Battlegrounds: Dinner is Served!

I decided to spend yester evening wrapping up the Dinner Impossible achievement, which requires that you serve a Great Feast in each battleground (not counting IoC).  I had already done Arathi Basin over the weekend, so last night I did each battleground one by one.  Every single one was a loss.

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Gearing Up

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.

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Achievement Spam

Despite having company this weekend, I managed to earn a number of achievements.  I didn’t do much, or it doesn’t feel as if I did.  I did my usual Argent Crusade and Frenzyheart dailies.  I did a little PvP.  I ran through a few instances.  I saw a fair number of achievements explode onto my screen.

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Eighty Times Two

As implied by, but not stated explicitly in yesterday’s post, Sera has reached level 80.  The last time I had two characters at cap was right before BC came out, and one of them was shelved so it barely counts.  These last levels flew by.  Again, I managed at least two levels over the course of a week, most of it on the weekend.  Daily quests made up a good chunk of the experience, I think, and the push to finish the Valiant stage of the Argent Tournament (the first one, at least) as well as get to the point where I can do the Frenzyheart dailies seemed to be much if not all of the last level.

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On Being a Rogue and the Things It Makes Me Do

I’m in love and I feel guilty about it.

I’ll explain, but we’ll have to step back in history a bit.  When I started Sera, it was largely out of frustration.  I’d been playing on an RP-PvP server and my solo character (not a good idea on a PvP server) was a mage.  Mages are very squishy.  Extremely squishy.  Maximally squishy.  I was tired of getting ganked.  I needed revenge.  Who is best at ganking the gankers?  A rogue!  And so, Sera was born.

That PvP beginning has flavored everything about her.  Her spec, the one I used for leveling, has always been focused on disabling the opponent and surviving the fight.  Maximum DPS suffered so that maximum survivability could benefit.

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