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Post-Blizzcon update

Blizzcon was fun. Like last year, I spent most of the time watching the arena finals - some *extremely* close games and skillful play all around. The new expansion looks good and I played the demo for a bit - it reminds me of Argus in the way the quests and things are laid out. I'm particularly looking forward to the new "tower" dungeon that is randomly generated like a roguuelike game.

I'm still running Molten Core each week - looks like another 14 weeks to hit Exalted though. I plan on doing Firelands some time soon to finish off that rep and I need to grind out the four goblin reps more at some point. I hate grinding but perhaps I can find a way to make it enjoyable.

Looking for some more easy wins, I spotted the following:


It looks like a mythic run of Siege of Orgrimmar is in the cards.

Speaking of older raids, I also have a huge gap in collecting all the set armors for each of them. I'm fairly confident that within fourteen weeks or so I'll eventually get the rest of my Molten Core set pieces (missing just three of them) but the other raids are going to be a bit of a pain. I *think* the best way to handle these is to armor-stack and run with friends who are willing to trade me their drops. For dungeons like BWL, this is pretty easy since anyone in the raid has a chance to get any item from a boss.

I also have a lot of work to do for PVP. I'm finally bothering to learn how to play Elemental shamans properly in PVP, starting with learning the optimal burst damage rotation.

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