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Ding!! Congratulations to our visitor from New York for being the 3,000th visitor to the blog!

I got a pleasant surprise at the end of running Loredon, our 42 druid through Uldaman for the enchanting trainer: Tomas Rofkahr came to Kargath for a visit. He’s getting PvP’d out and is trying some other servers and he hunted me down using a /who. His question: “What is a 60 Fury warrior doing in Uldaman?” LOL Then He introduced himself as Tomas and I checked to see that he was a level 1 human warrior. I offered our guild forum for an invite into Fellowship of Azeroth and free runs through any instance he wants, but he said he is just testing the waters on the servers before he decides which one. I certainly do hope he joins our ranks. He’d be a real asset to our guild.

We got started late, but still managed to drop three bosses. Not get to them, this time, but drop them. I have no idea what happened to the group on the first attempt at Thekal, but I died pretty soon into it, and only 2 pallys survived to reset the fight. I was *grumble* on the phone. I had to pardon myself because 19 people were going to be upset with me if I had anything to do with it and I caused that again.

Nice loot dropped, but I kept losing rolls. But first, roll call for the dead:

Mandokir: Not shown

I witnessed my first truly *drool* usable epic drop from Mandokir. I took some protest and was taken completely off guard by the order of the items up for roll. I am used to only rolling on blues and greens, which are pretty easy to tell which you’d rather pass on and which to go for. My confusion started with … well, let me show you what dropped.

So, the rolling started with the blue. “What the heck?” was pretty much my question to master-looter Tox. How do I know if I want to pass or not if I don’t know if I can win the epic? Rolling on the blue had already started, so I passed since I already had 2 comparable rings, minus the Agility. Then I lost the roll on the Hakkari blade.

Previously, we took down Venoxis, but true to FoA form, we did the truly amazing and wiped the first time. His jumping bolts jumped to too many people and knocked them out of play before he turned into snake form. I still have a really hard time avoiding his poison cloud. Maybe it’s just that I’m too far down on the healing priority list to recover when I do get hit. He didn’t drop anything of interest to me. I think it was leather, but hey, I’m there for something solid!

Since we started over 30 minutes late, I was wanting to stop after the first two bossed because of our lack of success with Thekal last time. I didn’t want to die 5 times for nothing. But when you drop him, it makes it worth it. It was an impressive fight. It came down to two hunters left standing fighting the tigers that Thekal spawned when he died. He dropped real goodies, too, just not for me.

Someone kept talking about a fishing quest, so we ran down there and got attacked by a mad fish! It was crazy. A 60+ elite FISH!! Then about 3 people hearthed out of there before we distributed the loot. That’s just crazy, but oh well. Tox reserved a Gurabashi coin for me to send in the mail and I got dibs on a Bronze Hakkari Bijou. It hadn’t arrived before I logged off, but Tox just informed me that he sent it.

Just for fun props, I took a nice screenshot of Bensmack, a veteran Hunter and our Hunter mentor.

 

Lockr hit level 18 last night and is totally decked out. What do you consider “decked out,” Gitr? How about 5 equipped rare items that bring his mana up to 1402 at his level? Killing things is downright silly now. He actually has 8 blues, but can’t equip them all, one is a 2H mace, one is an extra weapon, and one needs to wait until level 19.

When I logged in last night, I asked Arrakis to run me through Deadmines until I got Cookie’s Stirring Rod. On the first go-through, it dropped, but that wasn’t all. Here is the loot list for my two Deadmine’s runs:

Lockr also has the best quest rewards available for his level (and one high above his).

And… then there’s the silly purchase just because he had so much money:

This is how I should have done Gitr and Grimr, but then I didn’t have such good friends in a guild that would just take 20-30 minutes and run me through an instance that I have no business being in just to get some loot or a quest item for something 16 levels higher than my toon. Now I do. I’m lovin’ it.

I got all excited when I logged on and got right into WSG. We were sucking, but I was doing pretty good for a new lvl 60 and had 5 Killing blows out of our 15 HK before I got a very special guild request: Dire Maul West. W00t!

I hearthed and got there as fast as I could. Just as we got together at the steps leading in, trouble started. We had a great group for my interests: 1 Mage, 2 Hunters, 1 Priest, and me. “I’ve got dibs on plate,” I declared. 🙂 Then we noticed that our priest had gone offline. CRAP! We waited and waited. Then we called him, he was resetting his router. We waited and waited. His Internet just wasn’t working. We asked another priest, to no avail. Long story, involves a guildie, moving on. Just then, our best (IMO) healing druid got done in ZG. The problem was that it was now midnight and he had class at 8am. I told him I had work at 6am, so PLEASE *insert slight whine* come, but it’s OK if the answer is still ‘no.’ Nope. We’ll do it later, and I hope with the same group. I don’t really want competition on an armor-heavy run. Pretty much everything would be an upgrade.

So I hearthed and logged in Lockr. I came in at the stairway to Stockades. For some reason, I was able to get the level 19 quest at level 16. I /w Inebriate, he invited Arrakis, and they took me through to get Bazil’s head to the tune of 39xp per kill for the entire dungeon in 20 minutes. I dinged 17 as I turned in the quest. I finished the quest line with Arrakis’ help killing the Lord from the library and talked to Lady Prestor (I know who you are now) for 3980xp or something crazy like that. I’m over 50% of the way through level 17 now. ‘Neb will run me through Stockades again solo for 87xp per kill to finish the level. He’s got some really nice gear now:

Lockr’s RPG Outfitter profile

I got to bed at 1:45am and took a little bit to get to sleep. An insistent knocking started on my door with my mom saying that they called 911 and the ambulance was there to take Grandpa to the hospital again. So I got to the hospital at 2:45am and waited until they said he didn’t have another heart attack and drove Dad back home around 5:00am so we could get some sleep while the ladies waited with Grandpa. I woke up at 9:00 when my girlfriend called to ask if I wanted to take her to lunch on her break (it is Valentine’s Day, people). We went to Boston Market (we LOVE those mashed potatoes and gravy) and then I came into work.

*sigh*
/sleep

Now that Gitr has reached 60, what is next? I’ve been putting some thought into that, and just finished talking to Tox.

Gitr

• Visit all 3 legs of Dire Maul and get the good loot there.
• Start going to MC runs.
• Continue in ZG and try to take down the tiger boss (my 4th shot) and get enough souldarite to make my entire Darksoul set.
• Finish my BRD quests (Ironfel and Incendius).
• Get Dal’Rend’s Sacred Charge to match my Tribal Guardian and +15 AGI enchant both.

Grimr

• Level to 40 to mount up and get to the laboratories for making flasks.

Lockr

• Level to 19 to wear his Corsair’s Overshirt from VanCleef. 
• Level to 20 for his next tailoring skill-set.

For the blog, I will be adding a Lockr’s WoW Blog section in a sub-domain, and a Grimr’s WoW Blog following the same suit. They will be more interesting than “Gitr did another ZG run today. Here is what dropped. Here is who we killed. Another run on Thursday.” LOL.