this one is transparent in the middle too.

I’ll apologize for denigrating your newborn son already.. I just couldn’t resist.

Yesterday I took Rossa and I ran some old world content..  Went through Dire Maul North, killing at will.. no tribute run.  Just before the last room with Captain Kromcrush and King Gordok, I summoned Jobu (the shaman), just in case something good dropped he could use.  Of course.. killer hunter legs dropped.  Poor Cerrano.

Next I went to Blackrock Depths and got Rossa attuned to Molten Core.. just ‘cuz.  There will be no soloing in MC though hah.  She barely made it to the zone with the first two Molten Giants stomping on her all the way.  They just have way too much health compared to Rossa’s life expectancy there by herself.  This week I might work on Onyxia chain for the halibut too.

On to Stratholme where Baron Rivendare will surely get sent to see Kelthuzad by Rossa’s holy might!  Uhh.. no.. the Ramstein the Gorger or whatever his name is event got bugged on me.  I don’t remember his name for sure because he didn’t spawn for me.  I killed all but one of the abominations roaming around and I let him go for a bit as I collected more Stratholme Holy Water from the supply crates, as most groups do.  I had been moving through the place fairly quickly too.  Got to that point just outside the Baron’s hold there with a couple short minutes to spare on the 45 minute timer.  There was no way I was gonna be able to kill the dozen big brutes, the waves of skeletons and Ramstien in those 2 minutes though.  Still I had made good time.  Nothing that would cause the last abomination to abruptly vanish and the whole courtyard full of them respawn.

Well I proceeded to wipe em out again and was ready for the waves of undead to pour out of Baron’s now open doors..  but nothing.. *crickets*  The back portcullis was still closed off.. blocking the way out of that area too.  I hearthed after a few minutes of puzzling about it.

Crager got on and asked me to tank his Heroic Ramparts excursion.. but he forgot he needed to be honored with Thrallmar to enter heroic Hellfire Citadel instances hah.  DOH Crager!  There were issues with that group going to Coilfang (somewhere that Crager could go) and I would have just left the group too, but Che’s pally Ezekiel was in it so I stayed.  We didn’t do to well. Killed first and last bosses just fine but we couldn’t down Omor the Unscarred.  Gave up after the third try and we moved on the the dragon rider.  We just didn’t have enough DPS, the second rogue and the mage were kinda slackin or lackin, not sure which.  Nothing against Craig, but his hunter probably wouldn’t have the DPS yet either to be successful in a heroic.  He did just make 70 a couple days ago.  That’s to be expected.  You can’t hit 70 and be ready for heroics.  Nothing wrong with that though.

Soo.. after that Systine got on and offered to run the Terrible Trolls through somewhere.. I got bold and said BRD.. Jason, never having been to BRD (I noticed when my Overlord Pyronwhatever quest got shared with him LOL) had eagerly agreed to go there!  THE FOOL!  8) It didn’t work out so well with him not being affliction anymore and after a really slow 45 minutes or so, I camped Cerrano and logged on Rossa to make her second trip of the day back to Black Rock Depths.  We moved along a bit faster but Jason got sleepy and had to go.. so with Jobu in tow, I powered through a FULL boss clear of BRD!  I love that place.

It’s so very hard to find a group willing to put in the 6 or so hours it takes an appropiate level group to do a full clear there though.  Shadowfang Keep is still my favorite instance, but BRD is a close second.  Definitely much more EPIC than SFK.  Of the Blackrock Mountain instances.. it’s the best in atmosphere and continuity of the lore/ambience/can’treallydescribeitbeentypingwaytoolongnow.. but,

The Princess is saved!