And I mean that in a good way. By now you know I play a Resto Druid on Whisperwind, and I don’t often have a lot of time for any kind of raiding. I have a 1 year old at home and another on the way, and I generally don’t log on until the baby and the wife hit the sack, and even then for not very long. My guild sets up raids during “prime time” hours, and I can almost NEVER make it.

Recently, I found out that one of the guilds in our alliance runs a late night Kara on the weekends. Wahoo! Finally, a run I can at least occasionally participate in. Well, this weekend I scored. And I mean REALLY scored. The random number generator was just plain my friend.

At the beginning of the night, I was sitting at around 1145 healing, the only stat I really care about. (Of course I pay SOME attention to MP5 and Stam, but really it’s all about +heal.) I am a leatherworker, so I had the [Windhawk Hauberk], [Windhawk Belt] and the [Windhawk Bracers]. Aside from that, I had a collection of decent blues like [The Essence Focuser] and such, along with my lone Kara drop from a previous run, [Aran's Soothing Sapphire].

Obviously, there are about a thousand drops in Kara I could use. Also lucky for me, of the three healers I was by FAR the most undergeared. The other two were there for fun and badges. I got nothing from Attumen or Moroes, but they don’t have much I’d want anyhow. When we got to the maiden, I said that I was hoping for the [Shard of the Virtuous]. Maiden falls, and sure enough, there it is. If that was all I got for the night, it would have been a great night for me. That alone bumped me somewhere around 200 +heal after the enchant.

Next came Opera. Once we saw it was the Big Bad Wolf, I again called out what I was looking for: [Red Riding Hood's Cloak]. Sure enough, there it was. Before that I was still wearing an old green cloak. (In retrospect, it’s too bad I didn’t call out that I would have wanted [Earthsoul Leggings] as well!)

At this point, it’s already hugely successful for me. Well, it only kept going from there. We took down Nightbane, Curator and Aran. I got [Nightstaff of the Everliving], [Pauldrons of the Solace-Giver], [Handguards of Malorne] and finally [Boots of the Incorrupt]. Wow. Just wow. By the time we got to Netherspite, other peeps in the group were asking me to call stuff out that they wanted. I called out [Chestguard of the Conniver] for our rogue, and sure enough, it dropped.

My only regret? I had to log after Aran. I feared for my life as it was now 4 am (we got started at midnight) and it was only a matter of time before the wife came out and skinned me alive.

After enchants the next day, I was up to 1440 +heal along with a healthy bump to spirit, health, mana and MP5. It was truly one of the best nights of WoW I can remember, but I’m sure it will all even out over my next 15 runs or so!

This entry was posted on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 6:55 pm and is filed under Druid, Gear. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.