When we look at Jesus’ experience in the wilderness, we can easily miss this point and become enamored with the idea of external evil forces that cause or tempt us to act in certain ways. The wilderness experience helps us to recognize our fragility, our mortality, our humanity and to faithfully grow in trusting God. The wilderness experience helps us to understand that our wisdom and power are not enough to overcome the challenges we face-or to transform others. We can either believe that God is real and active in the world transforming the hearts and minds of those who hear the good news of Christ or we can take upon ourselves to force transformation-but one these options never end well. For in each instance one seeks to use their own power to conform the world to their desires and understanding. This is sin of the crusades, colonialism, racism, segregation, discrimination of any kind, and injustice. This is the sin of Adam and Eve, that in eating of the forbidden fruit they would “know” more and become like God. This has been the challenge that caused many to fail throughout history. The constant temptation that we face as people of faith, is the temptation to use our own power to mold the world and others, to our imagined view of the Kingdom of God. This new life in faith always calls us to abandon the standards of the past-and our illusions of self sufficiency-so we may move forward trusting God in a new way.
Wilderness is like a training ground for the task of living a new life in the world. In many instances, wilderness is the step that connects current reality to something new. The Israelites spent forty years in the wilderness as they prepared to enter the promised land. Elijah spent forty days in the wilderness before he received a new mission from God. Moses spent forty days and forty nights on Mount Sinai as he wrote the words of God’s covenant. Noah and his family moved forward playing a central part in the new reality of the land. Noah spent forty days and nights floating in the wilderness, after which God made a covenant to never again destroy the earth with a flood. If we search through the Old Testament we will find examples of individuals who spent time in the wilderness as a step for the next phase of their journey. The challenges we experience in our times of wilderness provide a firm foundation for the journey ahead. The wilderness experience helps us to become open to the next thing God has for our lives. Wilderness is a place of preparation, a place of revelation, a place of encounter, a place of restoration, a place of temptation, and also a place of hope. Our Christian tradition has something to say about wilderness. As Jesus rose from the waters of baptism, he was led into the wilderness by the Spirit. If you go to the ruins and don't see any shamans at all, be prepared.Though some see the wilderness as a place of punishment, our text tells us that wilderness is simply a part of the journey. I can't imagine that it's a glitch but I can't think of what other reason there could be. I snuck into the temple (where I found 4 of them on a previous character) but not a single one there except for a few big nasties that saw through my stealth and of course they have Blizzard's favorite invention, DAZE. This time I couldn't find a single shaman.
I managed to carefully stealth through them, kill a few warlocks and finally got to the one shaman. Of course he was buried among a bunch of uglies that my 42 Druid couldn't fight, and they were so close together it looked like an unnatural relationship. All I could find were brutes, warlocks, Battlemasters, Mage-Lords, tinkers, tailors, soldiers, spies, Indian chiefs, artificial insemination donors and, oh yes.one shaman.
Some of these guys roam all over the place, they can surprise you a coupla times and you can end up getting aggro from mages ^ warlocks in the distance which hurts BIG after 5-10 seconds or so.Ĭomment by ThottbotI am so amused to see people talking about too many shamans and not enough brutes. When stunlocked in this way they cannot cast their healing spell. Rack up a couple of combo points and kidney shot them when their health gets near to that level. Shaman are awkward cos they cast a health regen spell when they are about 20% health. Never lost 1 health point to a warlock, I took 0% damage from all 8 :) Warlocks are fine cos I could just ambush and they'd be 70% dead, then a kick to stop spell casting, by now I had 2-3 combo points so a quick eviscerate and they were dead as doornails. Never died once, but had to use a potion twice. South camp has Shaman and a coupla warlocks. There are two camps one in the NW of high wilderness and one in the south. Comment by ThottbotJust completed with my lvl 45 Rogue and it was pretty straightforward.
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