All My Alts

GW2 Visions of Eternity: Why Tyria Still Feels Like Home

2026-03-23T15:32:00.000-07:00

Bash the dragon?

You know that feeling when you log into an MMO after a long day of, well, everything, and the music hits and your shoulders just... drop? That is Guild Wars 2 for me in 2026.

The Long Sleep is Over: From Hardcore Raids to Writing Worlds

2026-03-22T11:19:00.000-07:00

My Norn Guardian, looking regal and ready for a casual adventure.

Is... is the coast clear? Pokes head out from a pile of half-finished manuscripts and Guild Wars 2 dye kits.

It’s been a minute, hasn't it? Okay, more like a few years. If you’ve been following All My Alts for the hardcore World of Warcraft spreadsheets and 3:00 AM raid salt... well, I have some news. Your favorite Altaholic has 'ascended.'

I traded the high-stress life of a hardcore raider for something much more dangerous: Indie Publishing. While I was away, I realized that my love for epic adventures didn't just live in Azeroth. It lived in the stories I was writing as an author. I’ve been busy crafting worlds full of sexy alpha men and gutsy women who take even less nonsense than a Mythic+ pug leader.

So, what does this mean for the blog?

Don't worry, the gold tips and Dad Jokes aren't going anywhere! But the 'New Era' of All My Alts is going to be a bit more... relaxed.

Tyria is my new home: I’ve traded my Dragonriding for Skyscale mounts. Expect more Guild Wars 2 fashion, casual exploration, and the occasional 'Why is this Quaggan so cute?' post.
The Author Life: I’ll be sharing more about how my gaming inspires my Sci-Fi and Fantasy romance. Turns out, being a Guild Leader is great practice for writing complex political intrigue (and stubborn heroes).
WoW Nostalgia: I'll still pop back into Azeroth for the lore and the gold, but as a visitor rather than a resident.

The lights are back on, the tea is hot, and the snark is as spicy as ever. Thanks for sticking around through the long sleep. Let’s go find some new loot!

— Lucalia

WoW’s Snapchat Ad: UI Customization for the Win?

2023-03-24T13:08:00.000-07:00

Hey, fellow gamers! Have you seen the latest Snapchat ad from World of Warcraft? It's a bit of a surprise, to be honest. They are trying to lure back old players by showing off how customizable the UI is now. You know, the user interface that lets you move around your action bars, chat windows, minimap, and so on.

World of Warcraft or World of Dragonflight?

2023-03-19T23:24:00.001-07:00

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight - A New Age of Adventure

Dragon lands

Hello, fellow adventurers! I'm sure you've heard the news by now: World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is now live! This is the ninth expansion for our beloved game, and it brings us a whole new continent to explore, a new playable race and class combo, a new feature that lets us ride dragons, and much more. If you're as excited as I am, then read on to find out what awaits you in this epic expansion.

World of Warcraft Dad Jokes

2021-02-04T11:55:00.004-08:00

Prepare to amaze your friends and guildmates with these World of Warcraft jokes. Okay, I'll be the first to admit this will probably get you off their friend list and g-kicked faster than anything. Want to start a riot or stop a boring argument in trade chat? Start telling these dad jokes right away!

WoW Gold Basic Questions: Round 1

2020-09-18T15:20:00.003-07:00

World of Warcraft Gold Guide Questions

Goblins are always busy making gadgets or profit

Have a burning question that you might be too shy to ask others for help with out of fear of being considered a noob? Or maybe you have a serious question that needs a little personal focus on and hope someone will take a moment to answer? Then the World of Warcraft Gold Guide round of series is for you. Ask away and I'll do my best to answer. Others have already reached out with their questions let's get on to them!

When WoW memes become canon

2020-07-17T16:40:00.003-07:00

World of Warcraft developers are having fun. Players running through the Shadowlands beta have discovered that the opening quests in the Night Fae zone have a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor. There's also the mentions of a few meme words and a troll character wondering what the heck a meme even is...

Betatesting Shadowlands Begins Early

2020-07-12T14:02:00.001-07:00

The Lich King awaits

Beta-testing for Shadowlands can start as early as next week. If you missed the Shadowlands live stream the embedded VoD below will catch you up on the latest news for the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion.Watch the trailer and then get ready to sign up!

Blizzard's Infatuation with Shocking Events

2020-07-11T19:25:00.001-07:00

One of the latest complaints about World of Warcraft is their seemingly inability to wrap up hardcore moments in their story-lines.

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Thrall Comes back to the Horde

2019-05-15T11:06:00.001-07:00

Blizzard has released a new cinematic. Saurfang wants to cement a good future for his Horde and in order to do that he must seek out the original leader, Thrall. When Saurfang journeys to Nagrand, Outland he learns he's not the only one seeking out his friend. Read on to find out more!

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WoW Classic Launch and Beta Testing

2019-05-14T15:57:00.001-07:00

Strap your hats on, and grab hold of your gaming chairs, World of Warcraft gamers. The vanilla form of WoW Classic goes live on August 27th, 2019!

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Guild Wars 2: Black Lion Freebies

2018-11-23T17:35:00.001-08:00

Black Lion Items for Free? You bet!

How to obtain your free Black Lion items

Guild Wars 2 players rejoice there is free stuff to be had in-game from the Black Lion market. Login on the dates shown to receive a free item. If you miss a day, well...that opportunity is missed.

Notes: Gemstore items switch out at 9 AM PST

For new players, Press “O” or open the Gem Store Tab, and click on the item on the page that is on sale for 0 gems. It will arrive in your in game mail shortly after you confirm.

Black Lion Free Items for Guild Wars 2

November 22—One free Heroic Booster

November 23—Two free Black Lion Statuettes

November 24—Five free Transmutation Charges

November 25—One free Revive Orb

November 26—One free Black Lion Miniature Claim Ticket

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Old Players on World of Warcraft

2018-11-06T19:39:00.003-08:00

Old Folks Guild - MMO playing for all ages

Recently stumbled on a Reddit post that talked about older players still mingling about the younger ones in World of Warcraft. It got me thinking about how many years I've played on WoW to date and now that I'm no longer considered 'hellishly young' (sobs) when exactly do I stop playing it? Do I even stop playing any kind of video games?

If I don't ever stop then am I going to wither away in old age with gaming headphones, keyboard, and mouse in hands? A dozen cases of supreme energy boosts emptied out and incapable of giving my body any type of boost whatsoever. Ugh, that's a bit depressing.

So where does that put you? Imagine being 63 years old like the above pictured player. Family, responsibilities, at the age of retirement but not quite there yet. Are the older players banding together because they can't find guilds that will take them as they are or is it because they find that they no longer connect with anyone younger?

The honest truth to realize is that the older a person gets the slower one becomes. Reaction skills, ability to process problems and situations. Hand and eye coordination. All of that and more simply slows down because of natural aging. Which means it sorta makes an older player a bit of burden. This is of course is all hypothetical and not all based on factual research. Put down those pitchforks.

But it very well could mean that older players have to form their own guilds to raid in any MMO (or other game) out of necessity. I don't believe there are any hardcore top raiders in there 60's is there? Not that I can recall offhand.

At the very least the older players are still having fun. A silver lining that despite the numbers game in age that a player can remain a player even if they're ninety.

Keep on gaming!

Exploring Guild Wars 2 Again

2018-03-02T17:54:00.003-08:00

So a bunny and a mage head to the mountains...

These days I've been dabbling in Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet. Though World of Warcraft sent me a gift of free 7 days to spend in Azeroth I found myself not entirely able to go back. And I'll be honest here, I still don't know quite why.

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Give your Sweetheart a WoW Valentine

2018-02-14T19:57:00.000-08:00

It's not too late to send a sweet Valentine's Day card to that special someone in your life that tolerates your late raiding habits. World of Warcraft has you covered in case you forgot to get he/she a card!

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Discovering Guild Wars 2

2017-12-09T15:14:00.002-08:00

Playing Guild Wars 2 as a World of Warcraft Player

World Boss Fight in GW2

Whether out of boredom or whimsy, I'm currently not on World of Warcraft but in Guild Wars 2. I've been exclusively playing WoW for the past 12+ years.

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BlizzCon 2017: Battle For Azeroth

2017-11-03T13:19:00.001-07:00

Today in the opening ceremony the newest expansion for World of Warcraft has been revealed as: The Battle for Azeroth. New features will include Kul' tiras and Zandalar as new continents. This expansion is centered around the old hostilities of Alliance versus Horde. Read on to find out more!

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A Change to Two Rare Mounts Spawn Times

2017-10-26T19:47:00.001-07:00

Mount Collector's rejoice! World of Warcraft's 7.3.2 patch brought in an interesting change for two rare mounts in the game. Read on to find out more.

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Muse Performing at Blizzcon 2017

2017-10-05T13:50:00.004-07:00

Photo Credit: Muse - by Madchester at Wikipedia

Photo Credit: By Madchester at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, Link

Blizzard has announced their main act to perform for the finale at BlizzCon 2017.

Muse Live at BlizzCon 2017

The band Muse is an English alternative rock band. According to Wikipedia they began in Teignmouth in 1994. There are three members of the Muse band: Matthew Bellamy (guitar, piano, vocals), Chris Wolstenholme (bass and background vocals) and Dominic Howard (drums). They are sub-classified as mainly progressive rock, and play music with melody and fast tempo.

If you're like me and have never heard of this band--- Here is a music video that Muse recently released on their Youtube channel:

MUSE - Dig Down

Muse is labled as an alternative rock band. They are often called space rock and progressive rock with elements from different genres such as: electronic music, hard rock, classical music and rock opera.

Developer Q&A feauturing Ion Hazzikostas

2017-10-05T13:31:00.003-07:00

Developer Q&A feauturing Ion Hazzikostas

World of Warcraft hosted a live developer chat that took place on Twitch today. If you missed the chat the feed is still available here: World of Warcraft Twitch. For those that only wish for an overview of the chat here are the key features talked about by Ion.

Artifact Appearances

No new updates on artifact appearances after Legion. You will still be able to unlock all of the appearances later. Mage Tower and Mythic +15 appearances are the exception.
The same applies to Druid forms.

Legendary Items

The upgrade system will be the same as previous upgrades.
The team doesn't want to just automatically upgrade items as they feel its odd to just change items.
They are keeping an eye on legendary drop rates. There may be room to increase the drop rate on the first few some more.
The legendary tokens added in Patch 7.3.2 will be what you earn if you have every legendary item for your class. These may have another purpose later on.

Class Balance

Not much plans for more balancing before Antorus opens.
Balancing around Tomb won't do much to help balance in Antrous, as there will be new set bonuses and trinkets.
The team will perform balance passes after Antorus unlocks.
They believe balance in Tomb is good right now.

Tier Set Bonuses

The team isn't happy with how the set system is working out.
Adding a 6th piece to sets gave players room for legendary items, but players can instead use a 4pc bonus, 2pc bonus from another set, and 2 legendary items.
The team tries to have sets that vary your game-play so that you have something more than passive modifiers.
It is probably going too far if you need a specific build and legendary items if you have a certain set.

Mythic Dungeons

The team is going to do more with Mythic Dungeons in the future.
Battle Resurrections in Mythic Dungeons are being discussed.
It would be great if classes could bring unique things.

Mission Rewards

When the Antrous raid missions become available, you will need those high level followers to access them.
The team doesn't want the max level missions to feel not rewarding enough, so the hotfix yesterday bumped up the rewards.

Argus Whistle

The team is working on hotfixing the Argus Whistle to be unlocked account wide.

PvP Season

The PvP season usually is linked to the opening of new raids.
If a patch with significant class changes happens to go live near the end of a PvP season, the team doesn't want the last few weeks of the season to be played with different balance changes.
Patches are becoming more about getting the data onto your computer and less about activating new events.

World Quests

The team has been trying to make everything account wide. Krokrun and Mac'Aree world quests are the exception.
There are a lot of conflicts because of the story going on in those zones that would make account wide quests in those areas weird, so most aren't.

Artifact Knowledge

Artifact Knowledge is still increasing weekly. This will continue until 55, which should be enough to fully unlock the Crucible traits.
There are no plans to raise the cap beyond 55, as there is no real reason to.

World Bosses

Nazak may be brought back.

World Bosses

The bosses are content that the game has passed by. They haven't been updated with new loot for the same reason old Legion raids aren't updated with new loot.

Story

The story in the last few patches has focused on the united effort against the Legion.
We will see more of the Sylvanas and Greymane story in the future for sure.

Broken Shore Buildings

The team has adjusted the amount of resources needed to rebuild the buildings, so the rate buildings are rebuilt is about the same as it always has been.
The buildings should always remain reasonably functional, they won't make it take months to rebuild the buildings in a future expansion.
There currently aren't any plans to make the buildings not require reconstruction.

Mythic Mounts

In Mists of Pandaria, it was the goal to offer equal loot, challenge, and rewards in 10 and 25 player. This is why the 25 player version of raids had to drop two mounts off of the final boss.
With a single difficulty, the team reverted to the older style of one mount from the final boss.

RNG

Randomness has always been at the core of World of Warcraft.
It needs to be carefully managed.
If you feel like you win/lose or are strong/week because of how the RNG falls it feels unsatisfying.
Randomness in Legion is in more places but each place has less impact on average.
For example, years ago the team was much stingier with loot. There weren't as many sources of loot, so it was "raid or die". Even inside raids, less items dropped. These items could be very powerful. Your raid might clear a zone for several months and only see one of that trinket. That is part of why DKP was a system.
Today it's much easier to get a full set of items. There are more sources and ways to earn loot.
The team does want to preserve some sense of reward. If you aren't having fun doing content, you should take a break.
The team doesn't want you to go back and do old raids only for the hope of a legendary item.
Progression is one of the main parts of the game. It is less exciting when you are killing a boss on farm over and over and there is zero chance that you could get something that is an upgrade.
The gap between the lucky and unlucky player today is much smaller
Making players choose between a legendary item that gives you a 0% DPS increase with utility and one that gives you a 10% DPS increase wasn't a great system. The utility legendary didn't feel great, so legendary items were tuned to reduce the gap between those two types of legendary items.

What are your thoughts?

For myself, I had the most problems with is the legendary item tokens. Their current RNG system doesn't address the problems for players starting the expansion at a late entry point. Honestly, I feel compelled to play the one character that has their BIS items instead of jumping around on various alts. It kinda ruins my site title in that regard as well. The legendary system is rather hateful to have to experience. In reality, it's not a great catch-up mechanic unless you're really far ahead on another character. And Nazrak, he's tied to a Rank 3 recipe and has spawned only once in a year. I hope his re-spawn comes a bit earlier then - "Soon".

Argus Mounts & Eggs

2017-09-14T20:28:00.002-07:00

Photo Credit: World of Warcraft.com

Journeying to Argus brings new gear, new toys, quests, and also mounts. For the players that dislike using the Handy Notes addon this is an entry for you. It lists the locations of only the mounts and the mobs that drop them. I've also included a link to a spreadsheet that helps with nailing the respawn timers to be able to hunt down the mobs.

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New Caves popping up for the Legion Invasion event

2017-04-09T17:23:00.001-07:00

There's subtle changes occurring at Stormheim where players frequent to complete Direbeak Falcosaur World Quests in World of Warcraft Legion.

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A Fool's Day in World of Warcraft

2017-04-01T18:41:00.005-07:00

It's the famous holiday where pranks and memes rule supreme. Blizzard Entertainment is holding up tradition by bringing us their versions of silly jokes. First is the Blizzcon Textual Attendance experience in a handy "Make Your Own Choice" adventure.

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World of Warcraft: Returning to Patch 7.2

2017-03-28T14:39:00.002-07:00

New and returning players face the challenge of having to catch up to the latest content. The latest patch 7.2 has launched and with it will come a new raid, Tomb of Sageras.

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Warcraft Movie Blue-Ray and DVD is only $6.99

2016-11-24T08:51:00.002-08:00

Image Credit: Amazon.com

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A great gift for any occasion is the Warcraft Blu-Ray movie which is on available on Amazon for a limited low price. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, an unlikely set of heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their families, their people and their home. So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.

Image Credit: Amazon.com

As a fan of the World of Warcraft franchise it was everything I wanted from the Warcraft movie. The special effects and sound are excellent. The orcs and worlds are believable and fans will see their favorite locations. The action is exciting although I will be upfront to admit that the acting isn't too great. As if it feels scenes were spliced together to make time. However, with that said, there are some touching moments. If you are a Warcraft fan looking for a fun movie, this is the real deal. There are even silly moments with easter eggs from the game such as somebody leveling up in the movie (very subtle) or a Murloc thrown in for laughs.

If you'd like an in-depth review feel free to read my article Warcraft movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Get your copy of this epic adventure today!

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