Please Farm Trial of the Champion

I’ve been really busy gearing up my Priest the last few weeks and, friends, let me stress that if you aren’t running Regular Trial of the Champion several times a day you are missing out. This instance is far and away the simplest and fastest way to level your alts with more than respectable gear.

When I made the switch from my Hunter to my Priest I was rolling deep with Hateful PvP gear. I managed to heal a few Heroics with that Hateful gear but things were sketchy at best. Luckily, the awesome guild I joined was more than willing to run Regular ToC on a loop for me over the course of several days.

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The Spoils Of Patch 3.2

Since the day Patch 3.2 was released I’ve been diving head first into running as many Heroics as I can fit into my schedule each day. The number of Emblems of Conquest I’ve managed to rack up since that day is right around 150. Not only was I hitting the older Heroics hard but I’ve also made daily trips into the Trial of Champions as well.

Anyway, since the patch I’ve managed to snag the following gear upgrades on my Hunter through Emblem purchases, lucky drops or cold hard cash:

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Quick Impressions Of Patch 3.2

I managed to get the patch yesterday on my Mac with little difficulty so I was able to jump right in as soon as Greymane was up and check things out. Here are my impressions of Patch 3.2 after a few hours of play.

Champion’s Seal Loot

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PUG Checker

As some of you may already know, I’ve been working off and on over the last week or so on a new WoW-related site I’m calling PUG Checker.

With PUG Checker, you can type in the name of a player and the server they are on and get a quick “scorecard” style display of their boss kills in all of the instances in Wrath of the Lich King. This is a quick and simple way to get some kind of an idea about the experience level of the player you’re about to group up with.

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An Overachieving Weekend with the Lunar Festival

I went in to this weekend with a lot of holes to fill in my experience running Heroics. There were some instances, like Gundrak, that I’d run on regular but hadn’t on Heroic yet. Then there were several I’d never seen the inside of at all like Azjol-Nerub and the Halls of Stone.

The Motivation

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My First Wrath Heroic and My First Wrath Epic

This weekend I decided to take the plunge and start actively trying to join PUGs to run some 5-mans. In all my previous WoWing, I’ve never once joined a PUG or ran an instance that was at my level. When I hit 80, the first thing I did was go to Hellfire Peninsula and run Hellfire Ramparts and the Blood Furnace solo but that hardly counts as adequate experience for what I went through over the weekend.

After two successful runs through Drak’Tharon Keep and Gundrak on normal difficulty I felt like I had a good grip on the ropes so I hopped in with a group running Utgarde Keep on Heroic. Right out of the gate things were rough when they questioned my level 70 PvP gear. In the end, while I wasn’t near the top of the damage charts, I held my own all the way through the end.

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