LW 375!!

As the name of the post suggests, I have attained level 375 in leatherworking. I had been at 368 for quite some time but made the push to 375 so I could learn the recipe for Boots of the Crimson Hawk which I had purchased from the AH for 350G. I burned a lot of leather making drums to get to 375. At 372 the recipe turned green but the small amount of mats required made it the best for leveling. After crafting the boots, I made an ad for Cat's Swiftness to add 6 AGI and a minor speed increase. The speed increase is barely noticeable so I may replace it with +12 AGI.

In other news, I am attuned for Kara and Ogri'la now. I have been into Karazhan once in a PUG. Alenko went along which was cool to have someone I knew there. We fought only two bosses that I recall. First was Maiden of Virtue who dropped Gloves of Quickening, I was the lucky recipient of those. We also killed a Attumen the Huntsman who dropped Steelhawk Crossbow which I lost the roll for sadly. The only other drop was a Belt of the Tracker which everyone started to congratulate me so I took it. It didn't seem great at the time (and to be honest, I still like other stuff better) but I looted and equipped it.

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I have temporarily switched my focus to Desconocida from Lÿnn. She is now up to level 20 putting her as my highest alt on Stormrage server. She still has a bit to go to catch up to my rogue on Anub'arak who is level 36. At level 20, I can get poisons. I didn't remember that there is a quest to acquire the skill so I was bummed when the trainer wouldn't give it to me. It originates in Orgrimar so next time I log, I will be headed there.

This brings up one of the few detractions to rogue, there's more things to level. It's not horrible; rogue only has two additional class skills but it does mean a little extra time 'crafting'. The first is truly easy. Poisons consists of making and applying poisons. The mats are all store bought as far as I can tell so it presents just a small time sink. The other skill is lockpicking. Strewn throughout the game are areas intended to level lockpicking. These areas are wrought with boxes with short respawns that hold small amounts of coin and allow rogues to skill up. It's typically a sore point in an instance when an accompanying rogue can't open a locked chest, so I want to make sure I do this.

The plus side of rogue is very cool so the extra class skill levels is overshadowed. Level 18 presented one of my first fav's, Ambush. When cheap shot comes in, it will probably replace ambush, but for the time being it's an awesome opener. A few times last night, while fighting mobs 2 levels lower than myself, an ambush crit took the first 60-80% of the mobs' HP. What a riot to start a fight and they're hurting so badly. Dual wield is next on my list. Yeah yeah. hunter has dual wield but I never really use my weapons and typically a two-handed weapon provides better stats than two one-handed weapons. This aspect makes me consider more things when gearing my character than I have to with hunter. Lockpicking will be cool in the end, when I can finally open the boxes I find by myself. And then there's Stealth. Nothing is more fun than walking past waves of mobs to get to the one guy I need to kill for a quest and then walking past them on the way out. Stealth FTW!! Stealth = Win!! <3 Stealth!!

Rogue has been fun and has refreshed WoW a bit for me, but I will be taking a quasi-break for a while for the birth of our daughter (tomorrow is the big day!!). I won't be completely out of action, but I'm certain I will play Desconocida exclusively as I can pop in and pop out more easily than on a higher level character.

The instance that never ends

Another trip through a heroic dungeon and holy cow did it take forever. I went through heroic Underbog last night with a group that Khanjin was in. We had Daes for a tank. He's a well geared pally tank I have run normal instances with a time or two and he's done a remarkable job. His style of tanking is aggro everything and screw crowd control. With his gear and talent this works phenominally well in normal dungoens, it wasn't quite as effective in the heroic. It may have been that it just took a little while to find as groove. By the end all was going well and we were only cc'ing one mob at a time, by means of Succubus or Banish. We had a few wipes and even had to go repair part way through but ultimately put all the bosses to rest. Badges and rep were my rewards for the evening. The last boss dropped 2 or 3 things that Alenko could have used had he been along but he was healing as Khanjin. He was pretty bummed.

Once that was all done, after 3 hours (ouch!), I ran a couple of EOTS's to try for the PvP daily. Both times we ran up against Alliance pre-mades and got trounced. I don't think I got even 450 honor.

Being thoroughly discouraged, I logged on my new undead rogue named Desconocida... and yes it's an undead chick character. I have leveled her to 10 and equipped her with some auction house greens. My intent is to make someone to open boxes and level Jewelcrafting. I'm not great at alts as I don't have tons of time to invest in them. We'll see how far she goes.