it's that time again

meet Yarzill the Merc. ain't he pretty? when you hit exalted with the Netherwing faction Lord Illidan pops over for a little chat and reveals you for the traitorous wretch you really are. Yarzill here swoops in to rescue you from certain death and dismemberment at the hands of a very upset orc overlord. he then flies you off to shat in a victory lap of sorts and drops you off in front of all the netherwing drakes in lower city. you get your shiny new drake for free by talking to the one you want (you can buy the other colors later from a vendor back at the dragonmaw camp for the usual 200g fee).


we went with [Reins of the Violet Netherwing Drake]; thought it matched up nicely with shadowform. took us 11 days this time around (opened up the dailies on mar 1, hit exalted last night on mar 11), which is about 3 days faster than it took harl. the human Diplomacy racial definitely makes a big difference when it comes to rep grinding (25 to 55 more rep for each quest). the rest of the difference is probably due to better luck with finding [Netherwing Egg]s; we found at least 1 and as many as 5 each time we were doing the dailies.

we'll probably continue to do a few of the less tedious netherwing dailies as they're a great source of cash. we made 100-150g a day doing just the dailies, not counting any drops or herbs we picked up along the way. we're back up to about 3400g now and much of that can be credited to dailies. now we just have to figure out what to do next... it feels weird to not have a specific goal we're working towards.

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Kara!

Z finally got his kara key saturday and we had a chance to go play in KZ last night with our old guild. it was a last minute "hey, we think we're going to raid tonight. wanna come?" kinda thing, so it was a little rough around the edges. we made a mad dash to the AH on the way to the meeting stone to stock up on consumables and realized that we'd never really thought about caster consumables before. ended up buying some [Elixir Major Mageblood] (which was a mistake, but Harl can use 'em later), the [Schematic: Mana Potion Injector] for Harl (finally!), some [Superior Wizard Oil] (thought about going for [Superior Mana Oil] instead, but thought we'd try it without first and see what the mana situation was like) and a couple old-school [Flask of Supreme Power]s (they were way cheap compared with [Flash of Pure Death] and it's only a 10 point difference in spell damage). once we were fully raid buffed we were looking at +918 shadow dmg. mmmm, tasty. was even better when we brought in a shaman later on and had a Wrath of Air Totem at our disposal; zomg +1019 shadow damage! we wish that's what our stats looked like normally...

as far as the run went, it wasn't bad. they had cleared through morose on a previous night, so we started with maiden and then went on to opera (wizard of oz), curator, shade & chess; they all went down on the first shot. it wasn't always pretty, but we got the job done. prince was a different story. we made four attempts and never got him below about 40%. not really sure why he was so much trouble, but last night was just not our night for prince pwnage.

but what about "teh phat lewtz"?! we thought we'd be sitting pretty, being the only dps clothie in the raid (no mages or warlocks), but the loot gods decreed that it would be all healie gear, all the time. meh. we ended up with a couple bits of it anyway; the [Blue Diamond Witchwand] because none of the other healers needed it and the [Ribbon of Sacrifice] due to a very unfortunate error by the master looter. we still feel pretty bad about that, but at least it'll come in handy if we end up having to heal our way through the arcatraz again. we also picked up our first 10 [Badge of Justice]s. now we have to figure out what to save up for...

speaking of healing arc... never. again. we ended up going in as a healer because we really, really wanted our 3rd kara key fragment and putting together a group was like pulling teeth. we ended up with a prot warrior, 2 rogues, an elemental shaman and a shadow priest in healing gear (a little over +900 heals at the time). it actually went better than we expected it to, partly because the tank was awesome and also due to the shammie backing me up with a couple extra heals when pulls got hairy (that guy was on top of his shit. we love playing with people like that!). we did have one wipe right before the 2nd boss (damn you, aoe silence!), but all the bosses went down on the first try. that said, it was ZOMG STRESSFUL!!!1! we don't know how you full-time healers do it. we spent the entire run staring at health bars; praying they would stop going down and start going back up. one of our resto druids friends told us that she doesn't even know what the inside of most instances look like because all she does is watch health bars. bleh. major props to all you healers out there, but it's definitely not our bag.

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