Last night Kuan and Viljo logged on to do their usual Monday night battleground thing. It was Warsong weekend so despite the pointlessness of Warsong Gulch they were going to go in there and capture the flag. Just after we logged on our friend, and kickass tank, Patrick, logged on as Rahlenti. So the three of us cleared our bags and then I signed us up for Warsong. Horde handily won the match 3 to 0, even though Viljo didn't get a whole lot of HKs because he stayed on defense most of the time.
But before we could head into a second battle, Rahlenti asks if we are interested in Heroic Hellfire Ramparts. It's now 11 and the server will shut down at 1 for hours and hours of maintenance. We all agree that it is short and we can do it. So Rahlenti, (I did say kickass tank) Viljo, Kuanchichi, Jataka (resto shaman), and Fanxia (BM hunter), head to Hellfire. We swap the instance to heroic, there is some issue there where we all almost get auto-hearthed. Then we drop group, reform, and proceed to kick the instance's butt.
Considering that the last time I was in Hellfire ramparts was as an under geared level 60 it actually seemed easier on heroic. We had one wipe by lag and a couple of wipes by early breaking CC. But mostly after a bit of group breaking in we just pwned. We did have one wipe on each boss. The first boss was due to a bad pull, the second boss was not yet understanding everyone's job in the fight, and the third boss was Vazruden deciding when he landed that Kuan had to die first. Without the dps and off heals we just couldn't take out Nazan.
I was pretty pleased with the run. Thrallmar rep is good. Viljo got Mana Etched Gloves, which after the much much more garish Energis Armwraps, seem kind of plain. Rahlenti got an excellent bear tanking belt, which I cannot remember the name of. And, because Fanxia can Disenchant, we all got shards. Hopefully Kuan now has enough to get the healy enchant on that dagger.
Next time we run a heroic it really ought to be something in Auchindoun. Otherwise I think draNgNon will go crazy, not getting Lower City rep for Kuan.
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They did this nifty thing in the Heroics. Each class/spec gets a "set" of 4. It's not really a set, i.e. there are no set bonuses, but they're clearly intended to be part of the same collection. There are other scattered items that would be of interest.
Rahlenti has 3/4: Barchip Boots, Forestwalker Kilt, and now the Tree-Mender's Belt from Ramparts. The one I don't have is Forestheart Bracers, but it's from heroic SH, and I have no urge to go back there, plus I just got some nifty epic bracers from Ogri'la.
I took the liberty of perusing wowhead for ele shammy gear. There's some neat stuff!
Here's what you want:
Stormsong Kilt from Underbog.
Wave-Fury Vambraces from Steamvaults
Wave-Crest Striders from Blood Furnace
Wave-Song Girdle from Auch Crypts
... that's the "set", anyway. There's also:
Wrath Infused Gauntlets from Ramparts
Pauldrons of Wild Magic from Slave Pens.
Eli's shammy Walkietalkie has the shoulders from slave pens. I sort of want them just for the Tier2 shammy shoulder artwork (wolfheads with the lightning playing around).
O hey look at that, the wave-* goes with the tidefury stuff. That said, you really think that kilt is part of it...? it's nice, anyhow... Although looking, the belt is probably the most-impactful upgrade (Kuan has the TM defender's cinch from Old Durnholde).
You might want to peruse something like http://www.wow-loot.com/shaman.htm (insert your class of choice there)... I haven't looked at it since I started heroics, but now I guess I shall.
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