A Day to Remember!

What a day I had yesterday!

Firstly, I actually managed to get all the 90s their Celestials kill (a feat unheard of before!). The warlock got her 2 set tier bonus courtesy of some new gloves, and the rogue got tier legs. All the rest got double gold.

I also managed to get my last three runestones for my cloak with minimum fuss, though I did end up doing the last part of Throne of Thunder twice as I had to go back for Lei Shen's heart.

However it was then raid time so I didn't have time enough to finish it before hand.

So we headed into raid with three healers this time, which was a brilliant change. We've been struggling for healers so far so when we have managed to raid have usually only scraped together two healers, which our team isn't quite skilled enough at staying out of bad stuff for yet.

So in we went, killed first boss with almost no issues (though I spent a large part of it dead due to an unlucky swirl spawn right on top of me!). We have first two bosses on farm though so I expected no issues there. I did get some shiny new boots though which was nice!

We headed to the Protectors, and got these down quick enough, and some people got some more shiny loot.

Then we headed towards Norushen, which we'd been having issues with for a couple of weeks - and proceeded to one shot it!

Obviously having an extra healer made a world of difference (and our usual healer is a bit more vocal on vent now and used to lead a heroic team, so his guidance was fantastic as I'm not very good at raid leading myself).

I even remembered to take a screenshot!

Full of good cheer and confidence we headed into the room for Sha of Pride - and proceeded to wipe on the trash like the pro raiders that we are xD

After much laughter and hilarity we settled down to kill the Sha of Pride - and again one shot it! I'm seriously never letting the healers that came go, they are our good luck charms it seems!

Some very shiny loot dropped including a http://www.wowhead.com/item=105223 which was won by our lovely monk DPS (curse you! :p) and one again I forgot to take a kill shot!

We had a few good tries then on Galakras but I think tiredness was getting to us then and we wiped a few times before calling it for the night. An excellent evening for my little team!

So I then headed off to visit the four celestial temples and get their blessing, before having to double back as I went to the wrong temple for the ranged DPS challenge (like a pro!)

After reading a few comments on Wowhead beforehand to prepare myself I found the challenge itself easy enough. Got my epic 600 ilvl cloak and headed off to the Timeless Isle to see about getting the legendary part.

A few other people were on the same bit as me so we all stuck around and killed the Celestials one after the other until we finished our quests, and then headed to the Seat of Knowledge and huzzah! My first ever legendary!

Now if only I could figure out how to turn off the annoying vanity proc!

So a very productive day indeed!

Now on to flex and hopefully we shall kill Garrosh this week!

Summer Apathy.

Its that time of year again when countless people disappear from WoW to spend it outside.

Everything seems to slow down and this year, I even find myself not logging in quite as much as I usually do. I'm not really one for taking huge breaks from WoW.

In fact the only times I've stopped playing have been when Skyrim came out, up until patch 4.3 when I cam back in time for the new heroics, and when Diablo 3 came out, but was still logging in as The Wanderers were progressing through Heroic Dragonsoul at the time.

I've seen plenty of people I've gotten to know over the years burn out and disappear, but its not something I've really experienced myself. I try different things to keep the game fresh (like playing the other faction for the first time, or new alt challenges!), though I have come close towards the end of Cataclysm when everyone got fed up I think.

At the moment, I'm quite happy bumbling along, but I'm bored of end game. I'm not raiding so not really interested in progressing my main or my other 90s any further. My hunter is on the Test of Valor quest and only needs about another 200vp, but I've only done one section of ToT LFR and not been back on her this week yet.

As I see it, I'm not going to be able to reach the end of the questline anyway as I'm not raiding, and I'm actually okay with that.

I've not been able to get any of the other legendaries so why should this expansion be any different? My DK is on the Shadowmourne track, has to go collect souls, but I can't bring myself to actually do it. My Alliance Druid is collecting the embers for the legendary staff quest line, but then I know I don't have the 9k gold she needs for the sands so I won't be doing that one either.

I don't need legendaries to help me enjoy the game, a few shinies here and there, and some vanity items, and I'm easily pleased (tho more bag/bank space to store these would be AMAZING!)