Monday Random Thoughts

- I actually got to raid this week on my hunter.

- Sadly we only got 8 down this week thanks to missing a few key people.

- But at least I got to raid some.

- I am always happy to be raiding on my main, even more so now that I get so little chance in to do so.

- I will need to think of extending soon, we can only manage 10 in the time we raid, so it is either get faster, or extend.

- I think extending is the right answer.

- I had won a BRF heroic tier piece the other day and this was my first chance to test it in a real raid.

- Amazing how upgrading just one piece makes such a difference.

- More so how amazing it is being it is a piece from the old raid that made the difference.

- I would have loved to see what I could do with all 4 being heroic if adding one was so noticeable of a difference.

- Anyone else think the power creep from one difficulty to the other is way to high?

- That replacing a normal piece with a heroic piece should not have been as noticeable as it was.

- One piece, huge difference, means way to much difference in stats between difficulties if you ask me.

- Won a 705 neck piece that has critical strike and multistrike, woohoo.

- It has to be an upgrade right?

- Nope, my 691 piece with critical strike and multistrike and a gem slot is still better.

- Sorry, you know blizzard did something wrong with their scaling when a 705 piece still falls short of a 691 piece just because of a gem slot.

- I guess that is part of the reason my item level is still so dreadful.

- Even when I get something that looks like a clear upgrade for me, it is not.

- Oh well, I'll keep it in my bags so at least my bag item level went up even if mine did not.

- I am pretty sure that when you sign up for a pug it shows the item level in your bag, not the item level you are wearing.

- At least I think that is how it works.

- I think I am a magnet for weird comments, or out of nowhere comments.

- Was flying down to DS to do my standard mount run and zoomed past someone else flying down.

- They whispered me saying "I have 310 flight, how did you just blow by me."

- I said, I cut corners tight so it only appears I was going faster when in fact I passed you because I am actually taking a shorter route.

- It was an honest answer and it was true.

- I did not have any additional speed boosts, just chose my route better.

- I cut corners as tight as possible which means I appear to be moving faster than someone key turning and traveling in the middle of the road.

- In LFR this week I had two of "those" questions, one was the standard "what are you doing here" comments I get from time to time.

- People see someone with high numbers and automatically assume they have no reason to go there.

- I do it because I need tomes as I know I am not always going to be raiding on my hunter.

- But I responded, "For practice" to him, which is what I usually say when someone asks me that question.

- It should not seem that odd.

- I had one member of my guild that did the LFR sometimes 10 or more times in one week.

- He would do it over and over again to practice his timing so he could become a better player.

- And trust me, it showed, he was amazing.

- I can't wait for him to come back, miss having quality talent like that.

- The other comment was just a weird one, and now I can chalk this one up as the second time someone has whispered me this.

- "Can I have your babies?"

- Yeap, that is the whisper someone sent.

- Funny part is that is now the second time someone whispered that to me.

- I did not respond, but I did laugh.

- I think it is my transmog that gets some weird attention sometimes.

- Either that or I am a weirdo magnet.

- Still does not even close to the comments I have received over the years on my female tauren.

- Some I would rather not even repeat but lets just say they are in the realm of "I want to milk you baby".

- Some people really need to get out more if they think whispering stuff like that to someone they think is female is acceptable conduct.

- I read a post where some guy was complaining because he had been soloing a raid for three weeks and the mount has still not dropped.

- Do you believe that, he has been doing it a whole three weeks and it has not dropped.

- The horror of it all.

- How can you live like that, it must be unbearable.

- Do people really think that you should get 1% drops after doing something 3 times, or even 15 times if you did it on 5 characters for those three weeks?

- I've had many in the 200s.

- I had one in the 800s.

- And I could guess that my attempts at the stone core mount have to be well over 1000 by now.

- I was doing it 5 times a day back in cata, yes I was soloing it from the week of release, and I did it so many times over all my characters during the expansion, plus all the attempts in the years that past.

- And I never saw it drop, not even in one of those pugs.

- So to say it is over 1000 times is probably very realistic.

- Sure I got the vortex pinnacle one after only 17 tries, but that is the exception, not the rule.

- If he is complaining enough to make a thread after 3 weeks I should be ready to jump off the top of the empire state building using his time schedule.

- It makes me wonder if people really just want stuff handed to them with no work for it.

- I love my onyxia mount, even if I never ride it, because I had been soloing it since wrath to get it.

- I love it because of the work I put into getting it.

- It was the journey to get it that was the fun, not the actual getting it.

- In a strange sort of way I was sad when I got it.

- I had been doing it every week on at least 4 or 5 characters for so long.

- It was like losing a friend having no reason to go there any more.

- A couple of weeks ago I went there to kill her just for the hell of it.

- I missed her, is that weird?

- Not saying I don't want things to drop because I do.

- But it is one of those catch 22s.

- If it does not drop, I have something to do.

- If it does drop, I have the excitement of getting it.

- So there is good to come from it either way I guess.

- But I still say I hate RNG.

- I would rather there be an internal counter or something so that once you have done it 100 times it automatically drops.

- That would be cool.

- And at 100 times, even more so for a raid, you earned it.

- Because for a raid that means 2 years worth of trying, if you did it every single week.

- So yes, I would say you earned it.

- A lot more than some guy that has been trying for a whole three weeks.

- Funny part is, if that were the case were you got it after you killed something 100 times I would have most of the mounts I seek already.

- Even more so since this expansion when nearly all my characters can solo some of the stuff and I do things more than before.

- Sometimes even when I have good luck it is bad luck.

- Opened T2 on my warrior finally, and yes I still a few 100s that have not yet.

- Remember how I said clicking on the baleful pieces it seems I never get one that has the right stats I want on it?

- First one I click on my warrior has the perfect stats on it.

- Even better, it upgrades to 675.

- For my warrior nearly every single piece I have a 675 would be an upgrade.

- But this one piece I already have a 700 in that spot, and that 700 already has good stats for me.

- And that is one of only 3 pieces where 675 would have not been an upgrade.

- So I had good luck, finally got the right stats, and got it upgraded, and it is still useless.

- Sigh

- I can't win with my luck sometimes and even when I do, I still lose.

- And people wonder why I am grumpy.

- Have a great day.