WoW Bloggery 2009-09-23: LF Guild

It is Brewfest season in ol' Azeroth. What with ram-riding keg runs, Dark Iron Dwarf attacks at the oddest of times and more free beer than a frat party, there is much happy fun.

The Great Puggery also continues as well. With my work schedule change, raiding is going to be occasional at best for awhile. This means pugging heroic instances, especially the Daily Heroic quest and Trial of the Champion on heroic mode. There are very few busted PuGs on heroics these days, so it is easy to spend a half hour farming 3-5 badges -- gear upgrades take between 15 and 60 badges to buy per piece.

I'm one piece shy of having a full set of epics. The trinket I really want drops in a raid I cannot seem to get into, or when I get into it the trink does not drop, or the raid breaks up...Naxxramas, 25 player. 25-man pugs are tough to organize and run.

My most recent gear upgrade is this nice polearm that dropped out of Heroic Trial of the Champion. Serious DPS increase with that item. Also scored some good boots with badges

Mounts and Pets: Two new mounts -- a bear (600 gold) and a Hippogriff (150 Seals of the Champion, from dailies and Heroic ToC) -- and a pet Wolpentinger (bunny with antlers, kind of the Easter Bunny meets Cernunos) from a Brewfest quest. Several other mounts and pets can be earned with Seals . . . so I joust and do the other Argent Tournament dailies religiously.

Right now my "weakest links" are my trinkets. Both are item level 200, the last such items I have left.

On the hot news front, Meece and I are no longer members of the guild after three separate incidents over the last two weeks. I won't go into details of the he said-she said, but the last straw was being told to laugh it off when the remarks were not only tasteless but bordering on criminal. Discussions of sex are fine, but even those have limits. When Meece raised her concerns over this, she was basically blown off with "(the offending party) is just that way, he does not mean anything by it . . ."

Yah, right. In other words, "just suck it up and put up with (that individual)"

With three youngsters in the house, two of which play WoW, Meece is taking no chances. We /gquit within seconds of one another. If I want to be treated that way, I'd stay at work or ride e-Tran all the time.