Ailis in Hunterland

So it’s been a very interesting couple of days.  My guild has held off tackling Ulduar until all the issues with the instance servers settle down, even though Ensidia already has downed Yogg-Saron (duh..).  We’re hoping to go in tonight on 10 man and check it out so here’s to crossing fingers. Kdkdos ksli ofk j… Okay, I’ll cross fingers later.  

In the meantime, what have I been doing?

I’m so glad you asked.

Ailis Has a Legitimate Split Personality

I dual-specced my Shaman for Enhance/Resto.  Since the instance servers have been sporadic at best, I haven’t been able to really try out the new enhance build or my resto build at all.  I did some pummeling on the training dummy and watched my DPS skyrocket so I’m pretty pleased with the enhancement changes.  The new expertise boost with Unleashed Rage enabled me to actually use my gem sockets for something other than expertise for a change.  It was nice to gem in agility…almost refreshing.

I still haven’t seen a Feral Spirit glyph yet on my server.  If you’re on Stormrage and can make one, will you send one to me?  I really would like to test it out.

I’m not sure how the changes in haste for melee will fully affect me until I get into a sustained dps situation like in a raid.  Once the servers are stable, I’m tempted to grab some people just to go pound on Patchwerk so I can really test my new stats.

Resto-wise, I’m a complete noob.  A few of you have asked for some resto info so I may ask a good friend of mine to step in here and jot down some resto notes for those of you wanting to know.  I’m really nervous to heal in Ulduar.  My gear is good, but is it good enough for Ulduar?  Everything I’ve read so far says “maybe” and that makes me quake just a little bit.

But it’s a good quake.  Promise.

I Challenge Thee!

Other than that, I love the Argent Tournament.  It’s such a little, silly medieval tournament in the far corner of deep, dark Icecrown but it’s a blast.  I love when you fly in on the taxi, everyone cheers when you crest the mountain leading into the arenas.  The duelling on the horses is a blast. I suck at it and am hardly coordinated enough to get it done but I got my achievement fair and square and was extremely excited afterwards.

The RNG continues to hate me as I fish for the Sea Turtle.  A guildie of mine got it on the first day and then promptly received a mini-pet from the fishing daily the next day.

I hate him.

However, I have enough mats for multiple stacks of Fish Feast so it’s not a total loss, right?

If we get into Ulduar tonight, more raid goodies tomorrow!