busy weekend

funny what a little car trouble will lead to. we'd originally planned to go play in the snow last weekend, but ended up staying home and playing a lot of WoW instead. and we were productive! we started our kara key quest and got our first fragment from Shadow Labs. in preparation for the last step of that quest line, we finally ran Caverns of Time: Durnholde. aside from just being a fun instance to begin with, this also got us some of the best pre-raid shadow priest gloves, [Tempest's Touch], available as a quest reward. a couple of gems later and these lovelies are worth 45 spell damage!

next up, we finally whacked Zuluhed and opened up the Netherwing dailies. you know the old saying, "it takes money to make money"? the Netherwing dailies could be the poster child for that expression. it takes 5000g (plus assorted repair bills) to open up them up. however, the money pours in once you start doing them. each daily quest is worth at least 12g. the vendor trash you pick up along the way, especially from the quests in the mines, also sells quite well; 2-3g per stack of things like broken fangs or slime. it's pretty easy to bring in 100g just by doing a handful of these quests.

after our second round of dailies and a couple lucky [Netherwing Egg] drops we hit friendly rep and opened up what is, quite possibly, the best daily quest ever: The Booterang: A Cure For The Common Worthless Peon. teh [Booterang], we haz it. we lovez teh [Booterang]. true story.

anyway, from there we went and joined up with a Shattered Halls group. we had 3 quests for SH in our log still and wanted to clean 'em out. conveniently for us, no one in the group had the key but we were on the last stage of the key quest! so, we went off and spanked hellfire's resident Fel Reaver and we got our [Shattered Halls Key]. the run itself went pretty well, except for a 15 minute pause mid-way through where we had to find a replacement tank. picked up some new healing gear from quest rewards, the [Runesong Dagger] off the ogre boss (nice boost for us, since we were still using our [Battle Mage's Baton]) and [Pattern: Spellstrike Hood] off the first boss. the pattern is especially timely as we were planning on having this item made for us this week. now we have to decide if we want to farm the primal nether ourselves (we were sooo close to winning the roll for one last night) or buy someone else's.

all in all, not a bad weekend.