damselfish | (no subject)

I had a really intense and nifty dream last night that can only be properly conveyed with fic, I think, so keep your eyes out for that.

Right now I want to flail a bit about my luck with loot in WoW.

My gear is kind of wonky. I raid and raid and raid and very little drops for me, or at least very little of what I want. I've bought both heroes' frostfire items I could with tokens (that's right, I've spent 140 tokens on my tier7) and those are the only pieces of tier I have, the super ugly gloves and the robe. That's it. I'm dying for the shoulders but of course they only sell the t7.5 shoulders, which is valorous, not heroes, and another token system, which means I continue to rock this fug thing that I got off the auction house before I turned 80. I'm at the point where I'm ready to just sit and wait for enough valorous tokens for the shoulders even though they're a different color and don't even match the rest of my tier because one is blue and the other is mustard yellow. The tokens for my set, conquerer, are shared by four classes (all the others shared by three) which Blizz assures us has a higher drop rate to account for this, but I have never seen drop. Not. Freaking. Once. No tokens for me or the other three classes I have to roll against. It's like gambling twice. First your token has to drop then you have to win the roll. And Blizz makes it harder by only going half and half on the badge loot and aaaargh.

Anyway. A while ago, I made my most excellent engineering goggles which replaced a really nice looking hat. Two weeks later we kill Flame Leviathan and he drops a SPECTACULARLY HIDEOUS hat that my toon's hair sticks through and floats through his chest at odd angles and ugh ugh, it's just super fantastically hideous all over. But it's an upgrade that no one else needs since it dropped last week, too. Sigh. At least I can hide it, but poor Thrace looks naked without a head covering of some sort.

Later I finally scrounged up the materials for a Titansteel Spellblade. It was a mixture of using up my titanium reserves and spending several hundred gold I really didn't have at the auction house.

Five days later we hit up Flame Leviathan and he drops Firesoul. Okay. That is pretty sexy, I gotta admit. With a spellpower enchant it sparkles. Literally! It is the most badass thing to ever badass. ...Now if only I didn't get the feeling that every time I spent a lot of money to craft something, Flame Leviathan wasn't itching to replace it.

But last night was nothing short of crazy. We did Wintergrasp and moseyed on over to Archavon and Emalon. I've never seen desirable loot drop from these guys but I'm just there for badges and lulz. Well, Emalon dropped PvP mage pants and my t8 gloves, and Archavon dropped my t7 gloves-- the very same yellow oven mitts I just took off and replaced with the gloves the boss before him dropped! Oh yeah. Oodles of mage loot, and I'm the only mage. Sure it was only one upgrade but it was still pretty sweet.

God my tier 8 is so ugly it physically causes me pain. And no one has pictures up except for those. I'm skipping right past the decent-ish t7 and going straight to... to that with all apparent haste.

People are now teasing me for being the luckiest sonuvagun they've got. But why can't I fill out the visible parts of my tier 7 set! WAAAAAAIIIIL.