Claz the Leatherworker

Ok, so I soloed the Fel Reaver right into Thrallmar and let the guards do my dirty work for me. I now am a proud owner of the Shattered Halls key- at the very least the Marksman's Bow will be in my grasp, and maybe the Blackened Spear, depending on if I get something better than that in my instance running.

Speaking of that, I now have the second Kara key fragment. I did a couple runs of Steamvaults with a pug (wasn't too bad) but our main tank went with (that awesome guy who gave me the Valanos' Longbowq) to get his key fragment, too. Alas, no second piece of Beast Lord.

During this run I whispered Ariki and asked him if he would mind if I practiced my Misdirection pulls with him. He said, "Of course! I forgot you had it." So, when there was no trapping needed for crowd control, the Misdirection pull went really well. When the cooldown was up, the trapping went really well. But, when I had to do both... mixed results. See, I forgot the little bit about Misdirection where it says that the next three attacks transfer the aggro to the person you cast it on. So, hunters, don't do what I did! See if you see my mistake:

1. Lay down ice trap


2. Cast Misdirection on tank


3. Shoot skull with Aimed shot


4. switch target to blue square


5. Shoot Distracting shot


6. turn off autoshoot


7. Scratch head


8. Panic

Gah. That's right, I heaped massive amounts of aggro onto the tank from the target I was supposed to trap. Ooops. But, lesson learned and with future guild runs in the making (we're all wanting to get keyed to Kara), hopefully I'll have opportunity for more practice.

Speaking of the guild: Limited Warranty is getting very motivated to start progressing towards raids. Not only did Ariki and I run SV for the key fragment, five other guildies (or was it three?) ran it themselves to get their own fragments. Nice! Guild chat was fun to read as the people who are working towards 70 were asking questions about what they need to be doing, how they can get keyed, what sort of gear they'll need. Looks like Bumwaller and Ariki have a true still-in-the-egg progression guild on their hands. It was fun.

Now, I worked on Leatherworking and got it up to 364. I've started crafting the Felstalker Armor set (just need five more Primal Airs and I'll complete the Chestpiece and be done with it) (by the way, that elemental plateau in Nagrand is an amazing place to farm these. in about three hours of farming I was able to get 5 or 6). Mr. BRK himself gave me some advice on what to craft and I'll be following it. But, the Felstalker set is a slight upgrade (less slight when I get the gems slotted) than my current gear and it also gives me some very needed skill upgrades. Besides, the Netherscale Armor requires three Primal Nethers, which means I need to do heroics, which means I need to gear myself up a bit more and practice, practice, practice. Not only can I craft the Felstalker stuff, but now I can do a Riding Crop (only 7g on the AH for the pattern!) and various drums that may or may not be that good because I'm not paying attention to them yet because they won't skill me up. Also, I did the Dragonscale specialty quest.

All in all, a very productive day for my favorite Hunter. Oh, by the way, I got rid of snookims and have been using whiskers exclusively. You can see us in Limited Warranty's gallery in front of the fel reaver that I so cheaply cunningly killed on my own.

Alas, work tomorrow, so maybe no time to run anything. But I'll get those last Primal Airs for the Fel Stalker chestpiece and run a couple dailies for more gold. By the way, when you hit 70, the gold pours like it's raining soup- bring a bucket!

(P.S. For some reason, Bum's made me the Hunter class leader. Um... /panicmodeon! I need to do more research and start playing other specs at least a little so that if anyone has questions other than about BM hunters I'll at least know what I'm talking about. Or else, I'll point them over to BRK's forums.)