Leather Means Dying - A Lot

Leather Means Dying - A Lot

I have to admit that I'm spoiled by Jocy. She wades into a fracas of 4+ mobs with every confidence that they will soon all be dead. She takes on level 100 elites without blinking an eye or letting a curl sneak out from under her helm. Jocy is damned hard to kill, and she recently upped the ante by using steelforged essence to raise her shield armor from i630 to i675.

Hey! Fist yells. Oh, hi Fist. Ahem, sorry. This isn't supposed to be about Jocy, it's about her little pal Fist. Fist was recently welcomed into the level 100 ranks along with Jocy and Wild.

Fist has been on the early quests required to get into the adult pool, so to speak. [Watch it, Jocy, Fist growls]. She took the initial flight to the iron docks, and fought off the mobs and beasties there. It was early morning and there were very few others working the docks. It was a bit dicey, but Fist managed to keep her resurrections to just two. Then Fist hooked up with an alliance player and, working together by alternate tagging of mobs, fought our way to the grapple and the bad guy there. After the dual kill we parted ways.

Fist returned to her garrison, built her first ship, and got orders to sail to Tanaan. The voyage was swift and Fist leaped from the transport and into combat. Despite both Draka and Vivianne at her side, the fights were brutal and Fist started to feel a little out of her depth and under dressed in her leather gear. Still, she succeeded in reaching her goal, the camp of Vol'Mar.

Fist got some minor upgrades in her armor, going from i601 to i614. She loves her dual wielding blades, but dying is something that she is probably going to have to learn to live with. She's working on a few more tricks to protect herself, but windwalker spec (DPS) may not be what she wants to do for a living. Mistweaver healing will be more to her liking should she decide to progress further. That's not something Fist is likely to tell her mother about any time soon, though. Mom wears plate armor like Jocy's. It's just not fair.

Fist hasn't given up on windwalker, though. She may be short of funds to buy gear (sticks her tongue out at Jocy, who sucked up LOTS of gold buying stuff off the AH), and worked out her own plan. She's already crafted the three upgradable pieces of gear that she made herself, and will craft her own truesteel essence to continue to build up that gear. She then had a chance to get a real cheap pair of leggings that had already been bumped up in level. That would go over the three set limit for the gear, however. When Fist saw that a better set of shoulders could replace the crafted ones, Happy relented and provided the funds for both the non-crafted shoulders and the crafted leggings. Total cost for both was way below anything Jocy had bought.

All that manuevering brought Fist's armor rating from i614 to i627. She still has a lot of work to do. Four pieces of gear are still under i600, which is dragging the better gear down. Fist is hoping her enhanced gear will keep her alive a bit longer, and gear from questing and killing will help fill in the gaps.

In the meantime, Happy watches the Auction House warily. All week prices have been falling. Happy has many high end weapon enchants to sell, and he's held off selling even with the drop in prices. Happy is betting (and he usually wins those bets) that there is still a lot of raiding to do and the enchant prices will rise as raiding time gets closer.