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Of raids and stuff

Ok, so the plan for the evening was “get home, relax, eat, maybe wowcrack a little” after the trip to Dusseldorf. However… it went something like, “get home, hug SWMBO, get invited to Sarth”.

Shopping lists…

A bit of be.imba digging fun for simple upgrades for the team. I need to get unferth logged off in resto form as the armoury / imba can’t handle dual spec properly yet.

Korenwolf (prot)

  • Shield (plating)
  • Gloves (precision)

Unferth (feral)

  • Replace
    • Neck
    • Trinket
    • Cloak
    • Idol
  • Enchant
    • Leg (icescale armour)
    • Head (torment / Ebon Blade)
    • Shoulders (axe / Hodir)
    • Boots (icewalker)
    • Gloves (precision)
    • Cloak (major agility)
    • Weapon (massacre)
    • Belt (missing buckle / gem)
    • Gloves (missing gem)

Unferth (restoration)

  • Replace
    • Trinket x 2
    • Staff
    • Idol
  • Enchant
    • Head (blissful mending / Wyrmrest)
    • Weapon (Greater Spellpower)
    • Chest (Greater mana restoration)
    • Legs (Brilliant spellthread)
    • Wrist (Superior Spellpower)
    • Belt (missing buckle / gem)

On guilds, gearing and enlightened self-interest

I’m not sure how the large guilds work but this might be something which works better inside a small casual guild. There’s not many of us so to get nicely geared it makes sense to support each other. To be honest it’s not something I’ve really thought about much, just something which we’ve done.

In the past certain guild members have helped me out, money for the first mount was a biggie at the time, ok the money now is nothing, a handful or two of dailies but at level 40 it was more gold than I’d seen.

Recently as we’ve been working the 5-man instances to make all our lives easier we’ve pulled together resources which have been sitting in our respective banks to make kit for our (not-so) tame warrior. Similarly when the call went out last night for a couple of abyss crystals I had some floating around, so bang… job done.

Why?

It seems like the “right thing”{tm} and from the PoV of your friendly plate wearing meatshield having the DPS popped up a notch makes massive amounts of sense, it means I’m being beaten on for less time and ups our output meaning we can re-try the likes of OK again (yes I want to kill that instance).

Where am I going with this, dammed if I know other than a general thought of “what goes around, comes around” and a side order of “more DPS sat behind me rocks”

Progession

So a long weekend, a wedding aniversary and some progression content.

Kaylad (thanks to D pulling Kaylad into Naxx10) has cleared the entire instance.

‘wolf is taking a slightly longer route, he’s up to Kel, we just didn’t have the time to get bones downed before people had to depart to slightly more productive activities. However he does have the key to the Eye, so a quick pug in there has happened as well.

Sangamon got through as far as Sapp before deciding we had burnt far faar too much of the day (and I can’t say I blame him).

Stats coming later for those that are interested.

Judgement fail (Children’s week)

Like many other people I’m finding the battleground (BG) part of the achievement a chore, a pain and no fun at all.

Let’s see, someone at Blizz thought “we need to get more people into the BGs to make them tick over faster, get them to experience PvP and then they’ll love it”. As other people have commented, if this was my first experience of BGs and PvP I wouldn’t be back.

The mechanics of the battles are broken because everyone is focusing on grabbing that flag (etc etc), not actually fighting the BG, it’s annoying the newbugs, it’s annoying the hardcores and it’s annoying those who occasionally dabble.

Blizz… score card… -10/10

Progression

Is on the slow side generally at the moment as the guild is even more short handed than normal. So ‘wolf has been largely on the bench just in case a guild tank is needed. On the plus side Unferth has been stretching his legs, providing healing in another stack of instances on Saturday.

AN : More trouble than before, the dps race on the first boss pack was just too much for him to handle on his own, fortunately the boomkin was a wonderful person who flipped to tree for the first boss. We got mashed on Hadronox but that’s because she bugged and we had to pull with all the adds as well. No problems on the second (clean) pull though. On the plus side kitty form kit dropped.

UP : He healed UP without any problems. Took two passes at Skaldi, but he’s a sod anyway and it was the first time the tank had tried tanking that boss.