Thursday (5 Jan) - At Least JB Had Fun

Thursday (5 Jan) - At Least JB Had Fun

JB is having fun doing her dailies and practicing her melee combat skills. She has pretty much cleared Deepholm and has started on Uldum (another zone where she needs to earn faction reputation). Wild had a blast in Uldum, and I hope JB does, too. On the gear front I really thought that JB could take a shortcut via the Auction House, at least up to around the i359 level. Sure, there are some nice BoE pieces that JB would love to have, but Happy has been adamant that the prices are too high. One area where I really thought we could make headway on is her weapons. She dual wields, so she needs two weapons. She's had her current i333 pair of fist weapons for a very long time (given to JB courtesy of Philly's jewelcrafting skills). Now level 85, JB now had her eye on a pair of [Tremendous Tankard O' Terror] maces at i365. The problem was that the sellers refused to drop prices below 2500 gold, and Happy knew - KNEW! - that they could be had for less. Happy couldn't deliver, though, and JB turned to her alliance cousin, Lost.

Lost came to the rescue, securing two tankards at 950g each on the Alliance AH. It was a lucky stroke, too, because shortly after making the purchases four more tankards went up for sale at over 2k gold each.

JB now had her new weapons, an upgrade that jumped her gear score from i321 to i325. She wasn't, done, though. The two weapons still needed enchants. JB's fist weapons had been enchanted with Avalanche, a good enchant for melee shamans, but not the best. Avalanche could be had for under a 100g. The best weapon enchant for JB's weapons, though, is Landslide. Landslide enchants cost 2,000 gold each on the AH. Did enchanter Wild have that recipe? No, Wild didn't. But for five Maelstrom crystals (about 750g) he could buy the enchant from the local vendor in Orgrimmar. The mats for that enchant, though, were very expensive as well. When all was said and done, Wild got his new enchanting spell, and used his own mats to craft JB a pair of Landslides. Happy calculated the total cost at 3200g, plus 750g for the recipe, or almost double what the weapons themselves cost. JB is grinning from ear to ear.

Wild's fun ended when he finished helping JB. The Thursday evening scheduled raid with Lady Hunter never got off the ground, and Lady Hunter never showed up. Wild has to admit that there is no G2/Lady Hunter/Bd raid anymore (Bd having not been seen in more than a week). Wild also has to admit that the Mf led G1 raid has no spot for him, either. Mf has a solid core of raiders, and I give them credit for getting in their two-nights a week raids. They don't have much to show for it, though. They spend their first night still trying to kill Ragnaros in the Firelands. The second night is in Dragon Soul, where they have yet to kill the second boss.

Wild is going to be looking for a PUG DS 10 or 25 over the weekend.