This Week in WoW...

In a word, mixed. Very mixed.

I've gotten zero guild invites since Clothisis and I left Clothing Discouraged. Not. One. Clo's now in a guild, but I am hesitant to join a leveling guild when I want to raid. I did try out for a couple pf raiding guilds the other day . . . 25 man Naxx, the bane of my life. EPIC FAIL again. I caused a wipe on Thaddius because I could not make a jump across a chasm to fight the guy. My DPS would have made the difference (< 25 k health left when Thad enraged and hard wiped the raid. . .). I failed the jump . . . seven times!

"Consider your application declined, Tyrtrinos. You are FULL of FAIL!" /kick

PUGs were few and far between this weekend. I managed to get ToC pugged just about every day, and I managed to do 10 and 25 man Obsidian Sanctum (the latter with 1 drake up) with CD's old allies in the guild Section One, If they were recruiting DPS, I'd go there.

Another possibility: bite the bullet in a couple of weeks and spend the $55 to move Martkishar (troll shammy, the one in Gwenny's guild) over to Kilrogg and change his faction to Alliance from Horde. Shammys are IN DEMAND for two reasons: One, they can heal. With the Chain Heal spell, shammys are the best raid healers in the game. Two, shammys have an ability called Heroism. When the shammy hits heroism, the entire raid gets a 45 second increase in attack speed by 1/3. Heroism is an ability needed in many boss fights in places like Naxx.

The other other option is to build Tyr's tanking skills and gear set. My tank gear is only OK. nowhere as good as my dps set. Good tanks are in demand. I'm not sure how "good" I am.

On the WIN side, I did get OS 25 and 10 done and I have been piling up gold and achievements.
I'm now at Exalted reputation with Ironforge and will start working on Exodar reputation ("Exalted Champion of Ironforge") as step 3 in a six step meta-achievement. OS 25 was done with one mini-boss drake up, so I got the "Twilight Vanquisher" achievement. I completed all the holiday insanity for Brewfest and got "Brewmaster". Since my new IF rep now enables me to buy mounts from the dwarves, I bought some epic ram mounts for "Filling Up The Barn"

Oh, and one piece of new dps gear -- Tier 8 chest, with badges. I now have the 2-piece set bonus for Tier 8.