Gearing up in Karazhan

So, we are back from our vacation, which was nice and includes lots of pictures of Azeroth. Perhaps we will post them some time in the next week, when we are more motivated. Last night we cycled through our alts - I'll let Clara tell the story in a separate post how Vhaas and Khyrie are almost sort of in a real raiding guild now.

Tonight it was Kuanchichi and Viljo and we hit a reset Karazhan with our new guild, Darkfall. I was nervous about going, my DPS in Kara is still somewhat inexplicably lower than it is in heroics. So first I got Hellzuub to put Major Spellpower on Kuan's Earth Mantle Handwraps. That's how one gets drops to happen right? Put an expensive enchant.

We were short on heals and a good priest friend of ours was hanging out so we convinced her to come along. The guild MT swapped in his resto shaman, and off we went...!

At Attumen... Kuan got Bracers of the White Stag. Leather, but finally, caster bracers that are an upgrade from T1. Then we skipped to Moroes, and Brooch of Unquenchable Fury dropped. An absolute first: Kuan rolled a 99 on spec- and level- appropriate loot. But Moroes also dropped Nethershard Girdle, and Viljo won the roll for that!

We went back to the Maiden, who dropped Totem of Healing Rains... and the Resto shammy with us already had it! So Kuan got that too. She also dropped Bands of Nefarious Deeds, which was apparently not as good as what Woonie, the other mage along with us had, so Viljo got those. Somewhere in there Viljo also hit honored with Violet Eye, and got the nice ring upgrade.

After that it was Opera time, and we ran the Big Bad Wolf. Kuan died early on in the fight but we downed him as well. Once past that, I started to get nervous again, as we headed to the Curator and the last time we'd tried it we didn't do so hot. But we downed him at first try... and Kuan didn't even run out of mana...! The Curator dropped Dragon-Quake Shoulderguards, which were inferior to our resto shammy's, so Kuan got those as well. Yay he no longer has to be leafy to heal! And let's not disregard the Gloves of the Fallen Hero, which Viljo won the roll for against the hunter, who is now grimly convinced that he has to wait until all the guild mages have T4 gloves.

We punched through to the chess event, and cleared that as well. I am still a little confused by that sequence of events, but it didn't seem a problem.

I've been on vacation, so needed to rummage around Kuan's bank. I remembered picking up some healy gear, and got a guildie to make me healy spellthread for Kuan's Molten Earth Kilt. He has Hammer of the Penitent now as well, but is too low on mats for the healy enchant on it. For the curious, I have logged Kuanchichi out in his healy gear.

No more raiding until Sunday, where we pick up where we left off. Whew! There'll be time to farm for mats and gold and Badges. And maybe work on alts, and photos of Azeroth.