Please, sir, may I joust some more?

A couple posts back I wrote "I actually like dailies for once", as I got involved in the Argent Tournament Grind-o-rama. Well surprise surprise, now they are the bane of my existence. When I started I didn't quite get that you had to repeat 5 days of dailies 5 times, and get exalted repuation with every city faction to 'finish'. That was more than I expected. But it was a nice project to get into while waiting for 3.2 to come along.

I loathe them and am counting down the individual jousting matches I have left before I'm done forever (6 more to go, as well as any citadel jousting). After earning two city titles I was ready to finish, but they got their insidious claws into me and now I may as well go all the way. Funny, apart from the title itself, the reward for getting Crusader is...access to more dailies! It's like spending your years shoveling manure, and your retirement present at the end of your career is a bucket of the same crap. I will enjoy being able to buy the heirloom chestpiece for champions seals, but that's about it. 2 more days and I am done with the Argent Tournament. Luckily I finished most of it before patch 3.2 made some of the dailies a bit harder, so I'm glad I started ahead of time.

Now, for the new 5-man dungeon, both heroic and normal, its...a mixed bag.

The Good:
-Short n' easy
-Nicely itemized loot
-Hogger (If you're lucky)

The Bad:
-Jousting required
-The transition from Jousting to fighting in the first phase is very conducive to a wipe, especially on Heroic. It's also a little buggy still, I've had npc's stay stuck on the ground requiring us to hearth out and come back in.
-Jousting required
-Kinda ho-hum encounters, the best of them is the Paladin/Priest bit.
-JouSTiNG REQUIRED OMFG&#@"#&!"#

I am also rich now, at least by my standards. I ended up hoarding about 1000 titanium ore, buying them up at 5-10g each (getting more expensive as the patch approached). After the patch I was able to sell most of them back for 15-17g apiece. It was an easy investment, spending a couple minutes each day cherry-picking the cheapest ore auctions over two months. So now I have more gold than I have ever had before. This is nice, I can afford mount training, cold weather flying, and dual specs for any of my alts. Not to mention gems and enchants. (And I have to admit, doing 4-8 dailies a day adds up). Now I need to work the magic of the neutral AH and get some money to my alliance alts.

I have tried out the new druid forms, and I have to say I don't like the bear too much - the butt is too big! The body is shaped like a teardrop, it seems a little off. I do like the assymetric bangles and markings, and the cat form is nice, too.

We tried the new 10-man dungeon, but the first boss pwned one of our tanks, who doesn't have any ulduar level gear yet. I am looking forward to tackling it again soon with a properly geared raid.