Saturday is Fun Night! Sunday is pretty cool too!

Tonight was raid (as usual) and we all joined together at the appointed time.  We started in Dragon Soul, and got Heroic Morchok.  That was fun.  We almost had him once but he kept throwing his red crystal towards the back of the raid, so we ended up pulling some trash towards the beginning (waaaaay off to the side) and wiped.  However, we got him down the next time and it was awesome and fun.  I got my first heroic piece (the neck) which made me really happy because I'm a huge dork.

We spent sometime working on Heroic Warlord.  Dear lord, that was rough.  I need to do some research on that.  This will be homework.

We also got Minutes to Midnight (achievement on Ultraxion) and Ping Pong Champion (achievement on Warlord).  I think half the guild got the Taste the Rainbow on Yor'sahj that night as well.

Anyway, we cleared through Warmaster, and then had some lag issues for one tank and healer so we called the raid and went to 25 man Naxx for KZ and Saph.  Before that, however, somehow, my guild leader, one of our officers and  our DK spent like 5 minutes chasing me around the deck of the ship.  I laughed so hard that I cried.  The GM and officer both play orcs and they were chasing me with no pants on.  Then our rogue (who is a goblin) was also nude and running around.

I ran them around and around and around the ship, up to the top, then all the way to the back.  It was so fun. Really silly but fun.  I have pictures that the husband took while I was afk.  Apparently they tried to snuggle me.  Or something.  Honestly, I think the pictures look worse then they are.

Anyway, we went and killed KZ and Saph on 25 (me as my mage), then went to OS 10 for the drake (me as my mage) and then did Ruby Sanctum 10 Heroic (me as my druid).  And then, we went and killed Maly 10 man (me on my druid).  So yeah, good times.

On Sunday, we gathered up, finished up Dragon Soul and headed into Firelands.  (I healed Spine but dpsed Madness, then continued to dps through Firelands, until we got to Domo and Rag.)  We got the achievement for Beth'tilac which was a freaking nightmare since our mage kept disconnecting.  So it was me and a shaman on the bottom to kill the spiderlings and I was OOM in like 5 seconds I swear.  Rawr!

So we moved along through Firelands and people picked up transmog gear and other gear.  And I got my heroic shoulders off Domo.  So I have heroic boomkin shoulders!  Woo!

By the time we finished raid, we were all really tired.  So 3 of us finished up the guild dungeon challenges for the week and got us to level 11.  Tonight, I'm going to play my warrior.  Who I've neglected horribly for the past few weeks.  This weekend was another weekend of 'only being around for raids' since I had errands to run all day on Saturday and then on Sunday the husband and I drove to my mom's new house and helped paint the kitchen and living room.  (Which is like half the freaking house.)  At this point, my hands hurt so bad from holding the paint brush I'm amazed I can type and hold a mouse!

And I'd like to take this opportunity to tell my one of my best friend's congratulations on his normal Madness kill!  Yay!!!! :D

Despite not having time, I guess I still play a lot!

Our missing mage checked in yesterday!  He's doing well.  Just busy with the new baby and his wife and girls.  I'm so happy that he thinks enough of us to check in.

Other then that, I have not been spending a lot of time in WoW.  It's summer so we have weddings, BBQ's, hikes and other things to do.  However, we got into the random dungeon finder yesterday as a group of 4 and ran probably 4-5 regular heroics to get our valor points.  We're now 1 troll heroic away from our weekly cap and sounds like we'll do that tonight when J gets home from tennis.

I suppose I should talk about 'the group'.  It's our guildleader (who happens to be one of my best friends), his wife (who is my resto shaman healing buddy), my husband and myself.  We always ask if anyone wants to come with us, but everyone else had busy things to do, so it was just us.  We picked up a jerk of a mage for our 1st random.  We got almost to the end of Grim Batol, he started being an asshole (yelling at the dps who is putting out more dps then you, while we carry your ass through a heroic is not acceptable) so we kicked him and got a awesome mage who we tried to run some more heroics with.  But her computer crashes after the 1st boss of Lost City of Tol'vir so she left and we got a warlock who was nice and sweet that we ended up running with him for 3-4 more heroics.  He got some nice upgrades, yay!  And we got all the regular heroics we could so our guildleader could get some easy chaos orbs so he can make weapons.

Which is what I want him to do for me.  So I'm all for running heroics with him until he gets the needed chaos orbs.  And of course, I need to get my truegold together.  Luckily, my mage is a transmute specced alchemist!

I also spent my evening, after the heroics, getting my kitty gear enchanted.  I need to get my shaman buddy to make me the BOE epic belt.  Or I could just wait until I'm honored with Avengers of Hyjal.  I don't know what I want yet.  I'll probably wait.  Once I'm all good, I'll switch back to kitty and practice a bit there.

Still doing my Hyjal dailies every day!  We just unlocked the blacksmith.  So now we just have the ancients left!  Quite fun I guess.  As soon as my druid finishes it, I'll start doing the dailies on my priest.  I can't do them at the same time.  I'm too ugh about dailies.  Stupid dailies!

Gearing and my bad luck

Since Ulduar, I have had bad luck with a specific gear slot.  My bracers.  My best friend didn't get the leather caster bracer pattern while we were running ToC, in fact, I want to say that it never dropped for us until we were doing ToC for fun.  However, one of our tailors did get the spirit cloth bracers pattern.  As a result, I wrangled up the mats and had the cloth bracers made for me.

I felt weird wearing cloth as I was a "only wear leather" kind of girl but hell, we hadn't downed Vezax in 10 man Ulduar before we moved to ToC, nor did we get past Hodir in 25 man Ulduar.  Not to mention that no one in ToC decided to drop their bracers for me.  As we moved into ICC, I was determined to get better bracers.  I plotted, I planned, I sacrificed undead rogues to the loot gods.  All in vain.  Festergut never dropped his bracers on 10 man and Valithria Dreamwalker, that stupid dragon, never left them in her cache for me in 25 man.  In fact, the bracers only dropped 1 time in 10 man and that was when we were doing heroics.  And I wasn't in the raid.  I was very unhappy with raiding at that point in time.  I was tired all the time and generally not feeling well.  The doctors hadn't figured out my medication yet and I had not been diagnosed with sleep apnea.  So, I begged off on running heroics.  I had them take our new resto shaman and our new disc priest instead of me.  And lo, my bracers dropped on heroic.  I whined a bit, but whatever, I was burned out and tired and sick so I didn't really care.

When The Ruby Sanctum opened, we had stopped doing 25 mans, so I never had a chance to try for bracers out of there.  In fact, I didn't do Ruby Sanctum until after Cata was out and I was 85.

So, my bracers in Cataclysm.  It's a well documented fact that there are 2 pairs of bracers for ilevel 333, 1 pair of bracers for ilevel 346 and 1 pair for ilevel 359.  At least in PVE gear.  (I don't count PVP since I'm not a PVPer.  See my earlier post on that.)  I had green bracers until my husband was in a random that had the Bracers of Caustic Purification drop.  He managed to win them for me and I got to upgrade my ilevel 318 or whatever greens.  I did some research and discovered that there are no spirit bracers from regular heroics.  I would have to farm Corla in Blackrock Caverns in order to get them.

However, I hate to farm and didn't think I could get anyone to go with me to farm Corla every day, so I stayed with my crappy 333 bracers.  I whined to my friends and my husband about how there are no spirit bracers and looked forward to the day we would be raiding and I could get pretty purples.

Unfortunately, we only downed Chimaeron two or three times before we stopped raiding and that horrible thing never dropped my bracers.  I stopped referring to him as his name and started calling him "My Bracers".  Hoping that this would help him realize that he needed to drop my bracers.  I sacrificed everything from blood elf pallies, to tauren warriors, to goblin shaman and the loot gods still did not smile upon me.

Because I hadn't found my desire for raiding when we stopped, my guild started raiding on nights that I wasn't home, in order to free me from feeling like I had to accompany them.  So, I came home one night and looked over my husband's shoulder.  I saw they were just getting ready to pull Chimaeron and I said "Kick the healer that is taking my spot and send me an invite, I want my bracers.  You know they'll drop if I'm not there."  My husband laughed and said he couldn't do that.  So I watched from over his shoulder.  It took them a few tries, but then eventually downed him and I logged off.  I didn't want to see if they dropped.  I left the room.

My husband muttered something and I called from the other room "Did they drop?"  And I got a "Yeah.  They did" in return.  My heart sank into my stomach.  It was ICC all over again.  They will never drop again while we are in BWD, I just know it.

Luckily, Blizzard put out those lovely troll dungeons at 4.1.  And one of the drops off bear boss in ZA are caster bracers!!  But once again, I don't like to push myself forward so again, the few times I've run ZA that sucker hasn't dropped his bracers for me.  But what was this?  BOE caster bracers that I can buy with valor points?  YES PLEASE!  Now I just need to actually do random heroics to get valor points.

Those bracers will be mine.  They WILL be.