Finally, finally, finally got to run a full TotC-25 on Hesston, and with a pretty elite and organized group of people. I know, I know; everyone has this on farm but I don’t get to raid as much anymore so this was a treat. We one-shot everything but Anub’Arak and only because the raid leader DC’ed and we all just sort of fell apart. What did Hesston get? Nada! Not one piece of hunter loot dropped, seriously. Not a one. And to top it off, all the other hunters were pretty geared and probably would have passed on anything that I needed. Oh RNG, how I loath thee.

I did however get a trophy so I may farm some badges this weekend to upgrade my legs without losing the juicy T9 2-piece bonus.

Some random thangs:

• Warrior just crested level 76 and I’m having a blast with him. Protection warrior leveling and tanking is so active, I can see why so many really good tanks put warriors on a pedestal. It also has made me realize how boring my paladin tank is. Back to healing for joo!

• I just got a promotion at work, which will change my schedule to having evenings free. Depending on how things go, I might faction transfer said warrior to Alliance (yeah, yeah, I know), and rejoin Summit as an arms/prot, if they could still use me once he hits 80 and I learn how to be awesome at him. We’ll have to see, but it would be a lot of fun. Even if I don’t go to Summit, the opportunity to jump into a new raiding guild and/or PuGs will be nice.
• Trying to decide what my next alt leveling experience will be. I am amazed at how fast I leveled the warrior, so the task seems less daunting now. Though I’ve been shying away from pure DPS classes, I really want to try a rogue since they always beat me on the damn meters. But, a shaman or priest would be fun too. Though that might wait for Cataclysm, because a goblin shaman is just going to rock.
• To get back to hunter stuff, Pike has some really good hunters 4 dummies advice. I’m amazed at how clueless people are about the hunter class, as is evidenced at some of the posts on the official forums.
• 3.2.2 notes: Not sure how I feel about them constantly gimping instances that aren’t hard in the first place. I realize they’re trying to open their content to more new players and make it less of an annoyance to players that have run an instance hundreds of times, but come on. At some point people just have to deal with things as they were designed. And no updated stuff for hunters, QQ (then again no nerfs either).

That’s all I’ve got. Hopefully get to jump into some raids this weekend and perhaps get Hesston his first shots at the Plagueworks/Crimson Halls. If so, I’ll write some huntery things about it and possible a vid or two.

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