Legion Thoughts Reloaded

Agh.  As much as I love being "the Ashbringer," the spec is just too fragile.  Meanwhile in prot I'm a sexy shoeless god of war.

I mean every word of that statement

An aside: my greatest "first world problems" annoyance right now is the lack of a decent armor set that goes both with the Lightbringer shoulders and bare feet.  Like.  All of the legs that match the chests that match the shoulders are breeches, and while bare feet are perfectly sensible, bare shins are dumb.  Yeah, I can go with the T6 legs I guess, but meh?  For some reason the T6 armor just doesn't work for me, except for the shoulders and to a lesser extent the gloves.  Granted, I'm never looking at my character from the front, so to an extent I guess it doesn't matter too much, but it still bothers me.

The main problem is I don't like the pre-Cata/Panda armor textures.  The newer armor sets are so much more detailed -- there are a few older armor sets that I still dig, like the Judgment set, but in general?  The Sunsoul armor is nice, and would be ideal for me because it happens to match the PvP variant of the Lightbringer shoulders, but the pants are breeches.  Feh.  And I've looked through all available leg sets in the game and there is not a single one that really meets my needs.

First world problems, like I said.

So I've been changing my outfit once, maybe twice a day.  I've spent so much money on transmog since Legion started you'd think I was rich.

The Light's Heart questline is the most amazing thing.  The only part of it that annoys me is it's so obviously a paladin questline, but it's used for all the classes.  Oh well, in the end we're all soldiers of the Light.  I don't quite understand how warlocks or death knights can be soldiers of the Light but here we are.  It would have been really legit for Blizzard to come up with a separate story for each of the classes, TOR-style, but I can only imagine the outcry since they'd have to do it at the expense of a main leveling experience.  Probably.

One thing that's struck me about the leveling content is the whole "bad guy snatches victory from your grasp" trope shows up an awful lot.  At least once per zone.  It's extremely frustrating.  But then, that seems to be this expansion's calling card -- frustration.  Frustration and the slaying of sacred cows.  Making it personal for us.  Big lore figures dying, invasions hitting us where we live, I gotta give credit to the writers -- I'm invested.  I am going to find Gul'dan and end him rightly.

So I had to go prot.  Which is working out pretty well, honestly.  I'm vaguely annoyed that I can't transmog the sword if I'm using the shield appearance, but I've felt appropriately sturdy since making the switch and the heartbeat playstyle is just as soothing as I remember.  Fairly decent damage, too, especially if I can pull a pack, and when I pop wings and Seraphim I can bring down the hurt.

I find myself itching to continue the Light's Heart campaign.  It's soooo irritating that it's throttled, or gated behind something I haven't unlocked yet.

World quests are neat too.  I mean, to a point I guess they're basically the same as doing Tanaan or Timeless Isle content, but across the entire world.  And there are so many of them!  Always something to do!  Even if I haven't finished up Suramar or Val'sharah yet.  Should probably get on that.

Not sure who I'm going to level next, honestly.  Mage wasn't as bad doing the artifact quest as I thought it was going to be, since fire is traditionally pretty fragile, so I might go mage and see how that works.  Or rogue, I suppose -- I remembered I could transmog the second sword into an axe or something, which isn't so much classic fencing but at least it's better than two-sword style.  Don't care for the rogue campaign so much so far.  Mage was fun.  Druid was ... somewhat tedious.  But at least kitty plays basically the same as it always did.  A bit more fragile perhaps.

That about covers it, I suppose.  More as it comes to me.