Thursday, January 3, 2008

Must... Reach... Utility... Belt!!

Wow, this last stretch to 70 can be a real pain. This is the second time during this blog that I am pushing to 70. By this I mean trying to muscle through the laundry list of quests that must be completed to eek out each level. I really want to hit 70 as this opens up several new things to do, foremost on my list are BG's. I miss Alterac Valley and Eye of the Storm and I can't wait to give Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch a try also. I really hope the horde in my battlegroup do as well as the Horde in my old battlegroup. Unless I find a PvP, 5-man instances guild, I will most likely be PUG'ing these things. Alenko has spoken much about getting into a guild that is oriented at doing these things and I'm on board, but how does one find a decent guild? Most guilds seem to be filled with random people that know little or nothing about each other and this fosters an attitude of not caring for your guildies. They often times are loaded with people asking for low level instance runs in exchange for empty promises of returning the favor. I'm have zero interest in running anything that garners me no rep or loot, unless I know the person well. We'll see how this unfolds.

Buru has now been in the Outlands for 3 or 4 days and has tanked a few instances I was in. We even got Alenko in on a Slave Pens run. Buru made out with some pretty nice tanking items from one of our Slave Pens runs. I was hoping for the Coilfang Needler to drop as an upgrade to my current x-bow. Sadly, it did not drop after two runs. Oh well. I may just have to bear with my current one until 67. I purchased a back-up plan for level 67, a 57-58 DPS bow with +AP and +Agi. I'm not worried about it since I still topped the damage totals for all my runs. Most of those were with large margins except when Alenko came along. He was the only member to get close to my damage output. He was at a disadvantage in the instance. Most mobs were dying too quickly for his DOT's to take full effect. I'm sure he did more damage on bosses than I did. Bosses are supposed to be where locks shine: "more DOT's, more DOT's!!"

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