Married IRL

Nooo, not agaaaaaaain T.T

So, Gigeer made a good point in one of my Squeake posts (I know, long time since one of her posts XD) and I figured it was a good time to update on how she’s faired since dinging 70 a month ago.

She’s definitely looking cool!  Her first time in Kara, she got her Pocket Watch trinket, and that was it. (Oh and 20 badges, I switched to Cay for Nightbane ’cause they needed healz XD.)  Then, her second Kara visit coughed up the Eternium Greathelm and some Tier 4 lovin’ in her Warbringer Handguards (which I put 2% threat on.)

So, not bad for two weeks of Kara in which I was pretty much a waste of space T.T

Buuuuut this past Saturday’s Kara, I got both the coveted Nipple-thar Breasteses Plate (you CAN’T tell me that the Nipples are a HUGE distraction thar!) and the King’s Giant Popsicle Stick!  So now I look like a proper tank ^.^  Oh and she had enough badges to replace her blue Shadow Labs questy wrists with the Bracers of the Ancient Phallac… er, Phalanx.  Yea… that.

Only glaringly obvious upgrade I need?  If you said a tabard, you’d be wrong (niiiipplesssss).  It’s her shoulders.  Considering the abysmally crappy drop rate of the Mantle of Abrahmis, I’m gonna… gulp…. grindArathiBasinfor20marksbecauseIhavethehonoralready NOOOOOOOOOO I SAID IT!

I’m gonna get Squeaker some Season 2 shoulders… but I’m not going to enjoy slamming my face into the keyboard.  Admittedly, it’s gonna be very interesting PvPing Prot…. >.>  So… yea… back into the furnace I go.

PS: I like the look of tier 5 shoulders… so this is also slightly asthetic too XD  Cause you know, Squeaker isn’t EVER going to see Loot Reaver, Ever.

Decisions, Decisions

First things first: Thank you, you warrior tanks of awesome, who have given me little nuggets of pearly wisdom to go by.
Since Wednesday, Blizzard has been screwing with me, I think.  In a good way, maybe?  Let me ’splain.

Went ahead and ran Black Morass twice yesterday, to get our Kara attunement quests done.  Which they are.  It was a snooze fest.  Fio came on his huntard for the first one, then he switched to Gaia and we got the attunement for her.  Both times, I was easy to heal.  I did ok I think on holding aggro on the mini-bosses, and the big bosses, but I think that’s because the biggest aggro magnets were on add duty (BM hunter for first run and Furry warrior for second.)

Though in the second run, Celli did manage to pull Aenous off me T.T  So! Working on threat, indeedy.  Doom sent me this linky to the Tankspot forums about effective life per armor whatsit, and I had Fio translate, because… ok, look.  I am a very simple creatute.  Tell me Strength is good, Dodge Rating is Bad, etc, etc.  With the druid, it was: Look for Armor/Stam/Agility.  You had three or four things that you MUST HAVE, and you can do pretty darn well.  Warriors seem like a different universe.  I know warriors want similar things, but when I try to wrap my brain our the mathmatics, something just freezies up and I just… don’t get it.

So just tell me, is this good, is this bad, what do I need from here?  Ya know?  Trying to figure out for myself is probably going to land me in the crapper in the beginning.

So, right, the part about decisions!

Since Wednesday, I have gotten new stuff:

Gauntlets of the Bold
Legplates of the Bold
Myrmidon’s Headdress
Steam-Hinge Chain of Valor
Thatia’s Self-Correcting Gauntlets

So, now my question: ARG! I have the full Felsteel set Gemmed and Enchanted WHY DID YOU JUST GIVE MEH THINGS I ALREADY HAD UBER OTHER STUFF FOR!?!??! QQ

Ok, that wasn’t much of a question, more like a BBQ fest, but ANYWHO… is it worth it switching out the felsteel stuff for the Bold counterparts and the hat with a meta socket?   The Felsteel has awesome armor compared to the others, but the Bold stuff has more in stats.  I also got my Dabiri’s Enigma and my Adamantine Figurine (aka the PHALLIC) so my trinkets, they be awesome.  Enchanted my chest, so now Squeake’s looking like:

AC: 12440
Def: 517 (yea, I’m way over, need to regem, need something to put in yellow sockets T.T)
Dodge: 14.85%
Parry: 17.57%
Block: 16.68%
HP: 11614 unbuffed
So, do I keep the awesome that is the felsteel set or switch out?  And dear GAWD this sword is slow!  I didn’t realize it before but now that it’s been pointed out to me, ya, the Crystalline Kopesh is very slow.

I’m still having rage issues, even in Black Morass and Shadow Labs.  The SL run I did gave me more of a barometer of how I’d do in a group than the Morass I think, simply because the three DPS in the group didn’t like to watch aggro all that much T.T (”Oh, heehee, I SB crit, SORRY!” /rageoftehstephithatshecan’tgivesqueake)

I’ve also not been keeping Demo Shout or Shield Block up all that much, because they’re just a waste of rage at this point.  When I was in BM, the Shield blocking was ok, but it seemed an expensive way to get that guaranteed Revenge proc, in SL I totally forgot about it, even on bosses.

So yea, I know, I need to read some more on Tank spot, but if I have to keep reading math, I’m gonna go cry in the corner, K?

<3 teh Cay