Last night was a good night. First off I am finally starting to feel a little more like human, as it seems that whatever crud I have been fighting for the last week is starting to subside. Second I think I found the source of my annoyance in Discord mysteriously turning itself from push to talk to voice activated all the time. Finally I got to run some dungeons with Mor, Grace and a friend of theirs from the Star Wars the Old Republic days. At this point I think there are a couple of dungeons I still have yet to see on normal, and it is my goal to remedy that before sitting foot into heroics. There are still several items that I need… namely a good shield, good main hand weapon, and another reasonable trinket. Those are the slots that are dragging down my magic number down from what it could potentially be.
Speaking of magic numbers however… I have now hit 305 which makes me physical capable of queuing for heroics. However this is not quite something I want to do yet. I want to finish getting those missing slots and see if I can sort out why I feel so damned squishy. It could be that Protection Warriors are just in a shitty place right now and one that will improve later as gear scales. This has been the case in past expansions, but what I am going through at the moment is that I feel completely rage starved. It is like I don’t have enough active rage to be using revenge and keeping up Ignore Pain/Shield Block. This is completely new for me because always in the past I had all the rage in the world to play with. So last night I shifted around my talents after the few dungeons we ran and I am hoping tonight… I maybe see an improvement.
The image may state that this is Lord Stormsong… but in truth it is Squid Pope. Originally we thought he was Fish Pope but he transformed over the course of the instance. Squid Pope and his friends were very annoying, but we managed to make it through the effort and get some loot in the process. So far I am thinking that the dungeons that the Alliance gets natively are maybe a little cooler than the dungeons the Horde gets. The blood troll instance for example… is annoying as shit and I still have not figured out how the ticks work given that sometimes I die horribly to them exploding and other times I am just fine. The end result is me running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to avoid standing near them as they die.
My hope is that tonight in our adventures I manage to find a weapon and a trinket… and preferably a new shield so I can go forth into heroic land with great confidence. It is taking me a little longer than normal to ease into my comfort zone with Battle for Azeroth content, but I am thankful I have a trusted healer to ferry me along in this journey. She is showing great restraint in not just completely blowing past me and leaving me in the dust. I am already feeling super behind the curve given how often people in guild chat are asking for Mythics… and I have not even set foot in a Heroic. They are on a vastly different trajectory to me so far, and that is okay. I will get there eventually, and hopefully at some point I get enough gear to have offspec options.