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So the family's off to the Twilight marathon, and I've done my required job search for unemployment. Putting this up and then spending the day doing some serious Warcraft, by Arthas.
Here's the Team Kaels and challenge dungeon report:
Team Kaels has had a few problems in the past week; one of our core raiders, Ashblade, is encountering real life problems and hasn’t been available to raid with us. We skipped a raid night last week, but this week we were determined to run. Snuffy stepped up to the plate and offered to offtank on his newly-90 warrior. In a tremendous exhibition of group effort, we all gathered on the platform outside Mogu’shan Terrace and pooled our collective resources to push up his gear level and get him fully enchanted. We popped him into a new chest plate, shield, belt, trinket, cape, and I’m not sure what else.
He went on to prove that we were justified in our faith in his abilities, ably tanking Stone Guards, Feng, and Gara’jal with only a few wipes, most of which were easily attributable to our ditzy main tank.
In challenge mode dungeon news, we don’t have any successes to report. My system decided to crash on Monday while we were right in the middle of a very good silver-level attempt on Gate of the Setting Sun. Had to do a full reinstall of the game in order to get back into working order. Grr. Hopefully we’ll be able to put in more attempts and start accumulating medals soon.
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Had a good time with the guild LFR with the Saturday Night Massacre after the Spank the Sha of Anger world boss event. Got a bunch of gear and my DPS didn't suck too badly.
Did take the opportunity to download and install two "situational awareness' addons: TidyPlates and GTFO. GTFO just makes alert noises when I am, or about to, stand in bad. Being a DK, sometimes I can take a little more standing in bad than other classes thanks to Anti-Magic Shell. Nevertheless, the alert tells me when to pop the shell or flee depending on cooldown. Light, simple, and I'm taking less damage.
TidyPlates tracks threat by changing the color, texture, and size of the nameplates as I gain threat on things. It also tracks my DoTs per mob. Let me repeat that: It tracks my DoTs, putting counters on my target's nameplate where I'm looking, and updates for each new target as I tab select. This is so handy I may take the disease trackers off my rune mod.
Here, let's see what's in the GV thanks to Mahuae's Tab Eight Report:
Tab 8 Report:
Engraved Broadaxe of the Galeburst, lvl 88
Ghost-Forged Shoulders of the Sentinel, lvl 85 plate
Inlaid Mace of the Windstorm, lvl 87
Mountain Gauntlets of the Monkey, lvl 87 mail
Mountain Helm of the Galeburst, lvl 87 mail
Mountain Legguards of the Windstorm, lvl 87 mail
Mountain Vest of the Windflurry, lvl 87 mail
Shadowfire Necklace of the Windflurry,lvl 85, ilvl 415
Swamp Britches of the Monkey, of the Marksman, lvl 86 leather
Swamp Gloves of the Marksman, lvl 86 leather
Swamp Waistband of the Marksman, lvl 86 leather
Thresher Bindings of the Stormblast, lvl 87 leather
Thresher Jerkin of the Undertow, lvl 87 leather
Yak Helm of the Monkey, lvl 88 mail
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That's all I have this week.
For the Horde!