Heroic: The Culling of Stratholme Cleared!

Well, figured it should be easy, so headed over to CoS to check it out....

Boy, I was wrong - The mobs by themselves really were not that hard, but the gauntlet type of event, coupled with my lack of coordination and lack of knowledge of the zone turned the whole adventure into a wipe fest.

I eventually finished the whole thing, after 5 or 6 wipes and an additional 2-3 deaths - I think that if I watch a few boxing movies about it, my gear is good enough to get the 30 minute event done, but I just can't help myself from silly wipes on thrash. Don't think I will add this to my Gundrak + Utgrade Keep badge farm rotation just yet.
One key factor seem to be to not loot to be able to keep moving in the right pace. Might have to try it out with master loot mode on or something.

The good news is though that it gave me enough badges so that now all the shammies have Protective Barricade of the Light. And thanks to some generous guild mates of Hordeland Security, I now have Revenants gear on most of my shammies.

I had to spend a few minutes leveling Babegrins enchanting today to, so that see can shard the Epic drops that I wont use from heroics.

Heroic: Utgarde Keep Cleared!

Well, once I figured the Prince Keleseth out - It turned out to be quite a easy place ;) Took me 4 wipes before I grabbed this video to figure it out.
Been farming Gundrak enough to get Babegrin the badge shield (Protective Barricade of the Light), and Tuffgrin is not so far off.
Some drops of interest, Battlemap Hide Helm, Dalronn's Jerkin and Annhylde's Ring as well as Design: Fierce Monarch Topaz for Perrigrin.

Heroic: Gundrak Cleared!

Well, been way overdue to try a heroic with the Grins'. General opinion seem to be that Gundrak is the easy option for a shammy heavy team - And today it was the daily, so I went there.

Didn't give me to much trouble, think I had 3 deaths and 1 near wipe (but no full wipe) on the whole clear - Of course I forgot to share the daily, so will have to go back tomorrow :P

One drop that was interesting: Sash of Blood Removal of Gal'darah. Had some melee drops that I stashed on Tuffgrin as she is my "main" dps shammy. Debating leveling my mage to replace one of the shammies, and swap in a Moonkin druid and Holy priest as a longer term project.

Broke 30k

Did a 10 man Naxx with guild last night, and along with hitting 400 in JC - Perrigrin now broke 30k hp unbuffed!!

Yay!

Finally got Essence of the Gossamer for Perrigrin!!

Been a while...

Not done much boxing other than some dailys, spent most of the WoW time getting the Fool for Love achievement. 

Started a druid, Druidgrin, that I level slowly with my wifes rogue to eventually replace one of the shamans as a boomkin. Might also replace another of the shammeis with a mage that I got sitting at 70 at the moment - We will see.

Spent a little time creating this document as a personal reference for Lich King raid encounters. I haven't had time to do much raiding (did 2-3 10 mans, including tanking a full Naxx clear, but nothing else). But I'm hoping to extend my regular friend group that does 5-mans into at least doing a few 10-mans, so really wanted to read up on and learn the strategies.

My short term objectives are:

• Level Jewelcrafting on Perrigrin and make the Figurine - Monarch Crab trinket and some Solid Dragon's Eye gems for increased HP.
  
• Get the Essence of Gossamer trinket from Hadronox in Azjol-Nerub Heroic.
  
• Do enough skinning to get the epic mail leatherworking items made for my shamans to get them ready to at least do a few easier heroics.
  
• Gather enough gold to pay for dual spec when it goes live, as well as gather a healing set for Perrigrin.

If I accidently get any spare play time, that will be spent leveling Druidgrin or my DK back on SWC.

Violet Hold Normal Cleared

Not a big piece of news at 80, but wanted to get rid of the quest for 3 of the shammies ;) In other news Perrigrin now has the 'Elder' title from To Honor One's Elders.