Friday night came and went with a short trip into heroic Eternal Palace. We downed two bosses and luck finally found fortune by granting me a 430 dagger-- a nice uplift over my current 415 staff. Unfortunately, I didn't have an offhand, so equipping it would drop my effectiveness level by approximately one Strev. Weapons and offhands are difficult this patch. Basically, we can't craft anything higher than 370 and pvp rewards are on a schedule. You can't just farm conquest/valor or whatever and buy what you want. Terrible design, but it keeps people poking at the Skinner box.
Saturday night I had a work affair to attend, so I wouldn't have an opportunity to continue the push (they downed the 3rd boss for the first time without me then wiped 7 times on Lady Ashvane before calling it quits), so I pugged normal raids.
I want you to picture this. An undergeared warlock who had never been through LFR organizing 30 people who had signed up to "normal EP-- all are welcome". There's no voice chat and he has given assist to literally everyone so they can mark what they need to. We wiped 4 times on the trash leading up to the first boss. On the boss itself only half the people understood the fight and people were randomly placing and removing markers. It was, and I make no exaggeration to the claim, as if the Trade Channel and Barrens Chat had an unholy love child and led it through a dungeon. After the third wipe with 0 progress, one DK said "screw this. I'm going to form my OWN raid. I know what I'm doing. Drop and join." So I did.
Long story short: without voice and with competent leadership and some selectivity of the applicants, the Rando Brigade downed 5 bosses with no more than 3 wipes total. I didn't get an offhand, but I was able to funnel a couple of my drops to people who needed them.
I then ran the raid again through LFR because even a crappy version is better than nothing and hey, it might titanforge or something. No love there either.
That left mythics. Mythics have particularly bad affixes this week-- when things die they "burst" giving players stacking DoTs doing a % of their health per stack, bosses are buffer, and there was some other nasty at the upper levels that made bursting a nightmare. A scan through the dungeon journal showed 4 dungeons have the potential of rewarding an offhand. I picked one (A troll jungle themed one with dinosaurs and suffering) and spammed it. I figured that even if I wasn't great at the beginning, if I kept running the same bosses, I'd get GOOD at it. (For the record, this strat worked.) If it was a level +5 or below, I applied for it and got so. many. rejections. Either beefier people were applying or they knew I was secretly terrible at first. All total I ran this 5 times before my offhand dropped from the end chest. Happy day!
Otherwise, I bought a small chest upgrade from the azurite vendor, hit level 62 with my necklace (we have people with 64 in the guild…yeesh), and got a new trinket from my raiding exploits. My arbitrary strength level is now "426", so yay!
Finally, I clawed my way past 570k gold, then spent 100 of it on more pets. (ALL! THE! PETS!) My menagerie shall be glorious!
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