Storms Deck... ooooh

Wow, have I had great luck in instances. I've done a smattering of the high level normal instances including Steam Vaults, Shadow Labyrinth, the Arcatraz Shattered Halls and Black Morass and have made out like a bandit. The most notable being winning greed rolls on the Ace of Storms twice from the last boss of SV and an epic caster necklace from trash in Shattered Halls. The necklace has a supposed value of 666-800 gold, so says Auctioneer. I think I'll have a hard time dumping it off for that much but it's sitting happily in the auction house as of the writing of this entry. It is keeping one of the Aces of Storms company there. The other sits in my bank with his friends Two, Three, Four, Six, Seven and Eight. I investigated the reward for the Storms Deck quest and it seems pretty cool. I went to the AH and picked up the six cards mentioned above for a total of about 300G, not bad considering the completed deck sells for 1000G. I lack the five of storms and I have no idea how costly it will be. The sale of the other ace will help abate my gold loss to a degree. The trinket reward for the quest is the Faire card: Wrath. While equipped it will add 17 crit rating each time I make a direct damage attack that does not crit. The effect stacks up to 20 times and resets once I crit. I would replace a trinket that reads "Equip: Gain 21 crit rating, Use: Gain 200 AP for 15 (20?) sec". So I will start fights about .9% lower chance to crit and will be about even at one shot and have better crit rating after 2 non-crits. This would carry on ad infinitum during the fight as well after each crit. This isn't huge. I'm not wetting my pants in excitement for this but I figure that since the sale of one ace makes up more than half the cost of putting one deck together, I'll go for it. I'll do some Dr. Boom testing to draw my own conclusions.

Apart from that I have 2 pieces of the Beast Master Dungeon set. It's not great, in fact one piece went directly to the bank. I equipped the shoulders as it gave me a fraction more crit but the gloves were inferior to the Felscale Gloves I made for myself. From the Arcatraz, I got the fiery hawk lookin crossbow... maybe Netherhawk, I don't recall. It's very cool looking and made a nice upgrade to the dungeon dropped gun I had. There's a few more things I could really use but for the time being I'm pretty well geared until Karazhan. I'm keyed for Kara, we just need to find a guild.

Alenko had been in negotiations with the guild of a real life friend to get himself, Gurch and I into a Kara raiding guild. It fell through sadly because the guild is French speaking and they would not accept English-speaking-only members, that would be Calimon and I. It meant a lot to me, that Alenko decided against going into the guild without us. Instead we must now recruit. We invested in a guild bank to help with recruiting. Alenko bought the first tab of the guild bank and Buru, Calimon and I threw in 100G each to help buy the next tab. Now all we need are recruits.