuxedo Shirt, Tower of Theramore*

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in the WoW doldrums

I’ve fallen into a WoW lull over the past several weeks. I’ve got an unusually light course load at school this semester — but a health condition that has developed, and a medication that I’m taking to help with this condition, have made it so that I just can’t stay up late like I used to. When I’m finished with my evening slate of schoolwork, I more and more frequently just go to bed. If the Emissary reward isn’t 2K gold, or I’m not working on outfits for the next Sunday Mog Show, I don’t have much motivation to stay up late in Azeroth.

Are there things I could be doing? Sure. Deaths of Chromie to get the Timelord title and the special Mog set, N’Zoth Assaults and Horrific Visions to get the second upgraded appearance of the Shroud of Resolve, Legion dungeon & raid Mog farming, alt leveling… I just… don’t feel like it. Not even parking alts in the Caverns of Time for quick & easy Trivia Quiz XP.

As for the upcoming pre-launch events, well, I hated the zombie invasion event the first time around, in the run up to Wrath of the Lich King. I didn’t at all appreciate the disruption to my regular patterns of play, especially when I tried to escape the chaos in Orgrimmar by attempting to level an alt (most likely Kerisa) in Stonetalon Mountains and some level 70 jerk deliberately brought the Zombie Plague to Sun Rock Retreat.

So I’m probably not going to be playing much WoW between now and the actual launch of Shadowlands. Sure, I’ll take Kaelinda out to do the pre-launch event story quests in Icecrown and experience that lore at least once. I’ll most likely also put forth the effort to collect the cloth version of the Mog set from the event, because if I don’t, I’ll probably wish later that I had.

Everyone else, however, is going to retreat to their Garrisons — and characters who don’t have Garrisons yet I’ll just not log on.

I do have a special installment of the Sunday Mog Show planned for the 22nd, but things will probably be pretty quiet around here until then.

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<3 that garrison jukebox

So I’m sitting here in my office on campus, late at night, working on the last couple of documents for my portfolio for my final tenure review, which is due on Friday.

The sound card in my school laptop, which is five years old, gave out during the spring, so I’d brought in one of my laptops from home to be able to show a video clip to one of my classes as part of my first day spiel. That other laptop happens to have WoW installed on it. So I’ve got that other laptop booted up, running WoW, with all of the sounds turned off except the music, and a character sitting in her Garrison, so that I can listen to a variety of WoW soundtrack pieces while I work without having to actually run about in the world.

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the Bag Lady; or, skipping Tanaan catches up with me

As Warlords wound down, I kept all three of my Tailors* busy making bags to ensure that all of my Horde characters who would be actively leveling and doing endgame stuff in Legion would have Hexweave bags in all of their personal and bank inventory slots. The Underpowered Death Knight got full Hexweave bags, too, because she had decided to become my primary Banker. But then I got tired of grinding out bags, so I left my secondary Shaman and secondary Monk — whom I intended to retire anyway — with Royal Satchels in their personal inventory slots and random combinations of the smaller Frostweave and Embersilk bags in their bank slots.

In a post last week-ish, Coffee Cakes & Crits mentioned continuing to churn out Hexweave bags with their Garrison Tailoring hut machinery not just to sell on the AH for teh golds but also to give to those in their guild who are leveling new Allied Races alts. This reminded me that I should get my bag-making operation going again, because someday I, too, will have new Allied Races alts who will need bags.

Thus, yesterday evening I dusted off Kaobeka and took stock of the bag-making supplies that she had on hand personally and that were stashed in my guild bank. I don’t think I’ll try to make full Hexweave bags for all of my Highmountain Tauren**, though, but will be satisfied if I can get to the point where I have enough Royal Satchels & Hexweave bags, combined, to fill all of their personal inventory and bank slots. Anyhow, by keeping Kaobeka’s primary Hearthstone at Sunsong Ranch, it should be easy for her to hop back and forth each day between Pandaria, to farm Windshear Cactus at Sunsong Ranch to make Royal Satchels, and Draenor, to trap beasts and put in work orders at her Garrison Barn and Tailoring hut to make Hexweave bags.

The problem is that her Garrison Hearthstone is broken. When I try to use it, the Garrison loading screen gets to 70 or 80% and hangs for a few minutes, and then I get disconnected. When I log back in, she’s right where she was when I tried to use the Garrison Hearthstone.

I first started experiencing this problem around, um, Patch 7.2, I think. For a week or two, no-one’s Garrison Hearthstone worked. It wasn’t access to Draenor that was broken, or access to the Garrison instance that was broken — if I got to Draenor some other way, such as by a Mage teleport, the portal to Ashran in Orgrimmar, going through the Dark Portal, or using the sooper-sekrit backdoor teleport between the Timeless Isle and Gorgrond, I could then fly into the Garrison without problems — it was just the Hearthstone teleport that failed. After a few weeks, some of my characters’ Garrison Hearthstones started working again. After a few more weeks, I figured out that the characters who’d come to Draenor the “right” way — who completed the Tanaan Jungle intro questline — could use both the Ashran portal in Orgrimmar and their Garrison Hearthstones, whereas the characters who’d come to Draenor by the backdoor — who skipped the Tanaan Jungle intro questline — could use neither the Ashran portal in Orgrimmar nor their Garrison Hearthstones. Those characters could still get to Draenor by the Timeless Isle backdoor, though.

So I guess if I want Kaobeka to jump back and forth between Sunsong Ranch and her Garrison every day without spending a lot of time getting from here to there, I’ll have to go through the Dark Portal and do the Tanaan Jungle intro questline with her…

Update: So I went and did the Assault on the Dark Portal questline with Kaobeka. At the very end, however, I couldn’t turn in the final quest because I already had a Shipyard in her Garrison, which put the landing site in a different phase. Her Garrison Hearthstone still disconnects, but she can use the portal to Ashran from Orgrimmar now. Going through the Dark Portal from the Blasted Lands puts her in Ashran, too. I can live with that. I probably really only have to visit the Garrison twice a week, anyway, because I can do the Hexweave CD anywhere and a full set of work orders for the Barn & Tailoring Hut takes about 3 days to complete.

* Kaelinda, Kaohana, and Kaobeka (my secondary Monk)

** My Void Elf, being Alliance, will have to muddle along with the bags she can obtain from quests and boss drops until she has enough money to buy better bags on the AH.

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Frostwall Round-Up

After two years of diligent weekly recruiting at Frostwall Tavern, this week Akanja finally brought the last of the Tauren followers to the combined Garrisons of Kamalia and my other Tauren characters.

I’m still working on my “mini-Order Hall” Class-based collections of followers — that might take until halfway through the next expansion to complete!

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Blades of the Fallen Prince; Talonclaw

My Death Knight reached level 101 through fishing dailies, trying to get the Bone Fishing Pole. For the entirely frivolous reason that if she got her Artifact weapon, I’d only have to do one click to swap between her main weapon and her fishing pole when going fishing — instead of two, to re-equip main- and off-hand weapons separately — I took her to get her Artifact Weapon and establish her Order Hall.

Turns out, with Acherus as the Death Knight Order Hall having been established way back at level 58 after the Battle of Light’s Hope Chapel, there wasn’t anything to do on the Order Hall front before going to get an Artifact, as the other classes have had. So off she went to Icecrown to pay a visit to the new Lich King.

Frost DK feels very powerful. Other characters have died during their Artifact acquisition scenarios, but Kregga barely even broke a sweat.

I confess that I didn’t recognize most of the Frostmourne-trapped souls that I encountered during the scenario. The two at the end, though — how interesting that those two should end up trapped inside Frostmourne after their defeats!

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Meanwhile, my Hunter had also reached level 101, through Pet Battling. I had been planning all along to get Talonclaw first, because it is the Tauren weapon.

The way the background for the acquisition of Talonclaw was laid out, the way the story ended for the NPCs who led me on the quest was inevitable — but still heartwrenching.

I noticed one of the Garrison inn recruit Monk followers on the Wandering Isle the other day; I saw several Garrison inn recruit Hunter followers at Trueshot Lodge! I shall have to keep an eye out for Garrison inn recruit followers at the Order Halls of the other classes.

Now I only have four characters left who still need to get through the opening scenes of their Order Hall campaigns: Paladin, Warrior, Druid, and Alliance Mage.

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New Character Selection Screen Sets COMPLETE!

Today my Paladin finally got the Sunsoul chestpiece! It was the very last piece I needed to complete my collection of the Garrison Salvage Yard sets — otherwise known as the New Character Selection Screen sets.

My poor Paladin had been running as many Garrison missions as she possibly could, letting the Crates of Salvage stack up to 20 before she opened them, for weeks trying to get that last piece to appear. Within the past fortnight or so, I’ve also gotten the last pieces I was missing from the Highmaul/Blackrock Foundry Paladin and Mage tier-lookalike sets. I am so glad to finally be done with running Garrison missions!

With all of the Garrison Salvage Yard/New Character Selection Screen sets at last complete, I could finally do a blog sprucing-up project that I’ve been wanting to do more or less ever since the beginning of Warlords — replacing the text links to each “Things my [Class] Wears” page on my “Fashion” main page with image-link buttons depicting the New Character Selection Screen outfit of each Class:

Furthermore, I’ve been deliberately putting each character into her New Character Selection Screen outfit when she goes to collect her first Artifact weapon. I’d been wondering if my Paladin would have to be last to go to the Broken Isles — how long would she have to wait to be able to get her first Artifact weapon because of the stubbornness of Lady RNG in giving her the last piece of her New Character Selection Screen set? So now that she’s got the full set at last, I now feel like I can bring my remaining alts out to the Broken Isles in any order I please.

In fact, perhaps I’ll spend the rest of this evening moving them all out of their Garrisons and into the Legerdemain Lounge in New Dalaran (though doing all their Order Hall introduction and first Artifact acquisition quests will have to wait for other days and times)…

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progressing toward Pathfinding

Another week has gone by and I haven’t made much more progress in Suramar. One day when the faction-of-the-day was the Nightfallen, I went to do the world quest to shoot down bats in Felsoul Hold. While I was in the area anyway, I went another few steps down the leatherworking questchain and a few steps down the zone quest chain, but I didn’t finish either one. I’ll come back to them eventually — probably the next time I do world questing in that area. Another day, I went to do the world quest to activate beacons in Azuregale Bay, and while I was in the area anyway, I followed up on the Crimson Thicket breadcrumb — a very brief quest chain that didn’t seem to resolve, so I suspect I’ll be coming back there once I get farther along in the main zone story — and helped the Jandvik vrykul with their battle against the naga. I felt justly rewarded when they cheered me for saving their village, but I felt rather uncomfortable when Toryl then made the worst cultural and political decision of her career by appointing me Jarl of Jandvik. I’m sorry, Toryl, but I have no interest in sticking around to administrate in your village. So let’s treat it like an honorary Jarlship and you keep being the real leader of Jandvik, m’kay?

By prioritizing the faction-of-the-day for my world questing, I’ve gotten to Honored with all of the factions and to Revered with Highmountain. I’m currently at 79/100 for Variety is the Spice of Life; in the past few days, I’ve started to peruse the map specifically for world quests that I haven’t done before. Hopefully, I’ll be able to finish that up by the time I get all the leveling zone factions to Revered. Then, when finishing the Suramar storyline will be the only thing that I have left to do to complete Pathfinder Part I, I might actually be able to focus on it.

I’d balked at doing the quest to go retrieve leatherworking patterns from the Underbelly, but when I realized that I’d have to do it to get to the final leatherworking quests in Highmountain, I gritted my teeth and did it. I still have to actually go do those quests, though. And I still have to finish the Suramar branch of the leatherworking quests, too. I’ve seen folks complaining in The Queue about having to do Mythic dungeons for their professions, but that’s just for the 2 and 3 star recipes, right? I’m pretty sure that all the 1 star recipes come as quest rewards, and once I’ve got all of those, that’ll be good enough for me.

Meanwhile, my alts are starting to get “done” with their Garrisons. All of my alts have finished collecting their Salvage Yard sets except for the Paladin, who still needs the chestpiece. One of the clothies finally got the Highmaul/Blackrock Foundry Mage Tier-lookalike shoulders, so they don’t need to worry about those missions anymore. My plate alts are still running Highmaul/Blackrock Foundry missions trying to get the Paladin Tier-lookalike chestpiece. I guess I should take all the alts who are “done” with their Garrisons to New Dalaran and get them set up in their Order Halls with their first Artifacts.

Speaking of getting more Artifacts, I’d like to get the Artifact Fishing Pole eventually. With what I’m hearing about how buggy it is, however, perhaps I’ll wait until it gets hotfixed (hopefully that will actually happen someday) to actively spend time on fishing and trying to catch rare fish. I should probably prioritize finishing Suramar over finishing fishing, too 😛

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