Cleaning the place out!

It was a good night for Galoriar.  After something like 4 months of no new drops, he picked up a new helm (first non-engineering goggle in like 1.5 years), new 2H, and new gun.  Yay!

Can’t complain too much that it’s been ages.  That was back when I had the time to run Naxx & OBS & such more regularly.  It was also before I got Datouv up to 80, since we needed tanks.  And since we needed tanks, it meant I never got to play Gal.  Then I finally got Kurandel up to 80, and since a bunch of guildies hit 80 too, we were all gearing them up together, so again no Gal.  So after a long wait… 3 Cheers for Gear!!!

Oh, and also thx to guildies for the drake!  Yay!  Told you Galoriar cleaned house…  Now time to get everyone else more gear too.  And another drake…

Drop Rates

Yeah, they’re predictable. It’s all done with RNG’s, but I figured out the formulas! Stop reading – this post may contain bliz spoilers…

Still here? Ok, here goes – the loot you want won’t, and the loot you won’t want will. At least, that’s the quick version. The real math behind it is related to who is in your group. So if you take a clothie healer, clothie dps, plate dps, plate dps, and plate tank – leather will drop. Similarly, if you have all mail & cloth wearers, plate will drop. But it gets more complicated, because sometimes trinkets cross over those lines, but it still follows the same general rules.

Thus it’s because of those crossovers that on occasion, the RNG gets all confused and accidentally drops something you want – like the helm or axe Datouv needed! Heck, we also got bracers for a guildie! I think the RNG must have been having a bad day or something because I think we got a couple other things too, I just can’t remember what they are, lol.

All joking aside, you must admit its cool when you run an instance to pick up gear, and you actually get something you can use.

//UPDATE// So today was the crocalisk fishing quest and the rumors are true - bliz messed w/ the RNG's because they realized how rediculous they were, and now the RNG's are confused. Not only did we test on 6 characters and all of them received a croc, but 1 of those was even Galoriar! Interestingly, 8 months ago I posted that I got a croc after 9 months of trying and predicted it'd be another 9 months or so until I got my next...

Redick-oo-lus

So I’ve determined, ToC is just plain crazy.  Not the instance itself.  Actually, I find it rather fun.  Kinda nice to have the champion-style dungeon, similar to VH but better.  Essentially no trash to bother with, and if you wipe – you get to start from where you left off.  So it’s basically boss fight after boss fight.

No, the ridiculous part is the loot.  I can’t believe how long it took to gear up before the latest patch.  I mean, badge farming or raid farming was about all your choices.  And with the lockouts, that meant it took weeks before you got a drop.  Or even had a shot at it!  Galoriar ran Nax regularly for a bit, and there’s still plenty of upgrades in there for him.  Kurandel, on the other hand, will soon be able to run ToC on heroic, and pick up gear better than Nax.  And he can farm it for the gear too! (If I had the time).  I mean, I know bliz is trying to make it easier for people to gear up so they can do all the end-game content, but seriously?  Other than just for nostalgic runs, achievements, or to show some newbies the zone, will anyone even bother with OBS or Nax?  What’s the point if you can take 30 minutes and get better gear off H.ToC?

Sry, it’s just frustrating to me.  Yes, it’s nice to be able to gear up my alt quickly.  But half of the fun is in actually earning the gear…

New Dungeon

Nope, haven’t had a shot at it yet.  One of these days…  Gotta love it when life gets in the way and you don’t have time for it.  Or when you do finally have the time, and no one else is on.  Oh well.  Just 1 more year and the MBA is done.  Then we should have a little more time on our hands.  You know, like 30-40 more hours per week…

In lighter news, I picked up Jeeves this weekend!  Well, I don’t have him yet.  Got the schematic on SAT and actually had almost all the mats on our various characters.  Only needed to farm a little Adamantite and Thorium and that was it.  And buy the stones, but that’s because we’re saving our Titanium for a couple other things, so we don’t want to prospect it yet.  So why do I not quite have him?  Well, we only have 4 Titansteel cooldowns among our chars, so we used all 4 on SAT.  Then we didn’t log in on SUN evening (when the cd was up) because of the MBA, so the next time I log in we can burn the 4 again and I can finish Jeeves!  Yay!

Then I realized I hadn’t made Moll-E yet, so I made him too, lol.  It’s nice to be somewhat useful as an engineer!

WoW & Pre

Ok, this one I just have to share. I mean, I like my pre a lot. I enjoy playing WoW (even if I don't care for bliz). And yes, my pre sits on my desk most of the time, next to my computer (it gets service there, lol). But not quite this obviously...



Think that battery is big enough? Sure, a time or two I wish mine lasted longer, but no way in hell would I get one that big! I did like the nice touch of it sitting on the mousepad. Especially considering it's bigger than the owner's mouse no doubt...