JB remained front and center so far this week. She picked up an i333 pair of pants from the last Lost City run on Monday night, and Happy came up with an affordable i359 necklace to go along with it. The new gear improved her gear score to i346. Enough had changed that she had to do another full reforge.
JB is thinking about trying to get into a Baradin Hold raid. She has the gear level for it, but raid leaders probably won't let her into their raid since higher geared DPSers are plentiful. JB is also not hit capped yet. However, she might be able to achieve that another way. More on that when JB tries it out. She needs to go kill some dragons, first.
Later ... Ok, JB had a plan on how to improve her +hit so that she could sneak past PUG raid leaders to get into a Baradin Hold (BH) raid. First, she would swap out her +agi trinket for a +hit trinket. Then she was going to use a +hit elixir (which she can already make herself) and eat +hit buff food. The buff food is where hunting dragons come in. In Deepholm there are dragons that drop the meat that JB needs.
JB didn't have the recipe for the buff food, but she still had a few tokens she could use to buy it. That's when JB hit her first snag. Her Cooking skill had to be at least 500 to be able to use the recipe. JB was at 474. Ok, that meant doing some fishing to skill up. The best place to fish for the type of fish she could use for skill ups are in the Twilight Highlands. That's when she hit her second snag. For reasons that will probably never be known, JB had not completed the quests that opened the portal from Orgrimmar to the Twilight Highlands. How could that be? JB went in search of quests I might have missed - the Bulletin Board on Org didn't have the starter quest. Our great leader Grommash didn't have any quests for TH, either. Those were where JB would have had to have started from, so it was likely she had already done those.
There were a series of quests in Azshara that were tied to the opening of the portal, so JB went looking there, but no luck, either. Finally, JB traveled all the way to the Twilight Highlands the long way. At Dragonmaw Port JB discovered two quests that she had neglected to do, "Cementing our Victory" and "Muddied Waters." Once JB completed those quests, the portal on the Highlands side opened up, allowing JB to portal back to Org, and also sent her to Grommash. Once JB talked to Grommash, the Org portal opened as well. Twilight Highlands was now completely open to JB.
I guess JB had better get her fishing pole and some worms and get to work.
But wait! While JB was mucking about in TH, the Horde has captured Tol Barad. Baradin Hold was open! On the trade channel someone started up a raid. He wanted a 25 man. JB had to make a quick decision. Did she have time? JB raced to the Alchemist shop for some bottles to make her +hit elixir. She couldn't make her +hit food, but she dashed to the Auction House to see if any were for sale. They were. JB bought a stack. Then JB had to race to the bank to grab her +hit trinket.
JB's +hit was still not capped, but it was a lot closer than it was sixty seconds ago. JB asked for an invite to BH25. The invite came, and JB accepted. It was a ten man. Well, the good news is that JB got accepted into the raid. The question was whether she could do enough DPS in a ten man to get the boss down. Looked like JB was going to find out.
Wild whispered tips into JB's ear as she readied herself for battle. When the boss, Alizabal, casts Seething Hate, collapse together as a group. When the boss starts the Blade Dance, stay far, far away. Follow those tips or die.
The battle started, and JB happily whaled away at the boss, not really caring anymore about her +hit or her ticking totems or the feral spirits she'd dropped to rip and tear at the boss. JB was in a CATA RAID! JB remembered all her spells, and even dropped her fire elemental once the boss was below 50%. Bloodlust also came in handy. Two good healers kept us going, and Alizabal died.
The Proof of JB's First Cata Boss Kill
No shaman gear dropped. That was probably asking for too much, but JB checked anyway.
As for her DPS, JB was ecstatic that she WASN'T LAST! Here is how the DPS shook out:
#1: 26.7k, 19.1%
#2: 23.5k, 16.8%
#3: 22.9k, 16.4%
#4: 21.1k, 15.1%
#5: 14.9k, 10.6%
#6: 11.3k, 8.1% (!!!! JB !!!!)
#7: 11.1k, 8.0% (LAST! poor feral druid)
Killing Alizabal was an absolute blast! And Wild can no longer claim that he's the only raider in the family. :-D
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