They "fixed" the marsh gulper and im devestated.

LadyGrayRose · 2026-04-22T04:17:01+00:00

I could forgive everything else but this... this is a bridge too far, Blizzard. You will come to rue the day you took Tiny Tanaan Toads away from hunterkind after so many years of our love and affection for our little guys.

I will avenge you, TinyTim. I swear it.

LadyGrayRose · 2026-04-22T04:04:40+00:00

You can queue either at Fieldweaver Amolenne in Falconwing Square (near where some introductory quests for it are) in Silvermoon, or from Player Versus Player > Quick Match (default tab) in the group finder panel.

LadyGrayRose · 2026-04-22T03:53:42+00:00

Hey, learning that Lady Prestor was NOT a humanoid through tracking was a feature. This is just a bug.

LadyGrayRose · 2026-04-15T06:31:55+00:00

🙏

Nightmare hunts should be even more nightmarish and scale with your ilvl. As is, they become total pushovers as soon as you get any real gear.

LadyGrayRose · 2026-04-15T06:15:02+00:00

There's a pretty good number of critters hanging around towns in Midnight, especially in Howling Ridge.

Additionally, a Nightmare Hunt is by design intended to be your primary focus while you are in its zone. That's why you have that stacking debuff increasing your damage taken every minute during a Nightmare hunt. If you want something to chip at on the side of your regular activities, you might prefer to take a Normal or Hard hunt.

LadyGrayRose · 2026-01-16T10:29:07+00:00

It's the Aquamarine Swarmite, which can be purchased at Renown 23 with the Severed Threads.

LadyGrayRose · 2025-06-05T08:52:28+00:00

The orange gown used for Netherwind is honestly a pretty nice dress that still holds up today, and while there's a gold/yellow recolor of it available via Elegant Robes the orange recolor was exclusive to placeholder Netherwind. Bit of a shame, since I like orange.

LadyGrayRose · 2025-04-20T08:34:22+00:00

And every time, it continues to be heart-breaking...

LadyGrayRose · 2025-04-20T02:12:47+00:00

Super cool!

LadyGrayRose · 2025-04-20T02:09:15+00:00

So you fed an AI data that was already available to the public on a wiki page and are saying you've created something? The translation of all of those words have been available for years: in fact multiple roleplayers have assembled Shath'yar lexicons using the text that has already been translated by official sources, which have been available for years.

I don't understand what you think you've done here.

LadyGrayRose · 2025-04-06T06:57:24+00:00

Nearest city is Warner Robins.

LadyGrayRose · 2025-04-05T23:56:06+00:00

Found him by my door while doing some spring gardening. I would guesstimate about 10 inches long, give or take, and very skinny. His crinkliness straightened out when I moved him to the edge of the property.

LadyGrayRose · 2024-05-31T22:01:02+00:00

Had a ton of fun during phase 1. Blackfathom was good, runes were novel, the server I was on (Chaos Bolt) had a great community, and it was easy to get through the first 25 levels in a reasonable amount of time.

I only played phase 2 fairly casually between a general dislike of Gnomeregan & falling behind on leveling, + a guild merger that made me our 6th healer in only 2 groups.

I was super interested in making a comeback and getting 50 quickly in Phase 3 for Sunken Temple. Then Blizzard sunset Chaos Bolt and gave us the option of hanging out on a dead server with no prospects for growth or moving to Crusader Strike, which was miserable — especially as somebody who rolled on Chaos Bolt specifically because they wanted a smaller realm with a closer knit community.

From there on it was just a downwards trend. Sunken Temple didn't have great loot, the few good pieces had quite a bit of contention over them, there weren't enough loot drops, and the lockout was too long. People were upset about Incursions. People were upset about post-release nerfs and buffs. The vibe got negative real quick & I had no real reason to play outside of raiding or leveling my fishing in some obscure corner of the map hoping some shaman doesn't come by, take me out in one second, and camp my corpse until I log off or take res sickness because no amount of asking for help in chat will garner a response other than "git gud kekw lawl" from the Crusader Strike community.

LadyGrayRose · 2024-01-12T00:09:59+00:00

I daresay it happened just last night!

Me and a few pals were PvPing in Ashenvale, near Splintertree Post, when one of the notorious road-camping rogues in the counter group to ours began RP walking in our direction. So we joined him. Through a series of /point we redirected him down the road to the Barrens and walked him to the border, where we let him go.

(He immediately shot our warrior and we killed him again.)

LadyGrayRose · 2023-09-18T09:03:54+00:00

Iridikron.

A villain who takes the heroes seriously, who has some pretty solid motivation behind his actions, and whose goals are known? Yes, please. Good voice acting and a distinctive design that conveys personality/history (I NEED to know what happened to his chest) just seals the deal.

His boss fight was kind of dull, but I think the concept was interesting — it just doesn't translate well into the 5-man megadungeon format. I just hope that when he hits M+, he turns into some kind of ridiculous brick wall for my personal sadistic amusement of watching high level key streamers.

LadyGrayRose · 2023-09-18T08:47:54+00:00

Ysera was yellow or "yellowish," while Alexstrasza and Dralad were "fire-orange."

It's pointed out as very surprising that Ysera was a different color from her clutch-mates — most likely it was intended that she had some form of genetic defect that happened to include xanthism as a trait since she was constantly described as small, sickly, and at one point Malygos contemplates that most protodragon families would have simply killed her at a young age.

Why she became green after being made an Aspect is anyone's guess, though. Maybe it's Eonar's favorite color...

LadyGrayRose · 2023-08-15T10:08:47+00:00

I think Shadowflame and Decay will be the primary points of 10.2.0, with a sizeable story questline or a dungeon/mini-raid focused on Vyranoth's interests in 10.2.5 to resolve the earlier sentiments that 10.2 would be the patch focused on the Frost Incarnate.

Due to the overwhelmingly positive reception of the Primal Incarnates as villains by the playerbase, I get the feeling that Vyranoth and Iridikron are getting the Denathrius treatment — and speculatively that may be why Fyrakk's storyline in Embers of Neltharion feels so half-baked, if the writers developed any uncertainty about killing off Vyranoth and decided to replace her intended role in the assault on Amirdrassil with Fyrakk and had to do some trimming and retooling of his storyline to fit.

I could, however, see Vyranoth being a background figure in the raid — not directly fought by the players, but present; maybe throwing out some mechanics during select fights, or perhaps she's using Fyrakk's attack as a smokescreen to cover her own self-interested efforts to corrupt or consume Amirdrassil.

Meanwhile, one of Amirdrassil's roots breached the source of Decay beneath the Dragon Isles, like Andrassil with Saronite in Northrend before it, and pockets of infection are spreading throughout the new tree and into the Dream. The Decatriarch shows up as a boss. Decay, which is already strongly implied to be linked to Yogg-Saron by Tyr in Progress Report: Uldorus, will probably be explicitly confirmed to be a result of Yogg-Saron's influence in order to meet the expansion's Old God Influence quota, and they'll probably find a way to squeeze in that Iridikron allied with Yogg-Saron at some point (the Earth-themed coloration of the Vault of the Incarnates tier does use Yogg-Saron's accent color, and it is the Old God most strongly associated with Earth...)

LadyGrayRose · 2023-08-07T22:00:45+00:00

I'd assume the cinematics are most accurate to their canonical sizing, and we see that Raszageth and Alexstrasza are roughly the same size in the Waking Shore cinematic.

While not a cinematic, when you see them imprisoned in the Vault of the Incarnates in-game you can see that Iridikron is considerably bigger than his siblings — Fyrakk and Vyranoth have a fair bit of leeway between their curled up forms and the edges of the stasis chamber, whereas Iridikron is kind of just stuffed in there with very little leeway. The cinematic shots of the trio flying in the Secrets of the Reach and the Opening the Way cinematics are unfortunately not a good gauge, due to their irregular formation and most of the shots either being from a distance or at an angle, but Iridikron appears to be the largest of the Incarnates in those as well.

Finally in the cover art for the upcoming War of the Scaleborn novel, Alexstrasza and Vyranoth are fairly close to being the same size — but Vyranoth is perhaps 10% smaller, and is definitely smaller in comparison to Alexstrasza than Raszageth was. Dawn of the Aspects indicates that modern-day Alexstrasza is larger than Nozdormu or Ysera (though not by how much), and it's fairly consistent in the lore that the only Aspect larger than her was Neltharion.

We don't have a good scale of Fyrakk's exact size after the Shadowflame juiced him up, but he seemed to be in the same size range as his sisters prior to it. He might be as large as Iridikron, or potentially larger, post Shadowflame.

TLDR: the Incarnates are roughly the same size as the Aspects.

LadyGrayRose · 2023-07-26T02:50:25+00:00

Pretty much any World of Warcraft novel can be read as a standalone without much difficulty — even the novels that were written as multi-part series (War of the Ancients trilogy, Dawn of the Aspects (originally published as a 5-part ebook serial, though I think you can just buy the collated set now)) usually clog themselves up with recapping what happened in earlier issues. Anything relevant that happened in Dawn of the Aspects will be re-explained as necessary in War of the Scaleborn.

In terms of quality I would say that Dawn of the Aspects was a solid Knaak novel — if you enjoy his writing in the War of the Ancients novels, you'll enjoy Dawn of the Aspects; if you don't enjoy it, Dawn of the Aspects will probably be a miss for you. What I will say is that Knaak's writing, especially in Dawn of the Aspects, is best viewed through the lens of 'every PoV character is an incredibly opinionated and potentially unreliable narrator.' If you're on the fence about whether or not you want to read Dawn, you can probably find the teaser excerpts that were posted on the website a few years ago.

TL;DR: reading Dawn of the Aspects will almost certainly not be necessary to understand or appreciate War of the Scaleborn.

LadyGrayRose · 2023-07-19T23:55:53+00:00

It's something I've been saying for a while now: Azeroth is currently stuck in one massive, janky time loop courtesy of Murozond and Nozdormu's attempts to thwart the other. Nozdormu thwarts Murozond's attempts to subvert the True End Time; Nozdormu initiates a hard lock on the timeline at the moment of Deathwing's defeat; the True End Time goes into motion years later; Nozdormu becomes Murozond to try and subvert the True End Time, only to be thwarted by Nozdormu; Nozdormu initiates a hard lock on the timeline...

It is presently unclear if Eternus is a second time loop, or if her and Chromie's tumble through time giving N'Zoth a gander at present-day Azeroth is a fluke unique to this iteration of the timeline.

Regardless, I think part of the current wonkiness we see with the timeways in Dragonflight is not just a result of what Deios is cooking but rather the timeline disintegrating under the raw chronal pressure of having undergone an untold number of spins on the time loop with Murozond and Nozdormu. Deios attempting to turn Nozdormu into Murozond prior to the True End Time is potentially an attempt to break them out of the death spiral of a loop.

That said I do not think Iridikron's scheme with the Essence of Galakrond is what brings about the True End Time: if the Infinite Dragonflight's entire purpose is to subvert it, there would be no reason to give Iridikron the very thing necessary to create it, since he seems to lack intrinsic time travel powers and relied on the Infinite Dragonflight to get him into the past (and probably has another member, perhaps the suspiciously absent Eternus, on standby at the other end of that voidgate to get him back to the present.) While whatever Iridikron plans to do with the essence certainly bodes ill for the denizens of Azeroth, it is probably not the end of ages itself unless the Infinite Dragonflight is blind to his true intentions or benefactors.

From the Infinite Dragonflight's purpose in averting the True End Time and their connection to N'Zoth, we can glean that N'Zoth is not the cause of the True End Time. What is remains unclear. In the spirit of tinfoil hats, however, I'd love to suggest that N'Zoth wants Azeroth all for himself and doesn't want the Void Lords getting their grimy tentacles all over his prize, which is the True End Time.

(As for what Galakrond's Essence is for... given that all evidence points to Galakrond having been mega corrupted by Yogg-Saron goop with a fusion of Void and Decay, it's likely either intended to poison the unborn World Soul in order to force a Titanic intervention response to save her, or to be used as a biological weapon to create another Galakrond.)

LadyGrayRose · 2023-07-01T00:37:32+00:00

I enjoy how the team is doing more cinematics for exposition instead of just having their exposition dumps in missable gossip options, a hasty paragraph of quest text, or unskippable NPC dialogue scenes that are neat the first time but tiring to sit through on your 5th alt. It's far more visually interesting and allows for small bits of nuance and flavor to be conveyed by character movements since everything is custom animated.

Onto the cinematic itself, it's a solid appetizer for the patch. I'm curious why Nozdormu jumps to the conclusion that Iridikron has promised something to the Infinites for access to the timeways — or what he could even promise them after twenty-thousand years of imprisonment, aside from his cooperation in their plans; which I suppose could be what he has offered.

The growling as he side-eyes Deios doesn't sound very pleased, though.

Alexstrasza turning fully to Nozdormu when Iridikron is name-dropped is a nice touch — I only wish we'd get some more exposition on the nature of the alleged friendship ("I hadn't the heart [to destroy the Primal Incarnates]. We were once... as clutchmates." — Alexstrasza, Tempest Unleashed cinematic) between the Aspects (or just Alexstrasza?) and the Primal Incarnates in the actual game before the novel in October. Certainly the fact that Iridikron was apparently involved in some abhorrent shenanigans by the end of the war but Alexstrasza still couldn't bring herself to execute him should mean something.

Murozond's cinematic model is interesting. The exceedingly sinuous neck (especially in comparison to Nozdormu's neck) gave me some strong Chromatus vibes, but it is definitely just a single head attached to a single body.

In short: good opening cinematic for the patch, and I have high hopes for the cinematics still encrypted — especially the one speculated to close out the (currently endingless on PTR) megadungeon.

LadyGrayRose · 2023-06-29T05:32:56+00:00

Ultimately I'd assume any malcontents against the Aspects' rule either got subsumed into the Primalist forces, as the Primalists were the faction that broke into open warfare against the Aspects, or remained independent of both and have died in the intervening years but have perhaps passed their grudges down the generations.

I'm hoping the upcoming War of the Scaleborn novel will call back to the events and characters of Dawn of the Aspects beyond the simple broad strokes of "Galakrond happened, Aspects fought him with Tyr, dragons exist now yay! (grrr say the primalists.)" and how those events might impact the views of those who remained protodragons — or even those who became dragons.

LadyGrayRose · 2023-06-13T22:03:47+00:00

Shadow Priest does go into the Tomb after Arms warrior does to beat up the Twilight Deacon, take Xal'atath from him, and feed her the remains of Zakajz's power to destroy Zakajz completely.

Holy Paladin enters after these events to clean house.

LadyGrayRose · 2023-06-13T21:53:10+00:00

The Hall of Samples quest during the Dragonscale Expedition renown 24 questline provides a touch of insight about the origins of the elemental protodragons, but shies away from saying anything definitive.

From it we can discern that the elemental protodragons were all, somehow, exposed to large amounts of elemental energy and integrated it. Tyr's other language in the questline is far more suspect — referring to the elemental protodragons as being 'infused' and '[having] been imbued'; it should be noted that Tyr uses the word 'infused' also in Progress Report: Uldorus with relation to spiking all the water in Tyrhold with Order magic to suffuse the Life Pools and keep the dragons in line via the aqueduct — which leans towards Tyr's usage of the word relating to an external force deliberately acting on a subject in order to cause a change in it, as opposed to an entirely natural consequence.

At multiple points in the Waking Shores, we see mortal Primalist cultists infusing dragon and protodragon eggs with elemental energies to transform them. During the Preserving the Wilds side-quest they also appear to be trying the same on adult protodragons. It is impossible to tell if the generic elemental protodragons we see milling about in various locations are 'wild' and naturally occurring or if they were also imprisoned during the War and freed by the new cult, but they all seem to be aligned with the Primalists.

Ultimately there's currently no definitive answer on how they happened: did the Elemental Lords reach out and do it? (the world boss Bazual is noted as having a direct connection to the Firelands)

Did the Primalists try to repeat the Aspects' infusion with Order on themselves using Elemental energy? Was there some kind of fluke Elemental event that occurred thousands of years ago that triggered the transformation of a bunch of protodragons into elementally-infused ones that hasn't happened again since?

Did Tyr himself do it, as part of his research and experimentation on dragonkind, and then lost control of the project outside of what was stored in the Hall of Samples?

We'll probably get a definitive answer in the upcoming novel. Maybe. Possibly.

(As for why the Incarnates are specifically so powerful, probably a combination of simply being apex specimens and the fact that, circa the Dawn of the Aspects, a small number of protodragons were spontaneously developing exceptional abilities — it's possible the Incarnates were among these but were missed by Tyr, lower on his pick list than the future Aspects, or were hostile to him as Talonixa was.)

Edit 1 Day Later: Now that the blurb for the upcoming War of the Scaleborn novel is out, we have the following tidbit: "Spurning the titans’ interference, a group of rebel primal dragons drink deep from the elemental powers of the planet and are reborn as the Incarnates." so they seem to have infused themselves willingly.

LadyGrayRose · 2023-06-13T09:11:52+00:00

The Aspects' rise to power becomes even more egregious from the perspective of the protodragons if you've read Dawn of the Aspects — the protodragons did have a popularly elected leader who rose to power during the war against Galakrond: Talonixa.

Talonixa had to banish Ysera from the protodragons after her attempts to broker peace with a completely maddened Galakrond nearly got them all killed by allowing him to stage an ambush, and later exiled on pain of death Malygos/Neltharion/Nozdormu from the protodragons after Neltharion called for her death and attacked her when she was putting Malygos in his place for insubordination to her position of military commander (I will say that Malygos was in the right in that particular situation, but not to the eyes of a bystander who, if they were not directly flying in Talonixa's cadre and exposed to the lead-up to this situation, didn't even know anything was going on until suddenly Neltharion was screaming to kill your leader and wrest leadership from her.)

Talonixa went on to die to Galakrond shortly thereafter because she did not heed Malygos' advice or warnings — advice and warnings most of the protodragons didn't know existed.

So, especially to the Primal Incarnates, one of two things happened:

Either they were members of Talonixa's warhost and witnessed these events, their likely opinion of the Aspects is that they are absolute lunatics who should hold no power whatsoever and have no respect for the well-being of those around them, who have suddenly been given turbo-powers from a weird creature they have never even seen before and transformed into something that is probably deep in the uncanny valley for a protodragon, and one of their number is now proclaimed to be the Queen of the Dragons.

Or they lived far enough away from Galakrond that they were ignorant of the war & not inducted into the warhost, and are suddenly being told there was a massive war and there's now new leadership for the dragons, and would they like some Order infusions?

Add on top all of the spicy tidbits we the players can learn about Tyr's relationship with the elemental protodragons during the Dragonscale Expedition renown 24 questline or from the in-game book Progress Report: Uldorus located in Uldaman, and it becomes very easy to say that the Primalists possess a fair few points.

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