Give A Hoot; Don’t Pollute!

As a skinner, Violet Hold is a godsend! It’s also a royal pain when people don’t loot or at least check the corpses so I can loot and then skin. So do your fellow Azerothians a favor

and let those skinners clean up!

Gearing Up

Oh last night I went into ICC10 for the second time. Yeah last week was bad. Didn’t even get saved because we didn’t kill bosses. A second group went Thursday. Well I went to help the 2nd group last night and killed my first boss. Oh. Yeah it was Saurfang. Talk about doing this instance backwards…

Hey, remember I had a druid I leveled to 80? Yeah I almost forgot too. She got neglected once she hit 80. I tried to gear her up by buying crafted items and trying a heroic or two, but that didn’t go very far. I burned out around that time so there she sat with a WoWHeroes score of 1700 or so. That’s pretty much ilvl 200s with 2 ilvl187 blues and 2 lower greens.

Well, 3.3 hit on December 8th and on Friday the 11th I tried my first random heroic.  Well I didn’t have a lot of time that night so it was only the one, but it was fun. So on Saturday I started farming. With a little luck, really quick runs, and on two weekends I geared my healer to 2638. For you GearScore nuts, that’s just a few points shy of 5000. I replaced every item except for one trinket. Darkmoon Card: Illusion. I need to find something else. I also have a cloth belt and boots, but haven’t been able to find anything better yet. Braid of Salt and Fire and Prelate’s Snowshoes.

It was a blast! The random tool has got me playing again! Call it what you will, but it worked…at least for now. I’m still upset about the entire gear pollution thing. Although I think they’ve done a better job this time as I’m geared in T9 equivalents and it’ll take a really long time to gear up into T10 unlike the fiasco that was ToC. So I guess my priest is next, then my paladin, and my shaman.

Oh and did I mention that she now outgears my main raiding toon, the shaman?

Yeah…two weekends…what gear pollution?! F*$#!!!

Ready Check

Perhaps this is more prevalent for dps since it appears to take you longer to actually find a random group so you get bored, but when you queue for a random heroic…

DON’T AFK!!!

* This happened to me 4 times in a row yesterday! Luckily as a healer it’s a quick re-queue. The flip side to this is those that accept the invite and afk immediately after getting in there. That’s happened to me rather frequently too!

Random Thoughts

1) ToC still sucks. Yes I still have a little fun in there and it was nice being able to take my druid to a raid for the first time ever, but the fact that I had to bring my shaman in because no one was dispelling heals, interrupting, or any of the other necessary things that one does on Faction Champions… Yes, well Amber did dispel quite a bit after I bitched about the Skull target having up to 6 hots at one point.

2) Amber fails at showing up late for a raid she set up.

3) Amber fails for even setting up a ToC raid.

4) Amber fails cuz somehow I got roped into going.

5) Fail pugs should keep their mouth shut. Especially holy priests who can’t outheal scrub resto druids with less gear and experience.

6) It isn’t always the hunters’ fault. But don’t tell them that. They already have giant egos!

7) How pissed should I be that my druid outgears my paladin?

Will the new LFG start to fall apart in a few months once everyone’s geared up all of their toons?

9) Wonder if I can fully deck out my druid in Triumph gear this weekend?

10) Wonder how long to get my other four toons the same?

and the number 1 random thought that has plague my mind since the announcement of Cataclysm!!!

11) Will Blizzard increase the number of toons allowed per server? I’d really like to roll a Worgen on my server. And there’s no way in hell I’m deleting one of those toons!