Jindi Ysera

Our third kill of Illidan last night produced one of the best possible loot tables.

Chestguard of the Forgotten Conqueror
Chestguard of the Forgotten Vanquisher
Chestguard of the Forgotten Protector
Crystal Spire of Karabor
Shard of Azzinoth
Warglaive of Azzinoth

Wow. One of each Tier token, THREE weapons, INCLUDING a warglaive?!? Holy shite.

I believe this is only the third warglaive to appear on Ysera, which is pretty crazy. Static has one, and one of the alliance guilds (midwinter?) has one. It’s crazy that the top horde guild, Vindication, doesn’t have one yet, and they killed Illidan a loooong time ago. Our warglaive went to Noteworthy, who for the rest of the night proceeded to get tells, slaps, snubs, cheers, claps, and just about everything else from roughly every person who saw him.

I was given the mace!! Holy crap thanks Agony! There are so many other deserving recipients, I’m a little humbled by it… but I know that it’ll drop again and again, and I’ll be there to help get loot for everybody else!

Also last night, we cleared Hyjal with only one wipe (archi!), and I dinged exalted, granting me the final upgrade to the Scale of the Sands rep ring. I’m now sporting Band of the Eternal Restorer to go with my Blessed Band of Karabor, which were the best rings in the game before 2.4 hit…

We were so juiced after all that good raiding, there was no way we could just log off for the night. First, we formed a crack squad of top men for the daily heroic, which just happened to be Magister’s Terrace (known on Ysera as Mr. T. Can’t call it MT cause that’s mana tombs ;). We kicked the shit out of Mr. T hero in 45 minutes without any wipes, and only one death (no class with AoE spells can resist casting into the HUGE packs of mana worms… and usually that class is a clothie… you do the math ;). Note’s warglaive and my crystal spire were in full effect :) After that, a few of us grouped up for some battlegrounds… myself, Noteworthy, and one of our locks Stevo. As a trio, we were very difficult to deal with… Initially they’d usually target me just for being a Shaman. But I’m ready for that… my 450+ resilience means I can take some hits, long enough for the enemy to get a full stack of DoTs from the lock, followed by a fear. When the time is right, Noteworthy unstealths and proceeds to drop his target super fast, since most of the attention is already diverted to me. As any given round progresses, word gets around that Note has a glaive, and he becomes the target, which is just FINE with me :) When they let me heal, people generally don’t die unless we are vastly outnumbered…. so it’s a pretty great situation. Eventually, after the warglaive fever wears off, they start targeting me again, as it still is the best tactic. Good time, good times :)

Finally, allow me to say how cool it is to get 10g from a boss kill! I’ve made some serious bank this week just from raiding. Oh, and the badges… I now have 305 Badge of Justice. Since I have no need to buy a weapon for healing or dps, I’m not entirely sure what I’ll spend it all on… gems maybe (although I get all the gems I need from the guild, maybe I could like… sell some or whatever)? I probably will be picking up some of the “tier6” badge gear, just so that I have more flexibility to move stuff around while still retaining set bonuses.