This week has been pretty mad – between running 10 and 25-man  Ulduar and all of the new quests available.  Lightwalkers has taken down Flame Leviathan with one tower up on both 10 and 25.

…but this didn’t leave us with enough time to kill XT on 25 (yes, I know he’s not the easiest next choice)  with some tactics changes we hope to deconstruct him next raid.  Unfortunately our raids are short so we don’t get a long time to work on bosses.  It was some solid progess, though, and I really am enjoying the challenge again – especially as a healer, things are hellishly hectic! *grin*

Dual Specs

When not doing raids I’ve been taking part in all of the other new things 3.1 brought us – two of my characters have dual specs though I haven’t even utilised Jhai’s second spec as can’t decide whether to go cat-dps, boomkin or resto as my offspec! Probably it’ll end up being whatever people need first.

On Avarix, I’m completely in love with dual-specs – rocking a pvp-elemental which is also nice to grind with for offspec.   It’s so nice not to take an age just to kill some mobs and dailies have just become trivial by comparison to what I had before.  Of course, I’ve already made the mistake of forgetting which spec I’m in – I was thinking Grid was copletely broken as it wouldn’t let me Earth Shield people.  Luckily I realised the actual reason for this before we engaged the boss! Hehe.

Fishing

The RNG seems to have been very much in my favour these last few days with the fishing daily.  On the first day all I got was a price of junk glass but on the second?  A [Jeweled Fishing Pole] and a  [Tiny Titanium Lockbox].  For those not in the know, the lockboxes seem to often contain the new epic gems – stormjewels and, true to form, I picked up a  [Rigid Stormjewel] alongside a few other blue-quality gems.  Talk about score.  I sold the gem for a silly amount (seriously, who pays 400g for a gem?) as I wouldn’t use it.  Sadly, I won’t be able to use the pole in higher fishing areas as I have a fishing line on my [Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole] but I spent plenty of time fishing salmon and musselback sculpin with it for the guild’s quota of fish feasts.  I am amused at my big male draenei using what looks like a Cardcaptor Sakura weapon.

On that note, [Fish Feasts] are not longer BoP, thank goodness! I hadn’t noticed this in the patchnotes so it came as a pleasant surprise when we were pondering what to do with the over-500 fish myself and another guild fisherman had stuffed into the guild bank.

Why so many fish?  Well, we were both wanting a [Sea Turtle], of course! I’ll let the picture say it…

There is a completely unsubstantiated rumour that people are finding a higher drop rate when having the Ghostfish fishing daily and fishing in Borean Tundra [Musselback Sculpin] pools.  I wrote this off as spurious but, oddly enough, guess when I got mine? One of the guild’s other prolific fishers also got his in the exact same circumstances – though we had both been fishing for hours prior to that.

Now off to do another round of dailies…