Unicorns!

Unicorns!

Quick… type Unicorns if you want to live!  I had to share this picture as it was pretty much my favorite thing from yesterday.  Typing of the Dead was one of the most quirky Dreamcast games I owned, so I was super shocked to see that there was a newer version available on steam.  I have no real interest in playing it to be honest, but this image particularly caused me several chuckles throughout the day.  I am using it this morning as a crutch to get me started typing.  So far this morning I have overslept, and since I really did not do a whole lot of gaming last night, I feel fairly empty of ideas.

My last night was spent with my wife, taking her shopping.  I feel overall it is a noble if not maddening pursuit, but since she would be in teacher conferences tonight and Wednesday night… I figured it was a needed one.  At least I got a good meal out of the ordeal.  She has decided she wants to look more “put together”, and stop wearing so many neutral colors.  As an art major, I keep getting called in to coordinate color palettes for her.  If left to her own devices she tends to try and match everything, instead of pick a simple but coordinated group of colors.  Hopefully overtime she will pick up what I am doing and I will no longer be quite so needed in the process.  However for now I am her shopping buddy…  but in truth I always really have been.

The Quest For Weapons

I really like my dwarfy elemental shaman, and I pretty much play him whenever I have the chance.  Right now I am on a mad quest to get him a couple of decent weapons.  He currently is using two matched blue weapons, and I have been pestering the guild to run nightly heroic scenarios on the hopes that I will actually luck out like I did on the paladin.  I feel like even one weapon swapped would be enough to get me into Siege of Orgrimmar LFR, which is ultimately my goal.  The problem that I have mentioned before is that there are really no good weapons you can get for characters.  The weapons out on the Timeless Isle are 20,000 timeless coins for a onehander, which involves quite a significant amount of grinding.  The problem with them is that they are only 476 ilevel which is not really that much better than heroic blue/crafted 463.

I might be insane, but I really do not see that it is worth the copious amount of grinding that it would take to knock one of these weapons out… to wind up slightly better but still very much undergeared to do the latest content.  Another option generally are the 502 living steel weapons that are remakes of the weapon specialist items from burning crusade.  Two problems here, firstly they take a month of Living Steel transmutes to get.  Secondly there is nothing agility based that a shaman can use, the only agility weapon is a sword.  Lastly there is the option that I have been avoiding like the plague, PVP.

PVP Gear without PVPing

I am not a PVP player at all, and I believe the last time I did any PVP was Baradin’s Hold.  Even then it was an extreme rarity that I participated in that unless I also had a bunch of guild members backing me up.  PVP is the worst sort of treadmill to me, and each time I do it I feel like a hamster as I quickly run back from the grave yard only to be sent back again.  There may be a loophole I can exploit however.  It seems you can convert 375 justice points into 250 honor through a vendor.  So that means I need to get 2625 justice points per weapon that I can comfortably grind out in heroics.  That would get me a 498 Axe or more likely the Fist weapon, as I seem to prefer those on my shaman.

This is something I can likely do, as I can probably even convince guild members to “roflstomp” some heroics with me to fill the guild bank with money.  We did some the other night to bump me across the threshold of being able to buy the heirloom axe for my orc warrior.  This seems to be the stopping place for all of the alts in the guild, we simply cannot get decent weapons.  I could probably even organize some group effort of running heroics to get people the pvp weapons.  The stats are not ideal, as it has that nasty resilience stat on them… but overall just the damage alone makes it worth it.  They would be more than viable for Siege and would let people get their weapons up enough to do quite a lot of other things.  Granted these are not as good as the 516 ilevel weapons from heroic scenarios…  however it is something you can actually work towards without having to rely entirely on that mean on random number generator.