On the subject of...well, stuff

Well, as most people know, I recently hit 70. And as some of you may know I bought a epic flying with my accumulated fortune instead of buying high end tanking gear and trying to start doing stuff. So now I'm tasked with getting gear in order to maybe set up something nice and large, like MgT or Kara, however, from looking at the best suggestions I've been able to find, namely here, I've gleaned that most of my gear I'm going to have to go into instances to get. Which leaves me with two tasks, #1 to get shiny gear to tank with, and #2 to get shiny gems to put in the gear once I get it. Sadly this means I have to do two things, pugs and dailies. While dailies aren't bad at all, trying to get a pug together is a complete pain in the rear section. Currently I'm doing really nicely on the gold end, and I've gotten two of the pieces I'll be needing for my tank set.

Have I mentioned I hate pugs? I mean they serve a great purpose, but finding a good one takes so very, very long. And usually someone ends up having to leave for RL before you can finish it. Which leaves me with two options, one leave my guild to join one with a more regular instance running schedule (hahahaha, not happening) or figure out a way to plan instances with other guilds besides Sidhe Devils. While I really like that second option, I have no idea how to go about doing it. If anyone happens to know if something like this exists (preferably on Kael'Thas where I play) please post in the comments, or if you have any ideas. I mean, my guild is awesome besides awesome, but one of the reasons they're awesome is they place RL before the game. Which means those dang married couples just don't have as much time to play, and the ones with kids claim they have even less! Which I suppose I completely understand, I know from watching a series of friends' kids that kids are FAR cooler than WoW overall.

Also, I want to give my thoughts on the epic mount vs gear as far as the moment you hit 70. If you have the gold on hand I highly suggest the epic mount unless you have people waiting on you, if you're more than 500g short I'd say get your normal flying and get the gear. The reason for this is that once you get your epic flying doing dailies and herbing/mining become soooo much easier. Not that I've ever done dailies without an epic flying, but I imagine that they'd be an incredible pain. However, I really do not believe it's worth putting of getting gear for the amount of time it takes to get that flyer will feel much longer if you can't really do instances while you wait.

Welp, it's back to the grind so I can afford to pay that tyrant of a JC his exorbitant fees. *hides from 3B*

~joe/ishvi

I'm so happy, so very happy~

Okay, so Saturday morning I start a thread on the Sidhe Devils forums and tell Wulfa to try and round some peeps up for some sort of KoT run that evening. I wasn't very sure it would happen, but figured hey? What's the worst that could happen? Well, as luck would have it we did manage to get peeps together and totally cleaned up in OHB. We only wiped once, and it was a rather funny wipe, as I really have no clue what happened. Somehow or another 3B's priest managed to get hate before I ever did, which resulted in Nas doing an AWESOME job trying to keep him alive while I cry and fail to take agro for more than a few seconds, all the while Nas is taking some damage. Then 3B finally bites it and it comes after me with a vengeance, while Nas is busy trying to get herself back to not "mostly dead". Anyways, long story short we wiped, came back, and totally kicked the Epic Hunter to the wall, complete bum kicking. Afterwards I logged, went to bed.

Then came this evening, long busy day at work, but finally, after much business, the greatly loved discovery ding of 70. Woot! Hallelujah and such! Many thanks to the various people who have helped me off group quests, or tried to anyways. Also thanks to Doodle for following me around for the last few mobs and healing me before I ran off for the discovery ding (which I still think is awesome. So now I just need to get geared up for uncrittable and uncrushable and also help Wulfa get goldies for her flying epic as well. Anyways, got work in 5hrs (go go 3am shifts) so I will post later about all the joys of 70. Oops, just realized I forgot to train, oh well.

~joe/ishvi