Ahh.. Kara. How we love thee.. Let me count the ways… Uh.. Hmmm…. Uh… Well, can’t really think of any.. The thing I like about going on our Guild Kara runs is the company. I like the people in our guild (generally all of them….. Well… 
). But, in reality, I do enjoy the evenings we go. Last night was no exception. We got started a bit late since many of the “regulars” were not around and neither were many attuned players. We were waiting on a healer or tank when one of our tanks logged in. Woot! [the_author]
Group consisted of… 3… Count them! 3!!! Hunters.. (Myself included, of course), 1 Paladin, 2 Warriors, 1 Druid (Karine [kezz]), 1 Priest (Pil), 1 Rogue, 1 Warlock. Interesting combination, no? Well, it seemed to work okay.
We had 1 wipe on Attumen. For some reason he liked coming and smacking the Druid around as soon as he showed up. Right before I get the misdirect off.. Argh! First time it wiped us (well, all but 2 of the hunters). Second time, we survived and the remaining 2 healers were able to keep up the Tanks and all was fine and dandy in the world. Hunter bracers dropped.. And were sharded.. Sad when there are 3 hunters and none want. 2 had, 1 had the PvP Bracers.
Moving on to Moroes… We were going to kill 1 add and keep freezing the others while burning down Moroes. We ran out on the first try when we lost 2 of the healers pretty early on. We came back in and took him down on the next one. The strategy worked okay. I successfully kept my target Frozen throughout the entire fight. Pil got in some shackles on the other ones, but generally we did pretty well. No hunter gear this time.. (not that I need any from him anyway).
Next, even though it was getting late… The Maiden. Things seemed to go badly in this encounter. 2 of the Hunters went down pretty quick (neither was me). I guess we had issues with the “de-magic”ers being in range of those with the fiery thingy that she does.. (Brain is going… bye bye. I think in the end it was the 2 tanks, 2 healers (pal and pri) and me. She went down though! Yes she did…. Hunter gloves dropped (Quickening).. So sad!!!! No hunters wanted.. 2 hunters had, 1 had PvP (sound familiar). We did 1 shot her though.. that made me happy.
After that, we went our separate ways and I went to go play Team Fortress 2
Tonight, more Kara including Opera and Curator (hopefully). Dat’s it for now.
Not entirely understanding why you would not take the second bracers or gloves if (as in this case) everyone already has. You can enchant them differently for different encounters. Ie. Having spare bracers for mana regen would benefit fights with significant time requirements, and have your second set with AP on them for daily grinding or short term boss fights.
It makes me so sad to see things turned into shards :*(
C’est la vie, eh?
../Piladden
Having tried doing that in the past and finding that I did not carry nor use the alternately enchanted item, I chose to pass. I would think that the Hunter that had the PvP set would take them anyway since he didn’t have them. They actually have better AP than the PvP alternatives but less in some other stats. Really depends on what he is looking for. I do have to say that while he was a great help and did a good job, comparatively he needs to improve his gear to keep up with Chadria and I.
But, If that isn’t his goal, then more power to him. He did a good job in general and I won’t take that away from him with my Gear-mongering…
I also don’t like seeing those turned into shards that don’t really get used all that often right now. I can’t wait until we can get into the 25-man, esp SSC so I can maybe see some of those rare LW recipes drop. There are actually some really nice ones that I would love to have, but we have to get there! I really would like to start making a push to just pick a day and give the Gruul fight a few more whacks. I know we have a dearth of “well-geared” peeps, but it might be nice to try to plan something and see who comes out of the woodwork. Never know if that Priest that never goes into Kara isn’t well geared anyway from PvP (I’m not really pointing at anyone, just using “Priest” as an example class). Either that or combine our 25 man raiding with another guild that has people that can’t get into 25 man due to lack of able people.
Ah.. who knows