Fist weapons and ding!

Wimwicket Dimpletwix has always been a very old-school rogue. Swords were for wannabe warriors, she refused to believe they could yield more damage then daggers, and she's always loved a good backstab. But deep down, from the very first eyes she ever laid eyes on a pair, she has always wanted fist weapons. But she's never found a pair that's been any good. So you can imagine the joy when these of stamina (+24) dropped while leveling with Akrah. The thought that TBC could bring Wim some fist-weapon-goodness never occured to me until then. Well, I logged on Wim, went straight for the AH and found these of agility (+17) for 15g, bought them immediately and went for a respecc. I thought Wim deserved that much after 39 something days played, to have her deepest wish fulfilled.

After pondering talent points and transferring fist weapon from horde side, I went straight to Hellfire, excited as a kid on christmas. And first, I have to admit I was disappointed. As an old combat-specced dagger rogue I'm used to short bursts of uber damage, 2000+ eviscerate crits and good backstabs, but lower general white damage (and you never notice the white numbers unless it's a new hit record, do you?). Fist spec takes away the goodies of ambush and backstab,but as I slowly discovered, it gives back a lot in form of white damage. I also respecced slightly, giving Wim adrenaline rush in addition to blade flurry. Those two combined is.. well, pornographic almost. The dps (and aggro!) output of the little gnommer turns insane. As Wim (or maybe I) am going to miss the great crits from backstabs and ambushes, I think I can live with 1000+eviscerates too. Somehow...


Oh. And Akrah dinged 61! Me and Mokoru (also the author of randomrantsandsputteringcomments blog) had another joined insomnia night, and went on a questing rampage. Firemage and resto druid makes a good pair actually. Loads of new goodies, and a new talent point. I never thought I would ding again with Akrah, just as little as I thought greenies would pwn epix ( I tossed away a ZG necklace for a greenie reward today). And somehow that's a bit hard to swallow. You feel like you've... well, not wasted your time raiding, because hopefully you don't raid ONLY to get the epix (I hope you're doing it for a spot of fun too?), but... Things feel a tad meaningless. Like gaining rep with Zandalar. And stuff like that. But hey, I am not complaining. I scared Mokoru into calling for his mommy several times with 2100+ pyroblast crits and bursts of 2000+1848+1100 crits one after the other against one poor mob. *evul grin* http://www.worldofwar.net/forums/blogs/viewblog.php?userid=328750&entry=34