Monday Report - Outlands: Halfway mark

It's Monday and I just want to update my two or three followers out there about the happenings of WoW and stuff for me and my gf.

This weekend we got our deathknights to level 66-67. We've been going through dungeon after dugneon trying to get some very nice gear but unfortunately, things arent going that well.  Neither of us got the boots from Ramps (tho we both have hellreavers and the belt).  i could never get quagmaron to drop the chest piece so im stuck buying fel iron chestpiece from the AH.  quest reward items and green drops have been sucking lately as well.  my gf has a bit more luck with drops tho.  she's got matching chest and pants from some dungeon.  What we're trying to get are shoulderpads, boots, a new sword or hammer, and a nice chestpiece for me.  Sucks. but oh well.  with all the gemming we do to the new gear (note that these gems are from the Wrath expansion and not the Burning Crusade expansion) we are pretty over-geared for the content we do, even if we dont have all the gear we want. and this is the sole reason why i see level 65s do 600-1000 dps in dungeons.  back when the burning crusade was the only expansion, the gems that you can place in these slots werent so hot, but helped anyway.  seeing 600 dps was the cream of the crop.  but now, seeing 600 dps is the standard.  anyone below that?  we know they dont know how to really "play" their class.

anyway, with the list of rewards slowly going obsolete in four levels (and it is very important to a tank, as every tank that i took personally to northrend who wasnt geared in northrend items usually died in two to three hits, with any pulls that had more than 3 mobs obliterating each and every one of those tanks) i think its a good time to save a little bit of cash to buy up cobalt bars.  i'll also have to get someone to craft the entire cobalt set.  actually i've been looking since two nights ago and can only find the gloves (since the material costs to make it is low, people usually make tons of these to level up their profession, not knowing that other pieces will sell for a lot more). 

Since its a whole set, im probably going to buy up the cobalt bars i need and tip a BSer to make the items for me.  they will fill in nicely at level 70.  i dont think i want to tank anything in northrend until i actually get this set.  i've healed some squishies in UK and Nexus before, and those were people who had really nice gear from outland. and they're squishy in northrend. seriously they are. 

in any case, back to outland talk.  we've just opened up Escape from Durnholde. Hopefully we'll find a group for this during the weeknights.  I know a lot of people dont bother to do the quest to open up these instances, but how many more times can someone go through mana-tombs and sethekk halls before they rip their eyes out?  durnholde, and the followup dungeon Black Morass, will help break up the monotony. actually i kinda want to do tempest keep stuff before we hit 70, but seeing that these dungeons are 70, i might end up skipping them.  sucks for a tank, because tanks need to be able to soak up the damage the mobs deal.  but we'll work on it. 

doing the higher level dungeons will probably be a lot of fun.  its not a breeze like northrend, really.  what i mean is that these dungeons are still "hard" if you dont come to it with your full attention.  i actually would rather just do instances for content rather than gear. so these instances will still be on my list of to-do even while im past level 70.  actually, my paladin, Devynity, was still doing tempest keep and magisters terrace at level 74 (which i think, is the last level i can queue up for those dungeons.  sad but yea).

okay, so coffee is kicking in now and hopefully i'll have more to say a little later on today. so there, we're about halfway through all of outland's dungeons. we barely scratched the outland contenent itself, but we're slowly getting there.  in any case, six instances explored, about eight more to go.  gonna write more later, hopefully.