Wednesday, February 17, 2010

For the Horde!

Well, it's been a few weeks. I got my horde mage to 71...and then generally hit the brick wall that is WOTLK grinding. It's certainly not pretty...or worth it. So I decided to go ahead and move my main mage over. I had to do a name change, but now I know a way to switch things back relatively quickly so that's the plan for this point for me.

I'm still not entirely sure about the guild. But the large number of people certainly seems to suggest that there will be more opportunities to get into pickup groups. I've also started looking into joining one of the 25 man groups in the guild...we'll see how that goes too.

Since I've been out of it a while, I'm started to do a bit more research into gear for Arcane. I find myself in an awkward position--I'm heavily specced for Crit when I think I should be haste. My base crit rating is over 50% with my main spells, which is way too high. My haste rating is still OK (around 600), but my goal is to get haste to around 900. My SP is also too low, I'd like to get it over 3K if I can.

Of course, I really don't have much ICC gear. I have 51 frost badges, and hopefully now a better chance of getting them. There are several off-set pieces that look well worth purchasing, but I'm leaning against doing that and instead saving badges until I can buy 2 T10 pieces. However, if I can get into a consistant 10 man group I can certainly make some serious headway there and the badges become less of an issue. To be honest, I'd love to get the belt, or the back piece.

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