Raiding

Optimizing my rogue gear

Raiding in Wrath of the Lich king has been very different from raiding in the Burning Crusae. Sofar anyway. But i have to remind myself, i was a completely different player when i entered the Burning Crusade. Only level 60 for a month or so. No raid experience at all. I had only done some Stratholme and Scholomance. Been in Dire Maul once or twice.

Leveling up to 70, doing the heroic dungeons, getting the Karazhan attunement and gearing up for the first runs, it really felt like a huge commitment.

In Wrath, i entered Naxxramas fresh the day i dinged 80. I had’t set foot yet in a heroic. Two weeks later we had cleared the whole instance and i was decked in a lot of epics already. At teh time it was a bit too fast really. I had to learn the new gems, the new enchants, the new builds.

Most of my information i got from the elitist jerks Pocket Guide. After a short time reading up i kinda left it where it is. Yeah, i got lazy.

So now i try to better my life! Ulduar is on the horizon and i need to be in top shape for what will be the first real Wrath raid instance. I checked the mutilate gear spreadsheet and i was shocked to find out i was still in 3 pieces T7 since i respecced from the subtlety HAT spec back to my original mutilate spec. I had the T7 chest in tha bank, i just didn’t realize that the 4 set bonus ‘Reduces the energy cost of you combo moves with 5%‘ was pretty good for mutilate. Aarghh.

I made a spreadsheet with all my current gear and possible upgrades available. I put the Chestguard of the Recluse back in the bank and hoping for a drop of the T7 hand token from Sartharion. I was already collecting for the Darkmoon Card: Greatness – only one card to go and waiting for the next Darkmoon Faire on March 9th.

The list ready, now its only hoping for those lucky drops! And thinking about taking jewelcrafting as a skill.. hmm.. but that’s another post.

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