So.. this morning, Systine, Nightcreep and I picked up 2 others and went to do the Headless Horseman.  Some freshly prot pally (that I guess Nightcreep knew) and a hunter were the two we picked up.  I didn’t pay close enough attention to Ooga (the hunter) saying he had done it earlier today already or I would have kicked him.  Short story, the Sinister Squashling pet dropped twice.. we all decided to need it (as fair to prevent ninjas) and he doesn’t win the first one.. he curses.  Two summons later and it drops again!  I’ve done about 40 summons of HHM and haven’t seen the pet yet that I can remember.  Or the horse..booo.  I win that Squashling though!

Ooga’s mad again.  Cussing that he’s been at it 80 times and hasn’t gotten it.  Now Ooga has the Bloodsail Admiral’s title.. that tells you he’s a freak at getting the vanity stuff and collecting things.  The grind for Bloodsail Admiral title has to have been in the top two absolute most mind numbing grinds ever..  Not being Alliance, I can’t speak for the Spectral Tiger mount rep grind but I’ve heard it’s beyond ridiculous too.

Anyhoo.. he’s pissed because he’s coming to the realization that, as he said that he’s never going to get the damn pet.  I agreed and said “probably not.”  Then it dropped that 2nd time and I won it lol.  It was then that we realized that he couldn’t do the summons because as he had said, he’d already done it today.. bastard.  I don’t remember exactly if he said he had three manned it “earlier today” or “before”.. he probably did inform us and figured we didn’t care and just wanted him there for the DPS…. NOT.  Was all of our fault for not paying closer attention to chat I guess.  Don’t get me wrong.. he didn’t get pissy with anyone in particular.. or come across (too much) that he deserved it because he’s done it 80 times and hasn’t gotten it.. just pissed at missing out it seemed.

Sooo.. now that I have the developers roadblock to everyone being able to get “the Hallowed” title.. I’ve got to start in on all the other little requirements of the achievement.  They removed the 20 masks requirement (almost impossible too) or said they are going to.  Lots of running around for Rossa now next few days.  I need you guys to save at least one charge of your costume rods for me please please please please!  The random one doesn’t count.

Other news.. Jobu’s inscription is 340something.. and have thrown a ton more glyphs into the guildbank (3rd page) along with Threecard putting em in there too.  Herbs are still incredibly overpriced and I sometimes kick myself for doing inscription instead of just making another 2k+ on the herbs I bought so cheap a month and a half ago anticipating inscription.  That was my intention, just to sell the stuff.  Nobody else said if they were gonna be a scribe though and I had the herbs (really cheap).  I still made about 1,200 gold profit on the stuff I had too many of after skilling up.  I mean herbs are just stupid expensive.  What was 50 silver stack of herbs would sell for 50 gold.  Stuff that was 2g per stack of twenty would sell for 70g.. absolutely insane.. it hurt me to keep milling them for ink LOL.

So in my infinite wisdom, I decided not to try out the new 51 point talent in Demonology with the free respec in order to obtain the new talents in the Destruction tree. After a couple of days with nobody wanting to run heroics, for plenty of different reasons, I decided to go ahead and fork over the gold to check out the new talent of Metamorphosis. Sure he looks cool, and it’s nice to see my old felguard buddy again, but I just can’t seem to find any real “need” for this talent….or tree for that matter. I loved having the felguard while solo questing while leveling, but I had no idea what I was missing out on in the way of dps. I’ll admit it, I’ve become the dps whore that you hate to be grouped with. You all know the guy. He is constantly broadcasting the damage meters and giving the other dps group members crap about keeping up and telling the tank to “grab him” once he pulls aggro. Yeah, yeah…..Thatguy! I can’t help it! I love to blow sh!t up! It’s FUN! Anyhow, I digress. The metamorphosis give you 30 seconds to be a demon (supposedly Illidan) in which time you still have function over your summoned demon, still have the ability to cast damage spells, and three stance specific (yes metamorphosis is a stance) talents: Demon Charge, Demon Growl, and Cleave. Demon Charge is pretty self explanatory in the fact that you, well, charge your target stunning him for 1.5 seconds. Demon Growl taunts all mobs within 10 yards. (yes..a cloth wearing toon given the talent to pull every mob around you) Cleave hits your target and two nearby mobs for 110 shadow damage with a six second cooldown. It should be noted that in “demon form” warlocks get a 600% armor boost, but really, what is 600% cloth armor? ONE PLATE BRACER! Now you may set up the argument that one can still cast ranged spells from this form. That’s correct, but why waste the global cooldown of casting the spell if you’re planning on casting in the first place? Another might bring up the fact that 30 seconds is plenty of time to melee down 1-2 equal or lower level mobs. Fine….if you have a weapon designed for that! My staff kicks a decent amount of ass. I have 250 spell power on it! And a whopping 69 dps melee! So just how long does it take to get the center of a tootsie roll pop? Just long enough to expire your 30 seconds in “demon form” and be stuck trying to melee one, or more, mobs…..IN CLOTH! Sure he looks cool, but I’m re-rolling destruction.

Thatguy

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.

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