Monday Random Thoughts

- Still no heat in the real world for me, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this week.

- I was told that the part they need would be in today.

- I decided to start gearing up my healer this weekend.

- Instead of finishing leveling my shaman I went with my already 90 priest.

- As it stands I do not like questing on my priest but I don't mind on my shaman so with all that gear locked behind reputations using my priest as my main healer for the moment will make gearing up a small bit harder.

- My priest has one mists reputation, the tillers.

- I might do the others when 5.1 comes out but I am starting to fear that by then I might not need valor loot at all.

- See, this is the problem with locking valor gear behind reputation.

- It is made too hard to get during the one point you might actually need it.

- Even if I started hard core on reputation in the three weeks it would take me to open all the valor gear I will most likely out gear the valor gear.

- Yeap, locking gear behind reputation has just suddenly became a bad idea as it keeps the gear from the people that need it the most.

- I went into the weekend with a 452 item level, mostly crafted 450 PvP gear, the crated 476 chest and gloves made by a guild mate and a 476 cloth BoE head I had drop early on.

- After one days worth of work I got myself to 470.

- So from 452 to 470 in one day, and not even a full day, just a few hours.

- It took me over 30 minutes in queue, as a healer, I think that wasted more time than anything.

- It was like bizarro world.

- My item level might get higher if I decide to do the LFR HoF tonight and get lucky with drops.

- If I had been on a better server, I could squeeze into a pug for 489 and 496 gear.

- Even on my server, I am getting close to the point I can completely ignore reputation gear.

- Sure, it would be nice for a few pieces, but seeing my performance and seeing my item level rise, reputation is not all that important any more.

- Now we need something for me to spend all this valor I'll be making on.

- If you heal on a priest and are not using cascade, you are doing it wrong.

- I was pulling upwards of 40K-70K HPS on each fight with cascade as my #3 heal.

- Not to shabby for my first time walking into a raid setting as a healer this expansion in what I would call questionable gear at best being a few pieces had hit on them and were really meant for shadow.

- Those better than expected numbers were all thanks for cascade.

- All I can say is wow that is powerful.

- Imagine when I start to practice and get better what I could do.

- Expect a huge nerf to it coming soon because it is really that powerful.

- Powerful for doing damage as well.

- I pulled over 50K DPS on a few pulls in dungeons thanks to that.

- Yes, it is that powerful.

- The female panda dance is incredibly annoying.

- I know what it was made after but my question is why?

- Did they have a meeting and think what is the most annoying dance we can make and this is what they came up with?

- I think I found a new dance to rank bottom of my list.

- And here I was thinking nothing could be worse than the human female dance.

- Proven wrong again.

- Closing in on my 400 pet battle achievements.

- I have noticed that a lot of the achievements are bugged.

- Like one says I have 29/30 level 10 pets.

- I have at least 60 pets over level 10, maybe more.

- Or one of each type at 25, I need three types it says, but only really need two.

- Not sure why it is not counting one, but it isn't.

- Seems the pet battle achievements don't always work.

- If that happens to you, log out and back in, it will fix it, for most.

- Won't fix the two I just mentioned however, they still seem to be bugged.

- One of the 25s I need is an undead and the reason I do not have one is because I can't find one I like enough to level.

- If you are looking to gather different pets it is worth mentioning that worgen, goblin and panda races get their own pets that only they can buy.

- So if you want one of those three you need to have a worgen, goblin or panda out of the starting area and over to the beginning pet battle trainer to buy it.

- Lucky for me I have at least one of every race out in the world.

- For you pet collectors that want everything and don't, get leveling them alts to buy pets only they can get.

- I like that pets are tied to all accounts.

- Now if only they would do that with a few other things so we did not have to waste so much space.

- I would like a toy page.

- All our toys would go on that page instead of taking bag space up.

- Do I really need the turnip punching bag on every character if I wanted to keep it?

- Put it on a toy page and let all my characters have access to it.

- No bag space wasted.

- For alts that complete the quest that you already have the toy for, give them 5 extra gold instead.

- It would be a great way to thin out space and remove the redundancy of having to have the same toy wasting space on many characters.

- All those archaeology toys can, and should, go there as well.

- Hence the reason I said archaeology should be a profession that spans all characters.

- It offers so many toys and other things that you do not need 2 or 3 or 11 of, so make it a "per player" thing and not a "per character" thing.

- What is the use of having a second toy that turns you to amber, or a second BoE shield, or a second mount you can not even sell or use and are stuck throwing away?

- Toy page, now blizzard, it is needed.

- And it is only needed because you were the weirdos that decided that giving us toys, and food items with no sell price, from quests was a better idea than giving us things we might need, like gear or extra gold or extra experience or extra reputation.

- In the long list of stupid things they have done this one is really bottom of the list however.

- Most characters I throw those things away as I complete the quest.

- One question however, how come I can not sell the food I get from a quest when I want to but I can sell the BoA gear I find when I wouldn't want to sell that?

- How about putting a sell price on junk we don't want and leave a sell price off of things we might accidentally sell but we really do want.

- Again, have to wonder who the hell runs blizzard sometimes.

- Even the little things make no sense.

- Like why are there not as many poop quest this expansion.

- I don't think we met our quota.

- Oh wait, this is a good thing.

- Now I am confused.

- Have a great day.