/ReadyCheck: My 3.1 CheckList

Apparently I was AFK >.>

As I mentioned in my last post, I wanted to post about the last minute improvements I was straining for before the patch came out and we all skipped merrily into Ulduar. However, Blizz has shocked many and announced the release of 3.1 TOMORRROW, therefore making the entire post I worked on irrelevant lol. So this post is going to take a different turn. My plan this week was to do the following:

• Run VOA/OS for Valorous Gloves!
• PuG Naxx 25 for a few last minute upgrades.

I did manage to full clear Naxx 25 this week, with a group I ran with the previous week. I picked up my T7.5 Shoulders the first night, which are oh so smexy smexy plus I had enough emblems to also pick up my T7.5 legs and get the 4 piece bonus. I wanted to try my hand at VOA and OS before I decided to get my legs however, just in case I didn’t really need to spend the badges. I ran OS, my gloves dropped but I got outrolled. BOO! No worries still had VOA to go, bupkiss… except for the mount!!! Which I also got outrolled on by the same damn priest who got my gloves! Ah well, no worries.

Eventually I caved and got my legs because honestly what else am I gonna do with the badges? So I got those and was reveling in my golden (or Yellow as Hid teases) glory. I went back to finish that same Naxx pug and go figure THREE pairs of pally/priest/lock pants dropped. *grumbles* Oh well. I did however get the Libram of Tolerance since I was the only Paladin in the group. I’m not really sure how I feel about this Libram as Holy Light is a big enough heal as it is. Now that I have the 4-set bonus I might be able to switch out, but honestly I feel like it would only make even better at overhealing -_- I didn’t get anymore drops from that run, but the group was persistent and I picked up the Achievement for the Fall of Naxxramas: Heroic. Yay for more achievements. As I mentioned, I went with them again this week in hopes of getting a couple pieces, but it wasn’t the best night for Holy Pallies. Nothing dropped at all for me aside from the Shroud of Luminosity, which I happily won.

I have become slightly obsessed with Wow-heroes.com. Some of my good friends are ranked really high on there and I like to pretend I’m geared as good as them haha. For example, Hid’s Priest is actually the 5th best geared person on the entire server (2nd just for Priests!) and my friend from Silvermoon is ranked 3rd on that server (1st for Priests!). The last time I had looked I was rated pretty decently for only doing 10s on the regular. I thought for sure since I got some new drops I would get bumped up higher, but unfortunately I went down a few spots. I noticed that I was getting dinged for not having better enchants and the epic spell-thread so I picked those up as well. As it stands at this very moment, I am ranked 12th Horde-Side and 22nd Overall out of a list of 299 other Holy Paladins.  Not too shabby, I can live with that.

So after getting 2 more pieces of Valorous, iLvl 213 cloak and having all the best enchants this is what I’m working with:

Taken from the Armory, since Servers are down.

My crit rating was higher, but it went down when I switched into my Valorous Chest instead of the BIS Chestplate of the Great Aspects. I only did this to get the 4 set bonus of course (and matching is always fun), but depending on a few things I might leave it behind when we start Ulduar. Ideally I wanted to get my T7.5 helm, then I could have the set bonus AND the BIS Chest, but alas… ran out of time. I really wanted to get my gloves too. I have had the T7 ones forever with no luck on the T7.5. Honestly thats the only thing I’m slightly irked about, but now with Ulduar out it doesn’t really matter.

So yes… Ulduar. I am excited for a new raid instance but 2 couples in our guild are on vacation, so we won’t be able to start this week. I think the guild I ran Naxx25 with the past two weeks will need me for Ulduar this weekend though, so that might be something to look forward to. Tonight was interesting as everyone hustled and bustled around, working on their new specs (I’ve got mine Thanks Rudilyn =X) getting last minute enchants, gems etc. I pretty much didn’t have anything to do so I just chatted with people.

All of my Heroic Raiding friends will dive into Ulduar tomorrow, so I hope the servers stay stable enough. I think I’m gonna hold out for the weekend though so Abi can tag along. He mentioned he wanted to possibly do a PuG for our guild run, so we’ll see. I’m really curious to start seeing the gear out of there, as most of the plate I did see had the dreaded Mp5 on it.

So thats about it! I’m gonna go look at the patch notes now, watch the video and probably work on a post about the patch notes. Everyone who goes in there tonight good luck! Starting next week Vae Victus will get started with their progression and hopefully it proves to be lucky for me as well!

…and maybe bump myself up a few spots on Wow-Heroes haha!