My first dropped epic

[Chadness]

As I make the transition from level 60 content to true end-game content (yes, there is a difference), I get to start obtaining epic gear.

Now, I already have two pieces of epic gear - one is a necklace that is obtained through the Darkmoon Faire, which took me six months to farm the items needed to turn in for the 1200 faire tickets needed to purchase the necklace. The other is what we call tier 0.5 gear, and upgrade from the small end-game dungeon class sets. The gloves of that set are epic.

But, anyone can get and has those. They're obtainable outside of raiding.

We were doing a Zul'Gurub run the other day - a 20-man instance, rather difficult to down some bosses. Only two bosses in the instance drop epic loot on a regular basis - Bloodlord Mandokir and the final boss, Hakkar himself. We haven't gotten to the point where we can down Hakkar, but we've killed all the other bosses in ZG.

One, Bloodlord Mandokir, was fairly easy to bring down and he dropped this the other day: www.thottbot.com/?i=51563

There were four hunters in the raid, but two of them used guns as their main weapon, so they didn't roll. Me and this other hunter rolled. He rolled a 2, I rolled a 68. I won the bow - the first dropped epic that I've obtained and that you actually have to be in the raiding party who downed that boss to obtain, because it is Soulbound to whoever gets it.

We normally use a point system to see who gets certain loot, and if that was in effect on this run, I would not have gotten it. But, this was a non-points fun run of ZG, so we just basically roll on anything we can use.

There's a picture of that bow in the link above, but I'll try to get a picture of me wielding it from when we run Molten Core again over the next couple days.

Getting this item would be comparable probably to getting the hardest pieces of AF2 from a Dynamis run. The drop rate of this bow is very low, I'm the only one in our guild who has it, and someone the other day said I'm probably only one of twenty or thirty people who has that bow on the entire server. Its pretty nice. ;D

Also, to Guin, how is your paladin treating you? I wish you were on my server, so I could help you out getting some Lightforge stuff. And, my guild could use more paladins!

[Rovec]

Congrats!!! Sounds cool, but that is one VERY freaky looking bow lol

[tarureaper]

Sexy chad! SEXY!

[guinodant]

yea paladins going pretty good, when i bought the account it was retribution spec and i sorta wish i left it that way till end game becuz holy spec gets really boring >.> but anyway, im almost 55 right now, i have 2 days of school left and the ACT on saturday, but after that ill be playing a lot more (both WoW and FFXI) so i should be 60 pretty soon.

i decided to just buy all the lightforge gear that i could use up to my current lvl, which is waist, wrists, and hands. i didnt feel like waiting around to run instances to get the drops.

im about 3 or 4 lvls above any of the ppl that play with me from school (at least the ppl that i hang out with) so last Saturday we decided to run Mara, me and 2 friends, one's a rogue and the other is a priest. We also had a hunter and a druid in the pt.

That was probably the worst party that i have ever been in, including all FFXI and GW parties. The druid (a tanking druid) had no clue at all what he was doing, and would try to tank the same mob i would when there would be multiple mobs around. He still would try to tank the mob after we would say: "pally take the one on the left, druid take the one on the right" and even after stuff such as "DRUID WTF! TANK THE OTHER MOB!" and then when we got to princess (which looks anything but a princess, she is butt nasty) the whole pt was like, "let the pally take 2% HP before we start attacking so he can get hate"... what does the druid do? run straight at princess while i was waiting to pull her into the water

then afterwards, (we all got wiped except for the hunter) the hunter finally killed princess, after using aspect of the pack (or w/e its called) and running in circles while shooting at princess. Once i rezed everyone, he went on and on how he was soo fed up with dealing with us noobs and all this stuff about how we dont know how to do our jobs.... blah blah blah (he said the priest never healed, and that i was too busy trying to melee when i should've healed), then he and the druid left the pt, so i basically sent him the biggest hate mail he's ever seen in his life, explaining how he is an idiot and needs to s_ _ u, becuz the priest is shadowspec and if he wasnt so dumb he would have noticed that, and that i was busy trying to heal other ppl and get hate back that i didnt notice my health. I also told him to go ahead and report me if he wanted to becuz i really couldnt care less, tweaking on him was more then worth it.

It doesnt seem too bad, but it was, you just had to have been there.

Being on a PvP server can be a lot of fun, although when your just trying to quest, its a real pain when you get ganked. Like last night, i was in Ungoro Crater, killing some mob when another mob, one of the oozes, agrod me, so while i was killing him, a 51 rogue decided it would be cool to come up and try to gank me, i only had 50% health so i healed real quick, killed off the mob, and started working on the rogue, it was neck and neck the whole way basically, when I got really low and didnt have enough mana i decided to use Lay on Hands. I got him down to 1% HP and he dissapeared.... Then later that night a mage ganked me after i took on 3 apes at once in Fungal Rock.

[Goero]

>.> i still pwn you Chad.. ^^

[Chadness]

Here's some screens of my new bow in use.

The first two are in Felwood while I was farming herbs earlier. The third one is a clean shot of us fighting an Ancient Core Hound in Molten Core this evening and the last one is us fighting some giants in MC, with my full interface up.

[tarureaper]

kewl

[lizhellsing]

gimme your bow=p