Wednesday. Your weekly “Over the hump day”. Well we hurdled that hump, and left a few hills in the dust in the process. I think I might have even gotten my “Blahs” shaken off in the after shocks. Well, mostly anyhow. But that’s a blog entry for another day. The first thing we did tonight, was to go pay Sartharion and his little friends a visit. We even left one drake up, just to see if we could. Well, we couldn’t (YET!!) but we ended the drakes life, and killed his boss too. Woot! Badges towards Sara’s Heirloom mace. Then…the fun really kicked into high gear!
That’s me…the rogue, in leather, on the bike. Hawt!! Oh, did I mention this was in Ulduar? We tried it last week and got pretty close, so we went for it again this week, with some knowledge and alot of “RAWR!”. This week I chose to be in the chopper as opposed to the demolisher. Holy Shit batman was that chopper a fun ride. No, seriously, you don’t understand. I HATE vehicle fights. I refuse to do Occulus, and don’t care if I ever see Maly. I’ve hated every. single. vehicle quest. But these choppers? squealing tire around everything dropping oil slicks and being a bigger pain in the ass than a wasp at a pinic? Oh hell yeah! The only thing more epic than that…was one shotting that big old tin can.
Yeah, not so tough now is he? Big old steaming pile of scrap metal. HA! And yes, I forgot to back up and zoom past my toon for the screenshot. Fail. Of course, tonight was epic fail for me anyhow, I’ll share THAT embarassing moment later. Oh!! and between OS and Ulduar, we dropped in and spent a minute destroying Archavon. One of our druids, even got the Grand War Mammoth. Taxi! How awesome is that?? Oh, I got a pretty new shiny too. No more dagger wielding rogue (well, except in stealth for those yummy ambushes). I think I mentioned a few posts ago, that Greed dropped in a Heroic CoS run? Well tonight, I won… Kinetic Ripper. I think I possibly broke my husband’s eardrum with my Squee-ing. Seriously. Awesome! And again, more importantly…an emblem of valor…which is now an emblem of heroism, and closer to that heirloom.
BUT! The night wasn’t over. Oh no. What came next is what makes SD awesome. Not the loot, not the raids, the people. When someone asked on vent about maybe running a heroic, I was about to say “I’m in!” when one of our tanks piped up that I was desperately wanting badges, and let’s see how many we can get! THAT is what makes them awesome. When these guys know someone is working on something, and they can help…they rally up and get to it. Do you know how many heroics we ran? Three. That’s right, after 3 raid runs, we did three heroics. Even my hubby came along on the last one. On the rogue he hasn’t played since he turned 80. We ran Nexus, then Utgarde Pinnacle, then hey, Utgarde Keep is right here…oops we need a dps! Cue me making puppy eyes at the hubby and off we go. I went from needing 38 badges…to needing 14. That is awesome.
It was also awesome watching Hubby play his rogue again. Though at one point I could have lived without the vent/living room stereo effect of “what do you need stealth for?”…lol! Ok, I’m a combat rogue, I can in fact just go smack stuff in the face…err back. Even though my rogue is better geared, and does more damage now, he still beats me at coordination. While I still struggle with getting in position, he’s there from the start. The student has not yet become the master. If he had my gear, he’d kick my ass. I miss him playing that rogue. I do love to watch him work.
Oh, I promised I’d share my embarassing moment. It was just pointed out during heroic Nexus, that Draenei have a tattoo on their foreheads. I mentioned if I had one, it would say “DUH”. That was good for a chuckle.
Not five minutes later, I proved myself right. That’s when I realized, that all through OS, and Archavon, and all the way through the 3rd boss of Nexus, I was happily stabbing things with my UNPOISONED weapons. Here’s your sign Jess! DUH!!
And…to finish up, some achievements!
somehow multishot missed my “Heroic: Utgarde Pinnacle” achievement, but hey…C’est La Vie! And my next project after Sara has her weapon? Get Me To The Choppa!! I gotta have one. It looks damned good on me.
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