Last night we got a group together to take a stab at the daily heroic which was Shattered Halls. We had at 2 people who had never done the instance in Heroic before. It went generally smoothly other than Freez dying a very large number of times. Being melee has significant disadvantages. Ah well..

In the end, nothing all that much dropped, but I picked up 2 upgrades from the quests in there. I then did a few dailies on Fyra and logged out.

Tonight will probably be a leveling or professions/farming work day. More than likely I will just go to some heroic

Ok. I could talk about this weekend.  There really isn’t that much to talk about. Same ol, same ol. Lots of instances actually. Heroics on Freez finally and some new ideas for the guild talked about at a Saturday officer meeting. (I’ll get into that when they are made public to the guild.. )

But.. Last night.. Heroic daily is Magister’s Terrace. Great! Fyra can use the extra rep since I am fail at dailies (bah..). We go in with a pretty much kick-ass team. We barrel through everything only wiping on the 3rd 5-boss once. (We swapped our tank out for a lock for this fight because he wanted the trinket).  We get up to K’T. Who’s taking the phoenix? Me? ok..  And.. hello? hello? hello? Can you hear me? Is this thing on? typety, typety, typ… Uh..

I peek into the closet where the cable modem is … DOH! Connection is down.. Ode to you who had to screw with the cable modem connection somewhere out there right before the FINAL BOSS OF A REALLY ANNOYING INSTANCE… ARRRGHGHGHGHGHGHH!  Ok.. Well. So, I try unplugigng/replugging the power. No dice. I plug in my phone and connect in through that on my laptop. When I finally get in, surprise, I am dead.  Well, seems that either they pulled right after I D/C not knowing I was gone or they decided to just 4 man it while they were waiting figuring I could loot when I get back… NOOOOOO! I get back and no loot for me.  Whole freaking instance down and I can’t loot the badge nor the crap I need to get  for the daily heroic.

I cannot tell you how annoyed I was because frankly, I think I have blotted it out of my memories. When I was next aware of myself I hearthed and logged to get off my cell connection.  Later on (very much so) I logged back in when my connection was up and worked on my Engineering.  I had been doing so all weekend and have it up to around 360 I think. My Enchanting is almost 375 finally and Jewelcrafting is moving up there too (around 310).  Blacksmithing is going to be my next money sink I guess. I also spent some time Saturday afternoon farming herbs and ore.

The Shamlock duo got a run-through of Gnomer on Saturday night also (Thanks StopIt!) and with a few more quests done in Dustwallow, they made it up to 36 last night before we did MgT. Maybe I’ll try to find someone to drag them through SM again a few times.  Then get them high enough to get the quests for Z’F. There is sooo much xp in a Z’F run for the R-A-F duos. Then maybe I’ll find peeps to help with a Sunken Temple run. I haven’t gone there in forever. Might be fun.

First off last night we finished up our Kara run from the night before. We had Chess, Nethersipe, Prince and Nightbane. We took down Netherspite without a probem and then moved onto the Chess event and then the Prince. We wiped once on the prince.  Really not sure what happnened, but we got him down to about 5% or less. Moving on, we went to Nightbane and took THAT seletal dragon down! It was a pretty smooth and easy as far as Nightbane fights do.

Fyra picked up more than enough BoJ during the run to bring her totlal > 100 and she was able to pick up the Embrace of Starlight from the IoQD vender. The only problem now is that I need more spellhit.. I am replacing a chest (BLUE!) that is +30 spellhit.. Now I have to figure out where to pick that up without losing too much of any particular stat.  Of course, I might just not bother since once leveling begins again it isn’t as important as other stats.. (fighting mobs 3 lvls above me won’t necessarily happen that much, i’d think…).

After the Kara run, a group of 5 of us went into Heroic Ramparts. Oh my.  Obviously we were doing something wrong. It was a complete wipe fest.. We did have 2 lesser geared dps (my rogue and pil’s hunter) but it was just .. painful.. So, eventually, pil and I swapped out. He for his Prot Pally and me for Fimlys (woot! He comes out of retirement again) and we tore up the place after that. :P  I got 1 more badge on Freez (from the first boss which we got down before switching) and 2 more on Fimlys (who really doesn’t need them for anything but maybe gems… I guess)

I was feeling a little tired after that or I might have either leveled the shamlock duo or leveled one of my professions (now that some of the mats are at a lower price point). I’d love to not only have every class to at least 60 before WotLK, but also all the professions to 375 (yes, that includes fishing.. my nemesis!).. The ones that need work right now are:

• Engineering (Have it at > 300 [although that is on a gnome, so a little boost there])
• Jewelcrafting (Still <300 but getting there)
• Enchanting (<10 away from 375.. Should be doable if I can get recipes..)
• Blacksmithing (Bah! Way too low.. Some day, maybe..)
• Fishing.. (Fim is getting there.. I think…)

For the rest I have at least one toon at 375, so I’m good to go for the expansion.  I also need to go farming lower/medium level herbs in addition to going on a herb farming spree in outland. My stock of outland herbs is diminishing rapidly.  Time to restock! Fast Druid Bird FTW…

So… On the topic of druids… I was thinking. So, a druid is a cross between a Warrior/Mage/Priest/Rogue (kinda sorta), right? Well, what about adding Hunter into that?? I have a new feral form for deep in the tree.. That’s right! Quillboar !!! How about it. We could shoot quills like arrows and have a few different talents along those lines.. Give us a summonable Pig pet and we’d be all set.  Maybe even a feign death-like ability? Just a thought… *ahem*…

Tonight is a free night in the Mythos calendar so far.  I might just get on with the farming and such, but it is possible we’ll run some quests on Freez. Might even level the shamlock (get someone to run us through gnomer before we are too old?). Not really sure what I want to do all in all.. Later!