Oh Happy Day!

I am a happy bear. Last night was our typical Wednesday night trample through dungeons that the boss decides on, whatever they may be. In an excitement to reach Sapphiron again and pound his face shut, he decided we needed to travel into Naxx and down as much as we could.

After several disconnects, connection issues, non working vents, lag spikes, bad frame rates, dinners, and sick individuals, we got going. First up was the military quarter. It was perfect, we had the occasional bad pulls. And then the pulls where the rogue tried to sap and was seen and the hunter tried to trap and the tank didn't have enough rage so the mobs beat the squishies...but somehow we managed to only lose a couple and still down the pull. Yea...those. Had a couple of those last night.

Anywho, so those out of the way, we pounded through the military quarter and one shotted all the bosses. That took us an hour. Military Quarter down, onto the Plague quarter. Noth was a joke, as usual. Onto Heigan...the bane of our existence. Somehow, I managed not to go down last night. In fact, our first go at it, I was one of the last two up. Our first attempt was a fluke. We had some people get to close to the platform during the dancing phase and killed them off. Our second go around, was beautiful. I lived and we didn't lose too many. I'm just glad I can make it through the freakin thing without face planting now. And...I was rewarded for my success in dancing the night away.

Staff of the Plague Beast...

Oh sweet happy day! It is my lucky night! Of course I got the usual jabs of "hey look! a nice hunter staff" and the /rolls from the DK's who can't even use staves. Kroff forks (bahahahaha) over the staff and I swap it out. I already know from LootRank that this is an all around better staff, but I wanted to see exactly what it did for me equipped. More armor. Okay good. More dodge. Good good. Little less attack power. Ah, who cares about that anyway. My AP is already out the roof. Woo hoo! DE the old, in with the new! Kroff laughed at me when I said that and on we went.

We finished off the Plague Quarter no problems and cheered at our success.

Previously, Kroff had asked us to try and get the chest piece of each of our respective Frost resist sets. I had already done it since he and I talked about it and I decided to get my whole set. After doing the numbers I decided just to get the three pieces and leave it at that. I would lose a little armor and dodge, but I think the resist will make up for it. Besides, I can always swap stuff around til I find out what works best for tanking his big blue butt.

Everyone gathered up mats, chatted about the gear, and you could tell the air was full of hope for killing the dragon this coming up weekend.

It was a good night. :-)

Oh! And Noxxic finished off his Nobles Deck. Woo hoo! Now he's closer to getting me my deck. :-)

Preping for the Dragon

So after a debate yesterday, Kroff and I decided that I probably need to try and invest in getting a frost resist gear set. Not something too fancy, just something to give me a little more resist to make life easier for my healers. It'll be good preparation for the 25 man anyway.

Here's what I'm thinking...

I need to get the:
Polar Vest - 115 resist
Polar Cord - 86 resist
Polar Boots - 86 resist

for a total of: 287 resist

I could then use the Frost Armor Kits on my chest piece and boots for an extra 16 frost resist bringing me up to 303.

So far so good, now things get a bit tricky. Do I stop there or keep going?

I could have another cloak and shoulders crafted for me. On the cloak I could put Superior Frost Resistance which would add 20 frost resist. And on the shoulders I could put Inscription of Endurance which would add 7 frost resist. Now I'm up to 330.

If, by some miracle I could get the helm I want between now and then I could use my current helm to add Arcanum of the Frosty Soul for an additional 25 frost resist. Now we're cooking at 355.

Pretty darn good in my opinion. And, this isn't including Nakar's Frost Resist Totem which would add another 130 frost resist to my numbers.

485 would be the final count if I did all that. I could add a few Void Sphere's for an added bonus, but I'm not sure I would need it. According to an article I read yesterday, 415 is 75% mitigation and the essential "cap" so in essence, I could drop a couple of things and still be okay.

If that's the case then all I need is the three pieces which would put me at 417 with the totem. Three pieces of gear plus all the gems by Sunday...oh boy!

The Return

I apologize for the quietness as of late. Times are a changing and I've been having a rough time here lately. I'll spare the details and get right into business.

Our new guild, Sacred Pack, has now downed all four wings of Naxx. Woo hoo! Ah, yes, the guild. Wolfden is no longer in exsitence. The powers that be decided Kroff and I were trying to take over and after a long debate and much foul language and general hostility towards the two of us, we took our leave. That very night, a couple of the officers got together and decided Wolfden didn't need to exist anymore and gave everyone a week to clear about before the /gdisban. Stupid isn't it? All this over a dumb raid and someone's hurt feelings because we said we didn't want to go. Oh well, screw them.

In any case, I'm happy to report that 100% of our raid followed us and we all live happily in Sacred Pack where we are blowing crap to hell and back. Like I said, all four wings cleared and Obsidian and the Vault securely on farm status.

Last night...was interesting. Since we cleared the last of the wings on Sunday, we headed back into Naxx last night to hand Sapphiron a taste of the floor. Kroff had everyone watch the videos and I did so. The fight itself looks like cake. Of course, Ciderhelm makes everything look like a walk through the park with his crew. But I was really surprised at how easy this fight looked. It's basically a ten minute battle of doing two different things repeatedly. First off, you engage the big frosty butt in the middle of his room. Tank stands with his back to the doorway where you enter, dps and healers hug the wall and work their way to the side of him being very mindful of his tail and front paw for cleave. Once in position, healers keep up raid and tank from nasty frost aura, melee pwns face, and tank takes the hits as usual. Life drains come up occasionally, a mage or druid decurses and we go on our merry way giving Sapphiron a taste of our blades. Secondly, he decides he wants to use his wings for a bit, and flies straight up. At this point the raid spreads out, he ice blocks two of us, the rest of the raid runs behind either of the ice blocks. He does a massive AOE flies his butt back down to the ground and you continue on as before.

Not that hard, right? Right. And really, it wasn't that hard for us to do the moves. And honestly, I'm not sure what was kicking our butts. It seemed to be the frost aura in all honesty. Once I saw we were having trouble, I started reading some on other sites to get some "hey stupid, you're not doing this" tips. Nothing. Only thing I could find was "up your frost resist". Well that's just dandy. The only frost resist we have is my mark of the wild. That's +75 resistance, not too shabby in my opinion, but apparently that just wasn't cutting it. One site I read said something to the effect of "thou shall not use frost resist gear on thou main tank or you shall perish." They said that gearing for frost would drop too many of your other stats to be worth it. They suggested getting the rest of the raid frost resist gear and trying to outlive the buggar.

So my two healers were putting their heads together in guild chat after the raid and debating on getting their sets made. Both were pretty upset at how much healing they would lose. So I'm really not sure what to tell them to do.

I'm wondering if I need to pick up my set and gem it all for dodge. I think that will help a little bit even though I don't believe I'm the main concern. I told Kroff last night, that it seems the healers keep me up just fine, it's the raid they're having trouble with. The aura is just hitting everyone too hard. So we either need to get everyone else higher frost resist or more life. That's my thinking.

In the mean time, I'm going to farm some mats and have the three Polar pieces made and pray it doesn't break the bank. We'll try that next week and see how we fair.

The Work Day From Hell

So I would love to tell you that my bear butt cleared Naxx by herself, has a billion gold and all the achievements, or helped her guild in some marvelous way; alas, that is not the case.

I'm a sad bear today. My company decided to cut 21 people today from it's payroll. One of those was mine and Kroff's good friend Noxxic. The first round of cuts they did, all three of us were nervous, but we made it through and went to lunch and just talked about how we were going to work on things in our lives to make sure money didn't get that tight. This time...Kroff and I ate by ourselves. I cried. A lot. And all both of us could do was wish that we were in a horrible nightmare. I feel so helpless. I can't do anything. I can't get his job back. I can't get him another job. And I can't make him and his wife, who was becoming a really good friend of mine, stay here instead of moving to the other side of the country. I told Kroff I feel like they're going to up and move and we're never going to see them again. All I wanted to do was leave and go spend time with her. And I'm on such an emotional roller coaster right now...omg I wish this day was over.

I am thankfully that we both still have jobs, and while the 10% pay cut sucks, we don't have any major responsibilities to worry about. We have no kids to support. Only our two mutts and they are cheap. We're going to have it rough for a while, but things will pick back up and God will take care of us along the way.

I really just miss my friends...already. And they're not even gone yet.

It's a sad day today.

The Night We Kicked Major Butt

So on Wednesday nights our merry little raid is supposed to charge into Obsidian Sanctum and The Vault and clear them both out in a little over an hour or so. When I hopped on last night to farm a few mats for Kroff before the raid, I noticed what would be a change in our plans for the evening; we didn't have Winter's Grasp. That being noted, the raid assembles and we run in and pwn us a dragon. One shotted everything with very few casualties. I didn't de anything! Yay! And we headed outside. After thinking for a minute Kroff announces to the raid that we're going to go ahead and clear a little bit of Naxx. Everyone can stay for roughly two more hours so that should at least give us time to clear the Arachnid Quarter. We plunge on in and one shot Anub'Rekhan.

We head to Grand Window Faerlina and start out pretty good. Then, we have a problem. She's enraged, we take out skull...and she's still enraged. Umm....? What? So they take out X. She's still enraged. Oh someone please help! She's beating me into the ground and I'm running out of "oh crap" buttons! Okay, I'm dead. So...what the heck happened? We're all fussing and complaining forking it over to a bug from blizzard. Someone asks if they have to be close to her when you kill them because as it was Delynth was tanking them on the stairs and I was tanking her on the platform. No, that shouldn't be it. *Ding* It hits me. It's because he's on the stairs. I've had to tell him every time we fight this chick, 'you need to bring them up on the platform'. So I relay this to Kroff. He relays this over vent. And off we are again. Bam, first enrage. Kill skull, no more enrage. Genius. Delynth proceeds to fuss over vent that he's never had to do that before and he KNOWS he's tanked them on the stairs before. Nope. I've had to tell him every singe time to bring them up to the platform because he tries to tank them on the stairs or lower. But I keep my mouth shut, let him fuss, and we move on.

We one shot Maexxna with my druid butt depoisoning and Delynth tanking. *grumble* It's not that I'm not tanking. Don't get me wrong. I don't mind doing other things. But the fact that I'm standing there twiddling my thumbs (hooves, whatever) until I have to hit depoison the WHOLE FIGHT. Yea, that's irritating to me. I know I'm contributing to the raid, but I don't feel like it. Anywho, after this fight went down, we all met up in the beginning again and I checked Recount. Depoison. Whoa. Take a wild guess at what the meter said.

Depoisons
Ahtabat - 20
Squee - 1
Nakar - 0

That's right. Zero. Now wouldn't you think someone who had been assigned to depoisoning would ummm depoison? Yea, me too. But there it was. A big fat zero. I showed Kroff and we kind of marveled at the fact that he wasn't doing anything that fight. And then I had kind of a, gracious moment I guess, and I asked if recount included his totem. Hmm, we're not sure on that one.

In any case, we debate a minute on who we're going to take on next and we decide to go kill us a Patchwerk. Yay! We clear out the trash, in record time might I add, and buff up and wait for Patchwerk. Oh boy, here we go. I'm getting pretty tired at this point, so I'm not as excited as I was the other night, but I'm still alert enough to use my abilities in at the appropriate time. We start out really well. DPS is strong, heals are doing well, not where I would ideally like them to be, but well, and Delynth and I are almost topped off. About halfway through the fight, I notice Jules has already popped her fiend. This makes me a little nervous. We're only halfway through and she's used one of her major "I need mana back" buttons. Chapp's in the other group, so all I can see is his mana pool and he seems doing be doing well, but I have no clue what he's already popped. We get on down and Patchwerk's got about 1/3 of his life left. I start popping my cooldowns. We move on down to 1/4 and I've popped almost everything but Frenzied Regeneration. Jules announces she's out of mana. I glance over to Chapp. Thank goodness. He's got about 1/4 of his mana pool left. I hit Frenzied and pray. I move my cursor up to Patchwerk's life and we're under 100k. Should be smooth sailing then. I fully expect to die, but Jules manages to get a couple more heals on that crit thanks to my awesome glyph: Glyph of Frenzied Regeneration. Patchwerk down. No casualties. Woo hoo! We rejoice, distribute loot, and head on back to the beginning.

All in all a nice night. Wait. We're not done. We're not? Kroff wants to try one more boss before we call it. Razuvious. Oh heavens. I foresee my stress just talking about it. But we clear up to him, Kroff explains the fight, and we give him a try. It goes pretty well. I'm excited. We didn't down him, but we did get him really freaking close, giving me hope for Sunday's raid. I think I need to do some more reading up on him before we charge in again. I'm having trouble with the crystal picking up my apprentice after I click it off.

In any case, a good night all in all.

Naxxramas

It's been a few days since I last updated and since then Aht has been pretty busy. Our merry little raid (which has changed up a few of it's memebers since last) took on Naxx head strong Sunday and Monday. It total we have cleared two full wings and downed 7 bosses now. Needless to say, I'm stoked. My main excitement stems from the fact that our raid has progressed the most out of the other raids in our guild. We're no where near clearing the place, but we are progressing at a rate that's much faster than when we tackled Kara.

So far, the bosses we've down are Anub'Rekhan, Grand Widow Faerlina, and Maexxna in the Arachnid Quarter. Anub'Rekhan is cake now that my healers have figured out exactly how close/how far away they need to be from me to avoid the silence. Grand Window Faerlina is still cake. We've one shotted her every time we've encountered her. Maexxna was the challenge for us. The last time we took her on, she was a one shot. Sunday night, not so much. The biggest problem is my shaman wasn't getting the de-poison off on time. I tanked her twice and went down hard because my healer was having to waste so much mana healing me through the debuff. After that I requested Kroff switch me and Delynth out so I could de-poison and help keep him up. We tried it once and I got excited when she enraged and got myself killed. This in turn, triggered the raid's wipe. Our second go around with this set-up I stayed calm and resisted going in to try and help. He stayed up the whole time and with the help of my de-poison my healers still had mana to last them. We got her down, rejoiced, and moved to the Plague Quarter. First on the list is Noth. He was easy, we distributed loot and moved on. Next was Heigan. Oh how I hate Heigan. The fight itself is not hard. You dps him across a board that has slime that shoots up through cracks. The slime moves in a pattern leaving one slot open for the group to stand on while slime shoots up through the other three pieces of the board. The idea is to move across the board one way and come back across it in time with the slime. Casters stand on the platform that Heigan starts out on and shoot, bolt, and heal their little butts to their hearts content. Every one and a half passes across the board, Heigan teleports back to the platform and we start the DDR. Casters hop off the platform to position one (where the raid initially begins) and we move back and forth across the board and slime shoots up. One hit of this slime and you're dead. Even my 30k +life pool can't handle one hit from this stuff if that tells you how hard it hits.

In any case, we did several attempts on this guy Sunday night to no avail. I was still learning the movement part of the fight, as, it seemed, was everyone else. So we tried him a few times and moved on. Kroff wanted to keep excitement up and Heigan was definitely sucking the life from our raid. I was in an awful mood Sunday so I begged Kroff to not make us try Razuvious again. I didn't have the patience for him that night and I was really wanting to try Patchwerk. So he listened to my pleas and we moved from Heigan to Patchwerk in the Construct Quarter and took his sorry butt on.

Not let me explain a little how this fight goes. Patchwerk is the gear check for Naxx. The progression is supposed to go Arachnid Quarter then Plague Quarter and then Construct Quarter. When you hit the Construct Quarter you encounter Patchwerk who is your gear check to see if your qualified to take on the second half of Naxx. Well really the third since you have the bosses on the outer perimeter of the dungeon. Half of my raid has tried Patchwerk before and failed miserably. Myself and my healer were ready, but our other cohorts were not. Kroff was very iffy in trying him the first couple of times we ran Naxx, but now that we've almost fine tunned our raid to be a steady group, he relented and we tried him.

Attempt Number 1: Kroff explains how the fight is going to go. I'm going to main tank and Delynth is going to off tank. Juliettah is going to heal me and Hypochondriac is going to heal Delynth. Everyone else is going to dps til their fingers are sore from hitting the keys. No one should take damage but the tanks. If one tank goes down, the second on aggro is going to get pwned. The end. Ahtabat charges in. Ooops. I forgot to mention that Delynth needs to be velcroed to my side as we charge in so we split the damage. That might be a nice little tidbit to have mentioned before I took two freaking huge hits in a row. Needless to say, that attempt was a wipe. My healer freaked out because I took so much damage at the beginning and ran out of mana rather quickly because of that.

Attempt Number 2: I fess up to my mistake in mentioning that Delynth needs to run in BESIDE me and stand beside me in front of the buggar the whole fight. I whisper my healer and calm her nerves down a bit. I tell her I screwed up that last time, I'm not going to be taking THAT big of hit this time and conserve her mana as best she can. Off we go. The fight is going extremely well. Everyone is focused...and quiet. About half way down I pipe up on vent and throw out some cheerleader comments and focus back in on watching the raid. A couple of my dps are running low on mana, but other than that, we're doing well. He's got about 1/4 of his life left. My healers and dropping on mana, but I've saved some "oh crap" moves and start working them into my rotation. We're getting really close now. He's got about 100k life left. I'm dropping...crap, I have nothing left. My healers out of mana. I'm down.

Break.

At this point, I want you to picture exactly what's going on in my house. I'm on the back couch with my leg's propped up, my dog crashed beside me. My husband, Kroff, is sitting with his back to me at his desk pounding away at his keyboard. When I go down, all bets are off. I'm now sitting on the edge of the couch staring at my screen. I might have even broke into a sweat a little bit. Kroff goes down not long after I do. Now we're both on the edge of our chairs and I'm pretty sure we've stopped breathing.

Resume.

As I said, Kroff goes down after a nice little blow to the face. I've stopped watching the body count after he goes down and now I'm watching Patchwerk's life. 50k...40k...30k...oh come on! 20k....10k....OMG WE GOT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To tell you the truth, I don't even remember how many we had left up, but we got the punk! I proceed to scream in guild chat "PATCHWERK DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!" Or rather, I think it went something more like "PATCHERWK OWDN111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" because apparently when you get excited you lose the ability to spell correctly or type correctly. We receive a few congrats from our fellow guildies and very elated we leave the dungeon. New gear in hand and a very positive and successful run. Hey, I'm happy.

Sunday night. We all meet back up. We're down a healer, but Kroff has found us a permanent replacement after the guy's guild shafted him. Needless to say, he's very excited to be coming with us after we've successfully cleared 7 bosses, two of the harder ones with him. A dps was running late, so we picked up a replacement for him and charged in for night number two.

First up was Heigan. What? Again? Yes, again. My husband wanted to start us off right by torturing us. This was an interesting night. Seven, or eight, or a billion (I'm not really sure, I lost count after the first twenty attempts) in we finally downed the punk. The funny part? The only three left alive were two death knights and a healer. Yes, that's right. I'm positive that any combination of death knights plus a healer, can down anything. The fight was definitely not a pretty one, but we downed the punk, and moved on to Loatheb.

Again, this is an interesting fight. First off, dude has WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too many hit points. I mean...he's a plant...kinda. A mutated one, but a plant nonetheless. Plants don't live long. Especially when I get a hold of them, as Kroff will tell you. But I'm just speechless at how much life we're going to have to pound through. The way the fight works is as follows. You engage him and have a few seconds to tank and spank. After that, the fight operated in twenty second intervals. For seventeen seconds you can't receive any heals. Yes, that's right, no healing. This includes healthstones and healing pots. Okay, so seventeen seconds isn't that long to make it through with no heals, right? Right. Then the debuff wears off...for three seconds. That's three seconds for two healers to heal the entire raid. You read right. Three seconds. My healer is sweating bullets the whole fight I'm pretty sure. She was already dreading the fight after Kroff asked her to watch the video on it.

Alright so after that description, the fight seems pretty impossible. Not so my friend, not so. The other aspect of this fight is the spores. This is how it works. You tank dude in his nice cozy circle in the center of the room where he's waiting to pwn your face in. The room is square and a spore has a chance of spawning in one of the four corners. The raid is split into two groups. Each group is responsible for alternating killing a spore. The spore has like, no life, so they're an easy kill. Once the spore is killed, anyone with in 30 yards I think (don't kill me if I'm wrong, it happens) gets a buff where your crit chance goes up. So basically you crit the crap out of dude, heal during your three seconds, and go back to critting your pants. My job is to stand there, let dude hit me, pray during the three second heal time, and try to avoid the spores. Because while the spores up your crit, they also remove any threat you generate. So technically it shouldn't be a big deal if I get the buff, because I should have enough threat built up to not worry about it. Note: this will come into play later.

So Kroff explains the fight, we charge in. Thankfully after I charge everyone is in the room, because the gates falls securely into place locking us in. A small detail, I wasn't aware of. Position his back to the raid, check. DPS start pounding his face in, check. The debuff starts. The first few rounds of this 17/3 thing, we did pretty good. My healers were doing well on mana and I was staying up there. Round one I did make several mistakes. I popped a lot of my health regen "oh crap" buttons at the beginning and thus doubled up on the heals I got. This made it harder for me toward the end of the fight. Another problem we faced in attempt one. Two people pulled aggro off me. That's right, two. As any tank out there knows, an aggro pull is very hard to recover from. Even with me growling right away to get him focused back on me, the recovery time just wasn't fast enough. We wiped.

Attempt number two: we talk about our mistakes, make a few adjustments, and charge in again. And here's the problem with attempt number two! Again, two people pulled aggro off me. Again, this causes a HUGE problem. We also had two people, one being a healer, standing way too far away from the group. My only guess is they were trying to range the debuff to see if they could heal through the 17 seconds. Not gonna happen. By the time Kroff corrected the problem it was too late. We wiped again.

Attempt number three: again we discuss the problems and make some adjustments. We threaten everyone within an inch of their life to watch their aggro. We charge in again. Okay, this round, much smoother. My healers kept the groups up, I saved my "oh crap" buttons, and NO ONE PULLED AGGRO! YAY! Loatheb down.

We moved on to try Grobbulus before Kroff called it a night. Yes, I said try. Grobbulus is another one of those movement fights in which I'm still learning the ropes. Rather than post incorrect information, I'll wait til I've got this punk on farm and then let you know how it works.


In other exciting news: Aht now has 69 non-combat pets in her collection. She got her Magical Crawdad from Mr. Pincy's second cooldown last night. I'm a happy bear butt. :-)

Strat...no, the old one

So the Aht was missing from game last night, but since I haven't updated in a couple of days I thought I would share some good news.

Wednesday night, my handsome Kroff and I did some of the troll starting quests to get our rep up to exalted for the achievement and also to collect the mounts for that achievement. I hit exalted with Org and he hit exalted with the Trolls. He's got three down now and I only have one. Guess what I know I'm going to be working on in the next few days! :-)

In any case, after we finished those up, we took off over to Stratholme to do a few runs and try to get my horse. Kroff got his a few days ago. We did four runs before I asked to go and sell. What we've been doing is going in the back way and only doing the gauntlet run for the horse. When we do that we only pick up the runecloth and the blues. Stratholme is definitely the best place to farm for runecloth for those of you needing any. I would give all my runecloth to Kroff and I would loot all the blues to sell. I ran off and sold, he reset and we went in for our last attempt. And lo and behold...they dropped. My beautiful Deathcharger's Reins!

So Ahtabat is a happy druid. :-) One achievement down and one more mount added to the collection.

Bear Diet

Oh I have much to update, but let me start off by saying the bear has officially started her diet of the new year. She's calorie counting like mad this year and shedding all the extra fat she stored up over the winter. Yes, folks, you heard me right. I am losing weight. I'm committed this time around. Day one down, day two here I come!

On to upgrade news. That's right...upgrades! My trinket dropped last night! I'm stoked, really. I've wanted that freakin trinket ever since the day I laid eyes on it. It's beautiful +111 stamina alone was enough to make me cry with joy when I equipped it. The mini priest bubble chance on hit is just a bonus and made me gladly part with my Commendation of Kael'thas. Ah the trinket of trinkets. Next on the list? Darkmoon Card: Greatness. This one will be a bit trickier to acquire as there are two people ahead of me on the list when my favorite inscriptionist makes the cards. I did check the AH last night just to see what insane amount of money people wanted for the thing and had no luck finding it. So either it's still a secret on our server (yea, I'm holding my breath on that one) or there are no inscriptionist putting their lootz up for sale. Darn them.

So my trinket marks one off my list, three more to go. More than that, but only three I have to farm in heroics for. My beautiful helm, Mask of the Watcher, from Oculus. Which I will be gemming with a Solid Sky Sapphire and a nice Austere Earthsiege Diamond. Slap a Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle on that baby and I'll be set.

Next is the Keystone Great-Ring from Drak'tharon Keep and then Gored Hide Legguards from Gundrak. Add a few key enchants and Aht will be ready to blow into 10 mans and beyond.

If/when I do actually get all the gear I want with the appropriate enchants and such, I'll rattle off my stats before and after the patch. If the patch doesn't hit us today. I wrote them down last night, but alas they are on a scrap piece of paper in my comfy den at home.