I am such a loot whore(der)

I admit it - I'm a loot hoarder

One of the most disapraging things you can accuse a fellow raider of being is a loot whore. It implies they are only there for the loot, and that they are so grabby for loot they take upgrades for others when its a sidegrade or offset piece for them, or they just roll on a piece because they can, even if they don't need it at all!

I can remember running Zul'gurub with my old guild, and Jindo's Hexer dropped (I remember the name clearly because this moment left such an impression on me). It was a very nice healing weapon for it's time. Another shaman in our raid rolled with me, and he won it. He already had an epic healing weapon, and I had a measly blue staff. He was just rolling because he could, he wasn't being very considerate of others that might have needed it. I was pretty upset (this was when an Epic was actually hard to get, unlike now when you can sneeze and Blizzard rewards you an epic for it) and since then I have been very considerate of others when rolling for loot. I don't want to be 'that guy' that sucks up all the loot in a run.

I have to admit it though, I am a definite loot hoarder. We run a melee heavy group, and I have been picking up all the +hit caster cloth gear no one needs, as our one dps caster is already pretty well geared. Usually, I will pick up offset gear like this - I already have a respectable Ulduar set of dps caster gear because of this. But now our one rogue is geared up, and leather melee gear is being passed on. So now I have been picking that up too, for an off-off set! (By the way, I have a stack of abyss crystals and I make sure the Loot master gets a shard for every off-offset piece I pick up). Last night a caster staff with something like 158 stamina dropped off of ulduar trash, and even though I had a perfect 1h+offhand ulduar-level healer setup, AND I had a +hit staff from Freya, I still scooped it up after we made sure no one needed it. Why? For PVP of course :)

I can't stand seeing perfectly good gear get sharded, and I can use caster cloth and leather, and melee dps leather. At the moment, I have a compete healer set, caster dps set, a hodgepodge leather melee set, AND a pvp caster dps set. Lets just say I have a very full bank and bags.

On the raid front, Mimiron is really putting us to the test. We need a little more sustained dps, a little more healing, and a LOT more coordindation and awareness. Phase 1 is flawless, phase 2 someone dies if they get too focused on burning down the boss or healing, phase 3 gets chaotic, we need to get Mimiron grounded more, and we need to handle bombs better. We have gotten to phase 4 with everyone alive only once, and the closest we have gotten to killing him is something like 7% on each body part.

It is getting frustrating, but now we have a weekly reset. I see it as a nice chance to get a break from attempting the same boss over and over. We can get some easy kills, a couple loot upgrades, and the try Mimiron again after a rest from him.

I'm thinking we may not beat all of Ulduar (and certainly not hard modes!) before patch 3.2 comes out. It would be nice to, but then again it will be easier once we start getting conquest badges and some gear higher than that in the instance. Some people may see that as 'ez-mode' but we're not that hardcore a guild, and its perfectly fine by me if it helps us down that damn robot and the bosses after him.