Nine Muses

On Sunday, I tried to do a random heroic with some friends, only to find that I was inadequately equipped.  This made me sad, of course, and though I had offers of assistance, I stubbornly decided to get adequately geared myself.  I used the LFD tool for the first time ever to PUG.  That instance was the Culling of Strat run I mentioned on Monday.  That didn’t help with gear via drops, though I did get my EoTs.

A little frustrated, I went to work on farming leather (so I could make myself something better later), discussing the situation a little bit with our associated guild folks.  After some good advice about stats to focus on for now (Apparently my hit was disgustingly low, amongst other things.) and which factions had items worth getting, we decided to do the ToC run also mentioned on Monday’s post.  This started the gearing up as the Shoulderpads of the Infamous Knave dropped.

I spent some time on Monday and Tuesday researching the various faction rewards and realized that I could already get two upgrades as the Kirin Tor and Argent Crusade both love me.  I picked up the Lightblade Rivener for my offhand and got a desperately needed cloak upgrade with the Cloak of Holy Extermination.  (Prior to this, I had no idea where the Argent Crusade quartermaster was.  I’d even been in the right camp and missed it.)

After that, I set up a plan.  I would work on my Dragonblight quests, which I was already doing, until I could reach Honored with Wyrmrest Accord, then start the quest chain that would open up the Ebon Blade dailies, and later do the same for the Sons of Hodir.  I was pretty sure that doing these things would allow me to queue for heroics.

Sometime on Tuesday evening, I did reach Honored with the dragons, and bought the Fang of Truth to use as my main hand weapon.  (Yeah, it’s a little fast.  It’ll maybe move to offhand later, depending on what I get between now and some unknown future time.)

I checked the LFD panel at this point, and saw that I was able to queue for heroics — not ICC or ToC heroics, but all the others are available.  As I’ve reached the goal there much sooner than I’d thought possible or than I’d intended, I’m not sure if I’m going on with the rest of the gearing plan or set it aside for now.  I still want that nice sword that the Ebon Blade folks have and they also have some nice chest armor at Exalted.  The Argent Crusade have some pretty boots as well, and the Sons of Hodir have both a nice shoulder enchant and the mining bag pattern.