Tonight I queued with Leonz and got one of the new instances, uh, whatever one Hakkar use to be at. I can thank Arashikage, even though I haven’t seen him in ages, for taking me through here before it was ever revamped.

We got the first boss down ok, with me doing about 9k heals (any more would have been stupid), but the boss where Hakkar use to be, we died over and over from the same mistake, repeatedly, which was me getting targeted by 10 mobs and dying instantly. After about 5 deaths I said I quit and left party. It was late, and having 60g in repairs or whatever from a damn instance pissed me off.

The TB guards have been buffed, so if someone attacks you from range, near the guards, they will run out and kick their ass double quick. I found this one when Ladiesman was standing a safe distance from them, and I tossed a SW pain on him, and they shot him, netted him, and beat him to death. So apparently they don’t even have to touch you, for the guards to pay attention. Very nice, I like it. I did not MEAN to get him killed though I honestly had no idea that was tweaked.

Besides that I am noticing some annoying little issues in the new instances and in general. If I am moving and stop, and try to cast a heal or something, half of the time it tells me I can’t do it while moving even though I’ve already stopped. It does this sometimes even when I am just turning my view around. Also when I died and went into SoR, a few times I either couldn’t cast any heals at all because it said I was OOM, it said the skill wasn’t ready yet, or it let me crack off one flash heal, then the buttons did nothing afterwards and I just hung there like a dope until the spirit ran out. Between that and dying so much through no fault of my own (or Leonz for that matter) I got irritated and logged out.

Today I randomly made a new friend, while hanging out in TB at Slag.  Acks (warrior), who was turned into a BE, started dancing with me out of boredom, I returned the favor, they commented that my gear was nice, etc.

Bunch of horde ran in, we held off for a while, started talking back and forth about pvp and such, apparently they have played since classic, had a paladin, has raided, likes to pvp and arena, etc.  They dropped out of their level 3 guild, Exalted with Repairbots, and I invited them since I got a good vibe.  We talked a good part of the rest of the day, including running a few BGs, TB dailies, and WG together.

Ran a few arena with Peejay today also, and came short by about 50 points for my ring, since it was around 5 and he had to go, and so did I.  The teams we had were quite hard as well.  I’m seeing a lot of fire mages in arena lately too.  Mages don’t cause too much trouble for me but the stun dragons breath does, is quite annoying.  Plus polymorph landing over and over with no chance to get out of it that many times is meh.  But, we did pretty good.

Ran BH today, and I am SO GLAD I did not buy my Vicious mooncloth gloves yesterday, because they dropped today! I am now at 5/5 Vicious pieces, and have only around 3 blues left to replace. Woot. Oh, and this is often why we lose TB so fast:

To point it out, I’m at Slag, with 1-2 other people.  There is NO ONE at Warden’s, and what looks like 2 people at icg.  And everyone else is in the middle, doing nothing.

Soulprince was bugging me again today to run a random with him which I said I could not, but agreed to queue up to make the run faster, though soon as we got Deadmines (AGAIN!!), the tank dropped, then when another came in I dropped, which booted him too. I forgot they fixed the queue cheating.  He also asked for money again to get gear and I said no, again.

Ran all 25 dailies today too.  First time I’ve done that.

And those Onslaught guys, I still hate them. Soooo much.

Ran Deadmines, (again!!) and got enough valor to buy my gloves and I have a 2 pc T11 bonus now.  The robe is even more poorly itemized than the gloves, so I chose to go with those first.