Cairessa had her first Kara run with her new guild last night. It was a totally different experience than what I’m used to, but it was also very cool to see things done differently. Each boss fight was a little different than what I’ve been used to, but just as successful. We hit 7 bosses in 4 hours.

Group makeup: We ran with only 2 healers, and only one was a priest. The other was a resto shammy. Both were great.

Attumen…well ok that one wasn’t different, I mean how many ways can one kill this guy?

Moroes: We had ONE shackle. This meant three adds go down before Moroes. I trapped the holy pally at the far left back corner of the room (near the main table), the other hunter trapped the MS Warrior at the far right, we burned down the spriest, then both traps, then Moroes. We lost the priest once, but luckily for us we had a Laser Chicken of Doom to toss him a battle rez.

Opera: Big Bad Wolf. Not much different here, except I now now as a hunter I can get out of the LRRH debuff by feigning death, as long as it isn’t resisted. It didn’t happen to me though. Basically we did the same as I’m used to. Ranged DPS stage right, tank and BBW stage left, kill kill kill. He did not drop my gun. Bad Wolf, no cookie. Also on the usher pulls going into the hall, hunters were asked to turn growl on, keeping their threat above the squishies should a tank get iceblocked. I had to double check to make sure my ears weren’t failing me when they said Growl On…lol

Maiden with no pally and two healers. this is the boss I’m used to skipping if we don’t have a pally in the group. But these guys pulled it off, and she, like every boss that night dropped caster gear, or plate it was a theme…lol!

Curator: Not much different here either except for positioning, the big news with his death was my hunter getting her T4 gloves!! Woot!

Shade of Aran: This guy talks more than any NPC I have ever seen. I swear, “I want this nightmare to be over” Well news flash, we do too so just DIE! Pretty much the same plan here as I’m used to, except instead of running out to the nearest wall for the arcane explosions, we all ran to the door so the healers could top everyone off.

Nightbane: I don’t know what we did different on this guy, because I think I’ve only had one attempt on him before this. Basically stayed to one side of the terrace, or the other so we had room to move away from charred earth. Toss slowing traps as he takes off in the air and burn down the skellies. Happy to say he died on our second attempt.

Of course you know if I was there I had to have a mishap right? I sent Whispurr after a mob in the pulls right before Moroes, just as that mob died. I did it with just the right timing that he went to the next nearest mob and pulled another group. Seriously wanted to crawl under the stairs at that point. But noone killed me for it, and noone died thank God.

It was a fun run, everyone was great. Which is very much what I’m used to on my priest. No differences there:)

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We have boots. We accepted that our SGB’s (stupid green boots) were not as bad as we thought. I was all Zen with the SBG’s as a matter of fact. So sayeth BRK, so let it be done. He’s after all the H&R block of the hunter world. He speaks, we listen. And apparently, the loot gods do too! We now have Fiend Slayer Boots. The name just rolls off the tongue doesn’t it? Funny thing, I wasn’t figuring on going to Kara. I was on standby, there were plenty of DPS. The run got put on hold due to lack of healers. When it picked back up, I was invited. Yay me! We ripped through shade, I can’t tell you how satisfying it was shooting him in various body parts with fast pointy projectiles (Engineer made of course!)! As a shadow priest, I can’t really cast in motion, but you bet your booty I can as a hunter! Whispurr laid the smackdown on him while I pewpew’ed til he qq’ed and dropped Drape of the Dark Reavers. A cloak worth showing, beautiful dark wine color. Hey, don’t laugh, looks count too! It’s why we have the show/hide helm and cloak options. Blizz knows danged well there are some clunkers! And yes, yes there is now a +12 agi enchant included, still working on the boot enchant.

This is where Jess becomes a ditz yet again. I’m really surprised they trust me with my own weapons sometimes. I carry 4 weapons in my bag. A Crystalforged Waraxe, desperately enchanted with savagery, to boost my RAP a bit. and of course the plus 50 stam for health, I generally carry Stellaris and Ceds carver, and I also got Hellforged Halberd…well because I could, and it has +hit. I also got the SSO neck from exalted rep. I sat there after kara working out my best +hit set. I’m a draenei hunter. This is where Jess the Dipshit enters. For months I’ve griped that Heroic Presence effects my party, but not me. Why? because I can’t see it in my buffs. ELUNE FORBID I read the stupid racial text. “extra 1% hit to YOU and all party members in 30 yards”. /headdesk . This means instead of 9% to hit cap, I need 8%. I’m sitting at 7.42%. This explains why on the prince fight I only missed 2 steady shots and 1 auto. I’m happy with my hit…I think it’s a safe number, and if I get a little more great, but I’m not going to obsess about it. Much. Really.

I’m very glad I chose to spend time on my hunter between the priest (semi-retired now) and the druid getting to 70. I’m really enjoying her, it’s brought life into the game again. I don’t know how, or why I got into the attitude that I didn’t want to play her. I do enjoy her, even the complications that come with the class. You know, the ones you don’t see while you are zooming level to level. The ones some hunters never learn to handle. Pet management (get that cat away from nethersprite while he banishes, and away from shade before the arcane explosion!, turn growl off and passive is your friend! Save that healer dash/growl/intimidate) , trapping (love trapping with my 2 beastlord pieces), it’s fun. I am out of denial. Sure my druid may wait a while, but that’s ok. I’m playing again. Not just phoning it in.

We also have a wish list. I need a bit of shattar rep, so might as well work on that Beast Lord Cuirass. I’m 4 badges away from Steadying Bracers. After those, we want the Shifting Camo pants and warfeathered loop belt. We like ignoring armor, this makes steady shot even nicer. WTB bigger steady shots! And badges let us do that. Maybe…maybe we’ll even get the Sunfury bow, legacy would be nice, but I want that bow. Although I adore my Lohn’goron, Bow of the Torn-heart for it’s beautifully done storyline, and flavor text…more damage would be good.

Randomly…prince also dropped a very nice ring. I had to roll against my hubby for it. He rolled an 85, I rolled…1. That’s right, a ONE! That man is lucky I love him. I tried the sad wifey face but…he resisted. I apparently need some more spell hit.

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