Internet Woes

Hi again,

Just a very brief update to say that my internet has been connected, but is STILL not working. It seems they have given me the wrong username/password to connect to it. GAH!

As an aside, I had a GREAT Christmas and am looking forward to New Year! Although yesterday I had one of my wisdom teeth removed, I feel great :)

Also, can't remember if I mentioned this or not, but my Guild has dropped all available 10-man content and is building up toward the 20-man content.

ARG! How could I forget?! My account got HACKED! I suspect it was when I checked my auctions at a mate's place; I think one of his mods has a keylogger on it. As I was away and had no internet, I couldn't report it. Luckily, Blizz stepped in and suspected my account was compromised and reset my password for me and restored my toons. YAY! I will have to wait until my 'net is working to double-check (NOT using my friend's computer again!) and my Guild is already aware that is WASN'T ME that raided the Guild Bank :S I'm hopful that Blizz will be able to retore the stolen items as well.

That's it for now.

Reincarnate

Good morning all.

It has been a long time since I've posted here on the blog. There are a many number of good and valid reasons for this, but I will not prattle on. Instead, I will move straight to the juice, so to speak, and give an overview of what has been happening in the life of Raitin between April and now.

First of all, I have not stopped playing WoW. Not once. Since my last fateful post of attempts on The Curator (oh how that seemed so long ago) many things have happened for my little in-game friend:

My Guild broke up. Won't go into details, but basically people stopped showing up and/or caring. So I followed another (ex)guildie to another Guild that happened to need a Rogue and was running Kara. The Guild is Nexus. After about two weeks, we were clearing Kara without a problem. We got a second team running. We had 25 people willing to take it up a notch, so we started on TK.

As you may be aware, TK (imho) has a higher learning curve than SSC, but we were committed. After a few weeks of wiping on Al'ar, we decided to take the fight to Void Reaver and Solarian. Both went down in the first week without a hitch. We had those two on farm and continued attempts on Al'ar while we decided to branch out into SSC.

After around four weeks, we had everything except Vashj on farm. Things were looking sweet, people were getting geared, we had a dedicated team, life was good. We started working on MH. We downed Winterchill and had attempts on Anetheron(sp). At this point we were very close to our 'sister-Guild', Tempest, and many of our member were getting taken on their BT farm-nights. Myself included.

Then something happened. "The Nerf" happened. As you are no doubt aware, just before WotLK, Bliz decided to drop the HP on all Raid Bosses by around 30%. Needless to say, this made things much easier for everyone. Now we had everything up until Azgalor in MH on farm, excluding Kael'Thas in TK and Vashj in SSC, but Tempest was happy to take our guys on their farm-nights. I was a 'regular' in both Guilds, learning the content, getting geared and most importantly, having fun. I can now say I have cleared all pre-WotLK content except Sunwell. We did attempts on the 1st boss, but no such luck.

Now Wrath of the Lich King has arrived. In the month that it has been out, I've reach level 80, replaced a few of my 70-Epics and am running Heroics almost non-stop. Nexus has started raiding Naxx10 with two groups, but I am not a part of either group YET. My wife and I have just purchased our first home and my internet STILL hasn't been reconnected. I'm typing out this blog at work, by the way.

I'm also going away for Christmas with my wife to sunny Queensland, but I'm hoping that by the time I get back, my internet will be connected and I'll be back full-swing into WoW-mode. Just a few more minor-upgrades from Heroics and Rep and I'll be fit to jump straight into Raiding. I can't wait!

Well, that's the story so far. I actually will try update this blog as exciting stuff happens. Speaking of which, I'm no longer Fist spec. After BT I was Mace spec for a while, but since I hit 80 I am currently Sword spec, as they are easier to come by. Assassination doesn't thrill me that much; I'm a Combat Rogue all the way! After we start running Naxx25, I'm hoping Kel'T drops a little present for me...... Look it up on WoWHead: Calamity's Grasp. Then I'll be all over Fist/Dagger like a fat kid on a cupcake!

Peace.

Kara Progress & A New Objective to The Quest

Ok, so last night I had some RL stuff to take care of before I could just on WoW. I got home at around 8:15, which didn't seem so bad as the night before we started Kara at 8:30. As soon as I jumped onto Vent, before I'd even logged it, Averie screamed "Raitin! Where have you been?!". Not such a great start. "Didn't Magikstix tell you I was going to be late tonight?". "He isn't on either!". Oh dear. For clarification, Averie is out Druid MT and Raid Leader. Magikstix is a RL friend of mine that shot me the invite to the guild.

So 30 seconds after logging in, I'm shot a Raid invite and I'm flying my way back to Kara. I'm there before they get a chance to summon me. We had a few bits of trash to clear, then we were going to attempt the Opera Event. Oh the drama!

We start-reset’d the event to see what we were going to get. Wizard of Oz was our draw for the night, no biggie. After a quick run-down of the strat for the 1st timers, we began. Dorethee goes down, Tito goes down, Strawman goes down, Roar goes down and finally Tinhead goes down. All no deaths and no issues. Crone spawns and Averie picks her up. There were a few shaky moments where chain lightning almost took out a few people (me included!) but we dropped her. A very successful 1st attempt at Opera for mostly Kara-nubs. No Rogue drops from this even, but I did get 2 badges.

Ok, now the really exciting stuff starts.

We took the back door and cleared the few trash to The Curator. We had decent heals and dps, so we were confident. 1st attempt starts and we were still getting used to the fight, so we wiped after the 1st evocation. Ok, so now everyone has the hang of it.

2nd attempt was the clincher. Everything was running like clockwork. Flares are dropping like flies, we are beating Curator's face in. Magikstix dies at around 6%. Averie tries to do a battle rez while Curator is Evocating, but things just didn't get timed quite right. Evocation stops and Averie is killed! DPS goes all out on Curator. 5%.......4%.......4%......2%...... People are dying left and right. 1%. I pop evasion, fearing the worst. Curator comes to me. Dodge, dodge, dodge. 0.0001% (I assume haha) and my evasion wears off. Wipe on 1%. "Nooooooooooooooooo!" goes the cry on vent. Oh well, we rez, repair, rebuff and have another go.

On the 3rd attempt, we were missing Magikstix's DPS and had trouble downing the Flares in time to pound on Curator. We wipe at around 19%. As soon as we dropped Curator below 20%, his 10-minute enrage timer ticked as well as his scripted enrage and we lasted all of 3 seconds. Ouch.

So now the 'what if' section. What if I had of popped my evasion 3 seconds later, before he started attacking me? What if Melee DPS had of ignored the last Flares during Evocate and pounded on Curator? These are things best left lying. Although I WILL be suggesting to the Guild that melee DPS ignore the final Flares before Evocation and hit on Curator. Even missing 1-2 melee DPS, 20 seconds should be plenty of time for 3-4 ranged dps to drop a Flare. It will help our overall dps and help us miss that nasty 10-minute timer!

Well, if anyone else has any suggestions, please let me know via a posted comment, or drop me a tell/mail in game. You should all know the name and server by now (if not, look slightly to the right of this page...). Take it easy everyone.

P.S. I TOTALLY forgot to tell you guys about the 'New Objective to The Quest' I was talking about. I plan on saving up my BoJ's and getting the new Fist Weapons from the vendor in IoQD. They are sexy! That is all.

Changing Guilds, starting Karazhan & 1/2 the quest completed!

Hello again and welcome to the next instalment in The Quest For Fist!

First and foremost, I'm not going to apologise for not posting as often as I should, or not updating the site as I said I would. It will happen, eventually, just got other things on my mind lately.

I have gotten over my 'meh' attitude with WoW, not sure what cured it, but one day I logged into my Rogue and did all the new daily quests we had unlocked on IoQD and it was fun. So I did it again. And again. I have not touched any of my alts, because although I thought they were helping, I have a feeling that they may have contributed to my downfall before.

So where to begin?

I left my guild the other day, it had all but disbanded anyway, so why wait? I /gquit without saying goodbye. There hadn't been anyone online in my guild for days anyway, so no one to say goodbye too.

Yesterday, a RL friend of mine told me he had just joined a brand new Guild, fresh from the oven so to speak. They started less than a week ago and it was for starting fresh in Karazhan. 'Excellent' I said and got the /ginvite.

Just before going to Kara, I decided I would spend some of my ~10K honour. I said to myself 'if the MH fist is 13K, I'll save it, but otherwise I'll get the OH fist'. Guess what, the MH was 18K. I got 1/2 of my quest completed! Gladiator's Left Ripper was mine! /cheer

Anyway, just over 1 hour later, we were in a brand new Kara run. Our DPS was amazing and heals were great. The Huntsman goes down, no wipes. Moroes goes down after 1 reset, no wipes. I'll pause here to say that Moroes was kind enough to drop the Edgewalker Longboots for me :) I was very happy.

We ran into a small amount of trouble on the way to Maiden. 1 wipe. No biggie. We jump into the Maiden fight. We wipe and she is still above 50%. Hmmmm. Not to worry, we will give it 1 more shot before calling the night (we do short raids). Last attempt and all runs like clockwork, no one dies and Maiden goes down.

So tonight we will continue on in Kara (assuming the reset bug doesn't happen...) and hopefully will see The Curator and Opera go down, at least. I will keep you guys posted, as now I have something new and exciting to update on :)

Peace.

Alts, ahoy!

Hey all, what's happening?

Me? I've been getting sick of playing WoW in general over the last week. Why? Not sure really, but I can't play a single toon for more than 10-20 minutes in a row now. It's sad.

So what do you do? You make alts! Woo hoo! Fun, fun alts. Ok, first of all, I transfered my 60 Druid from Aman'Thul to Dath'Remar. Check. I also made a human Paladin, who is now level 11.

I am still going to be leveling my Blood Elf Paladin on Barthilas, don't worry about that. But I'm also considering transfering my 35 Blood Elf Mage to Barthilas if possible so I'm not leveling 2 Prot Pallies at once. Talk about dull!

But I still am getting sick of playing the same thing over and over. I think it's not the game, it's the content. I haven't seen all of the Horde content, or the TBC content, it's the leveling content I am sick of.

So what am I to do? Nothing really. I will strive to level my alts quickly and PvP on my Rogue. I also am doing daily quests and some minor gold-farming on my Rogue, in very non-farmed locations I've found (no, I'm not telling you! *coughGrimBatolcough*).

Well, I'd better get to work! I promise Armoury links will be posted for all of my toons soon and I will post pics and other nice things as well.

It's not over yet!

Good morning one and all,

Please make your way to your allocated seating as the presentation will be commencing shortly. Please note the exit signs to your left and right at the rear of the room.

Ok enough of that. I haven't failed yet! Let me elaborate on this statement; I was passing through Stormwind on the weekend, throwing up some auctions and such (I was in the area, otherwise they would just be mailed to my auction-toon) when I thought I would go to the Champion's Hall (or whatever it's called) and see what new PvP weapons would be available to me now that the Season 1 gear was being phased out.

Lo and Behold, the Gladiator's Left/Right Rippers. Still sitting there, taunting me, saying "You shouldn't have stopped PvPing! You could own us by now!". 'Holy smokes, Batman!' I said to myself. What am I to do? Well, ultimately, I did nothing. I finished off my 10 daily quests (would be more if I could get a group to do the Ogri'la pre-daily quests!) and logged onto my Pally for some low-level Horde fun. Why you ask? Because I was bored after an hour of questing, couldn't find an Arcatraz group (for my final kara key frag) or get into a premade.

So after a few days of the same (daily questing, no groups, I'll play my Pally) I think 'what am I doing wrong?'. Is it because I am a Rogue? I don't know. But I will make an effort to do at least 1 AV/AB prior to logging off and playing the Tankadin from now on. I have 7908 honour and more than enough Marks of Honour for the weapons I want. I could save up another 1098 more and get the off-hand, or I could save up 5098 and get he main hand, or save up 13098 more and get both. Geez I hope my math is right haha.

I would prefer the main hand Ripper first. Just having a much higher DPS on my off-hand seems... odd for some reason. Yeah, I'll do that.

In other news, I got to Honoured with Sha'tar so my leatherworking is up to 370/375. Just need to do maybe 1 or 2 Durnholde/Black Morass runs to get the last 5 points. I'm sitting at about 3/4 of the way through Friendly with Shattered Sun Offensive, which is nice. I haven't worked on my Consortium rep for a while, but that should be up on my list, because I want those leggings, dangit!

Umm, not much else to share. I've saved up around 450g since 2.4 came out, and that is ONLY from doing daily quests. Not a bad effort I thought. I'll have to get a blacksmith to make me some of those uBer throwing weapon things.

Well, that's about all for my rambling on this morning. Looking forward to hearing from YOU!

Fury of the Sunwell

Patch 2.4 is finally out! You know what that means? I've failed my quest to get the S1 Fist Weapons! Nooooo! Why did my computer crash, why did it take so many days to get it up and running again? Why did I say I was 'bored with my Rogue' and rolled a BElf Paladin? /cry

Anyway, enough of that! There is nothing like a new patch/new content to make you get back into an existing toon. As soon as I was able, I leaped onto Raitin, picked up a few quests in Shatt, ported to Ironforge and flew off to my destiny.

When I arrived we were on 44% complete of Stage 1. Not to bad. I did all the daily quests in the area (only 4 for now, including the 2 at the Throne) and checked out the new area. Man was it crowded! I'm glad Dath'Remar is a PvE server, let me tell you! I was almost d/c'ing as it was!

After looking around for a bit, I logged. Last night I logged back in, did a new daily, one I had done yesterday involving getting Blood Elf Plans in Netherstorm. Someone told me it's 5 minutes of work and easy gold. It took me about 38 kills for the plans to drop. A friend of mine said it took him 3 kills. Where is the justice?! I'm not sure if I'll do that daily again, but I think I should.

Anyway, when I got back to the isle I did the 2 daily quests there again. When I picked them up I saw something good. We were at 99%. "Cool" I thought. Not so cool. I actually did disconnect last night. More than once. But that's fine. We dinged 100% of stage 1 shortly after and there was much rejoicing. A new area with 2 new daily quests to do. I managed to complete one of them (no, not the bombing run) before we had a rolling restart. I decided to call it a night after that.

So first impressions? I like the new area. A lot. I'm looking forward to the new content becoming a novelty for people so it won't be as crowded and I can do more quests there easily. I'm liking that they are making it easy to duel-rep-grind (by quest rewards giving you Aldor/Scryer tags). Hopefully this is the start of a beautiful friendship with the Shattered Sun Offensive.

Ok, I promise I won't be so lazy and wait another 10 days for an update. My many and devoted fans (at present count I have 1, thanks Crimson!) are demanding I post more often! And so I shall! Hopefully over the next week I'll actually put some effort in and spruce up the site a bit too, make it all shining and nice.

"Be excellent to each other"

All Systems Go!

Hey everyone,

As you can see, it's been a little while since my last post. The reason being that I went to a LAN with some mates about a week ago. During that LAN and it's many downloads and transfers, I picked up a Trojan. It made using my computer very difficult or impossible.

The 'official fix' didn't work. The latest and most upgraded Norton didn't work. I was very sad. So I backed up some important files and did what I thought best. I reformatted.

I finally got my PC up and running, but my 'poota refused to recognise my wireless adapter, so I had to buy a new one. I also have lost my sound card drivers, so I'm using the motherboard sound at the moment. But eventually, I got WoW reinstalled and patched, and there was much rejoicing.

So I haven't had a chance to play again yet, but I will make the effort soon, which I will report in full the following day.

Thanks for your patience and I'll see you again soon.

Going Places

Howdy all, and welcome to another brief update in the life of me and my Rogue.

First of all, I joined my first premade the other day. It was awesome. We bounced to perfection and won every match we entered. Sweet how the Badges and Honor flowed from the heavens. I didn't stay for long, maybe 30 minutes or so, but I'd clocked up around 1k honor after calculations. It was great.

I haven't gotten into another premade since then, and my PvP luck has gone from good to bad. I've saved up around 7k honor all up, so I still need another 16k to get what I want. Almost a 3rd of the way there, but no end to the Horde premades in sight.

So I took another night off after /afk-ing out of a particularly bad EotS. I managed to get a SLabs run for the Kara Key Frag. After wiping time and time again on Blackheart the Inciter, our mage dropped. We picked up a Shadow Priest for extra healing support (We had a Holy Pally as well) and on the 2nd attempt we dropped him. Next boss dropped on the 2nd attempt also, so we got our Kara Key Frag! Yay! We did 1 attempt at Murmur before we decided to call it, he is too hard with 3 melee DPS classes.

This also got me to Honored with Lower City, which earned me the Heroic Key, which will make getting my Consortium Rep much easier let me tell you! I also did a brief run of Arcatraz BEFORE running SLabs, but we stopped just as we got to the Botanist (2nd boss). I am around 400 rep away from being Honored with Sha'tar and getting my leatherworking up to 370. I have all the mats I need ready in my bags for when this happens.

So what's next? Firstly, I'm always going to try get into a premade for honor farming. If I can't get into one, I will work on my Kara Key Chain, which also gets me both the reps I desperately want. Everything seems to be panning out nicely for me at the moment, I always seem to be just 1 small step behind where I want to be, but it is definitely within my grasp. There is still a lot to do, and I'll always add more to that list, but I'm pretty happy with my toon at the moment.

On a side note, I miss raiding. A lot. I used to raid with my Druid quite a bit, but in this new Guild, they start raiding at 6:30 server time. I am lucky if I am getting home by this time, let alone logging into WoW. It usually takes me an hour or so to get my chores done and log in. But I do not worry, some of the people in my Guild have been VERY supportive and are always more than willing to quest and instance with me when needed. You all know who you are, so thank you very much. Major props goes out to Dhurg and Glollex. You two are my heroes.

Well, it's a public holiday in Melbourne today, but I am stuck at work (as we do nationwide sales) and it is DEAD. It was supposed to be really busy today, but I guess I'm lucky. It's also a lovely 35 degrees outside, bright sunshine and all. And I'm stuck inside. With no Air Con. Oh well, such is life.

Stay tuned for more updates as they come folks! Thanks again for reading.

A Night Off

Last night I logged into WoW and jumped into the first AB that became available. It seemed a bit strange that I was the only person there. I checked the numbers. 1 Alliance / 14 Horde. Very odd I thought, maybe tonight is not the night for it. I /afk'd out of there.

So while the Deserter Debuff is counting down, I figure I might as well work on my Scryers Rep, which in turn will work on my Sha'tar Rep. Cool. I was 4995/6000 Friendly, so I needed 41 Firewing Signets to get to Honoured. Sounds Easy.

Well, it was haha. After about 30-45 minutes, I had all the Signets I needed, plus had made about 30g, so I was happy. I went and turned them all in, purchased the two leatherworking recipes that Honoured status afforded me and that was it.

I checked my honour again, 'Yesterday' I earned ~637 honour. So much for the 250 bonus honour a match, but still good for 30 minutes of work or so.

I didn't stay logged in much after that. I spammed this blog link in Guild Chat and went on my merry way. I logged out of the game standing next to the AB Battlemaster, hoping tonight might give me better luck.

Tonight I will run AB once, see how it is going. If we are winning quickly, I'll continue. If it is taking 20+ minutes to finish a match, then I think I'll take another night off, head on over to Netherstorm and grind out some Sunfury Signets to further my Scryers Rep.

Sorry for the (comparatively) short update, but I'm mighty tired today and don't really have much to update on! So until next time "be excellent to each other".

My Disappointment with Honour Calculations

Two updates in as many days! I must be going BLOG CRAZY! Well, no, but I do have 30 minutes before I start work every morning that I can use to update, so I will do so, when I have something to update about.

Today, I complain about Blizz's honour calculations. In my last post I was all excited that I had made almost 2000 honour in one sitting. When I logged in last night, I checked my updated honour screen to see what my total was. It wasn't high. In the 'Yesterday' field, it showed "493" or there abouts. 493. Not almost 2000. I am officially NEVER going back to Eye of the Storm unless I absolutely HAVE TO.

But, I was not dismayed by this. I knew EotS was not for farming honour. AV (and AB I found out) was where it was at. I decided to go with AB, as they generally run quicker than AV and my realm seemed to favour AB. I only did 3 BGs that night, all AB, all took about 10-20 minutes each. Alliance won each time (Woot!). Some got close, but we always won. There was good honour to be had killed Horde, and I got 250 Bonus Honour each game because we had won.

After only those 3 ABs, my Honour Screen looked a lot better "~1183" or there abouts. 'Cool', I thought, this is easy! But then my heart sank, what if it's the same as yesterday and I only get a quater of that? Then I steeled myself. Not to worry! The game itself showed that I got 250 Bonus Honour each AB, surely they wouldn't dock me of that! So if my hopes are true, then when I log in tonight for some more PVP action, it should show in the Yesterday Field at LEAST 750 Honour. Not bad for up to 30 minutes of work.

If I am at all deluded by my ambitions into PVP and need to be set straight, please let me know!

P.S. Still no comments! Come on people! I spammed this link onto the Guild Forum, so no excuses!

P.P.S. I know the rest of the site is still bland. My internet access is very limited at work, so I will update it when I can.

Ticking off 'The Checklist'

Good morning all, just another brief update as to what has been happening over the last few days, or a week, however long it's been. I told you I would update sporadically!

Right-o, so I got all the Thick Clefthoof Leather I needed to get my leatherworking up to 365, with some to spare (turns out I was on 361, not 360 like I thought). Now of course I'm broke, I think I might AH the left over Primals and Leather, just to make me feel like I have some money again.

I also have the 40 EotS badges I need to get my S1 Fist Weapons. Whoopiee! I got the last 9 yesterday, some wins, some losses, but all fun. I didn't really try capturing any points or flag-tag; I just went where the fighting was thickest. Almost got 2000 honour in the 2 hours I played, not a bad effort I thought. I can't wait until I start doing AV's (tonight I hope) to start really cranking up those honour points. I only need about 19,000 more points, so if I go by last night's efforts, it will only take me about 10 nights of playing to get that, or less. Let's just hope that Patch 2.4 doesn't come out in the meantime!

Ok, back onto leatherworking. All I need now is to run TK instances to get my Sha'tar rep up. Before I do this though, I want to do a complete run of SLabs so I can knock out 2 birds with 1 stone (Kara Key Chain). Then I will run TK about 3-5 more times to get honoured, then move onto Steam Vaults for the last fragment of the key, and my Helm of the Claw. Best non-raid Rogue helm you can get, or so I hear. Then it's off to the Dark Portal, again, both to finish my Kara Key Chain and get Keepers of Time rep. Once that is honoured, then it's onto grinding the mats I need for the last 10 points in leatherworking. Booyah!

Hopefully by the time I complete this, Patch 2.4 will be out. Then I will frantically be working on my Scryers and Shattered Sun Offensive reps. There are some really nice leatherworking recipes that drop in the new 25-man instance. Some of them are just godly. I'm hoping for Exalted with SSO before the expansion, and also with Scryers, because the Epic Trinket from SSO procs a nice 200 crit rating if you are exalted with Scryers (again, if you believe the news).

Well, that's about it. Primarily I'm working on my honour points, which is the one thing I really want done before 2.4 goes live. Then I have my updated 'Checklist' above. Hopefully this casual gamer will be able to do all this!

P.S. I took out a few Epic'd Warriors in EotS by myself last night. Never thought it would be possible, but there you have it. Fun times. Please comment! I'm lonely!

The Quest for Fist

Greetings one and all to my very own blog, based on my experiences within World of Warcraft.

I have had many and varied places that inspired me to create this blog, I won't list them all here, but I will endeavour to update the links section accordingly once I get around to it.

First of all, a little but about myself (well, my digital-self in any case);

My name is Raitin, I am a Dwarf Rogue based on the Dath'Remar Oceanic Realm. I am level 70, but have not been level 70 for very long, measured only in weeks at this stage. I have my basic flying mount, am 375 skinning and 360 elemental leatherworking (more on this later). I am working on my Sha'tar and Keepers of Time rep, as well as splashing my Consortium, Scryers and Cenarion Expedition rep, for various reasons.

One last thing about me..... I'm spec'd Combat Fists.

I used swords to level, but as soon as I hit level 66, I felt it was time for a change and I have never looked back. I'm not sure how to describe it, but picture this: a short, stocky, hairy man with claws. Yeah, looks badass, doesn't it? Now you might understand my reasoning :)

Right, now that is out of the way, I plan on updating this blog VERY sporadically, just explaining or bitching about certain things that happen to me in-game. or IRL. First of all, let me state for the record that grinding 100 pieces of Thick Clefthoof Leather to get my leatherworking skill from 360-365 is CRUEL! I ended up grinding 11 pieces out of 100, then gave up. I purchased another 60 from the AH and plan on buying the rest, once I've worked up enough gold again.

My leatherworking is also the reason why I am working on my Sha'tar and KoT reputations. These guys both have recipes that will give me my 365-370 and 370-375 points the easiest, and only need honoured reputation to boot! So it won't take my long to get this rep (or so I thought...).

So I had gotten bored of doing not much and decided to work on my Kara Key quests. I got up to the first key fragment. Disaster. I very quickly got a group to goto SLabs, but after almost an hour and a half in there, we hadn't even dropped Blackheart the Inciter... and we skipped the Ambassador entirely. Now, I was a bit discouraged by this, so went back to working on my Sha'tar rep (Arcatraz runs, mostly). During my first Arcatraz run, someone got their 3rd key fragment. No biggie, gave me something to look forward to. Another reason I was there, apart form rep, was a nice drop from the first boss. The best non-raid, non-pvp fist weapon in the game. It didn't drop, no surprise there. In fact, in the 50 minutes it took to clear the place, no a SINGLE drop was for me. That seems to happen to me a lot these days. Sigh.

But I digress, after doing this for a little while, I realise that with Patch 2.4 S1 (and maybe S2) gear is being phased out. "Oh no!" I shout, as I had only realised the glories of doing a quick Eye of the Storm to break things up. I have about 26 badges for EotS and need 40 to get the S1 Left and Right Rippers. 91.3 dps is glorious if you aren't raiding for a fist rogue, let me tell you! I can easily get the badges I need before 2.4 goes live, but I'm having trouble getting the Honour Points I need. Now this is where I need you, my (hopefully now) loyal readers help. What is the best way for me to 'honour-farm' the points I need to get these lovely Left and Right Rippers before they are gone from my grasp for good?

And on that note, I will finish up this initial post. Hopefully soon I will bring good tidings for all the things mentioned above. Heck, I might even have a comment or two! I leave you now pondering, my Quest for Fist!