Well I realised that I need to upgrade my welfare epics from ToC as the cheev needs you to have ilevel 213 in all slots.

So I’m quite a way from getting this unless I start puging some 10 & 25 mans.

I did finish up exploring icecrown thos morning, and have come to te conclusion that pvp as Ele with my gear is not a lot of fun. Might dust off the rogue and get him to 80 so I can pvp/gank clothies with him lol

Good night achievement wise, I also dropped a few hundred G on enchants etc.

Been pvp’ing most of evening to get one of the epic totems that are available for honor which will get me the epic achievement.

Not exactly liking pvp tho on the Shammy, but PuG bg’s are never going to be too plesant.

Really looking forward to the new lfg stuff in 3.3 and can’t wait for it to get here. Only hope it’s not for a few weeks so I can get my CoD fix first lol

No deaths and lost the drake roll.

More info to follow ……

As per usual I got bored with the holiday stuff and I am not Hallowed

I’m not fussed, to be honest I’ve not played much WoW recently, other than playing with my 3 year old on my lap solo’ing some dungeons for fun.  To be honest I’m actually having more fun doing this than I have been doing other stuff in game.

Oh and Forza 3 was released a week ago, which has taken up a lot of my time, as will CoD MW2 at the end of next week. 

Looks like WoW is once again about to take a back seat . .

Shoulders dropped in ToC last night after getting in as a healer. 

So glad I didn’t equip the others now!

Still having trouble with the damn BlackKnight fight unless the dps is all above 2k and\or everyone’s around the 17500 HP mark and stands close so I can Chain Heal spam my way through.

Lost a couple of Mages who were one shot from the 2nd Boss Dude, but hey, if they’ve only got 12k health there’s not a great deal I can do really.

All that’s left to upgrade now is Totem\Shield and Trinket.  Going to buy one of the darkmoon cards trinket this evening, as they’re going for 175Gold which I can get from a nights questing with no problems, which will leave just the Totem and Shield left. 

Next post will explore the options for these two slots  . . .  (probably)

Nor trouble exactly but I managed to win these on a late night bid on the AH

Thing is I’m not sure that they’re worth equipping, as I could just run Normal ToC for another couple of days or so and get hold of either of these two

The goblin in me says relist the Eternal Sentinel Shoulders for a 48 hr auction for a few hundred gold more that what I paid for them, and if at the end of the 48hrs they’ve not sold and\or I’ve had the others drop in ToC re-evaluate the situation.

The Sentinel ones look more badass, and have Haste rather than Hit, which in my current state isn’t as attractive (as I’m still a fair way off the hit cap).  They also have more SP and Crit but certainly not 1K gold worth.  The Cloth ones are comparable to the Gnarled Growth Leather ones, but I’d have more competition from Priests\Mages\Warlocks as opposed to Balance\Resto Droods.  I’d sooner not have Cloth but an upgrade is an upgrade, and in theory I’ll not be getting hit !!

I’ll be hoping to grab an upgrade of some description from either Uld10 or ToC10 (normal)

Managed to get all three rings last night in my first round of Headless Horseman kills.  5 People, 5 Summons.  3 Rings for me, 2 lost rolls on the Pumpkin Head and the Magic Broom.

All in all I’m pretty happy, I also got the following Achievements done

This now leaves me with the following Achievements left to do for ‘the Hallowed’ title.

I’m going to do Rotten Hallow this evening, and with the Pumpkin Heads from the HH farm (to try to get the Squashling\Mount(s)) I’ll hopefully have the Check Your Head cheev done as well by tomorrow.  I’m probably going to end up buying the Masquerade wands, as so far after a night of trick or treating I’ve only managed to get 1 Ninja Wand.

I also cleared up Regular ToC, as I grabbed the Abyssal Rune on about my 2nd run. 

I was actually top DPS in the 3 runs after getting this, as I’d already upgraded both my Rings.  I was pulling around 2.5k DPS average throguhout the run, which isn’t bad as there’s some movement in some of the fights, and I had to spot heal a couple of times when the Druid Healer we had (fresh 80, only 12K HP) got one shot.  I think it was the first time I could actually complain about the DPS that the others were putting out (one under 1k and one around 1.5k DPS).

This could mean I’m ready to step up to Heroics . . . . . . .

Still got a Trinket and Shoulders to upgrade, but I can’t see anyway of ‘easily’ doing this without going into Heroic’s or a Raid environment.  Most 10 man PuG’s are asking for the ‘epic’ achievement, and the Raid achievement before they will accept you, which is something that I’m going to struggle with.  Hopefully my guild can help me out with this.

Well I’ve decided that I’m going to actually put some effort into getting the title from the Hallows End event.

Up til now I’ve really not bothered about the whole seasonal events thing (apart from the fire festival when using the RAF Bonus – that was OP and couldn’t be missed).  I didn’t bother with Brewfest at all (as I was trying to trace the last couple of levels to 80) so this is the first one that I’ve been 80 for. 

Plus Mr Headless Horseman also drops two, YES TWO caster epic rings which means i can get rid of two my remaining non epic slots.  The criteria for getting this aren’t too tricky, although I dare say there will be a reliance on the RNG being kind as usual.  The Sinister Squashling could be the tricky one, but hopefully I should be able to get a lot of

From the Headless Horseman loot table, I’m determined to get the following  . . .

These two items are the only real upgrades.  The Pet is a necessity for ‘the Hallowed’ Title

I will grab this if no one else needs it in case I feel the need to go back to Enhancement at some stage.

The other items are just things I’d like to have but I’m not going to worry if I don’t get the drop

With the summon being once a day, a full group can do it 5 times in a row.  I’ll also have the added bonus of being able to (probably) heal it as well, which will make getting into groups that much easier.  I’m looking to do at least 5 a day until I’ve got the two rings and then if I can get more runs to get the Broom\Reins that would be great.  Hopefully while this is all going on, the damn pet will drop (and I’ll win the roll) !

IT TRUE !

Last night I healed ToC (Normal) about 5 times.  First time back healing in a group since MC waaaaaaaaay back in the day.

Didn’t manage a clean run, but the last one the only death was a stupid mage who decided to aggro the 2nd boss and get 2 shotted.  Not my fault, not my problem.

I was in a group when the healer had to log, and when we still hadn’t found a healer after 5 mins I admitted that I had a resto dual spec . . . . .   I did warn the group that I was a n00b when it came to heals, but they were cool (the Hunter wanted his trinket bad, and the Warrior was also after a particular piece of loot) and happy to take a few dirt naps while I got in the groove.

After the first run I played with my bars a bit, moved some spells about.  Changed some low rank heals which were on my bars for max rank (I wondered why RipTide was so lacklustre, then realised it was Rank 1   )

After the first couple of runs I was really enjoying it.  It was nice that I had already seen the various fights in ToC before hand so I knew what to expect, I’m not sure how I would get on in a ‘new instance’ I hadn’t run a bunch of times.

I didn’t get either drop I was after, and although a major upgrade dropped in the form of some cloth shoulders I passed for the nub level 78 Mage who couldn’t dish 1k DPS. 

Still, it was good experience if nothing else

Helped a group of 77 – 78’s through HoL last night.  They didn’t really need my help, but I thought it would be fun and an instance to cross off on Chunder’s list.

Started the run @ 00:05 and were done by 00:45 so not too bad.  I didn’t bother rolling on any of the loot, nor did I watch my threat etc.  I just stood casting as many spells as I could

There was a few hairy moments when we pulled 2 groups and I had to sling a few Chain Heals out but nothing that was too much of a test (which was good as I was almost asleep by this time!).  The group I was with were very friendly and all knew their roles well.  Hopefully they’ll hit 80 in the next couple of weeks and we can join up again on some lvl 80 instances.

Going to try to get a run into Ony 10 tonight\tomorrow with the guild if peeps aren’t locked out.  I need to grab some better rings\trinkets and shoulders as these are my only non epic bits at the moment.  I could do with getting in a couple of Heroics as well, but I’d sooner do that with guildmates to start with before PuG’ing them.

No more updates on the ALTs – possibly going to start the DK’s JC\Inscription Prof’s this weekend depending on how work goes  . . . . .