Following yet more nerfs to Ulduar, last night our 25-man raid managed to down Flame Leviathan, Ignis, Razorscale, XT-002 and Kologarn, and had time left over for a couple of attempts on Assembly of Iron. And Mingle has (for the first time) added a staff (Intensity, which was most generously dropped by Ignis) to her raiding gear.
It’s such an odd look, seeing her with staff in hand (or strapped to her back). I mean, she’s only ever equipped one in order to train her weapon skill up, and that wasn’t even an afternoon’s work. Admittedly the shadowform effect does tend to limit the effect of any new gear she gets (even new shoulder armour, which are usually one of the most noticeable pieces of gear from an aesthetic perspective), but a staff… It’s just a whole new look for her.
It surprised me that no-one else in the raid rolled on it. I mean, it has the most +hit for any weapon I’ve come across so far, and having so much on one item means you have a lot more flexibility when you’re readjusting your gear to get the hit you need without nerfing your other stats too much.
(As an aside, quite a lot of items have been going off-spec, so I guess that really puts the normal 25-man Ulduar gear into the correct perspective, especially when so many raiders had best-in-slot items pre-Ulduar. If we can get our act together enough to start doing hard-mode bosses, then the loot circus will probably kick into gear.)
Mingle is currently just a little bit over the hit cap: the cap for a non-Draenei with 3 points in Misery and 3 points in Shadow Focus is 290, and Mingle has 305 without any buffs. This is after re-gemming and fiddling with gear as best I could, so she’s stuck with those extra points for the foreseeable future. But she did pick up almost 100 extra spellpower from it all, so the WWS for tonight could be interesting.
In other news, there’s not really any other news. Nothing exciting from the fishing dailies, nor from the Tournament dailies, nor from… well, you get the idea.
And speaking of dailies…
/wave
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