Shiny's! Wild's Bountiful Harvest

Shiny's! Wild's Bountiful Harvest

Wild has been monopolizing the Timeless Isle for the past few days. He continues to collect coins, kill elites, and complete the daily and weekly quests. Despite a complete lack of gear upgrades, Wild has been taking on and killing some of the higher level elites. He admits the reason for it is that the easier elite mobs are often totally cleared out for minutes at a time, giving Wild the opportunity to take on other elites that take more time to kill. Wild has gotten very proficient at killing the snakes, for example. It takes rooting the snake a couple times to heal during the fight, but it gets the job done. Wild has also discovered he can kill the elite crabs along the shore, too. They are actually easier than the turtles, which Wild doesn't much like taking on. He even kills the frogs and tigers when nothing else is available. Slow but steady progress. Wild has over 42k coins now, and at about a thousand coins a day he'll be able to buy the trinket he wants in a week or less.

That brings Wild to last night. A few nights ago Wild got a Signet. Using it would give Wild an i496 ring, and Wild has long been frustrated in his efforts to upgrade his pair of i450 rings. Given how long Wild has been after a ring, he wanted to immediately use it. Wild also figured he might never see another Signet (his luck being that bad), so perhaps he should wait a bit on using the Signet until he could get an even rarer Burden of Eternity, which would upgrade his i496 signet into an i535. Patience, hell! is what Wild really thought, but then the Celestial Court came alive and Wild went after whatever of the four elites of the Court were being stalked and attacked. There is a once a week chance that loot drops from the killing of a Court elite. Most of the time nothing drops, and some of the time minor stuff like motes of harmony drop as a consolation prize. Very, very rarely, loot drops. Fist won an awesome i553 pair of gloves the first time she battled a Court elite. Wild had a few words to say under his breath at that.

Last night it was finally Wild's turn to beat chance. Wild won Grievous Gladiator's Band of Cruelty, an i522 ring. It's a pvp ring, but Wild was ecstatic anyway. One of his i450 rings could now be replaced. Wild briefly thought about going ahead and using his signet, upgrading his other i450 ring to i496, but he got sidetracked. Wild wanted to enchant his new ring, and had to hearth back to Orgrimmar to get the mats he needed. While getting that together he noticed a item in his bags he hadn't noticed before. Low and behold, Wild discovered he had a Burden of Eternity. Wild has no idea when that dropped or how long it has been sitting in his bags.

Who cares! Wild knew exactly what to do. Wild used the Burden to upgrade his signet to i535. Then he used his upgraded signet to make an i535 ring. He now has a pair of shiny new rings.

Wild's gear score bumped up to i496. The trinket, when it's ready, should put Wild over the i500 mark. What a night!

PS - Fist's gear score is i491. Wild has a smile on his face today.