So last night I got invited to a Naxx 25 group. Naxx happens all the time. Nothing new. I come in right before Gluth. We one shot him. I use my need roll on a plate belt. I use a greed roll on some gloves. 2 pieces of loot off of one boss, and I’m feeling happy. It’s already a successful run…or so I thought. We move on. We wipe once on Thaddius, kill him, then proceed to the next quarter. Everything seems normal, right? Nothing out of the ordinary. Until we start pulling trash.
The next 2 quarters were filled with cacophony. I have never, EVER, wiped so much on trash, yet one-shot every single other boss (except for KT, who we two-shot, which, in a PuG, isn’t bad at all.) We had some hunter Thumbus who thought it would be fun to continually Misdirect pulls onto our tank before everyone was rezzed and buffed up. Multiple times. The most fun was on the Gargoyles, where people had upwards of 20 stacks of the poison. It took us over a half-hour to kill 6 gargoyles and 10 slimes. We killed the next 2 bosses within 10 minutes of each other.
Did I mention I got loot off of both of them? Item total: 4. Bosses down: 4. Hm. Interesting. And some of it was mail/leather/cloth too. Whatever, it’s fine, no one else needed them…
We struggle to get to Loatheb because our lock failed at running and not dpsing, thus he died. Took us about 20 minutes to do the gauntlet. One-shot Loatheb. Whatever, we’re a special group.
Then the spider quarter. This is the quarter that made me wtb Circle of Healing. Seriously, the priest was outhealing me by almost 50% of my outgoing heals. But whatever, they also are already healing Ulduar. And I was beating another pally healer and priest healer who both had better gear than me. But seriously, between Poison Bitch and Loatheb, I was pretty jealous.
Oh yeah, more pretty gear for me. Thanks Sinister. Total new gear pieces: 6. Bosses down: 8
One shot Sapphiron. How the hell did we wipe on fucking GARGOYLES but one shot Sapph, when NO ONE had frost resistance gear? And only one death by a shaman who got ON NOM NOMed at the very beginning because he stood in front of the claws of doom. While standing in a Blizzard. Smart.
At this point, I don’t even remember if I got loot from him or not. I think I did. We two-shot KT, but I got nothing. Do I care? No. Final tally: 7 pieces of gear, 10 bosses. Do I feel like a loot whore/ninja? Yes. Am I thankful to Sinister? Indefinitely. My spellpower went up by over 100 and I definitely got an extra 5% crit, if not more.
Not to mention I am no longer wearing more cloth/leather/mail than plate. In fact, I think I only have to replace wrist binders (cloth) and I’ll be in all mail or plate. Therefore not as squishy as before. Plus, I now have tons of badges, and can buy more gear if I need it. Perhaps I’ll start trying to get tier pieces…
Until then, “I R PALADIN! I CAN HAZ ANY ARMOR!” Screw you DKs/Huntards.
P.S. Did I mention that this was for main-spec gear only? I don’t even want to talk about the new pieces of off-spec gear, including the fact that I wasted a 95 roll when the RL said “roll for greed” and didn’t specificy that it was for main-spec greed. Oh well. I wasn’t going to complain. Even though I REALLY wanted to.
