Sorry for the lack of posting of late, we have been kept quite busy on the home front, and when I get a chance to spend some time on the computer, I tend to actually play rather than blog. Hopefully, I can change that situation in the near future.

With the exception of the previously-mentioned Quagmirran’s Eye trinket, I am now fully epic’d out. I only had a few pieces of gear to obtain for me to get to this position, and I collected them in various ways over the weekend.

Friday Night - Karazhan


Friday night saw myself going through Kara yet again. We skipped Attumen and Maiden again, as some people tend to like the more fast-paced race-style on the Friday night, followed by the ‘cleanup’ over the rest of the weekend. Moroes went down clutching his heart (or the place where his heart should be), screaming that we weren’t expected, nothing was set out, he wasn’t even dressed! etc. Illhoof suffered the same fate, and managed to kill our holy priest twice in the chains during the one fight (2 X Soulstones FTW!).

We decided that we would go the all-out approach to Aran, instead of the more conservative approach of slow DPS until after the polymorph. The danger of this approach is that you might get the elementals during polymorph, and that can make things interesting. We had two warlocks for this run, so we thought that we should be able to fear/banish enough until they despawned or Aran died his second death.
Wipe #1 happened for reasons unknown, we got him down a fair way and yes, got elementals just before polymorph, but we were able to fear/banish beforehand, so they didn’t cause us problems. I think that we had just one or two that died and started a chain-reaction.
Second time around, we got the elementals during polymorph, but we were able to regroup successfully and take Aran down in record time. I am constantly surprised by the amount of DPS that we are able to pour out; a month ago we wouldn’t have dreamed of doing Aran this way.

We wiped on Prince. Four times. Gave up, lol.

The loot gods were nice to me that night. Big Bad Wolf decided that he would reward me after “hood”-ing me twice during the fight (I was the only one who got “hooded” that survived, everyone else took a hit and went down splat) by dropping Trial-Fire Trousers. I managed to win this roll, even though I rolled a 1 (:D). Yay! Curator was a pushover, and dropped some crap that was overshadowed by the Tier 4 glove token for Warlocks/Mage/Hunter. I lost the roll on this, though, but the mage who won was only new to our raids, and after some discussion with the Loot Master (unbeknowst to me), he decided to let me have them.

Here is where it gets icky.

After Chess, we all took a 5 minute break. I grabbed a port to Shatt City, to turn in this token and get my Tier 4 gloves (which, as it turned out, aren’t as good as my current gloves), and I thought, while I’m here, I might port to Ironforge and buy 3 Great Dawnstones for the pants. I didn’t recall then that the +8 spell hit gems were called Great Dawnstones, and ended up buying, and socketing, 3 x + Hit gems, for melee. I realised what had happened when I saw my +spell hit hadn’t gone up, and I screamed. Loudly. 160 Gold gone, just like that. I went back to the Auction House and there were no +spell hit gems, so I ended up getting some + spell haste gems for the meantime. I was down to 22 Silver, since I had to sell my vendor trash to get the money to buy the proper gems. I was fuming.

Saturday

Didn’t happen. Had RL things to do all day

Sunday

Ran some Heroics for badges, etc. Bought my new head piece, Mana-Binders Cowl, and chucked a +8 spell hit gem in there (yes, I found one).

During Heroic Underbog, the boss that is second-last (the one who tamed the druid :P) dropped a Lambent Chrysoprase gem, which no-one but me wanted. I stuck that into my shoulder piece, replacing a +8 spell hit gem, but getting the socket bonus of +3 spell hit, so that worked out better. Coming along to the end boss, she also dropped the exact same gem! Yay! This one went into my Chestpiece, for the exact same reasons/socket bonus.
Now I can look for a meta gem to fit my head piece. I am looking for one that requires only 2 blue gems and some yellow gems (since that is all I have at the moment, lol). Anyone got any ideas on which meta gem I should choose?