AH Business and a little suprise

Yesterday I logged in for some AH Business and maybe do some dailies with my hunter. The latter has some nice gear from the AH and fellow guildies thanks to the BoE Epics from Naxxramas and now tries to get some reputation items.

When I mean "AH business" I do the following steps:

1. I log onto my mage,
2. grab the daily jewelcrafting quest,
3. empty my mailbox until I have only 5ish bagslots
4. do the daily
5. port to ironforge
6. play the AH
7. hearth to dalaraan (saves 10s for the Rune of Teleportation)
8. return the daily and log off.

Only by doing this my mage got up to lvl73. Maybe I do the cooking and fishing dailies someday, too. Just because the reputation for the Kirin Tor and the Design: Runed Scarlet Ruby. ;-)

And because I am a JC with lots of Dalaran Jewelcrafter's Tokens I was happy when I read, that the epic gems are just to be introduced. The design's will be purchaseable whith the aforementioned tokens and the raw gems can produced by inspecting titanium ore. Too bad there was only one stack of titanium ore in the AH yesterday. But I think I will invest in this kind of field :-)

And the suprise yesterday? Well, I was not in the mood to do the dailies with my hunter and so I logged in with my warrior to do the daily fishing quest (to be honest I did not know what to do and I have this quest since weeks). And while I was fishing I saw a group for Utgarde pinnacle (heroic) which was "ready to go". After a few minutes of thinking and two more requests I applied and get an invitation.

But there were only four people in the group. Apparently the healer left just a minute ago (and went offline) and now the group was searching for a healer. *sigh* So I prepared to finish my daily, return it and "disconnect" right after. To my suprise they found a healer and two people were already on the move to get us ported (and none of them was the healer! Suprise #2).

Suprise #3 was the healer who was dressed in Naxx25/Ulduar drops and quite good. The other DPS was ... well, I thought it would be a joke. All three with the usual lvl74 blues and no enchants but atleast a few crafted epics now and then *sigh#2*.

We started and -Suprise#4- we steamrolled this place. The DPS was *great* for their equip (1.5 - 2.5k. I saw Naxx25 people do worse) and when someone (especially the mage) got aggro he would do something smart to survive. Skadi managed to kill the mage but the druid quickly brezzed him. It was a demonstration of teamplay and we completed the run in less than 30 minutes! And for some icing on the cake I got the Meteorite Whetstone. *yeah*

It showed me (again) that gear does not matter much when smart people are on the keyboard. I had a blast and I think the worst player in this group was me because I lost aggro sometimes. Well, that's why I love this game: once in a while you find four strangers and the fun you get from this is worth everytime you are trapped in a PuGfh.

cheers,

chaoskas