Arenas

Did some arena yesterday. 

First Kaiser and I did my resto druid with his BM hunter. That once again proved a good combination, as we went 8-3. Kaiser is good with traps and cooldowns. The toughest fight was against a resto shammy and a destro lock. It took forever to mana out the shaman. 

Then I had an abbreviated session with me on my frost mage and Zooe on his sub rogue. We went 6-2. My favorite fight was against a warrior and DK, because it is a tough matchup. Zooe used his cc well and I popped my cooldowns, and we burned them down. 

Quiet Life

Another quiet day of play, as I was tired and also enjoyed some family time. 

Got another day of Crusader quests done. Etc. But not much else. 

Quick post

Pretty quiet. Did Firelands, a touch of leveling on Chillshot, and Crusader dailies on Chilldeed. 

Chilldeed is over halfway to Crusader. Well, at least dailies-wise. She will have to get some rep as well. 

Rogue Squadron

Aside from the Firelands dailies–yawn–I did arena with Skove. 

Now that was fun. We went 8-1. The only team we couldn’t answer to was a holy pally-DK combo. Even then I think we both would like to meet them again. In fact we went up against a different holy pally/DK combo and took them easily. 

The nice thing about rogues is, first, you decide (mostly) when to start the fight. They decide where.  

Second, they have cooldowns useful specifically for casters (cloak, smoke bomb) and for melee (evasion, disarm). Combat Readiness is no longer a cooldown. I can only imagine ever using it against two melee teams, and only if cloak is unglyphed. The sharing of its cooldown with Cloak has truly killed it. 

Third, if you are subtlety, you have solid pressure, escapes, and self-healing. 

In other news, Chillshot is now 83 and doing solid damage. Still love Beast Mastery, still could care less about the other specs. 

Fun Weekend

Fun but frustrating raiding this weekend. 

We are very close to taking the patrol boss down. We might have done it but my internet service got choppy and killed almost an hour-and given the trash you have to kill, that’s about half of the boss time. 

I also did arena with Kaiser on his BM hunter and I on my resto Druid, which is a surprisingly strong combo. 

Finally, we did our guild-first Rated Battlegrounds-fun stuff. We even had Teo and Hyp there. We won some AB, but had trouble with the capture-the-flag maps. Guild achievement and tons of conquest points-even more than an arena. 400 for a win. Zip for a loss. 

Outgearing Stonecore

No arenas last night, but ran some BGs and did the Firelands dailies. Also did a heroic Stonecore for the points. We are now outgearing that instance badly. 

Another fun day

Did no arena last night. But did run some BGs with Zooe and Tempe, which was fun. 

Also did the dailies in Firelands, which are becoming more of a chore and less of a fun thing. 

Finally, got Chilldeed another step towards Crusader. 

Did you know: Argent Tournament reward bags now give you one or even two Crusader marks when you open them?  They are piling up at a good rate. 

Arena season has started

Did Firelands dailies, and some BGs with Tempe and Mattie. 

I also did some arenas with Zooe on our ret pally/resto druid team. Not our strongest combo, but we have fun. 

The rising pillar map is back for arena. The old starter elevators are locked in the up position, and instead you start at either end in little prison-cage openings.  With this map back, Zooe got his achieve for a win on every map. 

First Firelands

Paranoid delved into the Firelands this weekend. We did not take down a boss yet, but learned a lot, and I expect we will take one down soon. 

Arena season should start up today, which will be fun. Also, it was AV weekend, and I had fun doing many BGs, both solo and with guildies. 

Prepping for Firelands

Opened up the remaining dailies on Chillhand, got a boot and two necks (one for tanking, one for DPS). 

Also did some BGs on Chilldeed. Learning to Evade rather than use Combat Readiness. The nerf to Recuperation is noticeable but not a killer-not like the death of Death Strike. On the other hand, Hemo, which was my preferred strike even before the patch, is noticeably stronger.

On Chillhand, putting the new cooldown on all my other cooldown buttons since it is so short. Will probably also add it to when I use my holy power to heal myself. 

We are going to do Beth first in Firelands. Looks like a fun, fairly straightforward fight.